The 49ers didn’t need to do anything with Jimmy Garoppolo to get under the salary cap by Wednesday’s 1:00 pm Pacific Time deadline. Instead, they restructured the contracts of defensive lineman Arik Armstead and tight end George Kittle to free up $18.756 million in cap space.
Those restructures bring the 49ers to $4.1 million under the cap per Over the Cap. They needed to get there before the new league year opens Wednesday.
Michael Ginnitti at Spotrac, San Francisco turned $10.4 million of Kittle’s salary into a signing bonus and added one void year to free up $8.3 million in room. Then with Armstead they turned $13 million of his salary into a signing bonus and tacked on a void year. That gave the 49ers an additional $10.4 million in cap space.
