Hurd never appeared in a regular-season NFL game.
The injury-plagued wideout's time with the 49ers ended when the team released him on November 11, 2021.
Hurd spent his rookie campaign on injured reserve. He tore his ACL in 2020 and landed on injured reserve again in 2021.
"We realized he wasn't going to come back this year," head coach Kyle Shanahan said after Hurd's departure. "We were giving it as much time as we could. We all felt very strongly that if he could come back, how much he could have helped us. But for the third year in a row, just with his [bad luck] with these injuries, how it was healing, we knew it wasn't going to be this year.
"Just going into a fourth year in a row of it would just be too much of a risk for our organization, so we had to move on."
Now, Hurd hopes to resurrect his NFL career with the Patriots.
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