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Kyle Shanahan Wants to Help 49ers WR Jauan Jennings Break 1,000 Yards

Jennings is having the best season of his career. And with one game remaining, he's just 77 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard season in the NFL or in college.

Grant Cohn

Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) and Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold (0) get tangled after a play during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) and Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold (0) get tangled after a play during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- The final game of the season may mean nothing to the 49ers, but it certainly means something to Jauan Jennings.

Jennings is having the best season of his career. And with one game remaining, he's just 77 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard season in the NFL or in college.

We're talking about a guy who caught just 19 passes last season. What a remarkable year he's having.

On Wednesday, head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked if he's aware of how many yards Jennings needs to crack 1,000.

"Yeah, 77," Shanahan said with a smile. "I'll keep that down. I’m sure Jauan will tell me too. But yeah, you always want to do that stuff for guys, especially in a situation where you can think about it. It's insulting to think about it just to the situation everyone, if you're competing for a playoff spot or something like that, but always. I would love to help that out for guys. You’ve got to be somewhat careful of it. I remember last year watching the Rams trying to get Puka Nacua the record, which I know they wanted to get him in and out. So we were doing everything we could to deny him the ball. I remember he came to the sidelines on like a one-yard gain and I told him, I was like, ‘Yeah, Sean McVay's going to have to play you to the end of this game because we're not giving you your record.' And he just laughed and I laughed at it. We're not playing the next week, so I'd love to help guys do that."

I like Shanahan's answer. Jennings deserves the opportunity to reach a career milestone. He has been one of the 49ers' hardest workers since OTAs. I hope he reaches his goal.

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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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