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RB Christian McCaffrey, SF (3 Viewers)

Christian McCaffrey rushed 21 times for 98 yards in the Panthers' Week 1 win over the Jets, adding nine receptions for 89 additional yards.

McCaffrey has the first four touches for the Panthers, which included a 17 yard screen pass that was wiped out by penalty. Sam Darnold was at times locked onto McCaffrey, as if he was the Panthers' No. 1 receiver. In terms of targets, he was. McCaffrey led the team with nine targets and was used repeatedly on crossing routes over the middle, which he was excellent on. He also iced the game on the Panthers' final drive when he bounced a run outside and, picked up the clinching first down and smartly slid in bounds to keep the clock running. McCaffrey will continue breaking fantasy football when he faces the Saints in Week 2.
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I'm just scared to death of him breaking down again however. He was taking some monster hits in that game from D-lineman. 30 touches is tough, even though a reception touch is not the same as running it up the middle 

 
I've got him in a league that gives 5 bonus points for 100 yards rushing/receiving.  Dude was 2 rushing yards shy and 11 receiving yards shy of the elusive double bonus....gonna be fun watching him each week 

 
Christian McCaffrey was forced from Carolina's Week 3 game against the Texans with a hamstring injury and will not return. 

McCaffrey was ruled out for the evening mere moments after heading to the blue medical tent in the second quarter. Quick in-game rule outs are always an ominous sign, and McCaffrey spent over 10 minutes getting worked on in the tent. That is not typical. FOX showed a zoomed-in replay of McCaffrey's leg visibly twinging, causing the running back to take a false step. Hopefully it is just his hamstring. Chuba Hubbard is the next man up and already seeing work, with Royce Freeman the No. 3. CMC had seven carries for 31 yards before going down, adding two receptions for nine yards. Although he has 10 days to get healthy, it certainly doesn't look like a situation where he will be ready for Week 4 against the Cowboys. For what it's worth, McCaffrey does not have a history of hamstring issues. 
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creepythinman said:
Have a superflex draft coming up with the #2 pick and I'm hoping #1 takes CMC. He ruined my season last year in my main league and for some reason I sensed the injuries coming as soon as he got paid and started living on Instagram with his model girlfriend.

Even without him CMC, I had a drafted team of Mahomes-Taylor-Montgomery-Ridley-Diontae but missed the playoffs as (statistically impossibly) I had a 4 week stretch that I scored the 2nd most points in the league every week but went 0-4 as I faced the week winner each week. Irrational I know but CMC will forever represent bad juju for me.
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TampaMike19 said:
got any other bold predictions from your world famous gut calls? Lol

If it happens again this year then perhaps I’ll believe you
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:wall:

Last seasoned ruined by a high ankle sprain on a nothing tackle and a hurt shoulder on a nothing tackle.

Now, a pulled hamstring on a nothing run.

 
Brittle stiff but certainly not helped by the team running him into the ground 

Rhule got the car out of the shop and took it straight to the highway to do 110

 
Smack Tripper said:
Brittle stiff but certainly not helped by the team running him into the ground 

Rhule got the car out of the shop and took it straight to the highway to do 110
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Yeah all these CmC carries are starting to add up. What a disaster the 1st round was for RBs. Arguments for avoiding that position altogether in the 1st round are getting stronger.

 
Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal

McCaffery was given 59 touches in 2 weeks with this TNF game coming. He was still getting carries on Carolina’s final drive last week, up 26-7.

Adam Harstad @AdamHarstad

Mr. @JasonLisk  did some research a decade ago that suggested that, while season-long workload concerns (“curse of 370”) were mostly bull####, short-term overwork was probably a thing. RB injury rates were elevated for a week or two after a 30-carry game, e.g.

 
Even if he's back in 3-6 weeks how much longer can they keep giving this dude the kind of insane volume that puts him so far ahead of the fantasy competition? 

 
oswizzle said:
The Era of spoon feeding these guys tons of touches is coming to an end…. 
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I think every situation/coaching staff is different, but we're starting to see it with Zeke, so it could happen here, too. Who knows with Cook, who is batting injuries now. Seems like Tomlin is one of the few coaches that will remain firmly committed to a bell cow.

But I digress - this is about CMC.

 
FreeBaGeL said:
Even if he's back in 3-6 weeks how much longer can they keep giving this dude the kind of insane volume that puts him so far ahead of the fantasy competition? 
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if they are smart not much longer...he is so good in both the run and pass game game that they will still get excellent production from him if/when they cut down his workload...fantasy owners may cringe at first but I think this will be better for them as he can't help you when he is injured.

 
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You don’t hurt your hamstring because you had 9 touches in a game, to blame this on over usage after he played 3 games last season is lazy and untrue.

 
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DMXATF23 said:
You don’t hurt your hamstring because you had 9 touches in a game, to blame this on over usage after he played 3 games last season is lazy and untrue.
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I don't have enough information to sway me either way, but the argument is over usage in the short term.  So too many touches in short span of time (18 days).

 
I'm no doctor and surely there's going to be an update. Rest and heal phase varies of course depending on the grade of the strain/pull/tear. 2-4 weeks (it didn't look like a catastrophic complete tear to me given that he was walking around). Then it's rebuild strength and ramp up activity for a couple of weeks.

I'm betting they come out with a "back in 4-6 weeks" and hope he actually rests it long enough to heal completely and not be at risk of re-injury. If I had to bet I'd say he's back in week 9-10. It's really a bummer that their bye is so late. We're probably looking at like 6-8 usable games from him left this year.

Anxious for an update. 

Get than man on Alex Guererro's client list. 

 
DMXATF23 said:
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours first.
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I am trying to gather information in regards to this situation.  As my post indicated I don't have enough information to sway me either way and was just referencing the quote by penguin the argument was too much work in a short period of time.  

Penguin said:
Gregg Rosenthal @greggrosenthal

McCaffery was given 59 touches in 2 weeks with this TNF game coming. He was still getting carries on Carolina’s final drive last week, up 26-7.

Adam Harstad @AdamHarstad

Mr. @JasonLisk  did some research a decade ago that suggested that, while season-long workload concerns (“curse of 370”) were mostly bull####, short-term overwork was probably a thing. RB injury rates were elevated for a week or two after a 30-carry game, e.g.
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smbkrypt24 said:
I don't have enough information to sway me either way, but the argument is over usage in the short term.  So too many touches in short span of time (18 days).
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I responded to this post: 

DMXATF23 said:
It’s a weak argument.
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I thought I would dig to find out what you knew.

 
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Muscle strains come from overload. Incorrect training and/or usage.

Muscles can only take a certain amount of load before overstretching or tearing. The amount of load decreases if your muscles are fatigued. Lack of pliability could be a contributing factor.

This is probably solely related to his strength and pliability training vs usage this year.

Watching the play, he was trying to burst around the left side edge and reach top speed. He reached for a gear that gave out.

For me this is more of an indictment of:

Thursday night game after too much usage on Sunday. 20 fewer snaps last Sunday and maybe he's fine today. Sunday before Thursday should probably be looked at by teams as a game to rotate guys if they can.

Lack of proper training. Maybe he worked so hard on the areas that were trouble last year that he somewhat neglected the hammys?

 
greenmountaingoat said:
Muscle strains come from overload. Incorrect training and/or usage.

Muscles can only take a certain amount of load before overstretching or tearing. The amount of load decreases if your muscles are fatigued. Lack of pliability could be a contributing factor.

This is probably solely related to his strength and pliability training vs usage this year.

Watching the play, he was trying to burst around the left side edge and reach top speed. He reached for a gear that gave out.

For me this is more of an indictment of:

Thursday night game after too much usage on Sunday. 20 fewer snaps last Sunday and maybe he's fine today. Sunday before Thursday should probably be looked at by teams as a game to rotate guys if they can.

Lack of proper training. Maybe he worked so hard on the areas that were trouble last year that he somewhat neglected the hammys?
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I know some people have stated it in jest, but he really should look into the TB12 method or something similar.  I shouldn't speak out of turn for CMac's diet by any means, but people need to understand there is significant merit to the idea of eating in such a way that your body and tissues have reduced inflammation and therefore reduced likelihood to "malfunction."  I've said for years - how/why is it that we see some of these guys that look like they are chiseled out of granite, 2% body fat, "in great shape" blah blah blah, but then one misstep and their achilles tendons explode?  All the training, all the reps, the hours, the effort, gone in ONE incorrect rep.

Well, because the majority of these athletes are walking around with tissues that are basically highly compacted sugar.  Tons of these guys eat processed garbage, whether just raised on it and its now habit, or because they're surrounded by it wherever they go - but because their external appearances and on field performances indicate they are adonises in peak condition, they have no reason to question their diets.  Many are highly inflamed (internally), undernourished, under slept, and under recovered - a ticking time bomb in a collision sport like football.  

 
greenmountaingoat said:
Lack of proper training. Maybe he worked so hard on the areas that were trouble last year that he somewhat neglected the hammys?
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Ironic that the injury came only a few minutes after the announcers were raving about how hard he trained after last year's injury and that his legs now "look like Earl Campbell's".

 
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