49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has been dealing with a turf toe injury all season that has kept him out of most of San Francisco’s games this year. Purdy was sai
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has been dealing with a turf toe injury all season that has kept him out of most of San Francisco’s games this year. Purdy was said to be making substantial progress in practice late this week, and the word from coach Kyle Shanahan is that he may be available for the team's Week 9 game against the Giants.
Only... not as a starter."He didn't get all the starter reps this week. As soon as he had a chance to get through practice and stuff the first time, we let him get all those starter reps and it was great. Then there was a chance he could re-hurt it in the game and he did and he's been out for the last month," Shanahan said. "He got more reps this week, but we weren't going to commit to all of that like we did last time. So I think it's easing it back more than last time." So, the reasoning is fairly simple: The team hurried him back ahead of Week 4, and the result was Purdy needing eventime to get back to practice availability than when he initially injured the toe. Rather than risking the same outcome, the Niners appear to believe a bit more rest will help the young quarterback's rest-of-season health.ahead of this season. While there has been plenty of speculation that the team could hand the keys to Mac Jones even after Purdy is back given how well he's performed in Purdy's absence, that's incredibly unlikely. The public confusion about Purdy's injury is largely to do with him being "day-to-day" for so many weeks in a row. The young QB has, with setbacks along the way. The day-to-day designation, in this case, doesn't mean he's set to return in a matter of days, rather, that the team is having to monitor his progression each day. Shanahan added at one point that Purdy's toe is not, "fully healthy." He also said Purdy didn't get, "a lot," of starter reps this week.: Purdy suffered the turf toe injury in Week 1, a win over the Seahawks. He did not leave the game.: Purdy was a limited participant in practice but had optimism for his status against the Cardinals in Week 3. He would miss that game.: Purdy was a more active participant in practice , and played against the Jaguars. He re-aggravated his toe injury, but again played all of the snaps in the start, a loss to the Jaguars.: Purdy was optimistic he could make it back for a matchup with the Rams, but the game being on Thursday shortened his week. He did not practice.Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.
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