Micah Ford was watching the Netflix series “Receiver” when he heard tight end George Kittle tell his 49ers teammates before last season’s NFC Championship Game: “Inhale confidence, Exhale fear.”
Ford took Kittle’s pregame message to heart when he was named the starting running back for Stanford as a true freshman this season.
“Just being in that stage as a freshman, not a lot of people get the chance to do that,” Ford said. “So I don’t want to take it for granted. I play every snap...