{"id":252050,"date":"2026-07-08T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/brandon-aiyuk-makes-controversial-decision-about-his-career\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:57:12","slug":"brandon-aiyuk-makes-controversial-decision-about-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/brandon-aiyuk-makes-controversial-decision-about-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Aiyuk makes controversial decision about his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/san_francisco_49ers\/58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco 49ers\u00a0<\/a>wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/brandon_aiyuk\/630437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Aiyuk<\/a> is continuing his standoff with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The former Arizona State wideout is still on the 49ers&#8217; &#8220;left squad list,&#8221; meaning the team can essentially stash him without penalty or paying him.<\/p>\n<p>He would have to apply for reinstatement to collect his salary and force the team&#8217;s hand to move on from him, either with a trade or a release.<\/p>\n<p>However, he just shared in a lengthy social media post that he won&#8217;t do so because he just doesn&#8217;t want to deal with the 49ers.<\/p>\n<h2>Brandon Aiyuk won&#8217;t apply for reinstatement<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI will not be reinstating with (the 49ers) nor ever doing any kind of business with them,\u201d Aiyuk wrote (h\/t Ari Meirov). \u201cI\u2019m locked in and focused on my opportunity to return to the field this season!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/brandon_aiyuk_makes_controversial_decision_about_his_career\/s1_13132_44036669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco 49ers\u00a0wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk is continuing his standoff with the team. The former Arizona State wideout is still on the 49ers&#8217; &#8220;left squad list,&#8221; meaning the team can essentially stash him without penalty or paying him. He would have to apply for reinstatement to collect his salary and force the team&#8217;s hand to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}