The 49ers have two games to play, but left guard Aaron Banks is done for the year.
So is left tackle Jaylon Moore.
So is Pro Bowl tackle Trent Williams.
And possibly linebacker Dre Greenlaw.
Those were the updates provided by coach Kyle Shanahan Monday during his weekly conference call with local writers the day after a 29-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins. The 49ers have won just one of their last six games.
That’s life with the 49ers during a 6-9 season, where the news is usually bad.
For Banks, who has an MCL injury, it could be his last in a 49ers uniform. He is scheduled for unrestricted free agency in the offseason. The same goes for Moore, who has a quad strain and is also a potential free agent.
As for Williams, Shanahan had been publicly holding out hope of a late-season return from an ankle injury, but that’s not going to happen.
“He won’t be playing the next two games,” Shanahan said. “He hasn’t improved and I don’t see that happening enough especially with the situation we’re in.”
The 49ers finished the Miami game with Spencer Buford, the No. 3 tackle, replacing Moore and Nick Zakelj filling in for Banks. And Burford is no sure thing to face Detroit when the 49ers host the Lions in Week 17 on Monday night.
Burford has a calf injury and will be monitored this week. The 49ers are presently perusing practice squads of other teams for additional bodies to play tackle to fill out the season.
As for Greenlaw, who left after four snaps one week after playing for the first time since Achilles surgery, it sounds as if he won’t play against Detroit or Arizona.
“My gut feeling is most likely he’ll end up being shut down but I’ve got to wait to talk to Dre and we want to make sure how he is doing and that it’s not just soreness,” Shanahan said. “It will be a decision I’ll leave up to Dre depending on how his health is.”
PENALTY LOG
The 49ers had seven pre-snap violations, three personal fouls and one holding call mong their 11 penalties for 90 yards, indicators that on this day at least, the 49ers were undisciplined and poorly coached.
Tight end George Kittle put the blame on the players.
“I think our coach does a really good job of coaching us and the penalties, all the pre-snap penalties, that’s just bad football,” Kittle said. “I don’t put that on coach Shanahan or the wide receivers coach or the line coach. That’s on us. We know what the formations are and we have to execute them. I messed up one, wide receivers had two. We put ourselves in a hole and we were already in a hole.
“It’s something we have to address and lock in a little bit better. If we don’t do those things, it’s probably a different outcome of the game.
A look at the ugly 11 . . .
Offense (5): Banks (holding), Kittle (false start), Jake Brendel (false start), Ricky Pearsall 2 (both illegal formation)
Defense (4): Talanoa Hufanga (unnecessary roughness), Jordan Elliott (unnecessary roughness), Deommodore Lenoir (unnecessary roughness), Kalia Davis (neutral zone infraction).
Special teams (2): Braydon Willis (false start), Isaac Yiadom (illegal substitution)
SNAP JUDGEMENTS
67: Lenoir, linebacker Fred Warner, safety Malik Mustapha and cornerback Charvarius Ward played every defensive snap.
64: Purdy, tackle Colton McKivitz, guard Dominick Puni and center Jake Brendel played every snap on offense.
55: Cornerback Renardo Green, a likely starter in 2025 if Ward departs in free agency with Lenoir having already been paid, had a career-high 10 tackles.
51: Linebacker Dee Winters, with De’Vondre Campbell on suspension and Greenlaw departing early, played a career-high in snaps and had a career-best eight tackles.
46: Pearsall’s snap count was his second-highest of the season and he caught passes on all four targets for 37 yards.
31: Burford, who played a season-high 51 snaps against Chicago when Banks was out with a concussion at left guard, stepped in for the first time in a game at left tackle when Moore went down.
18: Zakelj, who had just four snaps in 14 games, played 18 snaps in relief of Banks. His previous high was 11 snaps as a rookie in 2022 in the regular season finale.
4: Defensive end Alex Barrett, who hadn’t played in a game since 2020, was promoted from his usual place on the practice squad for limited time.
0: Cornerback Isaac Yiadom, whose playing time had been cut to nine and eight snaps in the last two games, didn’t play at all on defense. He was in on 21 special teams snaps.