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Jimmy Garoppolo Has Chipped Bone and Sprained Ligament in Right Thumb

Garoppolo could miss the 49ers remaining games, and Trey Lance could replace him as soon as this weekend against the Houston Texans.
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Jimmy Garoppolo Has Chipped Bone and Sprained Ligament in Right Thumb
Jimmy Garoppolo Has Chipped Bone and Sprained Ligament in Right Thumb

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Jimmy Garoppolo may have played his final game with the 49ers.

According to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Garoppolo sprained the thumb on his throwing hand this past Thursday when the 49ers lost to the Tennessee Titans. Which means Garoppolo could miss the 49ers remaining games, and Trey Lance could replace him as soon as this weekend against the Houston Texans.

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Garoppolo's injury is worse then a thumb sprain.

According to the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, Garoppolo chipped a bone and tore a ligament in his thumb.

Here's what Shanahan said about Garoppolo's injury Monday on a conference call with Bay Area reporters.

Q: How did Garoppolo injure his thumb?

SHANAHAN: "It was on his sack I believe at the end of the second quarter when the guy drove him into the ground. Ended up getting his thumb on the play."

Q: Is the thumb fractured?

SHANAHAN: "No, it's a thumb sprain. I think you guys know how those are. It didn't feel great today. Couldn't throw today. We'll see how it is on Wednesday. Hopefully, it will get better."

Q: Did Garoppolo's injury affect how he played in the second half?

SHANAHAN: "I think it affected his throw on the first play of the third quarter (interception No. 2). I would say that was the one play it affected him the most."

Q: When did you find out he was injured?

SHANAHAN: "We knew his thumb was hurting him. We knew he jammed it. We thought he jammed it some time during the game. He told us right when he came to the bench."

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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