While most of this year’s National Football League rookie class will begin getting their feet wet during upcoming team mini-camps, Kurtis Rourke will be meeting with San Francisco 49ers medical staff to begin determining his course of action for the upcoming season.

Rourke, who was a seventh-round selection (227th overall) of the 49ers last weekend, played through a torn ACL last season at Indiana and had surgery in early January, performed by an Indianapolis Colts team surgeon.

The Canadian quarterback’s recovery is now being handed over to the 49ers medical staff, who will perform a full evaluation after he arrives in San Francisco on May 8 to join the team’s other rookies.

“They’re going to do a whole evaluation and then I will get on their plan,” Rourke said this week. “They might want to take it slow, but they also might think I’m ahead of schedule and I could get some reps this summer, earlier than expected. I’m always the guy that’s going to try to push and be ready as soon as possible because I hate missing time.

“So, I’m kind........

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