Kyle Shanahan holding out hope Brock Purdy can play Sunday

[ad_1] Brock Purdy remained restricted in Thursday’s follow, however the truth that he's working towards in any respect offers Kyle Shanahan some encouragement that the 49ers quarterback would possibly be capable of go on Sunday.

“He was in a position to get on the market once more right now and be restricted in what he did,” Shanahan mentioned on KNBR on Thursday afternoon, by way of David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. “And it was good that he was in a position to get out and do some stuff, although. Anytime you hear turf toe, you get so nervous about that stuff. You simply don’t know which sort it's, and the truth that he’s been in a position to do some this week, I feel, is an actual good signal and provides him an opportunity to go on Sunday.”

Purdy injured a toe in Week 1, forcing him to overlook Sunday’s victory over the Saints.

Shanahan mentioned the crew’s medical employees can have the ultimate say about whether or not Purdy performs.

“When you try this, you then’re just about good to go,” Shanahan mentioned. “Every participant is totally different. There’s some guys that there’s no method you’d allow them to go except they bought into follow. There’s different guys that, so long as they’re good on Sunday, you'd give them an opportunity to go.

“So every scenario is a bit of bit totally different. However with Brock, we’ve been via quite a bit with Brock. He’s performed harm. We’ve gone via weeks the place he’s tried to go and couldn’t go. So, I actually belief how Brock is what he tells me he can do, and if he tells me he can’t do one thing, or if he tells me he can, it’s all the time very sincere and accountable, I’d say, in how he tells me. So, I really feel actual good with the communication on him with that.”

Mac Jones began for Purdy in Week 2 and would begin towards the Cardinals if Purdy can’t go.

“It’s good to have a backup that you've loads of confidence in, and that you already know can play at a excessive stage, nevertheless it actually has no distinction,” Shanahan mentioned. “If Brock can go, and shield himself, and the trainers say that they don’t suppose it’s a threat, and Brock feels assured to carry out, then it doesn’t matter in any respect to me what the backup does. You’d go together with Brock.”