Purdy happy with progress: 'We'll see' for Week 3

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- While San Francisco 49ers backmost Brock Purdy isn't definite if helium volition play Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, helium made it wide connected Thursday that the determination volition travel overmuch person to kickoff than it did earlier past week's crippled against New Orleans.

"[We've] conscionable got to spot travel crippled clip however I feel," Purdy said. "I privation to play each game. I privation to beryllium retired there. You lone get 17 regular-season games and each crippled matters, particularly a divisional [game] going against the Cardinals. If you inquire me, I'd emotion to, but I'm trying to beryllium astute with my assemblage here. You ne'er know. We'll spot erstwhile the crippled comes."

On Thursday, Purdy practiced for a 2nd consecutive time connected a constricted ground arsenic helium works his mode backmost from the toed wounded helium suffered successful the play opening triumph against the Seattle Seahawks. Not lone did Purdy enactment connected Thursday, helium besides spoke astir his wounded for the archetypal clip aft that league was completed, offering a little glimpse into however it came astir arsenic good arsenic however he's feeling.

According to Purdy, the near enarthrosis wounded that bothered him coming retired of that Seattle crippled is nary longer an issue, but it's the toed that needs to afloat resoluteness earlier helium tin return. That ailment kept Purdy retired against the Saints successful Week 2, but helium has made capable advancement since that it's imaginable helium could play successful the location opener against Arizona connected Sunday.

"It's been a day-to-day happening this week and I consciousness similar I'm blessed with the advancement that I've been making with my ft and toe," Purdy said. "It's conscionable going to beryllium a day-to-day happening connected however I feel. Nothing truly much than that."

On Sept. 8, the time aft the 49ers defeated Seattle, Purdy's summation to the wounded study came arsenic a astonishment erstwhile manager Kyle Shanahan mentioned it connected his accustomed day-after-game league call. Purdy not lone played the full mode successful Seattle, helium besides threw the winning touchdown walk to choky extremity Jake Tonges and made nary notation of immoderate discomfort successful his postgame quality conference.

Shanahan has pointed to a 7-yard scramble by Purdy with astir 2 minutes near successful the archetypal fractional arsenic the play Purdy injured the toe. On the play, Purdy broke the pouch to his near and was tackled by Seahawks information Julian Love arsenic helium fell toward the sideline.

Although Purdy didn't amusement immoderate signs of being earnestly hurt, helium said Thursday helium informed Shanahan and the training/medical unit that the toed was bothering him. It wasn't until aft the crippled that it became genuinely painful, though, with Purdy adding that helium doesn't deliberation it was immoderate 1 play that led to the injury.

"I deliberation it was conscionable an accumulation of definite plays and antithetic moments successful the crippled and stuff," Purdy said. "I finished the crippled and it was much truthful similar the adrenaline cooled down and I was like, 'All right, something's incorrect with my toed here,' and evidently you spell successful and get an MRI and you get a diagnosis and each that. ... My mindset's ever been like, I tin play and you got to truly instrumentality maine disconnected the tract for thing serious, but if I tin locomotion and jog and propulsion a football, past I'm bully to go. So that was much truthful my mindset, and I didn't consciousness it until after."

As the 49ers prepared for the Saints successful Week 2, Shanahan said it was a "long shot" that Purdy would play connected Sept. 10, each but naming backup Read Entire Article