Michael Crabtree to Raiders: Latest Contract Details, Comments and Reaction

After six seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, wide receiver Michael Crabtree was lured by the temptations of free agency and ultimately decided to leave the team, signing with the Oakland Raiders.

The team announced the news late Monday night:

The deal is for one year and $3 million, with an additional $2 million in incentives, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The receiver earlier had confirmed the news on Twitter: 

Crabtree is coming off of one of his poorer seasons, as he caught just 68 passes for 698 yards and four touchdowns. His 10.3 yards per reception were a career low, and he hauled in only 63 percent of his 108 targets.

ESPN's Bill Williamson detailed how the Crabtree signing will impact the Raiders: 

It perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise that Crabtree decided to part ways with the Niners. In early February, he removed "Now a 49er!” from his Twitter bio, while the 49ers have made no secret of wanting to be a running team under new coach Jim Tomsula, which likely made them unwilling to pay as much as Crabtree could command on the open market.

Crabtree seemed to anticipate all of this, making sure he left on good terms with the 49ers faithful.

"I love the fans," he told Taylor Price of 49ers.com after Jim Harbaugh and the franchise parted ways in late December. "The 49er fans are probably the best thing that’s happened to me, from the good times and the bad times. To the die-hard 49ers fans, I love y'all."

While Crabtree's last two seasons in San Francisco were a disappointment (a torn Achilles limited him to five games in 2013), Oakland will be hoping it signed the receiver who caught 85 balls for 1,105 yards and nine touchdowns in 2012 and looked like a true No. 1 option in the passing game.

That was the player San Francisco drafted him to be when it selected him No. 10 overall in the 2009 NFL draft. That's the player the Raiders have banked a fair amount of money on him becoming once again.