Is the read option here to stay?

To put it differently, if you're a team like the 49ers or Washington, you might want to run it 3 -5 times in a game just to make opposing defenses respect your respective pistol or shotgun sets a bit more, to change how they defend them at base. But you're not going to run 15-20 read option handoffs like you see at the college level by any team I don't think.


And, by the way, as a bit of a non-sequitor, I DO think the pistol formation will infiltrate the NFL and is here to stay.