- Position
- OT
- Number
- #63
- Age
- 27
- Pieces here
- 17
On the record
Called Shots →Kion Smith is NOT on the San Francisco 49ers' initial 53-man roster as announced by the club on 2026-08-30. If he is on that roster, the take is scored wrong. Being waived and re-signed to the practice squad does not count as being on the initial 53; the scoring document is the club's announced initial 53-man roster and nothing else.
Between 2026-08-11 and 2026-08-29 inclusive, EVERY San Francisco 49ers addition to the 90-man roster is announced together with at least one corresponding subtraction in the same club announcement. Scored off the club's own transaction log at 49ers.com, entry by entry. The take is WRONG if any single dated entry in that window adds one or more players without removing at least one in the same entry. Placements on injured reserve or the physically-unable-to-perform list count as subtractions when they appear in the same entry as a signing, and do NOT count when they appear on their own date. The August 30 cutdown itself is outside the window and does not score.
Brett Toth is NOT on San Francisco's initial 53-man roster after the August 30, 2026 cutdown. The take is CORRECT if his name is absent from the club's published initial 53, including the cases where he is waived, released, waived/injured, placed on injured reserve, or reaches an injury settlement. It is WRONG if the club's published initial 53 contains his name, whatever his health designation.
In San Francisco's preseason finale at Las Vegas on August 27, 2026, Nick Zakelj plays MORE offensive snaps than Carver Willis. A player absent from the game book's Playtime Percentage page counts as zero, whether he is inactive, injured, or no longer on the roster. The take is CORRECT only if Zakelj's offensive snap count is strictly greater than Willis's. It is WRONG if Willis's is equal to or greater than Zakelj's, and that includes the case where both are zero.
Written about him
The 49ers Released Robert Jones And Traded For A Lineman Seven Minutes Later
San Francisco's cut to the initial roster, first through named reporters and then through the club's own release at 3:50 p.m. Pacific. Robert Jones released at 1:35 p.m. and Jarrett Patterson acquired from Houston seven minutes later. Mykel Williams to reserve/PUP and out at least four games. Christian Kirk to injured reserve with a designation to return. Brett Toth and Nick Zakelj to season-ending injured reserve. Deion Jones released five days after the 49ers traded Zamir White for him. Jalen Stroman waived three days after playing every defensive snap in Las Vegas. Thirty-nine moves, fifty-two men, and no punter or long snapper on the list.
Carver Willis Graded Last Among The 49ers Linemen A Week After Grading First On The Team
PFF's grades from the 49ers' 41-17 preseason win at the Chargers, read one player at a time. Carver Willis graded last among the eleven San Francisco offensive linemen charted, a week after grading first on the whole team against Tennessee. Nick Zakelj, re-signed six days ago and absent from the head coach's list of left guard competitors, graded second among every lineman in the game. Two undrafted rookie defensive tackles posted the best defensive grades on the roster, Sincere McCormick ran for the most yards on the field and graded as the team's worst pass blocker, and Jack Jones took the best coverage grade while Darrell Luter played the most snaps and took the lowest among the corners who finished.
The 49ers Signed A Center Off Friday's Tryout Sheet And It Cost Them Nick Zakelj
The 49ers signed Doug Kramer Jr., an Illinois center who worked out for the club on Friday, and released Nick Zakelj in the same announcement. Every San Francisco transaction day in August has been an exact one-in, one-out, ten additions against ten subtractions across five club releases. Zakelj is the first man in that stretch the club released rather than waived, and the two public transaction logs do not agree on which verb the club used for three other August names. Kramer went 207th in the 2022 sixth round; Zakelj went 187th in the same round of the same draft.
