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49ers DE Leonard Floyd is Day-to-Day with a Knee Injury

Floyd, who will turn 32 on Sept. 8, hasn't missed a game since 2017.

Grant Cohn

Nov 19, 2023; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills defensive end Leonard Floyd (56) reacts to getting a sack against the New York Jets in the second quarter at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 19, 2023; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills defensive end Leonard Floyd (56) reacts to getting a sack against the New York Jets in the second quarter at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports / Mark Konezny-USA TODAY Sports
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Apparently, Leonard's Floyd knee injury isn't bad as it looks.

The 49ers list him as day-to-day, which means they expect him to be healthy and ready for Week 1 in 14 days. But Floyd is scheduled for an MRI today, so things could change if the doctors find that Floyd's injury is an MCL sprain or something serious.

Floyd injured his knee during the 49ers' preseason finale Friday night against the Raiders. The 49ers were playing their starters while Las Vegas was playing their third-stringers. During a pass play, Floyd rushed the quarterback and tripped over teammate Maliek Collins' leg. Then Collins fell on Floyd's knee and appeared to hyperextend it. Floyd immediately grabbed his knee in pain, limped off the field and did not return to the game.

Floyd, who will turn 32 on Sept. 8, hasn't missed a game since 2017. Durability is his best trait. He's extremely dependable and he plays through the whistle. Doesn't take plays off. Gives tremendous effort. Isn't a great run defender and doesn't have many pass-rush moves or counters to speak of, but he's active. If the quarterback scrambles away from Nick Bosa and toward Floyd, Floyd will run him down.

That's why the 49ers signed Floyd this offseason. They want a fast, athletic, durable pass rusher to complement Bosa. That's what they were going for when they acquired Dee Ford five years ago. But Ford wasn't durable. He broke down as soon as he joined the team.

Hopefully for the 49ers, Floyd won't do the same thing.

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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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