Why the 49ers were smart to reward their head coach, why it shouldn’t come as a surprise when NFL players test positive for COVID-19 and details from the NFLPA’s conference call with agents.

Here we go with Monday’s afternoon notes …

• Six-year contracts are rare for NFL coaches, and now Kyle Shanahan has gotten two of them—one upon his hire in 2017, and sources confirmed he got another today (as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter). And it’s fair to say that he’s worth every penny. I don’t think, reasonably, there are a half dozen coaches you’d take over Shanahan in the league right now, he’s only 40 and that organization is really humming. So it made sense for the Niners to take care of him now. I don’t know, but I’d guess he’s in the NFL coaches’ eight-figure club (make $10 million per year or more), which is