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49ers CB Ambry Thomas Fractures Forearm in Preseason Loss to Titans

The 49ers just lost some depth at cornerback.

Grant Cohn

September 18, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Ambry Thomas (20) before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
September 18, 2022; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers cornerback Ambry Thomas (20) before the game against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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The 49ers just lost some depth at cornerback.

Ambry Thomas fractured his forearm during San Francisco's 17-13 preseason loss to the Titans. Head coach Kyle Shanahan after the game said that Thomas will miss some time, presumably a lot of it. Don't be surprised if he spends the entire season on the Injured Reserve list.

Thomas, 24, was a third-round pick in 2021 after sitting out a season during the pandemic. And he never found his footing with the 49ers. He started five games his rookie season, but lost the job during his second season and got benched multiple times during his third season. The 49ers keep giving him opportunities and he keeps squandering them.

Last year, the 49ers benched Thomas down the stretch and replaced him with Logan Ryan, who was retired when the 49ers signed him. Now, the 49ers have signed veteran cornerback Rock Ya-Sin, who played the entire preseason game against the Titans and performed well. He's in line to take Thomas' spot on the roster.

It seems like the 49ers cornerbacks will be Charvarius Ward, Deommodore Lenoir, Isaac Yiadom, Renardo Green and Rock Ya-Sin, and the odd men out will be Samuel Womack, Darrell Luter Jr. and Thomas -- three recent draft picks who haven't panned out.

In retrospect, it seems as though current Washington Commanders general manager Adam Peters pounded the table for Thomas when Peters was in the 49ers' front office. Now that he's in Washington, there's no one left to advocate for Thomas.

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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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