Santa Clara – it turns out that the defense of the 49ers was decimated more than they are exhausted, since their bone revealed that Malik Mustapha security is recovering from its second repair of the anterior cross ligament in three years.
Mustapha’s acl tear was confirmed in a magnetic resonance exam after it was injured in the final of the January 6 of the 49ers, the Althehet team did not reveal it publicly or during this low season. Nick Waggoner of ESPN reported it first after the end of Saturday’s draft, and a team spokesman confirmed Mustpha’s difficult situation.
Mustapha’s blunt style raised him to the starting lineup last season, helping to cover the absence of his security partner Talanoa Hufanga, who came out of a 2023 acl tear and also suffered an injury of yesteryear.
Mustapha, as ESPN reported, started the graft of his repair of ACL 2022, of which he returned to play 10 games in 2023 for Wake Forest. The magnetic resonance of last in January revealed that Mustapha required a second LCA surgery, and its meniscus and cartilage were not written.
With Ji’ayir Brown to return for his third season as a potential headline, the 49ers signed two veteran insurance last month in free agency: Jason Pinnock (New York Giants) and Richie Grant (Atlanta Falcons). They did not hesitate a security until the fifth round of Saturday, when they took marques sigle of Kansas State.
General manager John Lynch did not refer to Mustapha’s health before, the duration or after the draft, and instead praised the sigle ability to run the 40 -yard board in less than 4.4 seconds: “That is an hour breach. It has the game game game game game game game game game game game game game game game game game game. Game game. Game game. Game game.
To compensate for the purge of the list last month, the 49ers used their first five draft selections in defensive players: the defensive wing Mykel Williams, the defensive Tackle Alfred Collins, the supporter Nick Martin, the corner Upton Stout and the Defensive Tackle CJ West.
