Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
SANTA CLARA — Take it from someone who has no expertise in athletic medicine or specific knowledge of what is ailing Christian McCaffrey:
We know enough about McCaffrey to assume he’ll desperately want to play, because that’s how he’s wired. We know the 49ers have prided themselves on a week-to-week approach with the next game on the schedule superseding anything that happens afterward. We know McCaffrey leads the NFL in rushing with 553 yards and has scored touchdowns in 15 consecutive games.
In the last two games, McCaffrey has begun to show signs of wear and tear. Take away a 27-yard run on his first carry against Cleveland and he had 16 yards on 10 carries. That came after carrying 19 times for 51 yards against Dallas. That’s 29 carries for 61 yards aside from the one burst. The Panthers were 5-11 that season and didn’t have nearly the cast of playmakers that surround McCaffrey with the 49ers.
Plus there’s always George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk and Jauan Jennings in the passing game, giving Shanahan plenty of options to spread the ball around through quarterback Brock Purdy if McCaffrey were to be put on ice. That’s a lot of work, and one of the hardest things about coaching is determining when to forge ahead. Left tackle Trent Williams missed just two snaps with a right ankle injury against Cleveland and Shanahan talked Monday about the mental gymnastics that go into having an injured player stay on the field.49ers await MRI results on McCaffrey’s injury, give updates on Samuel, Williams
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