Camp Implications

Picking up on trends at San Fran’s summer sessions

- Craig Massei

Ten things that 2017 training camp has been telling us about the 49ers:

LIGHTER AND FASTER: San Francisco’s new coaching staff asked several key players during the offseason to lose weight and thus get in better shape before the start of training camp. Under the direction of head strength and conditioning coach Ray Wright and his assistant Marquis Johnson, that mission was accomplished in several areas of the roster, adding quickness to the entire team in general. Lead running back Carlos Hyde came in at 228 pounds, “the lightest I’ve ever played since high school,” he said, giving Hyde the opportunity to “show off some new speed.” The team’s largest player, offensive tackle Trent Brown, came in under his coach-mandated target weight of 358 pounds. “I definitely feel better out there as far as the movements required of me,” Brown said. Edge linebacker Aaron Lynch, overweight and out of shape during his disappointing 2016 season, also came in under his target weight of 273 pounds. “The lighter the better, man,” linebacker Ahmad Brooks said. “The lighter you are, the faster you can play, and the longer you can play out there.”