Report: Brandon Aiyuk is asking the 49ers for a contract that beats Amon-Ra St. Brown’s

The contract that wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown signed with the Lions this offseason could serve as the basis for what Brandon Aiyuk wants from the 49ers.

Aiyuk and the 49ers are talking, and Aiyuk’s goal is to beat St. Brown’s contract and get “to that number or higher,” Jeremy Fowler reported on ESPN.

What constitutes “that number” for St. Brown is a bit complicated, because the full details of St. Brown’s contract show that it was not as significant as initial reports suggested. But St. Brown’s extension gives him $28 million per year over three years, and Aiyuk will want something in that neighborhood.

The 49ers may simply not be willing to give Aiyuk a contract that beats St. Brown’s, and if they are, his options would be to accept a lesser contract or play this year on his salary of base of $14.1 million, then head into 2025 as a player. free agent, where the 49ers could franchise him, sign him to a long-term deal or let him go.