49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo hopeful he’s out ‘just a couple weeks’ after leaving Week 4 with calf injury

Trey Lance lastly took over for Jimmy Garoppolo on Sunday, however it wasn’t as a result of Kyle Shanahan supposed to insert the rookie quarterback. A calf harm compelled Garoppolo out of motion at halftime of their 28-21 loss to the Seahawks, with San Francisco ruling the veteran signal-caller questionable to return popping out of the break. All indicators level to Lance remaining beneath heart, nevertheless, with Garoppolo telling reporters after the sport that he is hopeful he’ll be sidelined “only a couple weeks.”

“I believed I may maintain attempting, maintain attempting to go in,” Garoppolo mentioned, explaining that his calf initially tightened up in the course of the first quarter of Sunday’s loss. “And it stored getting worse and worse … I simply felt one thing go within the calf. I believed I may intestine it out, however it’s simply powerful, man.”

After lamenting the actual fact this harm is simply the newest to drive Garoppolo out of motion for an prolonged time frame (“It is getting actual previous,” he advised reporters), the quarterback was requested if he thinks he may have torn his Achilles, which might conceivably finish his season.

“I do not suppose, no,” he mentioned. “I actually hope not. It looks like simply the calf proper now, however I am hopeful it will simply be a pair weeks or one thing like that.”

He added that additional testing on his calf, together with an MRI scheduled for Monday, ought to dictate his timeline for restoration.

In different phrases, it is instantly Lance’s present for the foreseeable future. This, in fact, is a part of the explanation the 49ers spent a lot to maneuver up and draft Lance, as Shanahan has lengthy mentioned. Garoppolo hasn’t performed a full season since 2019, lacking a mixed 23 video games resulting from harm in 2018 and 2020. And but the compelled swap comes at an important time for San Francisco, which now trails each the Cardinals and Rams within the NFC West and is about to go to the previous in Week 5.