Brandon Aiyuk is a 49er! Pick #25, 2020 NFL Draft

Originally posted by frankieuc68:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Youngone:
The rumor about Niners absorbing salary and taking a second for Aiyuk is hilarious. Who thinks this s**t up.

Haha is that what that article was saying?

It's basically a Steelers homer FanSided article.

That's their own Grant Cohn.

ol Crant Gohn of Steel Country

Originally posted by frankieuc68:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Youngone:
The rumor about Niners absorbing salary and taking a second for Aiyuk is hilarious. Who thinks this s**t up.

Haha is that what that article was saying?

It's basically a Steelers homer FanSided article.

That's their own Grant Cohn.

Sounded like it.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Youngone:
The rumor about Niners absorbing salary and taking a second for Aiyuk is hilarious. Who thinks this s**t up.

Haha is that what that article was saying?

It's basically a Steelers homer FanSided article.

lol my god….I just read some of it and he said they "didn't have to pay BA" and SF could eat some of that 5th yr option for a 2nd HA

So SF is gonna move BA because they can't pay him and he's gonna go the Pitt who isn't gonna pay him either 🫠🫠

Originally posted by Youngone:
The rumor about Niners absorbing salary and taking a second for Aiyuk is hilarious. Who thinks this s**t up.

They also said Aiyuk would be willing to play out his 5th year option with them lol. So the whole point of trading him would be that he doesn't want to play out his 5th year option but he will with the Steelers? lol

Originally posted by JTB1974:
They also said Aiyuk would be willing to play out his 5th year option with them lol. So the whole point of trading him would be that he doesn't want to play out his 5th year option but he will with the Steelers? lol

It makes no sense from the Niners standpoint to trade Aiyuk for anything less than a 1st RD pick+. And the reasons why is that not only are the Niners trying to win a SB in 2024 but Aiyuk is under contract for 2024 and at a bargain price of $14 Million. Secondly they can tag him the following 2 years which will still be a good price considering his talent. And thirdly they are guaranteed to get a 3rd RD comp pick after that. So what's more valuable? 3 years of Aiyuk and a 3rd RD comp pick or no more years of Aiyuk and some 2nd RD pick? Seems like an easy decision.

Originally posted by TD49ers:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by fropwns:

Originally posted by Brucey72:

Looks like Brandon Aiyuk is reporting for Day 1 of Voluntary Workouts amid contract negotiations with the #49ers pic.twitter.com/UlLxDtjOM2

— Sterling Bennett (@49ers_Access) April 15, 2024

You don't show up to Day 1 of Voluntary Workouts in April if you want to leave

We working today!

Also the whole can't pay two WRs thing is a shame…Philly just did it AND is paying their QB $250M (among others).

Exactly, the Eagles have the following players making $10M+ APY

Jalen Hurts at $51M
DeVonta Smith at $25M
AJ Brown at $25M
Landon Dickerson at $21M
Lane Johnson at $20M
Bryce Huff at $17.333M
Jordan Mailata at $16M
Dallas Goedert at $14.25M
Darius Slay at $13M
James Bradberry at $12.666M
Saquon Barkley at $12.583M

None of these run out before 2025, most are thru 2026-2029.

49ers have the following.

Nick Bosa at $34M
Deebo Samuel at $23.85M
Trent Williams at $23.01M
Javon Hargrave at $21M
Fred Warner at $19.45M
George Kittle at $15M
Charvarius Ward at $13.5M
Maliek Collins at $11.5M
Leonard Floyd at $10M

That's 11 for PHI and 9 for SF

Only Ward's deal expires before 2025, so the 49ers can pay both Deebo & Aiyuk, plus Brock, extend Ward, & Greenlaw to new deals, but they likely lose Jauan(team can't pay 3 WRs), Banks(They won't pay a G $10M+ a yr), Hufanga(Needs to prove he's worth top tier Safety money, not sure the 49ers would even pay him top tier S money), & DMo(They likely won't keep both Mooney & DMo, plus you have Yiadom & Ya-Sin as UFAs, with just Luter & Womack signed past 2024 at CB).

The question is why? Why pay 2 WRs elite money. ( Deebo is a bad contract) Is that really the best way to allocate money. I say no.

I disagree that Deebo is a bad contract, he's, IMO, the reason we beat the Eagles last year, without him for those 3 weeks our offense was inept, yes the defense sucked too, but the offense couldn't do anything, when Deebo & CMC are healthy, in the game, this offense is near unstoppable.

As for 2 WRs question, why not? Why get rid of one of them, makes no sense, again I disagree Deebo is a bad deal, you have to realize that in 2022 Deebo had just a $6.876M cap number, and then in 2023 just $8.741M, so it only makes sense that the deal goes up in 2024 & 2025, this is how the 49ers keep their players, by structuring the deals this way, low cap hits in years 1-2(1-3 for Bosa), that includes the year he signs the deal.

Again why not? If the Eagles are willing to pay two WRs $25M a year, why wouldn't the 49ers, it'd be a huge mistake to deal either when they don't have a legit replacement, if they were gonna deal one, they would have done it already, especially BA, so they could used that $14.124M to bring in another WR, but they haven't, and IMO they won't, plus Deebo & BA are too valuable to this offense to let go of, just cause Deebo is later in the 20s doesn't mean his best years are behind him, ppl are making too many assumptions, like how do they know who will or won't fall off after their 20s, look at Trent Williams, he's one of the most physical Tackles out there, takes punishment, so what he misses a game or 2 a season, he's the best LT, Deebo is 1/1 IMO, no one else is like him, or can do what he does in both pass & run game.

All I'm trying to say is that it's possible to have 11-13 large contracts, especially when the cap is going up by $20M a year each year, and of their 10 contracts, Maliek Collins, & Leonard Floyd are not, IMO, apart of the 49ers long term plans, where I believe, IMO, Deebo, Kittle, & CMC are, same for BA & Brock, and look at Philly as I said, they have 11, & that's with a $51M a yr QB, all run through 2025 or beyond.

Originally posted by JTB1974:
It makes no sense from the Niners standpoint to trade Aiyuk for anything less than a 1st RD pick+. And the reasons why is that not only are the Niners trying to win a SB in 2024 but Aiyuk is under contract for 2024 and at a bargain price of $14 Million. Secondly they can tag him the following 2 years which will still be a good price considering his talent. And thirdly they are guaranteed to get a 3rd RD comp pick after that. So what's more valuable? 3 years of Aiyuk and a 3rd RD comp pick or no more years of Aiyuk and some 2nd RD pick? Seems like an easy decision.

There's no reason to trade Aiyuk, they can pay him long term, plus keep guys like Brock, CMC, Deebo, Kittle, Bosa, Hargrave, Warner, Greenlaw, & Mooney, by the time the cap numbers get high enough, Trent will be retired. I'm not saying all of them will be on the team in 2026, but the majority will IMO, but that's me.

Steelers come to the lot looking at top of the line Aiyuk. Getting them pitching trades and then switch to letting them have Deebo instead for a little less.

Originally posted by jobiwon:

Steelers come to the lot looking at top of the line Aiyuk. Getting them pitching trades and then switch to letting them have Deebo instead for a little less.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:
There's no reason to trade Aiyuk, they can pay him long term, plus keep guys like Brock, CMC, Deebo, Kittle, Bosa, Hargrave, Warner, Greenlaw, & Mooney, by the time the cap numbers get high enough, Trent will be retired. I'm not saying all of them will be on the team in 2026, but the majority will IMO, but that's me.

Why would we want to keep multiple players in their 30's that have shown they can't win a Super Bowl?

Purdy and Bosa are going to stay here long term but we must rebuild around them with a new core in 2 years.

lol steelers are a bottom tier organization for a while now. making the playoffs to get raped in the first round is worse than just tanking. If aiyuk goes there, he won't get more than 500 yards with two of the worst QBs in the NFL throwing to him.

Contract will get done or he will be traded for a 1st round pick to a team with a top 15 draft pick in addition to another player and later draft pick.

Originally posted by TD49ers:

Originally posted by Hysterikal:

Originally posted by TD49ers:

Originally posted by MucketyMuck:
It's says a lot that he's showing up day 1. I still doubt anything gets done soon but it's a good message to send and the right thing to do

For sure. Both Deebo and Bosa sat out and were sub par the following season. Deebo showed to TC overweight and Bosa just never showed up all year.

Disagree with that

Not as the highest paid non QB defensive player of the year that's for sure. In that context he was a no show. Very disappointing season for him.

Agreed. I love Bosa but he was far from his usual self and rarely, if ever, took over and truly disrupted games like the way he's capable of.

Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:

Originally posted by TD49ers:

Originally posted by Hysterikal:

Originally posted by TD49ers:

Originally posted by MucketyMuck:
It's says a lot that he's showing up day 1. I still doubt anything gets done soon but it's a good message to send and the right thing to do

For sure. Both Deebo and Bosa sat out and were sub par the following season. Deebo showed to TC overweight and Bosa just never showed up all year.

Disagree with that

Not as the highest paid non QB defensive player of the year that's for sure. In that context he was a no show. Very disappointing season for him.

Agreed. I love Bosa but he was far from his usual self and rarely, if ever, took over and truly disrupted games like the way he's capable of.

Stats say Bosa was an elite player last year but as he was insistent on getting good QB money last year I would say it was incumbent upon him to be the game wrecker that Chris Jones was when we needed him most more times then not. It surely didn't appear that way enough for my fan observer eyes but here's to a better and more impactful year for his year

We are paying him to play at a HOF pace so I would expect we see that these next few years as far as he's concerned

Originally posted by Monsterniner:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:
There's no reason to trade Aiyuk, they can pay him long term, plus keep guys like Brock, CMC, Deebo, Kittle, Bosa, Hargrave, Warner, Greenlaw, & Mooney, by the time the cap numbers get high enough, Trent will be retired. I'm not saying all of them will be on the team in 2026, but the majority will IMO, but that's me.

Why would we want to keep multiple players in their 30's that have shown they can't win a Super Bowl?

Purdy and Bosa are going to stay here long term but we must rebuild around them with a new core in 2 years.

We have been a play or 2 away multiple times. That's the very definition of showing you "can" win a SB.

Maybe a rephrase is in order?