49ers WR Ricky Pearsall has been held back by injuries since being drafted by San Francisco, including being shot by a 17-year-old boy during a robbery attempt just before his rookie season was due to begin. Still, Pearsall returned for the team’s final 11 games, yet noted he essentially just got out of bed after the gunshot wound healed and started running routes.

“I just felt like I was behind the eight ball,” Pearsall said, via NFL.com. “I like to say that I rolled out of bed and started running routes because I damn near did. You can’t really rehab a gunshot wound. So I basically rolled out of bed and started running routes in Week 7. … From that Week 7 and on, that was my training camp. Those practices in between, before the games, that was my training camp, for me.”

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