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The San Francisco 49ers are still waiting for their best defensive player to arrive in camp with less than three weeks before the start of the season. Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa's holdout entered its fifth week as the star defensive end is still waiting for a lucrative contract extension to replace the final year of his rookie contract. Defensive coordinator Steve Wilks said Monday that he has no updates on the status of Bosa and remains focused on getting the rest of the defense ready for the opener on Sept. 10 at Pittsburgh.

Trey Lance and Jake Moody got some vindication on the final drive for the San Francisco 49ers. Lance shook off an interception on his first drive to set up two fourth-quarter scores, including the winning 32-yard field goal from Moody on the final play of San Francisco's 21-20 victory over the Denver Broncos on Saturday night. Moody bounced back after missing two field goals last week and an extra point earlier in the game to convert the winner as he tries to show why the Niners used a third-round pick on a kicker.

After ending last season with no healthy quarterbacks, the San Francisco 49ers are starting this season trying to juggle practice time for four of them. Starter Brock Purdy is only participating in two out of every three practices to start camp as he works his way back from offseason elbow surgery. Fourth-stringer Brandon Allen has gotten a good share of snaps during team drills so far, working mostly with the third team as the Niners were impressed with his play in the offseason and want to keep him in the mix even though there are three QBs ahead of him on the depth chart.

For two straight seasons the San Francisco 49ers believed they had all the ingredients in place to deliver the franchise its sixth Super Bowl title only to fall short a game shy of the final game. Late-game miscues proved costly in the 2021 season and then quarterback injuries did the Niners in last season in an NFC title game loss at Philadelphia. Now as they get started on another campaign in hopes of winning the franchise's first Super Bowl since the 1994 season, the 49ers are painfully aware that opportunities for this core group are dwindling as age and contract status may make it ...

One of McVay's first jobs with the Niners was finding a quarterback. Joe Montana ended up working out.