Just days before the San Francisco 49ers are set to play on the same MetLife Stadium field that members of the team ripped as unsafe Sunday, a source from the NFL Players Association said the union is standing behind the team’s criticism and endorsing a thorough investigation of whether the surface may have been improperly certified by the league last week.
“We are concerned, it’s absolutely a concern for us,” a union source told Yahoo Sports on Monday. “We are very concerned about it being a serious health and safety issue for players — and turf continuing to be a health and safety issue in general.