N/S 49ers trade Deebo Samuel to Commanders for 2025 5th round pick (9 Viewers)

[SweetT]

That just killed any potential trade market for Olave….

Teams will point to this deal and want to give Mickey a 6th

Lol, Deebo is supremely gifted athletically. He’s a weapon, but let’s be honest…….hes had 1 great year. Now, obviously Niners players are asked to be unselfish players, but production is production. Not to mention he’s going into his 7th season. Personally, I think Deebo has underachieved .

 

[meily]

Why wouldn't we trade Olave? He is Brandin Cooks Redux. The time is now to send him on his way. 1 more year of injuries and/or another concussion, and he may be out of football.

Brandon Cooks has been a productive reviewer at every stop he's been; I'm not seeing the issue here.

From what I remember, Cooks did not want to be just a deep threat in this offense, and it was geared that way when we drafted Michael Thomas.

We cannot ship off young talent because of reasons, we have to give Moore something to work with

 

[jesusfish]

Why would we trade Olave? The 49ers have Deebo and Aiyuk up for grabs, they drafted the WR from Florida last year and still have Kittles and McCaffrey, they are just resetting their cap and Shannahan has a system that works and was not predicated on the production of Deebo or Aiyuk.

Best case scenario is he's healthy and has his best year. In this best case, you are now looking at his next contract at 28-30M a year. We don't need to be the team on the hook for that much money for the player he is and with his injury history.

 

[soggymoss84]

 

[Merl]

17.5M is significantly cheaper than 16 of the 2024 top market WR cap hits. 14 WR cap hits are in the 38M-20M range in 2024. 17.5 will only be 12th most in 2026 as of right now. The option won’t count until the 2026 offseason. His cap hit is just 6.1M in ‘25.

For potential trade comp regarding the option’s cap, it helps that Olave hasn’t receive Pro Bowl/All-Pro accolades yet prior to the option exercise window. The option would’ve been higher in 20M+ range with those.

What needs to be added is that The 5th year option comes with a full guarantee.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Even considering the concussions, some teams would be willing to essentially take a flier on a young 1k yard caliber WR by parting with a conditional 3rd-conditional 4th or a 4th+5th. Depends on what team the Saints FO is negotiating with.

If Olave’s concussion history doesn’t improve in ‘25-‘26, new team would only owe the remainder of the rookie deal and gave up mid round picks for a WR1/WR2. Deebo’s cap hits and dead money in the next 2 seasons at ages 29-30 are 15M in ‘25 and 20M dead money coming with a void in ‘26 which factored into his trade compensation. Olave’s ‘25 cap is under half of Deebo’s ‘25 hit.

Good points as always, I’ll go look it up….I hadn’t heard that the team was shopping Olave?

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

. Seems that franchise is finally trending way up, must be a money thing for Allen to be asking out. He’s a good un.

 

[VPCajun]

That just killed any potential trade market for Olave….

Teams will point to this deal and want to give Mickey a 6th

And... he'll take it!

And... and throw a pick or two to go with it!

 

[VPCajun]

Heeeeyyyyy - today is MARCH 1st, not APRIL 1st!!!

[sigh]

 

[longtime lurker]

Deebo has 1 year left on his deal, comes at a significant cap hit and is 30 years old. The Commanders would be crazy to give anything more unless they can sign him to a reasonable extension. The cap hit and uncertainty of being able to sign him beyond 2025 dictated the compensation.

I sped read that as 1 year at 30million and nearly choked on my gummy.

 

[Merl]

Good points as always, I’ll go look it up….I hadn’t heard that the team was shopping Olave?

I don’t think anyone has. It looks to be another click bait speculation article.

 

[platinumvinnyv]

Good points as always, I’ll go look it up….I hadn’t heard that the team was shopping Olave?

I think a patriots wroter wrote a scenario of how they can land olave and of course people read that as we are currently shopping him. I don't think there was anything from recognized reporter or anything local

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

I don’t think anyone has. It looks to be another click bait speculation article.

I think a patriots wroter wrote a scenario of how they can land olave and of course people read that as we are currently shopping him. I don't think there was anything from recognized reporter or anything local

Thanks y’all.

 

[OldTimeGamer1966]

That just killed any potential trade market for Olave….

Teams will point to this deal and want to give Mickey a 6th

You would be lucky to get anything for him before this trade he is damaged goods... literally. A 7th with a conditional that his health holds up and maybe that changes to a 5th at the most.

I wouldn't think there would be a big market for a tiny receiver that could possibly get knocked out on any play.

 

[St. Widge]

Best case scenario is he's healthy and has his best year. In this best case, you are now looking at his next contract at 28-30M a year. We don't need to be the team on the hook for that much money for the player he is and with his injury history.

If we pick up his option and he has a great year, we get him the next year for his $17.5 million option year. At that point we can decide if we want to keep him for the 5th year at that price or if we want to trade him then. There is no point in trading him this year when you can get so little for him and his value is at it's lowest.