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.

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.

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

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy provided the latest update on his elbow injury after he was forced to exit the team's 40-34 loss to the Detroit Lions late in the fourth quarter on Monday night.

The San Francisco 49ers got off to a hot start on Monday Night Football before falling to the Detroit Lions. However, they may have lost more than the football game. Quarterback Brock Purdy took a sack on San Francisco’s final drive of the game.

Purdy's injury came on a day when the 49ers were missing not just their left tackle and left guard but also the players' top backups.

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

After sticking behind Kirk Cousins for most of the season, Michael Penix Jr. took the starting spot and made a show of it. In his final three games of the season, Penix completed 58 passes for 737 yards and three touchdowns while also rushing for a touchdown.

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