49ers WR Jauan Jennings Looking For A New Contract

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Kyle Crabbs discusses how San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings is unhappy with his current contract and has informed the team this offseason that he is wanting to negotiate for a new one

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00:00It's a new year with a new roster, but an old problem for the 49ers is one of their wide

00:05receivers is not happy with his current contract. I'm Kyle Krabs with A to Z Sports, and wide

00:14receiver Juwan Jennings has joined the ranks of San Francisco 49ers wide receivers to let the team

00:19know in the summertime that they are not pleased with their current contract situation. Jennings

00:26signed a two-year contract with the 49ers last year as what would have been a restricted free

00:32agent tender year for him in 2024, and he had a career year in the process. He set career highs

00:38in targets, receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and yards per target. There was

00:44injuries up and down the 49ers depth chart on the offensive side of the football that helped allow

00:50Juwan Jennings to graduate from being a promising counterpunch to one of the marquee players

00:56in the offense in 2024. But the 49ers offense as a whole had a down year, and the 49ers stumbled

01:03through what was a very disappointing season in 2024. The end result for the team was this past

01:10offseason in 2025. They said goodbye to a lot of the old guard. They went with the youth movement.

01:16They chose not to pay players that were set to enter into free agency while locking in a handful

01:21of cornerstone players to serve as the identifying pieces and cornerstones of the roster. Is Jennings

01:27one of those players moving forward for San Francisco? That's the question that this team

01:32has to ask themselves because there's a lot of new with San Francisco in 2025. Is the way that they

01:38handle disgruntled contract situations also new? It's going to be fascinating to watch because Jennings

01:44does have the potential with Debo Samuel gone in 2025. He was traded to Washington to be a bigger

01:51piece of the offense year over year. But he's 28 years old, coming off of a contract year, and probably

01:58recognizes that some of the salaries for wide receivers elsewhere across the NFL are grossly

02:05outperforming the cash that he's scheduled to receive this year upcoming, including Diami Brown with

02:11the Jacksonville Jaguars, who's making 33% more than Juwan Jennings, despite the fact that Jennings

02:17had more receiving yards in 2024 than Brown has in his four years of NFL play combined. From that

02:25perspective, Jennings is right to want the new deal, and whether or not the 49ers give it to him or not

02:31could set the stage for a summer trade or potentially set the stage for another 49ers concession in the

02:40way of giving a contract extension before a player's contract is ultimately up. Buckle up,

02:47death, taxes, 49ers players looking for contract extensions. These are the certainties in life,

02:54and they have once again reared their head in the summer of 2025, no matter how hard San Francisco has

03:01tried to change their stripes.

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