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49ers WR Jauan Jennings Misses Another Practice with a Hip Injury

The 49ers are being awfully coy about Jauan Jennings' hip injury.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) is checked on by offensive tackle Trent Williams (center top) after suffering an injury against the Arizona Cardinals during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) is checked on by offensive tackle Trent Williams (center top) after suffering an injury against the Arizona Cardinals during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images / Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers are being awfully coy about Jauan Jennings' hip injury.

At the beginning of the week, head coach Kyle Shanahan said Jennings had a chance to play this Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys after missing last Sunday's loss to the Chiefs with a hip injury he suffered two weeks ago in Seattle.

Shanahan sounded upbeat and optimistic about Jennings' chances to play against the Cowboys. But Jennings hasn't shown his face on the practice field since the 49ers beat the Seahawks two Thursdays ago. He hasn't jogged on a side field or stood on the sideline to watch his teammates. He has been somewhere else.

I'm guessing he's in the trainer's room receiving treatment on his hip. And i'm guessing his injury is still extremely painful to the point where he can't yet jog. The 49ers haven't revealed the exact nature of the injury, but it's possible Jennings suffered a hip pointer, which essentially is a bone bruise and a bad one. The recovery time for a hip pointer typically is two to four weeks. Which means he should be healthy when the 49ers return from the Bye week.

I'm guessing Jennings will not play Sunday against the Cowboys. The 49ers sure could use him considering Brandon Aiyuk is out for the season with a torn ACL and MCL, but they should have Deebo Samuel and George Kittle, both of whom practiced on Thursday. And the Cowboys are terrible. Meaning the 49ers should be able to win without Jennings this week.

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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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