{"id":491363,"date":"2026-10-10T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491363\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:42:31","slug":"49ers-release-ogbo-okoronkwo-pave-the-way-for-mykel-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491363\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers release Ogbo Okoronkwo; pave the way for Mykel Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Francisco 49ers announced they released Ogbo Okoronkwo. He appeared in all four games and has the second-most snaps of any edge rusher this season. Okoronkwo hasn\u2019t lit up the stat sheet, but he managed 10 pressures with an 11.8% pass-rush win rate. But he\u2019s only played 33 run snaps this year. This move is the 49ers telling us they need a run defender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 49ers just created a roster spot to activate Williams from the PUP list. That move will likely be announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Raheem Morris has done a fantastic job using his personnel to hide the lack of edge options. We\u2019ve seen plenty of 5-man fronts that include three defensive tackles and Jaden Dugger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The other edge rusher on the roster that Morris seems to trust as a run defender is Khalid Kareem. He\u2019s played 100 snaps, 43 of them against the run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">That may not change much, as Keion White and Romello Height have primarily been pass-rush first layers. The same was true last week for Matt Judon. It might also signal that Williams could play more than 20-30 snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We\u2019ll see if the 49ers bring back Okoronkwo to the practice squad. If Nick Bosa is close to returning, there won\u2019t be a need to bring back Okoronkwo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers announced they released Ogbo Okoronkwo. He appeared in all four games and has the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,3322,3323,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-491363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-injuries","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491363","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=491363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}