SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 There\u2019s one advantage to having multiple ACL injuries, Nick Bosa said Thursday: He now knows that rushing his rehabilitation isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco 49ers defensive end said that after tearing his left ACL in 2020, he tried to push every recovery milestone as hard as he could.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I probably dealt with some stuff that I didn\u2019t need to deal with in terms of bumps in the road of recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
His current recovery from a torn right ACL suffered in September has been more methodical. That\u2019s partly because it\u2019s the second time he\u2019s damaged the right ACL, having done so as a high schooler in Florida. That meant his patellar tendon needed more time to adapt, which was different than his previous two rehabilitations.<\/p>\n
The other factor is that he\u2019s simply older (he turns 29 in October), more established in the league and doesn\u2019t feel the same impetus to rush back like he did in 2020.<\/p>\n
Still, Bosa said he\u2019s \u201cpretty far along\u201d in the recovery and is back to moving around on a side field during the 49ers\u2019 organized team activities. He said he plans to return to practice early in training camp and be ready for the team\u2019s Week 1 game in Australia on Sept. 10, which would be 11 days shy of one year since the injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the rest of my body feels pretty darn good,\u201d he said. \u201cMy fingers haven\u2019t felt this good in probably 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bosa and coach Kyle Shanahan were also asked about the prospect of adding free-agent pass rusher Joey Bosa to the roster. Shanahan said his kids have been asking the same question, but there hasn\u2019t been much internal discussion about adding a second Bosa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our team, and anyone else that we can figure out to bring, especially someone like that, that\u2019d be awesome,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that stuff\u2019s not always possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Nick said his older brother doesn\u2019t appear to be champing at the bit to join the 49ers, or any team, this spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s working on his golf right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s thinking too much about football.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odds and ends<\/p>\n
\u2022 The 49ers will be without running back Isaac Guerendo for an extended period after he tore a pectoral muscle while lifting weights last month. Shanahan said it\u2019s not a season-ending injury, although it\u2019s likely the third-year runner will be out through training camp.<\/p>\n
Starting running back Christian McCaffrey, meanwhile, is taking part in the OTA practices, though he had a day off Thursday. The team\u2019s tailbacks were led by Jordan James and rookie Kaelon Black. The 49ers also signed a pair of veteran runners, Jermar Jefferson and Jordan Mims, and waived running back Sincere McCormick.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Receiver Mike Evans has been on hand for the offseason program but was back in his native Texas on Thursday to handle a personal matter. He was among a large group of players, most of them established veterans, who did not take part in the voluntary practice, including: George Kittle (Achilles), Demarcus Robinson, Junior Bergen, Khalil Dinkins, Mykel Williams (ACL), Alfred Collins (shoulder), Keion White (foot), Evan Anderson, Fred Warner, Dre Greenlaw, Tatum Bethune and Luke Gifford. The team also placed veteran safety Darrick Forrest on injured reserve.<\/p>\n
Quarterback Mac Jones was dealing with some shoulder soreness and didn\u2019t throw during team periods Thursday. The quarterbacks were Brock Purdy, Adrian Martinez and Kurtis Rourke.<\/p>\n
The only 49er who hasn\u2019t been on hand this spring is left tackle Trent Williams. The 15-year veteran is expected to join in next week, Shanahan said. With Williams absent, Vederian Lowe stepped in at left tackle.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The standout in Thursday\u2019s practice? It might have been third-year receiver Jacob Cowing, who caught four passes in 11-on-11 situations, including one on a perfectly thrown long ball from Rourke in which he came open on a post route.<\/p>\n
The 49ers were excited about Cowing a year ago at this time after he worked with Purdy and Ricky Pearsall in the early offseason. Cowing, however, then strained a hamstring on the first day of training camp and exacerbated the injury several times throughout the season. Another young receiver, Jordan Watkins, looked good last year before suffering a high-ankle sprain in the preseason opener and falling to the bottom of the depth chart as a result.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really excited how Jordan and Jake came back,\u201d Shanahan said. \u201cYou could tell they came back \u2014 it wasn\u2019t just (returning) healthy. You could tell they\u2019ve been putting work in and coming in here in shape and stuff has allowed them to get further ahead in these five weeks than just coming here to get in shape. They\u2019ve come here to play and work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Other standouts Thursday included third-round rookie edge rusher Romello Height, who looked especially fluid rounding the corner in pass-rush drills, and new defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa. With Bosa out of action, Odighizuwa, 27, has taken charge of an otherwise young defensive line. He was the first defensive lineman to go through individual drills.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been one of the best leaders on the team so far,\u201d Shanahan said. \u201cJust how he works, how thorough he is on everything and what he does on his own. Bringing guys along with him. Everyone from Dallas told us this, and it\u2019s been that way. He\u2019s been a stud.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Offensive tackle Colton McKivitz said he likes what he\u2019s seeing from second-year guard Connor Colby, who played 452 snaps last season and is among the contenders to start at left guard this year. Colby, veteran Robert Jones and fourth-round rookie Carver Willis lined up at left guard at various points in the practice. Willis also took some snaps on the right side.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The 49ers were light at linebacker with Warner, Greenlaw, Bethune and Gifford not practicing. Garret Wallow and Jalen Graham took turns filling in for Warner at middle linebacker while second-year player Nick Martin manned the weakside spot. Martin missed the last two months of the 2025 season with a concussion but had no limitations Thursday.<\/p>\n
Shanahan said the top two linebacker spots will go to Warner and Greenlaw.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve got two guys who are established as starters, and I think we\u2019ve got a big-time competition for our three, four, five and six (spots),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2022 With 2025 punt returner Skyy Moore now with the Green Bay Packers, there\u2019s an open competition for the position. Among those fielding punts Thursday were Cowing, Watkins, Christian Kirk, Pearsall, Nate Hobbs and Wesley Grimes.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Corliss Waitman was the only punter on hand in practice. The team has not yet signed rookie Jack Bouwmeester, an Australian who played at Texas.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shanahan said the 49ers are eying joint practices with the Tennessee Titans and Los Angeles Chargers this summer ahead of preseason games against both teams. The 49ers will host the Titans on Aug. 13 and will visit the Chargers the following week.<\/p>\n
He also said the 49ers plan to practice in Colorado Springs ahead of their Nov. 22 game in Mexico City against the Minnesota Vikings. The team likely will travel to Colorado immediately after the Nov. 15 game in Dallas, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 There\u2019s one advantage to having multiple ACL injuries, Nick Bosa said Thursday: He now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,560,99],"class_list":["post-671476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}