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49ers DE Bryce Huff Says He Wanted Eagles to Trade him Last Season

The 49ers have convinced themselves that they can succeed where the Eagles failed with Bryce Huff.
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Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Bryce Huff (47) speaks to the media following a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Bryce Huff (47) speaks to the media following a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images | D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images

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The 49ers have convinced themselves that they can succeed where the Eagles failed with Bryce Huff.

Last year, the Eagles gave Huff a three-year, $51.1 million contract with Philadelphia -- that's big money. They thought he'd be a starter and a quality player. Instead, he started just six games and recorded only 2.5 sacks. Then this offseason, the Eagles traded Huff to the 49ers. And the Eagles were so desperate to get rid of him, they're paying most of his salary this season.

This past week, Huff was interviewed on YouTube about his experience with the Eagles.

“If I’m being 100% honest with you, I wanted a trade like fairly early on,” Huff said. “And just cause of how things went in Philly, I knew pretty early on it wasn’t a fit.

“I knew a trade wasn’t going to happen during the (2024) season. But I talked to my agent about it and was like, when it’s all set and done, I might need to step to put myself in the best position. I kind of knew where it was headed fairly early on into the season.”

This is a troubling quote. Huff essentially said that he instantly wanted off a team that had just given him generational wealth a few months prior. Instead of looking inward and finding ways to be successful under Vic Fangio, Huff threw up his hands and told his agent he wanted a trade. This is a player who has had one good year in five career seasons. Troubling.

Sure, Huff isn't a run good defender, which makes him a poor fit in Fangio's 3-4 defense. But Fangio tried to use him as a designated edge-rusher on passing downs and Huff was ineffective at that role as well. He needs to own his bad season so he can put it behind him and play better this year.

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Grant Cohn
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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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