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49ers WR Deebo Samuel is a "Trade Deadline Name to Watch" per Insider

The 49ers are at the crossroads of their season. The next two weeks will determine so much.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr (1) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr (1) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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This is surprising.

Deebo Samuel apparently is a trade deadline name to watch according to The Athletic's Dianna Russini. Meaning the 49ers could trade him before the Nov. 5 trade deadline if they get the right offer.

The 49ers probably don't intend to trade Samuel at this time. They're coming off a win over the Seahawks and they're in first place in the NFC West even though their record is just 3-3. If they beat the Chiefs and Cowboys the next two weeks, they could be buyers at the deadline.

But if they lose the next two games, they could be a dysfunctional mess at the Bye week. Which means they could be sellers at the deadline. And the 49ers look like a team that could lose to anyone this season considering they already lost to the Rams and the Cardinals.

Samuel is having a down season by his standards. He's still fast but he isn't breaking tackles with the same ferocity with which he did in the past. Through six games this season he has broken just two tackles. Perhaps he's trying to preserve his body now that he's getting older.

Before the 49ers trade Samuel, they would need Jauan Jennings to return from a hip injury and Ricky Pearsall to prove that he can stay healthy. Pearsall injured himself multiple times this offseason and hasn't taken a hit yet, so he's a giant question mark. And the 49ers haven't revealed much about Jennings' hip injury yet.

The 49ers are at the crossroads of their season. The next two weeks will determine so much.

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GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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