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49ers injury news: Nick Bosa (hip) questionable to return vs. Seahawks

The start pass rusher exited the game in the third quarter with a hip injury.

After dealing with a hip injury all week and being listed as questionable for Sunday’s contest against the Seattle Seahawks, Nick Bosa was cleared to play on Sunday in Week 11. However, his injury appeared to linger.

Following his second sack of the day, Bosa left the game in apparent pain. After exiting the game to the sideline, the Pro Bowl edge rusher was listed as questionable to return to the game with a hip injury.

Bosa left the game with four tackles, 1.5 sacks and two tackles for loss against the Seahawks on Sunday.

Stay tuned to Niners Wire for more updates regarding Bosa’s status for the remainder of the game against the Seahawks.

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Chargers’ Joey Bosa expected to play in Week 8 vs. Saints

The Chargers need to start getting after the quarterback more, and they’re hoping Joey Bosa can help with that.

The Chargers will likely get a key player back for this weekend’s game against the Saints.

Joey Bosa said he expects to play in a limited role on Sunday. Bosa is listed as questionable on the final injury report.

Bosa has only played 56 snaps this season, as he’s dealt with back and hip issues.

He said that he developed a glute strain that affected his sciatic nerve leading up to the Week 3 game against the Steelers, calling it some of the worst pain he’s dealt with in his life.

“I definitely didn’t expect it to be as bad as it has been,” Bosa said. “And then it just kept dragging and dragging. Here we’re five weeks later, or however long it’s been, so it was tough.”

Bosa has been sidelined with injuries for most of the past two seasons. In 2022 and 2023, he appeared in just 14 games combined.

“I feel like I’ve been letting my team down missing these games,” Bosa said. “Letting everybody down. Letting coaches down. Letting the organization down. Letting myself down, and it just sucks how these years have gone, the last few years.”

As Bosa works his way back to a full workload, the Chargers hope he can bring some life to a struggling pass rush.

Chargers’ Joey Bosa shares excitement for 2024 season

As Joey Bosa enters Year 9, he is embracing and enjoying the new changes that this offseason has brought. 

Chargers fans know with Jim Harbaugh comes major hype for the team, and to no surprise, Joey Bosa thinks so too. 

This is definitely no ordinary season for the Bolts. In fact, it’s been anything but ordinary. As Bosa enters Year 9, he is embracing and enjoying the new changes that this offseason has brought. 

“I’m super excited, every year I’m excited,” Bosa said. “The beginning of every year there’s a lot of hope and excitement going into each season. You never know how it’s going to play out.

“When you get a guy like Coach Harbaugh, that has been there and won at a bunch of place, you know that he’s not testing it out for the first time,” Bosa continued. “He has a strategy that he knows that works and I think it’s easy to buy in when you have a guy like that.

“Winning a National Championship, going to a Super Bowl, wherever he’s been he’s been really successful,” Bosa added. “So to have a guy that comes in, lays the plan out for you and there’s no guessing, it feels nice.”

Bosa is eager for a chance to find success on the field which was difficult last season as he battled injuries. This season, the load is lighter for Bosa as the Chargers added veteran Bud Dupree.

“It’s easier when you have a great staff around you, you have a lot of great guys and give you that extra motivation to just not only perform well for yourself but also not let the man beside you down and perform well for them,” Bosa said.

“I think we have a stacked room and we all complement each other well,” Bosa later added. “I think Bud is a very different rusher than I am, I’m a different rusher than Khalil is, so we can all pick each others brains and learn things from each other.”

As the season progresses Bosa hopes to prove that his best performances are still ahead of him which would be quite impressive given he’s been in the league for almost a decade. 

“I’m pretty confident in myself that my best years are still ahead of me,” Bosa said. “I think I still have a few more years of my physical prime left, so I think that combined with my experience and all the things I’ve been through, can really help me hopefully reach that next level.

Bosa later added: “I feel confident about how I’m feeling physically. I think I’ve been not forgotten, not around here, but maybe some people have forgotten the player I can be. I’ve always enjoyed proving people wrong, whoever that is. Obviously, that’s not the main driver, but I have felt a bit more motivation this offseason to really get back and make a big impact.”

Chargers made right move by making Joey Bosa highest-paid defensive player in NFL

The Los Angeles Chargers did the right thing.

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On Tuesday, the Chargers and defensive end Joey Bosa agreed to a five-year contract extension worth $135 million with $102 million in total guarantees, topping Browns’ Myles Garrett, who signed an extension two weeks ago.

Los Angeles now has the highest-paid defensive player in the NFL on their roster, and the decision to do so was the right move.

Elite defensive ends are hard to come by, and when you find one, you can’t let him go because the position is so critical on the defensive side of the ball is a whole.

A great defensive end significantly boosts the whole team’s ability to get pressure on the quarterback. Pressure reduces the quarterback’s options, helps keeps the secondary from being exposed and forces the offense to be less ambitious.

When the Chargers drafted Bosa in 2016, they had the 21st-ranked defense in the NFL prior to, per Pro Football Reference. In his rookie season, they were no better, ranking No. 29 overall. But after getting acclimated to the professional level, his presence up front helped drastically.

In 2017, the defense ranked No. 3. In 2018, they ranked No. 8, despite him missing half the season with an injury. Just this past season in 2019, Gus Bradley’s group ranked No. 6 in the league.

Bosa, in his first four seasons, is one of only 11 players since the NFL started to total 40 sacks in his first 51 games. He joins elite company, which includes Broncos’ Von Miller.

Making an impact as a pass-rusher and run defender, the two-time Pro Bowler finished the 2019 season with 11.5 sacks, 20 tackles for loss and 31 quarterback hits. This was accomplished after a season where he missed half the campaign due to an injury.

Over the last three seasons, Bosa has a 91.4 pass-rush grade, via Pro Football Focus, marking the highest of all edge defenders in that timespan.

In a division where Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be playing in for a very long time, you need anything and everything to slow him down. Having the physically gifted Bosa is absolutely needed to do so.

At age 25, the best has yet to come for Bosa, too. The technically refined defensive end is only going to continue to get better as he continues to mature before finally reaching his peak.

Not to mention, playing on a line that features Melvin Ingram, Linval Joseph, Jerry Tillery and Justin Jones will create more one-on-one matchups for him. When Bosa is set up with one, havoc is bound to wreaked.

Another reason why locking up Bosa was the right thing is because the franchise has struggled with contracts in the past, leading to holdouts. Showing that you’re willing to write up a hefty check will intrigue more soon-to-be free agents to sign, even for a team-friendly deals.

As the Chargers seek their first Super Bowl title, his presence for the next five years will put the team in a great position to make it happen.

So while some may think it’s a lot of money to throw at a player, remember that a franchise defensive end is nearly as hard to find as a franchise quarterback, and can have nearly as great an impact.