San Francisco 49ers sign LB Andrew Farmer

Andrew Farmer's signing earns a C Contract Value Index (CVI), reflecting a low-cost depth move that makes financial sense but carries limited upside for a linebacker room already established. At $1.005M on a deal without guaranteed dollars or multi-year commitment, this is replacement-level salary for a reserve role—the type of veteran minimum or near-minimum contract teams use to fill out their roster during the offseason push toward training camp. The 49ers, sitting at 12-5 and holding the sixth seed heading into the regular season, are clearly in win-now mode, and plugging linebacker depth at minimal cap hit is a pragmatic use of remaining available space rather than a value steal. Farmer carries no meaningful guaranteed money and no long-term financial obligation, which means San Francisco is absorbing zero risk beyond the modest salary itself—a clean, consequence-free addition on paper. Whether he survives final cuts and actually contributes depends on his performance in camp and his fit within the scheme, but from a pure contract-valuation standpoint, there's little downside here. The CVI reflects that this is sound value execution for a low-upside transaction, neither an overpay nor a bargain, just solid front-office arithmetic in the margins of roster construction.