The Injury List Picked Wednesday's Left Guard

San Francisco held its seventh camp practice Wednesday morning, and the biggest number attached to it describes who was not there. Noah Furtado counted 18 players off the active 90 sitting out, with five more on injured reserve, for 23 unavailable. Nick Wagoner's count at ESPN was 20. Three apart on the same practice, neither with a published method, so both are here.

Chris Foerster, running the team on an interim basis, was asked about the list afterward. "It seems like we're very healthy," he said. "I mean, we have injuries. We have dings and bumps and bruises, and guys are missing practices."

Left guard moved for the first time since July 26. David Lombardi reported that Robert Jones took the first-team reps there. The last published rep count at the position was ten days old: Wagoner's, from the opening Sunday, when Connor Colby "took all the reps with the starters" and Foerster said Jones would also compete.

Foerster's own explanation is the part that matters, and it is not a verdict on either man. The staff wanted to keep moving Colby around, including work at right guard, and the concussion protocol on rookie Carver Willis plus an undisclosed injury to Brett Toth limited that plan. Jones lined up with the ones on a day the interior could not field its alternatives, which Marc Adams, who filed the fullest account, reads as a competition still open rather than as Colby losing ground.

The receiver room ran out of receivers. Mike Evans (quad), Christian Kirk (calf), De'Zhaun Stribling (hamstring) and Jacob Cowing (hip flexor) were all unavailable, and John Chapman noted that the five receivers the club entered camp with were absent to a man. Wagoner has Evans, Kirk and Stribling doing conditioning work on a side field. San Francisco signed wide receiver KhaDarel Hodge at 9:59 a.m., sixteen minutes before the session began; that move and the three that came with it are reported separately on this site.

Brock Purdy went 13 of 14. Wagoner charted it, and Adams writes the lone incompletion came on a play that could have drawn a defensive penalty. In one three-play red zone sequence he threw touchdowns to Patrick Taylor Jr. and Junior Bergen and ran for a third himself, and he closed practice with a deep ball to Jordan Watkins. Lombardi has Luke Farrell catching three more, one a sidearm throw into a tight window.

The defense had both interceptions. Jack Jones opened with a one-handed pick in one-on-ones, which settles a small thing: Bonilla's Tuesday round-up listed him among eleven sidelined with soreness, single-sourced, and the club's own Day 6 list did not carry him. He practiced. Jaden Dugger picked off a tipped pass, Darrell Luter Jr. broke up a throw to Demarcus Robinson in the end zone, and Deommodore Lenoir added another. Gracen Halton, back from the knee bone bruise that cost him a week, drew Wagoner's notice for multiple rushes. Cam Inman has Alfred Collins making his 11-on-11 debut. Ogbo Okoronkwo practiced the day he signed and beat Enrique Cruz Jr. with a power rush. Two men left during the session: Sam Okuayinonu limped away with an ankle, Nick Zakelj with an elbow.

One disagreement about the absentee list, named rather than settled. Adams, citing Matt Maiocco, has Nick Bosa, Osa Odighizuwa and Dre Greenlaw held out with what the team labeled general soreness. Bonilla's pre-practice list carries Okuayinonu with soreness in that spot instead of Odighizuwa and flags that the accounts differ. Odighizuwa grades 10 on this site's 53-man projection and Okuayinonu 8, so the two readings are not interchangeable, and this notebook cannot tell you which is right.

Nobody reported a kick return, by Deebo Samuel or by anyone else. I filed a call Wednesday morning off the kick-return incentive in Samuel's contract. Four accounts of Wednesday's practice, Adams, Bonilla, Wagoner's ESPN file and Foerster's own availability, contain no return work of any kind. That is an absence of evidence on the one day I said to watch for it, and it belongs here rather than only in a piece written when it goes my way.

On the tracker. Stribling drops 8 to 7 on the third-missed-session trigger this board armed August 1 and restated August 3, and stays inside the projected 53 anyway, because the room keeps six and only three receivers grade at or above him. Okoronkwo enters at 5, above every defensive lineman signed here since July 26, and Hodge at 4, which puts this board below the morning transaction piece's call on Hodge. Givens and Cameron Sample go to 0 on roster status. Two in, two out, one grade down, and nobody crossed the cut line for the fifth straight day.

The call, and it goes against the day's news. Connor Colby starts at left guard in the Week 1 game against the Rams in Melbourne on September 10. Jones took Wednesday's first-team reps because Willis and Toth were hurt, by the account of the coach who arranged it, and the only unforced thing anybody has said about this competition is still Foerster's from opening week: nobody had done anything to beat Colby out.

Sources. Marc Adams, 49ers Webzone, August 5, read in a browser at 2:56 p.m. PT and stamped by the page as posted about an hour earlier, for the practice account and for the observations he credits to David Lombardi, Nick Wagoner, Cam Inman, Noah Furtado, John Chapman and Matt Maiocco. David Bonilla, 49ers Webzone, August 5, two pieces, for the pre-practice injury list and the Foerster quotation. Wagoner's continuously updated 49ers camp file at ESPN, August 5, for his count of 20 and the side-field conditioning. The club transcript of Foerster's Wednesday availability, 49ers Webzone site staff, August 5, for the left guard explanation. The 49ers' official release of August 5, 9:59 a.m., and the club's own transaction log, for the four roster moves. Wagoner's July 26 rep count via this site's tracker. Nobody from this site was at practice or in the building.