49ers Land $10 Million Replacement for Arik Armstead…Team bossgives reasons

The San Francisco 49ers look ready to supplant cautious end Arik Armstead with free specialist Jordan Elliott, who concurred terms with the group as affirmed by his representative on Tuesday.

San Francisco requested that Armstead accept a decrease in salary from his $17.4 million compensation for 2024, which he declined. Grandstand Report’s Jordan Schultz revealed that the 49ers intend to deliver Armstead over the choice.

The 49ers will pay Elliott a two-year, $10 million agreement all things considered. Elliott played four seasons for the Cleveland Browns where he counted 98 handles, five sacks, 10 quarterback hits, and four pass redirections in 66 profession games and 35 vocation begins.

The vast majority of Elliott’s sacks and handles came during the beyond two seasons where he began 31 games in that range. Elliott conceded his profession got off to a rough beginning, however he turned it around.

“I felt a little unsure,” Elliott told the Narrative Message’s Scott Petrak in November 2023. “I couldn’t say whether I was even removed for this, for the NFL. Simply being genuine.”

Elliott credited the Browns for giving him an opportunity that long, Petrak composed. Elliott had a four-year, $4.5 million tenderfoot agreement with the group, and he didn’t begin building playing time until his third season in 2022 after only four beginnings in his initial two years.

“It wasn’t like it was simply given to me. That is something that I need to simply emphasize. Yet, it’s big deal,” Elliott said. “I endeavored to get to where I’m at the present moment. I’m not finished at this point. There’s a great deal of development left. So I will simply continue to push ahead, attempting to get 1% better consistently.”

Jordan ElliottL ‘I Didn’t Have the Inspiration’

Elloitt owned up to Petrak it came down to inspiration and rare exercises — two times per week. Elliott changed after 2021, beginning with a five-day gym routine everyday practice, Petrak composed.

“I’ve certainly had mindfulness yet I didn’t have the inspiration,” Elliott said. “The absence of concentration, the absence of tender loving care, simply not being an expert.

“I was mindful yet I wasn’t mindful to the point I needed to get to the next level. It’s taken me simply till now to grasp it,” he added.

Cleveland drafted Elliott out of Missouri in the 2020 NFL Draft with a third round choice. He had a champion school profession with the Tigers and Texas Longhorns in the midst of 52 handles, 5.5 sacks, and four ignore redirections three seasons in 26 vocation games.

Elliott’s excursion to school brought up some issue marks since he focused on Baylor, Michigan, and Houston before the Longhorns. He had a champion prep profession at Westside Secondary School where he played in the U.S. Armed force All-American Bowl in 2016.

“That was essential for that youthfulness. That is not me any longer,” Elliott told the Akron Signal Diary about his university uncertainty in 2020. “At the point when you get up in the first part of the day you trust you’re not a similar individual you were the other day. Everything without question revolves around development. That is only my outlook. That was only a little piece of the riddle.”

Matthew Davis covers the NFL for Heavy.com, zeroing in on the Tampa Sound Marauders, New Britain Nationalists and San Francisco 49ers. As a contributing essayist to the StarTribune, he has likewise covered Minnesota prep sports beginning around 2016. More about Matthew Davis