Yant may, I repeat may, be the best back on our roster but that isn’t saying much. He’s a tentative runner, runs too high, doesn’t generate a lot of yards after contact and appears to be a bit of a locker room problem.
There have certainly been some runs where he has looked tentative but YAC is not an issue for him. In fact, I can think of two runs in particular where he ran people over.
I'd certainly take a Brelon Allen if you can find one lying around somewhere.
I will say this about Yant... everything I have seen about him (which is honestly not a lot) he seems a good person... not a bad one but he lacks a lot of direction... His mom passed when he was 15 years old... and he literally only had just over 200 combined touches his junior and senior years of HS with no reported injuries. You don't have a talent like that and only give him that many touches in HS.. UNLESS something is amiss. Whether it be simply the capacity to understand the playbook or maybe he is just plain lazy... I just don't know.
According to the Stats page, he averaged 6.3 ypc this year.....wonder what he could do if he wasn't a tentative runner?
My thoughts exactly. Maybe with a new position coach..........
Coaches and fans cannot want it more than he does.
I can also think of several runs where he went down having been barely touched including a certain goal line run where it looked like he was tunneling into the end zone.
I agree. But if you are thinking of the Minnesota run he either tripped over AM or himself. There was no way he was going to be able to keep his balance. However we have 5 other backs on the roster that could barely take a hit.
This is just another area where SF has routinely recruited the wrong type of player. His recruits have mostly been undersized with medium frames. Yant was a walk on.
This is not accurate...Yant was a walkon because of academic issues. He was awarded a scholarship as soon as we could and he proved he could stick it out.
