collided with an SUV<\/a> in Palo Alto, Calif., resulting in Shanahan suffering a concussion and fractures to his nose, ribs and hand. The driver of the SUV was not injured. The Niners released a statement about the incident 11 days later, ahead of the start of training camp. Simms, who co-hosts \u201cPFT Live\u201d with Mike Florio, said he had been waiting for the news to break in the days following Shanahan\u2019s accident.<\/p>\nHow Fred Warner is preparing to bounce back from injury<\/p>\n
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\u201cI get a text from Kyle\u2019s wife, Mandy. She texts myself and my wife, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh no, Kyle\u2019s been a part of some horrible accident,\u2019\u201d Simms said. \u201cAnd she sent us some pictures right off the bat, and it was like, \u2018Oh my gosh.\u2019 So just to \u2026 paint the picture, you\u2019ve seen the injury report, the broken ribs, 40 stitches in the face, the broken nose, broken left hand. Of course, the bad concussion. But when you first see it, and it\u2019s fresh, and some of the cuts are still wide open, I mean, it\u2019s jarring.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was this close to maybe losing his right eye, right? The scar is so big right here. And so, all that stuff was just crazy to see. And, of course, I was thinking of my friend, but yeah, it\u2019s tough. And he\u2019s still battling with this concussion. \u2026 He\u2019s healing. His face looks a whole lot better, but this concussion, of course, being a part of that kind of accident, is lingering, and it\u2019s giving him issues, and he\u2019s certainly still dealing with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simms said he believed Shanahan, 46, was on his way back from a chiropractic adjustment when the accident happened. After the collision, Shanahan was taken to a local hospital. No one has been cited in the accident, and drugs and alcohol are not believed to have been involved, according to a Palo Alto police report.<\/p>\n
Simms, who played quarterback at Texas while Shanahan was a receiver there, said his friend was shaken up by the severity of the accident and how it could have been worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think (Shanahan would) have any problem with me sharing this. It hit him hard, right? He was emotional about it, because he realized how close it was to being just a complete, you know, utter disaster. Like, really, it was a disaster anyways. But when you\u2019re that part of that accident, like I said, he could have lost his right eye. It could have been a lot worse,\u201d Simms said. \u201cHe\u2019s very concerned about the woman he got in the accident with and how she is and handling that situation. So there\u2019s just a lot there.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think it was a lot for him to process \u2026 at first, as well. And then, of course, with it being a few days before you\u2019ve got to start going to the office and worrying about football and everything else on top of it, where your break\u2019s ending and you\u2019re dealing with that as well, yeah, it was tough for him. It\u2019s tough for their family. Their kids were in shock, and you just realize how fragile life can be, and how it can all change in just one split-second. And thank God he\u2019s OK. But, yeah, he\u2019s gonna have to deal with this and hopefully get his mind cleared up here over the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Niners general manager John Lynch said the team would treat Shanahan\u2019s concussion as if he were a player who\u2019d suffered one. The head coach\u2019s participation will be limited at training camp, though he did make an appearance on the practice field for about 30 minutes on Sunday. Shanahan\u2019s longtime assistant Chris Foerster, whose title is assistant to head coach\/offensive line, will run training camp with an assist from defensive coordinator Raheem Morris and others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took a few days for him to realize, \u2018Whoa, I\u2019m not working the right way,’\u201d said Simms of Shanahan. \u201cYou know, at first, \u2018Yeah, I got in a car accident.\u2019 And, of course, you know you\u2019re going to be a little fuzzy and not normal. But then I feel like it got into somewhere like day six or seven, and you\u2019re starting to now (say), \u2018Hey, I should start feeling better. I should start thinking more clearly.\u2019 And I know he was a little alarmed about, like, \u2018I\u2019m not functioning at a high level.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Simms stressed the importance of Shanahan\u2019s recovery and his return to the field as the preseason ramps up. The 49ers open Week 1 on Thursday, Sept. 10 in Melbourne, Australia, against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these coaches are psychos in a good way,\u201d Simms said. \u201cShanahan is who he is because he has a high-functioning brain and he\u2019s got the ability to multitask and be creative and coach a team and be detailed and all of that, as well. I don\u2019t think it should be underestimated how big of a deal this is. This is like back to \u2018Deflategate\u2019 with Bill Belichick having to miss a few days of work getting ready for the Super Bowl. It\u2019s concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Simms, friend and former college teammate of San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, shared details on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,2248],"class_list":["post-307413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}