SANTA CLARA — Brock Purdy is reacting well sufficient to hone Friday for a moment successive day, but that does not ensure he’ll be restoratively cleared from the NFL’s concussion convention to play Sunday.
The 49ers (5-2) have the Bengals (3-3) at 1:25 p.m. at Levi’s Stadium, and it’s accepted Purdy’s status ought to be known by Saturday.
As schedule as hone showed up to go, Purdy must still pass tests by an free neurologist and group therapeutic staff.
In 2012, Alex Smith practiced all through the week after a concussion constrained him from a 49ers’ domestic diversion with the Rams. Specialists in this way did not clear him for the taking after Monday night amusement against the Chicago Bears, coming about in Colin Kaepernick’s to begin with career begin. “I attempted to thrust it and went out and practiced and, you know, it fair wasn’t right,” Smith said in November 2012 of his post-concussion indications.
Purdy, since he remains within the convention, is precluded from talking with columnists. Sam Darnold, his understudy, is to address the media after hone.
Purdy played all through Monday night’s 22-17 misfortune at Minnesota, at that point experienced concussion-like side effects on the flight domestic and, in this way, entered the NFL’s concussion. He advanced sufficient to be on the field for Wednesday’s offense-only work (at that point skipped that day’s official hone), and, on Thursday, he driven quarterbacks through hone in which he was recorded as being constrained.
On the off chance that Purdy closes his streak of 15 successive begins (playoffs included), at that point the 49ers would turn to Darnold, who went 21-34 as a starter with the Unused York Planes (2018-20) and the Carolina Pumas (2021-22) some time recently marking a one-year bargain with the 49ers when free organization opened in March.
“Sam could be a proficient, gets it our playbook, gets us in and out of the group, and is productive with the ball,” tight conclusion George Kittle said. “I’ve seen him make a few insane tosses. I keep in mind against the Planes (in 2000), he had this insane rolling out plays, and he was dicing us up late I accept in Sam. He’s getting to able to step into this offense in the event that he should . And I still feel we have sufficient weapons around that we’re aiming to win with anything we have on the field.”
When it comes to Darnold’s capabilities, there’s a groundswell of certainty from both interior the organization and exterior eyewitnesses that he can be a competent fill-in for Purdy, who’s something else dug in as the starter.
Smith, talking Thursday on SiriusXM NFL Radio, said “it would be in uncommon territory” on the off chance that Purdy picks up clearance on a brief week of planning, seeing how the 49ers played Monday. Smith is among those who feel the 49ers are a extraordinary spot for Darnold to reboot his career, at whatever point that opportunity emerges.
“Sam’s been in almost as broken circumstances as you’ll be able be in to begina career,” Smith said Thursday on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “Take this from some person … I’ve been through a few brokenness as well. He’s never been in a framework like this, never been with a play caller like Kyle Shanahan. On the off chance that there’s a put for him to go out and succeed, it’s here.”
John Lynch, the 49ers’ common supervisor, said Friday on KNBR 680-AM that Darnold is “a incredible fit for what we do.”
“Listen, this fellow can toss it. Still inconceivably youthful, within the huge picture,” Smith included of Darnold, a 26-year-old item of USC. “They’re just fine if he has got to go in and play. That’s the reality of the NFL. The chance your beginning quarterback makes it through 17 recreations is rare.”
Steve Youthful, whereas not totally “absolving” Darnold of battles in Unused York and Carolina, is additionally curious to see how Darnold reacts, on the off chance that required.
“if Sam plays, I think there’s a part of certainty that, well, perhaps one amusement isn’t sufficient to show that (victory) or possibly things go haywire, but in the event that he had 10 recreations, I think you’d say, `Steve, you’re right.’ And he is getting more offer assistance and he is able of more than I thought,” Youthful said on KNBR 680-AM. “What that ceiling is, I don’t know. But we conversation around huge, solid folks running around tossing it all over the field; he can be that guy.”
Dan Orlavsky, a previous NFL quarterback and current ESPN examiner, said he does not anticipate the 49ers to skip a beat in the event that Darnold is stopped in for Purdy. “This youthful man has been weathered. He’s rationally been through it all,” Orlavsky said on ESPN of Darnold. “He is the most skilled quarterback physically that Kyle Shanahan has had in that offense at least since Matt Ryan, so that’s six or seven a long time. Out of all due regard to Brock Purdy, he’s a very great player, this offense will be fair fine with Sam Darnold.”
NFL Movies investigator Greg Cosell said he’d be “fascinated” to observe Darnold’s contrasting fashion to Purdy, noticing how Darnold has “always had a small bit of a issue at times in what he sees, playing with a better level of timing and expectation. And we know this offense requests that.”
Hone NOTES
Cleared out handle Trent Williams (lower leg) has not practiced since his damage Oct. 15 at Cleveland, so Jaylon Moore looks in line to begin a moment straight amusement. Wide collector Deebo Samuel remains out as the 49ers are giving his shoulder’s hairline break time to recuperate through following week’s bye.
