Javon Hargrave is Affected in the Knee
How good will Hargrave be on the pitch if he plays? He wasn’t the best player before to his knee injury.
49ERS of San Francisco
It can’t be good, this.
Javon Hargrave, who seemingly sustained an unidentified knee injury during practise on Thursday, was listed as injured on the 49ers’ injury report on Thursday. Consequently, he participated in limited practise on Thursday and Friday, and the 49ers have listed him as questionable for their road game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
After travelling across the nation, it’s probably safe to anticipate that Hargrave will participate in the game. The 49ers need to win because they can’t afford to lose four straight. In essence, it’s a playoff match. Therefore, it’s likely that everyone who can play physically would.
How good will Hargrave be, though, if he does play? He wasn’t the best player before to his knee injury.
The 49ers were expected to be the Super Bowl favourites after Hargrave. They believed he would be lethal joining the league’s top defence, so they gave him a four-year, $84 million contract. With the Eagles the previous season, Hargrave racked up an incredible 11 sacks. The 49ers most likely assumed he would be even more effective in the next game along with Nick Bosa.
But they were wrong. Through eight games, Hargrave has just 3 sacks, which shouldn’t be a surprise, because last season was an aberration for Hargrave. Every other season of his career, he recorded somewhere between 2 and 7.5 sacks. The 49ers paid for production that Hargrave couldn’t sustain.
They did the same thing with Arik Armstead. Gave him a five-year, $85 million contract after what they thought was a breakout season in which he had 10 sacks. Turns out that was another aberration. Since then, he’s had 11 sacks in 3.5 seasons. And he’ll be 30 next week, while Hargrave will be 31 in February.
Their slow decline is inevitable.
