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The 49ers are Being Extremely Coy About Jauan Jennings' Hip Injury

They still should beat the Cowboys.

Grant Cohn

Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) controls the ball against Arizona Cardinals cornerback Max Melton (16) during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
Oct 6, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) controls the ball against Arizona Cardinals cornerback Max Melton (16) during the first quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images / Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- Jauan Jennings' hip injury clearly is worse than the 49ers have let on.

Jennings will miss his second game in a row this Sunday night when the 49ers take on the Dallas Cowboys. He already is listed as out because he missed all three days of practice this week. He was too injured even to jog on the side field with the other injured players.

After practice, I asked head coach Kyle Shanahan if Jennings has a hip pointer. Shanahan said, "No," and left it at that. Which means he won't say what exactly the injury is.

Yikes.

Fortunately for Jennings, he'll have a Bye week after the Cowboys game to rest and recover and hopefully play Week 10 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's possible that's the 49ers' plan for him. Or it's possible he's out for the season. Considering how often the 49ers have reported incorrect or incomplete injury information, nothing would surprise me.

Losing Jennings is a significant blow to the 49ers' offense considering he's their leading receiver this season. Teams have adjusted to take away the 49ers' yards after the catch, so they need a receiver who excels at making contested catches, and that's Jennings. He's the best contested-catch receiver on the team. When Purdy throws Jennings a 50-50 ball, the odds are in Jennings' favor that he'll come down with the ball.

Without Jennings, the 49ers will have to rely more on rookies Ricky Pearsall and Jacob Cowing.

And they still should beat the Cowboys regardless.

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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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