{"id":896269,"date":"2026-05-20T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:51:18","slug":"49ers-news-one-week-until-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896269\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: One week until OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 49ers\u2019 38,000-mile travel schedule and Kyle Shanahan\u2019s big WR decisions: Mailbag (paywall)<\/a>
\u201cMy guess is they\u2019ll go to Colorado Springs right after the Cowboys game (as they did in 2022, before their last trip to Mexico City). It\u2019s only a two-hour flight and, in conjunction with the flight to Mexico City, would shave a whole 1,300 miles off of their 38,000-mile total this season.<\/p>\n

However, I imagine the players will push to come back to the Bay Area after the Cowboys game, especially because it\u2019s a 1:25 p.m. PT kickoff and they could be back in their own beds that night. In other words, it will be Trent Williams<\/a> versus Kyle Shanahan on this topic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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49ers DT Osa Odighizuwa feels \u2018handcuffs\u2019 are off in new defensive role<\/a>
\u201cI\u2019m excited. I know it\u2019s a good scheme,\u201d Odighizuwa said on the Richard Sherman<\/a> Podcast. \u201cI see some of the tools that I\u2019m going to be allowed to use to make plays in the run game, and I\u2019m excited about that stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m getting some handcuffs taken off of me a little bit, to be able to kind of have one of the better years that I\u2019ve had against the run, if not the best year that I\u2019ve had. I\u2019m looking forward to just being able to make plays within the scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like when you have to do the same thing all the time, you\u2019re predictable, and when you\u2019re predictable in football, you\u2019re very beatable,\u201d Odighizuwa said. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s guys like, \u2018Oh, I know what he\u2019s doing, you can\u2019t beat it,\u2019 but at the same time, you can, because you can scheme around certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Odighizuwa believes being used in multiple ways along the defensive front will make it more difficult for opposing offenses to prepare for him. He revealed that during his very first defensive line meeting with the 49ers, coaches were already discussing new techniques and responsibilities he could utilize during the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously, attack is going to be the main focus,\u201d Odighizuwa continued, \u201cbut being able to do different things at different times is going to only bring the attack to life more, because now, I may look like I\u2019m about to attack, but I do something else, and you don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

49ers named \u2018perfect\u2019 fit for 2 top remaining free agents<\/a>
\u201cWe still see Bosa\u2019s speed-to-power ability on tape, and he still keeps high energy to make stops later in the down. He would provide quality depth for a 49ers\u2019 pass rush that ranked last in pressure rate (24.9%) and total sacks (20) in 2025. And why not have some fun and put him next to his brother, Nick?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers\u2019 38,000-mile travel schedule and Kyle Shanahan\u2019s big WR decisions: Mailbag (paywall)\u201cMy guess is they\u2019ll go to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2644,682,7,5629,8578,2812,5215,41604,6,9115,19604,1161,252,2624,2623,7910,5216,2983],"class_list":{"0":"post-896269","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-brock-purdy","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-getty-images","13":"tag-icon-sportswire","14":"tag-kyle-shanahan","15":"tag-mac-jones","16":"tag-mexico-city","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-osa-odighizuwa","19":"tag-richard-sherman","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","22":"tag-sanfrancisco","23":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","24":"tag-santa-clara","25":"tag-tanner-mordecai","26":"tag-trent-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116606290093742504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896269","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=896269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}