Rush led the NFL with six sacks in the preseason and earned Pro Football Focus’ highest pass rushing grade.

CSN Bay Area’s Monte Poole joined Murph & Mac Monday.

Oakland now turns its attention to Saturday’s home game against Indianapolis (7-7). With wins over the Colts and then in the season finale at Denver (8-6), the Raiders will win the AFC West.

This episode of The KJ Podcast features Pro Football Talk’s Zac Jackson and why the Browns are actually in deeper trouble than the 49ers.

The Giants, for the first time in a while, have a handful of young power hitting prospects at every level of their farm system. Three notable youngsters have been opening eyes of late, combining for 690 total bases in 367 Minor League games in 2016, and leading MiLB.com to say that the Giants farm system is in as fine a shape as ever.

The 49ers announced their second extension in as many weeks on Monday afternoon, signing linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong to a two-year extension via official team press release on. Armstrong, who was due to become an unrestricted free agent, is now locked up through the 2018 season.

For the first time ever, NBA players and basketball media will join fans in selecting the starters for NBA All-Star 2017 in New Orleans.  NBA All-Star Voting 2017 presented by Verizon will tip off at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 25 before an exciting lineup of five Christmas Day matchups on ABC and ESPN.

If Kelly has plans to stick around the 49ers in 2018 and beyond, it would behoove him to push for a rookie quarterback in the first round

With two games remaining in the 2016 season, the San Francisco 49ers now have 14 players on the injured reserve list.

Chip Kelly, in a bullish mood on Murph and Mac Monday morning, did not exactly agree with Kaepernick’s premise of the culture needing to change.