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49ers RB Christian McCaffrey Expects to be Fully Heathy by Next Week

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Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA;San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (23) runs with the ball past Buffalo Bills safety Taylor Rapp (9) during the first half at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images
Dec 1, 2024; Orchard Park, New York, USA;San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (23) runs with the ball past Buffalo Bills safety Taylor Rapp (9) during the first half at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images | Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images

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Apparently, Christian McCaffrey still hasn't fully recovered from the PCL injury he suffered against the Buffalo Bills on December 1.

In that game, McCaffrey took a handoff, broke through the line and got tackled by his ankle. As he went down, his knee banged into the cold, frozen turf. But he stayed in the game for another play, which was another handoff for him. He took the ball, made one cut on his injured knee, went down, left the game and did not play again all season.

This week at the Super Bowl, his father, Ed McCaffrey, gave an update on his son's knee.

"He's doing great," Ed McCaffrey said. "He should be healthy by next week and he'll have a full offseason to train. I still have PTSD from last year's Super Bowl so I haven't recovered yet, but he has recovered and he's healthy. It was a tough season, but he's in great shape. he's going to have a full offseason and I think their team is really going to come back strong next season."

That's good news.

Notice that Ed mentioned twice that Christian will have a full offseason. Technically, McCaffrey had a full offseason last year, too -- he simply suffered bilateral Achilles tendonitis less than a week into training camp. We'll see how his body responds to training camp this year. He'll turn 29 years old in June. He may not be able to practice and play week in and week out without getting injured anymore.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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