NFL: Brandon Aiyuk requests trade
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Unholy Diver
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I thought he had done that a while back, or was that just an unofficial request? Maybe just a suggestion?
He wants his guaranteed money now. Late first rounder. Done in by the PA agreeing to a 5th year option vs all other rounds getting to be free agents (though, I think SF would have franchise tagged him) if that was their only remaining option, like Cincy did to Higgins.
See how this plays out... He does have a valid contract from the 5th year option so missing any camp time will cost him money in fines.
Unholy Diver
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Yeah it is always about the money, and more specifically the guaranteed cash, that is never in doubt
Blackhawkswincup
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Why exactly are 49ers not giddying up to pay him?
Seems to have improved every year in league and last year established himself as one of the top WR's
Just turned 26 and is the 49ers true #1 with Samuel decline over last 2 years and always seeming to be banged up
+ Samuel outside of his 1 big year hasn't shown himself to be a #1 so it may have been an anomaly one off season
Seems to have improved every year in league and last year established himself as one of the top WR's
Just turned 26 and is the 49ers true #1 with Samuel decline over last 2 years and always seeming to be banged up
+ Samuel outside of his 1 big year hasn't shown himself to be a #1 so it may have been an anomaly one off season
Hard to say. I recall last season SF was re-negotiating with several players like Kittle and others to free up cap room (for 2023 and likely 2024), but they were not taking pay cuts. So, who knows what they have budgeted in dead cap in the coming years. Even if they dealt Deebo today, he'd still count around $21 mill in dead cap ($15 mill in SB and $6 mill in option left to hit the cap), which is $7 mill less than his current cap hit this season. SF probably regrets doing his deal when he made his fuss a couple of seasons ago.
John Price
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Washington may be interested but the playbook is not to look too eager or interested. Let them come to you.
Don't offer them immediately. Heck I would not even offer them any draft capital this offseason at all. He is a FA after the season anyway. If they wanted him that bad they would sign him then.
Don't offer them immediately. Heck I would not even offer them any draft capital this offseason at all. He is a FA after the season anyway. If they wanted him that bad they would sign him then.
EpochLink
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If Aiyuk wants to get paid and get paid now, go to a team with an up and coming QB with cap space to accommodate.
Washington is one, who else?
Washington is one, who else?
time for jerry jones to outbid himself and give up a first rounder then overpay him after doing f-all this offseason
Wash already has McCluerin. And drafted Dotson in round 1, 3 drafts ago, going into year 3. I think Wash should be ok at WR.
ChompChomp
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Sharks and Niners fan here.
I'm convinced what is happening here is that the Niners intend to go all out to win the Super Bowl this year, and are content to simply let Aiyuk walk next offseason because they can't afford him past this season. I don't think the Niners care about "good asset management" right now, they just want to get Super Bowl Win #6 with this group.
Of course Aiyuk doesn't like that, because in the NFL (unlike other leagues), players don't love having a show off contract year to earn a big free agency contract because of the injury risk. They already want their fat contract now to remove the risk.
Given my belief above, I don't think the Niners are going to honor the trade request. If Aiyuk wants to sit, that's his choice, but then he won't earn his guaranteed $14M this season. For me, coming from a Sharks is my #1 team POV (i.e., hockey-focused perspective), I think Aiyuk just needs to suck it up and play out his contract and ball out for a Super Bowl and then get a fat free agency contract next season. (Or face the possibility of a Niners franchise tag next offseason, which I don't think will happen, but if it does, maybe then you sit out until you get a trade/contract).
I'm convinced what is happening here is that the Niners intend to go all out to win the Super Bowl this year, and are content to simply let Aiyuk walk next offseason because they can't afford him past this season. I don't think the Niners care about "good asset management" right now, they just want to get Super Bowl Win #6 with this group.
Of course Aiyuk doesn't like that, because in the NFL (unlike other leagues), players don't love having a show off contract year to earn a big free agency contract because of the injury risk. They already want their fat contract now to remove the risk.
Given my belief above, I don't think the Niners are going to honor the trade request. If Aiyuk wants to sit, that's his choice, but then he won't earn his guaranteed $14M this season. For me, coming from a Sharks is my #1 team POV (i.e., hockey-focused perspective), I think Aiyuk just needs to suck it up and play out his contract and ball out for a Super Bowl and then get a fat free agency contract next season. (Or face the possibility of a Niners franchise tag next offseason, which I don't think will happen, but if it does, maybe then you sit out until you get a trade/contract).
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If it is time, then it is time. Let someone else pay him if you don't want to, unless he's on board with playing it out. But if that was happening, he wouldn't request the trade.
I would think that your SF 49ers would need to guarantee Aiyuk that they won't tag him after the season. That he can be a legit complete free agent. Probably the only way your plan can work.
Otherwise, he would assume all of the risk only to get another 1 year contract via the tag.
ChompChomp
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Ok, but they don't have to do that. Aiyuk has no leverage here. Is he going to sit out the season and not earn $14M now?
BobColesNasalCavity
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Patriots … most cap space in the league, need a true #1 WR, former 49er Kendrick Bourne has been trying to recruit him, and Drake Maye has looked really impressive even if he sits for a year.
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Deebo 2.0. Remove 49ers from friend lists on social media, request a trade, get paid, act like it never happened
BigBadBruins7708
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In a vacuum it's exactly what they need to do. Unfortunately Kraft is way too cheap to approve a move like that. Hell it's why a 4 win team with $100m in cap space went out in free agency and only re-signed their own same crappy players and brought in no major outside talent.
pockets
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The talent they need, OT and WR, wasn’t available. Both those positions had horrible depth in free agency, plus why would the top free agents want to come to a 4 win team without (at the time) a QB? And the players they re-signed weren’t the problem, it’s players they need to cut/trade with garbage contracts that Bill signed that are the problem with this team. Out of curiosity, what re-signings don’t you like?
Latest rumor is Aiyuk for Davante Adams.
Gets Adams out of Vegas, and gives Raiders a replacement they can sigh long-term.
And Adams, if anything, is still the better WR short-term.
Could work.
But other than something like that happening, don't see the 49ers trading him.
Gets Adams out of Vegas, and gives Raiders a replacement they can sigh long-term.
And Adams, if anything, is still the better WR short-term.
Could work.
But other than something like that happening, don't see the 49ers trading him.
LV takes it on the chin cap wise. $24 mill to account for in SB and restructure for them so that would be dead cap if he’s traded along with them paying Aiyuk. Vs the $25 mill cap charge that Adams is for this season.
But he’s a $35 mill base and $44 mill cap charge for 2025 so he will need to redo his contract in the off season.
This for SF Adams would be a rental and would have leverage in negotiations as he’s due the $35 mill base in 2025. Either he gets new guaranteed money or he’s a monster cap charge for them.
But he’s a $35 mill base and $44 mill cap charge for 2025 so he will need to redo his contract in the off season.
This for SF Adams would be a rental and would have leverage in negotiations as he’s due the $35 mill base in 2025. Either he gets new guaranteed money or he’s a monster cap charge for them.
Voight
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He wants security. What if he has a debilitating injury in week one this season? It could hurt his market next off season.
ChompChomp
Can't wait for Sharks hockey to return someday
I understand that, I'm just saying I understand the Niners position that they want to go for the Super Bowl this year and are happy to let him walk after this season.
Yeah he wants security, but if he refuses to play, he won't get his $14M this season. He doesn't have leverage to demand that security. And the Niners don't have cap space in the future to give it to him anyways, which is the ultimate point. He's a cap casualty that normally a team would trade because that's "Good asset management," but here the Niners, much like the 2021 Rams, are going all out for the Super Bowl and don't care about good asset management.
SF waited too long to move him. The time to trade him was before the draft. But, WR are really a coin flip of succeeding or not when it comes to draft picks turning out either in round 1 or 2. Even the draft that produced Aiyuk, had Ruggs, Jeudy, Lamb, Reagor, Jefferson in round 1. Probably 3 are legit 1 WR on most clubs. Ruggs is a never know. Reagor a bust and Jeudy, is just ok.
In round 2, it was Higgins, Pittman, Shenault, Hamler, Claypool, Van Jefferson, Mims. Higgins and Pittman the best of round 2. Higgins got tagged, Pittman signed with Indy. the others are all on other teams as they have hit free agency or moved in prior years.
So, if SF got a 2 and 3 for him, still very much a coin flip at best to get a productive WR. Now, they deal with this. They can get through most of the regular season without him. See where this standoff ends up.
