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Will the 49ers Trade Deebo Samuel to the Raiders for Davante Adams?

Samuel is two years younger than Adams but clearly on the decline. He's a shell of himself when it comes to gaining yards after the catch.

Grant Cohn

Sep 29, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) catches a pass for the first down against the New England Patriots during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images
Sep 29, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) catches a pass for the first down against the New England Patriots during the third quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images / Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images
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Davante Adams wants to be traded and the 49ers are on the list of his preferred teams. Will the 49ers trade for him?

Currently, they don't need a wide receiver. They have Jauan Jennings, who's the fourth-leading receiver in the league, plus Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel -- two extremely expensive veterans.

But what if the 49ers were to trade one of their wide receivers for Adams? What if they were to trade Deebo Samuel in particular?

I'm guessing the 49ers would prefer to trade Brandon Aiyuk considering the slow start he's had this season and his outrageous contract. But I doubt the 49ers' owners would approve a trade involving Aiyuk just a month after cutting him a $23 million signing-bonus check.

Which brings us back to Samuel. It will be extremely difficult for the 49ers to be able to afford both him and Aiyuk long-term. There even has been lots of speculation that the 49ers will have to trade Samuel next year.

So why not trade him now for a superior wide receiver in Adams? Then they could keep Adams for two more seasons or they could release him next year -- he has zero guaranteed money left on his deal after 2024.

Samuel is two years younger than Adams but clearly on the decline. He's a shell of himself when it comes to gaining yards after the catch.

Which means the Raiders probably wouldn't want Samuel. Instead, I'm guessing they'd prefer a draft pick, which would make sense.

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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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