Here’s someone who doesn’t sound too worried: General Manager Scot McCloughan. The general manager repeatedly called Doctson “very impressive” during a radio interview this week, and didn’t exactly ring any panic alarms when the injury came up.

“It’s too bad he’s hurt right now — and it’s not going to be a long-term thing,” McCloughan said Monday afternoon on SiriusXM NFL Radio with Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan. “But the athleticism, the size, the ability to turn his body in the air and spin and catch balls and all that — it gives us a weapon that we don’t really have.

“Now Pierre [Garcon] is a good-sized guy, but he’s not 6-2, which Josh is,” McCloughan went on. “The thing that’s cool about him, when you take a guy in the first round — especially a receiver — they’re usually prima donnas. They’re usually it’s all about me, and he’s not that type of guy. The reason he’s hurt right now is because he wouldn’t tell our trainers that his Achilles was bothering him during [organized team activities], so he kept going through it and going through it and going through it. And that’s just who he is. He’s a great kid.”

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That’s the optimist’s view. The pessimist’s view came earlier Monday, when ESPN 980’s Chris Cooley talked about what he’s heard thus far about the rookie receiver.

“I’ve heard not-great things about Josh Doctson,” Cooley said during his morning show with Kevin Sheehan. “The health, the lack of love for football. We’ll see what we get out of this guy. Josh Doctson, if you watch him walk around: not a happy camper. Now maybe it’s the injury, but he’s walking around in a boot, and then he’ll take the boot off and put a cleat on to do some drills, and then immediately put a boot back on.”

Sheehan then wondered if this could be a bust of a season.

“It’s a red-shirt year,” Cooley speculated. “It‘s so hard, even as a first-round pick — unless McCloughan says ‘When he’s in, you game plan for him’ — for a coaching staff to go Garcon, Jackson, Crowder, Reed, Vernon Davis — who’s having a spectacular camp right now — Chris Thompson, Ryan Grant, Rashad Ross, [and] now we start game-planning for this guy that we’ve never seen.

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