Niners pull out the win after back-and-forth game with Rams

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Entering Thursday night's crippled against the Los Angeles Rams, the San Francisco 49ers had precisely zero receivers oregon choky ends connected the roster who caught a walk for them successful 2024.

There was nary George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk, Ricky Pearsall oregon Jauan Jennings. They didn't person starting backmost Brock Purdy, either. On paper, everything astir Thursday nighttime screamed Rams successful a runaway.

Everything, that is, but the last scoreboard. The Niners came up with their gutsiest show of the archetypal 5 weeks, stealing a triumph distant from the Rams and staking their assertion to archetypal spot successful the NFC West astatine 4-1 and 3-0 successful the division.

As has happened successful each of their 3 different wins, the Niners had aggregate astonishing heroes Thursday night. This time, It was rookie antiaircraft tackle Alfred Collins forcing and recovering a fumble astatine his ain extremity enactment successful regularisation with a batch of backmost Mac Jones and receiver Kendrick Bourne and kicker Eddy Piñeiro mixed in. And past they got the halt they needed connected fourth-and-1 to enactment it away.

In the process manager Kyle Shanahan's radical provided plentifulness of grounds that this is simply a squad made of the close stuff. With a fewer other days to rest, the Niners' slate doesn't get immoderate easier from present arsenic they question to Tampa Bay successful Week 6.

But immoderate down clip should assistance them get comparatively steadfast and Thursday's triumph should connection plentifulness of anticipation that this is simply a play with plentifulness of potential.

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Stat to know: The 49ers did not grounds an interception connected Thursday night, which is their 12th crippled successful a enactment without one, dating to past season. That's a vexation constituent for the Niners who proceed to get their hands connected passes but are repeatedly incapable to haul them in. They had astatine slightest 2 catchable interceptions against the Rams they were incapable to compression successful a crippled wherever 1 could person made things overmuch easier for them.

Most astonishing performance: WR Kendric...