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Brock Purdy to be limited at 49ers practice; Ricky Pearsall out with knee injury
“Rookie defensive lineman CJ West (thumb) and veteran Yetur Gross-Matos (knee) will be held out of practice on Wednesday. West underwent surgery on Tuesday on his thumb. There is still a chance he could play Sunday against the Jaguars at Levi’s Stadium.”
49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall shares how he has taken his game to the next level
““I was feeling sore, but it’s just a precaution thing,” Pearsall said. “If there was a game today, I’d definitely play.”
Pearsall said he has no doubt he will be available for the 49ers’ Week 4 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars this Sunday at Levi’s Stadium….I’m more comfortable with the offense,” Pearsall said. “Obviously, the whole offseason, you’re physically getting ready. But I think just knowing the offense a little bit better is making me play just that much faster.
“You can be physically gifted all you want and be grinding in the offseason, but if you don’t mentally know everything about the playbook, you’re going to go out there and play slow”….
As a young receiver, Pearsall said he always tries to guard against doing too much thinking. After all, if he does not believe the pass is going to be going his way, there is always the temptation to let off the throttle just a little.
“If you know the coverage, and you know the route you’re running and it’s not good for that coverage, then you might run the route completely different, which you shouldn’t do,” he said. “You should still run the route full speed, like you’re getting the ball every single time.
“I’ll still catch myself sometimes, because I’ll figure out what the coverage is and it might not be the right route for the coverage. So I just tell myself, it’s coming my way, regardless. I always expect to get the ball, but that’s just how you’re supposed to play as a receiver.”
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“That said, having two operations on the same knee — what orthopedists call “revisions” — makes things more complicated, according to Bay Area surgeon Dan Solomon.
He said the first worry is the “tunnels” that are drilled through the bone as anchor points. Presumably, the optimal site for that tunnel was already used in the original surgery. If so, the challenge would be finding another area sturdy enough to handle the forces placed onto it by a 265-pound man with tree trunks for thighs.
The second concern is the graft — a surgeon can’t harvest a graft from the same site on the body that was used before. Solomon said it’s possible Bosa caught a break in that regard. Ten years ago, doctors tended to use patellar tendon grafts. These days, quadriceps tendons are becoming more common.
Obviously, the key lies with how Bosa’s 2015 injury — described in contemporary news stories as a “partial” tear that required surgery...
