49ers training camp: Updated bubble watch after opening cuts

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Kicker Robbie Gould #9 with punter Mitch Wishnowsky #6 of the San Francisco 49ers (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /

49ers Special Teams

Lock: K Robbie Gould, P Mitch Wishnowsky, LS Kyle Nelson

Strong Bubble: None

Weak Bubble: None

Long Shot: None

The Niners didn’t bring aboard any specialists during or after the 2020 NFL Draft, so the special teams battery of long-snapper Kyle Nelson, punter Mitch Wishnowsky and kicker Robbie Gould will remain unchanged.

There isn’t exactly any reason to guard against injury either, since there’s no preseason.

San Francisco didn’t have continuity at the start of 2019, thanks to Nelson’s elongated 10-game suspension stemming from 2018, resulting in a rotating door of long-snappers and an inconsistent effort from Gould at the beginning of the year.

That’s gone, though, so the 49ers now can hope this group will be much more consistent like it was over the majority of 2018.

As far as the return game, however, that’s quite an open-ended question.