Christian McCaffrey is officially out for at least the next month. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the 49ers are placing their star running back on injured reserve.
NFL Network Ian Rapoport says the team is hoping McCaffrey will be ready to play when first eligible in Week 6. That October 10th showdown with the Seahawks could end up marking the running back’s season debut, although ESPN’s Nick Wagoner cautions that it’s “no guarantee” that McCaffrey is ready by that date, and Rapoport added that CMC could be sidelined for six weeks, and possibly longer (video link).
McCaffrey was limited with calf issues during the preseason and the practices preceding Week 1, leading to him being a sudden inactive for the team’s season opener. It’s since been revealed that the RB is dealing with a serious case of Achilles tendinitis, although both the player and the team expressed some optimism that the star would be back for Week 2. At the very least, there was optimism that McCaffrey would only have to miss one more game.
However, the organization’s tone changed over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, coach Kyle Shanahan definitively ruled out McCaffrey for Week 2 while also admitting that an IR stint was a real possibility. Now, the team will be rolling without their top offensive weapon for at least the next four games.
Jordan Mason had a breakout performance while filling in for his star teammate. The running back finished Week 1 with 152 yards from scrimmage and one touchdown, and it sounds like the third-year back will continue to lead the depth chart.
The team actually didn’t give any carries to backups Isaac Guerendo and Patrick Taylor, with wideout Deebo Samuel getting eight rushing attempts of his own. When asked about the receiver’s usage in the running game, Shanahan said it would be a “game by game proposition” (per Wagoner). The head coach also expressed trust in Guerendo and Taylor, so perhaps we’ll see more of the duo in the coming weeks.
Mason will hold down the fort. I’m trusting him to win me big this Sunday in dfs tournaments
Don’t do that it’s chalk, go with Deebo or aiyuk.
Chalk?
Chalk is slang for what it the obvious conventional move to do. It gives you no leverage, if mason where to hit (which he did, incidentally) most of the field in the tournament had him as well giving you no upside. However if you’d have rostered either if the 2 other wr I mentioned That whould give you leverage on the rest of the field. Being that if mason were not score and either aiyuk or Debo did then your gaining on the majority of the tournaments loss.
All this is only applies in large field tournaments where there are so many players you have to risk the likelier outcome for a smaller outcome so that in the event of you being right the likelihood of you winning a larger portion of the winnings is a exponentially greater probability. However in small field tournaments you can go chalk because the other players on your roster should be enough to give you the necessary leverage/advantage to win.
I hope this explains it and am looking forward to your response!
Thanks I had no idea lmao I might need your help with my Sunday nfl FanDuel lineup then it seems you know your stuff and I desperately want to win big haha ^,^
Sure I’d love to help I’ll respond to a comment of yours later this week !
Absolutely thanks I’m going to hold you to it!
Perhaps McCaffrey needs to visit that specialist that is helping the Green Bay receivers with avoiding hamstring/achilles injuries.
Hope he gets back fast…one of the best
Madden Curse is alive and well
um Josh Allen was on last years and he didn’t miss anything. Madden was on the one before that, he’s dead. Mahomes and Brady before that, both healthy all year, 1 went to the Conf Championship and the other the Division round. Lamar Jackson the year before that and it was one of the only years he didn’t really miss time. 2019 was Mahomes again… he won the SB and didn’t get hurt. Antonio Brown before that and that was a year before he went nuts. Before that was Brady again and he won the MVP that year…. I don’t think I need to keep going. There hasn’t been a “curse” in a long time.
Buzzkill.
No one likes people like you.
If you want to silence people like this the easy solution is to just rename it the McCaffrey curse…lol