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🤕 Five things to know Thursday

The 49ers have ruled out Brock Purdy for Thursday night's game vs. the Rams. After aggravating his toe injury in last week's loss to the Jaguars, Purdy will be unavailable tonight for a divisional matchup against the Rams . Unfortunately for the 49ers, that's just the start of a lengthy injury list. Wide receivers Jauan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall have also been ruled out, and tight end George Kittle remains on IR. Hopefully Christian McCaffrey has been hitting the cold tubs often this week.

Three teams forced a winner-take-all Game 3 in the MLB Wild Card round. The Guardia

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