Guard · San Francisco 49ers

Dominick Puni

No. 77 · 3rd season

The only 49er on the breakout list, and a knee that almost changed everything

Someone noticed Dominick Puni. On a list of offensive players expected to take a leap in 2026, Puni is the one San Francisco 49er whose name appears — and that alone says something worth sitting with.

Puni plays on the offensive line, the part of the team most people only notice when something goes wrong. What is known is that a PCL injury is part of his story, the kind of knee damage that quietly rewrites a young player's timeline and forces them to earn their way back to where they were.

Being named to a breakout list is not a trophy. It is a bet — someone watching closely enough to say this person is about to become harder to ignore. For a lineman still working through the other side of a significant injury, that kind of recognition lands differently than it does for a quarterback or a wide receiver.

The question now is whether the player matches the prediction. That is what we are watching.

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