The 49ers have one of the most dangerous running backs in the NFL this season, and Kyle Shanahan hardly uses him anymore. Jordan Mason is averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He currently is the NFL's 14th-leading rusher.
SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers have one of the most dangerous running backs in the NFL this season, and Kyle Shanahan hardly uses him anymore.
Jordan Mason is averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He currently is the NFL's 14th-leading rusher even though he has carried the ball just six times in the past three games. Since Christian McCaffrey has returned from bilateral Achilles tendonitis, he's averaging a mere 3.5 yards per carry. And yet he has played 88 percent of the 49ers' offensive snaps while Mason has barely played at all.“Even when Mason was going a ton, we didn't get Isaac a lot ," Shanahan said. "So I mean, we're just not a big three-man-rotation team, especially when you have a solidified starter. We're not trying to get Christian off the field more.
TRANSLATION: The 49ers spend a ton of money on McCaffrey so they can't split his carries with a running back who makes less than $1 million per season and outproduces him.Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis.
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