- Position
- DT
- Number
- #92
- Age
- 28
- Pieces here
- 49
On the record
Called Shots →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.
Alfred Collins is listed among San Francisco's defensive starters in the official game book for the August 20, 2026 preseason game at the Los Angeles Chargers. The take is CORRECT if the game book's defensive starting lineup contains his name. It is WRONG if it does not, including the case where San Francisco rests him or he does not appear in the game at all. The no-show risk is mine and it is stated here rather than argued afterwards.
The 49ers win 10 or more of their 17 regular-season games in 2026. The stated line is 9.5; 9 wins or fewer grades this WRONG.
Osa Odighizuwa finishes with MORE than 4 sacks in the 2026 regular season, i.e. 4.5 or more. Exactly 4.0 or fewer grades this WRONG.
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.
C.J. West plays MORE defensive snaps than Gracen Halton in San Francisco's Week 1 game against the Los Angeles Rams on September 10, 2026. A tie grades this WRONG. Scored off the official defensive snap counts published for that game; a player who is inactive or takes no defensive snap counts as zero.
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.
San Francisco's defense is credited with two or fewer quarterback hits in total in its Week 5 game at Seattle on October 11, 2026, as printed in the QH column of the San Francisco Total row on the Final Defensive Statistics page of the official NFL game book. CORRECT if that total is 0, 1 or 2. WRONG if it is 3 or more.
The San Francisco 49ers acquire at least one interior defensive lineman by trade between Oct. 9, 2026 and the trade deadline at 4 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 10, 2026. Interior means a player the 49ers' announcement or his former club's roster lists as a defensive tackle or nose tackle, or a defensive lineman who played primarily inside for his former club this season. A free-agent or practice-squad signing does not count; an edge rusher acquired by trade does not count. WRONG if no such trade is completed by the deadline.
Written about him
Osa Odighizuwa ranks 108th against the run. Tampa Bay has the 2nd.
Through Week 4, PFF's grades rank A'Shawn Robinson 2nd of 113 interior defensive linemen against the run and 78th as a pass rusher. The 49ers' two interior regulars rank 108th and 101st against the run. Robinson is on a one-year, $10 million deal with no dead money for Tampa Bay if traded, and the 49ers would carry about $2 million of it against $41.4 million in cap space. From 2021 to 2025, two deadline-window trades involved an interior lineman aged 29 or older on an expiring deal: Johnathan Hankins for a sixth-round pick swap and Leonard Williams for a second and a fifth. Robinson's profile sits much closer to Hankins.
Denver built Sunday's zero. The hits that left with Bosa were Odighizuwa's
San Francisco did not sack Bo Nix in Sunday's 24-14 win over Denver and hit him twice, both in the fourth quarter. The zero was mostly Denver's design: Nix threw 36 of 42 passes short, Denver had allowed five sacks in three games, and the 49ers' own priority was keeping Nix in the pocket, which held him to two scrambles. The season numbers say something else. With Nick Bosa the 49ers were credited with 13 quarterback hits on 55 opponent pass plays; without him, 7 on 96. Bosa had one of the 13. Osa Odighizuwa had five, and he has had none since Bosa got hurt. Bosa is not expected back for Seattle.
San Francisco won by 20 without a sack. Miami gave up five.
San Francisco hosts Miami at 1:25 p.m. Pacific on FOX in its home opener. The 49ers beat the Rams 27-7 in Melbourne without a sack, taking eight quarterback hits instead, four of them by Osa Odighizuwa. Miami lost 27-13 at Las Vegas behind Malik Willis, who was sacked five times. Eddy Piñeiro is questionable with an illness that cost him all three practices, and the club auditioned two kickers Saturday and signed neither. Ten men to watch, and the reason the first one is the kicker.
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.
The 49ers Need Alfred Collins Against The Run, And PFF Ranks Him Near The Bottom There
Alfred Collins, No. 95, was activated off the PUP list at the end of July after offseason shoulder surgery and is expected to line up next to Osa Odighizuwa. Tennessee ran 31 times for 167 yards in the preseason opener. PFF's grades from that game rank Collins last among the 49ers' defensive linemen against the run, and its 2025 rankings put him 127th of 133 qualifying interior linemen in the same category while ranking him 76th of 137 as a pass rusher. The club published no participation report for the opener, so no official snap counts exist. Monday was a closed walk-through with no media availability.