{"id":144557,"date":"2026-01-22T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144557\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:40:15","slug":"49ers-john-lynch-confirms-brandon-aiyuk-is-done-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144557\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers’ John Lynch confirms Brandon Aiyuk is done in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 21, 2026, 12:23 p.m. PT<\/p>\n

Brandon Aiyuk has not played a single game since tearing his ACL and MCL in Week 7 of the 2024 season. The next game he plays will certainly not be with the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n

General manager John Lynch made it very clear during his end-of-season press conference on Wednesday that Aiyuk is done in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say he\u2019s played his last snap as a Niner,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk didn\u2019t suit up at all for the 49ers this season and wasn\u2019t around the team much, either. Head coach Kyle Shanahan said in December that he hadn\u2019t \u201cseen him in forever,\u201d adding that it had been a month since he last saw Aiyuk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s extremely unfortunate that it\u2019s gotten to this point,\u201d Shanahan said last month.<\/p>\n

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The 49ers signed Aiyuk to a four-year, $120 million contract in August of 2024. During training camp last summer, the 49ers voided Aiyuk\u2019s guaranteed money<\/a> for 2026 because he didn\u2019t meet the requirements of his contract.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk, a first-round pick in 2020, will finish his 49ers tenure with 294 catches, 4,305 yards and 25 touchdowns, with his best season coming in 2023 (75 catches, 1,342 yards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21, 2026, 12:23 p.m. PT Brandon Aiyuk has not played a single game since tearing his ACL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,101,103,102,104,106,105,10224,10225,378,11762,259,10231,377,246],"class_list":["post-144557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sstssportsnflniners","tag-sstsnniners","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbrandon-aiyuk","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}