Let’s just come out and say it: losing Tom Rathman sucks. The longtime San Francisco 49ers running backs coach has been through four straight coaching regimes (five total if you count the Steve Mariucci days). On regime five he hasn’t been so lucky, as Kyle Shanahan fulfilled a promise to new 49ers running back coach, Bobby Turner, bringing the latter over to take Rathman’s job. They tried to work out a role for Rathman, but he decided it was better to depart from the 49ers.
I made a comment the other day that if Kyle Shanahan did make this promise, it would have been worse if he didn’t follow through with it—and it seems like Rathman understands that.