One day after signing Jeremy McNichols to the practice squad, the 49ers officially released him in favor of positions that appear to be more pressing needs.
I wondered whether signing McNichols was due to an injury at running back, or if releasing Troy Fumagalli was because of a numbers game at tight end. Neither of those were true as San Francisco signed a tight end to the practice squad, in addition to a pair of defensive backs:
S Tre Norwood
CB Kendall Sheffield
TE Jake Tonges
Norwood was drafted in the seventh round in 2021 out of Oklahoma by the Pittsburgh Steelers.