Is Ricky Pearsall Playing Today? (injury Update, Betting Impact For 49ers Vs. Texans)

The San Francisco 49ers will beryllium without second-year wide receiver Ricky Pearsall successful Week 8 against nan Houston Texans owed to a knee injury.

A first-round prime successful nan 2024 NFL Draft, Pearsall has not played since Week 4 owed to his knee issue. In 4 games this season, he was arguably nan champion limb for nan 49ers successful nan passing game, catching 20 passes for 327 yards.

With Brandon Aiyuk still connected nan PUP list, nan 49ers will trust connected Jauan Jennings, Kendrick Bourne, George Kittle and others successful nan passing crippled successful Week 8.

Brock Purdy is besides out, truthful Mac Jones will get nan commencement connected Sunday. 

As for Pearsall, his adjacent chance to play will beryllium successful Week 9 against nan New York Giants. 

Here’s a look astatine nan champion prop stake for nan 49ers and their passing crippled successful Week 8 against a stingy Houston defense.

Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook.

Christian McCaffrey OVER 43.5 Receiving Yards (-114)

Earlier this week, SI Betting’s Ryan Gilbert shared his favourite props for this game, and he’s eyeing Christian McCaffrey to person a large crippled for nan 49ers: 

Christian McCaffrey has beautiful overmuch been nan 49ers’ discourtesy this season. He has 981 yards from scrimmage (465 rushing, 516 receiving), which is much than Kendrick Bourne (385) and Ricky Pearsall (323) combined.

The moving backmost ran for 129 yards past week, a play high, but he was still targeted 8 times and caught 7 of them for 72 yards.

McCaffrey has easy cleared 44 receiving yards successful each crippled this season, pinch lows of 52 and 57. In each different game, nan move backmost had astatine slightest 72 receiving yards.

The Texans haven’t allowed galore receiving yards to moving backs this season, but they besides haven’t played McCaffrey and nan 49ers yet.

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