Jerick 'Jet' McKinnon is a Chief.

Definitely someone I'll be looking at in fantasy

Overpaid? In Free Agency? Never!
Oh wait....EVERYONE is getting overpaid in FA so far. It happens! Every year!
This dudes gonna light it up for us. Offense gonna be FAST!

Originally posted by a49erfan77:

Found this on reddit. Seems like we are still very early on the Marathlete Cycle. pic.twitter.com/T8AKM87KDH

— Jason M. Bautista (@jasonmbautista) March 14, 2018

Nailed it!

Originally posted by 49erInTheMidwest:

Why.... pay.... so..... much....?

Trust in Paraag, once the real numbers come out I am sure he has to be an elite RB to reach 7.5

Originally posted by DJamhour:

I don't like the overall amount but like the signing. Just didn't expect Shanahan to go after a Rb in Free agency with one of the deepest RB classes ever. I'm expecting this contract to be about 6,7,8,9M per year with incentives for Probowl, With little dead money after 2 years. We gotta wait for the details to come out

I bet we still draft a RB. Can't count on Williams for anything and Breida is a poor man's McK. We need a stud power back Chubb or Guice.

570 yards? That's all?

And people were b*tching about Carlos Hyde's yards/carry? This dude's is even lower. Plus, he is tiny.

On the surface this price seems pretty steep. But I'll wait to see the breakdown.

Originally posted by Rascal:

570 yards? That's all?

And people were b*tching about Carlos Hyde's yards/carry? This dude's is even lower. Plus, he is tiny.

You should really look at how McKinnon was used before making this ill advised post.

Originally posted by Rascal:
570 yards? That's all?

And people were b*tching about Carlos Hyde's yards/carry? This dude's is even lower. Plus, he is tiny.

No.

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by cNiner:

over paid for him , yes he can catch but had less catches than Carlos last year .

too bad what a waste of cap space I think its a panic signing .

He had 20 more targets but only 8 more catches.

Hyde led the league in dropped passes with 10. McKinnon was much more efficient.

Originally posted by Rascal:

570 yards? That's all?

And people were b*tching about Carlos Hyde's yards/carry? This dude's is even lower. Plus, he is tiny.

Do a little reading bro. Not a between the tackles RB. Poorly employed in MN. Younger, faster Dion Lewis. Shanny is licking his chops.

Originally posted by Rathof44:

Originally posted by baltien:
I think Lewis had better value as well, but the problem with him is whether or not he can make it through a full season. McKinnon's contract seems to be a bit steep, though without knowing the guaranteed portion it's really tough to say.

That's a valid point on Lewis. But at 30 million, I'm imagining McKinnon is gonna be a feature back or at least first shot at it. At 3.8 ypc last year don't see it.

I don't think he's gonna be a "feature" back....he's gonna be used like Alvin Kamara. 120 carries along with 80+ targets. Dude can throw up 1,200+ yards from scrimmage in this system.

BIGGER PICTURE people. He helps this whole offense. Grab Chubb or Freeman in the draft and were rolling with rocket fuel.

Originally posted by PopeyeJonesing:

That's entirely about scheme and usage, and really doesn't have anything to do with ability.

The story of Carlos Hyde last year is that he's a RB who is not very good as a receiver out of the backfield who played in an offense which throws a lot to RBs out of the backfield; he's a good inside zone and power runner who struggles with outside, who was in an offense that wanted to run outside zone but due to the limitations of Hyde and the offensive line was forced to run a lot of inside zone.

Like Juice, I think it's insane to predict that Jet will be worth the money, but re: what the 9ers want their RBs to be able to do, he's absolutely better than Hyde in every way (even though I think Hyde is maybe a more talented back).

Yup. Both Hyde and McKinnon are in perfect offenses for them now and should reach their full potential.

Now, lock up Sitton and McKinnon won't be TFL on every snap.

Holy crap, this is a big overpay. I live in Vikings territory. I've watched this guy a couple dozen times. He has great straight line speed, can catch well ... and that's it. He does not have good vision which leads to many runs where he runs right into defenders because he has no creativity.

I am not saying he will be bad. He's the definition of mediocre. The issue is paying big money for mediocre when better RBs just signed for less and the draft is crazy deep.

This is the first time Lynch just flat out messed up in my opinion. I have faith but no matter how you cut it, this is a big overpay. Even if he ends up doing well, the fact remains his market value was much less.

Very, very odd.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Rathof44:

Originally posted by StubbyNBY:
Very good speed, good pass catcher but questionable vision and pass protection. I think we overpaid to (4yrs $31mil)

Yeah, Lewis was the better deal. 31 million for 3.8 ypc with marginal pass pro skills.

McKinnon is 3 yrs younger (which is huge for a RB) and hasn't had any real serious injuries like Lewis.

Both of those, and he's also not coming out of a system that year-in-and-year-out shuffles in new RBs and makes them look better than they are.

Dion Lewis is in a LONG LINE of journeymen RBs who spent some time splitting time in the Pats system and looking like suddenly much more talented players.