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Nick WagonerOct 12, 2025, 05:11 PM ET
- Nick Wagoner is an NFL newsman astatine ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers since 2016, having antecedently covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including 3 years (2013 to 2015) astatine ESPN. In implicit a decennary with the company, Nick has led ESPN's sum of the Niners' 2019 and 2023 Super Bowl run, Colin Kaepernick's protest, the Rams making Michael Sam the archetypal openly cheery subordinate drafted to the NFL, Sam's consequent pursuit of a roster spot and the team's relocation and stadium saga.
TAMPA, Fla. -- The San Francisco 49ers took different important wounded deed Sunday erstwhile linebacker Fred Warner departed successful the archetypal 4th with a close ankle injury.
The 49ers astir instantly ruled retired a imaginable instrumentality for Warner aft helium was taken to the locker country via cart.
Warner injured the ankle with conscionable nether 8 minutes near successful the archetypal quarter. On first-and-10 astatine Tampa Bay's 36, moving backmost Rachaad White ran disconnected near tackle for a summation of 10 yards. Warner seemed to corral White but arsenic helium attempted to instrumentality him down, Niners information Ji'Ayir Brown rolled into the backmost of Warner's close ankle.
Brown reacted quickly, knowing that Warner mightiness beryllium earnestly wounded and teammates rapidly enactment their hands connected their heads and dropped to a genu arsenic they watched San Francisco's aesculapian unit situation Warner.
Within 2 minutes, a cart came connected the tract for Warner. His close ft and ankle were placed successful an aerial formed to stabilize it arsenic teammates wished him good earlier heading to the locker room.
The wounded to Warner is the latest successful a increasing database to cardinal 49ers. San Francisco mislaid antiaircraft extremity Nick Bosa to a season-ending torn close ACL successful Week 3 against the Arizona Cardinals and the Niners person played chunks oregon each of the play without choky extremity George Kittle (hamstring), backmost Brock Purdy (toe), receivers Ricky Pearsall (knee), Brandon Aiyuk (knee) and Jauan Jennings (ankle, ribs, shoulder).
Warner has been the person of San Francisco's defence since his accomplishment successful 2018 and was positioned to interruption Hall of Fame linebacker Patrick Willis' franchise grounds for tackles successful a vocation Sunday earlier the injury. He needed 5 tackles to scope that mark.
Tatum Bethune, a 2024 seventh-round pick, replaced Warner astatine mediate linebacker.
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