{"id":520575,"date":"2026-01-16T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:48:12","slug":"49ers-news-which-quarterback-are-the-49ers-facing-it-appears-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520575\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: Which quarterback are the 49ers facing? It appears oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Shanahan shares final updates ahead of 49ers-Seahawks Divisional Round matchup<\/a><\/strong>
\u201cHow close is WR Jacob Cowing to being on the field?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s close. He\u2019s healthy. You know, he\u2019s had two good weeks and I think we\u2019ve got one more week with him where we\u2019ve got to make a decision, but he\u2019s looked really good out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers shrug off Seahawks\u2019 QB Sam Darnold being listed as questionable<\/strong> (paywall)<\/strong><\/a>
\u201cBackup quarterback Drew Lock reportedly took first-team snaps in his place.<\/p>\n

Offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak was asked how Darnold looked during the session, but deferred all injury questions to head coach Mike Macdonald, who was not scheduled to speak until Friday. Amid an apparent episode of gamesmanship, Darnold did not play along.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn routes on air, just kind of felt a little something in my oblique,\u201d Darnold said Thursday. \u201cJust didn\u2019t want to push it. Wasn\u2019t the day to push it. So that was it. \u2026 I feel like I\u2019ll be ready to go for Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

How \u201850 knives\u2019 game prepared 49ers\u2019 Brock Purdy for excruciating test in Seattle (paywall<\/a><\/strong>)
\u201cOn Dec. 15, 2022, the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u2019 then-rookie quarterback received a pre-kickoff injection for a strained oblique and broken rib he suffered four days earlier and felt some relief. Then, on his second throw, an innocuous 4-yard completion, his body seized in agony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat throw I was like, \u2018Oh, man,\u2019\u201d Purdy recalled in 2023. \u201cIt felt like 50 knives in the same area. It was almost hard to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers\u2019 Fred Warner out vs. Seahawks; Shanahan \u2018confident\u2019 about him for NFC title game<\/strong> (paywall)<\/strong><\/a>
\u201cShanahan answered optimistically when asked whether Warner showed enough Wednesday in his lone practice this week to have confidence he could be ready for the NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I do feel confident in that,\u201d Shanahan said Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ll see if it works out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 49ers will have to make do with a half-healthy Ricky Pearsall. The second-year wide receiver said repeatedly that he expects to play Saturday. The catch? Pearsall acknowledged he\u2019ll have to play differently to accommodate for a posterior cruciate ligament knee injury that he said won\u2019t fully heal until the offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably the toughest part, is it just lingering around,\u201d said Pearsall, who is officially considered questionable to suit up versus the Seahawks. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those injuries that is not going to heal up until I\u2019m fully rested and done. And I can\u2019t do that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kawakami: Shanahan\u2019s longevity, Purdy\u2019s true value, and more 49ers legacies in the making (paywall)<\/a><\/strong>
\u201cHere\u2019s the lasting legacy of this 49ers season: They\u2019ve opened a legitimate Super Bowl window, which will become enormously obvious if they pull off a few more thrilling upsets.<\/p>\n

And even if they lose Saturday in Seattle, the 49ers have survived too many devastating things this season to let the momentum and good vibes expire going into next season and beyond.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got something meaningful here. They know it. Everybody around the league can see it. And it\u2019s not evaporating anytime soon \u2014 just like it only felt stronger after they lost George Kittle to an Achilles tear in the second quarter of their Sunday victory over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything we\u2019ve done to that point goes down in vain if we don\u2019t take advantage of this opportunity,\u201d Trent Williams said Wednesday of the team\u2019s mindset against the Eagles. \u201cGeorge\u2019s spirit and energy lives through this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got another opportunity Saturday \u2014 without Kittle, Nick Bosa, Mykel Williams, and many others, though possibly with Fred Warner back after his devastating injury in October.<\/p>\n

The 49ers are underdogs, but they have some chance to continue this and win Super Bowl 60. If they don\u2019t win this Super Bowl, they should and will be considered one of the favorites to win it next year or the year after that. Given what they accomplished under duress this season, they likely will win a Super Bowl soon enough in some lesser-cursed season.<\/p>\n

The window is back open after they lost Super Bowl 58, tumbled the following year after a flood of injuries, then reset the roster and payroll last offseason.<\/p>\n

Which makes this a good time for a legacy check on the top figures in the organization. Nobody\u2019s legacy should be defined by one win or loss, but things get altered or underlined as seasons come and go \u2014 especially a season as meaningful as this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Shanahan shares final updates ahead of 49ers-Seahawks Divisional Round matchup\u201cHow close is WR Jacob Cowing to being…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133822,1246,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-520575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-49ers-links","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115905331994552664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}