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Upton Stout is back at practice in a no-contact jersey

The rookie corner was limited Thursday, four days after hurting his shoulder against Denver. Mike Evans did not practice, Mykel Williams \"should be good to go,\" and John Lynch said Kyle Juszczyk's knee \"had ACL written all over it.\"

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Sam KezarOct 8, 20263 min read
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Upton Stout, in a white 49ers practice jersey and gold helmet, bursts past a coach holding red padded shields during a drill at the team's practice facility.

Upton Stout was back on the practice field Thursday in a blue no-contact jersey, Nick Wagoner of ESPN reported, and the club's report listed him as limited. The rookie corner hurt his shoulder against Denver on Sunday and did not practice Wednesday. "There's potential," Kyle Shanahan said on the radio Thursday of Stout playing Sunday. "We're not sure yet," per David Bonilla of 49ers Webzone.

Friday's report carries the game statuses. Kickoff Sunday is 1:25 p.m. Pacific on FOX.

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Between the 49ers' first regular-season game and 2026-11-01, Deebo Samuel runs more pass routes from the slot than from out wide. Method, fixed in advance: alignment splits as published for Samuel over that span, slot routes against wide routes, backfield routes excluded from both sides. Ties resolve as FALSE. The comparison is his own two figures, so no league-wide source is needed to score it.

The call is on the ROLE the money implies, not on production. His 2025 usage in Washington was 260 slot routes against 141 out wide and 15 from the backfield, out of 416, at 5.3 average air yards per target across 99 targets, with 67 of those 99 inside ten yards. Niners Nation projects him to the slot with Stribling at Z and Mike Evans at X. A one-year agreement whose value the player's own agent describes as a ceiling is a continuity buy, and a continuity buy uses the player it just watched rather than the one from 2021. If he instead lines up mostly wide, the read in the piece is wrong and the team bought something closer to the older version.

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