The San Francisco 49ers have put together a 9-4 record (and currently hold the sixth seed in the playoffs) through the first 14 weeks of the 2025 season despite having several key players miss significant time due to injuries.
Nick Bosa, Fred Warner, Ben Bartch and first-round pick Mykel Williams have all suffered season-ending injuries, while Brock Purdy, George Kittle and Ricky Pearsall all missed long stretches. Wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk, who suffered a torn ACL in Week 7 last year, hasn’t played at all.
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Again, despite all of this, the 49ers are 9-4 and are just one game out of the top spot in the NFC West with four games to go.
On Friday, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked if the 2025 team is the group that he’s been the most proud of, and he quickly shot that down.
“No,” Shanahan said with a laugh. “I mean, I’m proud of a lot of seasons. I was really proud of us having the second pick in the Draft in ’18, being a 4-12 team, starting 8-0, being the one seed and getting really close to winning a Super Bowl in ’19. I was really proud in ‘21, I think I might be wrong, where we had to win like five out of the last six games to get the seventh seed and get us all the way to the NFC Championship with a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter. I was proud of that. I was proud of our ‘23 team of getting down to our third-string quarterback and win seven in a row to get the two seed and to go to Philly and have a chance to go to the Super Bowl. I was really proud of our ‘23 team going to the Super Bowl. I’m really proud of this team this year.”
San Francisco has had some great years under Shanahan, and while this team may not reach the heights or peaks that others have, the players and coaches certainly deserve respect for whatever they’re able to accomplish.
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