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REPORT: The 49ers Will Attempt to Trade Deebo Samuel this Offseason

It's not a certainty that Samuel is done with the 49ers because there may not be a trade market for him anymore.
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Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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Good news, 49ers fans.

Deebo Samuel's tenure in Santa Clara finally may come to an end soon. That's because the 49ers will attempt to trade Samuel soon according to The NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

"While it's not a certainty that Samuel is done in San Francisco, it's enough of a possibility that both sides appear to be at peace with moving on if it goes that way," writes Rapoport.

It's not a certainty that Samuel is done with the 49ers because there may not be a trade market for him anymore. The 49ers came close to trading him last offseason but decided against it because they thought they needed him to make another Super Bowl run. In hindsight, they should have traded him last year.

Now, they might be able to get a conditional seventh-round pick for him. Because he's 29, he's coming off arguably the worst season of his career, he's expensive and he'll want a new contract considering his current deal will expire next year. So some team would have to trade for the right to extend Samuel or trade for the privilege of having him for one season. Seems unlikely.

What's more likely is the 49ers will end up releasing Samuel. They clearly don't want him or need him anymore and it seems he would like a fresh start elsewhere. He just showed up to the Super Bowl wearing an Eagles jersey. Then he went on Kay Adams' podcast and said he didn't get enough opportunities on the 49ers.

Good luck on your next team, Deebo. I hope you get the opportunities you're looking for.

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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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