San Francisco 49ers General Manager John Lynch would've rather traded Trey Lance to a team other than the Dallas Cowboys. Because the Cowboys came with the best offer to the 49ers, Lynch felt he had no choice but to send Trey Lance to San Francisco's rival.
“Well, as they say, tie goes to the runner,” Lynch said on KNBR's “Murph and Mac” show Thursday morning. “The tie would have gone to someone else, but it wasn't a tie. … And there were a couple of teams left at the end, and I told the other team, ‘I don't want him to go here,' but that's where he ended up.”
The Cowboys traded a 2024 fourth-round draft pick for Lance. It's not much of a return for the 49ers compared to what San Francisco traded up in order to pick the quarterback in the 2021 NFL Draft. Dallas' offer for the third-string quarterback, however, might have dwarfed what anyone else was willing to offer
“We had opened discussions with teams, and there was nothing that would have had us inclined to move him,” Lynch said when asked why he had previously suggested that Lance would likely stay in San Francisco. “And, in the next 24 hours, things changed. And my point of reference there, with Dallas coming up huge, was as to where it was during the previous 48 hours. So that's what I was speaking to.
The Cowboys-49ers rivalry has been renewed in the last two postseasons. San Francisco eliminated Dallas from the 2022 and 2023 playoffs in one-score games.
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