Sources: San Francisco 49ers, Deebo Samuel agree to 3-year extension worth up to $73.5M

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — After an offseason rollercoaster that included a surprising trade request, a social media scrubbing and a half-dozen other receivers signing lucrative contracts, the final domino fell Sunday when wideout Deebo Samuel agreed to a three-year contract extension with the San Francisco 49ers.

The deal is worth a maximum value of $73.5 million over the three years and includes $58.1 million in guarantees, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Samuel is the seventh wideout this offseason to sign a deal worth at least $24 million per year. Before this season, only DeAndre Hopkins of the Arizona Cardinals had hit that mark.

In striking the deal, the Niners and Samuel brought a peaceful end to a turbulent negotiation that saw Samuel request a trade from the Niners in April. Despite that request, San Francisco held firm to their desire to work through whatever issues bothered Samuel and reward him with a significant contract that would keep him with the team well into the future.

Mission accomplished.

During the NFL draft, the Niners received some offers on Samuel but never got anything close to what it would have taken to move on from him. In the weeks that follows, Samuel slowly came back into the fold, attending the team's mandatory, full-squad minicamp in June. Samuel then reported on time for the start of this year's training camp.

He and coach Kyle Shanahan talked through the plan for him as camp opened on July 26, agreeing that Samuel would do conditioning work on the side as the Niners and his representatives continued hammering out a deal. At that time, Niners general manager John Lynch was more optimistic than ever that the sides would strike a deal.

«We've had really productive and substantive talks,»