{"id":124007,"date":"2025-11-22T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124007"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:49:46","slug":"kyle-shanahan-is-holding-out-hope-that-brandon-aiyuk-returns-after-unusual-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124007","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Shanahan is \u2018holding out hope\u2019 that Brandon Aiyuk returns after \u2018unusual\u2019 situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Here is the final injury report for the San Francisco 49ers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Out:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>LB Tatum Bethune (high-ankle sprain)<br \/>\nK Eddy Pineiro (hamstring)<\/p>\n<p>Doubtful:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Edge rusher Robert Beal (concussion)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Questionable:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">LB Luke Gifford (hip\/neck)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The first question Kyle Shanahan was asked was about the elephant in the room, Brandon Aiyuk. Shanahan answered without answering at first, saying, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s week-to-week. Hoping he can clear all of the markers so he can come back and start his practice window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When asked if Aiyuk may have missed meetings or done something to upset the team, causing the 49ers to void Aiyuk\u2019s 2026 guarantees, Shanahan confirmed it was true, but this happened back in the offseason:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Yes. That happened back in July, though. So, that was other things. But as far as missing meetings and things like that, any injured player, and people on IR or doing rehab, their schedule is totally different than the rest of the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sometimes they\u2019re involved in meetings, sometimes they\u2019re not at all. Not gonna go through each thing with them, but anytime a guy is on IR and stuff, they\u2019re not in the daily routine of meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yeah, he\u2019s missed some. There have been other people on our team who have missed meetings before. But that doesn\u2019t have anything to do with his contract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan still believes Aiyuk will return and play for the team this season. When asked if the Niners and Aiyuk were on the same page when it comes to returning from his injury, Kyle said, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you that\u2014not getting much dialogue, personally, between him and I. I\u2019ve been told that it\u2019s week to week, so each week I wait to see if he\u2019s coming back to practice. I haven\u2019t got that answer yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to Shanahan, there are still some markers that Aiyuk has to clear before returning. He\u2019s technically not medically cleared yet.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan would not commit to saying Aiyuk is motivated to return:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI don\u2019t think that really matters. I think everyone may have a different opinion of that. I know, with the contract stuff, that happened back in July. I knew it was going to be a while for him to come back. I was hoping to get him back around this time. We\u2019ve kinda been going about that. Just coaching the team, I don\u2019t deal much with injured players. I was told a few weeks ago that he was getting closer, and we haven\u2019t made progress in that so far. From my standpoint, I\u2019m just waiting for him to get back to practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan would not tell the media why Aiyuk\u2019s guarantees were voided:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019m not going to get into specifics with that. There were a number of things in July that to me, is more of a business side dealing with lawyers and stuff and contracts, and, stuff that is really not my area of expertise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan said there was some disappointment, but not toward Brandon. More toward the situation: \u201cYeah, of course. I\u2019ve been coaching for over 20 years. I\u2019ve never been in a situation where a contract has been voided. It was extremely unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He said, \u201cI\u2019m not really there yet\u201d when asked a follow-up about being let down by the way this situation has gone:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">I know everyone got a lot of information yesterday. That was information that I found out in July, and kind of dealt with it then. To me, the contract stuff and guarantees and stuff, is really irrelavant to my relationship with player and my relationship with the team and what we\u2019re trying to do this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I know I went through that stuff and talked about it to him a lot back in July. But since July, it\u2019s been all about this season and hoping he could get healthy. And he\u2019s been working to get healthy. I\u2019ve been waiting for him to get back when he\u2019s healthy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s what Shanahan said when asked how likely it is that Aiyuk would be with the 49ers next season:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Um, what happened in July, to me in my opinion, doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the future. That has to do with circumstances that, to me, were out of a coach\u2019s hand is the best way I can explain it when it comes to business matters and lawyers and contracts and things like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When it comes to the future of this, I would love for BA to be here. To get back and really helping us out and being a part of this team. We haven\u2019t had that in a little bit. I still hold out hope and that he can get there. But he still hasn\u2019t gotten there yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan said, \u201cYou can figure that out on your own,\u201d when asked what it takes to get guarantees voided in a contract. He continued to reiterate that this was a first-time situation and that it was unusual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shanahan also brought up multiple times how \u201cthis happened three or four months ago\u201d and that it\u2019s been \u201ccompletely out of sight, out of mind.\u201d But acknowledged he understands getting questions about it since Aiyuk\u2019s contract just became public information on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The frustration lies in not having one of your best players on the field:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAny time you have a good player that has been a part of this team that players really love, coaches included, it\u2019s frustrating that it\u2019s not happening right now. When you talk about now and stuff, I kind of went through this frustration back in July. I thought after we went through that, things worked pretty well, and he would have a chance to come back and play for us. Still holding out hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Will we see Brandon Aiyuk again this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Shanahan spent a lot of time talking about Brandon Aiyuk during his 49ers media session on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":124008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,14,1213,12,1711,2375],"class_list":["post-124007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-brandon-aiyuk","tag-kyle-shanahan","tag-luke-gifford","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-tatum-bethune","tag-team"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kyle Shanahan is \u2018holding out hope\u2019 that Brandon Aiyuk returns after \u2018unusual\u2019 situation - NEWS USA<\/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:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=124007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kyle Shanahan is \u2018holding out hope\u2019 that Brandon Aiyuk returns after \u2018unusual\u2019 situation - 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