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49ers DE Nick Bosa suffered a season-ending torn ACL in Week 3’s win over the Cardinals. San Francisco HC Kyle Shanahan is confident the rest of their roster will step up in Bosa’s absence.
“You don’t just replace a guy like Nick,” Shanahan said, via ProFootballTalk. “It just puts — you know, everyone’s got to continue to get better at everything. It’s the same thing I’d be preaching if we did have Nick too. When you lose your better players, it gets harder, but I also expect throughout this year all of our players to get better as it goes. That’s stressed even that much more when you lose a great one like Nick. Lots of guys obviously will have to step it up as it goes, but I believe that’ll be more by committee than any individual.”
Shanahan said they could examine the trade market for another edge rusher.
“There’s got to be trade options that make sense for you and another team, but you can’t just do that stuff just to do it.”
Shanahan added that they will need their younger players to step up and voiced praise for ****Mykel Williams, Bryce Huff, and ****Sam Okuayinonu.
“We needed guys to step it up to play along with Nick, and now that he’s out, you need them that much more,” Shanahan said. “But I had definitely been happy with those guys. I think they’ve done better each week. I thought Mykel [Williams] had a really good game yesterday. I think [Bryce] Huff’s done some real good things, Sam [Okuayinonu], all our edge players I think have been contributing and hopefully they continue to get better throughout this year.”
Cardinals HC Jonathan Gannon confirmed that RB James Conner will miss the rest of the season and requires surgery on his injured right foot.
“You hate that it happens,” Gannon said, via Darren Urban of the team’s site. “I know he’ll take the right attitude and bounce back. Taking up that slack, both the player and the person, we’ll all have to collectively do it.”
Cardinals RB Trey Benson finished Week 3 with 125 yards on 21 carries. The running back feels like he could’ve been “more decisive” on some of his runs.
“I could’ve been more decisive, but it takes time,” Benson said. “It’s my second year in the league. There is room for improvement.”
Cardinals OC Drew Petzing remains confident in their cast of running backs with Benson, ****Emari Demercado, and Bam Knight.
“I feel terrible for (James),” Petzing said. *“Past that, I feel really good about the group. Trey, Emari, Bam, to pick up the slack knowing there were times in the last two years James has not been out there and they have stepped up. We need that to...
