So it turns out that if one NFL team is mostly healthy, and the other team is not only riddled with injuries but has a bunch of starters sidelined due to the fallout from a global pandemic, it's going to be a bit of a mismatch. Lots to unpack here, and yes there will be Jordan Reed discussion.

QUARTERBACKS:

San Francisco doesn't have a pass rush these days, so it was easy pickings for Aaron Rodgers. The first half of the season has clearly proved that if you can get in Rodgers' face -- ala Tampa Bay -- he's not going to like it and will force some things and not look comfortable. And if you can't get any pressure on him, he'll sit back there and pick you apart with the kind of long and short passes that few other quarterbacks are capable of making. Last night was one of those great games, with him unleashing sideline lasers and rainbows over the middle that only his receivers could catch. A clinic. There's a bit of a bully mentality there as well; looked like he really wanted to throw a 5th touchdown even with the game very much over. If you started him, congratulations, you're off to a nice start to the week.

Nick Mullens isn't very good. Nice story when he first had to fill in, but he looks overmatched out there. His final numbers were fine (291 yards and a touchdown, plus another that maybe should have been caught), and of course he was working with a bunch of receivers well down the depth chart -- no No. 1 TE or 1-2-3 wide receivers. But in the first half he was 8 of 16 for 87 yards, piling up most of his numbers after the game was over. I'm not exactly sure why C.J. Beathard isn't considered better than Mullens, maybe one of the Niners fans who posts here can offer some insight. Anyhoo, Mullens is the starter and he was going to battle with third-stringers and no left tackle either, but I doubt he'll do anything the next month that makes a strong case for him starting over Jimmy Garoppolo when healthy.

RUNNING BACKS:

I'm not exactly sure why Green Bay subjected us to all the "will he or won't he, test things out in pregame warmups" nonsense with Aaron Jones. Jones played over 60 percent of the snaps (unnecessarily, this game was over early) and looked in no way hindered by any calf injury or anything at all. He didn't score, but between the rushing and catching all 5 passes thrown his way, his production was fine if you happened to use him. Dexter Williams barely played even before being sidelined with a knee injury. Tyler Ervin got about as much as you could have hoped for with some serviceable PPR numbers, but he'll be back behind Jamaal Williams a week from now.

I don't get why San Francisco has so little interest in giving work to JaMycal Hasty. I get it, he's an undrafted rookie that's proven nothing. But they talked him up all preseason, and when he played in the latter stages of a couple of games this year due to injuries, he played well. Seems like the team would give him a chance as lead runner with Mostert and Coleman both hurt, right? Well no. Two weeks ago they activated Jeff Wilson off IR and let him dominate the backfield (so yeah, there's a precedent for them giving a previously injured guy a lot of work in his first game back). Last week they again passed over Hasty for Coleman. And then last night Jerick McKinnon, whose minimal usage in the big Wilson game was explained by Kyle Shanahan essentially as them believing he was tired, played three-quarters of the snaps. In a game that was 28-3 in the third quarter. Worried about overuse but featuring him in a blowout loss? OK. Yes, I started Hasty last night, planned to even before the garbage local media report about him being "likely" to lead the backfield. I will never start him again. McKinnon, with 58 total yards and a touchdown run with 4 seconds on the clock in a 34-10 game, didn't look tired.

WIDE RECEIVERS:

Davante Adams was basically the easiest start in fantasy football history, and he put up the expected huge numbers. Ridiculous twisting touchdown grab to start the night off, and plenty more catches and yards from there. The surprise was Marques Valdes-Scantling catching 2 touchdowns, of both the deep ball and in-close variety. Surprising because he was absolutely useless for half the season, even with Adams missing some time, and because he opened his night by dropping an easy third-down pass which had Aaron Rodgers fixing him with a searing, soul-dimming glare that made you think Valdes-Scantling would be lucky to have a pass thrown his way the rest of the season, let alone two scores last night. Many people will pick up MVS in leagues next waiver period, and he'll be behind Allen Lazard and do absolutely nothing from this point forward.

Richie James had caught 15 passes in 29 games over the past two seasons coming into last night, but the stars aligned for him to be one of the team's top 2 wide receivers along with Trent Taylor, unless you wanted to take a whirl on the even more unknown River Cracraft. Cracraft actually made a nice leaping grab of a touchdown early on, but failed to, you know, hang onto it, resulting in San Francisco settling for a field goal and Cracraft doing nothing with his 89 percent of the snaps. Taylor was also a bust; I think we can definitively say with Taylor that having a slot receiver role does not a good slot receiver make. Another guy that simply can't be used going forward.

The question after James' monster game is, Will it ever be repeated? Presumably Aiyuk and Bourne will be back next week; Samuel more likely a week away. I have the top waiver spot in a dynasty league and need to consider whether or not to use it on James. Probably I will; 184 yards can't be disregarded. But in a re-draft league, I don't think I'd bother. He'll be the No. 3 or 4 in most games the rest of the season and game script won't always be so favorable (San Francisco's other Seattle game is in Week 17). James did pass the eye test last night -- looks like he can play and is deserving of more opportunities. That hasn't translated into a big role for Hasty, of course, so who knows.

TIGHT ENDS:

Here we are at the particular sore spot from last night's game. Regarding Robert Tonyan, who had 1 catch for 5 yards, I'm not sure there should be much complaining about that one. Tonyan is their No. 1 tight end, and No. 2 receiving option much of the time (with MVS struggling with invisibility for most of the season). He plays the same number of snaps every week. Sometimes he catches 5-6 passes (it's happened three times) and/or a touchdown (also in three games, for 5 TDs total). Sometimes he catches 1-2 balls and some blocker like Marcedes Lewis sneaks free in the red zone and scores. If you start Tonyan you're aware he's not Travis Kelce; the game plan won't be built around him. You're hoping he scores, but Rodgers is prone to spreading it around and on occasion he'll disappoint in a favorable matchup.

Jordan Reed was activated off IR before the game. Earlier in the season, filling in for George Kittle, Reed put up a 7 catches for 50 yards and 2 touchdowns game, including a really athletic score. With all the receiver absences and Kittle hurt again, the feeling was that Reed would be the team's leading receiver. And there he was catching a short pass just short of first-down yardage on San Francisco's opening drive. Let's go!

But that was it. Reed didn't catch a pass the rest of the game and saw only 1 other target, ultimately playing under a quarter of the snaps. Ross Dwelley played three quarters of the time, catching 3 balls for 52 yards. Readers weren't pleased.

I don't know why Reed didn't have a larger role. Maybe something didn't feel right after he was tackled following his initial catch, or maybe the team decided not to push him while coming off injury in a hopelessly lost cause at halftime. With the 49ers we've now got two examples of players coming back from injury putting up huge numbers right away (Jeff Wilson) or going bust (Reed). Since Kyle Shanahan doesn't divulge his plans to anyone (not even beat writer Matt Maiocco, who missed on last night's Hasty call), we need to make predictions based on player talent and past performance. So a lot of us started Reed and got badly burned. Almost none of us, I imagine, started Richie James. Sorry things didn't work out better; I get the frustration.

KICKERS AND DEFENSES:

Neither of these defenses should be regular starters right now. San Francisco has no pass rush. Green Bay has now underperformed in a lot of good matchups where the team won big. Yes, they had a couple of takeaways last night. But just 1 sack against a quarterback who seemed ripe to take 3 or 4, what with his left tackle missing and Mullens not seeming to have much pocket awareness.

Robbie Gould won't be very good with the 49ers likely to lose much more than they'll win the rest of the way. Mason Crosby will be kicking more extra points than field goals in this offense.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I get that the NFL is barreling through this COVID-marred season as best they can. They're afraid to cancel games at this point (Green Bay had already had its bye), and I suppose you can say, Hey, it was just a few Niners players and Green Bay backup running backs missing, the game would have probably turned out similarly either way.

But I do think last night's game should have at least been pushed back to Monday or Tuesday to give Bourne, Aiyuk and Trent Williams a chance to play -- those guys might have made some difference, at least in terms of giving us a superior product to watch. And giving last year's NFC representative in the Super Bowl a better chance of fielding a competitive team.