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49ers WR Ricky Pearsall Will Make NFL Debut Sunday vs. Chiefs

But how much can he really play? How many routes can he run before he's gassed? He started practicing only a few days ago.

Grant Cohn

Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (14) watches a game against the New York Jets from the sideline during the fourth quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images
Sep 9, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (14) watches a game against the New York Jets from the sideline during the fourth quarter at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Gonzales-Imagn Images / David Gonzales-Imagn Images
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SANTA CLARA -- It hasn't been two full months since Ricky Pearsall got shot in the chest and already he's ready to play.

The 49ers will activate Pearsall for Sunday's game against the Chiefs. Kyle Shanahan confirmed this on Friday.

Pearsall was on the Reserve/Non-Football Injury List. But the 49ers opened his three-week practice window on Monday and he was a full participant every day this week. He looks as healthy and fresh as any player on the team. And the 49ers need him to play considering Jauan Jennings is out after missing every practice this week with a hip injury.

The 49ers probably feel that Pearsall would give the team and the fans in the stadium an electric boost of energy for a pivotal game. Just imagine the scene when he makes his dramatic entrance.

But how much can he really play? How many routes can he run before he's gassed? He started practicing only a few days ago.

"We just had one two-minute drill," Shanahan said about Pearsall's first practice. "He was out of breath from it, so we were messing with him, trying to get him to talk right away. It was more just because he was so excited to be out there, but it was a good first day and pumped to see him out there this afternoon."

I'm guessing Pearsall will play 10 to 20 snaps and catch a pass or two against the Chiefs, but nothing more.

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Grant Cohn
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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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