The 49ers are keeping their focus on Mike Evans’ recovery, and John Lynch says the veteran receiver is grinding through the process after an Achilles injury.
Lynch said Evans is working “tirelessly” to get back, and he believes the approach is paying off. “Mike’s been working tirelessly,” Evans said, via PFT.
“He’ll continue to do that. He’s on a great plan, and I think the idea is you’ve just got to quiet that thing down.
We dealt with that with [RB] Christian [McCaffrey] last year-remember, he had that bilateral. We talked about that a lot, and fortunately with Mike, it’s just on the one side.
He’s dealt with it some throughout his career, but it got to a point where it was really inhibiting his ability to play. At that point, you’ve got to take him out and try to quiet the thing down.
Making good progress on that. We need to continue, and Mike will be tireless in his efforts to do that.”
In Los Angeles, Sean McVay made it clear the Rams are not rushing into deadline-mode just yet. The team is waiting on the return of EDGE Myles Garrett, TE Terrance Ferguson and WR Davante Adams from injured reserve, and McVay said that changes the way the front office is looking at the market.
When asked whether the Rams had talked trades, McVay pointed to the expected returns of those injured players and said the situation would look different if they were out for the season. “No, no, that’s not something - based on our situation, the good thing for us is, what you look at is hopefully some of those trades will be guys getting back from injury that haven’t played for us,” McVay said, via RamsWire.
“That’s the way that we look at it. Like I’ve told you in years past, you always think about it, but with the amount of guys that have not been available that are key and focal points for really both sides of the football, we look at those guys hopefully being able to return within a month.
That’s where that value lies for us. Maybe it’d be a different conversation if we’re talking about guys that are on IR and done for the whole season.
The good thing is a lot of the guys that are big, huge parts that we’re missing, we do expect to get back at some point, just not exactly sure when that is.”
Seattle’s Byron Murphy II is already making his presence felt in a defense that asks a lot from its interior linemen. Through seven games, the Seahawks defensive tackle has posted 24 tackles, five tackles for loss and three sacks, and defensive coordinator Aden Durde said the rookie-like learning curve in this scheme has been a big part of his development.
Durde explained that Murphy isn’t just lining up in one place and facing the same matchup over and over. “In this defense, you’re not always in the same spot, so it’s not like you’re studying one player and, ‘I’m going to play this player, and I know how he sets,’” Durde said, via Andrew Destin of The Athletic.
“He’s going to be playing (against) three, maybe four different players throughout the game. Knowing how to deal in those moments, that’s him learning.
That’s an experience that he’s gained over the last two years, and it’s coming to fruition now.”
That development showed up in a big way in Seattle’s 20-3 win over the Chiefs in Week 7. Mike Macdonald said Murphy was central to the performance.
“It starts with Murph,” Macdonald said. “I think the cool thing is the guys know it, too.
They can see how well he’s playing. I hope everybody else sees it as well.”
Murphy is in the third year of his rookie contract, and Seattle holds a fifth-year option to decide on for 2028. Jarran Reed believes the Seahawks should take care of that sooner rather than later and lock Murphy into a long-term deal.
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