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49ers QB Brock Purdy had a Second MRI on his Injured Throwing Shoulder

This story keeps getting weirder.

Grant Cohn

Nov 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass against the Seattle Seahawks in the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
Nov 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass against the Seattle Seahawks in the second quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images / David Gonzales-Imagn Images
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GREEN BAY -- This story keeps getting weirder.

On Thursday, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy apparently had a second MRI on his injured throwing shoulder according to FOX's Jay Glazer. And this MRI revealed no structural damage, just like the first one.

"So he actually hurt his shoulder last week against Seattle," Glazer said. "And Monday they gave him an MRI. Just showed a shoulder strain. Tuesday. Wednesday. Practice. They thought he was tracking on the right pace there. And then Thursday, went out and tried to throw. It just locked up on him. So what nobody knows is that they gave him another MRI on Thursday, but it didn't really show anything else. So they're kind of living with a question of when he's going to come back there. They're going to try and just rehab it, hope he comes back next week. They just don't know right now."

When Purdy initially pulled himself out of Thursday's practice, John Lynch went on KNBR in San Francisco and said the abbreviated workout was the plan all along for Purdy. In hindsight, it doesn't seem that was the case.

It seems the 49ers are waiting for Purdy to say he's ready to play. They've cleared him. If he wanted to get a pain injection and play through the injury today, I'm guessing the 49ers would have let him do that. So they're at his mercy.

If the 49ers lose this game to the Packers, their playoff hopes will be all but gone. Which means they probably should shut down Purdy for the rest of the season assuming they lose today. Bringing him back won't save the season.

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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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