SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
The fastest, most talented track team ever assembled. A perfect-10 tight end, a 9-dawg back, the league's best linebacker grade — and still a Greyhound, the first name of the fourteen. The file says why: the history column lives off aging receipts, the coaching fingerprint grades cautious, and the meanness is concentrated in three names instead of distributed the way the true monsters do it. Fast and soft is soft. Fast and mostly-hard is a Greyhound with an excellent lawyer.
The Four Factors
Each factor is normalized 0–100 across the league — 100 is first, 0 is dead last — then weighted into the 60.9. Weights are the same for all 32 teams: defense 35, offense 30, history 20, coaching 15.
DEFENSE
× 35%League-middle. The unit grades below split the difference: some rooms hunt, some rooms watch.
OFFENSE
× 30%A perfect-10 tight end, a 9 back, an 8 receiver — top-five talent-meanness. The catch: it's concentrated, not distributed, and two of the three names carry injury flags the market already priced.
HISTORY
× 20%Top-third. The ring-counter found material; the 40% franchise-vibes term just polished it.
COACHING
× 15%Mid-pack. The chart shows convention with occasional courage.
The Unit Room
The raw grades behind the factors — my dawg read on each unit group, 1 to 10, with its weight inside the defense factor and where it ranks among the 32. Defense is graded by unit group this season, not player-by-player — per-player cap-hit weighting arrives when the final 2026 cap tables settle. Said loudly on the main board, said loudly here.
The Roster Sheet
Every 49er on the frozen ADP board — the market's price next to my dawg read. The two numbers were never allowed to meet: I scored the player blind, then ADP told me how much of the offense rides on him. That firewall is the whole method. Names that link go to that player's file in the prop room; the rest don't have one yet.
| ADP | PLAYER | POS | DAWG |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | Christian McCaffreyFILE → | RB | 9.0 / 10 |
| 51.2 | Mike EvansFILE → | WR | 8.0 / 10 |
| 100.5 | Brock PurdyFILE → | QB | 6.0 / 10 |
| 103.1 | Ricky Pearsall | WR | 7.0 / 10 |
| 105.9 | George Kittle | TE | 10.0 / 10 |
| 146.9 | Brandon Aiyuk | WR | 6.0 / 10 |
George Kittle (10.0/10) is the alpha grade on this sheet.
Where the Paper Rides
The season-long ledger lives on the main board and grades itself all year. Here is the 49ers' part in it, breed against breed.
49ERS VS THE LADDER
| OPPONENT'S BREED | ROTTWEILER | GOLDEN RETR. | GREYHOUND | COCKER SPAN. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE PLAY | 2 UNITS · OPPONENT | 1 UNIT · OPPONENT | NO PLAY | 1 UNIT · SF |
Greyhound games split three ways: the paper rides against the 49ers when a bigger breed shows up, rides with them against the Spaniels, and sits out the all-track-team matchups. Locked all year, graded in public. If the finesse label is wrong, the count will say so — I don't re-grade. I watch.