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49ers Optimistic that Trent Williams will Play vs. Seahawks

Williams is kind of important.

Grant Cohn

Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) is introduced before the game against 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) is introduced before the game against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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This is good news.

Despite missing an entire week of practice with an ankle injury, Trent Williams most likely will play today against the Seattle Seahawks according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

"San Francisco is more hopeful and optimistic that Pro Bowl offensive tackle Trent Williams will be able to make it back from his ankle injury that prevented him from practicing Friday, according to sources," writes Schefter. "Williams believes he can play against the Seahawks, but the 49ers still will evaluate him pregame to make sure he feels well enough to play."

Williams injured his ankle last Sunday against the Buccaneers but never left the game, so the pain must have set in a couple days later. He couldn't practice even in a limited capacity all week, but he hung out in the locker room and shuffled around slowly, clearly favoring his injured ankle. Still, he could walk. In retrospect, he was showing his teammates and the media that he intended to play.

It's unclear how healthy Williams will be. It's possible the trainers will tape up his ankle and it won't affect him. It's also possible it will prevent him from running downfield to make blocks. Plus it could knock him out of the game early if it gets aggravated.

If Williams were to leave the game, his backup would be Jaylon Moore. The last time Williams went down and Moore replaced him, the 49ers lost two games in a row. That was last season.

Williams is kind of important.

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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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