Teams apparently have been calling the 49ers about the availability of a certain wide receiver, and it’s not Brandon Aiyuk, at least not yet.
The Baltimore Ravens recently called the 49ers and asked if they could trade for Deebo Samuel, according to Jason La Canfora, who said the 49ers’ answer was no, at least not now. Interesting answer.
It’s easy to see why the 49ers wouldn’t want to trade Samuel now. Trading him now would create less than $7 million in salary cap space and would create more than $21 million in dead cap. In addition, it’s unclear how high of a draft pick the 49ers would get in return for Samuel and his bloated contract, or if that draft pick would be better than Samuel next season when the 49ers are making another Super Bowl run. So there are three reasons not to trade Samuel now.
