SANTA CLARA — Cuts are days away. The season opener is in two weeks. The Niners don’t seem particularly ready for either, but at least the preseason is over.

Here are the studs and duds from Saturday’s exhibition finale, a 30-16 Niners win, which was, more importantly, the last chance for players to show they deserve to play for this team in September

» It’s hardly ideal that Elliott was playing on Saturday, but if you’re a veteran being asked to play serious snaps in a third preseason game, you might as well make flash plays.

Elliott was a game-wrecker in the middle against the Chargers’ second and third-string offensive lines. If he was on the roster bubble, he should have played his way off it Saturday.

» His 51-yard punt, his fourth amid eight total punts in the first quarter, was

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