{"id":748424,"date":"2026-07-07T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:02:16","slug":"nfl-executives-say-49ers-christian-mccaffrey-has-declined-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748424\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL executives say 49ers\u2019 Christian McCaffrey has \u2018declined some\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Highest ranking: 1 | Lowest ranking: Unranked<br \/>Age: 30 | Last year\u2019s ranking: 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">McCaffrey kept a tight pace with Barkley for the third spot but received more votes outside of the top five than he usually does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">In 2025, McCaffrey posted his third career season with at least 2,000 scrimmage yards, tied for fourth most by a running back in NFL history. He needed a league-high 413 touches to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">McCaffrey\u2019s 3.9 yards per carry was his lowest full-season clip since his rookie year in 2017. One factor: The 49ers ranked 29th in rushing yards before contact (2.04).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s declined some &#8212; I think you will see more juice if he doesn\u2019t have to be the focal point of both the run and pass game,\u201d an NFC executive said. \u201cBut he\u2019s such an elite overall player with versatility who takes care of himself that he can be a top guy for at least one more year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highest ranking: 1 | Lowest ranking: UnrankedAge: 30 | Last year\u2019s ranking: 5 McCaffrey kept a tight pace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,173680,47545,99],"class_list":["post-748424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748424","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=748424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}