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49ers LT Trent Williams Misses Practice with an Ankle Injury

This is concerning.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) blocks Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Naquan Jones (96) during the fourth quarter 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) blocks Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Naquan Jones (96) during the fourth quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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This is concerning.

Trent Williams missed his second practice in a row on Thursday with an ankle injury. He also sat on Wednesday, but his absence flew under the radar because he never practices on Wednesdays. The 49ers call this weekly day off a "vet day." But they listed his ankle issue on Wednesday's practice report, so this is a prolonged issue.

Williams apparently injured his ankle Sunday during the 49ers' 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He never left the game and the 49ers didn't mention him among the injured players immediately afterward or the next day. So the issue must have popped up on Tuesday. Perhaps the soreness took a couple days to set in. Or maybe Williams is just getting old.

Williams is 36 and hasn't played a full season since he was 25. He generally misses one or two games every season. Which means Williams' ankle injury could keep him out of Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks.

Fortunately for the 49ers, the Seahawks aren't particularly good. The 49ers should be able to beat them even if Williams doesn't play. But Seattle is coming off a bye week, so they'll be extra rested and prepared. And if the 49ers somehow manage to lose this game, their odds of making the playoffs will drop significantly. So it's not a must-win game, but it's close.

I'm guessing Williams would play through a bad ankle injury in the playoffs or late in the regular season, but not in November.

Stay tuned.

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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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