SANTA CLARA, July 30 -- Two practices. That is how much football the San Francisco 49ers got from Ricky Pearsall before his right knee flared and stopped him again: the same knee that took eight games from him in 2025, the same one that has made a career still in its first chapter feel, at times, more like a study in endurance than a development arc.

Pearsall is dealing with renewed swelling in his right knee tied to the posterior cruciate ligament damage that cost him much of last season. The 49ers have set no timeline for his return. The official language, delivered through offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak while head coach Kyle Shanahan recovers from a car crash that fractured multiple bones and required 40 stitches, is that the team ...