Ricky Pearsall didn't get to show much during rookie minicamp. Here's what he needs to show during San Francisco 49ers OTAs.
He warmed up with the other wide receivers, then he participated in 7-on-7 team drills, which lasted roughly 20 minutes. And he got four targets and caught none of them. Some of the passes were errant, and one was dropped. But we learned the most on the plays when he wasn't targeted.
Pearsall lined up across from second-round pick Renardo Green three times. The first two times, Green jammed Pearsall at the line of scrimmage and shut him down. The third time, Green played 9 yards off Pearsall and gave him a free release, which allowed him to run a beautiful stutter-go double move. Green panicked and grabbed Pearsall, and the quarterback threw the ball away.near the sideline if the cornerback gives him a cushion. Now he needs to show that he can beat press man-to-man coverage.
In addition, Pearsall needs to show he can run the dig route and catch the ball in traffic over the middle. The dig route is the most important route in the 49ers offense -- it's an in-breaking route behind linebackers who usually are reacting to a play-action fake. Pearsall doesn't have long arms, which means he doesn't have a large catch radius.
Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers.
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