Christian McCaffrey

San Francisco 49ers·#23OVERPAID

Pos RBHt 5'11"Wt 210 lbExp 9 yrCollege Stanford

Updated September 21, 2026

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Model Score

94.2 MODEL

2018

93.0

2019

96.0

2021

91.7

2022

94.2

2023

99.0

2024

90.7

2025

94.2

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 →

Christian McCaffrey Injury StatusNot listed

Christian McCaffrey is not on the injury report as of Sep 20. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Christian McCaffrey Stats This Season · 1 games

Rush Yds

Rush TD

Rec

Rec Yds

Total TD

13.8

Fantasy PPG

Advanced Metrics EPA & Next Gen Stats

0.274

EPA / rush

Rush yds over exp

2.68

Efficiency

2.26s

Time to line

Draft & College

Round 1, pick 8 · Carolina Panthers · 2017

Stanford (Pac-12)

Taken

where he actually went

Consensus board

20th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#11

among RB in our college data

He went earlier than consensus.

In college · 2014-2016 · 35 games · partial record

3,898 rush yds, 29 TD, 6.2 yds/carry, 96 rec

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Coming out

4.48s

40 yd

10 reps

Bench

37.5"

Vertical

121"

Broad

6.57s

3-cone

4.22s

Shuttle

Comps

College career

his college career vs theirs

Bijan Robinson89%Omarion Hampton82%J.K. Dobbins82%

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.