Jared Cook was well on his way toward the best game of his New Orleans Saints career, and maybe the best game of his career, period.
He put an emphatic exclamation point on the Saints’ first drive, beating the San Francisco 49ers defensive zone on a post route, breaking a tackle attempt by safety Marcell Harris and racing into the end zone for a 38-yard score.
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His next catch was even more impressive, a leaping 26-yard touchdown that required him to make an athletic body adjustment while the ball was in flight. And that was part of the problem.
Cook turned his body in mid-air to make the catch, opening himself up to take a big hit from 49ers defensive back Ahkello Witherspoon. Cook held on to make the catch, but he sustained a concussion on the play and did not return to the game.
The way they barreled toward the finish line from the thud of the opening kick, it felt predetermined that Sunday's game between two teams duk…
The Saints still finished with 349 passing yards, which is the most the 49ers’ top-ranked pass defense has surrendered this year by a long shot. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t feel the sting of Cook’s absence.
“He was impactful,” said quarterback Drew Brees. “It would have been nice to have him, obviously. It felt like he would’ve had opportunities, he would’ve been able to complement everything that we were doing.”
Cook left the game with 4:51 remaining in the first quarter. He was one of only two tight ends on the active roster — earlier in the week the team released Dan Arnold, then placed Jason Vander Laan on injured reserve.
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