49ers present Brock Purdy with nearly full-strength receiving corps

SANTA CLARA When Brock Purdy returns to the field after a two-week absence Sunday it will be with a wide receiver crew that s pretty close to full strength Wide receivers Ricky Pearsall Jr and Jauan Jennings listed as questionable during the week are both working and will face the Jacksonville Jaguars at Levi s Stadium p m Fox So will Demarcus Robinson who missed the first three games on suspension for being in violation of the NFL s personal conduct guidelines The most of in doubt was Jennings who didn t practice until Friday and has been hobbled by knee and shoulder issues Pearsall mentioned his designation was strictly precautionary and that he would play It remains to be seen how much the ers will use Robinson who was one of their steadiest performers during training camp It was just good to get him back in practice this week coach Kyle Shanahan mentioned Friday Obviously having a month off guys are invariably rusty coming back in I think he s done a good job staying in shape and stuff but getting back into the football stuff getting in and out of the huddle Friday compared to Wednesday I thought he came a long way and excited to get him back out there on Sunday get him a part of our gang and get this started with him The inactive list included starting cornerback Renardo Green who is dealing with a neck injury Other inactives were running back Jordan James wide receiver Jordan Watkins ccalf wide receiver Marques Valdes-Scantling defensive tackle C J West and linebacker Nick Martin Meanwhile Brandon Aiyuk continues to rehab a torn ACL and MCL in his right knee joining his teammates in a sweat suit regularly during practice and moving well But not well enough according to ers GM John Lynch Although there have been no setbacks Lynch announced on his weekly appearance on KNBR- the process will be a deliberate one There s different levels when you do these ACLs and Brandon had a fairly essential injury involving a lot of different things in his knee Lynch stated He s a really gifted athlete He s a very hard worker And so when you combine that you tend to come back at a good clip There s no absolutes on these things So he s got to continue to hit markers but he is tracking well He s working hard And we ll just continue to do that We ll be a better association when Brandon is out there And so we look forward to that day but you know it s not close When we have various more information on that we ll be forthright with it Shanahan on Friday gave his interpretation of not close means I think it s more like when we get kind of an exact target date Shanahan commented That s when you look at it that way I think we re getting close to that But just not to have a target date that s when I start thinking about it and we don t have that yet So we re waiting until they give us one Designated as inactive for Jacksonville are wide receiver Dyami Brown running back Cody Schrader offensive lineman Wyatt Milam defensive tackle Khalen Saunders Sr defensive lineman Danny Striggow linebacker Yasir Abdullah and and linebacker Khalef Hailassie Apple of Shanahan s eye The ers lone standard practice squad elevation was Eli Apple who once upon a time was the th overall pick of the NFL Draft for the New York Giants in With Green inactive Apple was brought to the -man roster with Darrell Luter Jr and Chase Lucas also available to play cornerback In his th season out of Ohio State Apple joined the ers on July only to be distributed Aug because of injuries at other positions He was re-signed to the practice squad where two weeks ago he was designated one of the scout band players of the week Shanahan announced at the time it spoke to Apple s character as an example for younger players that a veteran of the Giants Saints Panthers Bengals Dolphins and Chargers with and starts would still be grinding out practices and competing for playing time He predicted Apple would soon be up for a contest Related Articles ers keys to supremacy against the Jaguars From stealing signs to intercepting passes How to watch the ers vs the Jaguars on Sunday ers Brock Purdy is off injury description and will start against Jacksonville Kurtenbach I ll take Brock Purdy over Trevor Lawrence my predictions for ers-Jaguars Nick Bosa s gone so it s on the ers offense to carry San Francisco to the postseason I ve gone against him a number of times in this league and he has been awesome since we ve had him here Shanahan declared He was good in training camp just got hurt after the first week and he s been great since he came back It s an example for all the young guys that it really doesn t matter Shanahan revealed You ve got to work no matter where you re at and when you do it like that it s a matter of time where I think he ll help us on Sundays too