The Carolina Panthers have placed running back Christian McCaffrey and offensive lineman Deonte Brown on injured reserve. Brown was a recent, non-contact knee injury during practice. McCaffrey’s strained hamstring has been the subject of intense speculation for weeks now, after he injured the muscle against the Houston Texans in Week 3.
There will be a number of fans upset that the team didn’t place McCaffrey on injured reserve as soon as his hamstring was injured, but they will be applying a fair amount of hindsight bias to support their snap judgments.