What's REALLY Causing NFL Injuries This Season? | 1/22/26

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.

Key Focus:

How Peter Cowan first recognized that the 49ers’ injury problem followed a consistent pattern rather than random chance.

Chapters:

• 00:00 – San Francisco 49ers Injury Pattern Explained
• 11:00 – Why NFL Injuries Are Increasing League-Wide
• 22:00 – The 49ers’ Injury Rate Compared to the NFL
• 33:00 – Levi’s Stadium Facility Location and Injury Risk
• 44:00 – Non-Contact NFL Injuries and Soft Tissue Damage
• 55:00 – EMF Exposure and the Human Body
• 1:06:00 – Electromagnetic Radiation and Sports Science
• 1:17:00 – Why EMF Injury Research Gets Dismissed
• 1:28:00 – Could EMFs Be Affecting Other NFL Teams
• 1:40:00 – The Unanswered Question Facing the NFL

Guest:

Peter Cowan:

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