How 49ers’ Nick Bosa got his mind right after fleeting post-injury thoughts of retirement (paywall)
“He has become an avid reader, dabbled in meditation, visited the team psychologist, limited his use of social media and focused on relationships, with his family and others, that kept him grounded.
On Thursday, after Bosa’s group interview, he was asked how his mental-health journey aided his latest recovery.
“Compared to 2020, I wasn’t as depressed,” Bosa said to the Chronicle. “But I feel like every
time I get hurt, I kind of block those initial couple months out of my memory. It was kind of rough just being around the team the whole time and not being really a part of it. But I felt like I handled it pretty well.”
49ers QB Brock Purdy proved unlucky in one category by PFF
“The fact that Purdy recorded just 12 turnover-worthy throws all season highlights his efficiency and ball security. However, an unusually high 75 percent of those plays resulted in interceptions.
To measure interception variance, PFF created a Net Luck metric that compares turnover-worthy throws to actual interceptions.
The NFL’s luckiest quarterback in 2025 was Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who recorded 21 turnover-worthy throws but threw only eight interceptions. That 38.1 percent conversion rate resulted in a league-best +6.8 Net Luck rating.
Meanwhile, Purdy finished as the second-unluckiest quarterback in the NFL with a -4.5 Net Luck rating. Only Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Geno Smith posted a worse mark at -4.7.
Chichester noted that no quarterback in the 2025 dataset was hurt more by interception variance than Purdy.
“The bad breaks extended beyond his turnover-worthy throws, too, as four additional interceptions came on passes that were not deemed turnover-worthy,” Chichester wrote. “Nearly every form of interception variance swung against him. His official 95.0 passer rating would have climbed to 100.7 under league-average interception luck…..Despite only four seasons in the sample, his 65.1% career turnover-worthy-throw-to-interception rate is the highest among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 pass attempts — more than 16 percentage points above league average.
Normally, over a multi-year sample that large, the variance begins to stabilize. It hasn’t for Purdy. The result is a quarterback whose interception totals have consistently run worse than the process suggests. If you viewed Purdy’s recent seasons strictly through the lens of the box score, this model would argue that the actual quarterback play has been meaningfully better than the interception totals indicate.”
Kyle Shanahan shares the one position on the 49ers that’s ‘open for everyone’
“If the 49ers are going to zig from what they had at the position last season, an uber-athlete like Dugger would be the way to go. We’ll see how many reps Martin gets on the strong side. If that player shows the ability to rush the passer, as Martin and Dugger did in college, they’ll give themselves the best chance to stay on the field on passing downs.
Raheem Morris will have the flexibility to maybe take Greenlaw off the field and let the other linebacker stay on the line of scrimmage while Warner mans the middle. There are options, but it depends on how versatile that third linebacker can be.”
