In 2018, the San Francisco 49ers suffered one key injury which all but derailed any hopes for a successful season: losing quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to a season-ending ACL tear.
While the 2019 Niners largely avoided the devastating kind of injury that was Garoppolo’s the year before, injuries were still a major theme paralleling the team’s run all the way up to Super Bowl LIV.
Football Outsiders (h/t Niners Nation) just broke down the NFL’s list of player injuries and factoring them into a team’s adjusted games lost (AGL) metric.