The San Francisco 49ers are battling the San Diego Chargers tonight for each team’s last 2015 preseason game.
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Their next test will be in the season opener September 14 against Minnesota.
The 49ers will go into the regular season with significant questions about their offense after Kaepernick and the first team unit failed to score a touchdown on eight preseason possessions, and they didn’t play in this one.
It was Ellington’s 70-yard catch-and-run, off Thompson’s third-and-5 pass, that stood as the 49ers’ best highlight in an otherwise unimportant game.
Hayne carried 10 times for 58 yards, caught a pair of passes for 17 yards, and returned three punts for 43 yards.
Hayne made a pretty cutback on a 19-yard run late in the third quarter.
Thursday night he did it again. Running up the sideline before pummeling cornerback Lowell Rose.
Acker performed by way of final exhibition season, exclusively to spend his rookie yr. on injured reserve due to a foot fracture.
Hayne’s mother Jodie and sisters Jessi-Lee and Taygan, who flew in from Sydney, were in the 49ers’ 68,500-seat Levi’s Stadium to watch the former Parramatta Eels ace.
With a couple nice punt returns, Ellington also showed he also might not be so ready to bequeath his role to Hayne, veteran Reggie Bush or White.
Jarryd Hayne, who impressed immensely in his first two games, has not had the same success thus far tonight.
Aaron Lynch, Corey Lemonier and Eli Harold vie for the 2 beginning spots at outdoors linebacker in case Brooks is jettisoned, which might come by Saturday’s roster discount to a 53-man squad, or Brooks might stay in limbo whereas the NFL – not the 49ers, per league coverage – investigates his case.
Once Ellington got plugged into the punt-return role Thursday, he dangerously fielded a punt at the 2-yard line before brought it out to the 28, before being hit out of bounds by the Chargers John Phillips (15-yard penalty).
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