{"id":3274,"date":"2024-08-08T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:15:04","slug":"report-details-emerge-on-the-49ers-astronomical-asking-price-from-steelers-in-brandon-aiyuk-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Details Emerge On The 49ers\u2019 Astronomical Asking Price From Steelers In Brandon Aiyuk Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers and\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>\u00a0reportedly aren\u2019t close on a\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/brandon-aiyuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Aiyuk<\/a>\u00a0blockbuster trade after all.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, reports surfaced that the Steelers and 49ers were in heavy discussions on a Brandon Aiyuk trade. This came after it was reported that the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a>\u00a0bowed out of the Aiyuk sweepstakes due to the 49ers\u2019 hefty asking price and Aiyuk\u2019s unwillingness to play for them.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gerry Dulac of the\u00a0<em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>, the 49ers and Steelers are not at the stage where they\u2019re \u201chammering out final details\u201d on an Aiyuk trade. Dulac added that the Steelers would not be giving up a wide receiver in a potential deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Steelers have no verbal agreement in place with the 49ers for Brandon Aiyuk and are not in process of hammering out final details, per sources. And any potential deal would NOT involve the Steelers giving up a player.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerry Dulac (@gerrydulac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerrydulac\/status\/1821286654423998776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Jim Wexell of Steel City Insider reports that the 49ers are asking the Steelers for two first-round picks in a Brandon Aiyuk trade:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I was told 49ers were asking for two No. 1s. That fits this report. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PYsp3Sa6gy\">https:\/\/t.co\/PYsp3Sa6gy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James C Wexell (@jimwexell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimwexell\/status\/1821306605868347460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aiyuk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/40575505\/wr-brandon-aiyuk-requests-trade-49ers-source-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">requested<\/a>\u00a0a trade from the 49ers last month after months of contract extension talks that went nowhere. The 26-year-old is entering the fifth and final year of his rookie deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AdamSchefter<\/a> reports that the situation with Brandon Aiyuk is still at a standstill and the 49ers are not in a rush to make a move \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gBUYZxGXfI\">pic.twitter.com\/gBUYZxGXfI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNFL\/status\/1821285469465850236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aiyuk is coming off a career year in which he caught 75 passes for 1,342 yards and seven touchdowns, helping the 49ers to a Super Bowl 58 appearance. For his career, Aiyuk has 269 receptions for 3,931 yards and 25 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-two-first-round-picks-is-too-much-for-aiyuk\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two First-Round Picks Is Too Much For Aiyuk<\/h2>\n<p>As good a player as Aiyuk is, a pair of first-round daft picks is way too high of an asking price. Just consider that the Miami Dolphins only had to give up one first-round pick as part of the package for\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/tyreek-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyreek Hill<\/a>, or that the Las Vegas Raiders sent first and second-round picks to the Green Bay Packers for Davante Adams.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers are also a hopeful playoff team, not an annual Super Bowl like the Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles or Buffalo Bills. So it doesn\u2019t make sense for a middle-of-the-pack team like Pittsburgh to give up two firsts for Aiyuk when there\u2019s a real possibility that those could end up being top-10 selections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers and\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0reportedly aren\u2019t close on a\u00a0Brandon Aiyuk\u00a0blockbuster trade after all. On Wednesday, reports surfaced that the Steelers and 49ers were in heavy discussions on a Brandon &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}