George Kittle will not Play against the New York Giants

Get ready to watch the 49ers B-Team Sunday against the New York Giants.

Grant Cohn | Sep 25, 2020

Get ready to watch the 49ers B-Team Sunday against the New York Giants.

Tight end George Kittle will miss the game with a knee injury, head coach Kyle Shanahan confirmed on Friday. In addition, the following 49ers will miss the game as well:

Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo: Ankle.

Running back Raheem Mostert: Knee.

Running back Tevin Coleman: Knee.

Linebacker Dre Greenlaw: Thigh.

Defensive end Dee Ford: Back.

Defensive end Nick Bosa: Knee .

Defensive end Solomon Thomas: Knee

Cornerback Richard Sherman: Calf.

Wide receiver Deebo Samuel: Foot.

Center Weston Richburg: Knee.

And cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon is questionable with a hamstring injury.

It seems the 49ers are being as careful as possible with injured players on the sticky, spongy MetLife Stadium turf. Understandable considering Bosa and Thomas tore their ACLs on that surface just last week. But the 49ers have to beat the Giants. Can’t afford to start the season 1-2.

Despite the plethora of injuries, the 49ers still are 3.5-point road favorites over the Giants. Because the Giants lost their best player, running back Saquon Barkley, for the season with a knee injury. And their running game stunk before he went down. They’re a one-dimensional offense with a bad offensive line and a quarterback, Daniel Jones, who usually commits at least one turnover per game.

The 49ers defense should play well against the Giants even without Bosa, Ford and Sherman -- the Niners played almost all of the Jets game without those three, and still stifled the Jets. The Giants have better wide receivers than the Jets, but the 49ers pass rush should harass Jones and make him turn the ball over. Expect Arik Armstead to have a big impact.

Published Sep 25, 2020

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.