Jason Verrett Tears Achilles in Practice

Just brutal.

Grant Cohn | Nov 10, 2022

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San Francisco 49ers

SANTA CLARA -- What a sad story.

Jason Verrett tore his left Achilles tendon Wednesday during practice, and the 49ers cornerback is done for the season. Again.

Verrett was recovering from a torn right ACL which he suffered Week 1 of last season. He completed the year-long rehab process, got medically cleared to play and was in line to make his season debut this Sunday night against the Los Angeles Chargers. Then he ruptured his Achilles during practice. In retrospect, he probably wasn't ready to return to football.

Verrett has had incredible misfortune in his career. The former first-round pick quickly proved that he's one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL, but he simply couldn't stay on the field. He has now torn both of his Achilles and both of his ACLs. Just brutal.

The 49ers were hoping that Verrett could take over the starting cornerback job after the Bye week, considering starter Emmanuel Moseley is out for the season with an ACL tear. Now the 49ers will have to rely on second-year cornerback Deommodore Lenoir for the remainder of the season. Lenoir has held his own so far this season, but he's nothing like Verrett, who's as good as any cornerback in the NFL when healthy.

The 49ers most likely will add another cornerback to the roster to replace Verrett, but the free agent options typically aren’t great at this point in the season. Unfortunately for the 49ers, the trade deadline passed last week. Perhaps they should have traded for a cornerback when they had the chance.

Published Nov 10, 2022

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.