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Christian McCaffrey is the Favorite to be the Offensive Player of the Year

Here is the current leaderboard to win the Offensive Player of the Year Award according to BetUS:
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Christian McCaffrey is the Favorite to be the Offensive Player of the Year
Christian McCaffrey is the Favorite to be the Offensive Player of the Year

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Finally, Christian McCaffrey is getting the recognition he deserves.

For most of the season, he has trailed Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill as the favorite for the Offensive Player of the Year Award. But Hill missed the Dolphins' game this past Sunday with an ankle injury, and McCaffrey hasn't missed a game yet this season.

Advantage: McCaffrey.

Here is the current leaderboard to win the Offensive Player of the Year Award according to BetUS:

1. Christian McCaffrey: -140

2. Tyreek Hill: +110

3. CeeDee Lamb: +5000

4. A.J. Brown: +6000

5. Jalen Hurts: +6000

As you can see, this clearly is a two-player race between McCaffrey and Hill. And both have elite numbers.

Hill currently leads the NFL in receiving yards and touchdown catches. Before he went down, he was on pace to break the single-season record for receiving yards, which is why he was the favorite to win this award.

But as good as Hill's numbers are, his stock just went down because the Dolphins scored 30 points and won without him this weekend. 

Meanwhile, McCaffrey hasn't missed a game yet this season. He left one prematurely -- Week 6 against the Browns -- and the 49ers lost. So we don't know if the 49ers can score 30 and win without him. It's possible their offense would fall apart without him. We just don't know.

What we do know is that McCaffrey currently leads the league in rushing yards and yards from scrimmage, and he's tied for the league lead in touchdowns with 20. 

And he's getting stronger as the season goes on.

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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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