It was one thing to get battered on Monday Night Football here in Week 16 of the NFL regular season, against a team that is looking more and more like a Super Bowl favorite from the AFC in recent weeks. It was quite another to get battered while undergoing a string of what could prove to be critical injuries for the 49ers. Because, despite the focus that gets placed on stars Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey, the true bellwether of the 49ers offense is their left tackle, and the team simply can’t afford a Trent Williams injury that carries into the postseason.
Williams left the loss to Baltimore on Monday with a groin injury. That was made worse when backu Jaylon Moore went out with a concussion, and worse still when Williams’ partner on the left side of the line, Aaron Banks, suffered a toe injury.
A groin injury, of course, can be a tricky and the severity difficult to measure.
He tried to go back in,” Shanahan said in his postgame press conference. “The trainer didn’t think it was a good idea, so we’ll get the MRI tomorrow and see how it goes.”
Williams tried to calm the waters in the postgame locker room. “I’m good,” Williams said to several reporters, per the San Francisco Chronicle. “I know you want to ask me about the injury. I’ll be all right.
