OFFENSE:<\/strong><\/p>\nQB(2): 5 Trey Lance(2024), & 7 Nate Sudfeld(2022)
\nRB(4): 25 Elijah Mitchell(2024), 22 Jeff Wilson Jr.(2022), 28 Trey Sermon(2024), — Tyrion Davis-Price(2025)
\nFB(1): 44 Kyle Juszczyk(2025)
\nWR(6): 19 Deebo Samuel(2022), 11 Brandon Aiyuk(2023), 15 Jauan Jennings(2022), 14 Ray-Ray McCloud(2023), — Malik Turner(2022), & — Danny Gray(2025)
\nTE(3): 85 George Kittle(2025), 89 Charlie Woerner(2023), & 82 Ross Dwelley(2022)
\nC(1): 50 Alex Mack(2023)
\nLG(2): 65 Aaron Banks(2024), & 68 Colton McKivitz(2022)
\nRG(2): 60 Daniel Brunskill(2022), & — Nick Zakejl(2025)
\nLT(2): 71 Trent Williams(2026), & 76 Jaylon Moore(2024)
\nRT(2): 69 Mike McGlinchey(2022), & — Spencer Burford(2025)<\/p>\n
DEFENSE:<\/strong><\/p>\nDE(6): 97 Nick Bosa(2022), 56 Samson Ebukam(2022), 94 Charles Omenihu(2022), 92 Kerry Hyder Jr.(2022), — Kemoko Turay(2022), & — Drake Jackson(2025)
\nDT(2): 91 Arik Armstead(2024), & 90 Kevin Givens(2022)
\nNT(2): 99 Javon Kinlaw(2023), & 98 Hassan Ridgeway(2022), [– Kalia Davis(2025)-NFI]
\nWLB(1): 57 Dre Greenlaw(2022)
\nMLB(2): 54 Fred Warner(2026), & 48 Oren Burks(2023)
\nSLB(1): 51 Azeez Al-Shaair(2022)
\nCB(7): 35 Charvarius Ward(2024), 20 Ambry Thomas(2024), 4 Emmanuel Moseley(2022), 38 Deommodore Lenoir(2024), 27 Dontae Johnson(2022), — Samuel Womack(2025), & — Tariq Castro-Fields(2025)
\nFS(2): 1 Jimmie Ward(2022), & 33 Tarvarius Moore(2022)
\nSS(2): 29 Talanoa Hufanga(2024), & 30 George Odum(2024)<\/p>\n
SPECIAL TEAMS:<\/strong><\/p>\nPK(1): 9 Robbie Gould(2022)
\nP(1): 18 Mitch Wishnowsky(2022)
\nLS(1): 46 Taybor Pepper(2022)<\/p>\n
PRACTICE SQUAD:<\/strong><\/p>\nQB \u2013 Brock Purdy
\nRB 23 JaMycal Hasty
\nFB 40 Josh Hokit
\nWR \u2013 Marcus Johnson*
\nWR \u2013 Tay Martin
\nWR \u2013 Taysir Mack
\nTE 84 Tanner Hudson
\nC \u2013 Dohnovan West
\nRG \u2013 Jason Poe
\nDE 75 Jordan Willis*
\nDT 96 Maurice Hurst Jr.*
\nLB \u2013 Segun Olubi
\nLB \u2013 Jeremiah Gemmel
\nLB 45 Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles
\nCB 31 Darqueze Dennard*
\nS \u2013 Leon O\u2019Neal<\/p>\n
With this roster, the 49ers would have a cap commitment of $180,357,191, plus $13,567,107 in dead money, for a total cap commitment of $193,924,298, leaving the 49ers $19,439,863 under their 2022 adjusted salary cap, and they would reserve up to $8 million for in season moves, leaving over $10 million in cap room to be carried over into 2023.<\/p>\n
NOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\nOf the teams\u2019 UDFAs, I think West & O\u2019Neal have the best shot at making the opening day roster, and in order for these 2 to make the roster, they’d need to beat out the likes of Nick Zakejl for West, or if Alex Mack retires, and O’Neal may have to beat out Tarvarius Moore, by proving to be both a good safety, and special teamer.<\/p>\n
I don’t see the 49ers going with only 5 WRs, so for now, I have Malik Turner making it, as he has $300,000 guaranteed.<\/p>\n
At TE, unless the 49ers bring in someone else, Ross Dwelley will be the 3rd TE, plus he has $250,000 guaranteed.<\/p>\n
If Alex Mack retires, as I said above, I would put Dohnovan West on the 53, and Jake Brendel on the practice squad.<\/p>\n
I did have Willis as a lock, but I’m not sure if the team goes with 11 defensive lineman or not.<\/p>\n
Kalia Davis, the rookie nose tackle from UCF, will likely begin the season on the reserve\/NFI list, as he tore his ACL back in October of 2021, so he likely won’t be ready to begin 2022.<\/p>\n
I know 4 linebackers is light, but I’m just not sure where else they’d go light, as they’ve gone with 4 in the past, plus with UDFAs like Jeremiah Gemmel, & Sebun Olubi, both likely practice squaders, I think the 49ers will be fine with just 4.<\/p>\n
As for the DBs, again, I wanted to put O’Neal on here, but unless someone from my locks, like Tarvarius Moore, plays badly, O’Neal is likely a practice squader, at this moment, as we all know injuries can, and will happen.<\/p>\n
So, there you have it, my post draft way way too early projected roster for the 2022 season.<\/p>\n
As always, I thank you for reading, leave a comment, or follow me on Twitter\u00a0@49erscap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2022 NFL Draft in the rearview mirror, it\u2019s time for my posy draft…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-exclusive","category-prediction","category-roster","category-salary-cap"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":376,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}