Why Anthony Lynn Loves Ty Davis-Price

"We're not asking him to carry the load. We're asking him to come in and share the backfield."

Grant Cohn | May 27, 2022

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SANTA CLARA -- Anthony Lynn spoke to Bay Area reporters this week for the first time since he became the 49ers assistant head coach. Here's what he said about rookie running back Ty-Davis Price.

ME: When did Ty Davis-Price land on your radar and what excites you about him?

LYNN: "We studied him in the draft and we liked his skillset. We liked his size. We liked his speed. We just thought he could bring an element to the game that maybe we don't have right now, the physicality part. But he also has breakaway (speed)."

Q: Did you see the breakaway speed on tape?

LYNN: "You can look at his play speed. I was surprised when he ran a 4.46. I was. But you can see his play speed on game day, it is good. His energy, it is good. His physicality, it just seemed like he was the juice of their offense. When he played well, LSU played well. So I know he had some nicks and things here and there, but we're not asking him to carry the load. We're asking him to come in and share the backfield."

Q: Was he better at the end of games or did he show up more in the second halves of games? Is that important to you?

LYNN: "I thought he was a strong finisher. I think his size wears on you after a while. You see him being intelligent running the football, how he would attack safeties early in the game, but make them miss late in the game."

Q: Setting them up?

LYNN: "Absolutely."

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Published May 27, 2022

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.