Kendrick

Bourne

Bourne went for 142 yards in Week 4, 142 yards in Week 5, and 180 yards from Weeks 7-18. It was a fun ride. Bourne enters free agency as a respectable outside depth receiver, but he hasn’t cracked 600 yards since 2021 and will need extreme circumstances to be fantasy-relevant going forward.

He played 37-of-42 snaps and out-targeted Kendrick Bourne four to one in San Francisco’s finale. Assuming Ricky Pearsall is able to play in the Wild Card round, this won’t matter much. But it is worth noting that Robinson could be the DFS punt we’re interested in — rather than Bourne — if Pearsall is sidelined again.

The offense was focused heavily on George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey throughout, likely invoked by the heavy Cover-3 rates of the Indianapolis defense in the absence of Sauce Gardner. Robinson snuck in an early touchdown as the two teams traded blows in the first half before disappearing into irrelevancy once more. Fellow role-playing wide receiver Kendrick Bourne caught 3-of-5 targets for 27 yards while playing more offensive snaps than Robinson, earning a sizable $500,000 bonus for going over 500 yards on the season.

We miss the Mac Jones/Kendrick Bourne friendship. Since going for exactly 142 yards in back-to-back games in Week 5 and Week 6, Bourne has managed a total of 111 yards in four games, with just nine targets. If you were holding on to him hoping that Mac Jones would eventually get back to his main man, you can let go of those dreams. It looks like it will take injuries to make that happen again.

Bourne began October with a pair of 142-yard games as the 49ers dealt with a slew of skill position injuries. He has totaled seven catches for 92 scoreless yards in three games since. With George Kittle and Jauan Jennings healthy, Bourne is off the fantasy radar heading into Week 10.

He played 38-of-48 snaps for the 49ers, but hasn’t been as involved since Jauan Jennings and George Kittle came back last week, with just five targets in two games. Bourne looks like a drop candidate for most leagues at this point, certainly shallow leaguers don’t need to hold anybody with five targets in two weeks.

Pearsall attempted to play through the knee issue in Week 4 but quickly re-aggravated the injury. He has been out ever since. A DNP to open the week suggests Pearsall will miss another game because of the lingering injury. Jauan Jennings and Kendrick Bourne will again operate as the team’s top wideouts. Jennings turned four catches into 31 yards while Bourne was held to 14 yards on two grabs. Fantasy managers can treat Jennings as a WR3 while Bourne is falling into the WR5 ranks ahead of San Francisco’s matchup with the Texans.

After amassing 284 yards the previous two games while working as the top pass-catcher, the returns of Jauan Jennings and George Kittle left Bourne with only two targets on a night quarterback Mac Jones attempted only 26 passes. It is clear that Bourne is capable of returning solid counting stats when he serves as the top option through the air, but that might not be the case as the team continues inching closer to full health. Bourne should remain on fantasy benches ahead of a Week 8 meeting with the Texans.

We expect Pearsall to officially be listed as a non-participant once again when the 49ers’ injury report comes out later today. The 49ers’ wide receiver has neither practiced nor played since spraining his PCL in Week 4, and appears to be heading toward another missed game this weekend. Kendrick Bourne could again operate as the 49ers’ No. 1 wide receiver when they face the Falcons on Sunday.

It’s the second-straight game over 100 yards for Bourne, who had the lead role in the offense and added 61 yards after the catch to being the main deep threat for Mac Jones. We can only speculate who may be available for the 49ers next week with Jauan Jennings banged up and Ricky Pearsall’s knee acting up, but if Bourne remains one of the top options on the depth chart and Mac Jones starts, the two appear to have good enough chemistry working to keep Bourne on the WR3 line against the Falcons.