The Athletic Football Show on Deebo Samuel

PodcastWeek 5 Preview: The first 49ers-Seahawks tilt of the season highlights the slateOctober 9, 2026

From the episode

On the Debo Samuel play, he's in like under center offset, like it's 1932... Shanahan is really interesting with that stuff.

Mentioned at 5:00 – 5:16

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Samuel featured in Shanahan's creative under-center offset run concept.

Samuel was used in an under-center offset alignment on a run play, illustrating Kyle Shanahan's creative and varied run-game concepts; the source notes the 49ers' bread and butter remains zone stuff, but Shanahan employs counter power and gap concepts with unusual alignments and back positioning.