Daejon Labrayae Love did not just tell women he played for the San Francisco 49ers. He recorded the pitch.
Two videos he sent to women lay out the same story federal prosecutors say he used to help extract about $1.3 million from at least 26 women across California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Love, 35, and alleged accomplice Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, were arrested Aug. 24 at the Boise, Idaho, airport and charged in Oregon with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The 49ers and the NFL have told investigators Love was never employed by either organization. Court filings say Love’s financial records showed no identifiable legitimate income and no payroll from the team. The videos tell a different story.
In the first clip, Love presents himself as an established NFL wide receiver who chose San Francisco after a bidding war.
According to the video and a matching description in the FBI affidavit, Love claimed:
- He was born in Switzerland and came from money.
- He was close friends with Tyreek Hill, Antonio Brown and John Brown.
- He trained with those players in the offseason “wherever they are on the planet.”
- That access produced tryout invitations from the Raiders, Seahawks, Bills and Ravens.
- San Francisco “offered me the most money” and was the team that chases Super Bowls every year.
- His signing bonus was already paid.
- He attended team meetings, practices and home games.
Prosecutors say that package was the core of the 49ers persona. The affidavit states Love claimed friendships with Hill, Antonio Brown and John Brown and used those names to explain how he supposedly received NFL tryouts. It also says he told women San Francisco “offered me the most money,” that he had received a signing bonus, and that he attended team meetings and workouts.
None of it checks out against the league or the team. There is no record of Love on a 49ers roster, practice squad or official transaction list. Name-dropping current and former NFL players does not create a contract. An undrafted player who “chose” San Francisco over four other franchises would leave a paper trail: a deal, a bonus check, a playbook, a locker. Investigators say they found none of that.
A separate OutKick video from late 2024 shows Love staging what he presented as a contract signing and answering “Niners, you already know, Niner gang.” He has also been captured pointing to a Google search snippet as proof he was a 49ers receiver — “That’s Google. That’s not me, that’s Google” — then citing an injury to explain why he was not on the field.
That is not how NFL employment works. Rosters are public. Paychecks are traceable. Google is not a contract.
The second video is the wealth tour.
Love walks through what he presents as his life and, according to the circulating clip and court filings, claimed ownership or control of:
- A $15 million Malibu beach house
- A $20 million Beverly Hills home
- A Miami beach house
- A penthouse on Billionaire’s Row in Manhattan
- Nearly $1 million in car keys, including a Lamborghini, Corvette ZR1, Hellcat Redeye and Mercedes-AMG
- High-end jewelry, including a Richard Mille watch he tied to a price in the $286,000 to $300,000 range
- A lifestyle that required multiple bodyguards and a personal chef
The FBI affidavit describes the same pattern in videos Love stored in iCloud and shared roughly 185 times, including with alleged victims. In one, he claimed his family was among the richest in Switzerland, that he was vice president of international affairs for his father’s company, and that the family was the majority shareholder of three Gucci stores in the United States. He said that wealth paid for three bodyguards and a personal chef. In another clip, he gave a tour of a residence he called his own, displayed designer clothes and bags, a safe he said held about $200,000 in cash, a watch he presented as a genuine Richard Mille, then pulled up a phone screen showing a combined balance of more than $30 million.
Prosecutors say those balances were fiction. They allege Love used apps that let users fake account totals and, in at least one instance, showed women the demo version of a trading platform as if it were live money. They also allege he and Chan created fake investment documents and three-way FaceTime calls to make the returns look real.
Reporting around the case has described a different logistics picture: expensive Airbnbs dressed up as homes, empty luxury luggage used as set dressing, and at least one encounter in which Love left in a Honda Civic after presenting a high-end lifestyle. The affidavit says investigators found no legitimate income stream that would support Malibu, Beverly Hills, Miami and Manhattan real estate at the prices he quoted.
An undrafted “49ers” receiver does not quietly own a $15 million Malibu house, a $20 million Beverly Hills property and a Billionaire’s Row penthouse. Those assets leave records. The videos do not.
Why the videos mattered to the alleged scheme
Federal prosecutors say the clips were not entertainment. They were proof of life. Love met most of the identified women on dating apps, then used the 49ers story or a Swiss real-estate-heir story to establish trust. Chan allegedly posed as his financial adviser. The pitch, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, was that Love was in a real relationship with them, that he was already rich, and that Chan had helped him grow a fortune worth tens of millions of dollars.
Once the image was set, the ask followed: send money for investments that prosecutors say did not exist. Some women were allegedly told to take out personal loans. Of the victims identified and interviewed, prosecutors say none reported receiving returns or legitimate account information after sending funds.
The two videos now circulating are the sales tape. Video 1 builds the football identity. Video 2 builds the balance sheet. Together they explain how a man with no NFL job and no documented fortune spent years telling women he had both.
Love and Chan remain in federal custody. The FBI has said it believes there are more victims beyond the 26 already identified.
