DeForest Buckner said he knew it was a possibility the 49ers would trade him this offseason. That didn't make it any easier.
Possibility officially became reality Wednesday, and Buckner passed a physical completing his trade to the Indianapolis Colts. Buckner admitted that it stung to get traded, even though he was happy to join the Colts.
"It's always tough," Buckner told Indianapolis reporters in a conference call Wednesday. "When you play your heart out for an organization, and you're one of their key guys and you build a lot of lifelong relationships there and everything, to find out [that you're] a possibility to be traded -- with .