49ers (for now) receiver Brandon Aiyuk has apparently extended an olive branch.<\/p>\n
His two recent videos criticizing the 49ers have been deleted. It could be part of an effort to lay the foundation to get the 49ers to finally release him.<\/p>\n
In the first video, posted on Sunday, June 7, Aiyuk accused the 49ers of being afraid to let him sign with a new team.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop running from the belt<\/a>,\u201d Aiyuk said. \u201cThe belt coming. You scared. They scared. The truth is they scared. They know how I get. They gonna say, \u2018Oh, yeah, B.A. did this, B.A. did that.\u2019 You know that shit \u2014 \u2018Allegedly. Allegedly.\u2019 But what they not gonna say is \u2018B.A. suck at football,\u2019 because they know how I get.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd they running from that belt that\u2019s on the way. It\u2019s inevitable. It\u2019s coming. Stop running.\u201d<\/p>\n Two days later, Aiyuk added another video message.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd another thing,\u201d he said. \u201cYou wanna know why they really mad, though? They mad \u2018cause they stupid<\/a>. They dumb. They mad that they paid me $50 million in eight months, and they [voided] my guarantees for [2026]. And I\u2019m about to be on a new team in [2026].<\/p>\n \u201cThey mad at they selves, for real. They just acting like they mad at me but they stupid-ass mad at they selves.\u201d<\/p>\n Aiyuk could have forced the issue by showing up for the team\u2019s offseason workouts. With a season-ending injury carrying the risk of the 49ers owing him more than $26 million in 2026, the 49ers quite possibly would have released him the moment he walked through the door.<\/p>\n The cancellation of the 49ers\u2019 mandatory minicamp further delayed a potentially awkward situation between player and team.<\/p>\n As it stands, Aiyuk\u2019s best move will be to report for training camp, insist on practicing, and wait for the 49ers to grant his release.<\/p>\n The 49ers had been hoping for a trade, which would have required a significant reworking of Aiyuk\u2019s contract. A new team (like the Commanders) would have acquired the benefit of having him in the building for the offseason program.<\/p>\n The specific reason for Aiyuk deleting the videos isn\u2019t known. It\u2019s not crazy to think that Aiyuk decided to do it based on possible discussions between his agent and the team, given that Aiyuk and 49ers G.M. John Lynch have a connection through their independent relationships<\/a> with agent Ryan Williams of Athletes First.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers (for now) receiver Brandon Aiyuk has apparently extended an olive branch. His two recent videos criticizing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-702552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}