San Francisco 49ers Face Major Injuries Entering Week 8

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00:00Of course as a week comes to a close in the NFL, a ton of injury news that has

00:08been finalized since the Sunday slate and none of it is really good for the

00:13San Francisco 49ers. Tests confirming yesterday that Brandon Ayuk has suffered

00:18a season-ending knee injury. Torn ACL and MCL, he will miss the remainder of this

00:24year for San Francisco. Debo Samuel, a late-scratch dubsy against that Kansas

00:30City Chiefs team in the Super Bowl 58 rematch. They said he was dealing with an

00:33illness, a rather serious one. He has been hospitalized with pneumonia. He has

00:39fluid in his lungs. There is no timeline for his return at this moment. Scary

00:44situation for Debo. Debo, excuse me, Christian McCaffrey, unlikely to return

00:49before the week 9 by for San Francisco. Still on injury reserve with the

00:54Achilles tendonitis and just to add on to this laundry list, George Kittle, who

00:59has been banged up at times this year, is considered day-to-day with a foot

01:04sprain and it's not like dubsy. This 49ers team has looked a part of an NFC

01:09favorite and they're 5-2 and now this slew of injuries. They're below

01:14500. They're 3-4 and it does not look like this is going to get

01:18better anytime in the near future for the 49ers. No, it really doesn't. They're

01:23getting set to take on the Dallas Cowboys on deck there and the Cowboys,

01:26it's only a matter of time before they truly wake up there. So for the 49ers,

01:31it's really not good news on any front there. I guess the

01:35the only positive you would take away from that is CMC. Christian McCaffrey

01:39could possibly back in the mix there by week 10 but if they were to drop this

01:43next one to the Cowboys and sitting there at 3-5, they're gonna be

01:46playing catch-up and without all these explosive offensive weapons, it's not a

01:51knock to Brock Purdy. We're not gonna call him assistant quarterback,

01:55Benny, but they really do need the pieces in place for this offense to work. So if

02:00they can get Christian McCaffrey back in the mix, you've got a question, how's he

02:03really gonna be, you know, look at first game back coming into week 10? It's

02:07obviously gonna be a bit of rust for a guy that you depend on for so much

02:10productivity. So for the 49ers, Shanahan, one of the smartest minds in the business,

02:15they've got to find something, some kind of spark to just try and keep that

02:19season alive until they can get a little healthier there. But Brandon and I, you're

02:22getting said to miss the rest of the season. That's a massive blow up

02:26there in Santa Clara.