Keenan Allen's First 49ers Remarks: No Cal Games at the Old Stadium, Because 'There Was No NIL'
The 34-year-old, acquired this week from the 2-7 Colts, said he landed at 11:30 p.m., took a 5:45 a.m. physical, and was thrilled to join a one-loss 49ers team. He spoke for about eight minutes at a locker that did not yet have a nameplate.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Photo: David290 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Keenan Allen, in his first comments since the San Francisco 49ers acquired him from the Indianapolis Colts, was asked why he didn't go to 49ers games when he played at California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Allen, 34, said he played for the Golden Bears "during a quainter era." "There was no NIL back then," he said, "so I didn't have any money for that." He spoke for about eight minutes at a locker that did not yet have a nameplate, the Chronicle reported, and was smiling throughout.
Allen said he landed in the Bay Area at 11:30 p.m. and was at the 49ers' facility for a physical at 5:45 a.m. He described going from a 2-7 Colts team in the midst of a fire sale to a one-loss 49ers team. The 49ers acquired him this week for a 2027 sixth-round pick, as previously reported.
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