{"id":300945,"date":"2025-11-22T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:01:09","slug":"49ers-void-brandon-aiyuks-contract-guarantees-for-2026-season-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300945\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers void Brandon Aiyuk’s contract guarantees for 2026 season, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Francisco 49ers<\/a> wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk<\/a>\u00a0may have already played his last game with the team. Aiyuk was expected to return to the field at some point this season after recovering from a devastating knee injury suffered last year, but as the season starts to wind down, things have only gotten more murky.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0ESPN<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Athletic<\/a>, San Francisco voided Aiyuk’s guaranteed money for the 2026 season during training camp for not meeting the requirements of his contract extensions signed in August 2024, worth $120 million over four years. Aiyuk’s contract included an option bonus worth $24.935 million, which originally became guaranteed on April 1, but is now void. It’s unclear if the 49ers will pay his $1.215 million base salary and bonuses for workouts and per-game appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aiyuk has been missing from the gridiron since suffering a right knee injury in October 2024. He tore his ACL, MCL and meniscus against the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0in Week 7 last season. The team had initially hoped to get him back to practice around midseason. however, the clock is winding down with six regular-season games left.<\/p>\n

“Brandon’s just week-to-week,” Niners coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Monday. “When he had such a big injury like that, just waiting until he is fully comfortable to come up and start practicing.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk\u00a0may have already played his last game with the team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,20791,172043,172044,172045,593,1262,85],"class_list":["post-300945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandon-aiyuk","tag-brandon-aiyuk-49ers","tag-brandon-aiyuk-injury","tag-brandon-aiyuk-return","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}