NFL Updates: Brandon Aiyuk Stays with 49ers on $120M Deal

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00:00A football Friday live right here on the early line on Sports

00:09Grid, not just a college football recap. We're setting

00:11the stage for the weekend in CFP. We are less than a week

00:15away from the start of the National Football League

00:18season. That would be a week from last night inside Arrowhead

00:23Stadium between the Chiefs and the Ravens. It's an AFC

00:26Championship game rematch. KC won that game, won its second

00:30Super Bowl in that same amount of years. It's third Lombardi

00:35trophy in the last five seasons and KC enters 2024 as a

00:40co-favorite to make it three in a row. Who are they alongside?

00:44That would be the San Francisco 49ers. Both teams

00:47booked at a six to one number in a long offseason drama

00:51circulating San Francisco with wide receiver Brandon Ayuk has

00:55now officially reached its destination. Ayuk will remain

00:59by the bay with a very large new contract signing a four

01:03year $120 million deal yesterday with the 49ers $30

01:08million per year. One of six wide outs now in the $30

01:12million club around the National Football League. DRS,

01:16the offseason timeline is too confusing to even try to detail

01:19here for Brandon Ayuk, but he was unhappy. He requested a

01:23trade officially. He was reaching out to his former

01:25college teammate Jay and Daniels from their days

01:28together at Arizona State saying love what you guys are

01:30doing with the Commanders. He was a hold in at camp for the

01:3349ers, but was trying to get the deal done. It is now a done

01:38deal. What is your reaction? All roads led to this and if

01:42you're following along here on the early line, we told you

01:44multiple times Brandon Ayuk is probably going to wind up being

01:47a 49er because why it was in the best interest of Brandon

01:50Ayuk and also the San Francisco 49ers just had to

01:53work out those details. I wasn't buying into. Oh no CD

01:56Lamb and Justin Jefferson getting these big deals.

01:59There's no way they can sign him because here's what was

02:01going to happen. He wasn't going to play this season like

02:04he was going to hold out either a you traded him or paid him

02:07here and once we saw the tea leaves been about what three to

02:10four weeks ago, we're like okay. We got deals in place

02:13with the Washington Commanders with the New England Patriots

02:15with the Pittsburgh Steelers and with the Cleveland Browns

02:18pick one of those teams. We like the compensation back and

02:21apparently they're going to pay you the money that you're

02:22worth, but also thinking back the 49ers are a smart

02:26organization. Go out there find what you're worth. We don't

02:29have to trade you if you don't want to and if those four teams

02:32work out contracts, we'll then measure those contracts up

02:35against what we have and see if we can come to an agreement.

02:37Now the interesting part overall in this negotiation

02:40process, which I know Adam Schaffer was a little bit

02:42salty yesterday by saying this deal has been around since

02:45August the tenth. We have nothing has changed. He just

02:47waited three weeks. So part of me goes man. That's a smart

02:50man because there's not a single football player on this

02:53earth from playing peewee football, middle school

02:56football, high school football college or pros. That's like

02:58you know what camp is finally here. This is so exciting

03:02shout out to the guys that can make money and this all of that

03:05practice now now granted you want to be honing your skills

03:08getting in with the boys getting your work and getting

03:09ready for the season, but nobody likes camp. So Brandon

03:12I've got everything he wanted and in this training camp, that

03:16sounds like the biggest win of all time right now, Ben. Yeah,

03:19it certainly is and again, we talked about this DRS in terms

03:23of the overall prospect for Brandon. If he was demanding

03:27too much money, maybe some around the NFL, maybe even some

03:30in Northern California would have said listen man. You're

03:33not to the Pantheon that is Justin Jefferson or CD Lamb

03:37your fellow first round wideouts from the 2020 NFL

03:40draft, but we gotta push back on that narrative, especially

03:44in the last year and a half where Brendan Iuk has been that

03:47top target as a wide receiver for Brock Purdy. The other bit

03:51of that argument is probably the idea that San Francisco has

03:54so many offensive pieces, but yet I still remains that top

03:59target for the quarterback of the future in San Francisco

04:03Brock Purdy last year more than 1300 receiving yards in his

04:07first year fully with Purdy in 2022 more than 1100 receiving

04:12yards. Brendan Iuk is a darn good wide receiver and now

04:16compensated as so again six wideouts now in the National

04:20Football League make $30 million per year or more as

04:23Brendan Iuk joins the $30 million club. It's so big and

04:28it needed to happen because now you can start to concentrate

04:30on football. We talk about Trent Williams. You know he

04:32needs to get back into the fold. I think he will, but

04:34actually Trent Williams does have a history of holding out.

04:36Don't remember the one year Ben. I think with the commanders

04:39he was supposed to get like a $12 million base, but took so

04:41many fines and only got paid like $100,000 for the season.

04:44So maybe he might be dug in a little bit more than other

04:47players, but Brendan Iuk is a perfect fit for this offense

04:49and as you pointed out, it's not so much that Brock Purdy

04:52can't survive without Brendan Iuk, but they fit so well as a

04:54team and it's his favorite target. Why would you upset the

04:57apple cart here when you're heading into a season where you

04:59expect to get back to the Super Bowl and win it this

05:02season and also keep in mind from depth purposes. Let's just

05:05say they let Brendan Iuk go trade him for a first round

05:07pick, but you didn't get that compensation to be able to use

05:09for this year. Deebo Samuel is a great wide receiver, but

05:13Deebo Samuel plays a position at wide receiver that's almost

05:15like a running back. So let's just say, you know, he gets

05:18clipped a little bit here, misses two to three weeks. Now

05:20you don't have Iuk either. That offense doesn't look so good at

05:23this point. When this offense is firing, it's perfect. Good

05:26offensive line, unbelievable tailback, wide receiver

05:29position that has the medium guy, the deep guy, and also the

05:33superstar tight end. You didn't want to upset that for the

05:36season. From an Eagles fan perspective and saying, you

05:38know what? I wish he would have got traded away, but that's

05:40not how we look at it here. Optimistically, handicapping

05:43wise, great move for the Niners. No more question marks.

05:46Get your left tackle and camp and I deserve that money.

05:49Otherwise, he would have been traded away. This was a big

05:51component to that team that they got back and they're better

05:54for it now. San Francisco, a short favorite to win the NFC

05:58Championship this year at three to one. Detroit and

06:01Philadelphia tied for the second best price at plus 550,

06:05but it's nearly double that number of the 49ers and what we

06:09know about San Francisco, that is always the expectation by

06:12the Bay. They have played in four of the last five NFC

06:16Championship games, two Super Bowl appearances in the last

06:20half decade, but whether it was Kyle Shanahan or well before

06:23him, San Francisco, we don't give the same slack and

06:26rightfully so that we do to the Dallas Cowboys or the same

06:30flack. I should say we give San Francisco more slack because

06:34the 49ers last Lombardi trophy 1994 in the 30 years since

06:40that point, the Niners have reached eight NFC Championship

06:44games. They have played in three Super Bowls, but they have

06:47not taken home another Super Bowl ring. That is the

06:51expectation and oh by the way, not sure for whatever reason

06:54necessarily, but some market movement here in the final few

06:58days before 2024 begins Kansas City now the shortest price to

07:02win Super Bowl 59 at plus 550 half a buck in front of the

07:06Niners. It is crazy when you bring that up right because

07:09Dallas does take a lot of flack because Americans team more

07:12eyeballs, richest franchise in the history of sport, but

07:15there's one thing about getting there like the Buffalo Bills in

07:17the 1990s. Okay. Say what you want. Yeah, they didn't win a

07:19Super Bowl, but they went to four straight. They were a

07:21quality football team that was showing up to the big game,

07:24but just not performing well in that big game. The Dallas

07:27Cowboys never even get to that big game, but the 49ers you're

07:30right multiple Super Bowl chances a lot of NFC

07:32championship game. I thought they would win the Super Bowl

07:35last year and a half and so you're right. It's a talented

07:37roster that should really be getting that from the fan base

07:41that says you know what it's fun and we're talented, but we

07:44were used to winning championship after championship

07:46in the 1980s in the early 1990s. What happened to this

07:49franchise? We'll see if that turns around this year, but

07:52also keep in mind. It's very hard when you get to the Super

07:54Bowl and lose it man that next season everybody's gunning for

07:57you. Everybody wants more money. Apparently next year,

08:00your quarterback is going to want even more, but pound for

08:02pound one of the best football teams in the NFL. No doubt

08:05about it. You gotta make those signs right now. You gotta get

08:10those deals done because Brock Purdy is due for a very large

08:13payday and when you had Mr. Irrelevant at his very

08:16inexpensive rookie deal for the last three years, including

08:20what is going to be 2024. It's going to look very different in

08:242025 and beyond Purdy did play in the final two preseason

08:29games. By the way for the 49ers did not look great in either

08:33an interception in both and not a touchdown pass in those two

08:37preseason outings, but a lot to be determined. Trent Williams

08:41is now the focus for San Francisco. The 49ers in week

08:45number one will host Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets

08:49to end out the week. Of course at home in Santa Clara as Aaron

08:53Rodgers returns to Northern California as I track down the

08:57line for that game now just a three and a half point spread

09:00in favor of the 49ers. 44 and a half is the total. Donnie did

09:04you notice that on the FanDuel Sportsbook game green is now

09:07the favorite to win the AFC East. I think honestly it's

09:12correct. That's the way it actually should be before this

09:14season starts. So I do agree with the FanDuel Sportsbook.

09:17There's more people over there, huh?

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