49ers select Jordan Watkins-WR-Ole Miss with the 138th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
What's this? Come on man. A month. He's the one promising guy who is young at a position of need. I guess more for Jennings and Pearsall. Jennings is going to have another big year. Aiyuk out for a while. Now this guy out. We don't know what we have in Pearsall. Deebo gone. Thankfully Jennings was resigned for a better deal. We need him and will rely on him early. Purdy really likes him. He has a good connection with Jennings.

Pearsall isn't promising and young?

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49er-from-Yavin-IV:
Right. Neither side is budging, so it's up to JJ to come back and play out the final year of the 2-year contract he signed before last season.

The 49ers don't intend to bring JJ back for the future.

I think he will have another big year. He will get his money. Either here or in free agency. It looked like a deal was going to get done. But now it's reported as not. Anyway he's still under contract. With 2 big years including last year and this year Jennings will get his money somewhere. We need him this year here. Because everyone else is injured and some are even gone.

I don't think he will come close to last year again. This year CMC, Pearsall, Robinson, Guerendo, and Aiyuk are going to be taking targets from him hopefully a lot more than last year.

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49er-from-Yavin-IV:
Right. Neither side is budging, so it's up to JJ to come back and play out the final year of the 2-year contract he signed before last season.

The 49ers don't intend to bring JJ back for the future.

I think he will have another big year. He will get his money. Either here or in free agency. It looked like a deal was going to get done. But now it's reported as not. Anyway he's still under contract. With 2 big years including last year and this year Jennings will get his money somewhere. We need him this year here. Because everyone else is injured and some are even gone.

I don't think he will come close to last year again. This year CMC, Pearsall, Robinson, Guerendo, and Aiyuk are going to be taking targets from him hopefully a lot more than last year.

Aiyuk is unknown coming off the injury. He could be mid season and even then not full strength and speed. CMC is always injured. So is Guerendo a lot too. Pearsall is largely unknown and had a few pretty good games at the end of the year. We just don't know on him. Jennings is the most reliable, healthy, consistently productive guy.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49er-from-Yavin-IV:
Right. Neither side is budging, so it's up to JJ to come back and play out the final year of the 2-year contract he signed before last season.

The 49ers don't intend to bring JJ back for the future.

I think he will have another big year. He will get his money. Either here or in free agency. It looked like a deal was going to get done. But now it's reported as not. Anyway he's still under contract. With 2 big years including last year and this year Jennings will get his money somewhere. We need him this year here. Because everyone else is injured and some are even gone.

I don't think he will come close to last year again. This year CMC, Pearsall, Robinson, Guerendo, and Aiyuk are going to be taking targets from him hopefully a lot more than last year.

Aiyuk is unknown coming off the injury. He could be mid season and even then not full strength and speed. CMC is always injured. So is Guerendo a lot too. Pearsall is largely unknown and had a few pretty good games at the end of the year. We just don't know on him. Jennings is the most reliable, healthy, consistently productive guy.

I am with you on all of the things you said about Jennings ... bit funny saying he's healthy when he hasn't practiced in a while :)

That said Pearsall and Guerendo are no longer rookies and should do a lot more than last year ... assuming they will do less is odd at least. CMC should hopefully be at least more healthy that last year even if he doesn't get 2023 CMC level. Robinson, after missing with his suspension should be good for targets every game ... I don't think he's ever had a significant injury. Aiyuk is obviously an open question, but we can assume he'll get a bunch of chances to show he can play. I don't feel like it's a stretch at all to say all of those players will match or exceed last year's targets. Deebo and Mason are gone with their 95 targets, and Robinson and James are in ... but while those two probably won't total 95 targets it wouldn't surprise me at all if they got 50+ combined. Then add in that Watkins and Cowing will almost certainly get 20 between them. I just don't see there being enough chances for Jennings to get close to 113 targets again.

All that is part of why Jennings wanted a new deal NOW, not after this year.

Hope this kid heals fast & is ready for the season he was playing great

Originally posted by tohara3:
Hope this kid heals fast & is ready for the season he was playing great

Don't know about "great" but he was the 49ers 2nd best WR in practice ... which ain't saying much.

Where is this guy lately? Still injured? When is he coming back? He had an excellent preseason and training camp. At least in time periods where he was healthy. Of all the guys we could use with all these WR injuries. He runs 4.37 and can get deep. He has good routes and excellent hands. I would like to see him back and out there. He has more potential than some of these retreads we are bringing back in.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Where is this guy lately? Still injured? When is he coming back? He had an excellent preseason and training camp. At least in time periods where he was healthy. Of all the guys we could use with all these WR injuries. He runs 4.37 and can get deep. He has good routes and excellent hands. I would like to see him back and out there. He has more potential than some of these retreads we are bringing back in.

my understanding is he was not IR'd, if the team felt he's not back soon, they probably would IR for first 4 weeks. so maybe he is anticipated back week 3 or week 4

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Where is this guy lately? Still injured? When is he coming back? He had an excellent preseason and training camp. At least in time periods where he was healthy. Of all the guys we could use with all these WR injuries. He runs 4.37 and can get deep. He has good routes and excellent hands. I would like to see him back and out there. He has more potential than some of these retreads we are bringing back in.

my understanding is he was not IR'd, if the team felt he's not back soon, they probably would IR for first 4 weeks. so maybe he is anticipated back week 3 or week 4

We got to get him in there. He was really good. A speed WR who is young. I think he has more potential than Bourne. But Shany likes vets rather than rookies.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Where is this guy lately? Still injured? When is he coming back? He had an excellent preseason and training camp. At least in time periods where he was healthy. Of all the guys we could use with all these WR injuries. He runs 4.37 and can get deep. He has good routes and excellent hands. I would like to see him back and out there. He has more potential than some of these retreads we are bringing back in.

my understanding is he was not IR'd, if the team felt he's not back soon, they probably would IR for first 4 weeks. so maybe he is anticipated back week 3 or week 4

We got to get him in there. He was really good. A speed WR who is young. I think he has more potential than Bourne. But Shany likes vets rather than rookies.

i like him a lot. practice monitoring will be key. he's gotta log practice days to see the field. if i had to throw a blind guess he's doubtful this week and questionable for the home opener.

Watkins was back on the field, though limited, last week ... so if he can get through a practice tomorrow he'll have a chance.

He was running with the 1's today per Krueger.

Originally posted by _Goldblooded_:
He was running with the 1's today per Krueger.

Well, it's not like he could contribute any less than Gage and MVS last week, so might as well see what he's got along with Pearsall and Bourne.

Originally posted by _Goldblooded_:
He was running with the 1's today per Krueger.

So now, as predicted, his medical today determines if he plays in the game. I hope he's good.

Originally posted by Scoots:

Originally posted by _Goldblooded_:
He was running with the 1's today per Krueger.

So now, as predicted, his medical today determines if he plays in the game. I hope he's good.

Ya.....let's get watkins on the field Sun.