{"id":316028,"date":"2025-08-25T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/316028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:11","slug":"golden-nuggets-cut-down-day-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/316028\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Nuggets: Cut down day looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But an IR move also could be a nervous compromise and delay tactic for this increasingly tense situation. Both sides would lose some things, but not everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Jennings goes on IR this week, the 49ers would pick up a valuable extra spot for their battered roster as they cut down to 53 players on Tuesday. And it would solve the practical concern of giving a spot to Jennings without knowing if he\u2019ll be ready to play and with a wide-receiver depth chart that has been decimated by injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition, such a move would, at least on the surface, continue to take Jennings at his word that his calf hasn\u2019t healed enough to resume practice for the first time since late July.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/53-man-roster-projection-win-chargers\/1869853\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Maiocco\u2019s 53-man roster projection after 49ers\u2019 preseason win vs. Chargers <\/a><br \/>\u201cWill the fourth safety be Neal or Richie Grant. It might even be both. But it appears certain that Neal\u2019s spot is safe. Here\u2019s a clue from special-teams coordinator Brant Boyer, who said Neal is a \u201cPro Bowl-caliber\u201d player. That would seem to suggest he is a lock for a roster spot. After all, it would be foolish to release a player who can help the 49ers improve on the special-teams failures of a year ago.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was getting ready for the 49ers\u2019 final preseason game, so he was locked in, he said. He did not have an opportunity to soak in the video of his dad, Hall of Famer Terrell Owens, scoring his first NFL touchdown.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nick Martin, LB, 87.2, 38 snaps\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But an IR move also could be a nervous compromise and delay tactic for this increasingly tense situation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316029,"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-316028","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\/115088751844484660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316028","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=316028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}