49ers wide receiver Mike Evans did not practice much at training camp this summer due to injuries, but he’s not concerned about his health heading into Thursday’s opener against the Rams. Evans missed time with groin and quad issues and he has a history of hamstring injuries that have cost him time, but he told reporters at a press conference in Australia that this summer’s time off was more about precaution than any limitations he was feeling. “The training staff, they did a great job working with me ,” Evans said. “I know I’m an older player. I’ve had probably over a thousand practices, football practices in my life now, so I know what I’m doing out there. They know what they’re doing. They did a good job taking care of me. None of my injuries were significant. If it was a game week, I wouldn’t have missed any time.” Evans was always set to play a big role in the 49ers’ offense, but injuries to Ricky Pearsall and Christian Kirk have made him an even more significant piece of the offensive puzzle. That makes it good news that he’s feeling well heading into Week 1 and will make keeping him on the field vital to the team’s hopes for the whole season
The very strange 2026 for the 49ers included the February shooting of defensive end Keion White in a San Francisco bar and nightclub, which reportedly happened after the rapper Lil Baby and White got into an argument when Lil Baby’s entourage tried to enter White’s private party. White recently spoke about his recovery from the shooting, in an interview with Vic Tafur of The Athletic . “It’s different because it’s trauma instead of just, like, breaking an ankle with a sports-related injury,” White told Tafur earlier this week. “When you hurt yourself in football, there’s a protocol for damn near everything. Football players don’t just get shot every day. . . . I mean, I guess they do on this team .” White was making a joke of sorts regarding the fact that, two years ago on Labor Day weekend, receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot during a robbery attempt in San Francisco. “It was a gunshot to the foot,” White said regarding his injury. “I broke my talus bone, so I had to have surgery — two screws in there. But, yeah, brush it off. [I] literally was making jokes as I was going to the hospital.” White told Tafur he never feared for his life; however, White reportedly has declined to identify the shooter. “The funny part is, I was actually the one calming everybody else down,” White said. “I don’t really take a lot of things seriously. I didn’t even know I got shot until like five minutes after, as I was walking around.” White’s attempt to downplay the situation included a joke about a past injury to the other foot that required screws. “I got screws in each ankle now, so I’m symmetrical,” White said. He said that it was a “touch-and-go situation right up to the beginning of training camp,” but he has been able to practice and is ready to play. As Tafur explains, the 49ers need White to play and play well. As the regular season approaches, defensive end Mykel Williams (knee) is out, Nick Bosa (knee) is still recovering from his latest ACL tear, Sam Okuayinonu (foot) is out, and rookie Romello Height has an ankle issue
Many 49ers who are expected to play roles for the team this fall did not play on Thursday night, but rookie wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling was on the field and the second-round pick took advantage of the opportunity. Stribling led the team with seven catches for 63 yards in a 19-13 loss to the Titans. All of Stribling’s catches came during the first half of the game, so he saw a lot of the Titans’ first-team defense while he was making plays. “I felt great out there ,” Stribling said, via 49ersWebzone.com. “It felt like I was really clicking with the offense, hearing in the huddle, lining up on the field. So I’m very grateful I had the opportunities and the passes that I did.” The 49ers signed Deebo Samuel after Ricky Pearsall’s season-ending knee injury and he joins Mike Evans and Demarcus Robinson on the top line of the team’s depth chart. Stribling may not knock anyone out of that position, but his draft status and productivity should continue to earn him looks heading into the season
49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall is out of surgery and focused on a nine-month recovery from a torn PCL. “ Nothing to be disappointed about . No regrets. No what ifs. Just peace in the midst of yet another trial, knowing I did everything I could,” Pearsall wrote on social media. “I gave myself time to disconnect from the world, process everything, and shift my focus toward what’s ahead over these next 9 months.” Pearsall has played through the injury but was told during training camp that he needed surgery to repair it. “When I got the news, it was hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the same injury I had been fighting through, the one that was supposed to be alright, was ultimately going to require surgery and end my 2026 season,” Pearsall wrote. Pearsall wrote that he’s confident he’s going to get back to work in 2027. “The road back starts now. I’m ready for every part of it. Every early morning. Every setback. Every small win nobody sees. Every step that gets me closer to stepping back on that field,” Pearsall wrote. “Thank you to everyone who supports me, and even more to the ones who doubt me.”
Deebo Samuel has only been back with the 49ers for a short time, but he’s already back on top of the team’s depth chart. The 49ers released their first depth chart of the season on Tuesday and it shows Samuel alongside Mike Evans and Demarcus Robinson as the team’s top wideouts. Samuel’s spot was likely ticketed for 2024 first-round pick Ricky Pearsall, but Pearsall is out for the season and the 49ers moved quickly to sign Samuel after he was shut down. Christian Kirk and 2026 second-rounder De’Zhaun Stribling head up the second line on the depth chart. Both of those receivers have joined Evans and Pearsall on the injury list at points this summer, which underscores how different the lineups could look on a weekly basis as bumps and bruises continue to accumulate. Samuel is also listed as the team’s top kickoff returner and history says that he’ll also see some time in the backfield, so the veteran should see plenty of action in his second tour with the Niners
San Francisco 49ers star tight end George Kittle (Achilles) "continues to make terrific progress" as he works his way back from the torn Achilles he suffered in the playoffs in January, and there's a "high level of confidence" at this point that he will be able to play in the Week 1 regular-season opener in Australia against the division-rival Los Angeles Rams, sources told Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports. The 32-year-old veteran remains on the Physically Unable to Perform list in training camp, but he was seen running routes, catching passes, and doing conditioning work before Monday's practice. It was the most extensive work that Kittle has done so far in camp, according to ESPN's Nick Wagoner, which gives hope for fantasy managers and the Niners that he'll be ready for the start of the season in September. When healthy, Kittle should continue to be one of quarterback Brock Purdy's most trusted aerial targets, especially with receiver Ricky Pearsall (knee) already ruled out for the entire season. But because of his lengthy injury history and questionable availability for the start of the year, Kittle is no longer a high-end TE1 target in fantasy drafts, but rather a low-end TE1 target
Receiver Deebo Samuel Sr. is back in San Francisco, and back in the number he wore from 2019 through 2023: 19. Coach Kyle Shanahan explained on Saturday that any contract-driven awkwardness from years past is a non-issue now. “Deebo’s always been one of the closest guys we’ve been to, just relationship-wise,” Shanahan told reporters. “When Deebo went through his contract negotiations, [I’ll] try not to put words in his mouth, but I think he thought it’d be advantageous to make it look like there was a little bit of a battle. Sometimes that helps, sometimes it doesn’t. . . . “Those OTAs [in 2022], I was at Deebo’s house on the eighth OTA day, and I was talking about how all that was just BS. He came to minicamp. We had a great summer together. I think he signed the first day back at training camp. We got over that in OTAs. That was just stuff from the negotiating periods back in April and stuff. There were stuff, definitely, that made me like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ We’re not around Deebo. Then we see him in OTAs and we got to talk man-to-man and it was fine as soon as we got with each other.” Shanahan also said that Deebo’s return was unrelated to losing receiver Ricky Pearsall for the entire season. “They’re just two completely different types of players,” Shanahan said. “Deebo was someone that we were hoping it would work out, depending on Deebo’s other opportunities and what it could be here. That was something that we were hoping for a long time could work out and it ended up working out for both of us. The Ricky thing changed nothing.” And so both Samuel and linebacker Dre Greenlaw have returned to the 49ers, after a year elsewhere. Shanahan believes it will make a difference for the team. “They’ve been away for a year, but to see them out there, they look exactly like the guys I remember,” Shanahan said. That’s good news for the 49ers, who will need everything they can to compete with the Rams and Seahawks in the NFC West
Injuries have been a major storyline at 49ers camp so far this summer and Wednesday’s practice was no exception. The team opened the session without 18 members of their 90-man roster on the field and the number of injured players grew to 20 when defensive end Sam Okuayinonu (ankle) and guard Nick Zakelj (elbow) made an early exit. Per multiple reports, the 49ers were also without offensive lineman Carver Willis (concussion), fullback Kyle Juszczyk (finger), wide receiver Jacob Cowing (hip flexor), offensive lineman Brett Toth (undisclosed) defensive end Nick Bosa (soreness), defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa (soreness), linebacker Dre Greenlaw (soreness), wide receiver Christian Kirk (calf), wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling (hamstring), wide receiver Mike Evans (quad), safety Malik Mustapha (hamstring), running back Kaelon Black (adductor), running back Jordan James (ribs), defensive end Keion White (adductor), and offensive tackle Vederian Lowe (ankle). Tight end George Kittle (Achilles), defensive end Mykel Williams (knee), and running back Isaac Guerendo (pec) have not practiced at all in camp and remain on the physically unable to perform list. They have also placed five players, including wide receiver Ricky Pearsall, on injured reserve and head coach Kyle Shanahan has not resumed a full workload following a pre-camp car accident
Ricky Pearsall's out for the season. George Kittle's recovering from an Achilles tear. Christian Kirk, De'Zhaun Stribling and Kyle Juszczyk are all sidelined from practice
The San Francisco 49ers have been in training camp for just over a week now and the injuries are already piling up. The 49ers were one of the most injured teams in the NFL last season and based on how things are going early in camp, they might once again be a threat to earn that unwanted title. The 49es held their first practice of camp on July 26, and in the nine days since then, it's been total carnage. The team had a total of 14 players who missed practice on Monday, which is 15.5% of their 90-man roster. The 49ers have ranked among the NFL's 10 most-injured teams in 12 of the last 13 seasons After 5 training camp practices, the injuries are already adding up 🤕 pic.twitter.com/1dF7U8OsiL Let's take a look at how just how bad things have gotten for the 49ers over the past week. The 49ers signed Deebo Samuel over the weekend , which ended up being a good thing, because they need all the depth they can get at receiver. Here are the biggest injuries at the postition from the past few days: Pearsall's injury is the most notable and that's because he's out for the season. The former first-round pick missed eight games last year due to an issue with his PCL. The 49ers were hoping that the knee injury would heal during the offseason, but that didn't happen. Pearsall did participate in the first three practices of training camp, but his knee started to swell up. The 49ers decided on Saturday that the knee probably wouldn't be able to heal on its own, so the decision was made for Pearsall to have surgery , which will knock him out for the season. The injury to Evans isn't serious, but it is mildly concerning. The 49ers gave Evans a three-year, $42 million contract this offseason, but if there was one question mark with Evans, it was his durability. He turns 33 on Aug. 21 and he's coming off a season where he missed nine games due to injury. Evans sat out Monday's practice , which isn't a huge deal, but if the injury lingers, that could pose a problem for San Francisco. Kirk was also a free agent addition and things got off to a rocky start for the veteran receiver. Kirk injured his calf during the first practice of training camp on July 26 and hasn't return to practice, but he did do some running on the side during Monday's session, so he appears to be on the mend. On Stribling's end, the rookie receiver is dealing with hamstring tightness that knocked him out of practice on Saturday. Stribling was at Monday's practice, but he wasn't suited up. Instead, he was testing his hamstring with some sprints. #49ers De'Zhaun Stribling is off to the side field working his way back from hamstring tightness 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/uc3zaMZwKf The 49ers will be hoping that Evans, Stribling and Kirk all heal quickly, but all three injuries are in spots where the injury can sometimes linger, so it will be interesting to see what happens there. The 49ers are so beat up at running back that they went out and signed Khalil Herbert on Sunday. Here are the key injuries at running back: James fractured his rib in a friendly-fire situation that involved linebacker Fred Warner . The 49ers' star linebacker was trying to punch the ball out during a practice on July 27 and apparently he hit James so hard that he broke the running back's rib . James' injury could have set up more training camp carries for rookie Kaelon Black, but he's also injured. The 2026 third-round pick suffered an adductor injury that kept him out of Monday's practice, and if it's serious, it could keep him out for a few weeks. As for Guerendo, his injury didn't happen at training camp: He tore his pectoral while lifting weights during the offseason and is currently on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list . The 49ers' defense got decimated by injuries last season, and so far, things aren't going much better this year. Here's a look at a few players who have already missed at least one practice due to injury this year: Mustapha, who started 10 games at safety for the 49ers
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Mike Evans' quad strain is not considered serious and could be resolved relatively quickly, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. While he may miss some practice time, the expectation is he will return to the field sooner rather than later. This comes as the 49ers' receiving corps has been dealing with other injuries, including Ricky Pearsall's season-ending injury
Another 49ers wide receiver is dealing with an injury. Mike Evans is not practicing on Monday due to a quad strain. There’s no word about how long Evans is expected to be off the field due to the issue. The news comes a couple of days after rookie De’Zhaun Stribling was sidelined by hamstring tightness. Stribling is also out of practice on Monday. Christian Kirk has missed several practices after injuring his calf early in training camp and the 49ers put Ricky Pearsall on season-ending injured reserve with a PCL injury that will require surgery. The 49ers brought Deebo Samuel back in the wake of Pearsall’s injury and they may need to make further tweaks to the receiving group if the injury news doesn’t get better soon
San Francisco 49ers veteran wide receiver Christian Kirk (calf) was observed running on a side field during Monday's training camp practice, according to Matt Barrows of The Athletic. Kirk wasn't running full speed, but the fact that he was doing anything at all suggests that he could be back at practice with the rest of the team sooner rather than later. The 49ers are all kinds of banged up in camp at the receiver position, with Ricky Pearsall (knee) out for the season already and veteran Mike Evans (quadriceps) and rookie second-rounder De'Zhaun Stribling (hamstring) sidelined with minor injuries. The 29-year-old Kirk could have a bigger role in San Fran's passing attack in his first year with the team in 2026 with Pearsall out, but the Niners' recent signing of veteran Deebo Samuel Sr. probably makes Kirk a non-factor for fantasy managers in 12-team leagues to begin the season. At best, Kirk will be a late-round flier as RotoBaller's No. 85-ranked fantasy WR. The former second-rounder by the Arizona Cardinals in 2018 from Texas A&M has played in only 21 games due to injuries the last two years with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans, and he had a 28-239-1 line in 13 regular-season games with Houston in 2025
Receiver Deebo Samuel is officially back with the 49ers, for a second time. And the 49ers won’t be holding him back when it’s time to play. On Saturday, G.M. John Lynch told reporters that Samuel will wear multiple hats during games. “You are going to see him in the return game, at receiver, and at running back ,” Lynch said, via David Lombardi of the San Francisco Chronicle . “We are going to use him all over the field, and we are really excited to have Deebo back. We have a lot of history with him, we know the type of player he is, and he looks to be in really good shape.” Samuel became more involved in the running game in 2021, with 59 carries for 365 yards and eight touchdowns. Coupled with his 1,405 receiving yards and six touchdowns, it made him a first-team All-Pro. He had 42 carries in 2022, 37 in 2023, and 42 in 2024. Last year with the Commanders, he ran the ball 17 times for 75 yards. Samuel returned a decent number of kicks in the past two seasons. In 2024 with the 49ers, he had 17 kickoff returns for 533 yards, an average of 31.4 yards per return. In 2025 with the Commanders, he returned 15 kickoffs for 452 yards (30.1 yards). The more times any player touches the ball, the greater the risk of injury. And Samuel has a habit of fighting for every blade of grass, at all times. But Samuel has been largely durable throughout his career. And the 49ers will need him to make an impact on the offense, especially with Ricky Pearsall done for the year, Jauan Jennings gone via free agency, and Brandon Aiyuk stuck in a state of limbo that surely won’t result in him returning to the 49ers roster
Injuries have hampered the 49ers for years, and that once again appears to be the case in 2026. On Saturday, the 49ers placed receiver and former first-round pick Ricky Pearsall on season-ending injured reserve. General manager John Lynch said that Pearsall will undergo season-ending surgery to address his nagging PCL injury that has bothered him since the 2025 season. Lynch said that Pearsall will undergo surgery in the next couple of weeks. The timeline for Pearsall's recovery is six to 12 months. Pearsall initially sustained the injury during the 49ers' loss to the Jaguars in Week 4 of the 2025 season. The injury led to Pearsall missing all or parts of 10 games. Pearsall did not undergo surgery this offseason and, by all accounts, did not experience any major setbacks prior to the start of training camp, when he began to experience swelling in the knee. "We reevaluated after [the season], and the consensus was that that [surgery] wasn't the step to take," Lynch said earlier this week, via ESPN . "He did well throughout the offseason, ran into some other road bumps. At that point between all the docs that we consulted ... the decision was made. As [team physician] Tim [McAdams] said, it's declared itself. And the course of action that everyone felt was appropriate was having surgery." The 31st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft , Pearsall's career so far has been marred by obstacles. Just before the start of his rookie season, Pearsall sustained a gunshot wound to the chest, which led to him being placed on the reserve/NFI list until Oct. 19. Pearsall caught 31 of 46 targets for 400 yards and three touchdowns that season. Last year's knee injury limited Pearsall to nine games. He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards. He caught one pass during San Francisco's season-ending loss to the Eagles in the NFC wild card round. As noted above, the 49ers have dealt with a considerable amount of injuries over the years. Last season alone, the team dealt with significant injuries to several key players that included tight end George Kittle , linebacker Fred Warner , pass rusher Nick Bosa and quarterback Brock Purdy . The 49ers, desperate to find a solution to their injury issue, recently looked into whether or not excessive exposure to electromagnetic force (EMF) is contributing to the team's alarming injury rate. Pearsall's injury coincides with the 49ers' officially re-signing former All-Pro wideout Deebo Samuel , who is back in San Francisco after spending the 2025 season with the Commanders . Samuel played a key role on the 49ers' NFC championship-winning squads in 2019 and 2023. "Deebo has been, at times, one of the better players in football," Lynch said. "About a month ago we started having talks in earnest and came to fruition here a couple days ago, and we're thrilled to have him back."
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