The San Francisco 49ers are getting ready to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, hitting the road for a matchup between 4-1 teams.
Heading into the week, the 49ers have quite a few injuries to monitor after missing a number of key starters against the Los Angeles Rams last week. Now starting the week, that injury report remains loaded.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan announced that several players will not practice on Wednesday, including quarterback Brock Purdy. Here’s the full injury report for the day:
DE Robert Beal Jr. (ankle)
WR Jauan Jennings (ankle/rib)
DE Yetur Gross-Matos (knee/hamstring)
RB Christian McCaffrey (vet day)
OL Trent Williams (vet day)
QB Mac Jones (knee/oblique)
While Purdy will miss the first practice of the week, Shanahan said there hasn’t been a thought of putting him on Injured Reserve.
San Francisco is opening the practice windows of defensive tackle Kevin Givens, who suffered a pec injury in training camp and was expected to be sidelined for the season. That follows the news that safety Malik Mustapha’s practice window would also open ahead of Week 6.
Mustapha was a full participant on Wednesday. Mustapha said he’s ready to play. Reporters asked Mustapha whether he’d play with the same feocity, to which Mustapha responded, “I didn’t get surgery on my brain.”
The 49ers do still have a couple of key starters on IR, including tight end George Kittle and left guard Ben Bartch. Where are they in their recovery from a hamstring strain and high ankle sprain, respectively?
“They’re all progressing,” Shanahan said of those on IR. “Hopefully, we’ll have a chance of [George] Kittle next week. Just a chance. I don’t think [Ben] Bartch is up next week, though.”
Wide receivers Ricky Pearsall and Jauan Jennings remain out on Wednesday with their respective injuries. Shanahan said the team was looking for the former to get back to practice this week, but that has yet to happen.
“We were hoping last week that he’d probably be able to get in this week,” Shanahan said about Pearsall. “He wasn’t able to get in Monday. Not able to today, so we’ll see if there’s a turn here on Thursday or Friday, but I’m not counting on it right now.”
Early in the week, it’s a pretty loaded injury report for the 49ers. We’ll see how things progress on Thursday.
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