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Dee Ford Misses Practice with Neck Injury

You’ve got to be kidding me.
Grant Cohn|

You’ve got to be kidding me.

On top of everything that’s gone wrong for the 49ers recently, now Dee Ford is injured again. The 49ers held him out of Thursday’s practice with a neck injury.

“Not overly concerned,” 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh said Thursday. “I’ll leave it up to Kyle (Shanahan) and those guys (to say more), but from my understanding, there’s no concern.”

Sounds like Ford injured his neck during Wednesday’s practice. If that’s the case, the injury probably isn’t serious and Ford most likely will play Sunday against the Jets. They need him to play, because they won’t have Richard Sherman or Deebo Samuel. Plus George Kittle might not play -- he has a sprained knee. And even if he does play, he may not play well.

Ford has a long history of lower-body injuries, so theoretically it’s good news he didn’t suffer another leg issue, because he shouldn’t lose any speed or quickness. Last season, he had lots of leg injuries, and never played more than 40 snaps in a game. On Sunday against the Cardinals, he played 46 snaps -- his career best with the 49ers.

We’ll know more about Ford’s status for Sunday’s game against the Jets when Shanahan speaks to the media on Friday.

Here's some good news for the 49ers: It seems both wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk and center Ben Garland are on track to play against the Jets. Aiyuk sat out Week 1 with a hamstring injury, while Garland sat out with an injured ankle. Both have practiced fully every day this week. Barring unforeseen setbacks, both will play and help the 49ers offense big time against the Jets.

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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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