Ought to the San Francisco 49ers let star linebacker Fred Warner proceed to play by means of a grueling harm?
On Wednesday, Warner revealed he is been battling a fractured ankle all through the season. He mentioned he suffered the harm in a Week 4 win towards the New England Patriots. Since then, he has been injected with painkillers earlier than each sport.
“It is one thing I cope with earlier than each sport,” Warner mentioned, by way of The Athletic’s David Lombardi. “I get on the desk earlier than each sport and get shot up earlier than each single sport simply to have the ability to roll. It is not an excuse. That is the NFL. You are not gonna be wholesome…It was a fracture after I sprained it. Anytime you fracture a bone, when you proceed to play on it, the bone’s not going to have the ability to heal itself. So, you simply acquired to have the ability to combat by means of it.”