GG if you aren't trolling, you've let your hatred of Hayne (or the Hayne story) consume you.
It isn't even the worst fumble of the last month.
And that guy was a #2 draft pick being paid about $16m this season.
Rookies will make dumb mistakes - especially rookies on the bubble who need to make plays.
Of course I chuckled like many when it happened after the 12 months of hype leading up to that moment. But, despite having been outspoken about the fact that I didn't think he'd make it, I wasn't happy about it.
Yes, it was a bad look - it showed a huge dearth of football IQ to seemingly forget that he could let the ball bounce. And at that moment I thought "he's cooked". But it wasn't because of the fumble itself, it was because of that lack of football IQ.
However later on in the game he did a couple of little things that redeemed himself in that sense. At one point he picked up a blitzing DL (or OLB, I don't remember) and gave Kaepernick some extra time; at another point, he didn't receive the ball, but upon noticing that Kaep didn't have options he ran a pretty nice check-down option route.
Some of the things that won't have been noticed by noobs in the Australian media and people that don't watch NFL, and some of the things that people wouldn't have noticed just by watching highlights or statlines were ok, and were enough to keep him getting chances given how much positive press the 49ers are getting out of the story. He's a very, very good foil for Carlos Hyde in more ways than one...
Given that Hyde is a mother ******* beast, but the Hayne story has managed to take a little bit of focus of Hyde, they might be able to keep him at RB2 for at least another week.