49ers mailbag: Time to solve training camp mysteries
SANTA CLARA Calling the beginning of football season training camp is too soft regardless of the present day s gentler NFL guidelines The ers are starting an intense workshop this week prompting The Faithful to file these questions into our social-media huddle When does camp open I forgot dough boy Ahem their month-long workshop officially opens Tuesday for all veterans a week after rookies released Full pads and contact are not allowed until after the first four practices What is something you are largest part excited about looking into this season morales r j The reboot of both Christian McCaffrey s offensive output and Robert Saleh s defensive leadership The first two road trips to Seattle and New Orleans The quarter-billion-dollar quarterback The further away we all get from And the ultimate finish a Levi s Stadium Super Bowl on Feb with or without the home unit Will the Niners sign Jauan Jennings to a long-term contract which I believe he s earned ljmb He d like to know that also After a career-best season he is entering the final year of his contract and I suspect he ll get another two- or three-year extension at perhaps halfway to Brandon Aiyuk s million-per-year stratosphere Will Jennings and Aiyuk both be on the squad after Encounter this season Asking for a friend TreeBark Yes on Jennings if an extension is done this camp Aiyuk may not make his debut until after that fifth meeting if he starts the season on the Physically Unable To Perform list he s out the first four games and because Week is a Thursday meeting at the Rams the ers may prefer he get a full week of practice before a debut in Week at Tampa Bay Hello Cam With all the question marks at WR could the front office make a push for Keenan Allen or Amari Cooper Chucho They could especially if they detect Jennings might hold out of practices for a big chunk of camp But that would go against this offseason s mission to get younger and cheaper Is CMC going to get a reasonable amount of touches so he doesn t get hurt dci sc That to me is the No question for this camp seeing how crucial he is to the offensive production once the season starts We ve got to kind of protect him from himself coach Kyle Shanahan commented May Who are the projected secondary starters andrew liu Entering camp Deommodore Lenoir and Renardo Green are the starting cornerbacks with Upton Stout or Tre Brown at nickel back while Jason Pinnock and a presumably healthy Ji Ayir Brown are at safety Only Lenoir is a lock Let the competitions begin Hi Cam First I m knee deep in your book The Franchise on the curated history of the Niners and really enjoying it How do you see LBs playing out Winters on obvious passing and Martin on run lowbridge First thanks for reading and writing The ers could rotate Dee Winters and Nick Martin but that s not the preferred method to establish consistency next to Fred Warner I d expect Winters to open camp as the weak-side starter and Martin will be tested to see if he s capable of that spot or the strong-side part-time role Winters and Martin are fast so they need to show which has a better grasp of pass-coverage concepts and run-fit rules Do the ers have a civilization issue when it comes to contracts the way the crew approaches negotiations and the way players feel they can utilize leverage jefegolfs Contract disputes are an annual summer tradition throughout the NFL The ers indeed bucked that trend this year by hammering out extensions for Brock Purdy George Kittle and Warner before the offseason operation ended Jennings and right tackle Colton McKivitz are each slated for free agency so those contract issues are hovering Who will you be watching the the greater part and why michael budd The trick to watching camp is to watch well all players In we didn t see Purdy take more than a sparse reps each practice so it was tough at least for me to predict his star turn Each rep counts for something for everyone Does Rourke stay on IR this season Gambowler Quarterback Kurtis Rourke is only six months into his anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and there is no reason to rush the seventh-round rookie into action A biological redshirt season seems likely Mac Jones and Tanner Mordecai are positioned as Purdy s backups in Related Articles ers training camp Jennings McCaffrey defense among storylines to watch ers release special teams standout George Odum amid major overhaul ers sign rookie Collins after second-round guarantee deadlock The ers have held Jauan Jennings up as a model Will they pay him ers star George Kittle named NFL s top tight end What might be a surprising storyline coming out of ers training camp MrEd A retirement but I don t expect one not from Trent Williams Camp dependably produces injuries and a pleasant surprise would be if the ers avoid any serious ones Can you give more Nick Bosa content and videos postlomai Bosa indeed is a social media superstar and that traffic won t ease as he enters his seventh season My day job however is not to pap Bosa slang for photographing one in paparazzi style I ll do my best to share whatever images I capture on Instagram and YouTube Would Brock Purdy prefer tri-tip from Firestone or Old San Luis paulmateo Should Purdy find himself in San Luis Obispo s tri-tip paradise his first progression depends on which end of Higuera Street he finds himself whether it s closer to the Firestone institution that s ensconced in sports memorabilia or Old SLO s scrumptious sourdough rolls
