There was another missed call by the refs on a hip-drop tackle against the 49ers.
We’ll know more about how the San Francisco 49ers fared on the injury front once Kyle Shanahan speaks. Tatum Bethune and George Kittle’s ankles are what we should be concerned about.
After Monday night, Kittle told the media he believed he avoided a serious injury: “My concern level? I don’t think it’s a high ankle sprain. You know, we’ll take it one day at a time, and we’ll go from there.”
The last thing the 49ers can do is have Kittle miss a game. Kittle continued explaining when the injury happened: “It happened in the second quarter. Felt like I got hip-dropped. Ankle got stuck on the grass or the turf. The cork turf, really weird field.”
Kittle came up gimpy on this play:
This is the play where Kittle got rolled up on:
The play above happened in the third quarter, where safety Cam Bynum landed on Kittle’s ankle.
Kittle continued: “Tried to tape it up, went in in the third quarter. It just got worse from there. If I can’t run very fast or plant, then I think it’s better for other tight ends to go out there and make plays.”
This is the definition of a hip drop tackle: “When a defender grabs the runner with one or both hands or wraps the runner with both arms and unweights himself by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body, landing on and/or trapping the runner’s leg(s) at or below the knee.”
For the second week in a row, the 49ers likely missed out on a 15-yard penalty.
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