Daily pre-season prediction #3: Ashley Lelie gets cutInjured, again. I'm not inclined to recycle jokes, but Mike Nolan is about as tolerant of injuries as Lou Dobbs is of immigrants. Making matters worse for Lelie, this training camp has some stiff competition at the receiver position. If Lelie misses time this pre-season with another injury, he's done.
As Mike Sando, the journalist who never sleeps, reports, the 49ers under Nolan have kept either six or seven receivers. Believe it or not, the Rams under Martz only kept five. With 1) Bruce, 2) Johnson, 3) Battle, 4) Hill, and 5) Morgan, that leaves one roster spot remaining AT MOST. In a Niners Nation poll last May, readers had Lilie as the 4th receiver. If that poll were conducted again today, I suspect the fans would send Lelie packing.
