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Deebo Samuel Likes an Instagram Post that Says He Is Expected to Stay with the 49ers

To be fair, not all likes are endorsements, and we really don't know if this means anything. But come on. This seems promising.

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Finally, some good news for the 49ers in their Deebo Samuel drama.

First, John Lynch went on the radio and said he believes the 49ers and Samuel can iron out their differences. Then Bleacher Report posted Lynch's quote on Instagram. And then Samuel liked that post.

That's the good news.

To be fair, not all likes are endorsements, and we really don't know if this means anything. But come on. This seems promising.

For the past few weeks since Samuel's trade demand went public, the 49ers' spin has been that they're willing to pay Samuel what he's worth and they don't know why he's unwilling to negotiate with them. Maybe he doesn't like playing running back?

Those insinuations seem incorrect.

If Samuel agrees with Lynch that their issues can be worked out, then it seems clearer than ever that Sameul's issues were financial, i.e. he wants more than he thinks the 49ers are willing to pay.

If Samuel wants $25 million per season, and the 49ers are unwilling to pay him more than $23 million per season, that's a problem, considering the Eagles just gave A.J. Brown $25 million per season, and Samuel is at least as good as him.

If Lynch feels he can work things out with Samuel, Lynch must mean that he has seen Brown's contract with the Eagles and is willing to offer Samuel just as much or more. Samuel's agent probably would accept that offer --he's the same agent who represents Brown.

So will the 49ers show Deebo the money?

Stay tuned.

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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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