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Should the 49ers Trade Brandon Aiyuk to the Chargers for Joey Bosa?

This might be the best the 49ers can get for Aiyuk.

Grant Cohn

Jan 1, 2023; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa (97) against the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 1, 2023; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa (97) against the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
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The 49ers don't seem to have made any progress on a contract extension for Brandon Aiyuk.

They're reportedly offered him $26 million per season while he apparently wants no less than $30 million, and the two sides are in a standoff. If this standoff lasts into the regular season and Aiyuk holds out for a few regular season games, the 49ers could decide to cut their losses and trade him for a player who could help them win a Super Bowl this upcoming season.

Bleacher Report's Alex Kay has an interesting proposal. He says the 49ers should trade Brandon Aiyuk to the Los Angeles Chargers in exchange for Joey Bosa and a second-round pick in 2025.

"One creative way L.A. could try to lure Aiyuk away from San Francisco is by offering up Joey Bosa in trade negotiations," writes Kay. "Bosa has been struggling with injury in recent seasons but is still a force when available. He's racked up 67 sacks in his first 93 career games and could be rejuvenated playing on the same defensive line as his brother Nick. Even Bosa's own mother has been pleading with the Chargers to make this move, although a 1:1 swap for Aiyuk likely wouldn't be in the cards. Los Angeles would need to add a premium pick to get this deal done. A 2025 second-rounder could do the trick, allowing San Francisco to move on from Aiyuk in exchange for both a much-needed edge rusher and an elite prospect in next year's draft."

This might be the best the 49ers can get for Aiyuk. They couldn't get a first-round pick for him during this past NFL Draft, so to get a second-round pick plus a potential impact player for a year or two would be a good return.

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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.

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