{"id":166247,"date":"2025-06-28T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166247\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:07:10","slug":"nfl-insider-disputes-49ers-brandon-aiyuk-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166247\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Insider Disputes 49ers Brandon Aiyuk Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Insider Disputes 49ers Brandon Aiyuk Rumors<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A year ago entering training camp the entire narrative surrounding the San Francisco 49ers centered on Brandon Aiyuk. Under very different circumstances, it still does.<\/p>\n

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In the summer of 2024 the receiver was disgruntled about his contract, and\u00a0the Niners finally gave him permission to seek a trade. The rumors and predictions went wild, until San Francisco kept him with a new four-year, $120 million contract extension.<\/p>\n

The harmony barely lasted, as in Week 7 Aiyuk suffered a major injury including a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus.\u00a0He finished only 25 receptions for 374 yards, and after the injury his start to this season remains in limbo.<\/p>\n

Seemingly the Niners are committed to Aiyuk, especially after trading Deebo Samuel to the Washington Commanders. The\u00a02020 first-round pick took to social media to laugh at the concept of his name in trade rumors while detailing that he was “off perocets\/muscle relaxers and peeing in a cup.”<\/p>\n

NFL Network insider Mike Garafolo is downplaying\u00a0 any issues going on between San Francisco and Aiyuk.<\/p>\n

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“Now, I know folks are reading into Brandon Aiyuk’s comments as he makes his way back from an ACL injury,”\u00a0Garafolo said. <\/a>“My understanding is Brandon Aiyuk is in a really good space with the team.\u201c<\/p>\n

If Aiyuk isn’t ready for Week 1, quarterback Brock Purdy will be forced to throw to a combination of Jauan Jennings, Ricky Pearsall, Demarcus Robinson and Jordan Watkins. And, of course, George Kittle.<\/p>\n

Related: Niners’ George Kittle Goes Viral After \u2018Love Story\u2019 Partying With Taylor Swift<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: George Kittle Shares Honest Message About Deebo<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Insider Disputes 49ers Brandon Aiyuk Rumors originally appeared on Athlon Sports. A year ago entering training camp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,5305,2644,1705,5680,7,6066,10117,8072,7049,6,2392,1161,252,2624,2623,9078,11089,13812,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-166247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-brandon-aiyuk","10":"tag-brock-purdy","11":"tag-deebo-samuel","12":"tag-demarcus-robinson","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-george-kittle","15":"tag-jauan-jennings","16":"tag-jordan-watkins","17":"tag-mike-garafolo","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ricky-pearsall","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","22":"tag-sanfrancisco","23":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","24":"tag-the-niners","25":"tag-torn-acl","26":"tag-trade-rumors","27":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114763271142797242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}