{"id":104857,"date":"2025-10-08T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=104857"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:30:19","slug":"unbelievable-55-million-injury-crisis-49ers-lead-nfl-in-players-lost-and-money-burned-nick-bosas-20m-acl-disaster-george-kittles-hamstring-woes-and-a-decade-of-pain-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=104857","title":{"rendered":"UNBELIEVABLE $55 MILLION INJURY CRISIS: 49ers Lead NFL in Players Lost and Money Burned. Nick Bosa\u2019s $20M ACL Disaster, George Kittle\u2019s Hamstring Woes, and a Decade of Pain That\u2019s Somehow Still Powering San Francisco to the Top of the NFC West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>49ers have ungodly amount of money tied up in players on injured lists<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">It won&#8217;t surprise you to know the San Francisco 49ers are again the\u00a0most injured team\u00a0across the entire NFL after just five weeks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">What might shock you is just how much money the Niners have committed to players on some sort of injury list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_4\" class=\"mm-slot-content\">\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_4_slot0\" data-gpid=\"23162276296\/fansided\/nfl\/ninernoise.com\/inarticle_d_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">Hint: It&#8217;s a lot. More than the remaining 31 other squads.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">This makes a good deal of sense. All-Pro tight end George Kittle landed on injured reserve after suffering a hamstring injury in Week 1. As the highest-paid player at his position, that money is going to a star not currently on San Francisco&#8217;s 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">And, not long ago, All-Pro defensive end Nick Bosa became the league&#8217;s highest-paid non-quarterback after his Defensive Player of the Year campaign in 2022. But his season-ending ACL tear suffered in Week 3 resulted in his massive $20-plus million cap hit for 2025 being spent on an IR player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_1256,y_727,w_1820,h_1023\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/42\/01k704sz3apffa19c7k7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">49ers have way more money spent on injured players than rest of NFL<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">OK, brace yourself. Are you ready for this?<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_5\" class=\"mm-slot-content\">\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_5_slot0\" data-gpid=\"23162276296\/fansided\/nfl\/ninernoise.com\/inarticle_d_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">After five weeks, the 49ers have a whopping $55.07 million currently committed to players on injury lists, which include injured reserve, the physically unable-to-perform (PUP) list and the non-football injury (NFI) list.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">And, according to\u00a0Over the Cap&#8217;s average-per-year data\u00a0for 2025, the Niners&#8217; APY for injured players is $97.6 million, almost $30 million more than the No. 2 team on that same list, the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;&gt;iframe]:max-w-full flex justify-center my-f-1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNinerNoise%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0yaryVqa9nZVqZ4tXnMtWekcmtV64iyv2Y63iEag7DZhhAMKyzERQGULGbqCYdbyTl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"565\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">Brutal. Absolutely brutal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">And the funny thing is this doesn&#8217;t even account for quarterback Brock Purdy, who has been inactive because of a toe injury for three of the first five weeks but hasn&#8217;t landed on injured reserve. Same goes with wide receivers Jauan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall, who have been banged up but rather relegated to inactive lists rather than IR.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_6\" class=\"mm-slot-content\">\n<div id=\"inarticle_d_2_6_slot0\" data-gpid=\"23162276296\/fansided\/nfl\/ninernoise.com\/inarticle_d_3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">Oddly enough, there&#8217;s plenty of data dating back to 2012 that point to San Francisco being the\u00a0most injury-prone team across the entire league, and it&#8217;s not just head coach Kyle Shanahan&#8217;s tenure impacted here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-14\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">Fortunately, at least this season, the 49ers have mostly weathered the storm to a 4-1 record and the top spot in the NFC West, often having to rely on backups and reserves to plug the gaps.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-15\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\">Exactly how that came to be is anyone&#8217;s guess, but it&#8217;s safe to assume most fans would rather have the Niners way down toward the middle of the pack, in terms of injuries and injury spend, instead of being far and away at the top.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>49ers have ungodly amount of money tied up in players on injured lists It won&#8217;t surprise you to know the San Francisco 49ers are again the\u00a0most injured&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UNBELIEVABLE $55 MILLION INJURY CRISIS: 49ers Lead NFL in Players Lost and Money Burned. 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