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The 49ers List Trent Williams and Talanoa Hufanga as Questionable

Both players suffered their injuries during practice on Thursday. According to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Hufanga rolled his ankle, while it's less clear how Williams' injury occurred.

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Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) leaves the field injured in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams (71) leaves the field injured in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images / David Gonzales-Imagn Images
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Two surprise names popped up on the 49ers' injury list today.

Talanoa Hufanga has an ankle injury and Trent Williams has a toe injury. Both players are listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the New England Patriots.

Both players suffered their injuries during practice on Thursday. According to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Hufanga rolled his ankle, while it's less clear how Williams' injury occurred.

"Came in this morning with it sore," Shanahan said on Friday. "It acted up a little bit in practice yesterday and it was just too sore for him to go today.”

After Shanahan's press conference, Williams was spotted walking gingerly out of the 49ers locker room. He clearly was favoring his right foot. Sounds like someone who's getting old.

Given that Williams could walk today, I'm guessing he'll be healthy enough to play on Sunday. I'm sure the 49ers can give him an injection to numb the pain if necessary. Offensive linemen play through all kinds of injuries.

Hufanga seems less likely to play. Rolling an ankle can be a serious injury. When basketball players roll an ankle, they often miss at least a couple weeks. Hufanga isn't a basketball player, but he is an NFL safety, which means he has to run and cut and change directions quickly. And he might not be healthy enough to do that on Sunday.

If Hufanga can't play, the next man up would be George Odum who started the first two games of the season and gave up a passer rating of 158.3.

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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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