Brock Purdy is healthy, but 49ers lose Eddy Piñeiro and Tatum Bethune

Brock Purdy is fine but when the ers take the practice field Thursday in preparation for the Carolina Panthers in Week they ll have a new place kicker and a different participant at middle linebacker for the third time this season Purdy who missed the previous six games with right turf toe manifested little signs of rust and got through a - road win over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday without reinjury unlike his previous start on Sept against Jacksonville Place kicker Eddy Pi eiro and middle linebacker Tatum Bethune weren t as fortunate Pi eiro sustained a Grade right hamstring strain and will miss an undetermined amount of time The ers will hold tryouts for place kickers Tuesday and or Wednesday We re going to bring in selected guys for a workout coach Kyle Shanahan declared Monday in a conference call with local media They re working on that now A Grade strain is a mild overstretching of muscle fibers Shanahan termed Pi eiro s timeline as week to week Pi eiro has made all of his field goal attempts since taking over for Jake Moody in Week Strangely he has failed four of extra point attempts two of which were blocked He had a miss and a block against Arizona Shanahan compared the comfort level with Pi eiro to that of Robbie Gould who was -for- over the - seasons on field goal attempts and never missed one in the postseason with the ers Eddy s given that same feeling and he s been awesome so far Shanahan revealed We re pumped up to get him on the Niners Bethune was done atter snaps with a high ankle sprain and although he presumably isn t headed for injured reserve veteran Curtis Robinson will assume the role that first belonged to Fred Warner and then Bethune Bethune started the last five games after Warner was lost for the season with a broken ankle and his tackles are second on the ers to Dee Winters Robinson was lost to a torn ACL last season He played a career high snaps against Arizona plus his usual special teams load snaps and led the ers with tackles I thought he did a real good job Shanahan stated Curtis has been preparing for that opportunity for awhile especially coming back from that ACL He did a hell of a job Another probable mike linebacker Jalen Graham is on the practice squad and the er could add another to the practice squad if he s promoted Purdy who was of for yards and three touchdowns had one awkward moment that seemed to put his right toe at exposure when he was tackled from behind while running to his right but Shanahan mentioned he was never concerned I never did have that feeling throughout the encounter Shanahan reported He gave us a ton of confidence last week with how he s looked in practice Kittle on Collins Tight end George Kittle stated he is zeroing in on new players to watch on defense since the loss of his favorites Nick Bosa and Fred Warner One of them is rookie defensive Alfred Collins who Kittle first mistakenly identified as Alfred Morris a former running back who spent the season with the ers and gained yards Alfred has stood out for me because of his constant effort no matter where the ball is he s chasing it down and I really appreciate that from a young performer Kittle commented SNAP JUDGEMENTS A look at who played and how much in the ers win over the Arizona Cardinals Cornerback Renardo Green played the highest percentage of the defensive snaps percent coming out when being chastised by Shanahan and defensive coordinator Robert Saleh for being baited into a personal foul Curtis Robinson s defensive snap count was a career high surpassing the he had against Denver in He led the ers with tackles five unassisted and also played snaps on special teams Given the one-sided nature of the meeting no ers played every snap on either offense or defense Guard Dominick Puni played the highest percentage at percent of Ricky Pearsall Jr was targeted three times in his return to the field catching one pass for zero yards Upton Stout had the same number of snaps defensively leaving briefly with a stinger Safety Jason Pinnock got in his most of work since the first meeting against the Rams after playing defensive snaps in the previous five games combined Spencer Burford started at left guard and rotated with Ben Bartch who also got snaps Related Articles Inman things that caught my eye in ers - crushing of Cardinals ers analysis card Purdy s comeback defense s takeaways special teams thrill ride key rout ers defense special teams make key plays in dominant win at Arizona Quarterback debate Purdy just reminded everyone why he s the ers No What the ers noted after blowing out the Cardinals Darrell Luter Jr who would have gone into the starting lineup if Lenoir didn t play divided his snaps equally between defense and special teams with each Third-round draft pick Nick Martin got his first work on defense He and Luke Gifford foiled a two-point conversion attempt on an outside running play With Pearsall returning Kendrick Bourne had his lowest snap count since rejoining the ers The previous low was in Week against New Orleans the week he signed Backup quarterback Mac Jones stepped aside gracefully for Purdy and took the last five snaps as the ers killed the clock on an pivotal win Left tackle Austen Pleasants got five snaps when Trent Williams got a late break