{"id":754644,"date":"2026-04-26T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:36:14","slug":"niners-gm-john-lynch-still-hopes-to-trade-brandon-aiyuk-following-draft-give-us-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754644\/","title":{"rendered":"Niners GM John Lynch still hopes to trade Brandon Aiyuk following draft: ‘Give us a call’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aiyuk has been destined for a San Francisco exit for months now after the team placed him on the reserve\/left squad list<\/a> in December. Lynch acknowledged in January that it was “safe to say<\/a>” Aiyuk had played has last down as a Niner, but the months ticking along have done nothing to diminish the 49ers’ interest in getting something for the wideout after getting nothing from him in 2025.<\/p>\n

“Not anytime soon,” Lynch said when asked if he was planning on releasing Aiyuk.<\/p>\n

It marks the third consecutive offseason that Aiyuk has become a fixture in trade speculation. In 2024, he requested a trade and held in at training camp before signing a long-term extension<\/a>, a deal that did not prevent San Francisco from being open to trading him<\/a> during the 2025 offseason as he recuperated from a torn ACL. Now, in 2026 — after Aiyuk never took the field last season and the player-team relationship deteriorated — Aiyuk seems destined once again for a new squad.<\/p>\n

Though Lynch indicated his willingness to find a trade partner, it might behoove the 49ers to wait a few more months to commit to something.<\/p>\n

They voided the guaranteed money<\/a> owed to Aiyuk in 2026 but would still incur $29.6 million in dead money for the upcoming season by trading him ahead of June 1, per Over the Cap<\/a>. In a post-June 1 trade, they’d only take on $8.3 million.<\/p>\n

For now, the Niners move forward with a restocked WR room, having drafted De’Zhaun Stribling<\/a> at No. 33 overall to partner with new addition Mike Evans<\/a> and third-year wideout Ricky Pearsall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lynch is waiting for a call.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the draft, some team with a remaining deficit at wide receiver could eventually pick up the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aiyuk has been destined for a San Francisco exit for months now after the team placed him on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[43574,11252,204340,50,1232,530,9005,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-754644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-brandon-aiyuk","tag-combine-draft","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}