Nick Bosa’s return to the practice field on Wednesday came with a little more texture than just a simple comeback checkpoint. The 49ers edge rusher was back in team drills for the first time since an ACL injury early last season, and he said the path back included a detour after he pushed his football work a bit too quickly and ended up dealing with a patellar tendon issue.
“I’m not going to go back too far because every recovery there’s ups and downs, but it was a long road,” Bosa said, via Nick Wagoner. “There’s some stuff I dealt with, with that patella tendon, and then I kind of ramped it a little too fast with the football stuff a month ago or whatever it was.
And that kind of told me to back off. I’ve just been trying to get it as strong and myself as confident as I can to where I could rip the bandaid off and go to team stuff today.
Because once you get into team, there’s no reservations, there’s no compensation, like there’s no governor. So yeah, I felt that today.
I remember my last ACL, there was a couple moments where you just have to go and you’re kind of hoping for the best. Obviously it’s not going to be like anything crazy is going to happen, but you hope that your body is going to respond the way that you prepared it to.
And there’s a couple moments today where that happened. So I’m just going to try and keep building, not get too up about it, but it was a great day.”
In Arizona, Michael Wilson and the Cardinals were working through the final stretch of contract talks on Wednesday morning before the receiver landed his new deal. ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss reported the sides were roughly $3 to $4 million apart before Wilson signed a three-year, $75 million extension.
Weinfuss also noted Wilson wanted a three-year pact rather than a four-year one, and that the $25 million annual average came out to about $10 million per year above Arizona’s original offer. The Cardinals, according to Weinfuss, kept sending back small, incremental offers in response to Wilson’s counterproposals, and he described Week 1 as a “deadline of sorts,” with the sense late in camp that a deal likely wouldn’t be finished before things intensified this week.
Seattle also got a major contract update, with Leonard Williams locking in a new long-term agreement. Per Over The Cap, the Seahawks defensive tackle signed a three-year, $90 million extension that includes $54 million guaranteed.
That figure breaks down to $37.35 million in new money guarantee and a $22 million signing bonus. Williams’ base salaries of $3.8 million in 2026 and $10.73 million in 2027 are fully guaranteed, and another $11.27 million becomes guaranteed in 2027 if he’s still on the roster on the fifth day of the 2027 waiver period.
There’s also another $5.35 million tied to the same condition in 2028. The contract includes two option bonuses and void years for cap purposes, which lowers his 2026 cap hit by $7.6 million.
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