The San Francisco 49ers are getting into the thick of 2018’s training camp and one thing has been consistent: The running backs have looked good. Notice this is multiple, Jerick McKinnon has turned on the jets and shown his speed and Matt Breida has been turning heads in camp as well. Joe Williams even mustered up some good stuff, breaking out a 65-yard TD run, though it wasn’t in pads.
But Breida has been constantly in the conversation with Jerick McKinnon. He somewhat flew in under the radar in 2017’s preseason, coming in as a UDFA and wound up splitting, sometimes winning the majority of snaps from Carlos Hyde in 2017.