FREE AGENCY UPDATES As Teams Prepare For NFL Draft | The Big 3 in 30 NFL
Locked On NFL – Daily Podcast On The National Football League
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the big three in 30, the 49ers pass on a bonus option for Trent Williams. |
| 0:05.6 | The 49ers opting not to exercise the $10 million option bonus in Trent Williams' contract. |
| 0:11.5 | DeAndre Hopkins says he'd go play with the Vikings and Kylo Murray. |
| 0:15.2 | DeAndre Hopkins, current free agent, says, hey, if the Vikings need be there, I'm there. |
| 0:20.5 | And the Patriots look at their biggest needs in the NFL draft. |
| 0:24.0 | The brunt of free agency work is done. |
| 0:27.1 | This is the big 3 and 30 NFL, the three biggest stories in the NFL from our local experts at the Locked-on podcast network. |
| 0:34.0 | We bring you the real story, why it matters, what's next, who wins the big game and more, all in 30 minutes. The Big 3 and 30 NFL starts now. |
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| 0:54.3 | FanDuel.com and win $300 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins. The 49ers still want to find |
| 1:01.5 | a long-term solution to keep Starlinman Trent Williams, but San Francisco chose not to go with a $10 million |
| 1:08.0 | bonus option for next season. That will make his cap hit even bigger for next year. |
| 1:13.9 | The Niners hope to get a deal done at some point. |
| 1:16.6 | But Lockdown 49ers hosts Brian Peacock and Eric Crocker have all the info on the latest |
| 1:21.6 | twist in this story. |
| 1:23.5 | We got to get to the latest on Trent Williams, though, first. |
| 1:26.4 | And I knew it was going to have something was going to be announced on Friday because he had an option bonus. And when you hear option bonus, there's so many, I mean, NFL contracts get so convoluted, crack. There's so many different things. So the bonus was essentially kind of a non-factor because it wasn't like, oh, we don't pick up the bonus and now Trent |
| 1:45.0 | Williams is gone. It was, and by the way, Adam Schaefter put out the report, Friday's |
| 1:50.4 | 4 p.m. Eastern deadline, the 49ers opting not to exercise the $10 million option bonus in |
| 1:56.7 | Trent Williams' contract per sources. William's salary cap number now will grow to close to $47 million, but the team is not |
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