\u201cIt was very difficult,\u201d Hufanga said of his decision to leave the 49ers in free agency. \u201cI did a lot of growing here. As a young kid coming in, I graduated early from college and then came right in here to try to grow as a man. This where I got married. This where I had my first kid at.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be back here is special, but I\u2019m exactly where I\u2019m supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hufanga was not alone in his move. Greenlaw has kept him company. The two were attached at the hip as 49ers, and the Broncos apparently did not buck the trend in any way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey put us everywhere together,\u201d Hufanga said. \u201cHe was my locker mate here, he\u2019s my locker mate there. He was my partner on the plane. He\u2019s the person next door, roommate at the hotel. I\u2019m telling you, like they just make sure we\u2019re buddies everywhere we go.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been practicing this whole offseason \u2014 him fighting through contact and getting separation, and then the ball was right there, and it was just good timing,\u201d Purdy said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been repping. So I\u2019m glad we got that against another defense in a crucial situation. I think it was third down, and we needed that, and he made the catch and scored.\u201d<\/p>\n
The practices Thursday provided Watkins with good learning experiences. And now he will have a taste of what is needed when going up against an unfamiliar defense in a game-like setting.\u201c<\/p>\n
It was an up-and-down day for the 49ers\u2019 offense, which was to be expected against one of the top defenses in the league.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor them to come and give us different looks and have a couple bad plays, and how you finish practice is a big thing,\u201d Purdy said. \u201cI think it was a good day, overall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was very difficult,\u201d Hufanga said of his decision to leave the 49ers in free agency. \u201cI did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,52307,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-271435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-49ers-links","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114992779830767238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}