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49ers Activate Kendrick Bourne from Reserve/COVID-19 List (Again)

Reinforcements are on the way.
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49ers Activate Kendrick Bourne from Reserve/COVID-19 List (Again)
49ers Activate Kendrick Bourne from Reserve/COVID-19 List (Again)

Reinforcements are on the way.

The 49ers activated wide receiver Kendrick Bourne from the Reserve/COVID-19 List on Friday. Bourne missed their last game against the Green Bay Packers. Since then, he tested negative twice, then positive again, then negative again. Now he's cleared to play.

Bourne participated in Friday's walkthrough and his legs are fresh. But he may not be ready to handle a full workload.

"Any time you're not here for 10 days and miss two weeks of practice, it is an issue," head coach Kyle Shanahan said. "But we're down some receivers, so he's going to be up regardless. But we've got to be smart with him."

Which means Richie James Jr. should continue to get lots of playing time. Which is good news for the 49ers.

More good news: Brandon Aiyuk and Trent Williams are cleared to play after missing the Packers game because they had been in close contact with Bourne.

"Those are two guys in particular who were playing at their personal highest levels of the year," Shanahan said. "They're real frustrated and eager to get out there on the football field, which was nice. Anytime they sweat or breathe too hard, people mess with them. They should have extremely fresh legs and be nice and ready to go. It was just a few days that they missed. I know they're happy to be back, and we're happy to have them out there."

Unfortunately for the 49ers, Deebo Samuel will not play Sunday against the Saints, and running back Raheem Mostert still is on Injured Reserve. Those two have a chance to play Week 12 following the 49ers bye week.

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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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