49ers catching early breaks including avoiding Rams Aaron Donald

Kyle Shanahan went out of his way to avoid providing injury updates after the 49ers’ first practice in Australia, cleverly pointing out that they were a full day ahead of the Rams.On the flip side, when Aaron Donald was asked about his status after rejoining 11-on-11 practice for the first time this week, all he could muster was a big smile and that he was “feeling good.”Both sides dropped the act Tuesday.And the Niners clearly came out in the more favorable position once the dust of the NFC West rivals’ gamesmanship settled.They’ll have Nick Bosa and George Kittle — and will only have to worry about one future Hall of Famer (Myles Garrett) lining up opposite them.Donald, less than two weeks since coming out of retirement, is not accompanying the Rams for the long-haul season opener in Melbourne, coach Sean McVay revealed.It goes without saying that of the two possibilities — facing the Rams with Donald or facing them without — the 49ers scored their optimal outcome.Most of the team probably awoke to the news Wednesday morning in Melbourne.

On Tuesday (Monday night in San Francisco … that darned international dateline), coordinators Klay Kubiak and Raheem Morris delivered an even bigger development.“Oh, Nick Bosa? Oh, he’s going out there,” Morris said.“He’ll be there.

We’re not hiding that.”Despite the DC’s plea of innocence, Bosa only began trending in the right direction last week, returning for one practice before getting on the Niners’ flight to Melbourne.He missed most of training camp after complications on the knee he had surgically repaired just last September.Kittle’s status was equally cloudy less than nine months after tearing his Achilles tendon.

He returned to practice about a week before Bosa but was even more recently on the operating table.And, like Bosa, it appears that all things are a go after two practices Down Under.“What the workload is, that’ll be determined, but he looks good to me,” Kubiak sai...