San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan provided injury updates on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall re-aggravated his PCL. He also has a sprained ankle. It\u2019s a low sprain. Pearsall may not practice this week. Shanahan said there\u2019s a \u201cconcern\u201d with Pearsall\u2019s injuries, but wouldn\u2019t rule him out for next week:<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, there is a concern. I think just dealing and seeing how those have gone this year. The ankle was a tough ankle injury, but that it checked out that it wasn\u2019t a high and he was able to get through the game is somewhat encouraging. I mean, that shouldn\u2019t rule him out for this week, but that combined with the knee, I mean, he aggravated it. It\u2019s the same thing you guys would see with [QB] Mac [Jones] when he was in. Mac aggravated his PCL and when you land on that it\u2019s real painful for a while, but it can go away. And that\u2019s how you\u2019d see it with Mac throughout the games and that\u2019s kind of how it\u2019s been with Ricky. But, I think on that last third down which was one of I thought the biggest plays in the game that allowed us to get a three-score lead and not allow them to have the ball down two scores there at the end. But, he landed on his knee and that\u2019s a painful thing when you have that. So hopefully, it\u2019s not at all like it was when he first did it, but it does take time for that pain to go away and hopefully that\u2019ll be sooner than later over these next eight days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pearsall\u2019s injury isn\u2019t as severe as the PCL injury he suffered earlier in the year, but the combination of injuries is what will make his status worth monitoring.<\/p>\n
Shanahan said the goal is to open Jacob Cowing\u2019s practice window ahead of Week 17\u2019s game against the Bears. Last week, Shanahan said the team will open Cowing\u2019s window as soon as he\u2019s fully healthy.<\/p>\n
As for wide receiver Jordan Watkins, it sounds like he needs to practice better. Or show more during practice so he can play during the games. Watkins has been buried on the depth chart and hasn\u2019t played in several weeks.<\/p>\n
The best news came when Shanahan said Spencer Burford\u2019s \u201cknee and ankle checked out pretty good.\u201d Sounds like he avoided the dreaded high-ankle sprain. Burford left yesterday\u2019s game in the fourth quarter. Connor Colby played the final drive. Burford is expected to practice this week.<\/p>\n
The 49ers are hoping to get linebackers Tatum Bethune (high-ankle sprain) and Eric Kendricks (calf) back at practice this week, as well as edge rusher Sam Okuayinonu (high-ankle sprain). Linebacker Nick Martin remains in the concussion protocol.<\/p>\n
Shanahan explained how he isn\u2019t sure what to expect from Bethune and Kendricks this week, when asked if Kendricks could be ready to contribute next week:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah I mean, if he was totally healthy, but that\u2019s with all of them. Same with Tatum coming back from his high ankle. We\u2019re not sure how they\u2019re going to look. So, we\u2019ll get them in there, see how it goes. We should get two full-speed practices in, which should give us a good idea. But, we\u2019ve been short these last couple weeks, especially losing these guys, with Nick Martin, that\u2019s why we had to take guys off other teams to get them up last week. So, they\u2019ve got to get back into practice first, show us where they\u2019re at and stuff and how it\u2019s going and that\u2019ll give us a chance to make some decisions come Friday or on this week come Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defensive tackle Jordan Elliott will practice after suffering \u201cknee irritation\u201d during pre-game on Sunday. The player the team called up, Sebastian Valdez, was rewarded for his hard work. Valdez received a game check each of the past two weeks, despite not being active on game day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan provided injury updates on Monday afternoon. Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall re-aggravated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,173680,47545,33726,99],"class_list":["post-351423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-injuries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}