The Jauan Jennings contract saga was supposed to reach a conclusion within the last week of August, but we were sold empty dreams. It’s September, less than a week away from game one. It’s all still up in the air. But something’s changed. Amid the injury pileup at WR and the 49ers’ pretty well-known cap space situation, Jennings has all the leverage in the world. And Mike Silver thinks that there’s only one solution to this saga.

Silver laid it out like a coach in the owner’s box: this is a band-aid moment for the 49ers and Jauan Jennings. “ His leverage will go down when Aiyuk comes back. I always think of these situations as a band-aid. They won’t be able to do a long-term deal. They’ll be like ‘okay, fine, we’ll give you an extra 4m in incentives’, or something that would make hi

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