Ricky Pearsall finally made his 49ers debut after he recovered from being shot in the chest just 50 days ago.
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00:00Yeah, it meant everything.
00:02Obviously all the adversity I just went through these past month, it was really good to go
00:08out there with my guys again.
00:09I think that's a refresher for me at the end of the day.
00:12When the incident first happened, the first thing I was thinking about was the guys in
00:15this locker room, the coaches in the locker room, and the entire staff.
00:19They did a really good job of rallying around me, making sure I stayed up, and it was a
00:23huge blessing for me to be down here.
00:25They told me in the hospital when I was still asking that question over and over again,
00:28so that was a common question coming out of my mouth when I was in the hospital bed.
00:33But they ended up telling me after they'd seen the x-rays and the CAT scans of the direction
00:39of the bullet path, as well as there was some nerve stuff that I had to make sure I was
00:45good on.
00:46So that's why I had to stay overnight, but after that, that next morning is when the
00:51doctor came in and told me I would be good to play football again.
00:53That was my first question.