Christian McCaffrey begins the low season with “zero restrictions” after a 2024 season full of injuries for the San Francisco 49ers that limited it to only four games.
McCaffrey lost the first eight games of the season with Achilles tendinitis and then fell with a right knee injury that left him aside for the last five games.
“I feel great,” McCaffrey said on Tuesday the first day of the low season program for the 49ers. “It is a bone as soft, a lot of hard work. As soon as that injury happened in Buffalo, this was my goal not to lose an Ota day, being ready to go with nothing of me. That’s where I am.”
McCaffrey said he was completely cured of Achilles injury and the posterior cross ligament injury suffered in Buffalo on December 1 at the beginning of the low season and could train “all speed.”
It is a low season bone for McCaffrey, with his wife, Olivia culpo, waiting for the first child of the couple.
That follows the frustrating season 2024. McCaffrey injured his Achilles tendon at the beginning of the training field and the first eight games of the season was lost. He hastened only 202 yards in 50 carry in four games before being hurt again, since he could not match his sensational 2023 season.
McCaffrey won the offensive player of the year of the AP that season after leading the NFL with 2,023 scrimmage yards and drawing the lead of the league with 21 touchdowns.
McCaffrey was lost only a combined game in 2022-23-A, a game of week 18 meaningless in the 2023 season for San Francisco when he had a painful calf and was missing 23 games or injuries in his last two complete seasons with Carolina.
The star supporter of the niners, Fred Warner, said he has recovered completely from a broken bone on the ankle that hindered him during most of the last season. Warner played through the injury without missing any game and obtained his third consecutive honors from All-Pro.
I feel great. The ankle is a thing of the past now, thank God, because that was difficult, trying to deal with that throughout the season. But now I feel great.
“I feel great,” he said. “The ankle injury is a thing of the past.”
Notes: DL Evan Anderson, DL Alex Barrett, LB Jalen Graham and Brayden Willis signed their one -year exclusive rights contracts. … Dustin Perry has been requested from the vice president of health and performance of the players. Perry is entertaining its ninth season with the 49ers and was the strength and conditioning coach in the team’s head in the last six seasons.
Associated Press reports.
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