49ers select Mykel Williams-DE-Georgia with the 11th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft

Originally posted by ritz126:

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

An update on last year's first rounder https://t.co/xHLdBcFyEJ

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Based on timetable it makes sense. He was injured in early November. Standard recovery time after surgury is about 9-12 months which would put him in right around now for the early time.

I think most people expected him to start the season on the PUP list. No reason to rush him. I'm more concerned about Bosa. He's still having some soreness and his surgery was 2 months earlier.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I think most people expected him to start the season on the PUP list. No reason to rush him. I'm more concerned about Bosa. He's still having some soreness and his surgery was 2 months earlier.

i take 'soreness' with a grain of salt in august. standard operating procedure is your high value vets who have been in the system a long time like cmc, bosa, trent, they take it very easy in august

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I think most people expected him to start the season on the PUP list. No reason to rush him. I'm more concerned about Bosa. He's still having some soreness and his surgery was 2 months earlier.

i take 'soreness' with a grain of salt in august. standard operating procedure is your high value vets who have been in the system a long time like cmc, bosa, trent, they take it very easy in august

The difference with Bosa is it's the 2nd ACL surgery on the same knee which makes recovery harder. He now was 3 total ACL surgeries. No other successful edge rusher has ever had that many. That doesn't mean he won't be the first but it does mean the chance of returnng to his previous form is lower. He's had 4 major injuries dating back to high school and college which indicates a person that's injury prone. If I was the 49ers I would start plannning for his replacement given that injury history and his contract.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Mykel Williams IG story just now 👀

Yesterday Kyle Shanahan said Mykel is a "long shot" to play Week 1… pic.twitter.com/h7Md987RM7

— Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) August 20, 2026

He's probably just cleared for practice, hence the, I'm Back.

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Mykel Williams IG story just now 👀

Yesterday Kyle Shanahan said Mykel is a "long shot" to play Week 1… pic.twitter.com/h7Md987RM7

— Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) August 20, 2026

He's probably just cleared for practice, hence the, I'm Back.

that makes sense.

If you start the regular season on the Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list, you must miss at least the first four games of the season. Under updated rules, you can begin practicing as early as Week 3 (after the team's second game) during a 21-day evaluation window before returning to the active game-day roster

I think this is ideal for his return. Hopefully he is good to go by week 5

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I think most people expected him to start the season on the PUP list. No reason to rush him. I'm more concerned about Bosa. He's still having some soreness and his surgery was 2 months earlier.

i take 'soreness' with a grain of salt in august. standard operating procedure is your high value vets who have been in the system a long time like cmc, bosa, trent, they take it very easy in august

The problem is this team has a history of being disingenuous with their injury reports so I can't blame people for being nervous.

We've seen tightness and soreness be nothing and be SOMETHING.

As someone on twitter put it we've seen CMC deal with tightness and miss most of the season while not looking anywhere near his usual self with it and we've seen CMC deal with tightness and put up one of his best seasons with it.

Unfortunately we just have to sweat it out until week 1 and see what we have. The sad reality is if we suffer another injury riddled season with our key guys getting hurt we will not make the playoffs with the schedule we have so we need to hope we find a way to avoid those impact injuries.

As for Mykel I'm really excited to see him back, whenever that is. I think he was really starting to come on strong right as he got hurt and just his presence on the edge will help the run D and his push as a pass rusher will help as well.

A pass rushing 5 DL rotation of Height, Osa, Halton, Mykel and Bosa will cause some havoc.

Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by bud49:
I sure hope he proves to be a legit 11th pick in the draft.

he was looking very promising before he got hurt

He's not going to. I loved the pick and the player...but between the horrible black cloud of 49ers luck, and this injury timing...i can't imagine he does anything other than be a solid, at best, mid round pick player vs an 11th overall.

It's truly astounding how horrible the 49ers are at drafting in the upper rounds. We always have to hope and expect that they hit on rds 3 through undrafted.

They are consistently bad in the first few rounds. Not drafting for need positions. Reaching on players. Over drafting project players. Players who get injured. Head case players. Just all a big mess. 3 - 5 is probably their best rounds overall and sometimes 7th round.

Originally posted by genus49:
The problem is this team has a history of being disingenuous with their injury reports so I can't blame people for being nervous.

We've seen tightness and soreness be nothing and be SOMETHING.

As someone on twitter put it we've seen CMC deal with tightness and miss most of the season while not looking anywhere near his usual self with it and we've seen CMC deal with tightness and put up one of his best seasons with it.

Unfortunately we just have to sweat it out until week 1 and see what we have. The sad reality is if we suffer another injury riddled season with our key guys getting hurt we will not make the playoffs with the schedule we have so we need to hope we find a way to avoid those impact injuries.

As for Mykel I'm really excited to see him back, whenever that is. I think he was really starting to come on strong right as he got hurt and just his presence on the edge will help the run D and his push as a pass rusher will help as well.

A pass rushing 5 DL rotation of Height, Osa, Halton, Mykel and Bosa will cause some havoc.

for sure ppl are on edge with the cmc disaster of a couple years back. i view that as a one off (hopefully). the team made major investments up front on D in the draft last season. i hear guys who play say the biggest jump is year 1 to year 2. i agree with your last sentence and add in collins and west are the big body rotation guys to clog the middle then you have fred as a HOF MLB this D should be lights out imo very exciting stuff, accomplished DC also

He was so good at run defense. Without him and a healthy Bosa it won't be pretty, but they for sure have to take this slow. The defense actually held on OK last year after losing Bosa, but once he went down it was a mess.

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I think most people expected him to start the season on the PUP list. No reason to rush him. I'm more concerned about Bosa. He's still having some soreness and his surgery was 2 months earlier.

i take 'soreness' with a grain of salt in august. standard operating procedure is your high value vets who have been in the system a long time like cmc, bosa, trent, they take it very easy in august

The problem is this team has a history of being disingenuous with their injury reports so I can't blame people for being nervous.

We've seen tightness and soreness be nothing and be SOMETHING.

As someone on twitter put it we've seen CMC deal with tightness and miss most of the season while not looking anywhere near his usual self with it and we've seen CMC deal with tightness and put up one of his best seasons with it.

Unfortunately we just have to sweat it out until week 1 and see what we have. The sad reality is if we suffer another injury riddled season with our key guys getting hurt we will not make the playoffs with the schedule we have so we need to hope we find a way to avoid those impact injuries.

As for Mykel I'm really excited to see him back, whenever that is. I think he was really starting to come on strong right as he got hurt and just his presence on the edge will help the run D and his push as a pass rusher will help as well.

A pass rushing 5 DL rotation of Height, Osa, Halton, Mykel and Bosa will cause some havoc.

We would be silly to give out accurate injury info. Doesn't help from a competitive standpoint.