To give you a better perspective of just how dominant Rice was in his time with the 49ers, Greg Harvey of Stats Platform and OptaStats shared the following evolving timeline of the team's leading scorers since the franchise joined the NFL in 1950 (h/t Pro Football Hall of Fame for the find).
You can watch the video below. It shows how quickly Rice leaped to the top of the list, where he comfortably remains today.
For some more perspective, here are the franchise touchdown leaders of the 49ers' active players.
| Player | Gms | Rush | Rec | Tot | |
| 1. | George Kittle, since 2017 | 82 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2. | Deebo Samuel, since 2019 | 51 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| 3. | Brandon Aiyuk, since 2020 | 46 | 2 | 18 | 20 |
| 4. | Kyle Juszczyk, since 2017 | 91 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 5. | Christian McCaffrey, since 2022 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
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