San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has had the toughest year of his professional career after suffering a toe injury in the season opener that has kept him off the field for five of the team’s first seven games of their 2025 campaign.
The 25-year-old who inked a massive five-year, $265 million extension this offseason has had to watch from the sidelines as his backup, Mac Jones, who many believed the 49ers would take over him in the 2021 NFL draft, has led the team to a 3-1 record in his first five starts.
Jones entered the team’s Sunday night battle against the Atlanta Falcons as the starter again, but NBC’s Melissa Stark had an update regarding Purdy’s injury during the broadcast.
“Turf toe may not sound like much, but it can be debilitating,” Stark reported. “There are varying degrees. For Brock, he hyperextended his right big toe in Week 1, tearing the stabilizing ligaments under the joint. In addition to being extremely painful, turf toe limits the toe’s ability to flex. Brock told me, any movement in the wrong direction can set him back. He said he is truly day-to-day. There is no timeline for his return. He called this injury so annoying, saying he’s never dealt with something that lingers this long.”
That’s not ideal for San Francisco, and it seems like Purdy could be out beyond Week 7, which many believed could be his last game on the sidelines.
For now, the 49ers will have to ride with Jones under center and Adrian Martinez as the backup, but they’d probably prefer to have the 2023 Pro Bowler back under center whenever he’s fully healthy.
We’ve already seen what Purdy looks like hampered, and it’s not worth it for him to come back early and risk aggravating the injury even more.
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