🚨 Christian McCaffrey Injured! Is He Still the #1 Overall Player? (08/06 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Christian McCaffrey is out a couple of weeks with a calf injury and we're here with our instant reaction! Is McCaffrey still the #1 overall pick in Fantasy? Who else would it be? Elijah Mitchell is also injured so we will tell you if there is any other 49ers running back to draft. And we also tell you why Deebo Samuel could be on his way to a huge season.
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| 0:30.4 | Bonus podcast for you here on Fantasy Football today. Obviously some big news here. A lot of big news at a San Francisco lately with the 49ers. We're going to focus on the running backs Christian McCaffrey with that calf injury. He could miss a couple of weeks, but you never |
| 0:45.2 | know with calf injuries. Eliza Mitchell is also hurt right now, but Jamie let's start with |
| 0:49.6 | McCaffrey. Is he still the number one overall player in drafts for you? |
| 0:54.0 | If I was drafting today yes as we get more information you know he may continue to slide |
| 0:58.8 | but you know when you you look at it CD lamb Lamb holding out, Terry Kil 30, Justin Jefferson, who's his quarterback, |
| 1:07.0 | Jamar Chase holding in. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, it's like there's a lot of question marks at the top. |
| 1:10.0 | Now clearly, when you're talking about an injured player that supersedes everything. |
| 1:14.6 | When you're talking about an injured player is 28 that supersedes everything even more, you're talking about |
| 1:18.6 | injured players 28 coming off a season with 400 plus touches, it's very, you know, difficult to say he should be the number one. |
| 1:26.0 | It's hard to make an argument that he should still be the number one overall player. |
| 1:29.2 | So we've seen some drafts where the receivers have gone first and I think at this point we might start to see that more often. |
| 1:37.6 | So for today, McCaffrey's still number one, but you know if we get some information that that makes this a little bit more |
| 1:44.0 | concerning then we could we could see him start to slide. Yeah Elijah Mitchell just so you know he |
| 1:49.9 | was in 2021 he got two hundred and seven carries in 11 games. He was a top |
| 1:54.8 | 16 running bag. He was 11th per game in non-PPR 16th per game in full PPR and that was |
| 2:00.0 | with hardly any catches on pace for 29 catches in a 17 game season. |
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