Injuries hit the 49ers like a relentless storm just a week into the 2025 season. Key players, starting quarterback Brock Purdy, star tight end George Kittle, and others, were sidelined right after the nail-biting Week 1 win over the Seahawks. With 17 players already nursing injuries, the team’s Super Bowl hopes immediately got a massive cloud over them.

Injuries Brock Purdy picked up in that Week 1 game: a variant of turf toe alongside a sore left shoulder. So, long story short, when your starting QB suffers in the first game of the season, there’s no sugarcoating the pain. The team, led by head coach Kyle Shanahan, mentioned that it will be a “long shot” that Purdy plays against the Saints on Sunday. The usually durable 25-year-old had to fight through the pain during

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