ESPN’s Bill Barnwell wrote about the most likely worst-to-first teams in the NFL, and, naturally, the San Francisco 49ers were high on the list. The Niners get a ton of healthy, productive players back from injury. To ensure moments like last year doesn’t happen again, depth was added at the positions where the team has been hit by the injury bug the most.
It’s tough to argue against what San Francisco did this offseason. However, this quote about the 49ers turnovers and record in one-score games stood out:
“San Francisco was 1-3 in one-score games a year ago and turned the ball over 31 times en route to a minus-11 turnover margin.