- Position
- DT
- Number
- #91
- Age
- 28
- Pieces here
- 18
On the record
Called Shots →Sam Okuayinonu records ZERO defensive snaps in San Francisco's Week 1 game against the Los Angeles Rams on September 10, 2026. Scored off the official game book's Playtime Percentage page. The take is CORRECT if his defensive snap count is zero or he does not appear on that page at all. It is WRONG if he records one or more defensive snaps. Special teams snaps do not count either way.
George Kittle plays FEWER than 70 percent of San Francisco's offensive snaps in its Week 1 game against the Los Angeles Rams on September 10, 2026. Under 70.0 percent is CORRECT. Exactly 70.0 percent or more is WRONG. If he is inactive or records no offensive snap, zero is fewer than 70 percent and the take is CORRECT.
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.
Ogbo Okoronkwo plays MORE than 18 defensive snaps for the San Francisco 49ers in their Week 2 game against the Miami Dolphins on September 20, 2026, measured on the defensive column of that game's official NFL game book Playtime Percentage pages. Eighteen played in Week 1 is the bar and it is the number the book prints for him in that game. Exactly 18 grades this WRONG. Not appearing on the page grades this WRONG, because absent means zero.
Written about him
Alfred Collins Is Out For The Year And His Replacement Is Whoever Is Already In Australia
Alfred Collins tore his patellar tendon at San Francisco's second Melbourne practice and is out for the 2026 season, per head coach Kyle Shanahan, reported by Matt Maiocco at NBC Sports Bay Area, Nick Wagoner at ESPN and David Bonilla at 49ers Webzone. He was the club's projected starting right defensive tackle. The club's own unofficial depth chart, stamped September 8 and read on Wednesday morning, still lists Collins first at that position, and lists Gracen Halton and James Thompson Jr. behind him. The club's roster page gives both men an R in its experience column, and both appear on the Week 1 practice participation report the club distributed Tuesday: Halton limited with an ankle, Thompson the only man who did not practice at all, with a hamstring. Asked who replaces Collins, Shanahan said any defensive lineman is a possibility unless reporters could name someone the club could fly to Australia quickly. Collins was still on the club's active roster when it was read Wednesday morning, and the club's transaction page carried no injured-reserve move for him, its newest entry being September 5, so the move reported as coming had not happened. Sam Okuayinonu, the other defensive lineman lost, went on injured reserve on September 4 with a broken foot. Collins went 43rd overall in 2025 and played 16 games as a rookie with one start; Maiocco and Bonilla both give the rest of that season as 17 tackles, one sack and two forced fumbles. One take filed.
Sam Okuayinonu Went On Injured Reserve And The Long Snapper Came Up
San Francisco placed Sam Okuayinonu on injured reserve and signed defensive lineman Khalid Kareem to a one-year deal on Friday, and on Saturday, from Melbourne, signed long snapper Jon Weeks off its practice squad and waived tight end Brayden Willis. Two men off the 53, two on, and the count holds. Matt Maiocco reports Okuayinonu is out indefinitely with a foot injury sustained at Wednesday's practice in Santa Clara, and gives Kareem's two seasons under Raheem Morris in Atlanta as most of the reason he is the replacement. The Weeks signing closes a question that has been open since cut day: San Francisco carried no long snapper on its active roster for six days, and a practice-squad player may be elevated to a game-day roster no more than three times in a season. Kickoff at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is Thursday at 5:35 p.m. Pacific, which is Friday morning there.
The Club Ruled Out Sam Okuayinonu Six Days Before Kickoff
San Francisco announced on Friday that Sam Okuayinonu has been ruled out of the September 10 opener against the Rams with a foot injury, a downgrade from the questionable designation it gave him on Wednesday night when it left him behind. David Bonilla at 49ers Webzone has the club's wording. The ruling comes six days before kickoff and before any Week 1 injury report is due, because the ordinary game-week sequence does not apply to a player who is 7,855 miles from his team. Okuayinonu started twelve of the fifteen games he played last season, and the club's own injury-report archive lists him out for Week 13 and Week 15, the two games missing from that fifteen. Nine defensive linemen sat on the active roster on Friday afternoon and eight of them are in Melbourne. Three of those eight did not practise on Wednesday and a fourth, Nick Bosa, did team work that day for the first time since August 3. Hours after the ruling, Greg Auman of FOX Sports reported that San Francisco is signing edge rusher Khalid Kareem off Atlanta's practice squad to the active roster and flying him to Melbourne.
Eight Of San Francisco's Nine Defensive Linemen Landed In Melbourne
San Francisco carries nine defensive linemen on its active roster and eight of them were on the Qantas A380 that landed at Melbourne Airport at 7:50 a.m. local time on Friday. Sam Okuayinonu was not. The club announced shortly before departure that he would stay behind with a foot injury and designated him questionable for the opener against the Rams rather than ruling him out, per Michael David Smith at Pro Football Talk, who writes that he may fly separately if the foot responds to treatment. Okuayinonu started twelve games last season, which is twelve of the fifteen starts in his career. Three of the eight who travelled sat out Wednesday's last practice in Santa Clara: Gracen Halton and Romello Height with ankles, James Thompson Jr. undisclosed. A fourth, Nick Bosa, took team reps on Wednesday for the first time since August 3. The club signed two defensive linemen to its practice squad on September 1, hosted a defensive tackle on a visit on September 2, and reached an injury settlement with Victor Dimukeje on Thursday.
