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Nick Wagoner
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Roughly 68 minutes into Sunday’s observe session, the San Francisco 49ers‘ exercise got here to an abrupt halt as defensive finish Tarron Jackson went to the bottom and did not get again up.
In what seemed to be a regular working play, Jackson was being blocked by offensive sort out Isaac Alarcon when he went down. Teammates shortly shouted for the coaching workers as Jackson was briefly immobile earlier than transferring his arms. His teammates dropped to a knee, and the group and sideline went silent for the following six minutes as a cart introduced out a stretcher for Jackson. He was taken off the sphere roughly seven minutes after the harm, and an ambulance took him to Stanford Hospital about 21 minutes after he first went down.
In accordance with coach Kyle Shanahan, Jackson was speaking and transferring his extremities quickly after, giving hope that he had averted any kind of critical harm.
“[You’re] at all times scared when somebody will get taken off on a stretcher,” Shanahan stated. “He is aware, speaking with us, can really feel all his extremities and so they’re taking him all the way down to Stanford now to start out additional testing. So, hopefully we cleared the true scary stuff.”
The 49ers initially signed Jackson, a fourth-year professional out of Coastal Carolina, to their observe squad in early January. They then signed him to a futures contract after the season. Jackson spent his first three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles earlier than splitting final yr between the Eagles, Carolina Panthers and 49ers.
Via the primary 4 practices, Jackson had been working principally with the third string defensive position. After he was taken off the sphere Sunday, Shanahan requested his shaken-up group if it wished to complete observe.
“We had been near him so we may hear him speaking and we may see the whole lot transferring,” Shanahan stated. “I simply informed the fellows that, which eases them up somewhat bit with the most important fears and requested them in the event that they had been okay to proceed to go. All of them yelled sure and we completed the final interval.”
That, after all, did not imply Jackson was removed from their minds. Working again Christian McCaffrey, who was not working towards due to a scheduled break day, stated such incidents are powerful to deal with.
“It is by no means good,” McCaffrey stated. “You have simply acquired to wish for the perfect in conditions like that. It is undoubtedly a reminder to not take any day with no consideration. You are in a non-padded observe and also you get carted off. It is a critical sport and simply pray for the perfect for him.”
Cornerback Deommodore Lenoir stated it is onerous to not enable your thoughts to wander once you play the identical sport because the participant being taken away on a stretcher.
“It is form of onerous as a result of all of us play in the identical [sport],” Lenoir stated. “While you see your brother down you form of put your self there. We [are] praying for him and we hope the whole lot goes to be all proper and that he will get again to us secure and sound.”