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Trent Williams is Inactive for the 49ers' Week 12 Game vs. the Packers

This is bad news for the 49ers.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) warms up before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) warms up before the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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GREEN BAY -- This is bad news for the 49ers.

Trent Williams has been ruled out of San Francisco's Week 12 game against the Green Bay Packers with an ankle injury. The 49ers hoped that Williams would be able to gut it out and play as he did last week, but Williams clearly feels he's in too much pain. Or he feels the season is over. Or both.

In retrospect, the 49ers probably should have let the 36-year-old left tackle stay home in Santa Clara. Making him fly to Green Bay probably didn't expedite his recovery.

Williams hasn't played a full season since 2013, so his absence shouldn't come as a shock. He was bound to miss a game or two eventually. It's just too bad that he's missing this game which is close to a must-win. The 49ers' playoff hopes are hanging by a thread.

But now, they won't have Williams or Nick Bosa or Brock Purdy -- all three are out with injuries today. Which means the 49ers won't have their quarterback and their two highest-paid players.

You could argue that Williams is the most significant injury today. Because the 49ers have won games with backup quarterbacks in the past. Purdy was a third-stringer just a couple years ago. But they do not typically do well with Williams. Last season he missed two games and the 49ers lost both of them. That's because his backup, Jaylon Moore, can't hold a candle to Williams.

Let's see if the 49ers can find a way to win without Williams today.

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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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