The most improved player on the 49ers through two days of training camp is Jordan Mason. He has become a lethal weapon in the passing game, and Christian McCaffrey has noticed.
SANTA CLARA -- The most improved player on the 49ers through two days of training camp is Jordan Mason.
He always has been a tough, efficient, downhill runner. He's averaging 5.6 yards per carry on 83 career attempts. But the 49ers still didn't play him much the first two seasons of his career because the rest of his game was underdeveloped."He has improved so much since the first time I met him," McCaffrey said on Wednesday. "Just the way he is in the meetings, the way he is out at practice.
"You used to call him Mariano Rivera because he was the closer," I said. "Has he become a more complete running back? "Yeah, he looks way more complete than he has been," said McCaffrey. "He always has been able to do it, it's just being consistent with it. I think you see now he's making things happen in the pass game and the run game that are just consistent. I think he can pitch every inning now."Of course, if McCaffrey stays healthy, Mason will continue to play sparingly. But he could leapfrog Elijah Mitchell as McCaffrey's primary backup.
So if McCaffrey were to go down and miss an extended period of time, the 49ers would be okay, because Mason is a starting-caliber running back, too.Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis.
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