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49ers GM John Lynch Won't Say if Trent Williams Has Threatened Retirement

"I've always said that personal conversations and things like that aren't ever going to get told to everyone."

Grant Cohn

Feb 8, 2024; Las Vegas, NV, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) during a press conference before Super Bowl LVIII at Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 8, 2024; Las Vegas, NV, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) during a press conference before Super Bowl LVIII at Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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SANTA. CLARA -- John Lynch was asked about 49ers left tackle Trent Williams on Wednesday. Here's what Lynch said courtesy of the 49ers p.r. department.

Q: Is there anything new with the T Trent Williams situation?

LYNCH: “No, there's no updates there. There's good communication. We're constantly working, throwing out ideas to try to have a breakthrough and it just hasn't happened yet.”

Q: Going back to Trent Williams, has he threatened to retire at any point in this?

LYNCH: “I'm not getting into, I've always said that personal conversations and things like that aren't ever going to get told to everyone. Those are private conversations. So, I won't get into private conversations that Trent and I, and Trent and our organization have had.”

ME: It seems like you saw this standoff with Brandon Aiyuk coming a few months ago. Did the Trent Williams situation surprise you?

LYNCH: “I don't know that I saw the standoff with Brandon. I saw a situation that we were going to have to deal with and man, we've been trying for a long time. We don't get paid to try. We get paid to do. And I'll take accountability for anything that hasn't happened. But I won't stop continuing to fight to find the best resolution, whatever that may be. The Trent situation, things come up. And this has come up. Trent is a fantastic player. He's a tremendous leader on this team. I will never fall short on my praise of Trent and what he's meant to this place. It was a great day, when I got that call from [former NFL head coach Ron] Rivera saying that they would do that trade. He's been incredible since he's been here. We value Trent, we love Trent, we want Trent here. And I'm hopeful that can happen soon.”

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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