SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers got a chance to show off their quarterback platoon ahead of the regular season.
Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance locked in and out on the first two drives to end with a touchdown run for the quarterback, which gave San Francisco a 34-10 exhibition win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.
"I just wanted to get live action with it," said coach Kyle Shanahan. "We've done it a couple of times in practice and it was the last time we were going to go into the regular season. So it's the last time you might get an opportunity to do that. I wanted to do it with this game. "
While he was planning to use both Garoppolo and rookie Lance, Shanahan rotated his two quarterbacks on the first two drives against Raiders backup as a tune-up for the regular season.
Garoppolo started and was on for the first three plays before Lance entered and handed Raheem Mostart for a 17-yard advantage on a zoned reed play. Garoppolo came back for the next play and both QBs got five plays on that drive that ended with Garoppolo in a scramble for a 1 yard TD.
"You can tell there were times when they were in line where they're still calling and doing stuff like that," Garopolo said. "You can tell it's hard on them. So that's what we were trying to do."
Quarterback Platoon continued on the next drive with Garoppolo, converting a fourth and a sneak before Lance made two plays on a keeper from 2 yards.
“I was up for it. I think Jimmy was too,” Lance said. “It’s one of those things where we repeated it. It was nice to get sports reps and really see how it really feels. "
This ended the day for Garoppolo, who completed 4 of 7 passes for 64 yards and scored two runs.
Lance remained in the game until the third quarter and scored 6 for 13 for 46 yards.
The Raiders took a different approach, keeping most of their starters back home in Las Vegas. Nathan Peterman gets his third straight game of wide action. He took only one snap in the preseason, as Marcus Mariota was hurt and Derek Carr took a rest.
Peterman went 18 for 29 for 175 yards with a 16-yard TD pass to Nick Bowers.
"We took the approach of evaluating people we didn't know very much about," said coach John Gruden. "A lot of these guys had college seasons that were interrupted last year. The evaluation was incomplete. You don't work in the pad, you don't do much in the pad like you used to. That's the most important call for us." So when we cut the roster, we try to make the right decision."
staying home
The only anticipated Week 1 starter on the depth charts who saw action for the Raiders was linebacker Tanner Muse.
Carr, tight end Darren Waller, running backs Josh Jacobs and Kenyan Drake, receivers Henry Rugs III and Brian Edwards, and offensive linemen Colton Miller, Denzel Good and Richie Incognito are among the expected starts, receiving no action in Precision for the Raiders .
"I think you're damned if you do this, damned if you don't in a lot of ways," Gruden said. "You lose two or three starts in this game and all the questions will be different."
READY RAHEEM
Mostert made his only appearance of the preseason for the 49ers and needed just one drive to show he's ready for the opener.
Mostert got seven carries on that drive and gained 53 yards before taking the rest of the day off.
BACK TO THE BAY
The Raiders made their first trip back to the Bay Area since moving to Las Vegas last year. With the move, the NFL restarted the exhibition series between the Raiders and 49ers that had been put on hold since 2011 after one man was beaten in a restroom and another was shot multiple times in the Candlestick Park parking lot.
INJURY UPDATE
Niners WR Travis Benjamin left the game with a concussion.
UP NEXT
Raiders: Las Vegas opens the regular season at home vs. Baltimore on Sept. 13.
49ers: San Francisco opens the regular season at Detroit on Sept. 12.