SANTA CLARA –- Quarterback Blaine Gabbert and a half-dozen of the team’s wide receivers got together at San Jose State for pre-training camp work this week.
“Blaine threw the other day,” 49ers receiver Torrey Smith said. “It wasn’t like he rallied everyone together. It was, ‘Who’s in town? Let’s go.’”
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Colin Kaepernick did not attend the session. Smith said Kaepernick was traveling – perhaps in Colorado for his final checkup on the surgeries on his shoulder, knee and thumb.
Smith said he was helping organize quarterback-receiver sessions earlier in the offseason. But Smith canceled the plans when his wife gave birth a baby boy in June.
With Anquan Boldin signing with the Detroit Lions, Smith is now the veteran receiver in the room.
“It’s definitely a little more pressure,” Smith said. “Before there was Anquan to be more of a veteran presence as well as Jerome (Simpson). Now it’s just two of us. There’s more responsibility for us to share. I just want to make sure I’m doing things the right way, trying to lead by example.”
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