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49ers Fear Jalen Hurd Tore his ACL

For the second year in a row, Jalen Hurd’s season could end before it even starts.

Grant Cohn

For the second year in a row, Jalen Hurd’s season could end before it even starts.

Hurd will undergo an MRI Monday morning, and the 49ers fear the results will show a torn ACL for the second-year wide receiver, according to the NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo.

Hurd, 24, injured his knee while running routes on a side field during practice. He made a cut, instantly went down and stayed on his back for three or four minutes. Eventually, he stood up and walked off the field by himself. He even reenacted the injury to a member of the training staff. No one carted Hurd off the field, so the injury didn’t seem serious. But apparently, it is serious.

The 49ers drafted Hurd in the third round of the 2019 draft, and he missed his entire rookie season after suffering a fracture in his back after just two weeks of training camp. The injury was so severe, he couldn’t travel with the team or attend meetings because it hurt to sit down for long stretches of time.

The 49ers wanted to ease Hurd back into action this year, which is why he was working on a side field. He did not participate in team scrimmages Saturday or Sunday. And yet, he still injured himself. He’s a superb athlete, but his body may not let him play football in the NFL. What a shame that would be.

If Hurd indeed tore his ACL, then the top wide receivers on the 49ers depth chart are Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne, Jauan Jennings, Trent Taylor, Tavon Austin and Dante Pettis.

Stay tuned for more information about Hurd’s knee.

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Grant Cohn
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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