The 49ers are 6-1, they just added DeForest Buckner, and they’re sitting in their bye week. On paper, it’s a team ready to chase a championship. But the receiver room tells a different story, and the Nov. 10 trade deadline is the last chance to fix it.

The Falcons Game Was a Warning

San Francisco’s first loss of the year, 29-20 in Atlanta, came with only four active wide receivers. The offense gave the ball away four times, two of them Brock Purdy interceptions. A team with a healthy receiver room doesn’t play that way. That game showed what happens when the Niners lose even a little depth at the position.

The injured WR room

Mike Evans has been everything the 49ers hoped for when they signed him. He has 27 catches for 420 yards and three touchdowns in six games, and Kyle Shanahan has talked openly about how much he trusts him. But he’s been dealing with injured ribs and Achilles tendinitis, which kept him out of the Falcons game.…