The 49ers have the same 7 White starters they began 2023 with and the same number of Whites on the roster, 16, though there has been a significant turnover of backups over the past year.
The total number of 16 isn’t impressive, due in large part to Nick Bosa once again being the only overachiever on defense. But the offense is very likeable and makes San Fran once again a squad to root for.
The 49ers have stumbled out of the gate in 2024 at 1-2 because of major injury problems, which has happened to the team before in recent years.
After two healthy and immensely successful seasons following his trade to San Francisco from Carolina, superstar running back Christian McCaffrey is currently on temporary IR due to a lingering calf injury, and possibly also an Achilles issue.
McCaffrey had his fourth thousand yard rushing season in ’23, leading the NFL with a career high 1,459 yards and also leading the league in total yards with 2,023, the second highest total he’s accumulated. He’s easily the best running back in the league. He’s shattered the most sacred lies of the Caste System when it comes to White running backs, who have been systematically and grotesquely discriminated against for the past two generations. There’s been a bit of a ray of light lately when it comes to seeing more White RBs starting at both FBS and FCS programs, and a “stunning” four made their way onto NFL rosters this season as rookies. But those are still tiny cracks compared to the overall Caste System and the important role it’s played in The Great Replacement over the past half century.
The 49ers signed Cody Schrader as a free agent after he went undrafted after leading the SEC in rushing last year at Missouri. Hard to believe the leading rusher of the hallowed SEC would go undrafted, but only if one is unfamiliar with the Caste System and the endless roadblocks it places in front of talented and capable White athletes at all positions other than kicking and long snapping. However, Schrader ended up being cut – can’t have two White RBs on the same team now can we – and is currently buried on the Rams’ depth chart.
This year’s first round draft pick was Florida WR Ricky Pearsall, which was predictably widely panned and led off every list of “most surprising” picks following the draft. However Pearsall is very talented, fast, quick, super-athletic – his RAS score of 9.91 ranks 31st out of 3,402 receivers from 1987 to 2024 – and has great hands. His career has gotten off to a slow start as he’s currently another injured 49er, with first a lingering shoulder issue and then being shot by a “youth” during a robbery attempt in downtown San Francisco. Pearsall is currently on short-term IR but is training with the team and may see regular season action as soon as Week Five.
Tight end George Kittle is the best all-around tight end in the league, tremendous both as a receiver and blocker. He’s had three thousand yard receiving seasons and would have more if the 49ers didn’t have so much offensive talent. His 1,377 yards in 2018 is the second most in league history by a tight end in a single season.
Fullback Kyle Juszczyk is universally acknowledged as the best at his position, however that’s saying very little in today’s NFL where fullbacks, if used at all, are nothing more than an extra offensive lineman who lines up in the backfield and who every great once in a while get a touch.
Now 33 years old, Juszczyk should be a power back and would be better than the starting running backs on many teams, but his career totals over 12 seasons are a paltry 62 rushing attempts and 268 receptions, so even the clear “best of class” at fullback is rarely used other than as a blocker.
Starting quarterback Brock Purdy, “Mr. Irrelevant” of the 2022 NFL Draft, just keeps getting better and better. To the credit of head coach Kyle Shanahan and GM John Lynch, the team early on realized their mistake in taking Trey Lance third overall in 2021 (capitulating after being pressured to take Lance instead of Mac Jones in order to avoid three straight White quarterbacks being taken at the top of the draft; it didn’t matter that the entire rest of the first round was Black players and one Poly) and went with Purdy, a very sharp and accurate all-around quarterback who can run well but who mainly is great at reading defenses and finding the open man.
LDE Nick Bosa is one of the very best at his position. Like many excellent White defensive players, Bosa isn’t a one-trick pony as he usually makes 40 or more solo tackles each year to go with his staggering sack totals – 53.5 in his four healthy seasons.
When operating on all cylinders, the 49ers offense brings back memories of the great Patriots teams of the 2010s (though not on the o-line as there are just two White starters), what with top White talent at QB, RB, TE, FB, and now hopefully WR with the drafting of Pearsall. Shanahan and Lynch have put together a roster that has been the strongest or nearly so in the NFC for a half dozen years now, missing only a thus far elusive Super Bowl championship. Despite the team’s injury-marred slow start, 2024 could still be that breakthrough year.
QB: Brock Purdy, Brandon Allen
RB: Christian McCaffrey (currently on IR eligible to return)
WR: Ricky Pearsall (currently on IR eligible to return)
FB: Kyle Juszczyk
C: Jake Brendel, Nick Zakelj
RG: Ben Bartch
RT: Colton McKivitz
TE: George Kittle, Eric Saubert, Jake Tonges
LDE: Nick Bosa
P: Mitch Wishnowsky
PK: Jake Moody
LS: Taybor Pepper
Practice Squad: WR Trent Taylor (had productive rookie season with SF back in 2017 but numerous injuries since derailed his career), C Drake Nugent, QB Tanner Mordecai, TE Mason Pline
IR: McCaffrey and Pearsall, already listed above
Number of White Starters: 7
Total Number of White Players on 53 Man Roster: 16
Grade: D
The total number of 16 isn’t impressive, due in large part to Nick Bosa once again being the only overachiever on defense. But the offense is very likeable and makes San Fran once again a squad to root for.
The 49ers have stumbled out of the gate in 2024 at 1-2 because of major injury problems, which has happened to the team before in recent years.
After two healthy and immensely successful seasons following his trade to San Francisco from Carolina, superstar running back Christian McCaffrey is currently on temporary IR due to a lingering calf injury, and possibly also an Achilles issue.
McCaffrey had his fourth thousand yard rushing season in ’23, leading the NFL with a career high 1,459 yards and also leading the league in total yards with 2,023, the second highest total he’s accumulated. He’s easily the best running back in the league. He’s shattered the most sacred lies of the Caste System when it comes to White running backs, who have been systematically and grotesquely discriminated against for the past two generations. There’s been a bit of a ray of light lately when it comes to seeing more White RBs starting at both FBS and FCS programs, and a “stunning” four made their way onto NFL rosters this season as rookies. But those are still tiny cracks compared to the overall Caste System and the important role it’s played in The Great Replacement over the past half century.
The 49ers signed Cody Schrader as a free agent after he went undrafted after leading the SEC in rushing last year at Missouri. Hard to believe the leading rusher of the hallowed SEC would go undrafted, but only if one is unfamiliar with the Caste System and the endless roadblocks it places in front of talented and capable White athletes at all positions other than kicking and long snapping. However, Schrader ended up being cut – can’t have two White RBs on the same team now can we – and is currently buried on the Rams’ depth chart.
This year’s first round draft pick was Florida WR Ricky Pearsall, which was predictably widely panned and led off every list of “most surprising” picks following the draft. However Pearsall is very talented, fast, quick, super-athletic – his RAS score of 9.91 ranks 31st out of 3,402 receivers from 1987 to 2024 – and has great hands. His career has gotten off to a slow start as he’s currently another injured 49er, with first a lingering shoulder issue and then being shot by a “youth” during a robbery attempt in downtown San Francisco. Pearsall is currently on short-term IR but is training with the team and may see regular season action as soon as Week Five.
Tight end George Kittle is the best all-around tight end in the league, tremendous both as a receiver and blocker. He’s had three thousand yard receiving seasons and would have more if the 49ers didn’t have so much offensive talent. His 1,377 yards in 2018 is the second most in league history by a tight end in a single season.
Fullback Kyle Juszczyk is universally acknowledged as the best at his position, however that’s saying very little in today’s NFL where fullbacks, if used at all, are nothing more than an extra offensive lineman who lines up in the backfield and who every great once in a while get a touch.
Now 33 years old, Juszczyk should be a power back and would be better than the starting running backs on many teams, but his career totals over 12 seasons are a paltry 62 rushing attempts and 268 receptions, so even the clear “best of class” at fullback is rarely used other than as a blocker.
Starting quarterback Brock Purdy, “Mr. Irrelevant” of the 2022 NFL Draft, just keeps getting better and better. To the credit of head coach Kyle Shanahan and GM John Lynch, the team early on realized their mistake in taking Trey Lance third overall in 2021 (capitulating after being pressured to take Lance instead of Mac Jones in order to avoid three straight White quarterbacks being taken at the top of the draft; it didn’t matter that the entire rest of the first round was Black players and one Poly) and went with Purdy, a very sharp and accurate all-around quarterback who can run well but who mainly is great at reading defenses and finding the open man.
LDE Nick Bosa is one of the very best at his position. Like many excellent White defensive players, Bosa isn’t a one-trick pony as he usually makes 40 or more solo tackles each year to go with his staggering sack totals – 53.5 in his four healthy seasons.
When operating on all cylinders, the 49ers offense brings back memories of the great Patriots teams of the 2010s (though not on the o-line as there are just two White starters), what with top White talent at QB, RB, TE, FB, and now hopefully WR with the drafting of Pearsall. Shanahan and Lynch have put together a roster that has been the strongest or nearly so in the NFC for a half dozen years now, missing only a thus far elusive Super Bowl championship. Despite the team’s injury-marred slow start, 2024 could still be that breakthrough year.
QB: Brock Purdy, Brandon Allen
RB: Christian McCaffrey (currently on IR eligible to return)
WR: Ricky Pearsall (currently on IR eligible to return)
FB: Kyle Juszczyk
C: Jake Brendel, Nick Zakelj
RG: Ben Bartch
RT: Colton McKivitz
TE: George Kittle, Eric Saubert, Jake Tonges
LDE: Nick Bosa
P: Mitch Wishnowsky
PK: Jake Moody
LS: Taybor Pepper
Practice Squad: WR Trent Taylor (had productive rookie season with SF back in 2017 but numerous injuries since derailed his career), C Drake Nugent, QB Tanner Mordecai, TE Mason Pline
IR: McCaffrey and Pearsall, already listed above
Number of White Starters: 7
Total Number of White Players on 53 Man Roster: 16
Grade: D
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