San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stressed how injured wide receiver Jauan Jennings has been this season:
Jauan’s been really hurt all year. I think he’s getting better. I think last week was a step in the right direction. Hopefully, he’ll be better this week. But Jauan’s been compromised on a lot of things.
Jennings deserves credit for suiting up and battling through multiple injuries.
Earlier on Wednesday, ESPN floated Jennings’ name out there as a potential trade candidate. Shanahan was asked if there was any possibility that Jennings could get traded before the deadline, to which Shanahan responded firmly, “I’d be very surprised if Jauan wasn’t on our team throughout this year.”
Coachspeak? Maybe. It’s not as if the 49ers are in a position to deal a player as valuable to them as Jennings is, especially with Brandon Aiyuk and Ricky Pearsall still not practicing.
Jennings no longer has an Instagram account. If these are the types of things you like to track:
Perhaps Jennings knew he’d say something that would get him in trouble, so he was proactive and deleted his social media accounts. Who knows?
Trading the wide receiver who just led your team in targets the week before, without any readily available replacements, seems foolish. It is one game, though. Jennings could play Sunday, get dealt within a couple of days, and Aiyuk and Pearsall return to practice. That feels like a dream scenario with some fool’s gold sprinkled in there.
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