49Ers Push Deadline But Extend Aldon Smith Through 2015
The deadline is Saturday at midnight ET for the members of the 2011 first-round draft class to be offered the contract extension, or risk having their rookie contracts run out and hitting free agency after this season. Smith was the biggest wild-card of the class, thanks to the combination of 42 sacks in 43 regular-season games - and a major role in the 49ers' Super Bowl XLVII trip - and multiple arrests, incidents involving alcohol and a trip to treatment last season....