The San Francisco 49ers will be without star wide receiver Deebo Samuel for quite some time after the team revealed he sustained a groin strain.

Samuel suffered the injury during the third quarter of Sunday's contest with the Minnesota Vikings. He was initially deemed as questionable before the 49ers decided to sit him out for the rest of the contest.

Now, according to head coach Kyle Shanahan, Samuel is expected to miss one to two weeks with what was discovered as a groin strain. With that said, the 25-year-old wideout will miss their Week 13 game against the Seattle Seahawks and could sit out Week 14 against the Cincinnati Bengals.

For what it's worth, both Deebo Samuel and Shanahan played down the severity of the injury following Sunday's game. Samuel emphasized he's not “too concerned” with it,  while Shanahan expressed belief it's “not as bad as you worry.”

“My groin got kind of tight as soon as I went to make a move and I thought ‘let’s not make anything any worse’ and just went down,” Samuel said of his injury in his postgame presser.

True enough, Samuel has avoided a significant injury, especially since groin injuries can be tricky to get back from and sometimes take a lot of time to heal. Fortunately for him, he'll just need at most two weeks to recover and should be ready to play again.

In the meantime, Jimmy Garoppolo has to find new targets to pass on while waiting for Samuel to return.