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Isaac Guerendo’s coachability, maturity leading to 49ers ascension originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
SANTA CLARA — The 49ers’ running back depth knows no bounds.
The group as a whole, when healthy, is an embarrassment of riches that the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco’s opponent on Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium, certainly would like a piece of.
Sure, you can credit coach Kyle Shanahan’s scheme for some of the next-man-up success the 49ers have had over the years, but there’s an intangible quality only some running backs — and even fewer rookies — have that San Francisco continues to identify and hit on.
Rookie fourth-round running back Isaac Guerendo, who has shown flashes of his game-breaking speed at various points throughout the season, answered the call again after an injury to starter Jordan Mason in San Francisco’s 30-24 win over Dallas on Sunday night.
Guerendo rushed 14 times for 85 yards and one touchdown on the ground in place of Mason, who left the game midway through the second quarter after injuring his left shoulder, the same shoulder he injured two weeks prior against the Seattle Seahawks.
While neither Mason nor Guerendo is anywhere near the overall player that reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year Christian McCaffrey is, there hasn’t been much of a drop-off in the team’s overall rushing production — if any at all — with the third-year and rookie backs. The latter of which, might be the better overall rusher of the two.
Guerendo ran a blazing 4.33-second 40-yard dash at the Scouting Combine this spring, the fastest of any player at the position in his draft class. It’s not that the expectations for the fourth-rounder buried on the depth chart were high, per se, but there certainly was an eagerness to watch him burn.
And when his early season opportunities (12 carries for 41 yards in the first six weeks) were just … average, maybe even underwhelming, the attention shifted fully — and rightfully — to Mason. However, with each passing…
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Publish date : 2024-10-28 06:34:50
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