It’s about that time in the NFL calendar where fantasy football conversations start churning. OTAs are underway so we have our first video clips to overanalyze and news about how rookies are performing in their first taste of NFL action.
Drafts in re-draft leagues may not be until much closer to the season, but the analyzation will begin well before that.
The 49ers are a fascinating case study in fantasy football value vs. real football value. San Francisco has been one of the three or four best teams in the NFL in three of the last four seasons. Conversely, they’ve been a frustrating team for fantasy players because of the lack of week-to-week reliability of some players. Health has been part of the issue, but head coach Kyle Shanahan has played a role is well by putting some players in the proverbial dog house and not leaning heavily on one or two players each week.
That could change some this year, but the 49ers will still be a hard team to pin down fantasy-wise. They’re loaded with weapons on offense. While in some cases that makes them fun for fantasy, it could also be frustrating when they have a big day offensively with one of the stars not producing at a high clip.
With all of that in mind, we tried sifting through the fantasy value of the 49ers’ top players: