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Nick WagonerJul 16, 2025, 11:35 PM ET
- Nick Wagoner is an NFL newsman astatine ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers since 2016, having antecedently covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including 3 years (2013 to 2015) astatine ESPN. In implicit a decennary with the company, Nick has led ESPN's sum of the Niners' 2019 and 2023 Super Bowl run, Colin Kaepernick's protest, the Rams making Michael Sam the archetypal openly cheery subordinate drafted to the NFL, Sam's consequent pursuit of a roster spot and the team's relocation and stadium saga.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The San Francisco 49ers reached a declaration statement with antiaircraft tackle Alfred Collins connected Wednesday night, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The rookie woody is worthy $10.3 cardinal implicit 4 years and includes $9 cardinal guaranteed, sources said. It's a pact that is expected to person much wide-ranging implications successful the NFL fixed that, earlier it, determination had been an impasse betwixt the league and each but 2 players drafted successful the 2nd circular this year.
Sources told Schefter that Collins' signing is expected to trigger aggregate different second-round deals. Before Collins, the lone 2 second-round picks to motion their rookie contracts were Cleveland Browns linebacker Carson Schwesinger and Houston Texans receiver Jayden Higgins. Schwesinger and Higgins were the archetypal 2 picks of the 2nd circular (Nos. 33 and 34, respectively) and became the archetypal brace of second-rounders to motion afloat guaranteed rookie contracts, doing truthful successful aboriginal May.
Those agreements helped make a stare-down betwixt teams and second-round selections arsenic the remainder of the circular waited to spot if they, too, could onshore contracts with afloat guarantees oregon astatine slightest get increases successful the magnitude of guaranteed wealth connected their deals.
While Collins did not get the afloat guarantees that Schwesinger and Higgins received, his $9 cardinal warrant clears the $6.93 cardinal guaranteed to Arizona Cardinals cornerback Max Melton erstwhile helium was selected successful the aforesaid spot successful the 2nd circular of the 2024 NFL draft.
In striking a woody with Collins, the No. 43 prime retired of Texas, the Niners present person their full 11-man draught people successful the fold earlier they unfastened grooming campy July 22. San Francisco's rookies reported for the commencement of grooming campy Tuesday, creating renewed urgency for the squad to get Collins signed earlier it welcomes the afloat squad adjacent week.
Collins is expected to person a important relation connected the 49ers' revamped antiaircraft enactment arsenic a rookie. The squad parted ways with some 2024 starters connected the interior successful Javon Hargrave and Maliek Collins and selected Collins aft helium posted 141 tackles, 18 for loss, and 7 sacks successful 64 games for the Longhorns. While helium was astir for the team's offseason program, helium did not enactment successful immoderate of the organized squad activities oregon minicamps due to the fact that of a calf injury.
