It’s not often that a head coach will confirm reporting publicly after the fact, but the Brandon Aiyuk saga in San Francisco has made the 49ers do some strange things.
That includes head coach Kyle Shanahan. On Monday night following the 49ers’ 32-19 win over the New York Jets on Monday Night Football, Shanahan confirmed to reporters the Sunday morning report from Fox NFL Insider Jay Glazer that the 49ers nearly traded Aiyuk to the Pittsburgh Steelers before ultimately holding off and hammering out Aiyuk’s four-year, $120 million deal with $76 million guaranteed.
“It was that I wanted to make sure he wasn’t traded already,” Shanahan said of the Aiyuk situation, via 49ersWebzone.