The San Francisco 49ers plan to turn over every stone in their investigation into the underlying causes of the team’s recurring injury problems that have spanned more than a decade.
As part of the effort, general manager John Lynch announced Wednesday that the 49ers will even look into a viral conspiracy theory suggesting the electrical substation near the training facility and Levi’s Stadium could be contributing to the team’s injury woes.
“Because it deals with, allegedly, the health and safety of our players, I think you have to look into everything,” Lynch said, per ESPN’s Nick Wagoner. “We’ve been reaching out to anyone and everyone to see, does a study exist other than a guy sticking an apparatus underneath the fence and coming up with a number that I have no idea what that means? That’s what we know exists. We’ve heard that debunked.”