#san-francisco-49ers

#san-francisco-49ers

One of these returns, he vows, will end up in the end zone. It's always the goal, of course, but even more so since reporters filled him in earlier this season about the 49ers' historic struggles in the return game. They have not had a punt return for a touchdown since the 2011 season opener, by Ted Ginn Jr., who amazingly also scored on a kick return that game.

Kyle Juszczyk proudly recalls making $5.15 an hour. That was minimum wage 20 years ago, when he was a teenager in Medina, Ohio, about an hour south of Cleveland. He worked with his brother, Sean, who's six years older and was their manager at McDonald's. That carried extra power at Thanksgiving break, when they would head to a snow-covered football field at the local high school.