The San Francisco 49ers are hoping to see star operating again Christian McCaffrey on the follow area subsequent week.
McCaffrey is on injured reserve and has missed the primary eight video games with Achilles points in each legs. However 49ers normal supervisor John Lynch informed KNBR on Wednesday that the membership plans to open McCaffrey’s 21-day follow window on Monday.
That may make it potential for McCaffrey, final season’s NFL Offensive Participant of the Yr, to return in opposition to the host Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 10. San Francisco has a bye this weekend.
“The perfect situation versus Tampa Bay is that he continues to — we preserve utilizing this terminology — however ramp up, which simply means enhance the quantity of labor that he is doing,” Lynch stated. “He is been doing that, and he hasn’t had any setbacks. The hope is we take it up one other notch this week. Supplied that goes nicely, we’re type of opening that window, permitting him to return to follow. IR gamers can work to the aspect. They can not get entangled in follow. And so, Christian has been type of on that plan.
“And now, hopefully, you enhance the quantity this week. You hope you haven’t any setbacks. I might count on it to type of go that manner. I pray that it goes that manner as a result of he is performed rather well. He hasn’t had any of these (setbacks). And if that’s the case, then Monday, we hope to have him working towards with our group, and that’d be a very whole lot for us. Everyone knows he is the reigning offensive participant of the yr. He is a particular game-changing participant for us.”
McCaffrey rushed for a league-high 1,459 yards together with 14 touchdowns and had 67 receptions for 564 yards and 7 scores in 2023.
Jordan Mason has performed a strong job instead of McCaffrey with 685 yards and three touchdowns. Nonetheless, Mason injured a shoulder throughout Sunday evening’s 30-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
Rookie Isaac Guerendo stepped up Sunday with 85 yards and one rating on 14 carries. Total, he has 227 yards and one landing.
San Francisco is simply 4-4 because it enjoys its bye week.
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