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The 49ers Intend to Honor Deebo Samuel's Trade Request

Lynch is extremely diplomatic, plus he wants to trade Samuel, which is why he was so complimentary of him.
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Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan (left) and wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (right) look on prior to the game against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images
Jan 5, 2025; Glendale, Arizona, USA; San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan (left) and wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (right) look on prior to the game against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images | Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Just after the 49ers' season ended, John Lynch was asked if the 49ers might part ways with Deebo Samuel this offseason, and he said no, the 49ers aren't in the business of getting rid of great players.

Then Samuel requested a trade.

So on Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine, I asked Lynch if he's still not interested in moving on from Samuel.

"Still not interested," Lynch said, "but along those lines of financial constraints and some conversations we've had with Deebo, we've been forthright with that and we're on good terms with Deebo. He has asked for a fresh start and I think we're going to honor that.

"Don't like seeing great players leave and he is a great player. One of my favorite draft picks. He just makes game-changing plays. Everything is good, but at some point, time happens. We don't always honor trade requests -- there are contracts and things. But it probably makes sense that we're at least allowing him to look. We're having conversations. We'll see where that goes."

Lynch is extremely diplomatic, plus he wants to trade Samuel, which is why he was so complimentary of him. Of course, Samuel isn't a great player anymore. He was great for one season -- 2021. He is not a future Hall of Famer or someone who should start for a good team in 2025.

His best position at this point in his career is kick returner.

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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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