The San Francisco 49ers are hitting the free agent market hard this offseason and really spending the dollars to show for it.  On Friday, the 49ers signed Isaac Bruce and Justin Smith to multi-year  contracts for total of $52 million dollars.

Bruce signed a two year contract and will be paid $6 million.  He will make $4 million of that in 2008 and $2 million in 2009.  He can still play the game even though he is getting up there in age.  He can also help out some of the younger receivers to get better.  It doesn’t hurt that his ex headcoach Mike Martz is on the 49ers staff either.

Justin Smith is a big time signing for the 49ers.   Smith was the fourth overall pick in the 2001 draft to the Cincinnati Bengals.  He has played all 16 games every year of his career except his rookie year when he only played in 15.  That is great production year in and year out.  I think he will really help out the 49ers defensive line, and get pressure on the quarterback.  Smith will be paid $45 million dollars with $20 million of that being guranteed money.

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The San Francisco 49ers have signed DeShaun Foster to a two year contract that will be worth $1.8 million dollars.  Foster will serve as the primary backup at the running position.  Frank Gore is still the number one guy, and unless he get hurt, Foster will just be used as a backup every game.

Foster is a better option then Michael Robinson or Mark Clayton so I like this signing.  Foster is capable of having some nice runs and I think he will fit into the offense nicely.

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Isaac Sopoaga and the San Francisco 49ers have agreed and signed a new five year contract.  Sopoaga will earn between 15-20 million dollars in the deal I believe.  That is a lot of money for a player that hasn’t contributed too much with the team, but he does help out in the 3-4 defense.

With the 49ers on the heels of a couple of free agent defensive linemen, they could really be spending a lot of money on the defensive side of the ball in the next week or so.  C’mon down Lance Briggs!

After losing his starting role with the 49ers, Derek Smith has  now been released by the 49ers.  Smith had signed a three year contract before the 2006 season, and was on pace to earn $3.28 million in 2009.

With Patrick Willis taking over his position, Smith was once again not going to receive any playing time.  Plenty of 49ers fans new that this move would be coming, and a lot of them had wished it would of happened during the season.

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Quarterback Shaun Hill and the San Francisco 49ers have agreed on a three year contract that is believed to be worth around $2 million per season.  Hill looked decent as he played the last three games of the season for the 49ers.  Right now he is recovering from finger surgers, but is expected to be 100% once mini camps start up.

Hill could battle Alex Smith for the starting position, but Smith is the clear leader as long as he comes back healthy after shoulder surgery.  Hill is a decent backup, that is about it if you ask me.

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The San Francisco 49ers have signed five players to new contracts.  Thomas Clayton (RB), Markus Curry (DB), Jerard Rabb (WR), and Dominique Zeigler (WR) all were on the 49ers practice squad last season.  The 49ers also signed a player from the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad and he is Cooper Wallace (TE).

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Lol, I really don’t know what to make of this move to be honest.  The 49ers have released Partick Estes and signed LeRon McCoy to the active roster.

McCoy, was originally drafted in the seventh round of the 2005 draft by the Arizona Cardinals out of Indiana (PA). As a rookie in 2005, McCoy played in ten games with four starts as a receiver and special teams player. He spent the 2006 season on injured reserve with a thumb injury suffered in training camp.

Hmm ok whatever, is he really doing to help out the offense? I doubt it.

The 49ers have released Zac Herold who was on the practice squad and signed another tight end by the name of Zac.

Zac Alcorn was originally signed by the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He spent the first part of the season on Green Bay’s practice squad before being activated to the 53-man playing roster last November.  Alcorn played in six of the Packers’ last seven games, mostly on special teams.

Dur preseason with the Packers everyone on the Packers squad said that Alcorn had the best hands they had seen in a while.  I have to wonder why they let him go and signed two other tight ends to their practice squad though. Time will tell but, welcome to the 49er family Zac Alcorn!

It was the dreadful day for many players on September 1st. The last day of training camp, and the day that they are either with the active team or cut and possibly resigned to the 8-man practice squad.

The 49ers waived veterans S Darnell Bing, LB Colby Bockwoldt, T Harvey Dahl, T Damane Duckett, WR Bryan Gilmore, TE Zachery Hilton, DE Sam Rayburn and S Vickiel Vaughn, first-year players FB Zak Keasey and T Tavares Washington and rookies RB Thomas Clayton, TE Zack Herold and LB Mark Washington.

Once those players were cut, some of them were re-signed to the practice squad where they will practice against players from the 53 man roster.  Players on the practice squad also make $4,700 on a weekly basis so that isn’t too shabby!

The players that were signed to the practice squad were, S Darnell Bing, RB Thomas Clayton, T Harvey Dahl, T Damane Duckett, TE Zac Herold, FB Zak Keasey, LB Mark Washington and WR Dominque Zeigler.

Also rookies Jay Moore and Joe Cohen were put on the injured reserve.

The 49ers made some roster moves this week as they continue to trim down the roster as opening weekend will soon be here.  The players not making the roster were four-year veteran LB Roderick Green, second-year WR Marcus Maxwell, first-year players K MacKenzie Hoambrecker, G Nick Steitz, and LB John Syptak and rookies P Ken Parrish, CB Sammy Joseph, FB Steve Dildine, and WR Dominque Zeigler.

The 49ers also placed DE Melvin Oliver and WR C.J. Brewer on the injured reserve list.

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