Halt me in case you’ve listened this some time recently, but the 49ers are managing with an harm at quarterback. This week, starter Brock Purdy popped up on the harm report with head coach Kyle Shanahan telling correspondents that the second-year signal-caller is in concussion convention. After lost Wednesday’s hone totally, Purdy was able to suit up on a constrained premise on Thursday but still ought to clear convention in arrange to play Sunday against Cincinnati. On the off chance that he can’t, that’d pushed ingenious Sam Darnold into the starting lineup.
Whereas you will think that going from your conventional starter to a reinforcement would be a minimize for any given club, there does appear to be bounty of certainty in Darnold inside the Niners locker room. In reality, cornerback Charvarius Ward indeed went so distant as to say that there’s “no drop-off” when embeddings Darnold in over Purdy.
“I anticipate us to win, same as I do with Brock,” the cornerback told Mike Silver of the San Francisco Chronicle, by means of 49ersWebZone.com. “Darnold’s a seasoned vet. He’s played six a long time; he came within the NFL with me. I anticipate him to come in and sling that motherf—er around. Ain’t no drop-off. We’re great.”
Darnold earned the QB2 work this summer after beating out Trey Spear, who has since been exchanged to Dallas. Indeed some time recently landing in San Francisco this offseason, Shanahan has been an admirer of Darnold from a remote place for very a whereas.
“I’ll be energized for Sam to come in,” Shanahan told KNBR on Thursday. “I cruel, Sam has done a parcel of good things since he’s been here. He looks incredible on the hone field. Ought to play with him in a handful of preseason recreations. But once you go into an NFL amusement with somebody for the primary time, there’s continuously a few novelty to both of us. Fair feeling it out, feeling with the group. But Sam’s played a parcel of football, and when he gets out here, he’s got such command, got a ton of certainty.
“The folks around here, they accept in him a ton. They’re astounded with how great he is tossing the football and stuff, a few of the tosses he makes on scout team, what he did all through preparing camp. And on the off chance that his opportunity with us for the primary time is this Sunday, he’ll be prepared to go, and our folks will be energized to take after him.”
Darnold begun the ultimate six recreations of the season for the Jaguars final season. Over that extend, he completed fair 58.5% of his passes but did enlist a 92.6 passer rating. He found the middle value of 190.5 passing yards per diversion, and tossed seven touchdowns to go beside three interceptor, whereas moreover surging for 106 yards and two more scores.
