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49ers Defensive End Nick Bosa Will Play Against the Rams

The 49ers will have their best pass rusher tonight when they face the Los Angeles Rams.

Grant Cohn

Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) returns to the locker room following early pregame warmups against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa (97) returns to the locker room following early pregame warmups against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images / Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers will have their best pass rusher tonight when they face the Los Angeles Rams.

Nick Bosa is expected to play, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Bosa hasn't played since Week 11 when he injured his hip/oblique during the second half of the 49ers' 20-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. A couple weeks prior, he injured his other oblique during a practice, so he hasn't been fully healthy since before the 49ers' bye week.

Bosa's return comes at the perfect time.

The 49ers have a must-win game tonight and they probably couldn't win it without him. They're facing Matthew Stafford, an elite quarterback who can make throws Brock Purdy can't. To beat Stafford, the 49ers must pressure him, particularly up the middle, because he like to step up in the pocket.

When the 49ers lost to the Rams in Week 3, Bosa played but didn't sack Stafford. As a result, the Rams scored 27 points without Cooper Kupp or Puka Nacua and the 49ers lost. Now both Kupp and Nacua are healthy. Which means the 49ers will need the best game of the season from Bosa, who's their highest-paid player.

In addition to Bosa, the 49ers will have linebacker Dre Greenlaw and safety Talanoa Hufanga, two defenders who didn't play against the Rams earlier this season. Perhaps those two will be the difference and provide a spark for a defense that got shredded by Stafford just a few months ago.

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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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