It's not enough that Brandon Aiyuk is carrying his own baggage as he hits fre agency, it's that he got dumped on by his 49ers receivers coach, TJ Houshmandzadeh. 

"BA is still really young, fast, quick, explosive, but what he did last year is kind of crazy," Houshmandzadeh told the "Speakeasy" podcast. "You got all this guaranteed money. You ain't showing up... and you basically forego what was it? Over 30 million, right? Like, if you're a team and you give him a good contract, is this what you're going to get?"

"You got to make sure that you protect yourself because of what he's shown you to be," Houshmandzadeh added later. "I got to make sure financially that we are protected as a team and organization, because I've just never seen anybody do this at so young of an age, got so many years ahead of him. I just have never seen this."

It's bad when your former coach warns others about you, but it carries even more weight when that coach was a successful player at your position.

My take: Caveat Emptor. A fool's errand to sign him, if there ever was one.