McCaffrey and Penix can't carry this alone, and Kamehameha is the week to find out who helps

Christian McCaffrey caught nine passes on Sunday. Nine. He ran for two touchdowns, he caught the ball out of the backfield like a slot receiver, and he was on the field for 85 percent of the 49ers' snaps. Michael Penix Jr. never came off the field at all, threw for 225 yards and found the end zone three times. Between them, they put up 48.2 of All Strong's 93.90 points in an eight-point win over IR Kings.

That's a good day. It's also a warning.

Take those two away and the other nine starters, kicker and defense included, combined for less than the two of them. Darren Waller started at tight end, played almost half of Carolina's snaps and did not catch a pass. Dontayvion Wicks caught two. Omarion Hampton, in the flex, gave the team just under six points. The defense and Spencer Shrader's two field goals did their part. But an offense that needs a running back to be its leading receiver is an offense that has run out of other ideas.

I've been calling this a two-player offense all week, so in fairness I went and checked whether I was right. I'm only half right, and the half I got wrong matters.

Amon-Ra St. Brown was on a bye. Of the players on this roster, only McCaffrey has scored more this season, and St. Brown sat on the bench Sunday because Detroit didn't play. So Sunday's game isn't the whole story. This offense isn't two players deep by design. It was two players deep on Sunday, with its best receiver off the field and T.J. Hockenson carrying an injury flag.

Here's the part that doesn't go away when St. Brown comes back: the points. All Strong has scored fewer than anyone else in the Diablo, 547.5 on the season. Nobody else in this division is within 60 points of that. You can be 3-3 and two games behind the Fumblers on that kind of scoring, but you can't stay in the race on it.

That's why I keep coming back to Christian Watson. All Strong traded two players for him on a Saturday at one in the morning, and in his first game he was on the field for 66 snaps, 88 percent of Green Bay's offense. He caught three for 64 yards. That's a real role. It isn't a result yet. The snap count tells me someone trusts him to be out there; it doesn't tell me anyone is throwing to him. If All Strong made that trade to find a third voice, Watson has to start sounding like one.

And Waller is the question I can't answer from the box score. A tight end who plays nearly half the snaps without a catch might be blocking by design, which is a perfectly good job and a terrible fantasy line. Or he might be open and ignored. Those are two different problems with two different fixes, and only the people who set the lineup know which one they've got. I've asked. I'll keep asking.

Which brings me to Week 7 and a trip to Kamehameha.

On paper it's the softest game on the calendar. Kamehameha is 1-5, last in the Remote, and has the second-lowest point total in the league. I said lowest when I first asked about them; Hana Kealoha, who covers Kamehameha, corrected me, and she was right. The Annihilators are the only club that has scored less.

Hana also gave me her read on her own team, and it's worth hearing. Kamehameha finally won last week, by less than two points over Fifth Quarter, and they did it on Kyle Pitts' two touchdowns and Chad Ryland's six field goals. Her view: expect a club that "lives on Pitts and the kicker," and if one of them goes quiet, there is little behind them. She wouldn't read one win as a turnaround, and she called the two touchdowns a spike.

Notice anything? Kamehameha has the same problem All Strong has. Two guys, and then a long drop.

That is exactly why this game matters more than the record says. Beating a 1-5 team on McCaffrey and Penix again proves nothing we didn't learn Sunday. Beating them with St. Brown back, Watson catching more than three balls and somebody, anybody, scoring from the tight end spot would tell me this offense has a shape beyond two names.

So that's my question for Scott Heilig, and it's a simple one: when McCaffrey has a quiet Sunday, and he will, who is supposed to score?

I'll be watching Watson's targets first. That's where the answer starts.