{"id":36454,"date":"2025-02-24T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=36454"},"modified":"2025-02-24T06:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:59:45","slug":"breaking-49ers-deebo-samuel-advised-to-make-surprising-offseason-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=36454","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 49ers Deebo Samuel Advised to Make Surprising Offseason Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2192539591_856f40-e1740343466988.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2192539591_856f40-e1740343466988.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2192539591_856f40-e1740343466988.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2192539591_856f40-e1740343466988.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"49ers Deebo Samuel Advised to Make Surprising Offseason Move\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>49ers star Deebo Samuel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In six NFL seasons, all spent with the 49ers, Deebo Samuel has put up impressive numbers, showing a dual-threat ability that few in the league can match. He\u2019s notched 59.2 receiving yards per game, plus another 14.1 rushing yards per game in 81 total NFL appearances. He\u2019s tallied 42 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel had a memorable season in 2021, with 1,405 yards receiving and 365 rushing yards as he earned first-team All-Pro honors.<\/p>\n<p>But that was four years ago, and even though he is just 29, Samuel hasn\u2019t quite been the same player since. And with a cap hit coming in at nearly $16 million, plus significant dead money thereafter, the 49ers can\u2019t quite afford to keep Samuel around.<\/p>\n<p>It has not been a huge surprise, then, that the team granted permission to seek a trade out of San Francisco. Trading Samuel, even for a late-round draft pick, would be a huge boost for the 49ers, who would otherwise have a lot more of his cap on their books.<\/p>\n<p>And ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported this week that, indeed, there was interest in Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just checked in on this,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cI was told that several teams have expressed interest, so at least preliminary talks on a potential trade have happened between Samuel, his agent and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Deebo Samuel Should Stick With Kyle Shanahan<\/h2>\n<p>But another ESPN insider, Dan Graziano, said this week that the best thing that could happen for Samuel is not to be sent to, say, Pittsburgh or New England, but rather, to figure out how he can stay with the 49ers, even if it means restructuring his contract.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the 49ers and coach Kyle Shanahan best know how to deploy Samuel as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the best thing for Deebo Samuel, and I am not sure it can happen, would be to find a way to stay in San Francisco, where Kyle Shanahan knows exactly how to use him and where he works brilliantly in tandem with Christian McCaffrey in that offense,\u201d Graziano said on \u201cGet Up\u201d this week. \u201cDeebo Samuel is a great player, but I am not sure he is ever going to be able to do elsewhere what he has been able to do in San Francisco, with that coaching staff, that surrounding cast.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>49ers Cap Crunch Is Mounting<\/h2>\n<p>Again, the issue with Samuel is less about whether the 49ers want to keep him as it is about the impending salary crunch the team is facing, especially as it prepares to deal with the prospect of a new contract for quarterback Brock Purdy.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers gave Brandon Aiyuk a $120 million extension last year and invested a first-round pick in receiver Ricky Pearsall, so there is some question as to the level of commitment the team should allocate to the WR room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of work would have to be done on the contract,\u201d Graziano said. \u201cThey just signed Brandon Aiyuk and drafted Ricky Pearsall, so I don\u2019t know how likely this is. But if there was a way for him to stay in San Francisco, that\u2019s the best play for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49ers star Deebo Samuel is seeking a trade out of San Francisco, but some are wondering whether that&#8217;s really the best option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: 49ers Deebo Samuel Advised to Make Surprising Offseason Move - 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=36454\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: 49ers Deebo Samuel Advised to Make Surprising Offseason Move - 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