{"id":75773,"date":"2025-08-11T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75773\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:10:07","slug":"niners-wr-brandon-aiyuk-knee-return-targeted-for-week-6-of-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75773\/","title":{"rendered":"Niners WR Brandon Aiyuk (knee) return targeted for Week 6 of regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a target for Brandon Aiyuk<\/a>‘s return, but it’s a moving one.<\/p>\n

Aiyuk, who missed the final 10 games of the 2024 season after tearing his ACL and MCL<\/a>, is aiming to return to the field by Week 6 of the 2025 regular season, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n

Shanahan underscored that it’s a fluid situation and there’s a range of games Aiyuk could be back for, but as of now, he’s on track to return for an Oct. 12 tilt<\/a> at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers going by the schedule.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what I’ve said in the past, but I kind of view all those guys around the same time. Whether it’s [safety Malik] Mustapha, whether it’s [quarterback Kurtis] Rourke, or whether it’s Brandon. They’re all different stages. With where they’re at, I always see them around Week 6, which means that could be Week 10, means it could be Week 5, but that’s the area where I start thinking about it, which is a long way away,” Shanahan said, via team transcript, when asked specifically about Aiyuk. “I know it’s not Week 1 or anything like that, so it’s something I’m not really thinking about too much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a target for Brandon Aiyuk‘s return, but it’s a moving one. Aiyuk, who missed the final 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6255,31105,3,349,6257,560,99],"class_list":["post-75773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-brandon-aiyuk","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773","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=75773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}