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The 49ers could have had Za’Darius Smith for next to nothing at the NFL trade deadline, but they opted to let an NFC rival contender grab him instead.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions had one major thing in common leading up to the 2024 NFL trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Both teams needed pass-rushing help.<\/p>\n

Detroit might be a bit more needy, given it lost star edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson to a season-ending injury after he was turning in a potential Defensive Player of the Year campaign. But the Niners, aside from defensive end Nick Bosa, haven’t been getting much production off the edge and have relied almost entirely upon a three-man rotation here, the other two being Leonard Floyd and the upstart Sam Okuayinonu.<\/p>\n

With the Cleveland Browns having something of a fire sale at the deadline, one might think a veteran pass-rusher on the trade block would be a target for general manager John Lynch, who is no stranger to deadline-day deals and was rumored to be shopping for defensive linemen.<\/p>\n

Veteran defensive end Za’Darius Smith seemed to be the perfect target for both NFC contenders.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for San Francisco, the Lions pulled off the trade for Smith first, leaving the 49ers to settle for a seldom-discussed rotational lineman, Khalil Davis.<\/p>\n

A loss for the Niners here.<\/p>\n

49ers could have outbid Lions for Za’Darius Smith<\/h2>\n

Despite being on the wrong side of 30 years old, Smith could have been the perfect complement to Bosa, rotating with Floyd but still allowing Okuayinonu a role while guarding against fellow edge Yetur Gross-Matos from returning from a season-long knee injury too soon.<\/p>\n

For starters, Smith played in a similar defensive alignment in Cleveland, the wide-9 under coordinator Jim Schwartz, which isn’t unlike what San Francisco deploys under D-line coach Kris Kocurek.<\/p>\n

Smith has been a pressure-generating machine, too, notching 44 quarterback hits combined between 2022 and 2023 while boasting five sacks for the Browns defense over nine games prior to being traded.<\/p>\n

All it took for Detroit to take on the veteran pass-rusher was a 2025 fifth-round pick and a 2026 exchange of sixth- and seventh-round picks.<\/p>\n

Even more painful, the Lions will only have to pay Smith $605,000 for the remainder of the season, according to Over the Cap, and his total cap hit in each of the following two seasons doesn’t exceed $6 million in either.<\/p>\n

That’s affordable, even for a B-level pass-rusher. And Smith still has A-type production.<\/p>\n

The 49ers, meanwhile, spent a seventh-round pick in 2026 for Davis. While that helps solve interior D-line issues, it failed to acknowledge the outside pass rush, which remains thin with Gross-Matos still out and the sack numbers not showing up behind Bosa.<\/p>\n

For a Niners team eager to win now within its Super Bowl window, not landing Smith while letting him go to another top NFC contender is a pretty big loss.<\/p>\n

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