The 49ers would absolutely love to influence receiver Brandon Aiyuk to play for the group in 2024, at a fifth-year choice wage of $14.1 million. Whether or not Aiyuk is finally keen to try this stays to be seen.
Regardless, Mike Garafolo of NFL Media experiences that the 49ers and Aiyuk are not any nearer to a long-term deal.
“For Aiyuk and the 49ers, that they had conversations not too long ago,” Garafolo stated, by way of NBC Sports activities Bay Space. “They are not any nearer to a deal, from my understanding, however they’re additionally no nearer to a commerce request. That’s by no means been one thing that he has explored on this case.”
There’s a sport of semantics occurring between the 49ers and Aiyuk. Even when he hasn’t requested to be traded, we imagine his agent was given permission to hunt a commerce earlier than the draft. The aim, we additionally imagine, was to let Aiyuk notice that nobody else was keen to offer him the $30 million per yr he reportedly has been searching for.
In the end, nobody was keen to offer Aiyuk what he needs in a contract and what the 49ers need in a commerce. In any other case, a commerce would have occurred.
If Aiyuk needs one thing greater than the $14.1 million he’s resulting from make, he may need to take a stand. Whether or not he does or doesn’t stays to be seen. The deeper query is whether or not the 49ers will blink for Aiyuk, the identical means they did a yr in the past with defensive finish Nick Bosa.
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