Thursday Night Football Injury Updates: Niners vs Rams

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00:00It's Thursday night Intel and it's at Stonewashed Denim Jeans in Santa Clara, California, Levi's.

00:10It's the Niners and the Rams, and there's a lot of news on this one.

00:13Yeah, let's start with the visiting team, the Rams.

00:15Now, historically, they haven't played well there, but they're the healthiest of the two

00:19teams.

00:20So one corner is going to be out Kobe Durant.

00:23He's got a, he's got a chest injury.

00:25The problem is there's just not enough time on a short week and it's a shame.

00:28Tyler Higbee, if you remember, he tore an ACL late last season.

00:32He's close, but they're on a short week here.

00:35He's been out all season.

00:36He got hurt last December.

00:38So the hope is he can return next week.

00:40So they're not going to have him.

00:41And he's such an underrated 10-man, but they're not going to have him tonight.

00:45Now, for the 49ers, Isaac Correndo, the rookie out of Louisville, I actually met Isaac last

00:51summer.

00:52He's got a very lightly sprained foot.

00:54They think he's going to be able to go tonight, but the question is how long could he go?

00:57Could he play a ton of snaps that they're not going to know until they get into the

01:00game and he gets through pregame warmups?

01:02Now, if anything happens, it's Patrick Taylor, who played in this zone scheme that they run

01:06with the 49ers.

01:07He played in with Green Bay.

01:08He'll back them up.

01:09And Izzy Abanacanda, who was a draftee of the Jets, he'll be the third string running

01:14back.

01:15Now, the good news is they're going to get Aaron Banks back, who's their left guard from

01:19concussion.

01:20He had missed the last two games.

01:21He's back.

01:22Ben Bartsch, who was filling in for him, has a high ankle sprain.

01:25He got put on IR today.

01:28But the big news is, Scott, this is great news for them.

01:30Drake Greenlaw, you might remember, anyone who watched the Super Bowl, he was running

01:34back onto the field.

01:36He tours the Achilles of the Super Bowl.

01:38Well, guess what, folks?

01:39He's finally back for this game today within the last hour and he's going to play tonight.

01:44That's a big story and a great sort of good news story for the football team, a Niners

01:50team that, as you know, has been besieged by injury on both sides of the football.

01:54But getting Greenlaw back tonight, that'll help.

01:56We should also add Trent Williams will not play tonight.

01:59He'll miss his fourth straight game.

02:00He had the personal tragedy in his family, unfortunately, also, and the ankle injury.

02:06So he's going to miss now four games.

02:08And Jalen Moore, who's a fourth-year player, will fill in for him.

02:11Wow.

02:12So, and everyone knows that they're desperate to win out.

02:17If they have any hope at all of getting a wild card, they literally have to win out.

02:22Do you think that they can pull this off with all of their injuries and depth problems?

02:29Yeah, they absolutely could win tonight.

02:31The Rams are so inconsistent.

02:33But if you look at the schedules, which I've done already, Seattle's in the driver's seat.

02:37It's not just that they have eight wins.

02:39They're playing the best football of that division.

02:41The Cardinals have fallen off like we all expected would happen.

02:44They got off to that great start.

02:46Seattle right now is in the driver's seat for the NFC West.

02:49I would agree with your assessment.

02:50The Niners are pretty much going to have to win out to win that division.

02:53And even then, it's not a guarantee because Seattle's got a pretty favorable schedule here.

02:58But the Niners, they lost too many games they should have won.

03:01But they got to get the job done for the final quarter of the season, and it starts tonight.

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