INDIANAPOLIS — Injuries have kept Carlos Hyde from playing a full season but he’s still done plenty to make a positive impression on the 49ers new coach.
“Right now I see Carlos as being our back,” Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday at the NFL scouting combine. “We studied a lot of the guys on tape. He’s the guy that’s got the most.”
Hyde came up 12 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard season last year, derailed by a knee sprain in the penultimate game.
A contract extension seems feasible for the 2014 second-round draft pick out of Ohio State who is entering the final year of his rookie contract, at a base salary of $822,047.