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Why Deebo Samuel Has Rejected the 49ers

Samuel is treating the 49ers like they're the Sacramento Kings.
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Why Deebo Samuel Has Rejected the 49ers
Why Deebo Samuel Has Rejected the 49ers

Deebo Samuel has rejected the 49ers.

He refuses to negotiate a contract extension with them and has asked for a trade. Most recently, he went to a club, someone held up a sign that said, "Deebo is staying, 49ers," Samuel saw it and immediately waved his hand in front of his throat to indicate he's not coming back.

Samuel is treating the 49ers like they're the Sacramento Kings. He doesn't care about the 49ers' tremendous history. He never watched Jerry Rice play. They're not the San Francisco 49ers to him -- they're the Santa Clara Yorks. And the Santa Clara Yorks don't seem to be a desirable destination for the next generation's most expensive stars.

The NFL is becoming a player's league, particularly for quarterbacks, defensive ends and wide receivers. The best of them are getting more and more guaranteed money every offseason, which gives them power, much like players in the MLB and NBA.

Unfortunately for the 49ers, they don't seem to appeal to young stars such as Samuel. 

Why?

Maybe because they're in Santa Clara, not San Francisco.

Maybe because the real estate is extremely expensive.

Maybe because the rent is extremely expensive.

Maybe because the gas is extremely expensive.

Maybe because the taxes are extremely expensive.

Maybe because Paraag Marathe will penny-pinch players relentlessly.

Maybe because the 49ers would rather have the highest-paid fullback than the highest-paid wide receiver.

Maybe because the quarterback position is still a question mark.

Better to go to a team in a cheaper state that wants to pay its starts and make them happy.

That's not the 49ers.

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Grant Cohn
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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