Parker HurleyOct 3, 2026
Previewing the 49ers' Week 4 game against Denver, Hurley expects a banged-up receiver to be limited if they play at all and anticipates San Francisco calling up Brandin Cooks to help at wide receiver.
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What Parker Hurley said
our reading, beside the words we read it fromThe team will likely call up Brandin Cooks, but at some point they need to see what they have in Watkins.
- Where it was published
- Sports Illustrated
- The piece
- 5 49ers Who Must Step Up to Beat the Broncos
- The original
- Read the original
- Read it wrong?
- Tell us and we will look
- 1Brandin Cooks — “likely called up”“The team will likely call up Brandin Cooks, but at some point they need to see what they have in Watkins.”
- 2Availability Calls“Mike Evans is going to be limited if he does play. (Week 4 vs. the Denver Broncos)”
Box score
HitCloseMissWaiting| Verdict | Call | Kind | What happened | Score | Naive | Skill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandin Cooks — “likely called up”1 | Roster Spot Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| “Mike Evans is going to be limited if he does play. (Week 4 vs.…”2 | Availability Calls | — | — | — | — | |
| 2 calls · 2 waiting | — | — | ||||
How each call scored
2 checkable claims — 1 availability call and 1 roster spot call — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing call.
It names 3 players and teams, each linked to their own record.
None of them have settled yet — they grade once their results are in.
Each call is scored 0 to 100 against what happened, on its own, by the published methodology. The naive guess is what knowing nothing would have scored on the same calls; the gap, weighted by how hard the call was, is the skill.
1Roster Spot CallsBrandin CooksSan Francisco 49ers
Brandin Cooks — “likely called up”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
2Availability CallsMike EvansSan Francisco 49ers
“Mike Evans is going to be limited if he does play. (Week 4 vs. the Denver Broncos)”
VerdictWaitingNot settled yet. This is graded once the result is in.
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