Former starter at tackle released

Schraeder move saves $6.45M in cap space; Coleman goes to 49ers.

Ryan Schraeder, who went from an undrafted rookie from Valdosta State to a starter in the Super Bowl for the Falcons, was released Wednesday.

Schraeder’s agent confirmed the news, and the team later announced the move as a postJune 1 designation.

Schraeder was in trouble after losing his starting right tackle job late last season and after the Falcons signed his replacement, Ty Sambrailo, to a three-year, $18 million extension.

By cutting Schraeder post June 1, the Falcons gained $6.45 million in salary-cap room and will have a $3.8 million hit of dead money on the $188.2 million cap before Wednesday’s start of the new business year.

The Falcons announced the signings of guards Jamon Brown and James Carpenter to multiyear deals. Brown signed for three years, and Carpenter signed for four.

Schraeder was signed as an

undrafted free agent in 2013.

He made the team and went on to play in 88 games and make 73 starts. During the Falcons run to Super Bowl LI in 2016, Schraeder started every game in the regular season and playoffs.

Schraeder was the classic late-bloomer and developed into an NFL starter. He signed a five-year, $34 million contract extension in 2016.

Last season, his play started to slip — Schraeder had trouble against the Steelers’ T.J. Watt and the Saints’ Cam Jordan in particular — and he was replaced by Sambrailo after 13 starts.

Schraeder took his demotion hard.

“From what I was told, we’ll find out more after the season and just take it from there,” Schraeder said late last season.

Schraeder was scheduled to make base salaries of $6.25 million in 2019, $5.75 in 2020 and $6 million in 2021. But after the demotion, the Falcons signaled he would be a cap casualty.

Schraeder wants to keep playing.

“I still feel like I can play,” Schraeder said. “I feel like I’ve got some gas in the tank. I feel like a good offseason, getting some rest and getting my confidence back up, I’ll be good.”

Schraeder, who’ll turn 31 in May, said he’s generally healthy. He missed games in 2017 after suffering a concussion.

The Falcons traded a fifthround pick for Sambrailo to serve as the swing tackle in 2017. He’s now the starter. The only reserve tackle from last season is Matt Gono, an undrafted rookie who did not play in any games. In other news Wednesday: ■ Former Falcons running back Tevin Coleman signed a two-year, $10 million deal with the 49ers, according to ESPN and NFL Network. Coleman became an unrestricted free agent with the outset of the league’s new business year.

Coleman, 6-1, 210 pounds, was drafted in the third round (73rd overall) in the 2015 draft. He’s played in 56 games and made 20 starts.

■ Defensive end Vic Beasley’s fifth-year option salary of $12.8 million became fully guaranteed with Wednesday’s start of a new league year.

The Falcons had announced as far back as last offseason and as recently as the combine that they planned to honor their commitment to Beasley, who recorded 15.5 sacks in 2016 and was named first-team All-Pro but had only five sacks in each of the past two seasons.

■ Wide receiver Marvin Hall, who was the team’s primary kickoff returner last season, is set to move on after not receive an exclusive-rights free-agent tender.

Hall had 26 returns for 616 yards last season.

Former Falcons right tackle Ryan Schraeder played in 88 games and made 73 starts.