Jimmy Garoppolo Will Not Attend the 49ers Offseason Training Program

He doesn't want to be here anymore.

Grant Cohn | Apr 19, 2022

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The 49ers offseason training program starts today, and Jimmy Garoppolo will not be there.

Garoppolo still is rehabbing his surgically-repaired throwing shoulder away from the 49ers' facility and, according to the NFL Network, will not be in Santa Clara when the rest of his teammates report to the offseason training program.

Good.

Garoppolo should never step in the 49ers facility again. It's Trey Lance's team now. That's why the 49ers have been trying to trade Garoppolo all offseason. That's why the 49ers have been giving Lance "private indications" that he will be the starting quarterback this year. That's why Jimmy Garoppolo said goodbye to reporters at the end of last season.

He doesn't want to be here anymore.

If he wanted to be here, he would show up even during rehab, not to go on the field, but just to show his leadership. But he's not the leader of this team anymore, because they don't want him and he doesn't want them.

Garoppolo's mere presence in the facility would be a distraction, and it would prevent Lance from becoming the leader of the team. Good for Garoppolo for staying away. At least he's decisive, unlike the 49ers, who still don't know what to do with him.

Garoppolo probably will stay away through OTAs and minicamp while he finishes his rehab. Then he'll pass a physical and need to return. At that point, it will be on the 49ers to do the right thing and let him go.

What will they do?

Published Apr 19, 2022

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.