The San Francisco 49ers may have won their meeting with the New York Giants, but head coach Kyle Shanahan sees that the defense needs to be better.

The San Francisco 49ers defeated the New York Giants 34-24, improving their season record to 6-3. Christian McCaffrey set NFL records with dual rushing and receiving touchdowns in 16 games. McCaffrey surpassed Hall of Famers Faulk, Brown and Holmes for multiple significant performance milestones.

The Niners were fresh off a roster revamp, saying goodbye to nearly 20 players in the offseason, 15 of whom landed deals elsewhere worth up to a maximum of $341.5 million. In their place, the 49ers leaned into their youth, with an 11-man draft class and a free agent group that had no marquee players.

The 49ers have been besieged by injuries for a second season in a row, and they desperately need more healthy bodies.

Week 10 of the NFL season is already upon us, and the challenge of setting lineups and finding an edge in fantasy football only becomes greater than the week before. While talent and matchups always matter,

For a few, fleeting moments, the Niners’ H-Town showdown with the Texans was a contest. For the rest of the game, it was a lopsided beatdown reminiscent of an early-season college football game between a blue-blood program and a directional school that was bused in for a blowout game and a nice check.

Williams isn’t the only 49er destined for the Hall of Fame who could have ended up in Los Angeles. In 2022, San Francisco general manager John Lynch detailed how he won a “a 49ers-Rams tug-of-war” in getting star running back Christian McCaffrey from Carolina.

The Giants are 2-6 after going 3-14 in 2024 and 6-11 in 2023. They’re 3-17 in their last 20 games, with back-to-back deflating losses in Denver and Philadelphia, which was preceded by a Thursday night home win over the Eagles.