Robbie Gould could hold out if 49ers don't trade him

Robbie Gould said this week he and the 49ers have been negotiating a contract for well over a year. Unless the sides can come to terms by Monday’s deadline for franchise-tagged players to sign extensions, he will be tethered to the 49ers at the current kicker tag rate of $5M. He has requested a trade and been mulling a holdout. Gould said, via NBC Sports Bay Area’s Josh Schrock: “We’ve been negotiating for 17 months and it’s been a complicated situation. I’m at the point where my agent is going to handle it. If there’s anything I need to know about, then I’ll make a decision. ... “I don’t really have a plan right now,” Gould said. “Obviously there is a deadline and I don’t have to make any decisions anytime soon. … The deadline to sign a long-term contract is Monday, and the rest of that (potential holdout) is up to me.” The 36-year-old kicker has hit 72 of 75 field-goal tries since joining the 49ers in 2017. The trade request Gould made led many to believe he wanted to return to Chicago, where his family re

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