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49ers LT Trent Williams (Toe) Is Active Against the Patriots

It will be interesting to see if Williams' toe injury affects him in this game. He already has given up one sack this season after giving up zero in 2023. His age might be catching up to him.

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Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) and running back Jordan Mason (left) walk off of the field after defeating the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) and running back Jordan Mason (left) walk off of the field after defeating the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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More good news for the 49ers.

Trent Williams officially is active today against the Jets despite missing Friday's practice with a toe injury. Williams apparently suffered the injury Thursday during practice. The 49ers are calling it soreness, but it's unclear what the soreness stems from. It could be turf toe, it could be gout or it could be nothing serious.

Keep in mind, Williams is 36, he weighs 320 lbs. and he held out of training camp because he wanted a new deal, which the 49ers eventually gave him. So he's not in peak physical condition. He had to leave each of the first three games this season briefly to receive I.V.s. Clearly, he's not 100 percent. But even a compromised Williams is better than his backup, Jaylon Moore, who's a backup for a reason.

Williams generally misses at least a few games every year -- he hasn't played a full season since 2013 when he was 25. So the 49ers should expect him to go down at some point. But their record without him is 3-6 since 2020, so they need him today considering they've lost two games in a row and their record is 1-2. Losing to the Patriots would destroy the morale of the team and potentially ruin the season before October.

It will be interesting to see if Williams' toe injury affects him in this game. He already has given up one sack this season after giving up zero in 2023. His age might be catching up to him.

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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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