Story: 49ers’ most common contract provide to Aiyuk is in $26M fluctuate

The standoff between the 49ers and superstar vast receiver Brandon Aiyuk continues, and a call does now not appear coming near near as prolonged as each events remain as some distance apart in contract extension negotiations as they appear to be.

Appropriate how some distance apart are they? The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mike Silver supplied an update on the 49ers’ most common provide to Aiyuk in an appearance on KNBR 680’s “Papa & Lund” on Thursday.

“I’m hearing their provide is in the $26 million fluctuate, which completely is now not Justin Jefferson money, nor must nonetheless or now not or now not it is, but it completely’s closer to that DeVonta Smith, Amon-Ra St. Brown, that next tier down,” Silver acknowledged.

If factual, the $26 million-per-One year practical nonetheless is now not as much as Brown’s $28 million-per-One year contract with the Detroit Lions — a benchmark Aiyuk reportedly desires to surpass — and even further below what ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler believes Aiyuk’s imprint can also very neatly be.

“So Brandon Aiyuk’s the tall one,” Fowler acknowledged Saturday on SportsCenter. “All of us know what the vast receiver market is now. It be taking a notice at potentially $30 million and above. And Aiyuk’s considered a top-10 receiver now at this point by most in the league.

“All sides occupy had negotiations, but it completely hasn’t actually graduated to something where or now not it is going to procure performed and or now not it is intensified. So that they bought the following six weeks over the summer season forward of practicing camp to comprehend a notice at to procure it performed or he can also now not relate up based mostly entirely on him now not exhibiting as much as minicamp as a precedent.”

On the opposite hand, Aiyuk’s interior most vast receiver coach T.J. Houshmandzadeh told 95.7 The Game’s “Willard & Dibs” on Thursday that Aiyuk would occupy agreed to terms had the 49ers provided him the identical deal as Brown’s four-One year, $120 million contract.