Updated Aug. 31, 2026, 6:08 a.m. PT<\/p>\n
The San Francisco 49ers<\/a> had to cut several players over the weekend to get from 91 players down to an initial 53-man roster<\/a> by the deadline Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n While there’s still over a week until San Francisco’s season opener against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in Melbourne, Australia, general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan will be in constant communication to make moves to improve their chances of making a run in a tough NFC West.<\/p>\n The focus now will be filling out the practice squad. Niners Wire will track all of the moves for the practice squad here. Check back for all of the updates.<\/p>\n Who is eligible to join the practice squad?<\/p>\n Per the CBA, these are players who could be eligible to join San Francisco’s practice squad:<\/p>\n Your fantasy edge starts here Sync your league for custom roster advice, projections, and tools to win your matchups every week.<\/a>Players who do not have an accrued season of NFL experienceFree agent players who were on the active list for fewer than nine regular season games during their only accrued aeason(s)A maximum of 10 free agent players per club who have earned no more than two accrued seasons, with such players having no limitation as to the number of games on the game day active list in either of those seasonsA maximum of six free agent players per club with no limitations as to their number of earned accrued seasonsHow much do practice squad players make?Rookies and players with less than three accrued seasons receive $13,750 per week.Players with more than three accrued seasons cam make between $18,350 and $22,850 per week.<\/p>\n More 49ers<\/a>: 49ers may not face Rams superstar Aaron Donald in Week 1 matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Aug. 31, 2026, 6:08 a.m. PT The San Francisco 49ers had to cut several players over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[243,1184,101,103,102,104,106,105,132255,10224,10225,34911,378,507,65397,1022,1347,379,366,374,508,6321,367,13084,377,3391,246],"class_list":["post-448897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sourceniners-wire","tag-sstssportsnflniners","tag-sstsnniners","tag-tagaaron-donald","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-taglive-coverage","tag-taglos-angeles-rams","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsan-francisco","tag-tagsan-francisco-49ers","tag-tagsmg-listicle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagttp-live-blog","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}