The Two Names That Moved On Wednesday's Injury Report Both Play Right Defensive Tackle

James Thompson Jr. is back on the field, and the man he had been standing behind is not.

San Francisco's communications staff distributed its second injury report of the week on Wednesday, and David Bonilla published it at 49ers Webzone at about 2:57 p.m. Pacific. It carries the same eleven San Francisco names as Tuesday's report. Two of the eleven moved, in opposite directions, and both of them play right defensive tackle.

Alfred Collins went from limited participation to did not participate, filed under a knee. Kyle Shanahan said this week that what Collins tore was a patellar tendon, and Collins is out for the season.

Thompson went from did not participate to limited. He is an undrafted rookie with a hamstring strain, he was the only man on Tuesday's whole document who did not practise at all, and Shanahan had said before the last practice that Thompson's availability would be determined by how that session went, per Patrick Holloway and Kyle Posey at Niners Nation, updated 9:16 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday. Bonilla writes that Thompson was a limited participant in the most recent on-field session.

The club's own chart lists Collins first at right defensive tackle, Gracen Halton second and Thompson third. Halton is a rookie and he is limited with an ankle. The whole of San Francisco's movement on Wednesday's document is one man leaving that position and one man arriving at it.

Bosa and Kittle, who are exactly where they were#

Nick Bosa spoke to reporters after the final full practice of the week, which San Francisco held on Wednesday afternoon in Melbourne, Tuesday night in the Bay Area.

"I'm feeling really happy," Bosa said, in Bonilla's account. "I couldn't be happier with where I'm at. I'm 100% ready to go for the first game, so it's going to be great."

Asked whether defensive line coach Kris Kocurek might manage his workload: "I haven't talked to Kris yet, but I'm going to hope for no reservations. But we'll see what he says."

Shanahan had taken the same question earlier the same day, in the availability that preceded that practice, and answered it the other way. Per the transcript Webzone published: "Yeah, we've got to be smart with that... But we also, we definitely have got to be smart with that."

Bosa tore an anterior cruciate ligament in Week 3 last season and played three games all year. He is limited with a knee on both reports the club has filed.

George Kittle spoke after the same practice, and he opened by handing a phrase back. Shanahan had said earlier in the week that Kittle had taken a "step back," which read to part of the beat as a setback, and which the coach then walked back himself: "I don't know exactly what I said there, but it was probably just me not speaking right. George has been great. He's passing everything."

Kittle, asked how he feels: "Body feels really good. It's bounced back really good. I'd say I've really taken a step back ... towards playing. But besides that, don't know what the workload is. I don't know what Sunday looks, jeez Louise, what Friday morning looks like. Kyle said we're in the future, so I don't really know what day it is. But I guess we'll all find out on Friday."

Kickoff is Thursday at 5:35 p.m. Pacific and Friday at 10:35 a.m. at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, so half of that is not his fault. Kittle is limited with an Achilles on both reports. Christian McCaffrey has appeared on neither, and Shanahan on how he looks: "Awesome. Ready to go."

The column nobody has filled in#

Bonilla's copy of Wednesday's report lists participation and nothing else. There is no Out next to a name, no Doubtful and no Questionable.

The club's own injury report page prints a game status column, and its legend defines those three words: Out, a player will not play; Doubtful, unlikely; Questionable, not certain. Read at 3:04 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday, seven minutes after Bonilla published, that page still showed Tuesday's column, an empty Wednesday column, and the word Unspecified in all eighteen game status boxes across both clubs.

Read again at 4:52 p.m., the page had caught up in one direction only. San Francisco's Wednesday column is filled now, and it matches the distributed report name for name: Collins the lone did not participate, Stout the lone full, the other nine limited. The Rams' Wednesday column is still empty. All eighteen game status boxes still read Unspecified.

Two clubs, eighteen names, no designations, and the first kickoff of the season is tomorrow.

One more thing about that page, since San Francisco's half of it has looked strange all week. Its Injury column is blank on all eleven San Francisco rows and filled on all seven Los Angeles rows. The reports the club actually distributed carry a reason for every San Francisco name, both days, so the blank column belongs to the website rather than to the document.

Los Angeles, where everybody got better except the one who is out#

Aaron Donald went from limited to did not participate, listed both days as not injury-related and resting. Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport reported on Tuesday that he is not travelling to Australia and will not play. Shanahan, asked about it: "Very excited. I told you guys last time I talked to you guys he was definitely playing, so I've never been more excited to be wrong about something."

Every other name on the Rams' table improved. Myles Garrett went from did not participate with a knee to full participation. Jaylen Watson went from did not participate with a toe to limited. Tyler Higbee, Alaric Jackson and Byron Young all went from did not participate to full, all three listed as resting. Grant Stuard went from limited with a hamstring to full.

Read that with one caveat attached, which Bonilla supplies himself: San Francisco did not hold a full practice on Wednesday, which was Thursday in Melbourne. The last practice was Tuesday night Pacific and a walk-through was scheduled for Wednesday. A report filed on a walk-through day describes a walk-through.

The roster page#

Nothing was processed on Wednesday. Counted name by name at 2:55 p.m. Pacific, the club's roster page holds 53 on Active, 17 on the practice squad, 11 on Reserve/Injured and 2 on Active/Physically Unable to Perform. Collins is still on the Active table.

The club's transaction log, read at 2:57 p.m., still ends on September 5 with the Jon Weeks promotion and the Brayden Willis waiver. It carries no entry for the Willis practice-squad signing the club announced itself on September 6, and no injured-reserve move for Collins.

The depth chart on the club website moved, and only its stamp did. On Tuesday it read "Last Updated on 09/4/26." Read at 2:58 p.m. Wednesday it reads "Last Updated on September 8th, 2026." Collins is still first at right defensive tackle. Sam Okuayinonu, on injured reserve since September 4, is still second at left defensive end, and Brayden Willis is still listed at tight end. Nobody occupies the long-snapper box, which Weeks has had a claim on since September 5. This is the chart on the club website, not the chart a club releases to media in a game week.

Los Angeles arrived in Australia on Wednesday, per Bonilla, and put Myles Garrett down for a full session on the way in.

Sources: 49ers.com injury report, roster page, transaction page and depth chart. David Bonilla and the transcript desk, 49ers Webzone. Patrick Holloway and Kyle Posey, Niners Nation. Nick Wagoner, ESPN. Adam Schefter, ESPN, and Ian Rapoport, NFL Network.