It appears as if the rumors surrounding Joey Bosa joining forces with his brother to play with the 49ers are picking up steam.
With the NFL's '"legal tampering" (some would call it negotiating) window opening on Monday prior to the beginning of the league new year, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive regarding possible player moves, and it's likely to only go up from here.
In the case of veteran pass-rusher Joey Bosa, the San Francisco 49ers are already able to negotiate with him, since he was cut by the Los Angeles Chargers on Wednesday.
And a Niners insider has provided an exciting, and positive update.
Long-time beat writer, Tim Kawakami of the SF Standard, posted the following on Twitter on Sunday morning:
Meanwhile, I've heard Joey Bosa and 49ers are having good conversations and this feels like it's headed toward a deal.
— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) March 9, 2025
Nothing is done, but the Bosa brothers want to be together and probably will get there this year. Which likely means this will be a moderate deal + incentives.
This ought to be exciting for San Francisco fans looking for the team to add more pass-rushing depth in the quest to return to the playoffs in 2025. While the older Bosa has had a number of injury issues, he still has 72 sacks over his nine-year career. He still has something to give the league.
It's likely only his prohibitive contract that prevented him from staying in Los Angeles, and while the 49ers are unlikely to pay him megabucks given their own cap situation, it always felt likely that the team might be able to agree a sensibly discounted deal in order to reunite Joey with his younger brother, Nick Bosa.
That seems to be where Kawakami believes the mood music is heading.
While nothing's confirmed yet, the logic certainly checks out, and it bears watching as we get closer to deals being announced.
It's unlikely Joey Bosa would take on an every-down role with the 49ers, as both his age and durability suggest that wouldn't be the best option, either for him or the team as a whole. Rather, it seems more likely that he could take the pass-rushing rotational role of a veteran like Leonard Floyd, who has largely underwhelmed since coming to the Bay Area in free agency last year.
The fact the 49ers could save almost $8 million in cap space by cutting Floyd probably wouldn't hurt either.
There's likely to be twists, turns, rumors, innuendo, and all sorts of other things before things get to the crunch time, but in a week of middling and troubling news for the 49ers, this could turn out to be a welcome ray of light.