Carver Willis Took The First-Team Left Guard Reps In El Segundo

San Francisco practised against the Chargers on Tuesday morning at their facility in El Segundo, Day 14 of camp by the club's own count. The thing that moved the 53 happened on the interior of the offensive line: Carver Willis took first-team reps at left guard, and Robert Jones worked at right guard in place of Dominick Puni, who is in the concussion protocol.

Nobody from this site was there. Everything below is sourced to the reporters who were.

The left guard job now has a stated deadline. Cam Inman, at the session for Bay Area News Group, has Willis on the first-team left guard reps with Jones filling in on the other side of the centre. Those reps have moved three times this month. Connor Colby opened camp with them, Jones started at left guard in the August 13 gamebook while Willis took second-team reps and played tackle that night, and by Saturday two accounts had Colby and Willis rotating through the first team together. Tuesday, Willis had them on his own. Kyle Posey of Niners Nation reads the same alignment off the practice video and adds that Jones may no longer be locked in there. Shanahan, asked how it is shaking out: "It's still a competition. No one's really completely made it easy on us yet. I still think we've got a lot more time to go, not a ton, but enough for guys to step up and do it. I think Carver, missing that time, has made him a little bit behind the 8-ball on it, but it's good that he's gotten a full week in and hopefully has no setbacks, so we can make that opinion here in about two weeks."

Two weeks from Tuesday is September 1. The roster is set on August 30.

Five 49ers have been concussed this camp, and the order matters. Inman counts Puni, Brett Toth and Willis on the offensive line, C.J. West and Titus Leo on the defensive line. All remain sidelined except Willis, who cleared the protocol on August 10. The man who missed the most time is taking the first-team reps because the men ahead of him are out.

Kaelon Black practised and will play Thursday. Shanahan called it his first practice back; Inman puts the adductor absence at two and a half weeks. Matt Maiocco has Black catching a 7-yard pass from Brock Purdy on the first play of 11-on-11 work and an 8-yard touchdown from Adrian Martinez, with a dropped pitch from Mac Jones. Matt Barrows posted video of a carry Posey reads at about 3 yards. The club's recap has him carrying through team and red-zone periods and scoring on a run into the end zone. Asked whether Black can play Thursday, Shanahan said: "Most likely, yeah. I haven't told the guys yet." He wears No. 26, and he is half of a backup running back competition that has spent the month waiting for both of its men to be upright at once.

De'Zhaun Stribling scored twice in the red zone, from 3 yards and 6 yards, per Maiocco, one from Purdy and one from Mac Jones. Inman has a third pass to him broken up at the goal line by Rodney Shelley. Shanahan: "Those were two good plays. I think he had a couple rough ones too, so I'll hold my opinion until I really see the tape."

Three accounts of the secondary name three different men. Inman has Deommodore Lenoir and Ephesians Prysock each giving up at least two deep completions. Marc Adams names Prysock and Ji'Ayir Brown. Posey's clip-by-clip read has Lenoir beaten twice and Brown late on a deep post. Each of the three players is named by two of the three accounts, and no account names all three. ESPN's Kris Rhim, also there, wrote that much of what looked like a big play would have been a sack in a live setting.

The rush was the other half of that. Rhim credits Osa Odighizuwa with four pressures, the most of any defender on the field, with Ogbo Okoronkwo and James Thompson Jr. generating multiple pressures each. Romello Height had a sack. Alfred Collins made a tackle for loss.

Neither offence scored in the two-minute period. Purdy reached the red zone against a Chargers defence missing Tarheeb Still and Donte Jackson, then threw four straight incompletions into the end zone before Daiyan Henley broke up a fourth-down throw to Demarcus Robinson. Mac Jones got the next group to the Chargers' 32 and no further. Shanahan, in the sentence both transcriptions of the availability carry: "I thought we struggled a little bit in the move the ball periods. Didn't score in two-minute." Purdy: "Honestly, I don't think it was our best day," and separately that the offence's fundamentals were "just a little off" at times.

Health, in the order it touches the roster. Mike Evans left early with his left foot and ankle wrapped and iced, which Shanahan attributed to the quad tightness that kept him out last week: "I don't think it's anything worse." Renardo Green left after contact with Fred Warner, per Posey, and Jack Jones took his reps on at least one red-zone snap. Demarcus Robinson returned. Keion White is where two published versions do not reconcile: Marc Adams has him back and limited to part of the session, and the club's own Day 14 recap, published at 3:00 p.m. PT, lists him among the men who did not practise, adductor. Neither is corrected here. Christian McCaffrey did not practise, and Shanahan said he would have played in a game week; the club's list gives his condition as soreness, the word Shanahan used was tightness. Nick Bosa has "a lot less irritation, soreness and tendinitis" than last week. Mykel Williams is "further away," with Week 1 "a long shot but we haven't ruled it out yet." Christian Kirk has not practised since the first day of camp.

The club's own recap is the fullest injury document of the day, and it published at 3:00 p.m. PT. Fifteen men are listed as not practising: West, White, Bosa and Gracen Halton on the defensive line, McCaffrey and Jordan James at running back, Kirk, Malik Mustapha, Vederian Lowe, Kyle Juszczyk, Luke Gifford, Brett Toth, Nate Hobbs, Kurtis Rourke and Puni. Dre Greenlaw appears twice in it, once as a man who returned after sitting out with soreness and once inside the sidelined list. The club has published both and this piece is not picking one.

Warner forced a fumble, which on this beat is less news than weather.

Thursday. "Not all of them, but I expect a number of starters to play, unlike last week," Shanahan said. On whether that includes Purdy: "I haven't told him yet, but there's a good chance."

Transactions. San Francisco signed defensive lineman Evan Anderson to a one-year deal and waived/injured defensive lineman Titus Leo, per the club's transaction log, dated August 18. Leo is one of the five concussed men counted above. The log gives no reason for the designation and none is assumed here. The same club waived Anderson on July 26.

Sources: The club's own Day 14 recap, 49ers.com, published 3:00 p.m. PT, August 18, read at the article page. Cam Inman, Bay Area News Group, published 1:59 p.m. PT and updated 2:34 p.m. PT, August 18. Kyle Posey, Niners Nation, 1:17 p.m. PT, August 18. Matt Maiocco, NBC Sports Bay Area, August 18. Marc Adams and David Bonilla, 49ers Webzone, August 18. The Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy transcripts, 49ers Webzone, August 18. Kris Rhim, ESPN, via Posey. The club's transaction log and roster page, both read August 18.