Brandon Aiyuk Secures 4-Year, $120 Million Deal with 49ers

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00:00The long offseason drama circulating San Francisco with wide receiver Brandon Ayuk has now officially

00:09reached its destination.

00:11Ayuk will remain by the bay with a very large new contract, signing a four-year $120 million

00:19deal yesterday with the 49ers, $30 million per year, one of six wideouts now in the $30

00:26million club around the National Football League.

00:29DRS, the offseason timeline is too confusing to even try to detail here for Brandon Ayuk,

00:34but he was unhappy.

00:36He requested a trade officially.

00:37He was reaching out to his former college teammate, Jayden Daniels, from their days

00:41together at Arizona State, saying, love what you guys are doing with the Commanders.

00:45He was a hold-in at camp for the 49ers, but was trying to get the deal done.

00:50It is now a done deal.

00:52What is your reaction?

00:54All roads led to this.

00:55And if you're following along here on the early line, we told you multiple times, Brandon

00:59Ayuk is probably going to wind up being a 49er, because why?

01:02It was in the best interest of Brandon Ayuk and also the San Francisco 49ers.

01:06Just have to work out those details.

01:07I wasn't buying into, oh, no, C.D. Lamb and Justin Jefferson getting these big deals.

01:12There's no way they can sign him, because here's what was going to happen.

01:15He wasn't going to play this season.

01:17Like, he was going to hold out.

01:18It's either, A, you traded him or paid him here.

01:21And once we saw the tea leaves bend, about what, three to four weeks ago, we're like,

01:25hey, we got deals in place with the Washington Commanders, with the New England Patriots,

01:29with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and with the Cleveland Browns.

01:32Pick one of those teams.

01:33We like the compensation back, and apparently, they're going to pay you the money that you're

01:36worth.

01:37But also thinking back, the 49ers are a smart organization.

01:40Go out there.

01:41Find what you're worth.

01:42We don't have to trade you if we don't want to.

01:44And if those four teams work out contracts, we'll then measure those contracts up against

01:48what we have and see if we can come to an agreement.

01:51Now, the interesting part overall in this negotiation process, which I know Adam Schaeffler

01:55was a little bit salty yesterday by saying, this deal has been around since August the

01:5910th.

02:00Nothing has changed.

02:01He just waited three weeks.

02:02So part of me goes, man, that's a smart man, because there's not a single football player

02:06on this earth from playing peewee football, middle school football, high school football,

02:11college, or pros that's like, you know what?

02:13Camp is finally here.

02:14This is so exciting.

02:15Shout out to the guys that can make money and miss all of that practice time.

02:20Now, granted, you want to be honing your skills, getting in with the boys, getting your work

02:23in, getting ready for the season, but nobody likes camp.

02:25So Brandon Ive got everything he wanted.

02:28End missed training camp.

02:29That sounds like the biggest win of all time right now, Ben.

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