Two Men On The 49ers' Injured Reserve Page Do Not Work There Anymore

San Francisco has taken three players off injured reserve since Monday, and the record of their leaving sits in one place.

The league's waivers wire, read Wednesday afternoon, carries Titus Leo and Tanner McLachlan dated August 25, each row reading "Terminated Via Waivers, all contracts." Xavier Thomas is dated August 26 and reads the same. All three are now free agents.

Each has a step before that one, and the three steps are not the same transaction. Leo was "Waived, Injury Settlement" on August 24. Thomas was "Waived, Injury Settlement" on August 25. McLachlan was "Waived, No Recall" on August 24. A settlement is a club and an injured player agreeing on a figure and parting. No recall is the club letting him go without one. The wire draws that line on its own face, and two of these three carry it while the third does not.

The 49ers have announced none of it. Their transaction log's newest entry is dated August 25 and it is the Deion Jones trade. There is no entry dated August 26 at all.

Two commercial books that price the roster have both moved, and they agree. Over The Cap and Spotrac each list five men on San Francisco's injured reserve, and it is the same five: Ricky Pearsall at $3,419,563, Patrick Taylor at $565,000, Darrick Forrest at $565,000, Andrew Farmer at $540,000 and Mikail Kamara at $515,000. Both total $5,604,563. Neither carries Leo, McLachlan or Thomas anywhere on the page. Spotrac's transaction feed dates the McLachlan waiver August 24 and the Thomas waiver August 25, which is what the wire has.

The club's own roster page does not agree. Counted table by table Wednesday at 2:51 p.m. PT, it reads 89 on the active table, two on Active/Physically Unable to Perform, one on Reserve/Left Squad and seven under Reserve/Injured. The seven are those same five, plus Titus Leo and Xavier Thomas. Seven less five is two, and the two are the men the league says already left.

None of the three lasted long enough for a reader to have learned him. Off the club's own log: McLachlan signed July 25 and was waived with an injury designation six days later. Leo signed August 2 and was waived the same way on August 18, sixteen days. Thomas signed August 12 and was waived the same way on August 20, eight days. Two of the three are defensive linemen. The log records each of those waivers. It records none of the three leaving.

The list Shanahan read out is a list about the 53#

Being on injured reserve at a cutdown and being on it after one are different jobs. A player moved there during the cut from 90 to 53 is finished for the season. A player who makes the 53 and is placed there afterwards misses at least four games and can come back.

So Tuesday's answer was a roster answer. Matt Maiocco, at the availability, wrote that "some of the 49ers' injured players are considered candidates to open the season on injured reserve, including wide receiver Christian Kirk (calf), offensive lineman Vederian Lowe (ankle) and linebacker Nick Martin (hamstring)." The word is "including," so that is not the whole list. David Bonilla's account of the same session names Kirk and Lowe and not Martin, so the third name is Maiocco's alone.

Shanahan, asked whether Kirk was one of them: "Possibly. We've got a number of guys like that, so we've got to see how that pans out here over the next few days."

Martin hurt the hamstring late in the August 20 game at the Chargers and the coach gave no detail beyond the body part that night. The 53-man tracker moved him from a seven to a six on Wednesday, which is what it did to Kirk and Lowe a day earlier off the same sentence. He stays inside the projection. San Francisco traded for a seventh linebacker on Tuesday.

Wednesday#

The club held a walk-through and closed it. It also hosted free-agent defensive end Jah Joyner on a visit, per the league's transaction report by way of Bonilla. Joyner came out of Minnesota undrafted in 2025, spent that preseason with the Raiders and spent this spring in the UFL. The 49ers play the Raiders on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. PT.

Nick Bosa's knee has a name in print. Bonilla writes that Bosa "missed much of training camp due to tendinitis in his surgically repaired knee," and carries Shanahan: "He's doing good. Hoping that he can get into practice next week and we'll see how those three days go after the mandatory three days off." The club's own Tuesday list says soreness. Both are on the record and neither replaces the other.

Renardo Green is the largest unresolved thing on this roster. The club's Day 17 recap, published Tuesday at 4:00 p.m., lists "CB Renardo Green (hamstring)" among the men who remained sidelined. Shanahan said after the August 20 game that the club would "get more imaging on that tomorrow to see if he pulled it." No result of that imaging has been published since. That is six days, on a cornerback who was starting outside when camp opened, and the roster is due Sunday.

Mike Evans has two body parts on file and both stay there. The club says he missed Tuesday with groin tightness and is expected back next week; Maiocco dates the onset to Sunday. Bonilla has him dealing with the groin "after previously missing time with a quad strain." Neither item corrects the other.

The rest of Tuesday's non-participants, with what the coach said about each. Dominick Puni cleared the concussion protocol, practised, reported residual symptoms afterwards and is likely to re-enter it. Jacob Cowing (groin) and Upton Stout (hip flexor) are expected back next week. Robert Jones (calf) and Austen Pleasants (knee) are hoped for the three practices before the flight. Kurtis Rourke broke three ribs in the opener against Tennessee and could return after the days off. George Kittle was cleared off the physically-unable-to-perform list on Sunday, has practised twice and has still not taken an eleven-on-eleven snap.

Twenty-one players missed Tuesday's practice, not counting injured reserve or the physically-unable-to-perform list. That is the last full practice this camp gets, and the club's own page still says two of the men it lists are here.

Sources: NFL league transactions wire, waivers, August 2026; 49ers.com roster page and transaction log, read 2:51 and 2:53 p.m. PT August 26; Over The Cap and Spotrac San Francisco 2026 cap pages, read 2:53 p.m. PT August 26; Matt Maiocco, NBC Sports Bay Area, August 25; David Bonilla, 49ers Webzone, August 26; Kirk Larrabee, 49ers Webzone, August 20; 49ers.com Day 17 training camp recap, August 25.