{"id":672135,"date":"2026-05-29T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:49:07","slug":"christian-mccaffrey-workload-is-an-issue-for-practice-not-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672135\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian McCaffrey: Workload is an issue for practice, not games"},"content":{"rendered":"

49ers running back Christian McCaffrey soon will turn 30. That raises questions about managing his workload moving forward.<\/p>\n

The topic came up during a Thursday press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with those questions for nine years,\u201d McCaffrey told reporters, via Nick Wagoner of ESPN. \u201cI think the workload in our sport is really monitored in practice, not in games<\/a>. We play 17 regular-season games a year and everybody\u2019s livelihoods are on the line. I would say on Sunday you\u2019ve got to do whatever it takes to win and that\u2019s not a coach\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaffrey summed it up like this: \u201cYou don\u2019t tell the 3-point shooter you only get six 3s today.\u201d<\/p>\n

For him, workload management happens in the days between the games.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of it is rhythmic and it\u2019s my job to put my body in the best position I can to go out there and play and I think everything else can be monitored during the week or with a practice schedule or certain ways you train, whatever it may be,\u201d McCaffrey said. \u201cBut when it comes to game days, I like to think you prepare yourself for playing every snap.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an Achilles injury followed by a knee injury limited McCaffrey to four games in 2024, he started every game in 2025. He also had a shot at his second career season of 1,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards. (He\u2019s one of only three players to have ever done it once.)<\/p>\n

And while the clock is ticking for McCaffrey (and for all of us), McCaffrey has shown that he is built to take a licking. Which is the nature of the position he plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers running back Christian McCaffrey soon will turn 30. That raises questions about managing his workload moving forward.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-672135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}