49ers: 5 predictions for John Lynch, 49ers in 2020 NFL Draft

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San Francisco 49ers Matt Breida #22, Jeff Wilson Jr. #30, Raheem Mostert #31 and Tevin Coleman #26 (Photo by Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images) /

No. 2: 49ers won’t draft a running back

If there’s one unit on the 49ers roster that is both full of players and in which the team should likely feel confident in its quality, it’s the running back group.

The 49ers currently have five backs on their roster — Matt Breida, Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson, Tevin Coleman and Jerick McKinnon — not including fullback Kyle Juszczyk, and all but McKinnon carried the ball at least 25 times in 2019 en route to 2,044 yards for the group as a whole.

This doesn’t even take into account wide receiver Deebo Samuel, who rushed the ball an additional 14 times for 159 yards, all of which led to a 49ers team that ran for the second-most yards in the NFL in 2019.

Considering the 49ers are scheduled to be in the top-five in spending on the running back position in 2020 for the second year in a row (they topped the league in 2019), it seems unlikely they’ll add anyone to this group outside of undrafted free agents.

Given how successful this team has been in snatching up undrafted running backs and succeeding with them (Breida, Wilson and Mostert), and the fact that the regime’s one draftee at the position, Joe Williams in 2017, never played a single snap for the organization, it stands to reason that will continue in 2020.

This isn’t to say that there won’t be shakeups in the running back room — maybe McKinnon wins a role on the roster, maybe Coleman gets cut, maybe yet another UDFA makes noise — but my best guess would be that the draft won’t be the method for the changes.