Despite nonetheless being underneath contract with the San Francisco 49ers, large receiver Brandon Aiyuk continues to make it recognized the place he’d relatively be: with the Washington Commanders.
Aiyuk has made social media posts in latest weeks which have ripped the 49ers and praised the Commanders, the crew he’d like to finish up with if San Francisco really cuts him.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Aiyuk was at it once more on Instagram, the place he posted a video of himself holding a soccer with the Commanders emblem on it.
He additionally included a caption that mentioned the next:
“The best sport in the world. The best league in the world (and) the best team in the world.”
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Aiyuk’s Instagram story additionally included an previous photograph of Deion Sanders in a Washington uniform.
Aiyuk has been making an attempt his greatest to get the Niners to launch him, however San Francisco merely refuses to budge.
Why 49ers haven’t launched Brandon Aiyuk
The Niners and Aiyuk have been at odds for fairly a while now, but the Niners haven’t launched him, even after voiding his contract guarantees.
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It seems San Francisco prefers to carry on to Aiyuk within the hopes of working out a trade to not less than get one thing for the mercurial wideout.
“I don’t have a date for it, but I know eventually it’ll resolve itself,” Shanahan mentioned in March. “Hopefully, we could get something for [him]. And I know we’re in no rush to do that. You’ve got to do what’s right for the Niners, and you’re not trying to hook up any other team as fast as you possibly can. Hopefully, we can get something for that, and it’ll take care of itself.”
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Because of his erratic conduct that features a warrant being issued for his arrest due to an alleged visitors violation, and since he hasn’t performed a single NFL snap since 2024 after struggling a torn ACL that 12 months, Aiyuk shouldn’t be going to fetch a lot in a commerce.
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In truth, at this level, the very best the 49ers can hope for is a seventh-round choose.
However, with groups seeing that this relationship is clearly heading towards a launch, and with groups realizing Aiyuk has a most popular vacation spot, it stays to be seen if any squad would even be keen to surrender a seventh-rounder.
Aiyuk’s connections to Commanders
The expectation, based on studies, has been that Aiyuk will indeed land in Washington as soon as he’s let loose.
Aiyuk is kind of accustomed to Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels, who was his faculty teammate at Arizona State.
Washington common supervisor Adam Peters is aware of Aiyuk effectively, additionally, as he was the Niners’ vice chairman of participant personnel from 2017-2020 earlier than changing into the assistant common supervisor from 2021-2023. The 49ers drafted Aiyuk in 2020.
It isn’t nearly connections, although. Washington has a necessity at large receiver and may supply Aiyuk a sizeable function within the offense.