The 49ers defeated the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday Night Football to improve to 5-2 in a game that saw Mac Jones go 17\/26 for 152 passing yards.<\/p>\n
Christian McCaffrey led the way on the ground with 129 rushing yards on 24 carries & 2 rushing touchdowns, along with 72 receiving yards on 7 catches, while Brian Robinson Jr. had 36 rushing yards on 9 carries.<\/p>\n
Receiving wise Jauan Jennings had 31 receiving yards on 4 catches, followed my Skyy Moore with 15 receiving yards on 1 catch, Kendrick Bourne with 14 receiving yards on 2 catches, Luke Farrell with 11 receiving yards on 1 catch, and Kyle Juszyczk with 10 receiving yards on 1 catch.<\/p>\n
Defensively Tatum Bethune led the way with 10 tackles, followed by Malik Mustapha with 6 tackles, while Darrell Luter Jr., Ji’Ayir Brown, & Bryce Huff each had 5 tackles.<\/p>\n
Dee Winters, Jason Pinnock, Deommodore Lenoir, Sam Okuayinonu, & Mykel Williams each had 3 tackles.<\/p>\n
Sack wise the 49ers had 2, 1 each by Huff & Okuayinonu.<\/p>\n
TFL wise the 49ers had 4 total, 1 each for Bethune, Huff, Winters, & Okuayinonu.<\/p>\n
PBU wise the 49ers had 2, 1 each for Chase Lucas & Lenoir.<\/p>\n
Special teams wise Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro went 2\/2 on field goals with a long from 55-yards, along with going 2\/2 on extra points, while Thomas Morstead had 3 punts for 143-yards with 1 inside the 20-yard line, and Skyy Moore had 2 kick returns for 53-yards and 1 punt return for 8-yards.<\/p>\n
Overall the 49ers defense stepped up big time without their top 2 players in Fred Warner & Nick Bosa, but they stepped up, & took down the Falcons offense, and Christian McCaffrey sure looks like one of, if not the best running back in the NFL right now, next up for the 49ers is a trip to the Houston Texans next Sunday at 10am pacific\/1pm eastern on FOX, and with that said, as always, thank you for reading, you can follow me on X\/Twitter @49erscap<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0& on Blue Sky App @49erscap.bsky.social<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 49ers defeated the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday Night Football to improve to 5-2 in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,137,110,3,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-exclusive","category-game-review","category-player","category-roster","category-team-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":30,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44805,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions\/44805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}