{"id":835139,"date":"2026-07-31T07:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835139\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:07:12","slug":"49ers-get-receiving-help-by-reuniting-with-deebo-samuel-on-a-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835139\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers get receiving help by reuniting with Deebo Samuel on a one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deebo Samuel<\/a> and the 49ers<\/a> are reuniting, with the do-it-all offensive weapon agreeing to a one-year, $7 million deal with a San Francisco team in need of wide receiver reinforcements, per ESPN\/NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Samuel, 30, spent the first six years of his career with the 49ers, who selected him in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft<\/a>. Samuel’s outstanding ability with the ball in his hands came to a peak in 2021, when the South Carolina product had 1,405 receiving yards, 365 rushing yards and 14 total touchdowns, earning him All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors. Samuel was a key part of two NFC Championship-winning teams during his time in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Samuel spent last year with the Commanders<\/a>, catching 72 passes — his most since 2021 — for 727 yards and five touchdowns. He led Washington in all three categories.<\/p>\n

Samuel’s return to the Bay Area comes as the 49ers are dealing with multiple injuries in their receiving corps. Ricky Pearsall<\/a>, a 2024 first-round pick, is dealing with knee swelling<\/a> related to the PCL injury he sustained last year. He has appeared in just 20 of a possible 32 regular-season games since joining the team. Christian Kirk<\/a>, acquired this offseason, suffered a calf injury on the opening day of training camp.<\/p>\n

That’s left the 49ers with free-agent signing Mike Evans<\/a> and second-round rookie De’Zhaun Stribling<\/a> as the top wide receivers on the roster. Veteran Demarcus Robinson<\/a> would likely be next in line.<\/p>\n

Samuel is expected to slide into the “Z” receiver spot for the 49ers, per The Athletic’s Matt Barrows<\/a>, where he thrived during his time in San Francisco. Though Samuel won’t handle as heavy a workload as he did during his prior stint with the team, he showed last year he can still bring value as a yards-after-catch receiver, and coach Kyle\u00a0Shanahan has lined him up in the backfield plenty, too.<\/p>\n

Samuel was the No. 53 free agent in this class according to Pete Prisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel and the 49ers are reuniting, with the do-it-all offensive weapon agreeing to a one-year, $7 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[5381,407144,64,63,297581,86694,283642,28664,50520,407145,21176,593,3045,9029,1262,5376,85,1272],"class_list":["post-835139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-49ers-wide-receivers","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-brazzell-ii","tag-christian-kirk","tag-dezhaun-stribling","tag-deebo-samuel","tag-demarcus-robinson","tag-injured-receivers","tag-mike-evans","tag-nfl","tag-nic-scourton","tag-ricky-pearsall","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-shemar-stewart","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835139","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=835139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}