{"id":270460,"date":"2025-08-08T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/270460\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:40:10","slug":"49ers-jordan-james-breaks-finger-will-miss-couple-of-weeks-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/270460\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers\u2019 Jordan James breaks finger, will miss \u2018couple of weeks\u2019 \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers&#8217; running back room got a little bit lighter on Thursday as 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan announced rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JameJo01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan James<\/a> suffered a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jordan James broke his finger, so he\u2019s getting surgery on that,\u201d Shanahan told reporters. \u201cHe&#8217;ll be out a couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rookie RB Jordan James broke a finger, is having surgery and will miss a couple of weeks. Healthy 49ers tailbacks:<\/p>\n<p>Christian McCaffrey<br \/>Patrick Taylor Jr.<br \/>Corey Kiner<br \/>Ameer Abdullah<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Barrows (@mattbarrows) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbarrows\/status\/1953545217862513006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 7, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/nfl-draft-2025-jordan-james-oregon\/1845711\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/nfl-draft-2025-jordan-james-oregon\/1845711\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco selected James<\/a> in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft after ammassing 1,267 rush yards during his junior season with the Oregon Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The injury leaves the 49ers with just four running backs (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McCaCh01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian McCaffrey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TaylPa01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Taylor Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KineCo00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Kiner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AbduAm00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ameer Abdullah<\/a>) available for San Francisco\u2019s first preseason game on Saturday against the Denver Broncos with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GuerIs00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Guerendo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/isaac-guerendo-kevin-givens-to-miss-time-for-49ers-due-to-injuries?chrcontext=NSBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already out with a shoulder injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Shanahan said Christian McCaffrey is <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/49ers-starters-play-vs-broncos-150022318.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unlikely to play<\/a> which should give ample time to the remaining ball carriers on the 49ers&#8217; roster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers&#8217; running back room got a little bit lighter on Thursday as 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6508,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-270460","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-football","10":"tag-jordan-james","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114990601280704878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270460","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=270460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}