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Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Thursday, February 7th, 2025

Major Christian McCaffrey Injury Announcement Brings 49ers Good News

“He’s doing great,” McCaffrey said. “He should be fully healthy this week by next week, and he’ll have a full offseason to train.”

49ers’ Fred Warner talks Purdy, McCaffrey’s injury, Saleh’s impact, his own injury

“It was a simple [fracture] ... a simple ankle sprain that happened to pull the bone,” Warner explained. “And it’s just one of those nagging things, because injuries, it’s like, they’re either bad enough to keep you off the field or just good enough so you can keep playing. So it was one of those things where I was good enough to just keep playing and try to work through it.”

Fred Warner Explains Why He Loves 49ers DC Robert Saleh

“I love Saleh, love everything about him,” Warner said. “The draft process is horrible unless you’re the first overall pick or something, I don’t know how it is for those guys in the first round. They might get talked up, but for a guy like me who was trying to prove himself, I was a third-round draft pick and I had a bunch of teams telling me, ‘You can’t do this, you’re not that.’ Finally, I took my 30 visit with the Niners and I’m in there with Coach Saleh in his office, and he was like, ‘Man, I really like your game, this is how I see you playing in our system.’ This was the first time I was hearing these things. So I was thinking this guy Coach Saleh, he’s the best. Then they drafted me and had all the belief in the world to stay with me even through a rocky rookie season as a starter and see it through. I love him. Happy to be back with him.”

49ers’ top cut candidates: Examining their biggest financial decisions (paywall)

“The 49ers will use a post-June 1 designation in releasing Hargrave, which means they can release him before June 1 and still spread out the dead-money charge over two seasons. Teams can use the post-June 1 designation on two players per year. The 49ers would realize $7.82 million in savings by making Gross-Matos a post-June 1 release.

Gross-Matos served as the No. 3 defensive end last season and the 49ers didn’t have a proven player behind him. Their lack of depth works in his favor, but not the 49ers’ ability to save significant money by releasing him.”

49ers express pre-draft interest in East-West Shrine Bowl Offensive MVP

“The San Francisco 49ers have met with running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt as they continue evaluating players ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.”