Christian McCaffrey is within the recreation.
Per week after incomes NFC Offensive Participant of the Month honors for September, the All-Professional operating again was acknowledged Wednesday because the NFC Offensive Participant of the Week for his four-touchdown efficiency within the 49ers' 35-16 win over the Arizona Cardinals. .
McCaffrey earned his second NFC Participant of the Week award after recording a league-leading 177 all-purpose yards in Week 4, with 20 carries for 106 dashing yards and three touchdowns and 7 receptions for 71 yards and a rating.
With the second nod, McCaffrey joins a really notable group of 49ers operating backs — Garrison Hearst (3), Roger Craig (4) and Frank Gore (5) — who’ve earned a number of NFC Participant of the Week honors.
McCaffrey received NFC Participant of the Week for the primary time in Week 8 of the 2022 season, when the operating again received the NFL's “Triple Crown.” In that win over the Los Angeles Rams, McCaffrey scored a dashing, receiving and passing landing in his second recreation with San Francisco.
Coach Kyle Shanahan credit the operating again's work ethic as a serious motive for his success.
“He works more durable at it than any participant I've been round,” Shanahan stated Monday. “He's not simply making an attempt to determine what to do. He understands all people's bundle and that's why he picks issues up rapidly and that's why he's been fairly interchangeable in all of the locations we've put him.”
In line with Subsequent Gen Stats, the Stanford product gained 17 yards after the catch over anticipated (YACOE) towards the Cardinals and leads all NFL operating backs in that class with 219 YACOE this season. McCaffrey additionally posted his highest dashing completion charge since becoming a member of the 49ers at 55 %.
By way of 4 video games, the 49ers ball provider leads the league in dashing makes an attempt (80), dashing yards (459), dashing touchdowns (8), dashing yards per recreation (114.8), mixed dashing makes an attempt and receptions (98) and yards from scrimmage ( 600).
Whereas there have been some questions on McCaffrey's utilization/variety of snaps on the sector, the operating again performed fewer snaps in Week 4 (47 snaps, 85 %) than he did in Week 3 (51 snaps, 61 %).
Count on the pattern of utilizing McCaffrey to proceed when the 49ers host the Dallas Cowboys on “Sunday Evening Soccer” at Levi's Stadium.
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