{"id":1628,"date":"2024-11-17T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2024-11-17T03:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T03:31:57","slug":"breaking-49ers-star-named-potential-trade-candidate-by-espn-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 49ers Star Named Potential Trade Candidate by ESPN Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-1441284432-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"San Francisco 49ers WR Deebo Samuel\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 49ers WR Deebo Samuel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0boast one of the deepest WR groups in the league, but they could be ditching one of their best weapons soon.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is no stranger to trade chatter about their WRs, as they spent the 2024 offseason dealing with a contract saga involving\u00a0Brandon Aiyuk\u00a0and several rumors about WR\u00a0Deebo Samuel\u00a0leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The changing of the seasons hasn\u2019t stopped that chatter, as ESPN reporter\u00a0Dan Graziano recently wrote that Samuel could be a trade piece come 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel stands as an example of the difficult decisions San Francisco will confront in the spring,\u201d Graziano wrote on November 15. \u201cThe team signed Brandon Aiyuk to a big-money contract extension before this season, extended\u00a0Jauan Jennings\u00a0earlier in the offseason and drafted\u00a0Ricky Pearsall in the first round. So the Niners have spent considerable resources on their future at the wide receiver position. That leads one to believe Samuel could be the odd man out as they start to transition from their Super Bowl-caliber core into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Losing Samuel would be a major departure, but representative of the eventual sacrifices the 49ers will have to make. Building a highly competitive team isn\u2019t cheap or easy, and eventually\u00a0the Niners\u00a0will have to start to move into a new generation.<\/p>\n<h2>San Francisco Can Recoup Some of Samuel\u2019s Value<\/h2>\n<p>Part of the reason that Samuel looks like a possible trade target is the fact that he will be a free agent in 2026. The 49ers currently have Deebo playing on a three-year, $71 million deal that counts as a $28.3 million cap hit in 2025 according to\u00a0Spotrac.<\/p>\n<p>That is a large number, and one that\u00a0the 49ers can\u2019t avoid entirely. A trade would allow them to cut down the $16.6 million salary, but they would still be on the hook for at least $12 million in dead cap.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that is better than Samuel running down his contract and the team getting nothing for him. But trading the 28-year-old receiver for appropriate value won\u2019t be easy either as Samuel\u2019s sizable salary may turn off teams from making a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel is a one-of-a-kind player, and he will not come cheap for\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0or whichever team decides to move for him.<\/p>\n<h2>49ers WR Speaks on Sideline Altercation<\/h2>\n<p>During the 49ers\u2019 Week 11 win over the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Samuel was shown getting into a physical altercation with long snapper\u00a0Taybor Peppers. After San Francisco kicker\u00a0Jake Moody\u2019s\u00a0third missed field goal of the game, Samuel let his frustration out leading to a back-and-forth with Peppers.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Samuel downplayed\u00a0the incident, as did head coach\u00a0Kyle Shanahan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, I don\u2019t even get like that, but just frustrated in the heat of battle,\u201d Samuel said. \u201cYou know, really close game, and I kind of\u00a0got out of character a little bit. But I\u2019ll talk to Moody, and we\u2019ll get past it\u2026At first, I wasn\u2019t saying nothing like crazy to him. I was just kind of frustrated at the time. But he went out there and won the game and he wasn\u2019t bothered by it. So we\u2019ll move past it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a bad look, but one that ultimately didn\u2019t matter as Moody redeemed himself with a game-winning FG later in the contest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco 49ers WR Deebo Samuel The\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u00a0boast one of the deepest WR groups in the league, but they could be ditching one of their best&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: 49ers Star Named Potential Trade Candidate by ESPN Insider - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=1628\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: 49ers Star Named Potential Trade Candidate by ESPN Insider - 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