The 49ers don\u2019t know for sure when wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk will be ready to return from last season\u2019s knee injury. But it should be around the middle of the season.<\/p>\n
Head coach Kyle Shanahan said today that there\u2019s still a range of potential outcomes, but Week Six is a potential target date he\u2019s thinking of, not just for Aiyuk to make his 2025 debut, but also for quarterback Kurtis Rourke and safety Malik Mustapha, both of whom are also recovering from knee injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of view all those guys around the same time, whether it\u2019s Mustapha, whether it\u2019s Rourke, or whether it\u2019s Brandon,\u201d he said. \u201cI always see them around Week Six, which means that could be Week 10, it could be Week Five, but that\u2019s the area where I start thinking about it, which is a long ways away. I know it\u2019s not Week One or anything like that, so it\u2019s something I\u2019m not really thinking about too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aiyuk tore his ACL and MCL on October 20 of last season in a game against the Chiefs. The 49ers\u2019 Week Six game is against the Buccaneers on October 12, so if that\u2019s Aiyuk\u2019s return date, he would have missed just under a full year.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Aiyuk was one of the best wide receivers in the NFL in 2023, but in 2024 his production had declined before his season was cut short. The 49ers will hope to get the 2023 version of Aiyuk back in 2025, even if they have to wait until several weeks into the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers don\u2019t know for sure when wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk will be ready to return from last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-76833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76833","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=76833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}