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49ers Place Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel on Reserve/COVID-19 List

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49ers Place Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel on Reserve/COVID-19 List
49ers Place Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel on Reserve/COVID-19 List

Here we go.

First San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday morning. Now the 49ers have announced they've placed Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel on the Reserve/COVID-19 List as well. 

This doesn't mean Aiyuk, Williams and Samuel all have tested positive, but it does mean all three were in close contact with Bourne -- the 49ers practiced Tuesday evening. None of those four will be allowed to play Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers.

And yes, for now, the game is still on, according to the NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.

Perhaps if more 49ers test positive on Thursday, the NFL will have no choice but to postpone the game. And at this point, the 49ers should hope the league postpones it. Because if the game goes on, the 49ers will have to play without Bourne, Samuel, Williams, Aiyuk, George Kittle, Raheem Mostert, Tevin Coleman and Jimmy Garoppolo.

None of the 49ers' top-three wide receivers will play. Meaning their starting receivers could be Trent Taylor and Richie James Jr., with River Cracraft as Kevin White as the backups. Not good.

Meanwhile, the Packers could be without their top-three running backs. So we could have a game in which one team can't run the ball and the other team can't pass it. Sounds like the must-watch prime-time television.

It seems it would be in the NFL's interest to postpone this game instead of airing such a compromised prospect on national television. But what do I know?

Stay tuned. This story isn't over. 

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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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