The San Francisco 49ers are through the second block of training camp practices, wrapping up the action on Wednesday before a scheduled player rest day on Thursday. The team is roughly midway through scheduled training camp workouts with the first preseason game versus the Tennessee Titans coming up on August 10.
Training Camp Notebook
- A number of players were not participating in practice today including RB Isaac Guerendo, WR Jacob Cowing, OL Jon Feliciano, OL Spencer Burford, WR Tay Martin, OL Aaron Banks, DL Javon Hargrave, WR Jauan Jennings, TE Logan Thomas, LB Curtis Robinson and OL Jarrett Kingston.
- One-on-one pass rushing drills continued for a second-straight day
- DL Nick Bosa continues to be dominant in head-to-heads
- Rookie OL Dominick Puni, who has been working in at right guard, held up against veteran T.Y. McGill
- WR Ronnie Bell made a couple of impressive catches against veteran CB Charvarius Ward early on in 11-on-11 drills and then another during red zone drills with CB Ambry Thomas sticky in coverage.
- LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles batted down a ball in 11-on-11 drills.
- QB Brock Purdy opened up red zone drills with a touchdown pass to Deebo Samuel Sr. with Deommodore Lenoir defending.
- Purdy hit a wide open Ricky Pearsall in the back of the end zone for a score during red zone drills. He later connected with TE George Kittle for his third red zone touchdown.
- LBs Dee Winters and Jalen Graham look confident out on the field and are consistently making big, physical tackles.
- Pearsall's best grab of the day initially looked like a pass break up by Winters, however, the wideout was able to tip the ball back to himself after it bounced out of his hands and get his feet inbounds.
- DLs Kevin Givens and Nick Bosa had would-be sacks during the team's red zone drills.
- K Jake Moody hit all four of his field goal attempts on the day.
QBs Joshua Dobbs and Brandon Allen on Fitting Into the 49ers Offense
Both Dobbs and Allen are contenders for the backup quarterback position behind quarterback Brock Purdy. Allen, who is entering his ninth year in the league, re-signed with the 49ers in the offseason after spending the entirety of 2023 with the red and gold. Dobbs is a newcomer to The Bay, signing on with San Francisco after stints with the Cleveland Browns, Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings last season.
"Crazy is probably the simplest terms to define it," Dobbs said when asked about his 2023 season. "It seemed like every time you kind of got settled, it was like, 'Okay, let's go learn a new offense, new teammates, new city and try to get acclimated to go out and play good football.' It was a crazy experience but I enjoyed every bit of it."
As Dobb works to master the intricacies of a fourth NFL offensive system in roughly a year's time, Allen is feeling more settled now that he's got a season playing for head coach Kyle Shanahan.
"Having that whole year last year and be in it, and then come back again this year with the same system has been good," Allen said. "I'm definitely more comfortable, mainly in terms of verbiage. I've been able to call the plays a lot easier, visualize in my head, so I definitely think last year helped."
While there is competition in every position group during camp, Allen, Dobbs and the larger quarterback room are on the same page about what the overall goal of camp is - to put the offense in the best position possible for 2024.
"We push each other everyday on the practice field," Allen said. "Really as a QB group as a whole, we're all out there to make each other better and that includes Brock and Tanner Mordecai. We're all pushing to make the right play, the right throw. There's no animosity towards each other at all. We want to see each other succeed and make everyone around us better."
