The San Francisco 49ers officially placed Mykel Williams on the Injured Reserve on Saturday. On Thursday, defensive coordinator Robert Saleh said Williams was \u201cmade of the right stuff\u201d following his injury:<\/p>\n
The good news but bad news is he has also got players like [DL] Nick Bosa to lean on who are going through the same thing that he is with regards to recovery. He has [S Malik] Mustapha from last year going through that recovery. The good news for Mykel, he\u2019s built the right way, he\u2019s made of the right stuff. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that he\u2019s going to come back next year as good as he was this year and continue to improve as he develops as a player.<\/p>\n
With Williams out, the 49ers elevated defensive linemen Clelin Ferrell and preseason fan favorite Sebastian Valdez from the practice squad. Valdez is more of a pass rusher\/disruptive player, so we\u2019ll see if he brings anything to the table for a defense that can use all of the help it can get.<\/p>\n
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Valdez\u2019s elevation is not a good sign for Week 5 hero Alfred Collins\u2019s status. Collins did not practice on Friday with a hip injury.<\/p>\n
Ben Bartch was activated from the Injured Reserve. Head coach Kyle Shanahan was non-committal about Bartch returning to the lineup as a starter at left guard on Friday, saying, \u201cexpect him to be activated and back up\u201d and \u201che should be in uniform,\u201d but wouldn\u2019t confirm Bartch would start. We might have to wait until pre-game warmups to find out whether Bartch will start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers officially placed Mykel Williams on the Injured Reserve on Saturday. On Thursday, defensive coordinator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,583,4817,7380,7834,7,1711,1493,6,1515,6043,1161,252,2624,2623,52254],"class_list":{"0":"post-511006","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-alfred-collins","10":"tag-ben-bartch","11":"tag-clelin-ferrell","12":"tag-defensive-linemen","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-injured-reserve","15":"tag-mykel-williams","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nick-bosa","18":"tag-robert-saleh","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","21":"tag-sanfrancisco","22":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","23":"tag-sebastian-valdez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115517593009034963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511006","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=511006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}