Yeah that's the rub. It's the source of my dissatisfaction with the RB coach that McVay seems to love so much.

If you watch the Rams vs 9ers game they have now resorted to having Brown stand there on quite a few snaps when he's lined up wide. So he won't F up the pattern combos by traipsing in with a DB where he shouldn't be. That indicator tells us what they think of their other two RBs.

The translation, at least to my mind, is that the two kid RBs don't have a good enough grasp of the offense yet. And film backs that up. Goff routinely has to correct both Hendy and Brown as to where to line up. So I would hope behind the scenes they're working hard to get Akers going. He's the piece. He's the only one who can help us settle down the position since Gurley suffered that knee, it's not a coincidence this offense has been plodding since.