{"id":657228,"date":"2026-01-06T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:45:13","slug":"49ers-lose-another-linebacker-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657228\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers lose another linebacker for the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All three of the San Francisco 49ers starting linebackers are dealing with injuries, and Tatum Bethune has been ruled out for the playoff run with a groin injury. Their starting WILL, Dee Winters, has an ankle injury, and their starting SAM, Luke Gifford, has a quad injury. There\u2019s still a chance that Winters and Gifford can play against the Eagles during Wild Card Weekend, but there will be a good number of backups playing at the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In his second season, Bethune recorded 94 total tackles, four pass breakups, and one sack, and had an elevated role as injuries affected the defense. With Bethune out, those MIKE snaps will go to Curtis Robinson, and Garrett Wallow and Nick Martin will be on stand-by if needed. All-Pro starter Fred Warner is on injured reserve and reportedly won\u2019t be ready to play until the NFC Championship Game, if the 49ers make it there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bethune missing Sunday\u2019s game will be good news for the Eagles offense, who could probably use any help they can get given their uneven performances this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All three of the San Francisco 49ers starting linebackers are dealing with injuries, and Tatum Bethune has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,5406],"class_list":{"0":"post-657228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115845393563900995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657228","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=657228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}