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Sitting with just one win entering Week 13, will the 49ers’ rebuild under Chip Kelly see success next season?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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In the 2016 offseason, I wrote about how the biggest acquisition made by San Francisco was the hiring of head coach Chip Kelly and his up-tempo, no-huddle style offense. When he took over the Philadelphia Eagles, he inherited an offense that ranked 30th<\/span> in PFF’s cumulative grades, and turned it into the third-best offense in his very first season. Much of that can be chalked up to a talented Philadelphia unit not playing to its fullest potential in 2012, as well as Kelly taking the NFL by storm as defenses struggled to quickly adapt to his schemes and speed.<\/p>\n
Once NFL defensive coordinators had enough film on Kelly’s system, however, it struggled to maintain its high level of play, and eventually became fairly easy to stop, leading to the head coach’s firing in Philadelphia (along with several questionable personnel moves). 49ers GM Trent Baalke had fired the team’s most successful head coach since Bill Walsh a year prior, and the Jim Tomsula era lasted all of one season before Baalke brought in Kelly, hoping to ignite a San Francisco offense that ranked 31st<\/span> in PFF’s grades.<\/p>\n
Clearly, Chip Kelly’s system isn’t suited to taking inferior offensive talent and turning it into a sum that is better than it’s parts, as the 49ers’ offensive unit currently ranks 31st in PFF grades once again. While Kelly should be given more time to coach his players and be allowed to adapt his schemes—he has added some wrinkles in his run game, with the addition of the pistol helping to lead to the fourth-ranked rushing attack in yards per game (126.5)—the 49ers needs some serious offensive talent, starting at quarterback.<\/p>\n
Building through the draft<\/h3>\n
While it’s uncertain exactly where the 49ers will draft come April, they’re currently slated to pick second; one Cleveland Browns victory, however, would boost them to first, based on strength of schedule at the time of this writing. The 49ers’ remaining opponents include the Chicago Bears and New York Jets, so losses to those teams would only weaken their strength of schedule and tighten their lead there. Regardless, they’re on track to pick in the top three, and now sit at No. 2, so I will focus on what they can do with the second overall pick.<\/p>\n