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Jimmy Garoppolo: Getting ready for contact will come with time

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is still in the process of working back from his ACL injury and has yet to do any team-related activities that require contact. If you ask players that have suffered these types of injuries that sideline them, they’ll tell you that taking that first hit is their biggest worry. Once they get hit, all the butterflies go away, and it’s back to playing football.

Garoppolo will be working with one of the more prominent QB coaches—Tom House—over the next month. Garoppolo opened up about getting hit:

“I think all of that will come with time.