Trent Williams Becomes Latest 49er to Hold Out for a New Contract
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00:00to win the NFC Championship. So you would think DRS is the boys
00:09are back on the practice field. Football has returned. It's
00:12all rah rah bright smiles and positivity to make it this year
00:16the year. Hasn't been the case for the 49ers. Of course, a
00:21couple of weeks ago, after an embattled offseason, Brendan
00:25Ayuk officially request what felt like his ninth trade
00:29request of the offseason, but he even showed up to training
00:33camp. The veteran 11 time Pro Bowl left tackle Trent Williams
00:37unhappy with his current deal is now holding out at the start of
00:42training camp for the 49ers. I preface it by saying this when
00:46you're in the window to win an NFL Championship with the 49ers
00:50are right now, boy, they have a lot of question marks and a lot
00:53of anger from players, but also the players understand that as
00:56well. It's a lot harder to say, you know what, I think I'm one
00:58of the better players in football on a really bad team.
01:01Let me hold out and sometimes the ownership group and the fans
01:03can be like, we're going to lose whether you're here or not.
01:07It's not a big deal. We know we might as well trade you, but you
01:09can't do that. If you're the 49ers, you can't say to yourself
01:12because if the perfect world, right? Ayuk is angry and you say
01:16to yourself, okay, we drafted Pearsall. Well, also you could
01:18have traded. Ayuk got a first-round draft pick and
01:20drafted another wide and say, hey, look, we got our two wide
01:22outs of the future here on cheap salaries. We're paying
01:24Debo. This should work out fine in our favor because if you ask
01:27me, my favorite play caller by a mile in the NFL is Kyle
01:32Shanahan betting wise. I love betting the 49ers. I love
01:35taking team props in the niners because everybody is live
01:38because they're going to score a lot of points and you
01:40understand that. But also you look at Ayuk. He's unhappy.
01:43He's doing that holding like, hey, I'm going to show up to
01:45practice tap it up. But what's going to change now, Ben? He
01:48hated this franchise in the way they've treated him from
01:50February all the way through now. What changes up to the
01:54deadline and now also here's the ingredient. If you're the
01:5749ers and you say, of course, next year Brock Purdy is going
02:01to get an unbelievable amount of money. Our window is now,
02:05but also you say, who's more important. Brandon Ayuk is a
02:08wonderful wide receiver. I love him. He fits perfectly into
02:11that scheme. But let's say the Niners go, we can only have
02:14one, you know, it's going to be Trent Williams. He's going to
02:17win that even though he's in his mid-thirties because of how
02:19important the left tackle position and if you have a bad
02:21one can wreck your entire offense. So Brandon Ayuk has to
02:25sit back and go, wait a second. You took care of McCaffrey in
02:26the offseason this year. Debo was just a few years in the
02:29past. I think it was last year. He signed that big extension.
02:31Now, I want my money. I'm a good player. Tell me how good I
02:34am, but you keep brushing me to the side and every time I want
02:36to do something, both the steps in last year with monster
02:38money. Trent Williams now wants monster money. It's almost
02:41like, when am I going to get mine and how important am I to
02:43this franchise, which is why he's acting out by going on
02:46social media, Ben, and saying, just get me out of here. You're
02:49telling me you love me, but then tell me I'm not worth the
02:51money I am. When I know if I'm a true market wide out as a free
02:54agent, I would reset the market myself. Just pay me accordingly.