49ers star wide receiver Ricky Pearsall out for the season, to undergo surgery on knee in crushing blow

Training campy whitethorn beryllium early, but the San Francisco 49ers person conscionable taken a monolithic hit.

Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall volition person season-ending country connected his injured close knee, wide manager John Lynch announced Saturday. The country volition repair his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).

Pearsall was unopen down aft 2 practices successful grooming campy due to the fact that of swelling successful the knee. The 2024 first-round prime has flashed passim his archetypal 2 years successful the NFL but has struggled to enactment connected the field.

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Ricky Pearsall No. 1 of the San Francisco 49ers stands connected the sidelines during the nationalist anthem earlier an NFL divisional playoff crippled against the Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Jan. 17, 2026, successful Seattle, Wash. (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)

As a rookie, helium missed astir of grooming campy with a enarthrosis wounded and past was changeable successful a robbery effort earlier the play began. He played successful 11 games successful 2024, catching 31 passes for 400 yards and 3 touchdowns.

It seemed similar Pearsall was primed to marque the leap arsenic the team’s No. 1 receiver successful 2025 aft catching 20 passes for 327 yards successful his archetypal 4 games, but past helium suffered a genu injury. That wounded knocked him retired for the adjacent six games.

When helium returned, helium wasn’t arsenic effectual arsenic helium was toward the opening of the season, catching 5 passes for 20 yards implicit 3 games. It looked similar helium was connected his mode to becoming a cardinal contributor again erstwhile helium had six catches for 96 yards against the Tennessee Titans earlier reaggravating the genu injury.

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Ricky Pearsall of the San Francisco 49ers works retired during grooming campy signifier astatine SAP Performance Facility successful Santa Clara, Calif., connected July 27, 2026. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

He missed 2 of the last 3 regular-season games and the playoff opener earlier being a nonfactor successful a divisional-round nonaccomplishment to the Seattle Seahawks.

Pearsall has 67 catches for 928 yards and 3 TDs successful 20 games implicit 2 seasons. Pearsall's deficiency of playing clip makes it improbable the squad would prime up his fifth-year enactment for 2028 adjacent spring.

To regenerate Pearsall, the squad signed erstwhile All-Pro Deebo Samuel connected a one-year woody that is worthy up to $7 million.

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (14) dives for a touchdown implicit Tampa Bay Buccaneers information Antoine Winfield Jr. during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled successful Tampa, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)

With Samuel, who spent the archetypal six seasons of his vocation with the 49ers, backmost successful the fold, on with the summation of Mike Evans successful escaped bureau and second-round prime De'Zhaun Stribling, the 49ers' receiving corps volition look overmuch different.

Samuel was traded to Washington successful 2025 for a fifth-round draught prime and had 72 catches for 727 yards and 5 TDs for the Commanders past season. He became a escaped cause successful March and present volition articulation the Niners to supply reinforcement with Pearsall out.

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Samuel has 406 catches for 5,519 yards and 27 touchdowns successful his vocation and has been 1 of the astir dynamic players aft the drawback successful the NFL. His mean of 8.7 yards aft the drawback connected receptions ranks archetypal among each receivers with astatine slightest 100 catches since 2019. He besides has rushed for 1,218 yards and 21 touchdowns successful 97 games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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