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

Originally posted by Jakemall:
Why? He's on contract for 14m.

With 20M he'll play every game because if we only give him 14 he might play only the second half of the season.

Bosa got his bread last year and dudes celebrated but now that it's time they get paid we can see the ramifications of that decision

Originally posted by Pillbusta:
Bosa got his bread last year and dudes celebrated but now that it's time they get paid we can see the ramifications of that decision

Bosa is different

Originally posted by 5thSFG:
Tbf if aiyuk turned down 30+ from NE and is willing to take 28 from us… I would feel obligated to apologize for every disparaging remark I've made about him over the last few days.

i know, obviously, that I don't know enough about this situation to form a coherent opinion… doesn't stop me from running my yap 🤣

(slowly turns attention to the lynch thread to continue uninformed yapping)

Such a great post lol

Title window is open this year. Trading him for future picks does nothing.

I also don't believe he will sit out. That just hurts his own value (to the Niners or someone else).

He's a good player but WR just isn't where to spend premium money. I think we hold him to the contract, then tag and trade him.

Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:
This! If i'm them, i'm not letting him go under any circumstances. I GUESS two first rounders; but even as insane as that offer is (which is why no one would do it), it doesn't help them this year and drafting is a crapshoot. We have a proven all pro under contract.

Take the extension we give you or play your year out. Sorry dude. Don't be a b***h.

Woow I wonder would you tell that to his face really would you? I see a lot of you tough guys calling BA a b***h ...keyboard tough guys it easy to say this and that but if you were in his shoes I`m quite sure the crap spewing out of your mouths would not be how you would deal with the contract negotiation

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by Hysterikal:

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Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by Rathof44:
Webster just redefined "clusterf**k", and we are witnessing it.

All because the team didnt sign him before the WR market exploded.

Fixed.

lol what

If we made a good offer to him before the wide receiver market exploded, we would have already locked him up.

Instead, he sees players like Amon St. Brown getting $30M and clear #2 WRs like Devonta Smith getting $25M a year, and we have people wondering why he wont sign for $26M.

It's not some new practice for players who are due for an extension to wait til the top player(Jefferson) gets his deal done to have an idea what the ceiling is. So unless you think the FO could force Aiyuk unto signing it's all just random complaints trying to throw dirt on the FO.

Amon St. Brown
Devonta Smith
AJ Brown
Michael Pittman
Jaylen Waddle
Nico Collins

All of those WRs signed extensions prior (in some cases months prior) to Justin Jefferson signing his contract. You are making it sound like me saying that we should have handled Aiyuk's extension prior to the WR market exploding was me advocating something that is never done.

And you say I am making random complaints about the FO.....are you implying that the Front Office deserves no blame for how this was handled?

Why is it the front office's fault that BA decided that he wanted to wait and see what the other guys he considers on his level were getting paid? The front office cannot make him sign a deal before he is ready to, can they? Our team has one of the best front offices in the league, as evidenced by the roster they have put together, and pretty much kept strong for years now. Trying to blame them for a guy overestimating his own worth on a gamble is not logical. I like BA, and I am pretty positive that he is going to sign once he realizes that this is his best option. The Steelers don't have any players that the Niners would want that they are going to trade for Aiyuk, who is then going to want 28-30 million a year. The niners supposedly sweetened the deal a bit, maybe to help salve his ego after seeing that no one that he wants to play for is going to make an acceptable offer to the Niners to get him. I think the odds are very good that he plays here this upcoming year, and only slightly less favorable that he will resign with the team long before Pittsburgh is able to come up with the package that would incentivize the Niners to send them our best receiver. Pittsburgh doesn't have much that would help the Niners on that roster of theirs, and what they do have, they are going to want to hold on to. Folks just need to relax and quit letting this get all up in their emotions.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
If BA wanted $28M and the front office offered him $26M months ago and didnt budge, this entire ordeal could have been completely avoided. Just give him the damn $28M.

What are we doing here? Its 2 freakin million dollars, and the cap goes up every year.

I HIGHLY doubt 28 was his number all along. Otherwise he wouldn't have waited until now to have his friend leak it. 28 "became" his number once he realized only the Patriots would pay that or more.

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by Heroism:

"Aiyuk would not be in that category…"@gregcosell explains why he doesn't see the 49ers WR as a top 4-5 player at his position: pic.twitter.com/Tnm1QSiI18

— Ross Tucker Podcast (@RossTuckerPod) August 8, 2024

I like Cosell, but if he is implying that because he isnt a top 4-5 WR, he shouldnt be paid, then his logic is flawed. Look at the top 4-5 QBs in the league. Those are the top 4-5 QBs in terms of salary.

Aiyuk was the eighth best wideout in the league last year, the current 8th highest receiver contract is 26.7 million a year, after everyone else has signed. It's not my money that he's getting, but saying that it isn't fair and good money is just not true. The eighth best at his position should make the eighth highest salary at his position...right?

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Hoovtrain:
So how do you know they didn't make him a good offer?

Reportedly it was $26 per yr (which means nothing) apparently via through his personnel WR coach Houshmandzadeh, he's willing to take $28M per.

That's waddle/moore money. SF from what we've heard hasn't offered anything since May, hopefully that's changed

And I would take BA over both of them.

That's what he should be getting paid and SF should be willing to give him a little more and add some fluff to boost up that APY.

I bet they get it done.

Originally posted by jrouter4949:

Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:
This! If i'm them, i'm not letting him go under any circumstances. I GUESS two first rounders; but even as insane as that offer is (which is why no one would do it), it doesn't help them this year and drafting is a crapshoot. We have a proven all pro under contract.

Take the extension we give you or play your year out. Sorry dude. Don't be a b***h.

Woow I wonder would you tell that to his face really would you? I see a lot of you tough guys calling BA a b***h ...keyboard tough guys it easy to say this and that but if you were in his shoes I`m quite sure the crap spewing out of your mouths would not be how you would deal with the contract negotiation

Well I'm not saying that to his face because I don't know him, and this is a forum where you're expressing fan based opinions.

And it's not like the Niners are trying to railroad him in terms of a pay day. He's going to be very fairly compensated; this is just dogging the process and agent/client causing a fit over not eeking out the extra few mill, and creating theater to try to get it. Which the 49ers are rightfully not seriously entertaining.

Originally posted by Monsterniner:

Originally posted by Jakemall:
Why? He's on contract for 14m.

With 20M he'll play every game because if we only give him 14 he might play only the second half of the season.

He will play every game no matter what.

Originally posted by Monsterniner:

Originally posted by Jakemall:
Why? He's on contract for 14m.

With 20M he'll play every game because if we only give him 14 he might play only the second half of the season.

He would lose more than just half his 14m if he did that. He will play. Camp is a different question.

Originally posted by RDB4216:

Originally posted by SteveWallacesHelmet:
If BA wanted $28M and the front office offered him $26M months ago and didnt budge, this entire ordeal could have been completely avoided. Just give him the damn $28M.

What are we doing here? Its 2 freakin million dollars, and the cap goes up every year.

I HIGHLY doubt 28 was his number all along. Otherwise he wouldn't have waited until now to have his friend leak it. 28 "became" his number once he realized only the Patriots would pay that or more.

I saw a guy on Facebook or twitter or somewhere....post the Pitt connection at 28.2 dayyyyyys before it hit the news...I thought it was BS and didn't give it a second thought to now.......

I would not be shocked if BA was dead set on 30+ million and not really budging.....until push came to shove and the 49ers were ready to ship him to the Pats, and the team he wanted to go to might just be at 28.2m.....maybe that is a legit leak...I don't now.....but now all of a sudden we got guys posting on BAs behalf saying 28m.

This might be a case of who blinked first, and maybe BA just blinked.

At this point unless the 49ers were thinking mmmmuuuuuuchhhhh lower then the rumored 26m, or BA just wants the hell off the team (and it does not look like that with him hugging the coach and GM recently)......they could potentially sit down....pull out versions of other top WRs contracts....show what the real money looks like, not the price tag....but the actual take home money....and hammer out a deal that he can accept.

Seems keeping BA might be achievable....there is a heck of a difference between 26 and 32....not so much between 26 and 28

Originally posted by Jakemall:
Actually there are 2 years out for the 4 year extension. 33m cap in 2026 and 41m cap in 2028. Hey if we can sign BA to a 4 year extension, that changes the mix a bit..but we haven't been doing more than 3 years.

Yes the risk is less. Let's run the numbers. Year 1: risk 14m vs 77m. Year two risk 22m vs 51m. Year three 28m vs 26m. ASB's number decreases as the guaranteed has been earned. BA's tags are independent and don't mean anything until the year of the tag.

Cap hit AND dead money are the two things we should be concerned with. Paying for a player that isn't on the team is pretty painful.

We can't really compare Deebo's contract. Situation was different and money was certainly different. If we pretend that BA gets a similar contract to ASB, even with a 4 year extension you have to sub in BA's current year of 14m which skews the numbers quite a bit. 14m with a 4m share of a signing bonus is still 18m on the 1st year cap. I suppose you could work it out so that BA took a salary hit on the first year of the extension, but I find that unlikely. Probably looking at 20m min. So that's 38m vs the current 36m. We're not even getting into dead money if BA doesn't continue to perform and we cut loose (highly improbable but needs to be considered).

Where?


3 yr extensions with a year remaining is essentially a 4yr deal. Like I said you gotta stop assuming a player is getting that APY every yr. That in fact isn't true and the amount of fluff put in these deals is dumb. You got void years and back end high ass cap hits with no gtd money. They will never see those years of their deal under that current contract. Also like a lot of teams do, they will extend a player before that cap hit gets outrageous. Go look a Philly, they do it all the time. Just did it with Brown.

That tag number is going up by the way. Players contracts go up so does that tag number. Not sure what the tag will be next yr. It will be higher than $22M

So you're assuming both players get hurt in your scenario. Enough so that it's career ending. I'd saying that not totally fair/likely when talking about all of this.

IMO the fact that you can manipulate an actual contract vs just giving a guy top of the marker FGTD cash each yr means something.

we shall see!