THE PROSPECTOR Digging up nuggets for san francisco's Week 1 game vs. the Carolina v Panthers
LOOKING AHEAD OPEN WITH HYDE With a Win vs. Carolina... In his 3 career season-opening games, RB Carlos Hyde has • The 49ers would improve to 9-12 all-time against the Panthers, rushed for 306 yds. and 5 TDs on 56 carries (5.46 avg.). His 5 rushing including a 4-6 record at home. TDs in Week 1 over the last 3 seasons are the most in the NFL over that timespan. In last season’s opener, Hyde rushed for 88 yds. and 2 • The Niners would TDs vs. LAR (9/12/16) on Monday Night Football. win their seventh MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS IN consecutive season SEASON OPENERS, ACTIVE STREAKS Team Years MOST RUSHING TDs OVER THE opener for the first LAST 3 SEASON OPENERS (2014-16) 1. San Francisco 49ers 2011-16 time in franchise his- Player Atts. Yds. TDs Avg. 2. Denver Broncos 2012-16 tory. The team’s cur- 1. Carlos Hyde, SF 56 306 5 5.46 3. Cincinnati Bengals 2014-16 rent six-game win- 2t. Isaiah Crowell, Cle. 29 114 3 2.93 ning streak in Week 1 Jeremy Hill, Cin. 32 113 3 3.53 is the longest active streak in the NFL. Chris Ivory, NYJ/Jax. 30 193 3 6.43 • Head coach Kyle Shanahan would earn a win in his first career Ryan Mathews, SD/Phi. 37 121 3 3.27 game as a head coach. 99 SACKS AND HE JUST NEEDS 1 As LB Elvis Dumervil enters his first career game as a member of the 49ers this week vs. Car., he looks for his 100th career sack. ELVIS' HIT-LIST
DUMERVIL COMPLETE LIST OF QUARTERBACKS FACTS & FIGURES ELVIS DUMERVIL HAS SACKED DURING HIS CAREER Number of different quarterbacks Dumervil has Quarterback Sacks Quarterback Sacks sacked in his career. Andy Dalton (Cin.), Philip Riv- Andy Dalton 7.0 Mike Glennon 1.5 48 ers (LAC) and Ben Roethlisberger (Pit.) have each Philip Rivers 7.0 Colt McCoy 1.5 been sacked the most throughout his career (7.0). Ben Roethlisberger 7.0 Mark Sanchez 1.5 Ryan Tannehill 4.5 Brandon Weeden 1.5 Dumervil’s teams have a 47-21 record (.691 win Carson Palmer 4.0 Brett Favre 1.0 47-21 pct.) when he records at least 0.5 sack. Brady Quinn 4.0 Ryan Fitzpatrick 1.0 Matt Cassel 3.5 Joe Flacco 1.0 Dumervil looks to become the 32nd player to Blake Bortles 3.0 Brian Griese 1.0 32 reach 100.0 career sacks since 1982. Brodie Croyle 3.0 Caleb Hanie 1.0 The number of NFL teams Dumervil has notched Charlie Frye 3.0 Matt Hasselbeck 1.0 29 a sack against (Arz.; Ind.; LAR). Josh McCown 3.0 Damon Huard 1.0 Zach Mettenberger 2.5 Jon Kitna 1.0 Listed at 5-11, Dumervil would be the first player Cam Newton 2.5 Peyton Manning 1.0 with a listed height under 6-1 to register 100.0 ca- 5-11 Drew Brees 2.0 Christian Ponder 1.0 reer sacks, since 1982. David Garrard 2.0 Matt Schaub 1.0 Eli Manning 2.0 Geno Smith 1.0 Donovan McNabb 2.0 Tyler Thigpen 1.0 Aaron Rodgers 2.0 Michael Vick 1.0 Tony Romo 2.0 Billy Volek 1.0 JaMarcus Russell 2.0 Carson Wentz 1.0 Matt Ryan 2.0 Austin Davis 0.5 Andrew Walter 2.0 Colin Kaepernick 0.5 Tom Brady 1.5 Tarvaris Jackson 0.5 Jason Campbell 1.5 Alex Smith 0.5
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