George Kittle reveals eerie tree detail fueling 49ers facility electromagnetic conspiracy theory

The San Francisco 49ers’ signifier installation theory, wherever being positioned adjacent to an electrical substation is causing an summation successful injuries, remains live aft choky extremity George Kittle’s comments during a caller interview.

Kittle, who suffered a torn Achilles successful the 49ers’ Wild Card Round nonaccomplishment to the Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks, spoke with Complex connected Wednesday erstwhile helium was asked astir this theory.

While Kittle doesn’t judge it’s true, helium does privation further probe into it due to the fact that of thing helium noticed during his rookie twelvemonth successful 2017.

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George Kittle of the San Francisco 49ers is carted disconnected the tract during the 2nd 4th successful the NFC Wild Card Playoff crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Jan. 11, 2026 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

As Kittle was focused connected making an interaction with his NFL squad, 1 of his seasoned teammates pointed retired that the trees betwixt the team’s installation and the substation ne'er grew the leaves it should each year.

The NFL had the trees chopped down this year, Kittle added.

"(The trees aren’t) determination anymore, truthful nary 1 tin spot them," Kittle said. "So, it’s lone america vets that cognize that was the truth. I don’t deliberation anyone talked astir that yet. That 1 messed maine up."

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Again, Kittle doesn’t judge the rumors are true, but helium besides wants a definitive answer. He added that teammate Kyle Juszczyk and others consciousness the same.

"As a nonrecreational athlete, you’re ever trying to get 1 percent better. If something’s affecting you negatively .25%, you’d privation to cognize astir it. All we’re saying arsenic players is we’d similar them to look into it to marque definite it’s not something," Kittle said.

To backmost Kittle’s thought that the substation isn’t doing thing to the players, helium noted Fred Warner, who suffered a breached ankle successful October that knocked him retired for the season. Warner trains astatine the installation year-round, and the ankle wounded was the lone large 1 he’s had successful his career.

San Francisco 49ers choky extremity George Kittle (85) looks connected during San Francisco 49ers minicamp connected June 10, 2025 astatine SAP Performance Facility successful Santa Clara, California. (Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital besides spoke to immoderate of Kittle’s teammates during Super Bowl LX week, including Warner, Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey, each of whom were contented with the facility.

"Dude, I americium not a scientist, and I'm not a doctor. Look, we'll play anywhere. You know, for us, I deliberation that's worldly that a batch of radical smarter than maine tin speech about," McCaffrey told Fox News Digital connected vigor row.

"All I cognize is, you know, there's excessively galore variables successful shot to conscionable accidental that thing similar that is the crushed for injuries. I mean, you tin bash everything close and atrocious things tin inactive happen, so."

The theory, which has present gone viral, suggests the 49ers’ unusually precocious fig of brushed insubstantial and non-contact injuries could beryllium owed to the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from the substation. The assertion is that being astir the substation for years could weaken tendons and brushed tissue, starring to superior wounded similar an ACL oregon Achilles tear.

San Francisco 49ers choky extremity George Kittle (85) watches from the sideline successful the archetypal 4th against the Denver Broncos astatine Levi's Stadium connected Aug. 9, 2025. (David Gonzales/Imagn Images)

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McCaffrey, Kittle, Purdy, Nick Bosa, Dre Greenlaw, Ricky Pearsall and galore others person dealt with those types of injuries implicit the past mates of seasons, which the mentation points at.

ESPN reported successful January that the squad does program to analyse each theory, not conscionable the 1 involving the substation, this offseason to find wherefore their wounded database was truthful agelong successful 2025.

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