Top draft pick Mykel Williams is officially a San Francisco 49er after signing his rookie contract with the team.

The 49ers didn’t release terms of the deal, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported it is a four-year contract worth $25 million, fully guaranteed. NBC Sports reported he received a signing bonus of $14.78 million.

Williams participated in the 49ers’ rookie camp last weekend along with fellow draftees, getting his first chance to work with the team’s coaches.

San Francisco drafted Williams 11th overall out of Georgia, where he starred for the Bulldogs over three seasons, won the College Football Playoff national title in January 2023 and was a two-time second-team All-SEC player. In 2024, he had 21 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, two forced fumbles and one pass defensed over 12 games.

The 20-year-old edge rusher who grew up in Columbus, Georgia, had 14 sacks over his three seasons in college.

He fills a spot opposite Nick Bosa on the 49ers’ defensive line, which has been a revolving door in recent years. Leonard Floyd started at defensive end last year after signing as a free agent, but was released this offseason. The line also lost Javon Hargrave and Maliek Collins on the inside, but added Alfred Collins and C.J. West in the draft along with Williams.

— Michael Nowels

If a proposed 6% sale of the 49ers goes through, the team would set a record for the highest valuation of any global sports team in a transaction.

The sale would be made at a franchise valuation above $8.5 billion, according to Sportico, which listed the team’s value at $6.86 billion in its most recent analysis. The outlet estimated the Dallas Cowboys’ value to be more than $10 billion, the highest in its rankings.

The York family, which owns more than 90% of the team, is expected to sell small portions of the team to the families of three Bay Area billionaires: Vinod Khosla, Byron Griffith and Will Deeter. Kholsa is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, while Griffith and Deeter are in the finance world.

The league’s owners would have to approve the sale. They meet next week in Minneapolis.

GOLF

The strongest field of the majors gave way to a few surprises in the PGA Championship at Charlotte, N.C., starting with Jhonattan Vegas charging into the lead with a 7-under 64 and the top 10 players in the world nowhere to be found among the top 10 at Quail Hollow.

A briefly energized crowd had mostly left when Vegas blazed his way to the finish with five birdies on his last six holes. It was Vegas’ best score in 45 rounds playing the majors. The Venezuelan has never finished in the top 20 in a major and hadn’t qualified for this one in three years.

Vegas had a two-shot lead over Ryan Gerard, the PGA Tour rookie who grew up in North Carolina. He was joined at 66 by Cam Davis of Australia. Scottie Scheffler shot a 69.

NHL

Andrei Svechnikov scored the go-ahead goal with just under two minutes left and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 3-1 in Game 5, winning the second-round series and advancing to the Eastern Conference final for a second time in three years.

Captain Jordan Staal got his first goal of the playoffs, and Frederik Andersen stopped 18 of the 19 shots he faced, including several on Alex Ovechkin.

The Hurricanes will face either Florida or Toronto, and the Panthers are up 3-2 with the chance to eliminate the Maple Leafs as soon as tonight.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

The Bay Area will be well-represented when the NCAA Division I softball tournament opens today, the first step in the quest to reach the College World Series.

Santa Clara is set to make its first-ever tournament appearance, while postseason regulars Cal and Stanford look to pick up where they left off a year ago and make breakthroughs of their own.

The Broncos (32-20) just missed making the 64-team field last season, but over the weekend earned the first tournament berth in the 46-year history of the program by winning the West Coast Conference tournament. SCU plays in the Tucson Regional and faces No. 13 Arizona at 4:30 p.m. The winner will face either Mississippi or Grand Canyon.

No. 16 ranked Stanford (40-11) is making its sixth straight tournament appearance and 22nd in the past 28 years. The Cardinal is looking to reach the CWS for the third straight year. anford reached the semifinals each of the past two seasons.

Cal (35-19) is making its third straight appearance, 36th overall, and looking to reach the Super Regionals for the first time since the Bears reached the semifinals of the 2012 CWS.

— Laurence Miedema

TENNIS

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner cranked up his level to near perfection at times in a 6-0, 6-1 dismantling of Casper Ruud in the Italian Open quarterfinals.

Jasmine Paolini, another Italian, advanced to the women’s final with a 7-5, 6-1 win over American Peyton Stearns. Paolini will next face Coco Gauff.