{"id":421901,"date":"2026-08-02T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:23:16","slug":"deebo-samuel-return-to-49ers-was-just-a-matter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421901\/","title":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel: Return to 49ers was &#8216;just a matter of time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/deebo-samuel\/\" title=\"Deebo Samuel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deebo Samuel<\/a> took a one-year sojourn to Washington D.C., before <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-network-deebo-samuel-reuniting-with-49ers-on-1-year-7-million-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returning<\/a> to the San Francisco 49ers ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran receiver said Saturday that his homecoming to the Niners has been seamless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It kind of felt like I didn&#8217;t even go nowhere, to be honest,&#8221; Samuel said, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49507290\/deebo-samuel-reunion-49ers-just-matter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;When I got back, I was just like, &#8216;Well, I know what&#8217;s going on. I know the people here. Staff still the same.&#8217; So it&#8217;s kind of like the same for real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last offseason, San Francisco <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/niners-trade-wr-deebo-samuel-to-commanders-for-fifth-round-pick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shipped<\/a> Samuel to the Commanders for a fifth-round pick. However, Samuel said there was zero animosity with general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan in his return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conversations with me, John and Kyle have just always kind of been the same,&#8221; Samuel said. &#8220;It was just a matter of time before it happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel took a one-year sojourn to Washington D.C., before returning to the San Francisco 49ers ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1818,44986,168469,11603,168470,100,6466,101,103,102,104,106,105,14826],"class_list":["post-421901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-49ers","tag-category","tag-category-around-the-nfl","tag-commanders","tag-deebo-samuel-sr","tag-news","tag-players","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421901","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=421901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}