Kyle Shanahan relinquished his play calling duties in the 49ers' regular season finale, but there is another where he should strongly consider relinquishing.

There was a fun wrinkle in the San Francisco 49ers’ season finale against the Arizona Cardinals. NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco on Sunday reported via head coach Kyle Shanahan that 49ers offensive passing game specialist Klay Kubiak called plays in Week 18.

In a display of nepo baby solidarity, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan gave up play-calling duties in a regular-season game for the first time in his head coaching career and handed them over to offensive assistant Klay Kubiak.

In the 49ers' finale against the Cardinals, head coach Kyle Shanahan delegated play-calling duties to Klay Kubiak, who led the offense to 436 total yards.

49ers owner Jed York confirmed that San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch would both be back for the 2025 season. That report came from The San Francisco Standard’s Tim Kawakami prior to Monday night’s contest against the Detroit Lions.

Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch came to the 49ers together after the 2016 season. In fact, Lynch even asked Shanahan about the GM job as the coach was in negotiations to leave the Atlanta Falcons for San Francisco.

After a disappointing season for the San Francisco 49ers, a member of Kyle Shanahan's staff will not be a part of the team in the 2025 NFL season. The San Francisco 49ers had started the 2024 NFL with the goal of repeating their Super Bowl finish of the previous campaign.

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