The San Francisco 49ers are entering their third day of OTA practices and still Arnaz Battle is no where to be seen.  Coach Mike Nolan or general manager Scot McCloughan have talked with Battle, and his agent is commenting on the situation.

Battle is really missing out on learning the new offense.  He needs to get his butt into practive if he wants to have any playing time this season.  Other players are going to pass him on the depth chart if he doesn’t show up soon.  He will be just like a rookie holding out because of a contract, and then have such a poor rookie reason they wished they would have just signed early on in the process.

It appears that the 49ers are going to be heading into mini camps with a three race battle for the quarterback situation.  Everything is wide open as Alex Smith, Shaun Hill, and J.T. O’Sullivan will all see time with the first teams through OTA practices.  Smith is expected to be the starter, but it is nice to have an open competition so one guy doesn’t get to setteled in and get to relaxed.

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