San Francisco 49ers think about offensive choices for newly signed Deebo Samuel, ‘a particular participant’

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers wideout Deebo Samuel signed his profitable three-year contract extension Monday, bringing an finish to the query of whether or not he’ll stay with the staff for the foreseeable future.

However Samuel’s new deal additionally led to loads of different questions concerning his future, probably the most urgent of which is: Will the Niners proceed to make use of him within the “huge again” hybrid position that elevated Samuel to first staff All-Professional standing final season?

The reply is sure, in accordance with coach Kyle Shanahan, however the form that takes will rely on a number of components.

“I believe [it’s] based mostly off of no matter occurs,” Shanahan mentioned. “From my standpoint schematically, from our staff’s personnel, from Deebo’s, from what we expect provides us one of the best probability to win, if we needed to maneuver Deebo to working again that may have been one thing that we have been sincere about. … You may’t try this with anyone. You have to try this with a particular participant and Deebo is a particular participant. That is why he is earned this contract that he is received and I believe that is why he will proceed to earn it going ahead.”

What Samuel earned is a three-year extension by way of the 2025 season agreed to Sunday that’s price as much as $73.5 million and contains $58.1 million in ensures. Because it seems, a few of that most worth is straight tied to incentives Samuel can get ought to he carry out that twin position at an analogous fee of manufacturing as 2021.

Sources advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday that Samuel may earn as much as $1.95 million over the lifetime of his contract if he meets sure benchmarks for dashing yards and dashing touchdowns.

Samuel can earn $650,000 for every season he has 380 or extra dashing yards. If he does not get the dashing yardage complete, he can earn $150,000 in bonuses in any season by which he scores no less than three dashing touchdowns. Both method, he can not earn greater than a complete of $650,000 per season or greater than $1.95 million over the lifetime of the contract for these dashing incentives.

For comparability’s sake, Samuel had his best dashing season as a professional in 2021, racking up 365 yards and eight touchdowns, which makes the TD incentive prone to be earned and the dashing complete unlikely to be earned for salary-cap functions.

All through the offseason, hypothesis endured that Samuel had been sad together with his position and needed to chop down on the dashing makes an attempt. However Shanahan mentioned final week that he and Samuel have been on the “very same web page” with regards to utilization.

Shanahan reiterated Monday that Samuel will once more determine prominently into the plans in no matter method is critical to assist the 49ers win relying on the opponent, what they see on movie, how the 53-man roster shapes up and potential personnel groupings.

“When Deebo stays wholesome and he is capable of follow and capable of undergo issues, Deebo is able to doing something,” Shanahan mentioned. “That is why he is helped us a lot to win, whether or not it is within the go sport or the run sport or whether or not it is blocking or throwing the one time we requested him to throw. When you will have guys who’ve talent units that may do various belongings you wish to all the time maintain them doing them.”

After signing his deal Monday morning, Samuel joined his teammates in follow for the primary time this season, a session that additionally occurred to be the staff’s first absolutely padded exercise of camp.

As a result of it was Samuel’s first follow, the Niners eased him in, protecting him on a snap rely, and they’ll proceed to extend his workload as the times go by, in accordance with Shanahan. Samuel made a few catches for giant good points from backup quarterback Nate Sudfeld in his restricted work in staff drills.

Left deal with Trent Williams, who’s an in depth good friend of Samuel, mentioned there was a noticeable vitality enhance from having him again within the fold.

“You watch what he does receiving sensible, you watch what he does dashing sensible, you watch the spark plug that he’s for the staff,” Williams mentioned. “You see us popping out of the locker room, that is not only for present. That is how we’re within the locker room. In the event you go in there proper now, that increase field might be proper subsequent to his locker. He is that sort of individual and that is why he is essential to this group and that is why we needed to have him.”