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Eric Williams
NFL Reporter
Out since the start of the regular season with Achilles tendinitis, reigning Offensive Player of the Year Christian McCaffrey finally returned to practice with the San Francisco 49ers this week.
The team activated McCaffrey’s three-week practice window, with the hope that he can take the field on Sunday on the road against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Along with the 49ers, several other teams are looking to get frontline players back so they can make a postseason push. Puka Nacua recently returned for the Rams. Other big names set to return in the second half include Micah Parsons, Nico Collins and Isiah Pacheco.
We examine what the return of those players could mean for their respective teams as they chase postseason hopes.
Christian McCaffrey, RB, 49ers
Shanahan is keeping his fingers crossed that McCaffrey can make it through practice healthy and get back on the field this weekend. But whenever he returns, he’ll most likely be eased back into the full workload he had as the best running back in the league last year.
“We’ll build him up slowly,” head coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters. “Things have been going well. It will be nice to get him back hopefully.”
After McCaffrey joined San Francisco in a midseason blockbuster trade in October 2022, he missed just one out of 33 games, including postseason, and that game was a meaningless contest at the end of the 2023 season. Before that, McCaffrey dealt with a series of injuries, missing a combined 23 games in the 2020 and 2021 seasons for the Carolina Panthers.
The 49ers signed the 28-year-old McCaffrey to a two-year, $38 million contract extension this offseason, making him the highest-paid running back in the league. McCaffrey had the most scrimmage yards in the league from the time he joined San Francisco through the end of the 2023 season.
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