The undrafted running back will start again Sunday in place of McCaffrey, who will be placed on injured reserve.
Mike Clay explains why Jordan Mason has a strong chance to lead the 49ers' running backs in fantasy points in Week 2. Nick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers and the NFL at ESPN since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years at ESPN.
While Mason might not be a polished route-runner like McCaffrey, he makes up for it with a bruising, decisive style that makes it hard for a single defender to bring him down.Mason's breakout performance wasn't a total surprise -- he has been doing something similar in small quantities almost from the time he arrived in San Francisco.
To climb the depth chart, Mason has taken the necessary steps to become the complete player Turner and Shanahan demand of their primary backs. First and foremost on the checklist? Getting on the same page with Turner, the legendary running backs coach who in eight years with the 49ers has coached four undrafted backs to post at least one 100-yard rushing game.
"To see him over the last two years, just push the envelope more and more every year," Purdy said."He's earned it. He's the kind of guy that it was not given to him. ... I'm so happy for him and I know he is going to keep pushing." When Mason wasn't in Tennessee, he remained in the Bay Area working out with the guys charged with tackling him: the linebackers. Withas workout partners, Mason quickly took to the competitive elements of mundane tasks like running and lifting weights. Those sessions also helped Mason improve as a blocker, which allowed him to play a career-high 59 offensive snaps against the Jets, more than double his previous high.
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