SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Roughly 68 minutes into Sunday’s apply session, the San Francisco 49ers’ exercise got here to an abrupt halt as defensive finish Tarron Jackson went to the bottom and did not get again up.
In what seemed to be a regular working play, Jackson was being blocked by offensive deal with Isaac Alarcon when he went down. Teammates shortly shouted for the coaching workers as Jackson was briefly immobile earlier than shifting his palms. His teammates dropped to a knee and the workforce and sideline went silent for the subsequent six minutes as a cart introduced out a stretcher for Jackson. He was taken off the sphere roughly seven minutes after the harm and an ambulance took him to Stanford Hospital about 21 minutes after he first went down.
In accordance with coach Kyle Shanahan, Jackson was speaking and shifting his extremities quickly after, giving hope that he had averted any form of critical harm.
“[You’re] all the time scared when somebody will get taken off on a stretcher,” Shanahan mentioned. “He is acutely aware, speaking with us, can really feel all his extremities they usually’re taking him all the way down to Stanford now to begin additional testing. So, hopefully we cleared the true scary stuff.”
The 49ers initially signed Jackson, a fourth-year professional out of Coastal Carolina, to their apply squad in early January. They then signed him to a futures contract after the season. Jackson spent his first three seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles earlier than splitting final yr between the Eagles, Carolina Panthers and 49ers.
Via the primary 4 practices, Jackson had been working principally with the third string line of defense. After he was taken off the sphere Sunday, Shanahan requested his shaken up workforce if it wished to complete apply.
“We have been near him so we might hear him speaking and we might see the whole lot shifting,” Shanahan mentioned. “I simply advised the blokes that, which eases them up a bit of bit with the largest fears and requested them in the event that they have been okay to proceed to go. All of them yelled sure and we completed the final interval.”
That, after all, did not imply Jackson was removed from their minds. Working again Christian McCaffrey, who was not working towards due to a scheduled day without work, mentioned such incidents are powerful to deal with.
“It is by no means good,” McCaffrey mentioned. “You’ve got simply obtained to wish for one of the best in conditions like that. It is undoubtedly a reminder to not take any day with no consideration. You are in a non-padded apply and also you get carted off. It is a critical sport and simply pray for one of the best for him.”
Cornerback Deommodore Lenoir mentioned it is exhausting to not permit your thoughts to wander if you play the identical sport because the participant being taken away on a stretcher.
“It is form of exhausting as a result of all of us play in the identical [sport],” Lenoir mentioned. “Whenever you see your brother down you form of put your self there. We [are] praying for him and we hope the whole lot goes to be all proper and that he will get again to us secure and sound.”