The 49ers have a busy day going on at camp, with a joint practice against the Los Angeles Chargers and a pair of roster additions on the defensive and offensive lines.
San Francisco signed D-lineman and O-lineman to one-year deals, adding another body to the mix as the team works through practice against another roster. The new defensive lineman, Dimukeje, brings five seasons of NFL experience with the Cardinals from 2021-24 and the New York Giants in 2025.
Over 60 games with eight starts, he has posted 51 tackles, 4.0 sacks, two passes defensed, and two forced fumbles. In 2025, he played in five games for the Giants, finishing with one tackle and one pass defensed.
While the roster churn continues, the biggest injury focus remains Nick Bosa. A report on his recovery from his second ACL surgery described the situation as a “different beast,” and the concern is not just the surgery itself but the lingering tendinitis in the knee.
Dr. Prem Ramkumar called an ACL revision a “very big deal” and a “different beast.”
Dr. Nirav Pandya said the wear and tear on Bosa’s right knee means it will be “asking a lot” for the 2022 Defensive Player of the Year to look like himself next month, or even this season.
Before Bosa was shut down, he told Sports Illustrated that last year’s operation also dealt with “chronic” quadriceps tendinitis that had grown out of the first ACL repair on the same knee. Pandya said the bigger concern would be if the current tendinitis is not tied to the latest ACL surgery, which Shanahan suggested it was.
“He’s had quad tendinitis since he was in high school and it’s been this lingering, ongoing problem,” Pandya said. “The issue that you get worried about long-term tendinitis is that that can eventually lead to degeneration of a tendon.
It’s more prone to kind of have chronic issues or even tear.”
There was better news on George Kittle. Ian Rapoport said the tight end’s recovery has been impressive, after seeing him work out in Santa Clara about a week ago while finishing up Inside Training Camp.
“It was eye-popping. It was really good.
It was really fast. It was looking like a player who is basically going full speed,” Rapoport said on NFL Network’s The Insiders.
Kittle is seven months removed from his Achilles injury, and Rapoport pointed out that players generally do not return until nine months, with the season beginning about eight months after the injury.
Christian McCaffrey also drew attention, but Rapoport pushed back hard on any conspiracy talk around the latest injury chatter. “This is not fake,” Rapoport affirmed.
“Actual tightness, not fake tightness, not a hold-in, actual tightness. It does not seem to me like anything really to worry about.
I know we’ve heard that before with Christian McCaffrey, but for real, this does not seem like anything to worry about.
”The timing of this, coming right after Jaymyr Gibbs, right after Bijan Robinson got paid, my understanding-coincidence. Christian McCaffrey should be fine.”
And in the broader camp evaluation, the rookie class got a positive review while the 2025 class drew a cooler response. The report singled out Willis as a “pleasant surprise,” noting that his shorter arm length and ability to anchor could still become issues, but didn’t show up much in the work observed.
Eason also stood out for more than just effort, earning praise for his awareness and his ability to track the ball carrier and work back toward him. The writeup contrasted that with Collins, saying Eason used different techniques, like a drop leg, to hold his ground against double teams.
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