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Wide receiver leaves practice early with calf injury at 49ers camp

This is getting ridiculous.
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Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images | Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images

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The 49ers can't catch a break at wide receiver.

First, Ricky Pearsall injured his hamstring. Then, Jacob Cowing injured his as well. Then, Pearsall finally made his return today, and another wide receiver went down.

This time, it was Jauan Jennings. He left practice early after reaggravating a calf injury that kept him out for the second day of minicamp in June. After practice, Kyle Shanahan said the team didn't know the severity of the injury yet, so stay tuned. We'll see if Jennings is on the field tomorrow when the 49res put pads on for the first time this offseason.

Jauan Jennings reaggravates his calf injury

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs for yards after the catch against Seattle Seahawks cornerback Tre
Oct 10, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings (15) runs for yards after the catch against Seattle Seahawks cornerback Tre Brown (22) during the second quarter at Lumen Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images | Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images

This injury is awful timing for Jennings, because he wants a contract extension. And instead of holding out or holding in, he decided to be a good guy and practice with the team while he waits patiently for the 49ers to take care of him.

When he made Jennings made his request, I projected that the 49ers would extend on the first or second day of padded practices, meaning tomorrow or the next day. Now, they might choose to wait until Jennings recovers. Or, they could change their minds entirely. It's a business, after all.

This is why Jennings probably should have held in like Brandon Aiyuk did last year. He would have protected himself from injury, and he would have given himself a better chance to get what he wants, even if he had to ruffle feathers along the way.

You live and you learn.

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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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