{"id":956236,"date":"2026-11-03T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956236\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:58:12","slug":"disgruntled-wr-brandon-aiyuk-hires-new-agent-in-possible-step-to-return-to-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956236\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled WR Brandon Aiyuk hires new agent in possible step to return to NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon Aiyuk<\/a> has hired Drew Rosenhaus as his new agent in a sign that the disgruntled receiver wants to get back on the field and play.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk hasn\u2019t played a game in more than two years since going down with a knee injury in October 2024 and has been on the reserve\/left squad list after leaving the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> late last season.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk had fired agent Ryan Williams during his long-running dispute with the 49ers and was without representation until Rosenhaus said on Monday that he had been hired. <\/p>\n

Aiyuk remains under contract to the 49ers if he applies to come off the reserve\/left squad list and is reinstated by the NFL. San Francisco general manager John Lynch has previously said he doesn\u2019t expect Aiyuk to play for the 49ers again.<\/p>\n

The Niners had previously voided $27 million guaranteed in Aiyuk\u2019s contract for 2026 for failing to participate in meetings and other team activities last summer when he was rehabilitating his knee injury. <\/p>\n

Aiyuk signed a four-year, $120 million extension just before the start of the 2024 season following a lengthy contract hold-in that kept him out of training camp. He was coming off a 2023 season when he had 75 catches for 1,342 yards and seven touchdowns and was a second-team All-Pro.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk had only 25 catches for 374 yards in seven games in 2024 before getting injured. The 28-year-old Aiyuk has 294 catches for 4,305 yards and 25 TDs since being drafted in the first round in 2020.<\/p>\n

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See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here <\/p>\n

Josh Dubow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Aiyuk has hired Drew Rosenhaus as his new agent in a sign that the disgruntled receiver wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-956236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}