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49ers WR Jauan Jennings Expected to Return After Bye Week

With Brandon Aiyuk to miss the rest of the season with ACL, MCL and meniscus injuries, the 49ers will need all the help they can get at wide receiver.

Grant Cohn

Sep 29, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs off the field after the game against the New England Patriots at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Sep 29, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs off the field after the game against the New England Patriots at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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The 49ers still don't know exactly when Christian McCaffrey and Dre Greenlaw will return from injury, but Jauan Jennings' return is imminent.

Jennings, who missed the 49ers' past two games with a hip injury, is expected to play in the 49ers' Week 10 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following the Week 9 bye according to head coach Kyle Shanahan. Jennings initially injured his hip during the 49ers' Oct. 10 Thursday night win over the Seattle Seahawks. Jennings stayed in that game but hasn't practiced since.

Before Jennings went down, he was having a good season. In six games, he has 25 catches for 404 receiving yards and 3 touchdown catches. Compare him to Deebo Samuel, who has 24 catches for 406 receiving yards and 1 touchdown catch in seven games.

With Brandon Aiyuk to miss the rest of the season with ACL, MCL and meniscus injuries, the 49ers will need all the help they can get at wide receiver. And Jennings will give the 49ers a second quality start to pair with Samuel.

In addition, the 49ers have rookie wide receivers Ricky Pearsall and Jacob Cowing, both of whom have played well in limited opportunities so far this season. Plus the 49ers have tight end George Kittle who is having one of the best seasons of his career and carrying the offense during McCaffrey's absence. So even without him and Aiyuk, the 49ers should have more than enough talent on offense to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when Jennings returns.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

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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