Update: 3:30 p.m. EST. Jimmy Garoppolo has been ruled out for the season with a torn ACL.
Jimmy Garoppolo, San Francisco 49er’s quarterback, was carried off the field on Sunday after a non-contact knee injury in the fourth quarter of the team’s 38-27 loss to the Chiefs on Sunday. And now the 49ers season is in danger of unravelling just three seasons in.
That’s because the injury was diagnosed a day later as a torn ACL, which will keep Garoppolo off the field until 2019.
You can see the injury in the video below (but beware, it is not for the faint of heart):
Jimmy G’s left knee buckles pic.twitter.com/tA5nqGEYf1
— Kevin Jones (@Mr_KevinJones) September 23, 2018
A torn ACL ends Garoppolo’s season, but, The Ringer writes, it will likely also end the 49ers’ as well. Garoppolo’s backup is second-year pro C.J. Beathard, and though back-up quarterbacks are getting a good rep thanks to Nick Foles’s Super Bowl run last season, no one is expecting Beathard to contribute at that level.
The team was already showing cracks in their system as San Fran has gone 1-2. Their offense struggled against the Vikings, while the defense was slow against the Lions and the Chiefs. And that was with Garoppolo.
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