The Brandon Aiyuk saga continues. And like almost all chapters before it, there’s not much actual traction. Just reporting, speculation, and pondering. That continues with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Michael Silver and his take on the Aiyuk situation. In short, Aiyuk’s status with the 49ers is truly up in the air but the door is open for a trade.
“All I know is that as of Monday night, when I posed the question to a 49ers source with direct knowledge of the team’s plans, the words I kept hearing were, “Anything’s possible.”
Earlier, I spoke to another team’s general manager who insisted that, because the 49ers and Aiyuk are far apart on negotiations for a lucrative contract extension, the fifth-year receiver is “very much in play.