49ers OT Colton McKivitz said during his second year in the NFL that he thought he made the team, but HC Kyle Shanahan told him that he was on the outside looking in.

“Kyle was like, ‘Hey you know why you’re here, right?” he recalled, via NBC Sports. “And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And then he says, ‘You didn’t make the team. But I thought he said, ‘You made the team.’ So I let out a big gasp and said, ‘Oh, thank God!” Then, he said, ‘No, you didn’t hear me right. You got cut.’ And I just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.”

McKivitz adapted to the mental aspect of the team’s training camp and said that he worked on making himself more physically prepared.

“I made myself take my shirt off during workouts,” McKivitz said. “It’s like, if you don’t like what you’re seeing, do somethin

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