49ers looking to trade OT Anthony Davis & S Antoine Bethea

Via Peter King of TheMMQB.com, there’s plenty of draft-month chatter about the 49ers that doesn’t involve their want-away passer.

Specifically, one personnel source said they’re not inclined to trade up from the seventh spot (too many needs, General Manager Trent Baalke doesn’t want to give away picks).

But more moves could add to that stockpile, as another source said: “They want to trade Anthony Davis and Antoine Bethea.”

That would be interesting, given the veteran right tackle’s cryptic April 1 message about returning to the league after his one-year retirement, with the addendum “Dealing with Trent is giving me a headache“).

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The 31-year-old Bethea is coming off a season lost to a torn pectoral, and they have 2015 second-rounder Jaquiski Tartt in reserve. He’s due to make $5 million in base salary, workout bonuses and roster bonuses if he’s there this season, so they might view him as a chance to stockpile more picks.

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Marvin49":5ccs5apt said:

The Bethea trade makes alot of sense. Safety is one of the few positions where they have quite a few good looking youngplayers (Reid, Ward, Tartt...even McCray).

Davis? I think this has less to do with being cheap and more to do with paying alot of money for a player that decided to take a year off when he was 26. They can't count on him.

I'm kinda dissapointed though if its true. I wanted him back.

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Marvin49":24dy5yu0 said:

Davis? I think this has less to do with being cheap and more to do with paying alot of money for a player that decided to take a year off when he was 26. They can't count on him.

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Popeyejones":2pppduwk said:

Marvin49":2pppduwk said:

Davis? I think this has less to do with being cheap and more to do with paying alot of money for a player that decided to take a year off when he was 26. They can't count on him.

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Also gotta figure in that he retired after both FA and the draft leaving the team w/out the possibility to get a replacement.

And that he sat around on Twitter while at home last year bad-mouthing the play of his teammates who he had left in the lurch.

Davis has always been immature like that, and I've also always liked him, though.

All to say that I think Davis is right in wanting his bonus money back, but I also understand why there might be bad blood and why the team might not be eager to just give him his old deal like nothing happened.

Something else to factor in: Knowing Davis, do you think there's even an iota of a chance that he stayed in shape this year? I don't.

IIRC his off-season conditioning was poor enough while on his rookie deal that he was weight clauses in his current (or, maybe soon to be current again) contract.

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Hawk_Nation":3aoh4ph3 said:

All you can do at this point is point and laugh, what a joke of a franchise.

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bjornanderson21":1uxkoeqf said:

Hawk_Nation":1uxkoeqf said:

All you can do at this point is point and laugh, what a joke of a franchise.

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They certainly seem to keep going backwards, but if they draft well enough they can be competing for the division....in 2018

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RichNhansom":yqu2k74m said:

bjornanderson21":yqu2k74m said:

Hawk_Nation":yqu2k74m said:

All you can do at this point is point and laugh, what a joke of a franchise.

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They certainly seem to keep going backwards, but if they draft well enough they can be competing for the division....in 2018

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Are you assuming the division is going to revert back to NFC Worst again?

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