49ers executive vice president Paraag Marathe is stepping down to focus on other sports ventures

The San Francisco 49ers will be without executive vice president of football operations Paraag Marathe, who is reported to be stepping down from his role as he shifts his attention to other sports interests. The move, first reported through ESPN’s Adam Schefter and echoed by Pro Football Rumors, is described as an instruction the team’s ownership shared with staff on Monday.

According to the report, 49ers owner Jed York informed the organization that Marathe would be stepping down in order to focus more on Leeds United and Rangers FC, along with other sports efforts. Marathe has been with the 49ers organization for 25 years, making him one of the most established figures in the franchise’s football operations structure.

In his capacity as executive vice president of football operations, Marathe has been part of the 49ers’ front-office decision-making process for multiple roster cycles. A departure of a leader with that kind of tenure typically changes internal workflow even when responsibilities are not publicly itemized. In practice, the most immediate question for a football organization is how responsibilities across scouting, roster construction support, and day-to-day football operations oversight will be reassigned.

The reported timing also lands in a sensitive period for NFL teams, when the offseason program and roster planning often require sustained coordination across personnel and football leadership. With Marathe stepping away, the 49ers will need to ensure there is continuity between long-term planning and near-term operational needs, particularly as the team moves through remaining summer football calendar milestones.

Publicly, no replacement has been reported in the Pro Football Rumors account, and the underlying ESPN report did not provide additional detail in the preview text about who will absorb Marathe’s duties. Until the 49ers or the league provide more specifics, the most accurate way to describe the next phase is transitional, with internal staffing and authority likely to be clarified over the coming weeks.

For 49ers fans, the storyline is not only about a personnel change, but about how the franchise’s football governance model looks after a 25-year figure exits. Whether the club maintains a similar command structure or consolidates roles under different executives could influence how the team approaches scouting priorities and roster building going forward.

What to watch next is any official 49ers announcement about Marathe’s departure, plus any named executives or organizational titles that suggest where football operations oversight will land. Given the reported focus on soccer clubs, there is also a broader question of how the team manages leadership attention and decision velocity when key executives split time across multiple sports organizations.