{"id":752639,"date":"2026-02-14T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:13:15","slug":"jayden-daniels-wants-a-reunion-with-49ers-wr-brandon-aiyuk-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/752639\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Daniels wants a reunion with 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 14, 2026, 9:45 a.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With the 2025 NFL season officially in the rearview, all 32 teams across the league, including the <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, are preparing for the offseason, and specifically, free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" data-autotag=\"3d4aeb7f-6493-4c2a-8803-2439e4b64ee4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">49ers<\/a> wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk&#8217;s contract hasn&#8217;t run out, the team is planning to move on from him after he stopped communicating with the team during his ACL rehab last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Some teams may not be willing to rely on Aiyuk in 2026, but at least one quarterback is already lobbying for his team to bring the wideout in this offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThere are a couple of individuals who are out there,&#8221; Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels told Nate Tice on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/video\/jayden-daniels-hints-potential-brandon-194009307.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Football 301<\/a>&#8221; podcast last week. &#8220;Maybe somebody from Arizona State, in my past. There are people like that out there. I don&#8217;t want to give too much, but when that time comes, hopefully we can sign those types of players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Aiyuk and Daniels played one season together at Arizona State in 2019 before the receiver became a first-round pick. In that year, Aiyuk caught 65 passes for 1,192 yards and eight touchdowns on his way to All-Pac-12 honors.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Daniels played with former 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel this past year, and with former 49ers assistant general manager Adam Peters running Washington&#8217;s front office, there&#8217;s even more familiarity with Aiyuk that could lead to a reunion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More 49ers: <a href=\"http:\/\/ninerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/niners\/2026\/02\/14\/49ers-brian-fleury-interviewing-for-seahawks-offensive-coordinator\/88678345007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">49ers position coach interviewing for open OC job with rival team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 14, 2026, 9:45 a.m. PT With the 2025 NFL season officially in the rearview, all 32 teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[95878,427,7,6,96189,96190,95882,99361,95946,95998,96003,95944,95896,97332,95888,95895,95906,96090,95883,95881,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-752639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sstssportsnflniners","13":"tag-sstsnniners","14":"tag-tagamerican-football","15":"tag-tagbrandon-aiyuk","16":"tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","17":"tag-tagdeebo-samuel","18":"tag-tagjayden-daniels","19":"tag-tagnational-football-conference","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagncaa-pac-12-conference","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory","28":"tag-washington","29":"tag-washington-commanders","30":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116071524852555057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752639","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=752639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}