SANTA CLARA — The 49ers’ charmed run is over.
There’s merely not sufficient luck within the soccer world to beat the form of slop the Niners placed on the sector Sunday towards the Jaguars.
4 turnovers, a punt return allowed for a landing, and an offense that couldn’t transfer the ball on the bottom all mixed right into a 26-21 Jacksonville win at Levi’s Stadium.
Right here have been the Studs and Duds of a recreation that had much more of the latter:
💪 STUDS
Deomodore Lenoir • CB
An distinctive tackling recreation from the nook. I do know he’s doing nicely outdoors, however with Nick Bosa out and the run protection struggling, wouldn’t having him within the slot towards three-wide units be an asset on Thursday? (That is presuming Renardo Inexperienced is again.)
Eddy Pinero • Okay
He’ll obtain no accolades for his 23 and 26-yard discipline objectives, however he did have a candy kickoff that pinned the Jags on the 7-yard line.
Jauan Jennings • WR
A warrior of the best order. The Niners’ offense began shifting the ball when Jennings began making performs.
Ricky Pearsall • WR
He’s top-of-the-line large receivers within the NFL. Amongst all the issues the 49ers had on offense Sunday, you can’t embody him on the checklist. That stated, his knee damage was unquestionably an issue for this offense Sunday and shifting ahead this season.
Jake Tonges • TE
Isn’t it telling that the Niners belief the previous follow squad participant as their No. 1 tight finish in each the run and move recreation with George Kittle out? I appear to recollect the Niners signing a TE to a somewhat massive deal this previous offseason. All that stated, Tonges was wonderful once more on Sunday, operating the Kittle routes to perfection and proving serviceable within the run recreation. His landing within the fourth quarter gave the Niners an unbelievable probability.
Jordan Jefferson • DT
Restricted reps, however stable output for the first-time Niner towards his previous crew. Let’s see some extra of that.
Thomas Morstead • P
The 39-year-old reached 20.4 miles per hour, in accordance with NFL Subsequent Gen Stats, chasing down Parker Washington on the Jaguars’ punt return for a landing. No, he didn’t catch him, however that’s sooner than any Christian McCaffrey carry from this season.
📉 DUDS
Jordan Elliott • DT
The opposite crew will let you know who the weak hyperlink on a line is. The Jaguars instructed the world that they don’t assume a lot of Jordan Elliott, as they ran duo — two blockers on the inside — in the direction of him play after play after play Sunday, understanding they may land large dashing lanes on the inside each single time. Elliott did nothing to disprove that principle.
Alfred Collins • DT
See Elliott, Jordan. (At the very least Collins is a rookie.)
Luke Farrell • TE
A lot for his revenge recreation — Farrell should nonetheless have some affinity for his former crew, as his second-quarter fumble became seven factors for Jacksonville one play later.
Jason Pinnock • S
It was solely a matter of time earlier than Pinnock burned the Niners — he’s been dwelling on the sting for 3 weeks. His unusual stutter-step dance transfer in entrance of Travis Etienne on the Jags operating again’s 48-yard landing run was inexplicable and catastrophic, taking a foul play and turning it into the worst-case state of affairs.
49ers Particular Groups
Regardless of all of the lip service and all of the funding in special-teams-only gamers, they’re nonetheless not good.
The 49ers’ defensive entrance
Trevor Lawrence had all day to throw, because the Niners not often pressured him (such snaps have been so uncommon none come to thoughts — maybe they by no means even occurred) and registered zero quarterback hits.
Add in abysmal run protection — Etienne had 124 yards on 19 carries — and also you had a entrance that was apparently completely held collectively by Nick Bosa.
Dominick Puni • RG
We’ve to maintain together with him as a result of the 49ers proceed to play him, however his proper knee is clearly not proper — he has no pop off the road in anyway — and Jacksonville exploited it early and sometimes.
He was labored off the road on the fateful strip fumble, so whereas Jake Brendel’s mark pressured the fumble, the pocket had utterly collapsed due to Puni.
Trent Williams • LT
If the Niners can not run left, they can not run the ball. They couldn’t run it left on Sunday. Ignore his cool block into the benches — Trent didn’t seem like himself Sunday.
Brock Purdy • QB
It seemed just like the quarterback hadn’t performed soccer in a couple of weeks. Sailed passes left proper and heart and was a beat or two behind on most performs. You may’t win with that at quarterback until you put up an excellent crew effort round it. That, in fact, didn’t occur.
Initially Printed: September 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM PDT
