Golden Nuggets: Running game without Mike Iupati will be rough

Here we are at another full day of football that doesn't include the San Francisco 49ers. I wish there were some more exciting matchups this week but I really don't see much that's compelling at this point. I'm very excited for tomorrow's Monday Night Football matchup against the Washington Redskins, however. I just think the 49ers are going to be out for blood and I expect to see a lot of positive things.

Which, of course, could mean that they're going to come out, get one first down all day and four more players will get injured. That's the kind of thing that happens when I make any bold predictions so I'm just going to ... stop doing that. As far as news today, we've got injury news and not much else.

Onto the links for the day.

Harbaugh keeps door open for Crabtree return (Maiocco)

Harbaugh won't rule out Crabtree; Iupati, Brown won't play Monday (Branch)

Take Harbaugh's comments about Kaepernick and Crabtree with a grain of salt (BA Sports Guy)

Rookie snapper is coming through for 49ers (Williamson)

49ers' future at cornerback: Tramaine Brock and ... who else? (Barrows)

49ers' offense may be too complex for own good (Branch)

Brock's deal clouds future for Brown, Rogers (Maiocco)

It all started for Colin Kaepernick on a Monday night 53 weeks ago, and now he's back as an MNF enigma once again (Kawkami)

Washington homecoming special for 49ers' Davis (SFGate)

Boldin is worth keeping for 49ers (Barrows)

Shanahan: RG3, Kaepernick can't become pocket passers overnight (PFT)

Tramaine Brock Looks to Become Full-time Starter (49ers)

Redskins can be troublesome (Cohn)