{"id":405672,"date":"2026-01-14T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:36:08","slug":"49ers-open-fred-warners-practice-window-hope-he-can-play-in-nfc-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405672\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers open Fred Warner&#8217;s practice window, hope he can play in NFC Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the 49ers get to the NFC Championship Game, linebacker Fred Warner could be on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers opened Warner\u2019s practice window, and he is participating in the team\u2019s walk-through practice today.<\/p>\n<p>Warner won\u2019t play on Saturday against the Seahawks, but if the 49ers win, coach Kyle Shanahan says they\u2019re hopeful he can be ready to play for the NFC Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Warner dislocated and fractured his right ankle in Week Six, and at the time it was described as a season-ending injury. But Warner has worked hard in his rehab, and the 49ers have said he is healing faster than the medical staff expected.<\/p>\n<p>Warner says that if it were up to him, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/fred-warner-im-ready-to-return-whenever-49ers-are-ready-for-me-to-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he would play this week<\/a>. The 49ers are being a little more cautious than that, but if they win on Saturday, it sounds like there\u2019s a good chance he\u2019ll be on the field eight days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the 49ers get to the NFC Championship Game, linebacker Fred Warner could be on the field. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-405672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}