- Position
- WR
- Number
- #86
- Age
- 31
- Pieces here
- 31
On the record
Called Shots →KhaDarel Hodge is on the San Francisco 49ers' initial 53-man roster as announced by the club on 2026-08-30, and Ogbo Okoronkwo is not. Both halves must hold. If either name lands the other way, the take is scored wrong.
Between 2026-08-11 and 2026-08-29 inclusive, EVERY San Francisco 49ers addition to the 90-man roster is announced together with at least one corresponding subtraction in the same club announcement. Scored off the club's own transaction log at 49ers.com, entry by entry. The take is WRONG if any single dated entry in that window adds one or more players without removing at least one in the same entry. Placements on injured reserve or the physically-unable-to-perform list count as subtractions when they appear in the same entry as a signing, and do NOT count when they appear on their own date. The August 30 cutdown itself is outside the window and does not score.
The San Francisco 49ers add at least one defensive lineman to their 53-man active roster between September 10 and September 19, 2026 inclusive, Pacific time. Any route counts: a free-agent signing, a promotion from the practice squad, a waiver claim, a trade, or an activation from a reserve list. A STANDARD PRACTICE-SQUAD ELEVATION DOES NOT COUNT, because an elevated player is not signed to the active roster and reverts after the game. The take is WRONG if no defensive lineman is added to the active roster in that window.
The San Francisco 49ers do NOT add a wide receiver from outside the organisation to either their active roster or their practice squad between 2:49 p.m. Pacific on September 16, 2026 and kickoff of their Week 3 game, 1:05 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, September 27, 2026. Any outside route scores the take WRONG: a free-agent signing, a waiver claim or a trade. Movement among men already under contract to San Francisco does not count, so promoting Wesley Grimes or Will Pauling from the practice squad, activating Christian Kirk from Reserve/Injured, or a standard game-day elevation all leave the take CORRECT. Position is taken from the club's own roster page: a man the club lists at WR is a receiver and a man it lists anywhere else is not.
Brandin Cooks plays at least one offensive snap for San Francisco against Arizona on Sunday, September 27, 2026, measured by the offensive snap counts on the Playtime Percentage pages of that game's official NFL game book. Special-teams snaps do not count. Zero offensive snaps, including not being on the game-day roster, grades this WRONG. Any route to the field counts: a practice-squad elevation or a signing to the 53.
Deebo Samuel Sr. plays at least 70 percent of the San Francisco 49ers' offensive snaps in their Week 4 game against the Denver Broncos on October 4, 2026, per the Playtime Percentage page of the official NFL game book. Exactly 70 percent grades RIGHT; the book's printed percentage decides. If Samuel is inactive or does not play an offensive snap, the take is WRONG.
Brandin Cooks plays MORE offensive snaps than Jacob Cowing in the San Francisco 49ers' Week 4 game against the Denver Broncos on October 4, 2026, per the Playtime Percentage page of the official NFL game book. An exact tie grades WRONG. A player who is inactive or takes no offensive snap counts as zero, and the comparison still scores.
Written about him
Brandin Cooks needed eight days on the 49ers' practice squad to reach the 53
The 49ers promoted receiver Brandin Cooks to the active roster on Thursday, signed receiver Malik Turner to the practice squad and released KhaDarel Hodge. Mike Evans (ribs) missed a second straight practice. Trent Williams returned, limited, from a neck stinger. Brock Purdy was named NFC Offensive Player of the Month.
Dante Pettis is back because the 49ers have three healthy receivers
Kyle Shanahan said before Wednesday's practice that eight players would not work: Mike Evans (ribs), KhaDarel Hodge (knee), Trent Williams (neck stinger), Dre Greenlaw (quad), Nick Bosa (calf), James Thompson Jr. (ankle), Keion White (hamstring) and Christian McCaffrey (rest). Mykel Williams, back from a torn ACL, and Romello Height, back from hand surgery, were limited. The club signed receiver Dante Pettis to its practice squad.
Deebo Samuel played 76 percent of the snaps and was not targeted once
San Francisco has five wide receivers on its 53-man roster for Sunday against Denver: Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Sr., KhaDarel Hodge, Jacob Cowing and Jordan Watkins. Evans left the Arizona game with a rib injury that Shanahan called not long-term. Samuel played 41 of 54 offensive snaps on Sunday, Hodge played 30 and has no official target, and Cowing has 46 snaps and no catch this season. Brandin Cooks is on the practice squad and was not elevated for Arizona. Christian Kirk cannot play before Week 5.
Stribling is out ten weeks, and the club says it doesn't need another receiver
Kyle Shanahan spoke before Wednesday's practice, his first availability since the flight home from Melbourne, and answered the two questions the opener left open. De'Zhaun Stribling had ankle surgery and will miss close to ten weeks, a window that covers nine games. Jake Tonges had knee surgery, is out for the season and went on injured reserve Wednesday. KhaDarel Hodge was promoted to the 53-man roster in the same transaction and Jack Stoll signed to the practice squad, one day after the club worked him out. Shanahan said San Francisco does not need to add a receiver. Stribling was still on the club's Active table at 4:53 p.m. Pacific.
The Right Denominator For De'Zhaun Stribling's First Game Is Twenty-Six, Not Sixty-Five
De'Zhaun Stribling, the wide receiver San Francisco took with the 33rd pick in April, was hurt in his first professional game and the 49ers have published nothing about him since. The official participation report has him at 21 offensive snaps of 65, which is 32 percent. Counted against the 26 plays from scrimmage San Francisco ran before the snap he was injured on, it is 21 of 26, or 81 percent. The count reconciles to 65 at the end of the game once the second-quarter roughing-the-passer penalty is included, which is the check on it. He was not targeted on any of the 21. Six 49ers receivers took an offensive snap in Melbourne: Mike Evans 49, Demarcus Robinson 41, Deebo Samuel 27, Stribling 21, Jacob Cowing 5 and KhaDarel Hodge 1. Tight end Luke Farrell played 46, more than every receiver but Evans, and fullback Kyle Juszczyk played 33, more than Samuel. Four of the five other receivers who played are 30 or older. Kyle Shanahan said after the game that the Achilles was checked and intact and that the club was not sure of the magnitude of the ankle injury; further testing waited on the flight home, which David Bonilla of 49ers Webzone clocked at 13 hours 46 minutes, landing at SFO at 3:06 p.m. Friday. San Francisco's next game is Miami at Levi's Stadium on Sunday, September 20, at 1:25 p.m. Pacific, and the 49ers traded down twice in April, first with Miami, to reach the pick they spent on Stribling. No take filed.
Nobody San Francisco Added Thursday Plays Defensive Tackle
San Francisco placed DL Alfred Collins on injured reserve and activated WR KhaDarel Hodge and DL Ogbo Okoronkwo from its practice squad as standard elevations, all three moves in one release published at 1:53 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, three hours and forty-two minutes before the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Hodge and Okoronkwo revert to the practice squad after the game, and a standard elevation is capped at three per player per season. Neither plays defensive tackle. The club's depth chart, stamped September 8 and labelled unofficial, lists four men at the two tackle spots: Osa Odighizuwa at 280 pounds and C.J. West at 316 on the left, Collins and then rookies Gracen Halton at 293 and James Thompson Jr. at 308 on the right. Thompson was Questionable with a hamstring, the only game designation San Francisco issued for the opener. The inactive lists resolved it: six San Francisco names, none of them a defensive lineman, and Thompson dresses. That leaves right defensive tackle to two rookies. The report the club distributed at 12:23 a.m. Pacific has Halton at full participation for the last Melbourne practice; the table on the club's own injury-report page, read at 2:51 p.m., still showed him limited and left his injury column blank. The practice squad holds three defensive linemen heavier than Okoronkwo's 253 pounds, including Kevin Givens, the man the club waived on August 5 to sign Hodge and Okoronkwo. Counted in a browser at 2:53 p.m. Pacific, the roster page carried 54 on Active, 12 on injured reserve, two on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform and 15 on the practice squad, which puts 52 players on a roster that may hold 53. The Active table held eight defensive linemen. The transaction log still ended on September 5. One take filed.
The 49ers Signed A Pro Bowl Special Teamer This Morning. He Has Never Returned A Kick.
San Francisco signed WR KhaDarel Hodge and DL Ogbo Okoronkwo to one-year deals at 9:59 a.m. Wednesday and waived DL Kevin Givens and DL Cameron Sample. Hodge made the Pro Bowl in 2024 as a special teamer and has zero career kick returns and zero career punt returns, which is worth knowing on the morning this site published a kick-return incentive in Deebo Samuel's contract. Givens lasted ten days. Five defensive linemen have signed here in ten days and six have gone.