November 22, 2025 • 11 mins
49ers Void Brandon Aiyuk's 2026 Guaranteed Money
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the deep dive. Today, we have a
source document that really pulls back the curtain on what
guaranteed money actually means in the NFL. We are going
deep on the San Francisco forty nine ers and star
wide receiver Brandon Ayuk and the just shocking news that
the team voided nearly twenty five million dollars in future guarantees.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And this was from a contract you signed just last year.
It's a huge move, a huge.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Move, and this isn't just about a potential trade. We're
talking about the real anatomy of a massive NFL contract extension.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's a total web of events. You know, You've got
a career altering injury, months of pretty serious internal conflict,
and then this very very specific contractual trigger they pulled right.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So our mission today is to pull all those threads apart.
We want to understand what exactly was voided, how the
team could legally justify a move this drastic, and what
the messy backstory of trade rumors and discord tells us
about what they are really thinking exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
For you listening, this is the shortcut. This is how
you grasp where the real power lies in the business.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Of football.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's not always on the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Field, it's in the fine print.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It is absolutely in the fine print. We're moving beyond
the injury report here and right into the front office.
This whole situation proves that these huge deals, they aren't
ironclad teams building these complex outs for moments just like this.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, so let's jump in. Let's start with the actual mechanism,
the hard numbers. Sure, the central fact is that the
forty nine ers voided Brandon Ayuk's guaranteed money for the
twenty twenty six season. They did it during training camp,
and the reason they gave, according to sources, was that
Ayuk had not been meeting the requirements of that deal.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And that phrase right there, that's everything. That is the
key that unlocks the whole thing for the front office.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But first, what money are we actually talking about? Break
it down?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, So we're talking about something called an option bonus.
In this case, it was worth let's see twenty four
point nine to three five million.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Dollars, almost a twenty five million dollars exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And teams love using these because they can spread the
salary cap hit over a few years. It gives them flexibility.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So why was this specific bonus so vulnerable? How did
the guarantee structure give the forty nine ers the opening
to just take it away?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, the guarantee it had a time fuse on it.
This bonus was set to become fully one hundred percent
guaranteed on April first of this year, twenty twenty five. Okay,
So by acting before that day and citing that failure
to meet requirements, the team legally stopped the money from evervesting.
They pulled the rug out from under him before he
(02:33):
could stand on it.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow. So that's almost twenty five million dollars that the team
now doesn't have to pay. It vanishes from his future
earnings gone.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And it's based entirely on the team's interpretation of that
one phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not been meeting the requirements of that deal. I mean,
what does that actually mean? Is it about his performance
on the field? Is it about conduct?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And that is the absolute core of this entire dispute.
The power of that language is that it's intentionally vague.
It's not like a performance where you have to get
you know, a thousand yards or ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
East not at all.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Requirements of the deal can cover almost anything. Conduct clauses,
showing up to mandatory workouts, even just general team rules.
It's an escape route for everything except what happens between
the whistles.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So they don't have to prove he can't play anymore.
They just have to show he wasn't complying with some
internal rule, which is much much easier.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
To document, infinitely easier. And that just changes everything, doesn't it.
It immediately shifts the focus from his physical recovery to
his status within the organization.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So what's left for him now?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, he's still technically scheduled to get a base salary
about one point two million dollars plus some workout bonuses,
but the sources are crystal clear. With the big guarantee gone,
this action clears the way for the Niners to part
ways with him soon.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Maximum financial flexibility, it is the name of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And now we have to put all of this financial
maneuvering against the backdrop of the injury itself, which was
just catastrophic.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It was. It really was a devastating moment in that
twenty twenty four season. Yeah, it was a Week seven
game against the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yep, he tours ACL his MCL and his moliscus all
on his right knee. That I mean that trifecta is
one of the worst injuries an athletes can suffer.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The recovery is incredibly long and complex, and since then
he hasn't been back. Reports are now saying it's increasingly
possible he won't play at all in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And this is where you start to see this huge
gap between what the coaches were saying publicly and what
the medical reality was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right because coach Kyle Shanian was sounding pretty optimistic for
a while. He'd hoped Ayuke would be back to practice
around week seven of.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This season, and even later he kept saying he was
weak to week just waiting for Ayuk to feel fully comfortable.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That sounds like a coach being supportive, but the source
says something very.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Different, very different. The reality is Ayuk has still not
been cleared to return to practice. This isn't about him
being comfortable or not. He hasn't gotten the green light
from the doctors.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So fully comfortable versus not medically cleared, that's a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's a massive gap, and that's the space where the
team operates and manages leverage. They're controlling the clock. It
makes you wonder why say you're hopeful for a return
when you know the medical staff hasn't signed off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It keeps him on the books, but without any real commitment.
Let's talk about the logistics of his status too. He's
on the pup list physically unable to perform. What does
that mean for the team?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So being on PUP instead of IR injured reserve is
a really key strategic move. If a player is on IR,
you only get to bring back a certain number of
guys during the season. Right now, it's eight, okay, But
since iyuk is on PUP, the team could open his
twenty one day practice window for an evaluation and it
(05:47):
wouldn't count against that limit of eight players.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So they can take a look at him without burning
one of their valuable IR return spots.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Exactly, they're being careful with the roster. But you know,
absolutely ruthless what the contract, which.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Brings us right back to the voided guarantee. The team
used a powerful clause that had nothing to do with
his knee. It was about his standing in the organization. Yep,
this tells us the relationship with sour long before he
got hurt. That voided guarantee did not happen in a vacuum,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The team's frustration. This whole idea of him not meeting requirements,
it goes all the way back to his contract negotiations.
He's sign that huge deal four years, one hundred and
twenty million dollars, but only after this really ugly public
standoff that lasted for months.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And during that whole time they were trying to get.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Rid of him, they were actively on the phone. Sources say.
Just before he signed, he was nearly traded at different
stages to multiple teams. The names that keep coming up
are the Browns, the Patriots, and the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So they were looking for an exit ramp even before
they committed all that money.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They were, and the friction didn't stop once he signed
the deal. It wasn't suddenly all good, No.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And there's that one anecdote that seems to perfectly illustrate
this requirements of the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh the shorts incident.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Soon after he signed, there was this public disagreement on
the practice field. Coach Shanahan called him out in front
of everyone, told him to change his red practice shorts
to the black ones. The rest of the team was wearing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It seems so small, so petty, but in.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This context, in this context, it's everything. A public dressing
down over something like practice attire. That's the exact kind
of thing an organization documents when they want to build
a case for non compliance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It becomes evidence they were building a paper trail, maybe intentionally,
maybe not. Yeah, but it gave them the justification they
needed later on.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It proves the conflict was behavioral, not just about money.
And you could see it in his play early in
that twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He definitely struggled after missing all of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
He did. He struggled through the first four games. But then,
and this is the really cruel part, he finally seemed
to be hitting his stride.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That Week five game against the Cardinals just exploded.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Eight catches, one hundred and forty seven yards. He was
looking like the guy they paid him to be. And
that was just two weeks before the injury against the
Chiefs ended his season.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And here's the kicker from the source material, the real
strategic insight. Had Iik stayed healthy, yeah, the forty nine
ers were hoping to trade him in the twenty twenty
five offseason anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's the missing piece. The injury didn't create the desire
to move on, It just destroyed their preferred way of
doing it, which was a.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Trade because now nobody would touch him.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Who would With that injury and that massive contract, The
trade market never materialized. It was a non starter. So
if they couldn't trade him, they had to find another
way out, and that other.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Way was voiding the guarantee. It's a clean, if incredibly
aggressive financial break.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's an institutional self defense mechanism. The discords started early,
the injury made it toxic, and the contract gave them
the lever they needed to pull.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So let's bring this to the present day. What are
the tangible signs we're seeing of this separation.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, the signs are subtle, but they're definitely there. IUK
has gotten some public praise from the receiver's code, which
for you know, helping out the other players attending his
rehab sessions, so he's doing the bare.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Minimum, but his actual visibility is basically zero exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Reports say he hasn't been seen at any part of
practice that's open to the media for weeks, having been
in the locker room when reporters are there. It's a quiet,
managed withdraw. It's what teams do when a breakup is coming.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And the ultimate sign, of course, is the action itself.
Shanahan's public confidence from early November saying he was pretty
confident IYU could at least practice again, that's all been
replaced by this final contractual blow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Actions speak louder than coach speak. Voiding that twenty five
million dollars gives the team total control. He goes from
being this massive, expensive, injured asset to a manageable piece
they can cut without penalty. It's all about asset management.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, so let's tie this all together. For everyone listening,
the big takeaway here is that this wasn't just about
an injury. That's not the whole story.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Not even close. This was the final move in a
long game. It was the resolution to a deep organizational
conflict that was simmering for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And it really highlights a crucial lesson about these NFL contracts.
Guaranteed does not always mean guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Especially when it's tied to future vesting dates. The team
used a clause based on vague organizational rules, not medical status,
to protect themselves financially. The discord gave them the ammunition,
and the injury just provided the opportunity to use it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
This feels like a huge precedent. We're always talking about
players fighting for fully guaranteed deals, and this just shows
how much power the team still hold in the fine print.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It absolutely does, and that brings us to the final
thought we want to leave you with. As fully guaranteed
contracts do become more common, how are teams going to
enforce these ambiguous clauses. These meeting the requirements of the
deal phrizes, especially against players in the middle of a grueling,
long term rehab. Does a player's recovery now become a
(10:56):
test of their institutional loyalty? And what does that mean
for players, for health and for every contract negotiation moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That is the complex line teams are walking now, balancing
the balance sheet with the locker room. We'll leave that
thought with you. Thanks for joining us for the deep dive.
Welcome back to the deep dive. Today, we have a
source document that really pulls back the curtain on what
guaranteed money actually means in the NFL. We are going
deep on the San Francisco forty nine ers and star
wide receiver Brandon Ayuk and the just shocking news that
the team voided nearly twenty five million dollars in future guarantees.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And this was from a contract you signed just last year.
It's a huge move, a huge.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Move, and this isn't just about a potential trade. We're
talking about the real anatomy of a massive NFL contract extension.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's a total web of events. You know, You've got
a career altering injury, months of pretty serious internal conflict,
and then this very very specific contractual trigger they pulled right.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So our mission today is to pull all those threads apart.
We want to understand what exactly was voided, how the
team could legally justify a move this drastic, and what
the messy backstory of trade rumors and discord tells us
about what they are really thinking exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
For you listening, this is the shortcut. This is how
you grasp where the real power lies in the business.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Of football.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's not always on the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Field, it's in the fine print.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It is absolutely in the fine print. We're moving beyond
the injury report here and right into the front office.
This whole situation proves that these huge deals, they aren't
ironclad teams building these complex outs for moments just like this.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, so let's jump in. Let's start with the actual mechanism,
the hard numbers. Sure, the central fact is that the
forty nine ers voided Brandon Ayuk's guaranteed money for the
twenty twenty six season. They did it during training camp,
and the reason they gave, according to sources, was that
Ayuk had not been meeting the requirements of that deal.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And that phrase right there, that's everything. That is the
key that unlocks the whole thing for the front office.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But first, what money are we actually talking about? Break
it down?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, So we're talking about something called an option bonus.
In this case, it was worth let's see twenty four
point nine to three five million.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Dollars, almost a twenty five million dollars exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And teams love using these because they can spread the
salary cap hit over a few years. It gives them flexibility.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So why was this specific bonus so vulnerable? How did
the guarantee structure give the forty nine ers the opening
to just take it away?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, the guarantee it had a time fuse on it.
This bonus was set to become fully one hundred percent
guaranteed on April first of this year, twenty twenty five. Okay,
So by acting before that day and citing that failure
to meet requirements, the team legally stopped the money from evervesting.
They pulled the rug out from under him before he
(02:33):
could stand on it.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Wow. So that's almost twenty five million dollars that the team
now doesn't have to pay. It vanishes from his future
earnings gone.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And it's based entirely on the team's interpretation of that
one phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not been meeting the requirements of that deal. I mean,
what does that actually mean? Is it about his performance
on the field? Is it about conduct?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And that is the absolute core of this entire dispute.
The power of that language is that it's intentionally vague.
It's not like a performance where you have to get
you know, a thousand yards or ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
East not at all.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Requirements of the deal can cover almost anything. Conduct clauses,
showing up to mandatory workouts, even just general team rules.
It's an escape route for everything except what happens between
the whistles.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So they don't have to prove he can't play anymore.
They just have to show he wasn't complying with some
internal rule, which is much much easier.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
To document, infinitely easier. And that just changes everything, doesn't it.
It immediately shifts the focus from his physical recovery to
his status within the organization.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So what's left for him now?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well, he's still technically scheduled to get a base salary
about one point two million dollars plus some workout bonuses,
but the sources are crystal clear. With the big guarantee gone,
this action clears the way for the Niners to part
ways with him soon.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Maximum financial flexibility, it is the name of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And now we have to put all of this financial
maneuvering against the backdrop of the injury itself, which was
just catastrophic.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It was. It really was a devastating moment in that
twenty twenty four season. Yeah, it was a Week seven
game against the Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yep, he tours ACL his MCL and his moliscus all
on his right knee. That I mean that trifecta is
one of the worst injuries an athletes can suffer.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The recovery is incredibly long and complex, and since then
he hasn't been back. Reports are now saying it's increasingly
possible he won't play at all in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And this is where you start to see this huge
gap between what the coaches were saying publicly and what
the medical reality was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right because coach Kyle Shanian was sounding pretty optimistic for
a while. He'd hoped Ayuke would be back to practice
around week seven of.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
This season, and even later he kept saying he was
weak to week just waiting for Ayuk to feel fully comfortable.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That sounds like a coach being supportive, but the source
says something very.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Different, very different. The reality is Ayuk has still not
been cleared to return to practice. This isn't about him
being comfortable or not. He hasn't gotten the green light
from the doctors.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So fully comfortable versus not medically cleared, that's a huge difference.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's a massive gap, and that's the space where the
team operates and manages leverage. They're controlling the clock. It
makes you wonder why say you're hopeful for a return
when you know the medical staff hasn't signed off.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It keeps him on the books, but without any real commitment.
Let's talk about the logistics of his status too. He's
on the pup list physically unable to perform. What does
that mean for the team?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So being on PUP instead of IR injured reserve is
a really key strategic move. If a player is on IR,
you only get to bring back a certain number of
guys during the season. Right now, it's eight, okay, But
since iyuk is on PUP, the team could open his
twenty one day practice window for an evaluation and it
(05:47):
wouldn't count against that limit of eight players.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So they can take a look at him without burning
one of their valuable IR return spots.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Exactly, they're being careful with the roster. But you know,
absolutely ruthless what the contract, which.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Brings us right back to the voided guarantee. The team
used a powerful clause that had nothing to do with
his knee. It was about his standing in the organization. Yep,
this tells us the relationship with sour long before he
got hurt. That voided guarantee did not happen in a vacuum,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The team's frustration. This whole idea of him not meeting requirements,
it goes all the way back to his contract negotiations.
He's sign that huge deal four years, one hundred and
twenty million dollars, but only after this really ugly public
standoff that lasted for months.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And during that whole time they were trying to get.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Rid of him, they were actively on the phone. Sources say.
Just before he signed, he was nearly traded at different
stages to multiple teams. The names that keep coming up
are the Browns, the Patriots, and the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So they were looking for an exit ramp even before
they committed all that money.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They were, and the friction didn't stop once he signed
the deal. It wasn't suddenly all good, No.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And there's that one anecdote that seems to perfectly illustrate
this requirements of the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh the shorts incident.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Soon after he signed, there was this public disagreement on
the practice field. Coach Shanahan called him out in front
of everyone, told him to change his red practice shorts
to the black ones. The rest of the team was wearing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
It seems so small, so petty, but in.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
This context, in this context, it's everything. A public dressing
down over something like practice attire. That's the exact kind
of thing an organization documents when they want to build
a case for non compliance.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
It becomes evidence they were building a paper trail, maybe intentionally,
maybe not. Yeah, but it gave them the justification they
needed later on.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It proves the conflict was behavioral, not just about money.
And you could see it in his play early in
that twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
He definitely struggled after missing all of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
He did. He struggled through the first four games. But then,
and this is the really cruel part, he finally seemed
to be hitting his stride.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That Week five game against the Cardinals just exploded.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Eight catches, one hundred and forty seven yards. He was
looking like the guy they paid him to be. And
that was just two weeks before the injury against the
Chiefs ended his season.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And here's the kicker from the source material, the real
strategic insight. Had Iik stayed healthy, yeah, the forty nine
ers were hoping to trade him in the twenty twenty
five offseason anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
That's the missing piece. The injury didn't create the desire
to move on, It just destroyed their preferred way of
doing it, which was a.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Trade because now nobody would touch him.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Who would With that injury and that massive contract, The
trade market never materialized. It was a non starter. So
if they couldn't trade him, they had to find another
way out, and that other.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Way was voiding the guarantee. It's a clean, if incredibly
aggressive financial break.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's an institutional self defense mechanism. The discords started early,
the injury made it toxic, and the contract gave them
the lever they needed to pull.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So let's bring this to the present day. What are
the tangible signs we're seeing of this separation.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, the signs are subtle, but they're definitely there. IUK
has gotten some public praise from the receiver's code, which
for you know, helping out the other players attending his
rehab sessions, so he's doing the bare.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Minimum, but his actual visibility is basically zero exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Reports say he hasn't been seen at any part of
practice that's open to the media for weeks, having been
in the locker room when reporters are there. It's a quiet,
managed withdraw. It's what teams do when a breakup is coming.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And the ultimate sign, of course, is the action itself.
Shanahan's public confidence from early November saying he was pretty
confident IYU could at least practice again, that's all been
replaced by this final contractual blow.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Actions speak louder than coach speak. Voiding that twenty five
million dollars gives the team total control. He goes from
being this massive, expensive, injured asset to a manageable piece
they can cut without penalty. It's all about asset management.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Okay, so let's tie this all together. For everyone listening,
the big takeaway here is that this wasn't just about
an injury. That's not the whole story.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Not even close. This was the final move in a
long game. It was the resolution to a deep organizational
conflict that was simmering for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And it really highlights a crucial lesson about these NFL contracts.
Guaranteed does not always mean guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Especially when it's tied to future vesting dates. The team
used a clause based on vague organizational rules, not medical status,
to protect themselves financially. The discord gave them the ammunition,
and the injury just provided the opportunity to use it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
This feels like a huge precedent. We're always talking about
players fighting for fully guaranteed deals, and this just shows
how much power the team still hold in the fine print.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It absolutely does, and that brings us to the final
thought we want to leave you with. As fully guaranteed
contracts do become more common, how are teams going to
enforce these ambiguous clauses. These meeting the requirements of the
deal phrizes, especially against players in the middle of a grueling,
long term rehab. Does a player's recovery now become a
(10:56):
test of their institutional loyalty? And what does that mean
for players, for health and for every contract negotiation moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That is the complex line teams are walking now, balancing
the balance sheet with the locker room. We'll leave that
thought with you. Thanks for joining us for the deep dive.
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The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.