NBC Sports Bay Area\u2019s Matt Maiocco<\/a> delved into the situation, sharing his thoughts on Aiyuk\u2019s actions. He revealed that even two years ago, there were doubts within the 49ers organization on the wideout\u2019s desires for his future.<\/p>\n\u201c2 years ago, when they were going through these negotiations, I mean, there were people in the 49ers organization who thought that Brandon Aiyuk didn\u2019t want to play football anymore because the 49ers had given him a contract offer and he kind of just sat on it, really didn\u2019t get back to them.\u201d Maiocco revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, that relationship really seemed to be fractured at that point where the 49ers weren\u2019t sure exactly where Brandon Aiyuk, where his mind was, what his urgency was, or anything else. So you know obviously, you know, Ayuk hasn\u2019t played this thing great. Obviously, he\u2019s played very poorly as far as just trying to maximize his NFL career. Fom the 49ers standpoint, you could certainly make the argument that all the signs were there during that negotiation, and they still went ahead and signed him to that big money contract. It ended up being a 4-year extension, so the year that he was on plus 4 more years for $120 million. That was a mistake, and I think there was immediate buyer\u2019s remorse from the 49ers, and rightfully so.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, while the 49ers clearly made a mistake with the extension, Aiyuk\u2019s actions have helped them make up for part of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrandon Aiyuk also gave the 49ers an incredible gift, an incredible out by just not fulfilling the terms of his contract and defaulting on his contract after he got injured with the torn ACL,\u201d Maiocco continued. \u201cBy him not showing up for rehab sessions, check-in sessions, everything else, by him not following the terms of his contract, it gave the 49ers the incredible opening to void the remaining guarantees of his contract. And I believe it also gives them the ability to go after a lot of the money that they have already paid him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo not only will the 49ers not have to pay him another penny, whereas if he had just shown up, they would have been on the hook for $27 million for this year. It also enables the 49ers to get some money back, a lot of money back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 49ers have already gone after Aiyuk for the future guarantees on his contract last offseason. But they could go after the wideout for even more money after his recent antics that have detrimental to the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know the exact numbers that they will be able to get back from Brandon Aiyuk, but I would put it somewhere between $13.8 million and $18.4 million,\u201d Maiocco added. \u201cSo on the $23 million signing bonus, which is basically an advance for future performance, it comes out to $4.6 million per year for those 5 years. So if the 49ers voided his contract a year ago in late July, they could get as much as $18.4 million back. If they just go, okay, he had the 2 years, and so they\u2019d get $13.8 million back. Whatever the case may be, the 49ers are certainly going after that money. And there\u2019s no representation right now for Brandon Aiyuk.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s certainly been an unprecedented situation with Aiyuk walking away from a significant amount of money. But it doesn\u2019t seem to be over just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers situation with disgruntled wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk has continued throughout the offseason, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,47545,2745,99],"class_list":["post-739456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739456","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=739456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}