NFL: Brandon Aiyuk requests trade

[Peat]

The likely place where this standoff ends is Aiyuk is a 49er next season. They clearly don't want to trade him and bar sitting out, Aiyuk has zero leverage. He can ask for a trade until he's blue in the face but as long as he's not willing to throw a 14m mega-sulk over it, there's no reason for the 49ers to agree.

 

[pockets]

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

He can want in one hand, and shit in the other….

If he’s smart he’ll come and play for 14+ mil this season and then request a trade when he’s tagged next offseason. He has 0 leverage right now.

 

[StreetHawk]

SF knew this was coming. They restructured several contracts over the past year and a bit, but only Juz ended up with a paycut. Everyone else, just pushed the cap hit down the road, still got their money. Even CMC got new guaranteed money added onto his contract.

Pick 34 is about as good as you are going to get when the team has to pay the guy a new contract coming through the door. But, WR are hit/miss at a coin flip hit rate. So, even with Pearsall and Polk (assuming SF took him), no guaranteed you can get good production from them. But, that's the tradeoff to save like $11-12 mill plus against the salary cap between Aiyuk's $14 mill cap charge and pick 34. At that point in free agency all of the key guys have been signed. Could SF have added another veteran WR to their group with that cap savings?

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

SF knew this was coming. They restructured several contracts over the past year and a bit, but only Juz ended up with a paycut. Everyone else, just pushed the cap hit down the road, still got their money. Even CMC got new guaranteed money added onto his contract.

Pick 34 is about as good as you are going to get when the team has to pay the guy a new contract coming through the door. But, WR are hit/miss at a coin flip hit rate. So, even with Pearsall and Polk (assuming SF took him), no guaranteed you can get good production from them. But, that's the tradeoff to save like $11-12 mill plus against the salary cap between Aiyuk's $14 mill cap charge and pick 34. At that point in free agency all of the key guys have been signed. Could SF have added another veteran WR to their group with that cap savings?

They’ll likely get something similar this off-season after they tag him. For a team trying to win now, a year of Aiyuk is more valuable than whoever they would have taken atv34 this year.

 

[GKJ]

he’s taking training camp off, which is the smart thing to do

 

[StreetHawk]

he’s taking training camp off, which is the smart thing to do

Seems par for the course. Think Bosa did the same thing so that they don't get fined, but they show up but don't participate in on field drills. There for the meetings. Basically the "Hold In".

End of the day, what is at issue is about $45 mill give or take in guaranteed money that Aiyuk wants now over his $14.1 mill on his 5th year option. Gallup just got placed on the retirement list. He tore his ACL and was never the same afterwards.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

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[EpochLink]

Patriots I can see since Maye is on a rookie contract.

 

[GKJ]

They’ve seen enough in camp to believe they don’t need him

 

[Tuggy]

Open the checkbook. Time to spend some money and bring in a real #1 WR.

 

[David Suzuki]

They're really gonna give Purdy 60 million a year eh

 

[Breakers]

They saw that Jerry Juedy sucks at running routes

 

[StreetHawk]

They’ve seen enough in camp to believe they don’t need him

SF needs a WR. Pearsall was injured to begin camp so see how much of camp and pre season he misses. Without Aiyuk, it's Deebo and Jennings as WR1 and WR2. Then it's rookies with Pearsall (1st round), Cowing (4th round) from this past draft, and Bell, 7th round in 2023. So, WR depth and experience takes a big hit without Aiyuk.

SF knew this was coming after last season, given his production. Should have moved him at the draft so that they could have gotten someone for 2024 season (unless they can get a roster player back, doesn't have to be WR, could be OL or something). They may have to look into acquiring a WR at the TDL.

Not sure why Cleveland is in the picture given the cap charges they still need to take for Watson having pushed $60 mill of cap charges from his first 2 years into the future. Plus they have Cooper and Jeudy who have been paid at WR.

NE I understand though from early indications Maye is likely to sit most of the season.

 

[Romang67]

Patriots makes a lot more sense to me than the Browns. The Browns just seems like an exercise in futility. How much better will Watson be in 2024 with Aijuk in addition to Cooper, Njoku and Moore than he was in 2022 or 2023?

Meanwhile, the Patriots have no one to throw to. Give Maye a WR1 to throw the ball to the moment he takes the field, regardless if that's this season or next.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Patriots makes a lot more sense to me than the Browns. The Browns just seems like an exercise in futility. How much better will Watson be in 2024 with Aijuk in addition to Cooper, Njoku and Moore than he was in 2022 or 2023?

Meanwhile, the Patriots have no one to throw to. Give Maye a WR1 to throw the ball to the moment he takes the field, regardless if that's this season or next.

It would be Aiyuk instead of Cooper. Reports are Cooper is the piece going back to SF in the deal

 

[David Suzuki]

It's gonna be the Steelers

 

[TheAngryHank]

They're really gonna give Purdy 60 million a year eh

Dude has earned it more than some with the bag ..

 

[StreetHawk]

It would be Aiyuk instead of Cooper. Reports are Cooper is the piece going back to SF in the deal

Cap wise, doesn't really work out for Cleveland. Browns restructured Cooper's deal. He still gets his $20 mill, but it's chopped up into a tiny Base salary of $1.2 mill and $19 mill as a bonus. Thus, cap charge wise, it is the $1.2 mill base with another $7.5 mill of SB and past restructures to eat this season against the cap for the $8.7 mill cap charge. Dead cap of $31 mill if he was to be cut, so basically $30 mill of dead cap should he get traded. Since this would be a post June 1 deal, the Browns can split the dead cap of like $7.5 mill and then $22.5 mill over the 2 seasons. But, then they have to pay Aiyuk. Unless SF gives the Browns part of the Restructure money Cleveland paid to Cooper, I just don't see how Cleveland manages the cap charge.

You can't just recently give a player a big bonus and flip him before he's even played a down on that transaction. Major dead cap implications.

 

[David Suzuki]

Dude has earned it more than some with the bag ..

Yeah he has for sure. Really not sure what the 49ers are doing. Just further proof to me they should have traded everything they had for an actual good NFL QB in 2021 instead of a project like Lance lol. All time boneheaded decision.

 

[StreetHawk]

Yeah he has for sure. Really not sure what the 49ers are doing. Just further proof to me they should have traded everything they had for an actual good NFL QB in 2021 instead of a project like Lance lol. All time boneheaded decision.

Was it a timing thing because we did hear about them asking about Rodgers after they had pick 3, but really, for GB, they probably would have valued the 3 firsts and 1 3rd than just 3OA given that they'd be picking between Lance, Fields, Jones at that point in the draft.

Or gone after Brady.

But, Lynch has to wear a chunk of the blame here as the GM should have been prepared for this. Asking a guy to play out the 5th year option when you give new money to a RB, though it's CMC and he's their best weapon, and now Williams wants a new deal, as he also has no more guaranteed money. But, as GM, he should expect guys who are done their guarantees to want new guaranteed money if they are still at the top of their game. Thus, should have moved Aiyuk earlier so that he'd have draft capital to use on someone they wanted and would have been active in free agency to secure another WR or use the $14 mill slotted for Aiyuk somewhere else.

 

[David Suzuki]

Was it a timing thing because we did hear about them asking about Rodgers after they had pick 3, but really, for GB, they probably would have valued the 3 firsts and 1 3rd than just 3OA given that they'd be picking between Lance, Fields, Jones at that point in the draft.

Or gone after Brady.

But, Lynch has to wear a chunk of the blame here as the GM should have been prepared for this. Asking a guy to play out the 5th year option when you give new money to a RB, though it's CMC and he's their best weapon, and now Williams wants a new deal, as he also has no more guaranteed money. But, as GM, he should expect guys who are done their guarantees to want new guaranteed money if they are still at the top of their game. Thus, should have moved Aiyuk earlier so that he'd have draft capital to use on someone they wanted and would have been active in free agency to secure another WR or use the $14 mill slotted for Aiyuk somewhere else.

they wanted stafford and went to bed thinking they had a deal before he started taking shots at a resort with mcvay and whitworth lol

they probably have more than one ring if they had stayed awake

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

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[John Price]

Steelers now ?

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

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