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49ers’ Bryce Huff finally feeling the love after years spent feeling unwanted (paywall)
““I don’t think it was football,” Huff said. “It was more that the energy was off and it was messing with my head. And I couldn’t get in my routine because I was thinking about what I’m going to say to the media. It was just weird. Mentally, that’s probably the worst I’ve been in my career.
“Because you’ve got people saying stuff, people that are supposed to be getting you to be the best version of yourself, talking about you in the media in a negative light. And that comes back on me as far as social media and people saying all kinds of stuff. That was my first time dealing with that type of stuff. And it just took me out of my flow, I guess.”
Why Kyle Shanahan believes 49ers benefit from ‘energetic’ rookie defenders
“Obviously, as the season progresses, adjustments will come, but Shanahan – no stranger to coaching elite defenses – broke down how San Francisco benefits from a sense of inexperience, in an exclusive interview for NBC Sports Bay Area’s “49ers Game Plan” with Matt Maiocco.“
Jauan Jennings injury update: Will 49ers WR play vs. Cardinals?
All signs point to Kendrick Bourne playing a bigger role if Jennings can’t play. Bourne, despite signing ahead of Week 2, is the 49ers No. 3 WR with three catches for 32 yards. Aside from Jennings and WR Ricky Pearsall, Bourne is the only 49ers WR with a catch this season. The only other WR with a target is veteran Marquez Valdes-Scantling who didn’t catch the lone pass thrown his way.
Why Kyle Shanahan pushed for 49ers to wear road white jerseys during home games
“Yeah … I was bothered last year [against the Cardinals] because of how hot it was, so we tried to wear our whites,” Shanahan told Maiocco. “When I coached in Tampa Bay, or [when] you’ve coached on the East Coast and you know how hot and humid it’d be earlier in the year, we’d do this a lot.
“Out here, we don’t worry about it that much; it never got that hot out here. But it definitely did that week, and we knew it was going to come, so we tried to wear our whites, and the league said we couldn’t do it unless we told them at the beginning of the year. So we had to decide in like April this year, and definitely don’t know if it’s going to be hot or not, so we just had to guess.”
“Enormous relief and joy. He was looking at life in prison as an adult. This was a radical different outcome,” said Bob Dunlap, SF public defender representing the teen.
The five-day hearing included multiple witnesses including the SFPD officer who ran towards the sound of gunshots and found Pearsall covered in...
