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49ers QB Brock Purdy had an MRI on his Back and is Day to Day

It sounds like there's a legitimate chance that Purdy won't be able to practice with the team on Wednesday.

Grant Cohn

Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) gets past Los Angeles Rams linebacker Jacob Hummel (35) as he reaches mid-air for a first down before he is forced out of bounds in the second half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
Sep 22, 2024; Inglewood, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) gets past Los Angeles Rams linebacker Jacob Hummel (35) as he reaches mid-air for a first down before he is forced out of bounds in the second half at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images / Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images
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This doesn't sound great.

Brock Purdy is day to day with back soreness according to head coach Kyle Shanahan.

"His MRI was good," Shanahan said on a conference call, "so we feel good about that. But just sore today and hopefully it'll feel better by Wednesday."

Purdy presumably injured his back Sunday during the 49ers' 27-24 loss to the Rams, although it's unclear when he might have gotten hurt. Perhaps during one of his quarterback sneak attempts.

Shanahan downplayed the severity of Purdy's injury, but keep in mind Shanahan also initially called Christian McCaffrey's Achilles tendonitis a calf strain, he initially called Javon Hargrave's torn triceps a contusion and he initially called George Kittle's pulled hamstring a cramp. So we'll have to see for ourselves just how injured Purdy truly is.

It sounds like there's a legitimate chance that Purdy won't be able to practice with the team on Wednesday. Shanahan said he hopes that Purdy can practice, not that he expects Purdy to practice. Big difference.

And if Purdy's back hurt enough for him to get an MRI, I'm guessing "soreness" is an understatement for what he has. I'm guessing he's in significant pain. I'm guessing the 49ers don't really know what his status for this week will be.

If Purdy is less than 100 percent healthy, he shouldn't play. He's too important to their future to play him when he's injured this early in the season against the Patriots. The 49ers should be able to beat New England without Purdy.

Stay tuned.

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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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