The Curious Case of Deebo Samuel’s Trade Demand

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest stories of the 2022 offseason: The bizarre twists and turns of the wide receiver market. After seeing Christian Kirk (among others) get unexpectedly paid, and teams dole out draft capital and big-money contracts for Davante Adams and Tyreek Hill, it’s time for the star wideouts of the 2019 draft to get theirs.

That starts with Deebo Samuel, who made a shocking trade demand for reasons that remain a mystery. The questions: Will other, inferior coaching staffs be able to maximize his unique talents in the same way that the 49ers did? And will potential suitors worry about the wear and tear for a receiver who takes punishment similar to a lot of running backs?

Plus, a discussion of fellow ’19 Day 2 picks A.J. Brown, Terry McLaurin and DK Metcalf. Then, a look at the back seven defenders of the NFL draft. And the story of Conor Orr: Ice Enthusiast.

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Connor O'Connor we're going to the MMQB NFL podcast I'm Gary
0:08.5	Gremlin and I'm Connor O'R. And Connor we're going to talk a little bit about the Back7 defenders in this NFL draft class coming up.
0:17.0	But first we're going to start with a trend that we've talked about on this show for a couple years and that is these wide
0:25.7	receivers from the 2019 draft class. The guys who were drafted outside the first round
0:31.2	they are going into the last year of their contracts and they're eligible
0:35.1	for extensions and they are looking at the Christian Kirk to the world and saying well now it's time for us to get paid.
0:43.0	Yeah and you know not only Christian Kirk but you know because he wonked up the market for sort of your high end
0:51.0	medium to high end, maybe even like your strong number-two wide receivers, and then
0:57.7	Davante Adams, Tyreak Hill, they wonked up the market for your elite premium athlete wide receivers.
1:06.2	And even though some of that is obviously phony math, I think what Tyree Kill has that like
1:11.2	900 million dollar deal a year on the back end of his
1:15.0	contract to raise the average annual value but like you know he's making 30
1:19.0	million dollars a year as far as Dibo Samuel is concerned and so, yeah, all these guys are looking at what's happening in the NFL.
1:26.7	They're seeing the gold mine develop.
1:28.9	And they're seeing a bunch of general managers who are now encouraged and probably a lot more freewheeling in their ability to acquire players and to pay players and so they're just like yeah, let's go get it and I don't blame them I mean this is this is the right time
1:43.9	this is the right time to go and get it it absolutely is and we're gonna start with the most
1:49.2	unusual of these cases and that is debo Samuel because there's there's something going on here
1:56.1	and we don't know exactly what but he has demanded a trade from the 49ers obviously
2:00.6	he is going to get a new contract.
2:03.0	You know, Adam Shefter put out the report that the 49ers are very much willing to pay him,
2:08.0	but he seems to really have no interest in continuing on with that organization.
2:14.6	Now he is interesting obviously for that reason.
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