Brandon Aiyuk Trade Talks Drag On: Steelers Want WR

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00:00You mentioned Brandon Ayuk, and it is beyond me how long this has taken.

00:13I mean, this is every day now for a month.

00:17For a month, we have talked every day about Brandon Ayuk.

00:20And yesterday, the Steelers allegedly reengaged these negotiations for a trade.

00:27They want a receiver.

00:28I think it's Austin that they want, and all I know is it just never budges.

00:33It never moves.

00:34Nothing ever happens.

00:35Like, I give up.

00:36I don't even care anymore.

00:37All right, let me explain this to you.

00:39First of all, I'd be very surprised if the Niners would take back Calvin Austin.

00:44He's a talented guy, but he's smaller.

00:47They like bigger receivers, six foot or taller.

00:49They usually don't like the smaller receivers.

00:51And if you're the Steelers, they've got pickets, right?

00:57We've talked about pickets and how great George Pickens is.

00:59He had a very quietly, a really good season last year.

01:01They're not trading him.

01:02No, I know.

01:03I know.

01:04No, they're looking for someone to play opposite him.

01:06That's where Ayuk comes in.

01:07Right.

01:08And that what would happen is, is Roman Wilson, I'm told, their hope is that he'll be back

01:12in about two weeks, come back from a pretty significant ankle injury.

01:15He would be the number three receiver.

01:17They're not trading Frymuth.

01:18No, it's Pickens is going nowhere.

01:21They don't want to create a problem.

01:22They already have issues with definite receivers.

01:25So George Pickens, by the way, Pickens is what we call an ex-receiver.

01:29Ayuk could play that side.

01:30We could play the other side.

01:31He could also play inside.

01:33He's a completely different player than Ayuk, I mean, than Pickens.

01:36I don't know where people compare the two.

01:38Pickens is a contested catch.

01:39Go get it.

01:40Ayuk is a run after the catch, incredible with a ball in his hands, a phenomenal talent.

01:46And by the way, the contract, if it gets done and this happens, it should be around what

01:50A.J. Brown got for the Eagles, around 32 million.

01:53That is the contract that he's looking to get.

01:57The Niners are nowhere close to that.

01:59That A.J. Brown deal was very, very solid, way better than his first deal that he got

02:04done with the Eagles.

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