The 49ers remain unclear when their most expensive free agent acquisition, linebacker Kwon Alexander, will be ready to play with his new team. But they should have a better idea when Alexander returns to team headquarters in Santa Clara next week for have his surgically repaired torn ACL examined by San Francisco’s medical staff.
“It’s kind of an empty feeling that we know he was in good hands with the (Tampa Bay Buccaneers),” general manager John Lynch said Monday at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix. “But all of a sudden once we acquire him, he can no longer start doing his rehab or continue doing his rehab with the Bucs.