{"id":713151,"date":"2026-01-29T04:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:43:31","slug":"fred-warner-reveals-he-would-have-played-in-nfc-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713151\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Warner reveals he would have played in NFC title game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers fell short in their mission<\/a> to bring home a Vince Lombardi Trophy in the 2025 NFL season. They did not even reach the NFC Championship game. But if they did, San Francisco star linebacker Fred Warner<\/a> said that he would have seen action<\/a> in that contest to help the Niners against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have been out there in the NFC Championship putting the belt to the Rams, but that\u2019s all for next year,\u201d Warner told Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and former San Francisco wideout Equanimeous St. Brown in a recent appearance on the \u201cSt. Brown Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warner’s 2025 campaign was cut short by a serious right ankle injury that he suffered in the first quarter of a Week 6 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The four-time All-Pro linebacker had to undergo surgery to address his injury, leading many to believe that he would not see action for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

However, there was renewed hope for his availability in the NFL playoffs<\/a> when the 49ers opened his 21-day practice window after<\/a> San Francisco’s 23-19 win in the NFC Wild Card Round against the Philadelphia Eagles and before an NFC Divisional Round matchup against Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, the 49ers lost to the Seahawks in crushing fashion and to the tune of a 41-6 score, so Warner can focus now on getting healthier without any pressure to be available for a 2025 playoff game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers fell short in their mission to bring home a Vince Lombardi Trophy in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,592,6,30382,84,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-713151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-fred-warner","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-injury","13":"tag-nfl-playoffs","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115976562737592960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713151","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=713151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}