Deebo Samuel, San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
Losing Deebo Samuel hurts, but the 49ers offense should get by early in 2020 without him.
Make no mistake, the San Francisco 49ers are a worse team without wide receiver Deebo Samuel in the lineup than they would be with him available.
Samuel suffered a broken foot, a Jones fracture, during impromptu practices with teammates in Nashville, Tennessee last week. And the initial prognosis was he’d miss roughly 10 weeks of offseason time. Later analysis suggested it could be as much as 16 weeks, which would put Samuel in jeopardy of missing out all of September when the regular season is set to kick off.