{"id":201561,"date":"2025-09-05T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:06:13","slug":"49ers-injury-updates-christian-mccaffrey-pops-up-on-the-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201561\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers injury updates: Christian McCaffrey pops up on the injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers\u2019 injury report was on the lighter side on Wednesday. Edge rusher Yetur Gross-Matos (knee) and wide receiver Jordan Watkins (ankle) were the only two players who didn\u2019t participate<\/a>. Those two were back at practice on Thursday. According to reporters who were on hand, every player on the 49ers\u2019 active 53-man roster was on the field in uniform and practicing in some capacity while the media was allowed to watch.<\/p>\n

Watkins being able to practice should be viewed as a significant development. We hadn\u2019t received any updates about the 49ers\u2019 fourth-round rookie in quite some time. He\u2019s been sidelined since August 11 with the dreaded high-ankle sprain<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That does not look like a player who is moving gingerly or playing it safe while nursing an injury. Even if Watkins can\u2019t go this Sunday \u2014 it is his first practice in nearly a month \u2014 it\u2019s a sign that he\u2019s closer to returning than missing another game. Watkins is a significant upgrade over Skyy Moore, Russell Gage, and Marquez Valdes-Scantling. We saw Watkins\u2019 explosiveness early on in the preseason.<\/p>\n

Knowing that Kyle Shanahan likes his players to get a whole week of practice under their belt before playing in a game, I wouldn\u2019t expect to see Watkins, Gross-Matos, or rookie running back Jordan James active Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Kyle\u2019s update, 4:51 p.m. PT: <\/strong>The 49ers released their injury report, and running back Christian McCaffrey was listed as limited with a calf injury.<\/p>\n

Yetur Gross-Matos (knee)
Jordan James (finger)
Jauan Jennings (calf)
Christian McCaffrey (calf)
Dominick Puni (knee)
Jordan Watkins (ankle)<\/p>\n

Obviously, you don\u2019t want to speculate on any potential setbacks. But after what happened last year, when everything appeared full go for McCaffrey heading into Week 1 and he ended up missing two months, how can you not?<\/p>\n

It would be easier to shrug off if McCaffrey was listed all week, and the coaching staff had mentioned that they were being careful with McCaffrey, but that hasn\u2019t been the case. Thursday is the first time McCaffrey was listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n

I know not everybody feels this way, but there are people out there who aren\u2019t credentialed or around the team who know people inside the building. More of than not, they know more than the folks covering the team daily. According to this user, who has been pretty spot on, Christian McCaffrey left practice early:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s relatively good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers\u2019 injury report was on the lighter side on Wednesday. Edge rusher Yetur Gross-Matos (knee)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,77192,64272,1246,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-201561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","10":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-injuries","11":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115150191579207816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}