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USAT: Niners Wire

Mar 3, 2022

It looks like a near certainty that the 49ers will trade Jimmy Garoppolo this offseason. A wrench might’ve gotten thrown into their plans of getting value for the 30-year-old signal caller when he decided on having surgery on his throwing shoulder around two weeks before the 2022 league year officially opened. - While surgery might’ve thrown Garoppolo’s trade market into flux, it doesn’t change much about how the 49ers might operate with him in the offseason. - NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport speculated the surgery might push the 49ers to keep Garoppolo on their roster, but that seems pretty unlikely at this point and it erases the third choice the team has with the veteran QB. - Let’s run through the team’s three options with their QB:

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