Long before the San Francisco 49ers ran out of healthy quarterbacks in their NFC Championship Game loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, they had begun making contingency plans for the position had they advanced to Super Bowl LVII.
One of those plans involved bringing veteran signal-caller Philip Rivers out of retirement to take on the Kansas City Chiefs.
"He was prepared to," Niners coach Kyle Shanahan said Thursday. "Now that's stuff we talked about throughout the whole year. We would've had to have seen how that was for the Super Bowl, but that was the plan most of the year.