Training camp is just one week away.
While there is not an abundance of uncertainty surrounding the 49ers, there are a few question marks heading into training camp.
Matt Maiocco joined Murph and Mac on Thursday and offered up two storylines heading into camp.
The first is Nick Bosa’s contract status. There doesn’t seem to be a sense of concern about the deal getting done, but it will be an absolutely monumental figure.
“There’ll be two pieces of news when the 49ers open training camp,” Maiocco said. “It’ll be, has Nick Bosa’s contract been completed? A contract that will make him the highest-paid player in 49ers history, the highest paid defensive end in the league, and I don’t know if he’s going to surpass Aaron Donald’s number at more than $31 million per year, but he’ll be right up there.
“So that’s question number one. I wouldn’t think that he would get on the field and practice without that new contracts. Certainly his representation wouldn’t want him to and I don’t know that the 49ers would want him to either. They’ve been pretty good about kind of good faith negotiations.”
Number two is the obvious: Brock Purdy. How do the 49ers handle his injury status at the start of camp?
And then the other thing is what did they do with Brock Purdy when he reports to camp. Do they placed him on PUP? Which means he can continue to rehab but behind the scenes he can’t get on the practice field with his teammates.
Or do they clear him to at least take part in practices to the point where maybe he’s just throwing check downs, going through the reads. There’s still a lot of stuff in the run game that needs to be ironed out. The quarterbacks do have a lot of responsibilities in the run game.
So he would be able to do all that stuff, taking snaps behind center and shotgun and then running those things and making the adjustments and just kind of training his eyes for where they need to be. So those will be the two major storylines once training camp starts.
Based on everything the 49ers have said, Purdy is expected to be involved in training camp at some point. There has been no concrete timeline offered, but he is expected to be available at the start of the season.
Still, only time will tell how his elbow reacts to a fuller workload. The presence of Sam Darnold and Trey Lance, and their competition, looms large.
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