{"id":46891,"date":"2026-03-20T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/?p=46891"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:55:32","slug":"49ers-wont-be-exercising-lt-trent-williams-10-million-option-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/49ers-wont-be-exercising-lt-trent-williams-10-million-option-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers won&#8217;t be exercising LT Trent Williams&#8217; $10 million option bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter, the 49ers won&#8217;t be exercising left tackle Trent Williams&#8217; $10 million option bonus today, which is due by 4pm EST\/1pm PST, meaning it will be added to his 2026 cap number, which will now be $46,341,661, but the 49ers are still expected to address his contract.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that his 2027 dead money will now be $20,825,004, instead of $28,325,004, meaning a $7.5 million savings in 2027.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With today\u2019s 4 pm ET deadline looming, the 49ers are opting not to exercise the $10 million option bonus in Trent Williams\u2019 contract, per sources. Williams\u2019 salary cap number now will grow to close to $47 million, but the team is not overly concerned about it and it still is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uvCahjbNYW\">pic.twitter.com\/uvCahjbNYW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2035076696823500982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2026<\/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>According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter, the 49ers won&#8217;t be exercising left tackle Trent Williams&#8217; $10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35438,"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":[4,110,3,2,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-player","category-roster","category-salary-cap","category-team-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":33,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891","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=46891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46892,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891\/revisions\/46892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}