After pounding the table during the 2017 draft for Joe Williams, a fourth-round rookie running back from Utah, the San Francisco 49ers' coaches and front office made it known that Carlos Hyde's time was short in the Bay Area.
On Wednesday morning, word came out that Hyde would be signing a three-year deal, worth more than $15 million, to become the running back of the Cleveland Browns.
What does it all mean?
Production
Hyde's 2016 and 2017 seasons were quite different in terms of his usage.