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49ers Player Tests Positive for Covid

The player-led workouts have been a disaster.

Grant Cohn

Shut it all down.

The 49ers' player-led workouts in Nashville have been a complete disaster. First Deebo Samuel broke his foot. Now an unnamed player has tested positive for Covid, according to the NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.

Garafolo reports the rest of the group in Nashville will get tested, too. The rest of the group includes Jimmy Garoppolo, George Kittle Kyle Juszczyk, Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor, Dante Pettis, Jalen Hurd, Brandon Aiyuk, Jauan Jennings, Nick Mullens, Charlie Woerner, C.J. Beathard, Broc Rutter.

Basically most of the offense minus the offensive linemen.

What a disaster.

At least this happened now, and not closer to the season. Meaning whoever tests positive for Covid has more than enough time to recover and play football during the regular season.

But this makes you wonder how training camp will work. If the 49ers couldn't prevent the spread of Covid during a relatively small, informal workout session, how will they prevent the spread during training camp when 90 players bang into each other on the field, share lockers and shower together daily? Good luck.

And if a cluster a players tests positive during training camp, how many will the team have to quarantine? Teams could lose dozens of players at a time for weeks.

This news is unsettling and disheartening. It shows just how difficult it will be for any sports league to operate during this pandemic. I hope whichever 49ers player has this virus will be OK.

Stay tuned for more news as it breaks and we learn which player or players tested positive.

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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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