Christian McCaffrey

San Francisco 49ers·#23

Pos RBHt 5'11"Wt 210 lbExp 8 yrCollege Stanford

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Model Score

88.6 MODEL

2018

83.5

2019

85.2

2021

84.4

2022

84.8

2023

94.6

2024

84.2

2025

88.6

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Season Stats · 17 games

1,2028th

Rush Yds

108th

Rush TD

1021st

Rec

9041st

Rec Yds

173rd

Total TD

24.41st

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

-0.06844th

EPA / rush

-15073rd

Rush yds over exp

4.72

Efficiency

2.74s

Time to line

STM Take

McCaffrey at STTM #9 tier 3 with the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year award is the cleanest old-back rebound story on the current RB board. Career line reads tier 1, tier 2, tier 1, tier 8 (2024 injury), tier 3 (2025), so the 2024 collapse was games-played, not skill. The 2025 game log clusters between 12 and 35 PPR with no zero-point weeks, exactly the pre-2024 baseline.

McCaffrey was born in Castle Rock, Colorado to former NFL receiver Ed McCaffrey and played at Stanford, where he won the 2015 AP College Football Player of the Year and set the NCAA single-season all-purpose yards record (3,864). Carolina took him eighth overall in 2017, and he was traded to San Francisco in 2022. He has three first-team All-Pro nods (2019, 2023, 2025), four Pro Bowls, the 2023 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year, and is one of only three players ever to record 1,000 rushing and 1,000 receiving yards in the same season (2019).

Strengths

Three first-team All-Pro selections including 2025, plus the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year award; the career resume now matches the all-time elite tier.
626 career receptions and 5,390 receiving yards put him in tight-end production territory at the RB position.

Concerns

STTM #37 tier 8 in 2024 was a games-played story; the next sustained absence resets the rank quickly.
Age 30 with 1,654 career touches; the bell-cow mileage is now firmly on the wrong side of the curve.

What to watch: Whether Kyle Shanahan keeps the touch load under 280 in 2026 to protect against another injury-driven tier collapse.

Fantasy Outlook

Christian McCaffrey scored 415 PPR points, 24.4 per game this season. Compare him against any RB and track weekly rankings in our fantasy tools.