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49ers QB Brock Purdy Says Ricky Pearsall is Getting Open

Ricky Pearsall, where are you?

Grant Cohn

Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (14) celebrates with wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) after scoring a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first quarter at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images
Nov 10, 2024; Tampa, Florida, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (14) celebrates with wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) after scoring a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first quarter at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images / Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images
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Ricky Pearsall, where are you?

He hasn't caught a pass in the 49ers' past three games. And the 49ers need him to step up more than even now that Brandon Aiyuk is out of the season and Deebo Samuel can't get open anymore.

“Obviously I'd love to get Ricky the ball as many times as we can," quarterback Brock Purdy said on Friday. "I know that he's explosive and he does a good job with creating separation in man coverage. So as a quarterback, it's like, dude, for sure I want to get him the ball and I love the kid, he's awesome. But for some reason, just with how the game has gone when I've been in there and stuff, I just haven't been able to connect to him within the last three games. So for me, it's not like I'm freaking out going, ‘alright, Ricky and I, our chemistry's off’ this or that. That’s just how the game's gone. Going through progressions, I’ve hit some other guys. I don't know exactly why Ricky hasn't been like a certain target in a certain play. It’s just I'm going through my progressions and that's it. Going into a game, like I said, I want to get everybody the ball as best as I can. Jauan Jennings, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel, Ricky, all those guys deserve it and I want to play for them and get them the ball as much, but that's just how the last three games have gone.”

Sounds like Purdy needs to stop locking onto Jennings and Samuel and do a better job of finding the open man.

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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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