The San Francisco 49ers have positioned star working again Christian McCaffrey on injured reserved with calf tightness and Achilles tendinitis, based on a league supply. He’ll no less than miss the subsequent 4 video games.
The 49ers dominated the two-time All-Professional out towards the Minnesota Vikings on Friday, and coach Kyle Shanahan urged San Francisco would contemplate IR. The soonest McCaffrey can return is Oct. 10 towards the Seattle Seahawks.
Backup working again Jordan Mason began for the 49ers in final week’s win over the New York Jets, speeding for 147 yards and a landing on 28 carries.
McCaffrey gained the 2023 Offensive Participant of the Yr and led the league in speeding yards final season with a career-best 1,459. Together with 14 speeding touchdowns, he added 564 receiving yards and a career-high seven receiving touchdowns.
How will San Francisco maintain up with out him?
McCaffrey’s absence means each different San Francisco tailback rises a notch within the pecking order. That features rookie Isaac Guerendo, the quickest member of the group. Guerendo injured his hamstring on the primary day of coaching camp and was out so lengthy – almost 4 weeks – that it appeared like he won’t even make the group’s preliminary roster.
However he returned to the sphere in late August and regarded so good within the preseason finale in Las Vegas that coaches had been satisfied he may deal with a job within the common season.
“He’d missed a lot follow time, and his first time with pads on was that preseason sport,” Shanahan stated Friday. “I keep in mind asking him within the group assembly after the sport when was the final time he had pads on and he informed me it was the Senior Bowl. So he was means behind in that stuff, however received quite a bit within the video games and didn’t look overwhelmed. It appeared like the sport wasn’t too huge for him. And he’s been precisely like that ever since.”
The 49ers’ de facto No. 2 working again in Week 1 was Deebo Samuel, who lined up 10 occasions as a tailback and touched the ball – on carries and brief throws – 13 occasions in that sport. That sort of workload may be troublesome to maintain, and whether it is, San Francisco might begin giving carries to Guerendo, who turns into the primary true tailback behind Mason.
Guerendo performed three offensive snaps towards the Jets however had no carries. He’s wanting ahead to getting the ball in his fingers for the primary time in a significant NFL sport.
“Clearly, that’s what a working again loves,” he stated. “Like I stated, we have now an awesome room and I’m excited to be part of that.”
After Guerendo, the one different tailback on the energetic roster is Patrick Taylor Jr. The 49ers even have Ke’Shawn Vaughn on the follow squad. — Matt Barrows, 49ers beat author
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