No football coach wants a quarterback controversy in the middle of a season, which is why it made sense to hear the San Francisco 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan quickly strike down any sniff of one this week.
Coming off a strong performance in a Week 3 beatdown of the New York Giants, could Nick Mullens unseat Jimmy Garoppolo (out with a high ankle sprain) as the team’s full-time starter?
“No, that scenario doesn’t exist,” Shanahan said Wednesday. “But I don’t think past one game either. That’s for you [the media] to do.