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The postseason is a year away. Win or lose the only thing they're playing for today is pride. Another opportunity to advertise your wo... -
The San Francisco 49ers are 20-6 when the Three Amigos are on the field together. If they stay healthy you can forget about a "rebuil... -
Nope, it's not a misprint. After trading up to the #3 pick from #12, the 49ers have put themselves in a position to select their franch...
This has been going on for a while. He has played his last down for the Niners.
ReplyDeleteIn fact he did them a favor by violating his contract. The 49ers can now recover a significant portion of his contract. Close to $25M or thereabouts.
DeleteConsidering the circumstances....the best outcome for the team and the player. We get out of an albatross of a contract and Aiyuk gets some guaranteed money for his injury and putting his body on the line.
DeleteIf only we had traded him to Pittsburgh. Oh Well! I hope he finds what he is looking for next.
After the negotiations it seemed as though he wasn't viewed as a Niner.
DeleteThey were about to trade him to Pittsburgh when he came into Kyle’s office and said he’d sign. Kyle says he rushed upstairs to stop the trade. He wanted to keep Aiyuk, but Aiyuk had his money and decided to be a prima Donna.
DeleteThat's a huge favour he's doing the 49ers. Highly unlikely he'll ever be the player was, now the 49ers are able to get out of his contract with minimal cap impact.
Delete@Scooter: If you don't mind, can you calculate what the impact on the cap will be. I'm asking because I think you already have a spreadsheet that you can just tweak. But if it's a lot of work, then forget it. Thanks.
Delete49ers are now free to clear up about $85 million of salary-cap space owed to Brandon Aiyuk. The voiding of that huge fully guaranteed 2026 chunk ($27m) allows for a cut that'd take this amount of annual pay off the books...
Delete2026: $27 million
2027: $28 million
2028: $30 million
Christmas came early for San Francisco!
Razor,
DeleteOnly thing we have to see is if Aiyuk does not change his mind again..... ie he does not fight the move trough NFLPA again.
If he stays true to character, he will probably change his mind between now and end of season. Lol!
With 2026 $27m voided, the accelerations onto the 49ers' books if Brandon Aiyuk is cut would be from the 2024 signing bonus proration ($13.8m) and 2025 option proration ($18.2m).
DeleteSo $32 million — all money the 49ers have already paid Aiyuk and is going to hit the salary cap regardless at some point.
Cutting Aiyuk outright would cost the 49ers $16.6 million in additional 2026 cap room – they can wait until after June 1 to push some of that load back to 2027
MUGEEK9er: I gotta believe his decision to not fight the 49ers is related to his unconditional release.
Lombardi with some good financial analysis on Twitter/X:
DeleteBy this season's end, the 49ers will have paid Brandon Aiyuk $48.9 million over 2024 and 2025 on the big contract.
So if they do cut Aiyuk, it'll end up being a 2-year deal at $24.5m APY — but with only 7 games played, 25 catches and 0 TD.
A deal that the 49ers quickly regretted, but also one they can now cleanly exit
Niners got a get out of contract hell card.
DeleteMatt Maiocco is reporting that they voided his contract during training camp which is a surprise. It’s confusing to me because if he hasn’t been fulling his contract and the contract was voided, then why is he still under contract for the reman of this year.
DeleteFelix, still under contract for this year. Contract will void upon his release sometime in March likely.
DeleteI always liked Aiyuk and he has been an active contributor for the 49ers until the last season and AWOL this year. I could live with him making a concerted effort in working to get back on the field. But, if he's no longer interested in being with the 49ers, then A-Dios, amigo!
ReplyDeleteI’d substitute amigo for MFer
DeleteWith instead of for.
ReplyDeleteBears have given up 26 UNBLOCKED pressures with Williams not taking a sack. Their offense is humming and will be a challenge for this defense.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to celebrating getting out of Aiyuk's contract, I think we should start preparing for the 49ers to draft another WR high.
ReplyDeleteNot too high I hope. This will also change things for JJ.
DeleteI can see Shanahan liking Carnell Tate from Ohio St and KC Concepcion from Texas A&M.
DeleteThis is exactly the right approach for the WR position. Treat it like RB where you don't negotiate a 2nd contract and instead recycle the position through the draft.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely getting that way. Not many WRs see the end of their second contract these days.
DeleteW the top-heavy contracts and the nature of the sport, it really does beg a Moneyball approach w keeping/accumulating draft picks and keeping the team young....... fans are emotional, but winning solves that- check what OKC has done and where they're going to be, for a few years- not embracing tanking, but you can spin trades to replenish, a la A's.
DeleteNiners will clear close to $85M in cap space over the next 3 seasons by voiding Brandon Aiyuk’s contract.👏🏻
DeleteFor me this is the best news this season. Hope they use the new found cash wisely. He screwed the Niners and us fans, which was a big surprise because he seemed like such a team player. Can’t stand the guy. But it’s really good news.
ReplyDeleteIt'd be interesting to hear Herm Edwards take on the situation.
DeleteJohn Chapman’s absolutely on fire about this. Great listen.
ReplyDeleteGive us the gist of what he said.
DeleteWas a terrible contract and his production didn’t justify it at all.
ReplyDeleteAmazed he’s walking away from all that money.
Good riddance.
I imagine he gave up his right to fight in exchange for his unconditional release next March.
DeleteWho will sign him? It would have to be a prove it contract for a few million if that. And let’s say he fully heals, time is working against him.
ReplyDeleteYea, his career is approaching the final curtain.
DeleteAiyuk's agent likely has a team or two lined up at a price point he's comfortable with.
ReplyDeleteSo somebody (Scooter) give me some hard numbers on how this will effect the cap next year. From what I have heard/read the 49ers will go into next year with 45 to 50 mill in cap space before releasing Aiyuk. Again from what I have heard/read they are not paying Purdy too much of his contract next year. How much does releasing Aiyuk add to the 49ers 2026 cap room? Do they have the space to be semi active in the FA market next year?
ReplyDeleteIt means Aiyuk's cap hit will jump from around $15M in 2026 to around $30M in 2026, unless they designate him a post June 1 cut. But, in reality it takes around $27M off the 49ers overall cap obligations over the next few years.
DeleteThey can restructure other contracts to get the $15M in cap space in 2026 back if want to.
So short answer is it means little for 2026 cap space and overall reduces their cap obligations so have more money to spend.
Sounds like the 49ers can't go on a shopping spree post Aiyuk, but they can potentially target 1-2 players in FA.
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