Brandon Aiyuk Will Not Attend 49ers OTAs

If the past is any indication, Aiyuk will skip minicamp as well, sign an extension sometime in August or September and then have a down season by his standards.

Grant Cohn | May 22, 2024

Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports / Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

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This shouldn't come as a surprise.

Brandon Aiyuk did not show up to Week 1 of 49ers OTAs and is not expected to show up until he receives a contract extension from the team. When head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked how he feels about Aiyuk's absence, Shanahan didn't sound worried. "Same as I do about all these guys that aren't here," he said. "I wish they were here but it's something that's part of the business and anytime it's part of the business part you try to respect it. Stay out of it as much as possible. Look forward to the days when we can just focus on football."

The 49ers rarely give extensions this early in the offseason. Last year, they waited until a few days before the season opener to agree to an extension with Nick Bosa, who held out of OTAs, mandatory minicamp and training camp before signing and playing Week 1. He went on to have a down season by his standards.

The previous year, the 49ers waited until training camp to agree to an extension with Deebo Samuel, who held out of OTAs and didn't practice during mandatory minicamp before coming to training camp overweight and signing a few days after training camp started. He went on to have a down season by his standards.

If the past is any indication, Aiyuk will skip minicamp as well, sign an extension sometime in August or September and then have a down season by his standards.

This is how the 49ers do business.

Published May 22, 2024

GRANT COHN

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.