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49ers WR Deebo Samuel is in the Hospital with Pneumonia

This is scary.

Grant Cohn

Sep 15, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) looks on before the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
Sep 15, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. (1) looks on before the game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images / Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images
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This is scary.

Deebo Samuel missed most of the 49ers' 28-18 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs with an illness that technically is pneumonia according to head coach Kyle Shanahan. Which means Samuel has fluid in his lungs, he's in the hospital and there currently is no timeline for his return.

"He's in the hospital still and we'll see how he recovers here over these next couple days," Shanahan said Monday on a conference call.

It sounds like Samuel has a chance to play Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys, but it's unclear how good his chances are. Even in the healthiest young men, pneumonia can take a week or two to go away and symptoms can linger for a month or longer.

The 49ers currently are decimated at wide receiver. In addition to Samuel's illness, Brandon Aiyuk is out for the season with a torn ACL and MCL, Jauan Jennings is out with a hip injury that could sideline him against the Cowboys and Chris Conley is day to day with a sprained ankle. Meaning the 49ers' healthy wide receivers are Ricky Pearsall, Ronnie Bell and Jacob Cowing. Yikes.

Samuel, 28, has 20 catches for 335 receiving yards in six games this season. He missed Week 3 with a calf injury and was limited last week in practice with a wrist injury. He's under contract through 2025 and the 49ers probably need to keep him considering Aiyuk probably will miss the beginning of next season.

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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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