Brock Purdy skilled the primary stinger of his soccer profession in Week 15 towards the Arizona Cardinals.
Now, the 49ers quarterback has sustained two stingers in two video games.
“I performed the entire sport effective, not occupied with it or something,” Purdy mentioned Monday night time after his four-interception outing in the 49ers’ 33-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. “It wasn’t even a factor.”
However within the fourth quarter, Purdy felt the feeling once more when Ravens defensive finish Jadeveon Clowney threw him for a 3-yard sack.
“And simply the way in which I acquired tackled on that play, it form of simply lit up once more similar to final week,” Purdy mentioned. “So, I needed to undergo the entire protocol course of within the tent once more and every part like that. That is simply form of simply the way it went down.”
A stinger usually happens when the top is pressured away from the shoulder and stretches the nerves within the neck. When that occurs, a stinging or burning sensation can happen alongside the trail of the nerve and into the arm.
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan mentioned Tuesday that he doesn’t consider Purdy can have any lasting results from sustaining two stingers one week aside. The primary got here simply eight days prior when Cardinals linebacker Dennis Gardeck made helmet-to-helmet contact with Purdy.
“Simply watching him how he was [last] week after which with the ability to hear how he was right now and speaking to him final night time after the sport, I feel he’s going to be effective,” Shanahan mentioned on a convention name with reporters. “I don’t assume it’s going to trouble him.
“I’m positive it’s a ache for him, however total, I feel he’ll be effective for us this week.”
The 49ers (11-4) will return to motion Sunday in a important Week 17 sport on the Washington Commanders. The 49ers nonetheless maintain the NFC’s high playoff spot, and may wrap up the No. 1 seed with victories over the Commanders and Los Angeles Rams to shut the common season.
Purdy had his worst sport as a school or skilled quarterback Monday night time, finishing 18 of 32 passes for 255 yards and no touchdowns with 4 interceptions. He left the sport with 7:50 remaining within the fourth quarter with backup quarterback Sam Darnold changing him and ending the sport.
Purdy mentioned he spoke with Shanahan about his availability to return to motion as soon as he was cleared.
“We had talked about simply the situation of the sport, the place we had been at, simply acquired a stinger and my arm was coming again, feeling regular and whatnot,” he mentioned. “Sam had gone in and scored, and he [Shanahan] goes, ‘For proper now, we’re simply going to go together with Sam simply by how issues are going.’ And we did not need anything popping up with the stinger and all that form of stuff. But it surely was simply the place we had been at situationally. So, Sam was doing good, and we rolled with him.”
Darnold led the 49ers on a landing drive to drag the 49ers inside two scores. He later threw an interception with one minute remaining when the 49ers had a fourth-and-goal state of affairs from the Ravens’ 17-yard line.
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