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Kyle Madson

49ers 10 biggest cap hits in 2023 feature 2 players no longer with team

It turns out the NFL’s salary cap is, in fact, real.

While teams can manipulate numbers to make contracts work in one year, it typically means they’re going to wind up paying for such a maneuver down the line.

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The 49ers are a prime example of that with their restructures of defensive end Dee Ford’s deal.

His multiple restructures helped alleviate some of his cap number while he was playing, but it pushed those salary cap hits into future years. Now they’re sitting right up against the cap in 2023 with one of their biggest cap hits belonging to Ford despite the fact he hasn’t played for the team since Week 7 of the 2021 season.

This is the last year the 49ers will have Ford counting against the cap, but it’s not going to come cheap. Here are the 49ers’ biggest cap hits in 2023 including Ford’s dead cap charge, and another dead cap charge from a player no longer with San Francisco:

LT Trent Williams

(AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

2023 cap number: $27,227,424

DL Arik Armstead

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

2023 cap number: $23,755,883 

TE George Kittle

Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports

2023 cap number: $18,033,751

Nick Bosa (TBD)

(Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

2023 cap number: $17,859,000

Bosa’s cap number will likely drop once (if?) his extension gets signed.

LB Fred Warner

Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports

2023 cap number: $9,049,000

WR Deebo Samuel

(Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

2023 cap number: $8,653,529

DE Dee Ford (Retired)

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

2023 cap number: $8,589,999

DL Javon Hargrave

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

2023 cap number: $6,595,000 

DB Jimmie Ward (Houston Texans)

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports

2023 cap number: $6,395,000

FB Kyle Juszczyk

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2023 cap number: $6,565,221

CB Charvarius Ward

(Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

2023 cap number: $6,421,000

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