One of the strangest story lines to emerge from the 2025 NFL season has come from the electrical substation that resides just outside of the San Francisco 49ers’ practice facility, as well as its potential contributions to the various injuries that the franchise has endured throughout the past several seasons.

A theory spreading across social media has reached the NFL's highest medical leadership

Patriots and Seahawks avoid 49ers facilities for Super Bowl prep as San Francisco investigates bizarre substation-related injury theory.

The NFL has responded to the viral theory about an electrical substation next to the San Francisco 49ers' practice facility has led to injuries.

Conspiracy theories about the large electrical substation near the San Francisco 49ers' practice facility and Levi's Stadium have reached the team's locker room.

John Lynch said this week the 49ers are probing the theory that an electrical substation near their practice facility in Santa Clara, Calif. is causing injuries, even if it does appear to be improbable.

Both teams will be practicing elsewhere, but that has little to do with a viral conspiracy theory about the 49ers' facility's proximity to an electrical substation.