The NFL’s move to a 17-game schedule has made it impossible to split the season in half. Instead, we’ll go by weeks since those are still an even number at 18. San Francisco is on its bye for Week 9, which means it’s time to give out some first-half awards.
It was a tumultuous first eight games for the 49ers with injuries on both sides off the ball, a quarterback change, and a handful of ugly losses that led them to a 4-4 record at their bye week.
We sifted through the good, bad and ugly from the first half to suss out some mid-season awards: