49ers at Dolphins: Five players to watch beyond homecoming Bosa

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – This is a new one for Nick Bosa. He has never competed in a game without postseason implications, not even back in his youth days nearby on the Pembroke Pines Optimist Bengals.

“We were great, the PPO Bengals. We were dominant,” Bosa recalled of an undefeated league championship at age 7.

When the 2020 49ers slank to the finish line amid the COVID pandemic, Bosa was recovering from knee reconstruction, and, while he’s now pushing through an oblique injury, he’s...