Sydney Warner Shares What's Different About Being a WAG When Your Husband Is Injured During the Football Season (Exclusive)
- - Sydney Warner Shares What's Different About Being a WAG When Your Husband Is Injured During the Football Season (Exclusive)
Tabitha ParentDecember 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Sydney (left) and Fred Warner on Feb. 6, 2025 -
After San Francisco 49ers player Fred Warner was injured in week 6 of the NFL season, he, his wife and son Beau had a new normal to adjust to
Chatting with PEOPLE, the soon-to-be mom of two shares what it's been like for her family to adjust to Fred's injury
She also reveals if it's more stressful to watch Fred play out on the field or have him up in the suite with her
In Week 6 of the NFL season this year, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner suffered a dislocated and broken right ankle in a matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that left him out of commission.While fans are mourning the loss of the player's talents out on the field, Fred's wife Sydney has more to share about how the role of being the significant other of a football player changes when your partner is out with an injury.While Fred, 29, might not be on the field, Sydney, also 29, tells PEOPLE that the experience of him being out for the season is "not that much different" than when he's in.
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Fred (middle) and Sydney Warner (left) with their son
"Fred is so involved in the team totally still and he's a captain," she explains. "He's a huge part of the team on and off the field. So he's taken that responsibility head on even being injured."Life is just as busy now as it has ever been, but Sydney says it is a little bit of a different experience when it comes to game days."I have Fred in the suite with me instead of watching him scared every play," she laughs.It was an emotional transition for the couple, having Fred go from playing in front of thousands of people each weekend to joining Sydney and the couple's young son Beau in the suite they usually watch the game from."It was just such a bizarre thing," she says. "But now we've gotten used to it and this is how we're supporting the team by just being there."
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Sydney Warner
However, she will admit that it's slightly less stressful to watch the game when Fred is down on the field, than it is to have him up in the suite with them."Definitely less," she confirms, laughingly.Despite the transition in the family's participation on the team. Sydney shares that the couple's son Beau is still majorly excited about his dad's football career.
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"He says first down, like, dad's teaching him like all the things, so he's gonna be an expert one day, fingers crossed," she says."He loves the environment. He knows exactly where we're going when we pull up to the stadium. He gets so excited in the car."The excitement is very cute, Sydney admits, but she also acknowledges that it's part of her son's normal."This is our life, so it only makes sense for him to know that this is our normal for right now," she says. "Which is a really big blessing. He loves it."Amid the shock of a season-ending injury, Warner says that she has been so "lucky" to have found the community she's uncovered in her fellow WAGs.
"I could not be more lucky to have the tribe of women that we have within the Niners," she gushes.
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