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49ers CB Charvarius Ward Inactive with Knee Injury vs. Seahawks

Now the 49ers will have to figure out how to cover Seahwaks wide receiver D.K. Metcalf.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward (7) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Charvarius Ward (7) after the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers won't have one of their best players Thursday night against the Seattle Seahawks.

Charvarius Ward is inactive with a knee injury that he suffered Sunday against the Cardinals according to head coach Kyle Shanahan. Ward worked out with a trainer on the field before Thursday's game and looked healthy and spry to the untrained eye, but either the trainers shut him down or he shut himself down.

Ward, 28, hasn't missed a game since he signed with the 49ers in 2022. Last year, he had the best season of his career and went to the Pro Bowl. But this offseason the 49ers switched defensive coordinator from Steve Wilks to Nick Sorensen, and so far all of the 49ers defensive backs have suffered considering none of them have intercepted a pass yet.

In the offseason, Ward had groin surgery and missed a few practices during training camp. Then he injured his hamstring a few weeks ago and played through. So he hasn't been 100 percent healthy in a while.

The past two seasons, Ward was the 49ers' kryptonite for Seahawks wide receiver D.K. Metcalf. Now the 49ers will have to find a new way to cover the Seahawks' go-to guy,

Now the 49ers will have to figure out how to cover Seahwaks wide receiver D.K. Metcalf.

Expect Isaac Yiadom to replace Ward in the starting lineup and rookie Renardo Green to become the No. 3 cornerback in the nickel defense.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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