{"id":496787,"date":"2026-10-15T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496787\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T09:12:42","slug":"49ers-news-go-broncos-niners-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496787\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: Go Broncos | Niners Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s only October and the Seahawks might be THREE games behind the 49ers??? We have a lot of season left but man\u2026 really pulling for DJ Jones to replicate the success that Gracen Halton and Osa Odighizuwa had against Seattle\u2019s interior. They\u2019ll need it without Pat Surtain and Hufanga playing.<\/p>\n

Five reasons why 49ers are 5-0 and atop the NFL despite epic rash of injuries (paywall)<\/a>
\u201cSteve Young has talked about elite QBs reaching a career sweet spot when their Xs-and-Os knowledge allows them to toy with defenses. He has said that a problem for many is that once they reach that level of mental mastery, their physical skills have diminished. At 26, Purdy may not have achieved genius QB status yet. But something is clearly clicking in his fifth season in Kyle Shanahan\u2019s system\u2026Purdy has made it clear that his ongoing ascent is tied to Shanahan\u2019s system and his increased understanding of its complexities. Shanahan told a Fox broadcast crew this season that Purdy is now starting to understand the \u201cwhy\u201d of his play calls\u2026..Morris, a safety at Hofstra, was a longtime NFL defensive backs coach, and he might have made his biggest impact in the secondary. The 49ers are still playing primarily zone, but Morris has introduced more match coverage, which allows zone defenders to closely attach to a receiver if a specific route is run.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers practice and media schedule ahead of Week 6 matchup vs. Commanders<\/a>|
\u201cThursday, October 15
12:35 p.m. – Kyle Shanahan press conference
1:30 p.m. – Practice<\/p>\n

Friday, October 16
12:30 p.m. – Practice
After practice (approx. 2:20 p.m.) – Raheem Morris press conference
Following Morris – Klay Kubiak press conference
Following Kubiak – Brock Purdy press conference<\/p>\n

Saturday, October 17
12:35 p.m. – Practice
After practice (approx. 1:35 p.m.) – Kyle Shanahan press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers rookie report: The long-term upside is there for this class<\/a>
\u201cBlack\u2019s averaging 2.6 yards per carry in the red zone. That jumps to 3.9 yards per carry on non-red-zone carries. The good news is he\u2019s bouncing off tackles, falling forward, and gaining yards after the contact. But he\u2019s also getting stuffed behind the line of scrimmage and failing to force missed tackles.<\/p>\n

Black struggles to resist the urge to bounce runs that don\u2019t need to or to stop his feet in the backfield. In 1-on-1 situations, he\u2019s indecisive instead of being the aggressor\u2026.Halton\u2019s awareness is off the charts. He\u2019s a much better run defender than anticipated. He\u2019s the type of player who causes chaos, and his plays don\u2019t always show up in the box score\u2026.It\u2019s been impressive to watch Dugger hold his own against 300-pounders. Four of his seven targets have resulted in first downs, but he\u2019s only surrendering 6.4 yards per reception on those. Week 5 showed that some of those were by design, essentially conceding underneath throws to take away the bigger threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

49ers legend Steve Young says Brock Purdy has reached a new level<\/a>
\u201cWhen I saw him in the Rams game in Australia, I\u2019m like, \u2018Whoa, he\u2019s quicker. Whoa, his decision-making is even faster,\u2019\u201d Young said. \u201cHe optimized in the offseason. Whoever trained him, whoever\u2014like if he did it himself, I don\u2019t know\u2014but whoever did needs a shout-out as well, because he had optimized his game.<\/p>\n

\u201dAnd his game is unique, and unique to him, and he just, instead of kind of resting on all the things that he\u2019s already good at, I felt like he got better. I felt like he\u2019s even more aware. He\u2019s quicker with his reads.<\/p>\n

And his body, it feels like he\u2019s niftier, and actually has some speed. Like he did speed work, you could tell\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026.I always said, it\u2019s 3rd-and-10, my mom\u2019s open, she\u2019s getting the ball,\u201d Young said. \u201cI think what we\u2019re saying is Mike Evans understands spatial relationships in a unique Hall of Fame way, and so all of a sudden, where there doesn\u2019t seem to be anybody open, Mike\u2019s finding that place.<\/p>\n

\u201dAnd so that confidence builds with Brock that I\u2019m going to keep my eye [out for] wherever Mike is, and that allows Kyle Shanahan to lean into play-calling. You can call a play knowing that, yeah, if it breaks down, Mike\u2019s in a space that\u2019s going to be really cool, and we\u2019ll figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s only October and the Seahawks might be THREE games behind the 49ers??? We have a lot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[153373,101,8376,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-496787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-golden-nuggets-san-francisco-49ers-daily-news-roundup","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","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\/496787","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=496787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}