Kurtenbach: A statistical analysis of the 49ers’ strange, stupefying and successful 2025 regular season

If you watched the San Francisco 49ers this season, you likely spent a good portion of your Sundays squinting at the television, trying to reconcile the jersey numbers with the names on the back, and wondering how a team could look so disastrously different yet end up in the playoffs.

The 2025 campaign wasn’t just an “injury bug” season. It was a statistical anomaly — a glitch in the football matrix. But I’ve used my broken brain and official NFL data to comb through the wreckage to bring...