The throwback trade shows that the Niners are feeling the heat.
The trade hearkens back to an earlier time in football history, when star running backs were the jewels of every offensive coordinator’s dreams, and teams would blow up their futures to get Herschel Walker or Ricky Williams or Eric Dickerson.
Now, the Niners have made a throwback deal. The haul for McCaffrey is not quite in that stratosphere, with Panthers general manager Scott Fittererfor failing to secure a first-round pick in dealing their star after leaking that his price was two first-rounders. Even so, it's a huge cost in the modern NFL, which views running backs as fungible.
McCaffrey has been a spectacular player when healthy, and the former Stanford star is unequivocally an upgrade over Jeff Wilson Jr., Tevin Coleman and the rest. Shanahan bristled at questions about McCaffrey's health Friday, claiming McCaffrey was the. McCaffrey has been on the IR three times since the start of the 2020 season, though. It's fair to worry if the 26-year-old can post weekly as he did in his first three professional seasons.
Even if he is healthy, the question then turns to if it matters. With waves of injuries to a defense that has propped up a tepid Jimmy G-led offense, the Niners’ gift of middling starts from the Rams and Cardinals is at risk of slipping through their fingertips like an overthrown bubble screen. The Week 4 win over the Rams briefly flashed the formula for a deep postseason run:
. Since then, the injuries to the defense have placed immense pressure on an offense that has lacked dynamism.
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