It’s going to be one other misplaced season for Christian McCaffrey, however he’s not the one San Francisco operating again who suffered an damage on Sunday night time.
Via a number of reporters, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stated on Monday that McCaffrey shall be positioned on injured reserve with a PCL damage in his proper knee. While McCaffrey is not going to want surgical procedure to right the difficulty, the operating again’s restoration timeline is six weeks. That would sideline McCaffrey for the remainder of the common season.
But Jordan Mason additionally suffered a high-ankle sprain and shall be positioned on IR.
That places rookie Isaac Guerendo in line to be the 49ers’ high again getting into Week 14.
McCaffrey, 28, performed 33 regular-season video games plus six postseason contests over the 2022 and 2023 seasons after showing in simply 10 video games from 2020-2021. But this yr, McCaffrey has as soon as once more been performed by damage woes.
He missed the primary eight video games of the 2024 season with bilateral Achilles tendinitis. He suffered his knee damage in the course of the second quarter of Sunday’s snowy loss to Buffalo. After successful AP offensive participant of the yr in 2023, McCaffrey will end 2024 with 202 yards dashing together with 15 catches for 146 yards in 4 video games.
Mason is San Francisco’s main rusher this yr, selecting up 789 yards with three touchdowns and averaging 5.2 yards per carry. He’s caught 11 passes for 91 yards.
Guerendo has taken 42 carries in 12 video games for 246 yards with two touchdowns and caught 5 passes for 19 yards.
Defensive sort out Kevin Givens additionally suffered a torn pectoral muscle in Sunday’s contest and shall be positioned on IR.
Additionally, the staff plans to open Talanoa Hufanga’s follow window as he returns from IR. The staff will monitor a number of gamers — together with Nick Bosa (indirect) and Dre Greenlaw (Achilles) — all through the week because the membership prepares to play Chicago in Week 14.
