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49ers HC Kyle Shanahan Chews Out Brandon Aiyuk for Wearing Red Shorts

"I wish I could wear different shorts," Shanahan said with a grin after practice.

Grant Cohn

Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) enters the field before a game against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) enters the field before a game against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images / David Gonzales-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- This was bizarre.

The 49ers had their weekly Friday walkthrough this afternoon, which means the players wear shorts. It's a casual day. Call it Casual Friday.

Apparently, Brandon Aiyuk was a little too casual. He wore red shorts to practice while everyone else wore black shorts. This bothered head coach Kyle Shanahan, who walked over to Aiyuk and appeared to chew him out for breaking the dress code. Chewed him out in front of all the players and the coaches.

After a couple minutes, Shanahan walked away from Aiyuk, who threw a mini tantrum before taking off his red shorts, kicking them aside and changing into black shorts on the field. I guess he brought them with him just in case. He knew he was breaking the rules.

"I wish I could wear different shorts," Shanahan said with a grin after practice.

Clearly, Aiyuk felt Shanahan was being petty while Shanahan felt Aiyuk was setting himself apart from the team. In this case, I'm on Shanahan's side. Aiyuk absolutely set himself apart from the team by wearing red shorts just as he did all offseason when he held out of training camp and fought for a new contract. Now that he has it, he should be a model teammate and professional, not a player who's looking to cut corners. Especially after his underwhelming start to the season.

We're only three games into the season, but it's looking like the 49ers made a big mistake paying Aiyuk $30 million per season.

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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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