{"id":696445,"date":"2026-01-22T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:16:19","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-head-coach-kyle-shanahan-has-aged-25-years-in-just-nine-seasons-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/696445\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan has aged 25 years in just nine seasons | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"San(Image via Getty: Kyle Shanahan) Sports media personality Dov Kleiman recently shared footage of San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan\u2019s first press conference from the 2017 NFL Combine. Kleiman then placed the coach\u2019s current photo [from 2025 season] next to it.The NFL aggregator captioned it: \u201c\ud835\udde7\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd7\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: 49ers HC Kyle Shanahan has gone viral with fans SHOCKED at how different he looks from his first press conference at the NFL combine compared to now. He literally looks like a completely different person. Kyle has aged 25 years in just nine seasons. [three exploding head emojis].\u201d <\/p>\n

Kyle Shanahan before and after experiencing the EM field at the Niners practice facility<\/p>\n

Nine seasons are nine long years. It is not nine days, weeks, or months, but years. Almost a decade. After nearly 10 years, facial aging begins to show: prominent wrinkles, sagging skin, loss of volume at the cheeks, thin skin, dryness, bone changes, and eventual loss of a youthful look.In 2017, Shanahan was 38 years old. In 2026, he will be 47 in Dec. From 38 to 47 is a span of 9 years, and certain facial changes are bound to appear. However, some cybercitizens say otherwise. They blame the substation next to Levi\u2019s Stadium, claiming electromagnetic field from a nearby substate is somehow causing the aging effect on the head coach.\u201cAll those practices next to that power plant will do that to ya,\u201d said one X user. Another speculated, \u201cProbably that massive substation.\u201d A third urged, \u201cThey really need to move that substation.\u201d A fourth said, \u201cYou would too if you worked next to that power station.\u201d A fifth user captioned: \u201cKyle Shanahan before and after experiencing the low-frequency electromagnetic field at the Niners practice facility\u201d and shared images of Ian McDiarmid as Sheev Palpatine and his alter ego, Darth Sidious from Star Wars.<\/p>\n

Brutal reality of being an NFL head coach<\/p>\n

One user blamed it on the head coach\u2019s position and thanked X\u2019s AI Grok for the answer, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s ruff, take care of your body and mind yall \u2018Shanahan’s visible aging is far more plausibly explained by the brutal reality of being an NFL head coach: high stress, long hours, playoff disappointments, roster pressures, and the general toll of the job\u2019 Thanks Grok.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pressure is showing on face<\/p>\n

Another wrote, \u201cThis is what happens when you play in the NFC west.\u201d A third user expressed, \u201cThats what happens when half your roster is injured year after year.\u201d A fourth user said, \u201cPressure is showing on his face,\u201d while another called it \u201cThe Brandon Aiyuk effect.\u201d There have been contract disputes with the 27-year-old wide receiver. Finally, a user declared, \u201cHe [Kyle Shanahan]\u2019s almost 50 years old. He looks exactly his age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image via Getty: Kyle Shanahan) Sports media personality Dov Kleiman recently shared footage of San Francisco 49ers head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,101607,101604,7,2812,101606,6,927,20626,101605,1161,252,2624,2623,203,101608],"class_list":["post-696445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-49ers","tag-49ers","tag-9-seasons-aging","tag-facial-aging","tag-football","tag-kyle-shanahan","tag-low-frequency-electromagnetic-fields","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-combine","tag-nfl-head-coach","tag-pressure-effects","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfrancisco49ers","tag-sports-media","tag-star-wars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115939179746208629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}