On Friday afternoon, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan had this to say about Deebo Samuel as to why he wasn’t going on the injured reserve:
“Because we believed he had a good chance to play this week. It didn’t go the way we hoped, but he’ll still be day-to-day going on that next week. We felt there was a chance, so to make a decision, that would be three weeks when we thought he did have a chance. We didn’t think that would be very smart, but we’ll see how next week goes.