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49ers Projected to have Top-10 Offense in the NFL this Year

The 49ers lost nine starting players this offseason, but their offense is mostly intact.
Grant Cohn|
Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass during a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images
Jun 11, 2025; Santa Clara, CA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) throws a pass during a team OTA at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images | D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images

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The 49ers lost nine starting players this offseason, but their offense is mostly intact.

They traded Deebo Samuel to the Washington Commanders, but the 49ers should be better without him. And they let Aaron Banks sign with the Packers and Jaylon Moore sign with the Chiefs, but they still have nine starters on offense returning from last season when they ranked fourth in yards out of 32 teams.

That's a big reason Pro Football Network projects the 49ers to have the ninth-best offense in the league this year, according to their advanced metrics.

"The San Francisco 49ers were the league’s best offense in this metric back in 2023, but injuries derailed some of what they wanted to do in 2024," writes PFN's Kyle Soppe. "Gone is Deebo Samuel Sr., but this remains a Kyle Shanahan-led offense with plenty of depth and now a well-compensated quarterback who may take on more responsibilities when it comes to winning ball games as opposed to not losing them.

"Don’t sleep on San Francisco after a down year."

Soppe is correct that Purdy will have to win more close games for the 49ers next season because they don't have the roster to blow teams out consistently anymore. And the 49ers lost almost all of their close games last season.

That's because Purdy historically hasn't played well in close games. Here are his career regular-season numbers in the fourth quarter when the game is within seven points: 59.4 completion percentage, 4 touchdown passes, 7 interceptions, 70.9 passer rating. Not clutch.

That has to change this year.

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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. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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