What's REALLY Causing NFL Injuries This Season?

From training rooms to substations, this episode examines a troubling pattern behind one of the NFL’s most injury-plagued teams.

On this episode of At The Mic: Thursday Deep Dive, Keith Malinak is joined by researcher Peter Cowan to explore the San Francisco 49ers’ unusually high rate of non-contact injuries. What begins as a discussion about football and conditioning quickly turns into a deeper investigation involving EMF exposure, a nearby electrical substation, and soft tissue damage that appears repeatedly without clear explanation.

As the evidence builds, the conversation moves beyond football into questions of human biology, environmental stress, and institutional risk. Cowan explains why certain theories surrounding electromagnetic exposure are often dismissed before they are fully examined, and why that dismissal may prevent meaningful investigation.

Rather than offering definitive conclusions, this episode lays out patterns, data, and unanswered questions, leaving listeners to consider whether coincidence alone is enough to explain what’s happening.