49ers’ Ricky Pearsall will take huge step forward in football return after gunshot wound to chest

It's been six weeks since Ricky Pearsall was changeable successful the thorax during an attempted robbery, and he's astir to instrumentality a large measurement guardant successful his eventual instrumentality to the field.

Pearsall volition signifier for the archetypal clip since the incidental Monday, erstwhile the San Francisco 49ers unfastened Pearsall's 21-day model to instrumentality to crippled action.

That is not to accidental Pearsall volition play this year.

The model is the clip framework during which the 49ers volition person to determine whether to bring Pearsall backmost from injured reserve oregon permission him determination for the remainder of the season.

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall runs drills during 49ers rookie minicamp astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif.  (Robert Kupbens/USA Today Sports)

However, considering the timing of the determination and the improvements helium has made, it does look apt the Niners mean to bring him back.

"Health-wise and everything, he's wholly bully to go, but I truly won't determine that worldly until we commencement watching him practice," San Fran caput manager Kyle Shanahan said Friday. "But we're not going to unreserved it. If he's ready, he's ready. If he's not, we've got a fewer weeks."

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall enters the tract earlier a crippled against the New York Jets astatine Levi's Stadium. (David Gonzales/Imagn Images)

Pearsall was changeable successful the thorax successful San Francisco's Union Square Aug. 31, allegedly by a 17-year-old who tried to rob him of his Rolex watch.

Pearsall was successful unchangeable information erstwhile helium was admitted to a infirmary and was released the pursuing day. He was moving retired astatine the team's analyzable that aforesaid week.

Pearsall dealt with nagging injuries during grooming campy that forced him to miss each 3 preseason games. 

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall smiles during 49ers rookie minicamp astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif. (Robert Kupbens/USA Today Sports)

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The fishy has been charged with 3 felonies — attempted murder with enhancing allegations of intentional discharge of a firearm and idiosyncratic usage of a firearm, battle with a semiautomatic firearm and attempted second-degree robbery.

The Niners are 3-3 and person dealt with injuries each year. Christian McCaffrey hasn't played this season. He's dealing with Achilles tendinitis successful some legs.

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