{"id":665500,"date":"2026-01-09T04:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665500\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:16:12","slug":"49ers-offense-ends-2025-nfl-regular-season-leading-key-stat-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/665500\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers\u2019 offense ends 2025 NFL regular season leading key stat \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers&#8217; offense was among the NFL&#8217;s best in a myriad of stats, including yards per game (eighth), first downs (third) and points per game (10th), but the team took the cake in one particular category, and it\u2019s an ever-important one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/stats\/team\/_\/stat\/downs\/table\/miscellaneous\/sort\/thirdDownConvPct\/dir\/desc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">third-down conversions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, San Francisco finished best in the NFL during the regular season in third-down conversion percentage with a whopping 49.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The team successfully converted 106 of a possible 213 third downs on the year.<\/p>\n<p>The player that led the team in first-down receptions &#8212; you guessed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JennJa00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jauan Jennings<\/a>, aka Third-and-Jauan, who finished with 19 on the year (ninth-most in the NFL).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McCaCh01.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian McCaffrey<\/a> also contributed and led all the league&#8217;s position players with 32 total first downs (17 rushing and 15 receiving) for the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>While that stat might not be the end-all, be-all for San Francisco and its ability to win games, its third-down conversion rate in victories was significantly better than in losses.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers went 83-for-158 on third downs in their 12 wins, good enough for 52.5 percent, but in their five losses the team went just 23-for-55 (41.8 percent) on such tries.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s opponent on Sunday in the NFC Wild Card Game, the Philadelphia Eagles, were 12th on such occasions and allowed 40.5 percent of third-down conversions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers&#8217; offense was among the NFL&#8217;s best in a myriad of stats, including yards per game (eighth),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,2644,4124,7,10117,5215,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-665500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-brock-purdy","10":"tag-christian-mccaffrey","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jauan-jennings","13":"tag-mac-jones","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-sanfrancisco","18":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115863210298321806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}