Will the 49ers actually keep Jimmy Garoppolo through Week One?

Since Kyle Shanahan arrived as coach and John Lynch was hired as G.M., the 49ers have built a great team. But they’ve made plenty of questionable decisions at the most important position on the roster.

From not evaluating Patrick Mahomes in 2017 (Shanahan was waiting for Kirk Cousins a year later) to trading for Jimmy Garoppolo during the 2017 season (so much for waiting for Cousins) to saying “no thanks” to Tom Brady in 2020 to freaking out and investing three first-round picks and a third-round pick in Trey Lance or Mac Jones (some still think Shanahan wanted Jones), it’s been a wild ride at quarterback for the 49ers.

And now, as they prepare to give Lance the keys to the offense on a full-time basis, with Garoppolo willingly assuming the status of guy who uses the weight room whenever he wants, the 49ers continue to cling to Garoppolo in the hopes that another team will trade for him. As Lynch said Thursday night during the Amazon pregame show, “If someone wants to come and offer us a whole lot for a really great quarterback, then we’re happy to listen.”

But no one has made an offer, of either a whole lot or a little bit. Anyone who trades for Garoppolo has to satisfy the 49ers with draft pick(s) or player(s) — and the player as to the compensation he’ll receive.

Thus, there’s no interest. That’s something the 49ers have admitted. At this point, they’re simply waiting for a team to lose its starting quarterback for the season. Garoppolo is going along with that approach, because that specific outcome becomes the best path for him to get his full pay in the final year of his deal with the team.

Still, the 49ers know the end is coming. “Deadlines kind of force action on these sort of things,” Lynch said Thursday. There