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49ers DE Nick Bosa Will Play Against the Miami Dolphins

The 49ers will have their best pass rusher today.

Grant Cohn

November 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) during the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
November 17, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) during the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-Imagn Images / Kyle Terada-Imagn Images
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MIAMI -- The 49ers will have their best pass rusher today.

Defensive end Nick Bosa officially is active for the 49ers' Week 16 game against the Miami Dolphins. Bosa has an oblique injury which forced him to miss practice completely on Thursday. He played through the injury last Thursday in the 49ers' do-or-die game against the Rams, which the 49ers lost. Now they have less than a one percent chance to make the playoffs. So you'd understand if the 49ers didn't play him.

But Bosa is a captain, and this week he said these final three games will determine who wants to be on the 49ers and who doesn't. If that's how he feels, he needs to play to show his teammates that he wants to be here. Bosa needs to set the tone so that his team can rise to his expectations.

Still, it would be a shame if Bosa further injured his oblique in a game that essentially doesn't matter. This is a glorified preseason game -- the only thing the 49ers are playing for is pride. Which means the 49ers would be better off losing this game, because a loss would improve their draft position and a win would hurt it.

You'd think the 49ers would want to be as cautious as possible and sit any players with lingering injuries. But finishing this season strong seems important to them. Let's see if Bosa can propel the 49ers to a win today.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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