49ers cancel joint practice with Saints ahead of preseason clash
49ers cancel joint practice with Saints ahead of preseason clash originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The 49ers will not practice with the New Orleans Saints ahead of the two teams’ NFL preseason Week 2 clash next Sunday at Levi’s Stadium.
San Francisco was scheduled to travel to Southern California for joint practices with the Saints on Thursday and Friday at New Orleans‘ UC Irvine training site, but both teams mutually agreed on Sunday to cancel the practices.
The reason for the change of plans is due to the 49ers’ injury concerns, ESPN’s Nick Wagoner reported Sunday, citing a source.
#49ers are canceling joint practices with the Saints in Irvine this week. Team is banged up and the concern is they won’t have the bodies to do the sessions right, per source.
Niners will remain in Santa Clara for practice this week leading into preseason game against the…
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) August 11, 2024
In speaking to reporters after the 49ers’ 17-13 preseason loss to the Tennessee Titans on Saturday at Nissan Stadium, coach Kyle Shanahan alluded to the team’s health concerns heading into the joint practices with the Saints.
“It’s awesome to get a chance to scrimmage against people,” Shanahan said. “We’re a little banged up. So, we’ve got to figure out how we can pull that off and stuff like that. It seems like losing Ambry [Thomas] will be tough. Hope a number of other things don’t pop up tomorrow, but last week we had 23 guys out of practice last time but we practiced. So hopefully we can get more of those guys back so we can have a decent scrimmage.”
This will be the first year under Shanahan that the 49ers will not participate in joint practices with one of their preseason opponents.
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