San Francisco 49ers Snap Counts

Carlos Hyde was done for the season and Shaun Draughn came in and played 85% of the team snaps. This team has been putting irrelevant fantasy players out there for some time, so nothing changed this week. Guys like Chris Harper and Jeremy Kerley were the lead wideouts.

Carlos Hyde is done for the year with an injury, and played 41% of the snaps in Week 16. This means Shaun Draughn will pickup a bigger role, and saw 56% of the snaps against the Rams. San Francisco continues to role out unappealing fantasy wide receiver options.

Colin Kaepernick started and played the whole game, had numerous wideouts at his disposal play snaps. I am still fading any San Francisco wide receiver at this point given there is very little upside. Carlos Hyde played 62% of the team snaps to Shaun Draughn's 38%. This has been somewhat consistent.

Colin Kaepernick is back under center, after getting benched in last week's game against Chicago. Carlos Hyde Had a big day and played 52% of the team snaps. Shaun Draighn played 47%. This had a lot to do with Hyde busting out some big plays and then Draugh taking over.

San Francisco made a change a quarterback after Colin Kaepernick played 78% of the snaps, and got nothing done. We wait to see who starts next week. Vance McDonald played 91% of the team snaps this week, which was the highest of any wide receiver or tight end.

The Colin Kaepernick led offense for the 49ers looks much better than I anticipated. They have gotten Vance McDonald more involved, who is played 73% of the team snaps. Carlos Hyde and Shaun Draughn had a 60-30 workload, although it was Hyde to find the end zone. Torrey Smith led the wideouts in snaps.

San Francisco was without Torrey Smith this week, which led to Chris Harper and Aaron Burbridge playing more snaps. Who? Exactly. Carlos Hyde played 65% of the snaps, and Vance McDonald played 74%. These are two of the skill position players to key in on if any. Garrett Celek is in for blocking.

Well this game was closer than expected, and Carlos Hyde did return. He played 67% of the snaps, and it was DuJuan Harris who was backing him up. Vance McDonald played 70% of the snaps, and has an edge over Celek. He should be a weekly flyer moving forward.

DuJuan Harris led all 49er running backs in snaps this week, playing 88% of the snaps. He was a big factor in the passing game. Vance McDonald played 70% of the snaps, and was targeted on 14% of them. Torrey Smith and Jeremy Kerley both played 75% of the snaps, which was behind Quinton Patton.

Bye Week

Carlos Hyde missed Week 7, which forced Mike Davis, Shaun Draughn, and Dujuan Harris all split the backup work equally. This was devastating for fantasy purposes, even though Davis found the end zone. Torrey Smith is in trade talks with Philly, so we might see his snaps be up for grabs.

Carlos Hyde left this week banged up, only played 53% of snaps. Mike Davis was the fill-in option, playing 39% of the snaps. We had the quarterback change this week, which resulted in the life of Torrey Smith coming alive again. Quinton Patton played 90% of the snaps this week.

Jeremy Kerley played 100% of the snaps, and was looked to be the go-to guy. Blaine Gabbert won't be playing 100% of the snaps next week, as Colin Kaepernick comes back to his starting job. Carlos Hyde played 82% of the snaps, and continues to be a heavy used back for fantasy purposes.

San Francisco has a trio of wideouts that won't be big in fantasy, but are out there logging a ton of snaps. Quinton Patton, Torrey Smith, Jeremy Kerley all played massive snaps. Carlos Hyde also dominated snaps again, playing 83% of the snaps. Shaun Draughn will continue to back him up.

It was another disaster game for San Francisco, but we are forced break things down. Carlos Hyde was the offense, and played 70% of the snaps. Vance McDonald left the game, which forced Garrett Celek to play more snaps than usual (43). Jeremy Kerley and Torrey Smith played a majority of the snaps.

San Francisco has actually been fantasy friendly, so this holds more weight than I expected. Jeremy Kerley and Torrey Smith both played over 70% of the team snaps at wide receiver. Quinton Patton played the most however, at 88%. Carlos Hyde still dominated Shaun Draughn.

San Francisco ran a lot of heavy sets, which resulted in Vance McDonald and Garrett Celek seeing over 50% of the team's snaps. Torrey Smith and Jeremy Kerley led the way for wide receivers, but neither saw over 80% of the team's snaps. Carlos Hyde led the way, but Shaun Draughn saw a healthy 37 snaps, mainly in the second half.

Quarterback Snap Counts

Running Back Snap Counts

Wide Receivers & Tight End Snap Counts

San Francisco 49ers Snap Count Breakdown

Blain Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick teamed up to create the most intriguing storyline and quarterback battle of 2015. Kaepernick started the year and flailed with Jim Harbaugh no longer as his coach, and was ultimately replaced mid-season by Gabbert. Gabbert ended up edging out Kaepernick in snaps 511 to 504, which comes out to 50.3 and 49.7 percent. In the end, it doesn't matter much because they both struggled, but Kaepernick allowing Gabbert an opportunity led us to a big quarterback battle in 2016 under Chip Kelly.

There's a long line of running backs that got snaps in 2015, nine to be exact. Only two played above 20 percent of the offensive snaps, though. The first is obvious, Carlos Hyde. Hyde was the clear starter when he was healthy and should be considered so heading into 2015. The second was Shaun Draughn. Draughn played well late in the year, but was clearly only employed in a reserve duty type of role.

Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith were the main contributors as wide receivers last year, both playing above 75 percent of the snaps on the season. Quinton Patton and Bruce Ellington were solid secondary contributors, but the 49ers simply couldn't move the ball so they didn't actually play much of a role. Anquan Boldin is gone and that opens up a ton of opportunity in a fast-paced offense. DeAndre Smelter didn't play a down last year, but could be in the mix for snaps early on.

Things were messy last year in San Francisco, especially at the tight end position. Vernon Davis played 32 percent of the snaps, but those were early on in the season, by the end of 2015 he was playing for the Denver Broncos! After, and even when Davis was there, Blake Bell, Garrett Celek and Vance McDonald all got significant snaps. All three saw more than 35 percent of the snaps. While Kelly will likely bring a more pass-heavy system to the table, it would appear that all three will get an opportunity at a significant role again in 2016.