{"id":818154,"date":"2026-08-18T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818154\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:20:11","slug":"49ers-wr-mike-evans-left-the-joint-practice-early-with-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818154\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers WR Mike Evans left the joint practice early with &#8220;tightness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>49ers wide receiver Mike Evans exited Tuesday\u2019s joint practice early. He had his left foot\/ankle initially wrapped in ice, according to multiple reports, but later had only his quad wrapped in an ice pack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just said he has some tightness, so we were just being smart, taking him out,\u201d 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything worse, so we\u2019ll see when we get in there, but nothing that I\u2019m worried about right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans strained a quadriceps in the Aug. 1 practice and didn\u2019t return until Aug. 15. <\/p>\n<p>Wide receiver Christian Kirk, meanwhile, still isn\u2019t back at practice after straining his calf midway through the first training camp practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s been unfortunate for him because he had the same thing in OTAs, so he missed that,\u201d Shanahan said. \u201cAnd he hasn\u2019t been ready to go. He did it the first practice, before we even got to team periods, so I know he\u2019s been extremely frustrated with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love the guy so far, but hopefully, he can have some better luck going forward here so he gets some reps out here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers wide receiver Mike Evans exited Tuesday\u2019s joint practice early. He had his left foot\/ankle initially wrapped in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-818154","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\/818154","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=818154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}