49ers LB Fred Warner has no restrictions to start the offseason after last year's ankle injury
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Fred Warner starts the offseason program with no limitations from the ankle injury that sidelined him for most of last season. Warner went down with a right ankle injury on Oct.
12 at Tampa Bay and missed the final 11 games of the regular season and both playoff games for San Francisco. He was able to return to practice in January and had a chance to play if the Niners had reached the NFC title game. Now he's back at full strength at the start of the offseason program for the 49ers on Monday.
“I’m feeling extremely blessed, grateful to be back, feeling great,” he said. “No restrictions. Just being able to jump right in.
Returning to practice kind of gave me all the confidence in the world to really attack training during the offseason. Not having to start from doing rehab and everything just going from ground zero building up just like I would any other offseason. It’s been great.
” Warner had been a first-team All-Pro three straight seasons from 2022-24 and also made the squad in 2020. His 947 tackles are the second most for the team, behind Patrick Willis’ 950, as far as records go back to 2000. Warner had missed only one game in his eight-year career before the injury last season, sitting out in 2021 with a hamstring injury.