- Position
- LB
- Number
- #59
- Age
- 31
- Pieces here
- 29
On the record
Called Shots →On or before 2026-08-09, San Francisco signs at least one more defensive lineman or edge rusher who is not on its roster as of 2026-08-02. Method, fixed in advance: read the official transaction log at 49ers.com on 2026-08-09 and count signings at position DL or LB of any player absent from the roster page counted on 2026-08-02. Practice-squad signings do not count, because there is no practice squad until after the August 30 cutdown. A player re-signed after being waived counts.
KhaDarel Hodge is on the San Francisco 49ers' initial 53-man roster as announced by the club on 2026-08-30, and Ogbo Okoronkwo is not. Both halves must hold. If either name lands the other way, the take is scored wrong.
Gracen Halton is on the San Francisco 49ers' initial 53-man roster as announced by the club on 2026-08-30. If he is not on that roster, the take is scored wrong. A practice-squad signing after a waiver does not count.
San Francisco signs at least one of Doug Kramer, Joe Michalski or Lecitus Smith to its 90-man roster on or before 2026-08-12. Scored off the club's own transaction log at 49ers.com, with ESPN's 49ers transaction log as the second feed. A practice-squad agreement does not count, because there is no practice squad until after the August 30 cutdown; the claim is a signing to the active 90.
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.
The 49ers record MORE than 35 team sacks in the 2026 regular season, i.e. 35.5 or more. Exactly 35.0 or fewer grades this WRONG.
The San Francisco 49ers add at least one defensive lineman to their 53-man active roster between September 10 and September 19, 2026 inclusive, Pacific time. Any route counts: a free-agent signing, a promotion from the practice squad, a waiver claim, a trade, or an activation from a reserve list. A STANDARD PRACTICE-SQUAD ELEVATION DOES NOT COUNT, because an elevated player is not signed to the active roster and reverts after the game. The take is WRONG if no defensive lineman is added to the active roster in that window.
Ogbo Okoronkwo plays MORE than 18 defensive snaps for the San Francisco 49ers in their Week 2 game against the Miami Dolphins on September 20, 2026, measured on the defensive column of that game's official NFL game book Playtime Percentage pages. Eighteen played in Week 1 is the bar and it is the number the book prints for him in that game. Exactly 18 grades this WRONG. Not appearing on the page grades this WRONG, because absent means zero.
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Eddy Piñeiro will kick on Sunday, and there is nobody behind him
Eddy Piñeiro has not kicked in a practice since the Melbourne game week ended, and Matt Maiocco reported Saturday that he will kick against Miami anyway. San Francisco auditioned Younghoe Koo and Greg Joseph and kept neither, so it carries one kicker into the home opener, counted across all four of the club's roster lists at 2:57pm. Ogbo Okoronkwo was promoted to the active roster and De'Zhaun Stribling went on injured reserve three days after ankle surgery. The league fined Kyle Juszczyk $20,033 and Jake Tonges $9,266 for plays in Melbourne.
Nobody San Francisco Added Thursday Plays Defensive Tackle
San Francisco placed DL Alfred Collins on injured reserve and activated WR KhaDarel Hodge and DL Ogbo Okoronkwo from its practice squad as standard elevations, all three moves in one release published at 1:53 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, three hours and forty-two minutes before the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Hodge and Okoronkwo revert to the practice squad after the game, and a standard elevation is capped at three per player per season. Neither plays defensive tackle. The club's depth chart, stamped September 8 and labelled unofficial, lists four men at the two tackle spots: Osa Odighizuwa at 280 pounds and C.J. West at 316 on the left, Collins and then rookies Gracen Halton at 293 and James Thompson Jr. at 308 on the right. Thompson was Questionable with a hamstring, the only game designation San Francisco issued for the opener. The inactive lists resolved it: six San Francisco names, none of them a defensive lineman, and Thompson dresses. That leaves right defensive tackle to two rookies. The report the club distributed at 12:23 a.m. Pacific has Halton at full participation for the last Melbourne practice; the table on the club's own injury-report page, read at 2:51 p.m., still showed him limited and left his injury column blank. The practice squad holds three defensive linemen heavier than Okoronkwo's 253 pounds, including Kevin Givens, the man the club waived on August 5 to sign Hodge and Okoronkwo. Counted in a browser at 2:53 p.m. Pacific, the roster page carried 54 on Active, 12 on injured reserve, two on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform and 15 on the practice squad, which puts 52 players on a roster that may hold 53. The Active table held eight defensive linemen. The transaction log still ended on September 5. One take filed.
Jalen Stroman Played Every Defensive Snap And More Special Teams Than Anybody
Six calls on San Francisco's initial 53-man roster, due Sunday at 3 p.m. Pacific. In: Jalen Stroman, who played all 66 defensive snaps and 21 on special teams against the Raiders, the most of any 49er; Nate Hobbs; and Jacob Cowing, already on the ledger since August 23. Out: Jordan Watkins, who played 53 of 61 offensive snaps and touched the ball nine ways; Ashtyn Davis; and Ogbo Okoronkwo, already on the ledger since August 5. Every call scores off the club's announced initial 53 and nothing else. A man placed on injured reserve from that list counts as having made it.
The 49ers Signed A Pro Bowl Special Teamer This Morning. He Has Never Returned A Kick.
San Francisco signed WR KhaDarel Hodge and DL Ogbo Okoronkwo to one-year deals at 9:59 a.m. Wednesday and waived DL Kevin Givens and DL Cameron Sample. Hodge made the Pro Bowl in 2024 as a special teamer and has zero career kick returns and zero career punt returns, which is worth knowing on the morning this site published a kick-return incentive in Deebo Samuel's contract. Givens lasted ten days. Five defensive linemen have signed here in ten days and six have gone.
