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After all, Jacobs is a running back, and you would think that of all the positions groups, running backs would concentrate on building up their legs the most.

As soon as LaMichael James was drafted a host of people threw their collective arms up in the air and asked, "Why did we just draft a guy that's just like Kendall Hunter ?!?" I get it, you see a short running back with explosive potential and well that's close enough...But it's not.

The 49ers special teams unit rolled through the 2011 regular season thoroughly dominating their opponents.

Just think about this for a second. The San Francisco 49ers have four running backs on their roster that combined to for over 4,000 yards last season.

Even the most casual observer of the NFL has to know that the San Francisco 49ers , those noted upstarts of 2011, seem to have loaded up for bear in 2012.

The San Francisco 49ers announced Thursday evening that they have signed six members of their seven-man draft pick class to four-year contracts.

The San Francisco 49ers won't look the same in 2012. After years of handing the rock to Frank Gore -- and, often, only Frank Gore -- they now house a versatile stable of backs.

The 49ers influx of seven brand-new draft choices will jumble the roster. But who will be affected? Here's a look.

Seventeen of the 18 prospects selected by the 49ers in the NFL draft over the previous two years made the team as rookies, but it will be a little more difficult this time around for the Class of 2012.

One thing that's always been incredibly important to me, or rather, one thing that's been a constant point of stress to me in regards to the San Francisco 49ers is the special teams coverage unit.

With rookie mini camps around the corner and OTAs around the bend too, let's rank the Niners top-10 offseason battles in reverse order.

Rather than grade the different areas of the Niners defense - which would all get varying degrees of A - I'm going to predict the Niners 53 man roster and depth chart.