Addressing a report that some teams didn't think Reuben Foster's surgically repaired shoulder will hold up in 2017, Kyle Shanahan on Thursday acknowledged a "worst-case scenario" in which the linebacker has a second surgery that scuttles his rookie year.
“The worst-case scenario is that the shoulder doesn’t heal correctly and you’ve got to do it again,” the 49ers coach said on KNBR radio. “And then you have to do it again, you have to get another surgery. It would be tough to play this year, and you end up having him the next year."
“But it’s not something that would hurt him long-term," Shanahan said.