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Kyle Shanahan: Trent Williams Hasn't Been Around 49ers in Weeks

We'll see if he shows up for minicamp.
Grant Cohn|
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) warms up before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) warms up before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images | Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images

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The 49ers had their first practice of the offseason in front of the media on Thursday and Trent Williams wasn't there.

He wasn't on the field. He wasn't on the sideline. He wasn't in the weight room. He might not have been in California for all we know.

On Thursday, head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked if Williams has been present for any of the offseason program so far.

“Yeah, he's been around," Shanahan said. "He was here at the beginning of Phase One, hasn't been here in a couple weeks, but expect to see him soon.”

It sounds like Williams showed up for one day, went to one or two meetings and hasn't been back since. You'd think a player such as Williams who just got a new deal from the 49ers last offseason would show up and be a leader. He wouldn't even have to practice. Just be there and show the young players that OTAs matter even to a future Hall of Famer.

To be fair, OTAs are voluntary. But the 49ers are coming off a 6-11 season and the rest of the veterans felt it was important to show up to OTAs and start the offseason on the right foot. That's why Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Fred Warner and Christian McCaffrey all showed up when they didn't have to.

When Shanahan said he expects to see Williams soon, I assume he's referring to mandatory minicamp. Williams will get fined if he skips that in two weeks.

We'll see if he shows up.

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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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