49ers set to start QB Jones again; Pearsall out

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- For the 2nd consecutive week and the 4th clip successful the archetypal six games, Mac Jones is expected to commencement astatine backmost for the San Francisco 49ers connected Sunday.

Jones was constricted successful signifier each week due to the fact that of near genu and oblique ailments and is listed arsenic questionable for Sunday. Despite that, helium is slated to commencement against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, arsenic manager Kyle Shanahan said connected KNBR vigor connected Thursday.

"Pretty overmuch already person [said helium volition play]," Shanahan said Friday, referring to his vigor interview. "But you've got to enactment it that mode if there's immoderate uncertainty astatine all. ... It's each recorded. I don't deliberation I person to repetition my answer."

Jones' 4th commencement comes arsenic starting backmost Brock Purdy continues to woody with a toed wounded helium suffered successful Week 1 and aggravated successful Week 4. Purdy did not signifier this week and was officially ruled retired connected Friday.

Jones did not bash immoderate strenuous throwing successful Thursday's practice, saying afterward that helium was "saving" throws truthful helium could beryllium amended prepared for Sunday's game. He did, however, bash immoderate throwing connected Friday.

Jones expressed assurance he'd beryllium capable to play against the Bucs but acknowledged that overmuch would beryllium connected however the remainder of the week plays out.

Jones' genu wounded happened successful a preseason crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders, and though helium recovered, helium aggravated it successful Week 3 against the Arizona Cardinals. He past strained his oblique connected San Francisco's last violative drawback against the Rams.

But Jones and the Niners had a fewer other days to retrieve aft the Thursday nighttime crippled and past enactment successful a program to bounds his workload this week with an oculus toward having him disposable successful Tampa for a clash of 4-1 NFC teams.

"I judge if you tin support yourself, that you should beryllium retired determination and playing," Jones said. "A batch of guys are moving done stuff. That's the NFL, and I've learned that you conscionable got to beryllium capable to spell retired determination and support yourself and play. ... You tin beryllium pugnacious and person a bully cognition and enactment done the intelligence and carnal stuff, and that's each you tin inquire for really."

Much similar past week against the Rams, Jones and the Niners' discourtesy volition participate this crippled with a cobbled unneurotic unit of walk catchers disposable astatine choky extremity and wide receiver.

That's due to the fact that wideout Ricky Pearsall volition miss his 2nd consecutive crippled with a close genu injury. Jauan Jennings is considered much of a gametime determination arsenic helium practiced connected a constricted ground Thursday and Friday with rib and ankle injuries.

In summation to Pearsall and perchance Jennings, the 49ers are besides inactive without choky extremity George Kittle (hamstring) and receivers Brandon Aiyuk (knee) and Jordan Watkins (calf).

That leaves the Niners once...