I mean there's really not a whole lot of reason for me to spend a ton of time talking about Christian McCaffrey's DRBR score. He absolutely lit it up—the highest overall DRBR score. He scored terrific in all the involved categories. He clearly is the best running back in football right now given because he's an excellent running back and he's probably in one of the best situations that he could be in for his skill set.
The thing with the DRBR is I'm really trying to use it with the San Francisco 49ers to figure out who's the next person up. Elijah Mitchell and Jordan Mason both also have really good scores. Now if you had to give it to one person right now, it would end up being Elijah Mitchell. But we've done this song and dance before, right? Elijah Mitchell is kind of that primary backup where if Christian McCaffrey were to go down, that's the guy that we go after. But Elijah Mitchell either ends up getting hurt himself or he doesn't end up playing that well. Jordan Mason gets some time.
So really, when you take a look at the San Francisco 49ers, it's a revolving door, and they drafted Isaac Gendo behind those two guys as well. Christian McCaffrey is one of those guys that you're just not going to be able to handcuff because you don't know who the next guy up is going to be, and the numbers really don't point towards one guy or another. It's going to be a revolving door. It could be one person next week, one person the week after.
Now if these numbers were a little bit different—let's say Elijah Mitchell outscored Jordan Mason by 20 or 30 points—then we would absolutely be looking at Elijah Mitchell over Jordan Mason. But both of these guys had very similar numbers last year, and because of that, there isn't a clear-cut RB2 at this point.
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