NFC West burning questions for 2024 season: Will 49ers trade Brandon Aiyuk? Big year coming for Kyler Murray?

While there are several good divisions in the NFL, the NFC West might be the league’s most interesting division in 2024. The NFC West, after all, includes the last NFC squad to win the Super Bowl, the reigning conference champions as well as the highest skill position player selected in this year’s draft. 

The division has several other juicy storylines to follow as well. One ongoing storyline involves the 49ers and whether or not they will trade either receiver Brandon Aiyuk or fellow wideout Deebo Samuel. Another chapter was recently added to this story after Aiyuk decided to skip the 49ers’ mandatory minicamp. 

With training camp just around the corner, he’s a look at each NFC West team’s burning question, starting with the possible future of San Francisco’s top receivers. 

San Francisco 49ers

Will the team trade Brandon Aiyuk before the start of the 2024 season? 

My guess is that Aiyuk will remain in San Francisco, despite his recent minicamp holdout along with the fact that the 49ers have recently extended the contracts of fellow wideout Jauan Jennings and running back Christian McCaffrey. There’s still time for the 49ers to extend Aiyuk’s contract this offseason, but it may come at the expense of one of his teammates. 

That teammate is Samuel, who recently acknowledged that the team was engaged in talks about possibly trading him earlier this offseason. Samuel has two years left on a three-year, $71.55 million extension that he signed back in 2022. The 49ers, though, have the option to release him after the 2024 season. 

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Author : Bryan DeArdo

Publish date : 2024-06-08 14:40:09

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