Young’s Status Remains Uncertain

Steve Young received three shots to block the pain from his bruised ribs and got in only a limited practice Wednesday.

It might be the only work he gets before the 49ers play at Green Bay in Saturday’s divisional playoff game.

As he has all week, backup Elvis Grbac took the bulk of the practice snaps and Young trotted into the locker room three times to receive the pain-killing shots from team physician Bob Millard.

Young, officially listed as questionable, took a handful of snaps and threw a little on the side as the 49ers completed their last full practice before Saturday’s game.

“He wasn’t throwing 100%, that’s for sure,” Coach George Seifert said. “He threw some good balls. I don’t know that he got as much work as I thought he would, but it wasn’t dramatically less and our feeling is he’ll still be the starting quarterback on game day.”

The 49ers will have a light workout today at the Arizona Cardinals’ training facilities in Tempe, where they moved this week to escape stormy weather back home, and then leave tonight for Green Bay.

Seifert said Young probably wouldn’t take part in today’s workout, meaning Young has had almost no practice since hurting his ribs while running for a touchdown in Sunday’s 14-0 victory over Philadelphia.

Grbac is 5-3 as a starter over the last two years in place of Young. One of those losses came Oct. 14 at Green Bay, when the Packers rallied from a 17-6 halftime deficit to defeat the 49ers, 23-20, in overtime.