After spending the summer as an unrestricted free agent, cornerback Anthony Averett signed with the San Francisco 49ers on Aug. 3 when cornerback Terrance Mitchell went on injured reserve with an undisclosed injury.

On Friday, the former Alabama defensive back suffered the same fate as the 49ers placed Averett on injured reserve with an undisclosed injury.

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The designation means Averett’s 2023 season is over unless San Francisco releases him from IR with an injury settlement. If that happened, Averett could sign with another NFL team this season once he’s healthy again, if that’s possible given the unknown nature of his injury.

Injuries also affected Averett in the 2022 season, when he had two stints on IR with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Averett came out of the season-opening game on Sept. 11 with a broken thumb. He returned on Oct. 23 and had started at cornerback and free safety before going out again after six games because of a broken toe sustained on Nov. 27 in a 40-34 overtime victory against the Seattle Seahawks. He missed the remainder of the season.

Averett entered the NFL as a fourth-round selection of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Averett spent his first three seasons largely as a reserve with the Ravens, with his defensive snaps increasing from 71 in 2018 to 220 in 2019 and 354 in 2020.

Averett moved into a starting role when Marcus Peters got hurt in the second game of the 2021 season. Averett’s performance across 14 starts in Baltimore’s defensive backfield included his three NFL interceptions and earned him a one-year, $4 million contract from Las Vegas in free agency.

While Averett went off an NFL active roster on Friday, former James Clemens High School standout Logan Stenberg returned to one.

The Detroit Lions waived the guard on Thursday, but Stenberg did not clear the waiver wire, with the Chicago Bears being assigned his rights on Friday. The Bears have the No. 1 position for waiver claims.

The former Madison prep star played at Kentucky before joining the Lions in the fourth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. After playing four offensive snaps in his first two NFL seasons, Stenberg appeared in 16 games, with four starts, and played 228 offensive snaps in 2022.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.