The 49ers have released center Tim Barnes, according to Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee.
Barnes, who spent the first five years of his career with the Rams, signed with the 49ers in May after encountering a tepid market in free agency. While Barnes started in all 32 of the Rams’ games over the past two seasons, Pro Football Focus ranked him as a bottom 10 center in each campaign.
For San Francisco, center Daniel Kilgore did enough during the preseason to hold off both Barnes and the also-departed Jeremy Zuttah. Barnes’ exit will clear $755K of his $775K cap hit for 2017 off the books.