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Acho: 49ers making Super Bowl propulsion with McCaffrey commercialized (1:49)
Sam Acho and Ryan Clark sermon however acquiring Christian McCaffrey from the Panthers improves the 49ers' Super Bowl chances. (1:49)
Christian McCaffrey is expected to marque his San Francisco 49ers debut Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
McCaffrey's availability comes conscionable 3 days aft the 49ers and Carolina Panthers agreed to a blockbuster commercialized for the prima moving backmost and conscionable 2 days aft helium flew to San Francisco and joined his caller employer.
The 49ers person a bundle of plays successful Sunday's gameplan for McCaffrey, who has picked up what helium could of the discourtesy quickly, sources told Schefter.
It's 1 crushed the 49ers and Los Angeles Rams were arsenic funny successful trading for McCaffrey arsenic they were - some teams valued his shot IQ and the Rams adjacent considered him to be, arsenic 1 root described, "the Cooper Kupp of moving backs."
The nighttime the 49ers acquired McCaffrey they considered it improbable that their caller moving backmost would beryllium acceptable to look the Chiefs. But McCaffrey immersed himself successful the 49ers discourtesy soon aft the teams agreed to the deal, which saw San Francisco nonstop second-, third- and fourth-round picks successful 2023 and a fifth-round enactment successful 2024 to Carolina.
McCaffrey had said Friday that the determination connected his playing presumption would beryllium up to the team, with manager Kyle Shanahan adding that it would person much to bash with whether helium tin rapidly larn capable of the playbook to lend and thing to bash with however he's feeling physically.
The 26-year-old McCaffrey missed 23 of 33 games successful 2020 and '21 aft being injury-free his archetypal 3 NFL seasons. This year, helium played 85% of Carolina's snaps, and his 670 yards from scrimmage fertile 4th successful the NFL.
The 49ers, who person been wounded plagued this season, volition invited respective notables backmost Sunday against the Chiefs, including antiaircraft extremity Nick Bosa (groin), near tackle Trent Williams (ankle), antiaircraft backmost Jimmie Ward (hand) and close tackle Mike McGlinchey (calf).
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