49ers’ Colin Kaepernick on track to make preseason debut

According to reports, Kaepernick’s threw the football with velocity and he threw as if the shoulder was back to full health after dealing with what he said was “tightness” in the shoulder and what the team called a “tired arm”. “I trusted the read, took a chance and broke on the ball”, Reid said.

“I thought our quarterbacks were very accurate”, Kelly said of the most recent game against Denver.

More upbeat news on the quarterback front came in the fourth quarter from the recently signed Christian Ponder, who ran for a touchdown (22 yards) and threw for one (30 yards to Dres Anderson) to break a 17-17 tie. “And we’ll just see”. Kaepernick might have an opportunity to join the rest of his fellow quarterbacks in live competition, but he’ll first have to go through the remainder of the week without any soreness in his right shoulder.

Gabbert led the 49ers on a six-play, 63-yard scoring drive on the club’s third possession of the game. “Sometimes you want to get “X” amount of snaps”. Fortunately, it seems they may get an answer this week. “Sometimes if it’s third-and-14, you might not get 14, but if we can get half of that and (punter) Bradley (Pinion) can kick it a little farther, you can spin the field a little bit”.

Blaine Gabbert has started both exhibition games and put together this stat line: 10 of 19, 132 yards, no interceptions, no sacks, no fumbles. “Sacks are a big momentum builder for the other team”. “He has great hands, natural hands, but he spent this entire offseason looking the ball in and has become more consistent with that”.

Mike Davis: Davis lost fumbles on back-to-back touches.

“Unfortunately there’s no common thread where you can say, ‘Let’s fix it, ‘ ” Kelly said.

Nose tackle Garrison Smith had a team-high five tackles and a sack Saturday.

“There were a lot of other standouts, but those two from a productions standpoint kind of jumped off when we were watching the tape flying home”, Kelly said.

– Running back Shaun Draughn did not play with Denver after because of a rib injury sustained during the practice sessions with the Broncos.

Gabbert is comfortable in coach Chip Kelly’s offense and it’s starting to show: Gabbert and Kaepernick started camp by splitting reps evenly in the first week-plus of practice.

“I don’t know that [he will play 7-on-7]”, Kelly said.