On Thursday morning, the 49ers announced that Chip Kelly will be their new head coach.
On Thursday afternoon, Steve Young weighed in on ESPN's "NFL Live."
"I like Chip Kelly. Chip Kelly is a guy I want in the league," Young said. "... I like what he does holistically for the players; what he's thinking about bringing the game forward. There's a lot of things that I like offensively. The fact that he's in San Francisco? Great.
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"The thing I worry about most is Chip Kelly is a very strong personality. Trent Baalke, the general manager, gives nothing to the coach. That was a lot of the problem he had with Jim Harbaugh. He has a very strong personality. How does that get worked out?"
[RATTO: By bringing in Chip Kelly, York proves he prefers to take big swing]
What about Colin Kaepernick?
The player who was considered the 49ers' franchise quarterback was benched in favor of Blaine Gabbert after San Francisco's Week 8 loss in St. Louis.
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Since then, he has undergone surgeries to his non-throwing shoulder, right thumb and left knee.
With Kelly on board, there is speculation that Kaepernick could in fact return to the 49ers in 2016.
"If somebody is gonna resurrect Colin Kaepernick, it's going to be Chip Kelly," Young explained. "But the problem is, he (Kelly) might not go as deep data wise because he turns plays over so quickly. But he asks you to have reflexive recall. To have reflexive recall, to be able to do it really fast, you have to embed it into your brain, you have to do a lot of studying despite the fact that you're turning plays over really fast.
"So that's gonna be Colin's challenge -- he's gonna have to go into the classroom, prove to Chip Kelly that he can get embedded into his mind everything that he needs to do to have reflexive recall. We know he physically has the hardware. It's the software..."