{"id":755988,"date":"2026-07-11T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755988\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:18:11","slug":"steve-young-expresses-concern-for-brandon-aiyuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/755988\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Young expresses concern for Brandon Aiyuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The football world has noticed the social-media antics of 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk in recent weeks. Former 49ers quarterback and Hall of Famer Steve Young has, and he expressed concern for Aiyuk on Thursday, from the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry for him,\u201d Young said, via Edward Lewis of the New York Post. \u201cI feel like <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/09\/sports\/steve-young-expresses-deep-concern-for-49ers-brandon-aiyuk\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I want to reach out and help<\/a>. This is beyond football, it feels like. . . . It just feels like we need to not make it about football right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, former 49ers executive Ran Carthon <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/ran-carthon-plans-to-reach-out-to-brandon-aiyuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expressed similar concern<\/a>, suggesting he\u2019d reach out to Aiyuk.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that more than a few NFL figures have tried to advise Aiyuk, who wants to sign with the Commanders. Until he files a petition for reinstatement with the 49ers and shows up for training camp (which likely could force his release), it will be clear that he\u2019s not listening.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The football world has noticed the social-media antics of 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk in recent weeks. Former 49ers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-755988","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\/755988","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=755988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}