Brock Purdy hurt his surgically repaired throwing elbow late in a loss to the Detroit Lions, the latest blow in an injury-plagued season for the San Francisco 49ers.

With less than two minutes left in the game and San Francisco trailing 40-28, quarterback Brock Purdy was sacked by Lions safety Brian Branch and landed hard on his throwing arm. He was immediately pulled from the game in favor of backup Josh Dobbs.

Quarterback Brock Purdy took a hit to his blind side from Lions safety Brian Branch and immediately left the game. It appeared his hand or wrist was being tended to on the sideline. The television broadcast showed him make a couple of soft throws on the sideline before giving up his helmet.

In the 49ers' Monday Night Football battle against the Detroit Lions, San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy notched a statistical milestone that no 49ers signal-caller has tracked down since Colin Kaepernick.

The sight of quarterback Brock Purdy sustaining an injury late in the San Francisco 49ers' loss to the Detroit Lions was the last thing fans wanted to

All the way back in January, Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers secured their biggest win of the season, beating the Detroit Lions 34-31 on the way to the Super Bowl. Oh, what a difference (almost) a year can make.

The last time Brock Purdy faced the Lions, he beat them in the NFC Championship Game. Now the Lions are coming back to town for revenge. And they

The 49ers will wrap up a massively disappointing season without a number of starters when they face the Cardinals in Week 18.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters Thursday that Purdy will not play Week 18 against the Arizona Cardinals. Purdy suffered a right elbow contusion with nerve inflammation in San Francisco's 40-34 loss to the Detroit Lions on "Monday Night Football."

San Francisco 49ers star quarterback Brock Purdy will not start in the team's final game of the regular season, says HC Kyle Shanahan. Instead, Josh Dobbs will start against against the Arizona Cardinals. For more on the NFL, head to Newsweek Sports.

SANTA CLARA – Brock Purdy injured his throwing elbow again, the 49ers’ most damning fallout from a 40-34 loss to the Detroit Lions in Monday night’s home finale. “It doesn’t feel the ...