Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Saturday, May 10th, 2025
49ers’ Mykel Williams makes strong rookie camp impression; team adds 2 more veteran OTs (paywall)
“Jordan James, the fifth-round pick out of Oregon, was the eighth running back drafted in a very deep class and also might be a really good player. He showed off good hands at Friday’s camp, as well as a nice burst. The same goes for undrafted free agent running back Corey Kiner out of Cincinnati.
It’s all baby steps for the 49ers right now, but this team needs its rookies to walk before they can run as it tries to bounce back from a 6-11 record.
“It’s exciting to get just the injection of youth to go along with a lot of the veterans that we have on this football team,” defensive coordinator Robert Saleh said. “It’s going to be fun to work with them.”
49ers waive pass rusher Drake Jackson, adding to 2022 draft class woes (paywall)
“The 49ers waived Jackson with a failed-physical designation Friday because the former second-round pick has yet to recover from a knee injury that has sidelined him since November 2023, a league source said. The 49ers haven’t ruled out re-signing Jackson if he can make a full recovery.”
From shark slippers to Hall of Fame dreams: 49ers rookie minicamp notes and quotes
“Stout, who only stands at 5-foot-9, told reporters that he never lifted with the defensive backs in college. Instead, he chose to lift with the linemen.
“I feel like that kind of kept me going,” he said. “It kept that strength on me during the season, throughout all that. … I wasn’t always the biggest person. So I was like, if I’m not gonna be the biggest, I’ve for sure got to be at least one of the strongest.”
That strength should serve him well, especially if the 49ers deploy him at the nickel cornerback spot.
“Basically, I’m kind of like another linebacker,” Stout said. “You don’t want to be in the box too small. So, when I figured I was moving to the nickel last season, our coach really put an emphasis on putting more weight on, getting in the weight room, and just starting to lift with different groups and things like that, just so I can get a feeling to just see what their mindset was and things like that.”
How Purdy is handling his on-field work amid 49ers contract talks
“Brock’s been great,” Kubiak said. “Brock has almost three full seasons, like two-and-a-half seasons of tape now where he can really look at his (video) cutups and look at his games over that time period. (He can) study himself and see where he has gotten better, where he needs to continue to get better. He’s a great student of himself.”