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Multiple Teams Want to Trade for 49ers Wide Receiver Jauan Jennings

This is terrific news for Jauan Jennings.
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Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) celebrates his touchdown scored against the Los Angeles Rams during the first half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images
Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) celebrates his touchdown scored against the Los Angeles Rams during the first half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images | Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

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This is terrific news for Jauan Jennings.

As you know, Jennings wants another contract extension with the 49ers. And if he doesn't get one, he wants the 49ers to trade him. Standard business procedure in the NFL. He's by far the most underpaid veteran on the 49ers, and they know it.

Apparently, other teams see Jennings' value as well. That's why multiple teams have reached out to the 49ers about potentially trading for Jennings, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Unfortunately for those teams, the 49ers told them that they have no intention of trading Jennings.

This means that other teams seem to be willing to pay Jennings what he wants. So the 49ers either have to pay Jennings the market rate for his services, or they can force him to play out the final year of his contract.

Since Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch joined the organization in 2017, they generally haven't held prominent veterans on the team against their will. They've either released them (see: Arik Armstead), traded them (see: Deebo Samuel), or extended them (see: Brandon Aiyuk). Jennings should be no exception. He's a key member of the 49ers' present and future, and he won't break the bank.

No. 1 wide receivers routinely get paid more than $30 million per season these days. Jennings probably won't even get $20 million just because the 49ers buried him on the depth chart for so long. But he should be with the 49ers for a long time, because he fits the culture, and he wants to be here. As opposed to Aiyuk, who seems disgruntled even though he got his extension.

I predict Jennings will get his extension in a couple weeks and he'll be on the 49ers much longer than Aiyuk.

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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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