{"id":211005,"date":"2025-07-16T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/211005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:24:10","slug":"49ers-qb-opens-training-camp-with-an-acl-injury-will-miss-time-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/211005\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers QB opens training camp with an ACL injury, will miss time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers will be without a quarterback early in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtis Rourke is opening camp on the non-football injury list.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh-round rookie from Indiana is working his way back from an ACL tear in his right knee. It&#8217;s his second such injury.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rourke played 2024 with the injury for the Hoosiers, leading them to a magical season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Rourke) underwent surgery only when it was detected during pre-draft medical checks,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/49ers-rookie-kurtis-rourke-is-expected-to-begin-camp-on-nfi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pro Football Talk writes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pro Football Talk writes<\/a>. &#8220;He could miss the entire season as he rehabs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really a bummer for Rourke as much as anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers are set with Mac Jones to back up Brock Purdy.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/buffalo-bills-huge-break-pursuit-toppling-chiefs-chasing-super-bowl\/83299a212c0fec29ee55cfdb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills get a huge break toward knocking off the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bills get a huge break toward knocking off the Chiefs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just would&#8217;ve been a great learning season for Rourke. He&#8217;ll just have to devote himself to the meeting room while not being able to actually do things on the practice field.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rourke played five college seasons at Ohio before finishing up at Indiana and proving he could be a high-level quarterback even against strong competition.<\/p>\n<p>For the Hoosiers, Rourke threw 29 touchdowns with just five interceptions while completing 69.4% of his passes.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he&#8217;ll get a chance to try and earn an NFL backup spot.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers will be without a quarterback early in training camp. Kurtis Rourke is opening camp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2644,7,44418,2497,5215,6,1257,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-211005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-brock-purdy","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-injury-list","12":"tag-kurtis-rourke","13":"tag-mac-jones","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-quarterback","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","18":"tag-sanfrancisco","19":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114861720413795893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}