Earlier this week, Brian Baldinger put out a great video that illustrated how much Christian McCaffrey affects the defense, even without the ball in his hands. Yesterday on KNBR, Kyle Shanahan was asked if he saw the same thing on film.
“Oh yeah, definitely. You try to do that with all your guys. We get that huge with Deebo, we get it huge with Kittle. Just everything that you hit somebody with a play on, teams take that play away the next play. So if you put a guy in a position that you’re gonna keep showing that play, they know you’re going to take it if they give it to you, and that worries teams.