49ers star Fred Warner reveals the horrific injury he's been playing with for NINE weeks

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner says helium has been playing done the symptom of a fractured ankle for the past 9 weeks amid the team's wounded nightmare.

The Niners, who made it each the mode to the Super Bowl past season, are enduring a miserable follow-up run aft suffering injuries to a big of cardinal names, with quarterback Brock Purdy precocious joining semipermanent absentees Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle connected the sidelines.

And up of their Week 13 matchup with the in-form Buffalo Bills, Warner has revealed helium has been soldiering connected for Kyle Shanahan's injury-savaged squad contempt fracturing a bony successful his ankle backmost successful Week 4 against the New England Patriots.

'It was a fracture erstwhile I sprained it,' helium said connected Wednesday. 'Any clip you fracture a bone, if you proceed to play connected it, the bony is usually not going to beryllium capable to heal itself. So conscionable got to proceed to combat through.'

Warner sustained the wounded towards the extremity of the archetypal fractional against the Patriots aft registering seven tackles and an interception for a touchdown connected conscionable 27 snaps, meaning helium did not instrumentality aft the halftime break.

After being constricted successful signifier earlier their adjacent outing against the Arizona Cardinals, helium played successful that crippled and finished with 12 tackles. The 28-year-old has been a afloat subordinate successful signifier earlier each fixture since contempt the severity of his injury.

Warner added: 'It's thing I woody with each game. I get connected that array earlier each crippled and get it changeable up each azygous crippled conscionable to beryllium capable to roll. But it's not an excuse. It's conscionable what it is. 

'That's the NFL. You're not going to beryllium healthy. You've got to spell retired there, you've got to find ways to execute, to play astatine a precocious level and to triumph each azygous week.'

Warner, who is successful his seventh play with San Francisco, went connected to admit that his fractured ankle is improbable to heal earlier the extremity of the play arsenic helium plans to proceed battling done the symptom for the team.

'Any clip you fracture a bone, if you conscionable proceed to play connected it, the bony is usually not going to beryllium capable to heal itself,' helium said. 'So, conscionable got to proceed to conscionable combat through.'

Warner and the Niners' adjacent outing successful Buffalo is currently nether a wintertime tempest watch, with snowfall and beardown winds acceptable to deed Western New York.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, a fractional ft of snowfall could autumn adjacent the Bills' Highmark Stadium, portion 'extreme cold' could besides also beryllium contiguous successful the area.

The National Weather Service successful Buffalo has besides called for imaginable debased visibility, with snowfall connected the roads perchance affecting travel.

Temperatures are predicted to beryllium good beneath freezing with upwind chill, portion winds could transcend 20mph.

There is presently nary proposition that Sunday's crippled - acceptable to kickoff astatine 8:20pm - is acceptable to beryllium postponed, but the Bills are nary alien to games' logistics being affected by weather.