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Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
“McCaffrey has experienced no setbacks in his physical therapy over the past month and has not practiced since Thursday, Sept. 12, when he aggravated his Achilles tendinitis and was placed on injured reserve two days later.”
Christian McCaffrey brings jolt of hope in return to 49ers practice: ‘The boys are back’ (paywall)
“Awesome,” was the one-word assessment of 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, who quickly became reacquainted with the halfback’s burst.
“I went to hand it off,” Purdy recounted, reaching out his arm and extending it while leaning forward, “and it was like, ‘Ah man.’”.....“Just the way he’s moving — he’s got that pop,” rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall said. “I told him, ‘You’re looking bouncy, bro.’ When they split him out, he looked like a receiver out there. It will be really cool to play with him, and hopefully that happens soon.”
John Lynch can’t wait for Christian McCaffrey and the 49ers at full speed
“The phones have been active,” Lynch said. “You’re always listening, you’re asking, you’re fielding calls. I think there’s this interesting expectation because we’ve done ’em so much that every year you do it. And that’s not the case. You do it when it makes sense. It seems it’s made sense a lot. And it has helped our team, I will say that.”
“Jake Moody should be back after the bye, which ought to mean more touchbacks and fewer risky kickoff returns. But the weather is only going to get worse, there are upcoming games in Green Bay and Buffalo and it will be harder to consistently boot the ball deep into the end zone.
Considering what happened over the first eight games, Schneider and the special teams don’t have much room for error. Every gaffe will be magnified and tossed on the pile with the others. That group has to be almost perfect, or at least blunder-free, and judging from the first half of the season, it’s hard to see that happening.”
“[You] could probably put him in any offense, it’s going to make them better,” Williams said. “Obviously our offense is kind of tailor-made to him and some of his strengths, so definitely going to be a tremendous lift for us.”
49ers reach out to Charvarius Ward as he grieves daughter’s death (paywall)
“Amani and her mother, Ward’s girlfriend, Monique Cook, attended the 49ers’ 30-24 win over the Cowboys on Oct. 27 and Ward put her to bed that night, the day before her death.
“We all reached out to him,” Williams said. “More than anything we wanted to give him his privacy to deal with things that a lot of us can’t even fathom. Much love. Much prayers. Much respect to him,...
