Following the San Francisco 49ers' disappointing 33-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, head coach Kyle Shanahan addressed the media and highlighted the team's high injury toll during the game. The offense in particular bore the brunt, which led to a mixed lineup at the end of the match.
The most serious blow was the injury to an experienced tackle Trent Williams, who suffered a groin injury in the third quarter and did not return. Shanahan told reporters that Williams will undergo an MRI on Tuesday to assess the severity of the injury.
“I'm doing well“,” Williams assured reporters after the game. “I know you want to ask me about the injury. “I'll be fine.”
Shanahan explained: “He tried to go back in. The coach didn't think it was a good idea. So we’ll do an MRI tomorrow and see how it goes.”
Jaylon Moore replaced Williams at left tackle but left in the fourth quarter with a concussion. This prompted Colton McKivitz to move to left tackle while Spencer Burford filled in at the right tackle position.
Guard Aaron Banks He also left late in the game, aggravating the turf toe injury on his right foot that had caused him to miss games previously this season. Ben Bartch replaced him.
quarterback Brock Purdy picked up the stinger he suffered in Week 15 and left the game against the Ravens in the fourth quarter. Although the 49ers were cleared to return, they decided to keep Sam Darnold at quarterback.
While Shanahan explained that Purdy “maybe” could have returned, he felt it was wiser to keep him out given the circumstances, saying, “I know he was disappointed he couldn't finish it there, but “To get that stinger back, that’s just what he wanted to do,” to keep him out of there and get him ready to bounce back next week.”
Shanahan added, “I know he had a bad stinger, and we had three O-linemen down at the time, and I didn't want him to go in and not be ready for next week,” before expressing his confidence, that the injury would This is not a long-term problem.
Sharing his perspective, Purdy said: “Just the way I was tackled in that game kind of brought light back to me, just like it did last week. So I had to go through the entire protocol process.” [in] again the tent and so on.
The television broadcast showed the coach and his quarterback having a long conversation on the sideline after Purdy was cleared to return.
“We had just talked about the game scenario we were in,” Purdy explained. “I just got a stinger and my arm came back, felt normal and everything. And so he was just like, where we are in the game, Sam had gone in and shot, and he's like, “Right now we are.” We're just going to go with Sam, just from how things are going.
“And we didn’t want anything else to come up with the stinger and all that stuff. But it was exactly where we were situationally. So Sam was fine and we went along with him.”
Additionally, Shanahan announced this cornerback Amber Thomas Left the game due to a hamstring injury.
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