SANTA CLARA -- San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback C.J. Beathard had a very good reason to miss Sunday’s practice, but he didn’t want to ask.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t give him the option not to, and told him he wanted to fly out on the team's off day Saturday to watch his grandfather, former football executive Bobby Beathard, get inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Beathard's flight won't return in time for the start of practice on Sunday, according to Shanahan.
“I know it means a lot to him, not that he’d ever tell us,” Shanahan said after practice on Wednesday.