Kyle Shanahan won’t be making a change at quarterback after all.
The 49ers coach on Monday named Nick Mullens the starter for Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks despite his lackluster performance in San Francisco’s lowest-scoring effort of the season at Tampa Bay last weekend.
“I know that I said Nick didn’t play very well, but no one played well and I didn’t coach well. It was all of us,” Shanahan said. “Nick did a good job in his first two games. It was not the reason that happened (Sunday) so that’s not fair to do that to him.