49ers practice note: De’Zhaun Stribling sits with hamstring tightness as WR group deals with other leg issues

The San Francisco 49ers entered Saturday’s practice with multiple wide-receiver health issues, starting with De’Zhaun Stribling. According to Yahoo Sports’ report, Stribling sat out the session with hamstring tightness. The emphasis in the report was on preventing that tightness from turning into a strain, a common approach in camp when teams are trying to balance workload with long-term availability.

The tightness was not the only concern in the wide-receiver room. Yahoo Sports also reported that the 49ers were dealing with a broader availability picture at the position, including the status of Ricky Pearsall. The report characterized Pearsall’s season as over due to a lingering PCL injury, effectively removing him from the team’s near-term plans for football activities.

Christian Kirk, another key receiving option for San Francisco, was also mentioned in the same practice-day update. Yahoo Sports reported that Kirk has a calf strain. That type of injury can influence practice volume and reps, particularly in sessions that involve sprint-and-cut routes or repeated acceleration out of breaks.

Taken together, the 49ers’ practice-week concerns describe a team working to limit the risk of further setbacks while accommodating players who are not at full go. Even when an ailment does not immediately become a longer-term injury, teams often treat hamstrings and calves with caution because both can quickly worsen when exposed to repeated speed work.

For the 49ers, the timing matters because the wide receiver position typically cycles through route-running periods, pass-install periods, and situational work. When one player is limited or out and another is also working around a separate leg issue, it can change how coaches manage snaps across the group, and it can affect who gets the most live reps with quarterbacks in team periods.

The most direct roster impact, at least as described in the report, is the reduction in receiver availability. Yahoo Sports specifically noted that San Francisco was “thin” at wide receiver heading into the practice, a phrase that indicates coaches may have had fewer healthy players available to run full practice sequences. In the same update, Pearsall’s reported season-ending status adds an additional constraint on depth and practice distribution.

As the 49ers move through the rest of training activities, the central question will be whether Stribling’s hamstring tightness settles quickly with rest and treatment or progresses toward a true strain. The additional monitoring will apply to Kirk’s calf strain as well, because calf issues can linger and often require careful ramp-up. In short, this is less about one snap or one session and more about keeping early health problems from reshaping the team’s broader camp plan.