Where 49ers stand on returns of Joe Staley, Ahkello Witherspoon and long snapper Kyle Nelson

Kendrick Bourne has been working hard this offseason and is seeking to prove his worth in 2020. The receiver signed a one-year tender with the San Francisco 49ers in April and is scheduled to become a free agent next year. There was a report last week that the 49ers had internal discussions about a potential contract extension for Bourne. Right now, however, the receiver is focused on returning to the Super Bowl and accomplishing what his team couldn't this past season. Bourne has even

Upon retiring, former San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Joe Staley sounded eager to get into shape, joking that he would undergo a Joe Thomas-type transformation. He may not have been exaggerating too much, as the 13-year NFL veteran told ESPN's Emily Kaplan that he has already lost 50 pounds since ending his football career, going from a size-40 waist to a size-36. What is he going to do with all of his old clothes? Staley has already donated five garbage bags worth and restocked his closets with new belts. "As an offensive lineman, you're always known as this big, humongous, unathletic blob," Staley told Kaplan.

Jerry Rice finished his career with 1,549 receptions for 22,895 yards with 197 touchdowns. All are NFL records that will likely stand for a long time. He is the greatest receiver ever to play the game. It is difficult even to contemplate anyone ever trying to debate that. During Rice's rookie season in 1985, however, he looked like anything but a future Hall of Famer who would one day be considered a player with some of the surest hands in the history of the game. Rice discussed overcoming some early NFL adversity during the now two-year-old "Breaking Ground" documentary that first aired during Black History Month in 2018, and was recently