Kendrick Bourne Tests Positive for COVID

The 49ers supposedly have a game Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers. But that game might not happen, because 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne tested positive for Covid, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Grant Cohn | Nov 4, 2020

The 49ers supposedly have a game Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers.

But that game might not happen, because 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne tested positive for Covid, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Schefter reports the 49ers have shut down their facility for the day and are doing contract tracing on everyone in the building. So if there's an outbreak, the NFL might have to reschedule the game. If there's no outbreak and Bourne is the only person who tested positive, the game may go on.

Here is an official statement from the 49ers: "The San Francisco 49ers were informed today that a player has tested positive for COVID-19 and the individual immediately went into self-quarantine. Our organization has entered the NFL's intensive protocol and we are working with the league on contact tracing to identify high risk individuals. All team functions will be conducted virtually today.

"The health and safety of our players, staff and community are the organization’s highest priority. We will continue to work closely with the NFL and medical professionals and will follow their direction."

Assuming Bourne won't play Thursday night but the rest of the 49ers will, their starting wide receivers will be rookie Brandon Aiyuk and slot receiver Trent Taylor. Those are the only healthy wide receivers on the roster. On Tuesday, the 49ers released former second-round pick Dante Pettis.

Meaning the 49ers might have to sign a wide receiver. They can't trade for one, because the trade deadline passed on Tuesday.

Stay tuned for more information as this story develops.

Published Nov 4, 2020

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.