{"id":42685,"date":"2025-08-27T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/?p=42685"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:56:19","slug":"49ers-signing-wr-marquez-valdes-scantling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/49ers-signing-wr-marquez-valdes-scantling\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers signing WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers are signing former Packers, Chiefs, Saints, &amp; Seahawks wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, which should be a 1-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers beat out the Steelers for Valdes-Scantling, as he was choosing between the 49ers &amp; Steelers, similar to how the 49ers were trying to sign Amari Cooper, but he decided to go back to the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not known who will be released or waived yet, as the 49ers will most likely place wide receiver Jacob Cowing on injured reserve, as he has a torn hamstring, and the team also needs to re-sign punter Thomas Morstead, who was released, but as a handshake deal to re-sign him today.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers are also heavily interested in signed former Patriots, &amp; former 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Veteran WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling is signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#49ers<\/a>, per his agents <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSAFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NSAFootball<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wUpHd91CvI\">pic.twitter.com\/wUpHd91CvI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1960736308889817556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As always, thank you for reading, you can follow me on X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.x.com\/49erscap\"><strong>@49erscap<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&amp; on Blue Sky App <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/49erscap.bsky.social\"><strong>@49erscap.bsky.social<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers are signing former Packers, Chiefs, Saints, &amp; Seahawks wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42686,"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":[4,110,3,141,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-player","category-roster","category-roster-moves","category-team-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42685","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=42685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42688,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42685\/revisions\/42688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}