Over the previous two-and-a-half years the San Francisco 49ers have made huge investments in preserving extensive receivers Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk on the workforce. Now they might be taking a look at the opportunity of at the least one, and maybe each, enjoying elsewhere through the 2025 season.
Samuel already appears to have one one foot out the door following a commerce request, which the 49ers appear pleased to oblige. If they don’t commerce him, releasing him with a post-June 1 lower designation (which might save extra cap area than buying and selling him) looks as if a really probably end result.
Now Aiyuk’s title is again within the rumor mill for a second straight offseason.
Basic supervisor John Lynch was requested on Thursday concerning the studies that groups had been calling about Aiyuk, and his reply was definitely fascinating.
As an alternative of outright shutting down any commerce hypothesis, he as a substitute talked about how groups name about good gamers on a regular basis they usually must do what’s finest for themselves by way of getting youthful and cheaper.
Here is his full answer, through Grant Cohn:
“That sometimes occurs with actually good gamers. I keep in mind two years in the past having related conversations. You get calls and also you all the time hearken to calls. Since Kyle (Shanahan) and I’ve been right here, we have been the No. 2 cash-spending workforce. Within the final 4 years, we are the fourth-highest cash-spending workforce. So sooner or later, you need to reset just a little bit, or at the least recalibrate. You’ll be able to’t simply hold urgent the pedal.
“I feel there’s some good that may come out of that. We have to get youthful. I feel we are the oldest workforce in soccer after making an attempt to make a run final 12 months. I feel it is good to consistently get youthful. Our draft class final 12 months was an awesome transfer towards that. We’ll have 4 picks within the high 100. If the comp picks occur like we see it, we’ll have 10 picks total. We’re enthusiastic about including extra youth to the nice core of gamers we have already got.”
