Kyle Williams (football, wide receiver)

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Colin Kaepernick finished the 49ers' minicamp and nine-week offseason program in impressive fashion Thursday, completing his final five passes to five different receivers. Consider that an appropriate summation on where things stand...

NFL Team Report - San Francisco 49ers - INSIDE SLANT With wide receiver Michael Crabtree's season in jeopardy due to a torn Achilles tendon, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's search for a new go-to receiver has begun. Anquan Boldin,...

The Sports Xchange 49ers wonder if Boldin can be new go-to for Kaepernick SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- With wide receiver Michael Crabtree's season in jeopardy due to a torn Achilles tendon, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's search for a...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The severe injury to San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree occurred during a 7-on-7 drill Tuesday. "He was coming in motion, planted and started a route and he said it felt like someone kicked him in the Achilles --...

The Sports Xchange Manningham confident he will fill Crabtree void The San Francisco 49ers will be counting on Mario Manningham this year more than ever after losing leading receiver Michael Crabtree for possibly the entire season because of a torn...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Coach Jim Harbaugh confirmed that 49ers No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and that Crabtree underwent surgery Wednesday morning. Harbaugh also said that Crabtree is not expected to miss the...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 2009, the Cubs selected a strong, 6-foot-4-inch power pitcher named Colin Kaepernick in the 43rd round of the amateur baseball draft. So in some ways Kaepernick's right arm always seemed destined to disappoint Chicago one day....

Washington Redskins receiver Joshua Morgan felt the full downside of the social media age this week, receiving death threats and other venomous message on Twitter because of his fourth-quarter blunder in the loss to the St. Louis Rams. Morgan talked...

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers' Kyle Williams lost the football. But as painful as that memory is, he doesn't want to lose the feeling. Williams' fumble in overtime of the NFC championship game — his second such turnover of the game —...

Former Bears safety Doug Plank called himself "a pat-down candidate" as he answered my phone call while going through an airport security line Friday in Philadelphia. Plank's three artificial joints send off alarms whenever he travels and remind him of...

Disgraced defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, suspended indefinitely by the NFL for his role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal, urged his players to take shots at the head, knees and ankles of specific San Francisco 49ers before a playoff game...

That sound you just heard was the door officially slamming on the coaching career of Gregg Williams, the former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator and current St. Louis Rams D-coordinator, who seems to see himself as some kind of headset-wearing mob...