The San Francisco 49ers targeted George Kittle on a six-yard pass with just over six minutes remaining in the second quarter. After Kittle was tackled, he immediately grabbed the back of his right ankle. It was a non-contact injury, which is genuinely the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Kittle is not expected to return to the game. He was immediately ruled out. It\u2019s officially an Achilles injury for Kittle, which was the fear. Jake Tonges will assume Kittle\u2019s role. We know how the running game has struggled without Kittle. We will see how Kyle Shanahan attempts to replace Kittle\u2014an absolutely brutal injury.<\/p>\n
Safety Ji\u2019Ayir Brown limped off the field and was questionable to return with a hamstring injury. Jason Pinnock went in for Brown initially, but rookie Marques Sigle replaced him on the next drive.<\/p>\n
The 49ers have 74 games missed by their Week 1 starters, which is the third-most in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Kyle\u2019s update 5:42 p.m. PT: Shanahan said, \u201cThe trainers knew before the cart came out and got word to me in the headset. Yes, a torn Achilles.\u201d That confirms what many already believed about George Kittle having a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n
Safety Ji\u2019Ayir Brown, who left with a hamstring injury, is a \u201clong shot\u201d to play next week, according to Shanahan. So, Marques Sigle is likely to get his second start of the season against the Seahawks. Sigle played about as well as you could expect for somebody coming in cold off the bench after not starting for nearly three months.<\/p>\n
Shanahan all but closed the door on Fred Warner returning in the Divisional Round, saying the chances are \u201cnot very high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers targeted George Kittle on a six-yard pass with just over six minutes remaining in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,3148],"class_list":{"0":"post-671791","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-san-francisco-49ers-injuries"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115883032254625550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671791","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=671791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}