Shanahan increasingly confident 49ers to play 2020 season – NBC Sports Bay Area

Rookies, quarterbacks and injured gamers reported to Santa Clara on Thursday for the first round of coronavirus testing at the teams practice facility. After another round of testing on Sunday, those who had two negative tests will have the ability to report back to deal with Monday. The preliminary of testing for all other players is set up for July 28.

” Since weve been back in here and Ive seen our protocols and how they have this structure, it makes me genuinely believe we can pull this off,” Shanahan stated.

Shanahan stated throughout a look on the Chris Simms Unbuttoned podcast that he is amazed with the changes that have actually happened at the 49ers head office.

Because just recently returning to the groups practice center in Santa Clara, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan stated he is a lot more optimistic that the NFL season can occur.

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” What they have taken into this to permit us to practice, its astounding,” Shanahan stated.

Ben Peterson, the 49ers head of player health & & performance, in addition to Dustin Perry, the teams head strength and conditioning coach, have led the 49ers efforts to rearrange in preparation for the return of players, coaches and staff members throughout the pandemic.

The most significant unanswered concerns for Shanahan are the guidelines that will be set into place for training camp workouts. Each NFL is enabled to have a 90-man lineup during the offseason and training camp, however that number may shrink to 80 gamers for training school this year.

The teams practice center has actually gone through a great deal of changes created to suppress the spread of the virus. Shanahan stated many walls have been knocked down to enable greater social distancing inside meeting spaces.

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Even then, Shanahan stated he is not sure if 80 players will be needed for groups with no preseason video games this summer.

” Were kind of in limbo here as coaches,” Shanahan said. Now, I have actually got to get the rulebook by practice hours and things like that so we can set up a strategy.

” It will be different. Its totally going to be various. … (But) Im thrilled to attempt to pull it off. And Im so much more positive after getting in here and seeing how these structures are.”

Rookies, quarterbacks and hurt players reported to Santa Clara on Thursday for the first round of coronavirus screening at the teams practice facility. The first round of screening for all other players is scheduled for July 28.

” Were type of in limbo here as coaches,” Shanahan stated. “Our building is established to do this. Now, I have actually got to get the rulebook by practice hours and stuff like that so we can set up a strategy.