We have all been left to speculate about what exactly Deebo Samuel’s issues are with the San Francisco 49ers and why he made his trade request public last week. His move added a hot-button wrinkle to an offseason that we thought would be centered around moving away from quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
“I’m not going to talk about that much today because I don’t think that’s productive,” 49ers GM John Lynch said Monday at his annual news conference ahead of this weekend’s NFL draft. “There’s a sanctity to those conversations remaining private. And that’s always how we’ve operated and we’ll continue to do so in this situation.”
Neither Samuel, who has been active on social media and called ESPN’s Jeff Darlington on April 20 to let him know he wants out, nor Lynch have offered specifics. There are only questions. Namely:
