I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not going to rank which one of these is more important to the San Francisco 49ers season. That's not fair to me, and it's particularly not fair to Nick Bosa and his model girlfriend Ella Ailiff.

Nobody would have blamed them for putting their feet up during the bye week and doing absolutely nothing. The NFL season is long and the Niners are only seven games into a seventeen-game regular season marathon.

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Nick Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers works out during training camp practice at SAP Performance Facility in Santa Clara, Calif., on July 27, 2026. (Getty Images)

This is a team, at 6-1, that has the playoffs in its crosshairs. The bye week is an opportunity to get healthy, especially for a guy like Bosa who’s missed several games with an injury.…