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49ers Place RB Jeff Wilson Jr. on Reserve/Covid List

The test results have begun to come in.
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49ers Place RB Jeff Wilson Jr. on Reserve/Covid List
49ers Place RB Jeff Wilson Jr. on Reserve/Covid List

The test results have begun to come in.

And the 49ers have announced they have placed running back Jeff Wilson Jr. on the Reserve/Covid List, meaning he either has tested positive for the coronavirus or has come in contact with someone who is Covid-19-positive.

No word yet on if he will decide to opt out of the season. He currently is the second player the 49ers have placed on the Reserve/Covid List. Wide Receiver Richie James Jr. was the first.

The 49ers’ veterans took their first Covid-19 tests on Tuesday, so they should receive results today. They also will take a second round of tests today and, if they pass those, then the 49ers will let those players inside the building, and the team eventually will start practicing on August 10, although who knows what those practices will look like, or if they will happen on time.

Stay tuned. The 49ers could place more players on the Reserve/Covid List throughout the week.

Wilson is just 24. He’s a promising, young running back who scored five touchdowns even though he touched the ball just 30 times last season. He also played in the Super Bowl and made a crucial 20-yard catch at the end of the first half.

As long as Wilson is on the Reserve/Covid List, veteran running back Tevin Coleman’s roster spot should be safe. He currently is the most expensive running back on the roster -- the 49ers will pay him more than $4.8 million next season. And Wilson is cheaper, younger and just as good, if not better than Coleman. Wilson might take Coleman’s job eventually. Just not any time soon, apparently.

I wish Wilson well and hope he recovers quickly.

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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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