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49ers Projected to Trade Deebo Samuel to Jaguars in 1st-Round Pick Swap

If any team is interested in trading for Samuel, the Jaguars might be the one.
Grant Cohn|
December 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) celebrates scoring a touchdown against the Detroit Lions during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
December 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) celebrates scoring a touchdown against the Detroit Lions during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images | Kyle Terada-Imagn Images

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The 49ers will trade Deebo Samuel this offseason if they can find a trade partner.

Last offseason, multiple teams were interested in trading for Samuel and would have offered mid-round picks. The 49ers nearly pulled the trigger on trading Samuel during the draft but the deal fell apart at the last minute according to him.

Which means the 49ers probably will attempt to trade Samuel again during this year's draft. And Pro Football Focus projects the 49ers to trade Samuel and the 11th pick in the draft to the Jacksonville Jaguars for the fifth pick in the draft.

"The 49ers have reportedly allowed wide receiver Deebo Samuel to seek a trade," writes PFF analyst Trevor Sikkema. "This isn’t the first time they’ve explored trading Samuel, so it seems more likely to go through this time. Here, they do a pick swap with Jacksonville (about a second-round trade value) to jump up and get one of the top defensive linemen in the draft."

If any team is interested in trading for Samuel, the Jaguars might be the one. They need a wide receiver to pair with Brian Thomas Jr., plus head coach Liam Coen used to work for the Rams so Samuel would fit his scheme.

But I highly doubt that Samuel has second-round value in a trade. Maybe he had that value last year, but not now. He's probably worth a fifth-round pick at best. Which means the 49ers would have to send the Jaguars more picks to make the deal happen.

I'm guessing the 49ers simply will release Samuel.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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