{"id":452067,"date":"2026-09-03T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:42:13","slug":"49ers-nick-bosa-mike-evans-george-kittle-practice-pre-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452067\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers’ Nick Bosa, Mike Evans, George Kittle practice pre-Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANTA CLARA \u2013 Nick Bosa emerged happy from his first practice in a month. His surgically repaired right knee had passed a key test, complete with a couple of tense moments.<\/p>\n

Because of that, Bosa is confident he can play in the 49ers\u2019 season opener next week in Australia against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf after every day of football practice you were this happy, it\u2019d be an easy job,\u201d Bosa said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Life hasn\u2019t been easy, however, since last Sept. 21, when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, just as he did 11 years ago as a high school senior in Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a long road. There\u2019s some stuff I dealt with that patella tendon,\u201d Bosa said. \u201cI kind of ramped it up a little too fast with the football stuff a month ago and they kind of told me to back off. I\u2019ve just been trying to get it as strong and get as confident in myself as I can, to where I can rip the Band-Aid off and go into team stuff today.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you go into team (drills), there\u2019s no reservations, no compensation here, no governor. I felt that today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bosa plans to ice his legs during their overnight flight to Australia<\/a>. Judging from the media\u2019s 20-minute access window, the 49ers\u2019 marquee defensive end didn\u2019t appear to favor his leg. While commending teammates during drills, Bosa wore a support sleeve on his right knee.<\/p>\n

Although Wednesday marked his first full-team work, it was not a padded practice. To gear up for it, though, Bosa said he\u2019s been running \u201ctwo-a-days\u201d and \u201ctrying to expose my knee to a lot of volume and to try and get that tendinitis strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n

OTHER HEALTH UPDATES<\/p>\n

Tight end George Kittle also looks primed to make himself available against the 49ers\u2019 long-time NFC West rivals. He has not missed a practice since his Achilles repair was cleared to come off the Physically Unable to Perform list Aug. 23.<\/p>\n

Joining them back in practice were wide receiver Mike Evans<\/a> (groin), fullback Kyle Juszczyk (finger), and cornerback Ephesians Prysock (shoulder).<\/p>\n

Restricted to conditioning on a side field were cornerback Renardo Green (hamstring), wide receiver\/returner Jacob Cowing (hip), and defensive linemen Romello Height (ankle) and Grayson Halton (ankle).<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Francisco 49ers\u2019 Mike Evans (5) catches the ball during practice at Levi\u2019s Stadium practice field in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA \u2013 Nick Bosa emerged happy from his first practice in a month. His surgically repaired right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,752,101,296,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-452067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452067","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=452067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}