Ricky Pearsall Camp Update — August 31: The Depth Chart He'll Be Argued Against
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 31
Cut day set the receiver room Pearsall's twenty twenty-seven case will eventually be measured against: six kept, five cut, Christian Kirk joining him on injured reserve with a designation to return. No reporting mentioned Pearsall himself this week.
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Cut day settled the thing this feed has been tracking on Ricky Pearsall's behalf: the depth chart his eventual return will be argued against. The initial 53 carries six receivers — Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Sr., De'Zhaun Stribling, Demarcus Robinson, Jacob Cowing, and Jordan Watkins, per Briana Jeannel at 49ers.com — with five cut beneath them, per David Bonilla's tracker at 49ers Webzone, and no reported waiver addition at the position. Christian Kirk joined Pearsall on injured reserve, though with a return designation, per Matt Maiocco via 49ers Webzone; Pearsall's own placement, made in early August after season-ending knee surgery, per the reporting at the time, has no such tag.
Pearsall himself appeared in none of the week's reporting — not the cut-day tracker, not the roster breakdown, not the coverage of the finale. That's the second straight silent week, and it's the expected shape of a season-ending file in August; the news this time is the settled room, not the silence. Stribling, who has taken much of that vacated role, made the team without playing another snap, held out of the finale as a shoulder precaution, per CBS Sports.
Last week's watch line asked for any rehab timeline as the paperwork settled — none surfaced — and for where the target tree would land after cutdown, which is now answered in full above. Back in June the preview weighed a season the surgery has since taken off the table, leaving this feed to track the aftermath, and the aftermath now has a fixed cast list for the first time. We'll keep the aftermath on the ledger and check back.
_Data via nflverse._
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