Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Sunday, June 30th, 2024
Brandon Aiyuk ‘for sure’ wants to stay with 49ers despite stalemate
“For sure,” Aiyuk told TMZ Sports. “For sure!”
Aiyuk shares honest response to 49ers’ contract offer being leaked
“It’s a little bit frustrating, especially when we’re getting down to details like that,” Aiyuk said. “Like we’re putting down exact numbers in negotiations where that’s talks between the team and my team. We’re trying to work through things, work through a lot of things.
“So for actual numbers and actual stuff like that to come out, I think that it’s a little bit, I felt it was a little bit disrespectful, a little bit unfair to me, but that’s part of it. That’s part of it.”
Aiyuk was frustrated enough to want to tell his side of the story, but it’s likely that both Lynch and Shanahan were equally frustrated to see the information reach the public. The organization has prided itself on all negations successfully cutting off the leaks it was known for prior to them taking over the reins in 2017.
“It is what it is,” Aiyuk said. “It’s a dirty game. It’s a dirty game, so I just feel like for me, social media is a way for me and my team to leverage myself and to leverage what I’m trying to get because that’s the way to get the message out there. That’s the way to get the facts out there. And the facts are the facts. So if I’m putting facts out there.”
Aiyuk reveals Super Bowl qualm that played hand in 49ers frustration
“Absolutely it did,” Aiyuk said on Friday’s episode of “The Pivot” podcast when asked if his Super Bowl usage led to him posting, “Don’t forget what got you there,” on his Instagram story the day after the big game.
“I get out of the Super Bowl, and I just feel like you’re throwing the ball to me five, six times a game all year. I went for 100 [yards in a game] six or seven times this year. I turned 70 catches into 1,400 [yards]. And then here we are right now, talking about being paid, getting paid top dollar in this market, but I don’t know. The Super Bowl was tricky. We’ve moved on past from the Super Bowl.”
Is offensive line the 49ers biggest weakness? One NFL analyst believes so
“If you were to ask Warren Sharp, of Sharp Football Analysis, he might say the 49ers offensive line is the weakness of the team.”
49ers’ Christian McCaffrey and model Olivia Culpo tie the knot in Rhode Island (paywall)
“McCaffrey, 28, the NFL’s offensive player of the year last season, and model Culpo, 32, were married at a church in Watch Hill, an affluent seaside enclave in the town of Westerly.”