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Mike McGlinchey Appears to Have Lost Significant Weight

McGlinchey had to rehabilitate for months before he could resume weight lifting, so he probably experienced significant muscle atrophy.
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Mike McGlinchey Appears to Have Lost Significant Weight
Mike McGlinchey Appears to Have Lost Significant Weight

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The 49ers still haven't said when they expect Mike McGlinchey to return from the quad tear he suffered last season. But from the looks of his latest picture on Instagram, it could take him a while to make it all the way back to the starting lineup.

McGlinchey currently looks like a 250-pound tight end, not a 310-pound offensive tackle. Which is alarming, because McGlinchey has had issues putting on and keeping on weight throughout his career. In 2020, his weight dropped to 285 pounds during the season, and regularly got knocked over by defensive ends and even defensive backs.

So in 2021, McGlinchey worked hard to bulk back up to 310 pounds, as he acknowledged he was too light and too weak the season prior. But eight games into 2021, he tore his quad completely off the bone -- an extremely serious injury. It can end an athlete's career.

McGlinchey had to rehabilitate for months before he could resume weight lifting, so he probably experienced significant muscle atrophy in his legs. And he didn't have the strongest legs before this injury. 

How long will it take him to regain the strength he used to have?

To be fair, the season starts in five months, so McGlinchey has lots of time to lift and eat and prepare himself for the season opener. But it's starting to look like he won't be ready Week 1. It's starting to look like his recovery could drag into the season.

Frankly, he looks closer to retirement than a return to the field.

Hopefully that's just an optical illusion.

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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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