49ers GM quells buzz around electrical substation theory

San Francisco 49ers wide manager John Lynch did his champion to unopen down the buzz astir the mentation that an electrical substation adjacent Levi’s Stadium could beryllium the catalyst for the spate of injuries that squad has suffered implicit the past fewer years.

The mentation popped up connected societal media during the 2025 season, though the 49ers person played astatine Levi’s Stadium since 2014 and utilized the signifier installation that is besides adjacent the substation since 1989.

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San Francisco 49ers wide manager John Lynch speaks astatine the NFL Scouting Combine astatine the Indiana Convention Center connected Feb. 24, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

49ers prima George Kittle said successful February helium didn’t judge the rumors were true, but besides wanted a definitive answer.

Lynch provided 1 Sunday arsenic NFL owners began to conscionable successful Phoenix, Arizona. He said the enactment had a idiosyncratic travel to the installation to spot if determination was thing awry.

"It fundamentally was a large thing burger," Lynch told reporters, via ESPN. "We're successful a harmless spot of work. ... It's a mean spot of work. It's a mean gym. We are safe, we're healthy, and we consciousness truly bully astir that.

San Francisco 49ers choky extremity George Kittle (85) is carted disconnected the tract aft an wounded during the 2nd 4th against the Philadelphia Eagles successful an NFC Wild Card Round crippled astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)

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"That was important to us, not conscionable to crook a unsighted eye, but to look into it due to the fact that it's our players' wellness. It's not lone our players' wellness, it's coaches, it's staff, each that. And it's encouraging."

According to the 49ers, the idiosyncratic learned that players and unit were being exposed to an electromagnetic situation akin to that of a gym oregon mean workplace.

Still, the wounded bug is thing that the 49ers volition person to fig retired arsenic the seasons spell on.

General Manager and President of Football Operations, John Lynch watches players enactment retired during the school's NFL shot pro day, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, successful Athens, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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San Francisco was 12-5 successful 2025, but players similar Kittle, Brock Purdy, Ricky Pearsall and Mykell Williams each missed respective games with injuries.

For now, it appears the substation mentation has been unopen down.

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