For the better part of a calendar year, Christian McCaffrey has done a great Superman imitation for the 49ers. He’s scored in 15 straight games, including the playoffs. With 553 rushing yards, 177 receiving yards and nine total touchdowns, fantasy managers who selected McCaffrey in the top three of 2023 drafts were sporting wide smiles and thinking of waltzing to fantasy titles.
Then he tweaked an abdominal muscle, and all those visions got a little cloudy. As of this writing, we’re waiting on the results of his MRI to determine if he’s going to miss any time. Since CMC came out of the 19-17 loss to the Browns, fantasy managers got a preview of what the pecking order is for touches in this backfield if he were to miss time.