{"id":207531,"date":"2026-03-06T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:14:12","slug":"are-there-more-49ers-players-wanting-to-get-out-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207531\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there more 49ers players wanting to get out of San Francisco?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one thing we\u2019re still waiting for in all this Brandon Aiyuk drama<\/a> is the \u201cwhy\u201d. Well, at least his side of the story. We know why the San Francisco 49ers are releasing their wide receiver\u2014something something missed<\/a> rehab meetings\u2014but as far as Aiyuk is concerned, all we know is he wants out of San Francisco. Badly.<\/p>\n

And he might not be the only one.<\/p>\n

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Lake Lewis Jr. covers the Washington Commanders, and in a chat with Rio Robinson<\/a>, he gave an update on Aiyuk\u2019s status. From what Lewis reports, Aiyuk\u2019s knee is good. He also indicated Aiyuk\u2019s mental state was positive. Aiyuk simply didn\u2019t want to be playing for the 49ers. And\u2026uh\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot of guys don\u2019t want to be out there,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI\u2019m going to leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

We know Aiyuk and the 49ers\u2019 separation is a done deal<\/a>, made official after the new league year on March 11. We didn\u2019t know \u201ca lot of guys don\u2019t want to be out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, who else doesn\u2019t want to be out there? Whoever this group of people is, is now the mystery. If you look at the Commanders, they have wide receiver Deebo Samuel, who had his own offseason drama<\/a> with the 49ers in the past. The 49ers traded him to the Commanders in the 2025 offseason. So maybe that\u2019s a source? Then again, Samuel has said there\u2019s no bad blood<\/a>, and it\u2019s speculated his trade<\/a> was salary cap reasons.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s really the follow-up behind the collective \u201cwho.\u201d This could be star players like George Kittle and Fred Warner (highly unlikely since both signed extensions in 2025), or it could be the practice squad.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, the second follow-up is, why would so many people want out of San Francisco? I know California tax isn\u2019t the greatest thing for an NFL salary, but beyond that? Is it head coach Kyle Shanahan? Trent Williams, who the 49ers are still trying to negotiate a new deal, had some praise for him on the Pivot Podcast recently<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI just look at it as he\u2019s done the most with less. If you were to say we would go win a Super Bowl or a playoff game against the defending champions, down those names you just mentioned, what would San Francisco even be winning a Super Bowl without those guys? My brain can\u2019t even process that. I don\u2019t even know what that looks like. The fact that he made us competitive. The fact that we believed we could go win a Super Bowl. He literally made us believe. And it\u2019s not because of what we had in the locker room, it\u2019s what we had in the coach, because of how he broke down the game and how he understood his team; when to give days off, and when to push us through times when we want days off. He\u2019s got a keen understanding of how to treat a locker room. Not sweating the small shit, but making sure everybody is accountable. Making sure we all play with that intensity. If you don\u2019t? You get called out. He isn\u2019t going to \u2018MF-you\u2019 in front of everybody. He\u2019s going to do it in his own way, but it makes you feel like, damn, \u2018I\u2019m letting him down.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

And yes, Williams may not be with the 49ers in 2026; that is a possibility. They are negotiating<\/a>, but that hasn\u2019t reached a conclusion. That said, it\u2019s not like Williams made it a hard \u201cpeace out.\u201d Successful extension or not, those don\u2019t sound like the words of someone desperate to get out of San Francisco, or a locker room leader presiding over a group of players who do.<\/p>\n

So who is left? John Lynch? No, he\u2019s an NFL veteran and a Hall of Famer who has his players\u2019 respect. 49ers owner Jed York? Dude got his tight end tequila<\/a> after an Achilles injury. Is it someone else in the front office? Trent Baalke wasn\u2019t exactly someone players wanted<\/a> to work with once upon a time. There\u2019s been nothing to indicate such a person is in the organization now. Or, at least one that has as much disdain as the former 49ers general manager.<\/p>\n

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The point is, if a group of people want out of the 49ers, who they are would be one question. Why is quite another, and when you have stories like the owner taking George Kittle a bottle of booze or Trent Williams talking about how the head coach got the entire team to believe they were going to win a Super Bowl, it doesn\u2019t seem like a lot of people want to up and leave that.<\/p>\n

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