While a tremendous amount of focus will be on Trey Lance on Sunday, there’s another quarterback from the 2021 draft class playing in the game that deserves just as much attention. Last year when the 49ers played the Bears, Justin Fields was able to make some big plays against them. On today’s Gold Standard podcast, Levin Black and I explored how DeMeco Ryans and company will attack him on Sunday.
Last year, the 49ers were primarily a zone team. According to TruMedia, they played zone coverage about 72 percent of the time, man coverage about 21 percent of the time, and a hybrid coverage about 7 percent of the time in 2021.