49ers' roster taking shape ahead of preseason finale vs. Chargers

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Nfl, Football, Matt Maiocco, San Francisco 49ers, Sports

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers visiting Levi's Stadium for Saturday's preseason finale, San Francisco's final roster decisions are becoming more clear. Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan discuss what will play into the 49ers' roster choices, including injury updates, player suspensions and position-group competitions. Also, Matt and Jennifer review how the entire 2025 NFL Draft class has fared throughout training camp, and discuss Kyle Shanahan's update on veteran wide receiver Demarcus Robinson's suspension following his violation of the NFL's personal conduct policy last season.

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0:00.0	Thankfully, the end of the preseason is in sight.
0:07.0	And after the 49ers' third exhibition game of the summer on Saturday night against Jim Harbaugh's Los Angeles Chargers,
0:14.0	it will be time for John Lynch and Kyle Shanhan to come together to piece together the 49ers' initial 53-man roster. There are a lot of things for the team to consider with the 49ers initial 53-man roster. There are a lot of things for the
0:23.1	team to consider, with the 49ers current injury situation playing a major part in those final
0:28.5	decisions. Some of the decisions have already been made with the 49ers losing a couple of running
0:34.0	backs who are making strong bids for spots on the team.
0:42.6	Jennifer Lee Chan and I will bring you up to date on the current state of the 49ers as the focus shifts to getting through the final preseason game before turning all attention to week
0:48.0	one against the Seattle Seahawks. We'll have all this and much more on this episode of 49ers
0:53.3	talk coming at you right now. more on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now.
0:56.1	Welcome to another episode of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
1:02.0	Introducing your hosts, Matt Mayoko and Jennifer Lee Chan.
1:06.5	All right, so before we get into the meat of this 49ers talk podcast, which we just recorded,
1:13.6	found out Kyle Sheenhan went on the radio on Wednesday and revealed that DeMarcus Robinson
1:20.2	will serve a three-game suspension to open the season. And so really no surprise. But
1:26.2	even from the offseason, Jennifer, John Lynch said that this was something that they went into this eyes wide open when they signed him.
1:34.3	I think they have to be thankful now that they know what it is, when it's going to be, that it's not longer than three games, because there was potential that it could have been.
1:42.5	So now they can get into their planning because there's so many factors getting into the roster
1:47.3	and how they're going to set this initial 53.
1:50.0	Now they know exactly what's going to happen with DeMarcus Robinson so they can start
1:53.8	planning the wide receiver group, which has injuries and unknowns.
1:58.4	So it's important that they get this information now.
2:00.1	And the fact that they'll be getting him back in week four,
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