Christian McCaffrey gained the NFL’s offensive participant of the 12 months award whereas dealing with extra touches than any participant within the league, so the operating again supplied the 49ers with each high quality and amount on the sphere.
49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan hinted that they could prefer to dial again the amount a bit as they attempt to keep the standard through the 2024 season. Whereas talking to reporters from the crew’s offseason exercises this month, Shanahan stated that the crew thinks they’ve sufficient depth to offer different gamers a run instead of McCaffrey at factors this season.
“Now we have guys that can run the ball,” Shanahan stated, through TheAthletic.com. “Now we have to guard Christian from himself. He doesn’t prefer to ever come out it doesn’t matter what the state of affairs is and I do assume that’s one thing we may defend him with extra. If you end up such a risk within the move recreation, it’s just a little bit totally different. . . . But when he’s simply taking the wear and tear and tear with 20 carries and stuff each recreation — and he’s undoubtedly ok to try this and he has proved he can keep wholesome — however you’d prefer to take a few of that off of him and provides it to different guys additionally.”
Elijah Mitchell had 75 carries final season and Jordan Mason ran the ball 40 instances, however the 49ers may wind up trying to 2024 fourth-rounder Isaac Guerendo as a change of tempo if he does effectively within the preseason. They might additionally simply decide to not break what didn’t want fixing final season and proceed rolling with McCaffrey as the primary drive of their offense.
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