Niners Nation on Christian McCaffrey

McCaffrey's muscle tightness may be a hold-in for contract renegotiation after market reset.

McCaffrey has been sidelined for roughly a week with an injury described as 'muscle tightness.' Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio suggests the timing is suspicious—occurring just days after Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs reset the running back market—and speculates McCaffrey may be holding in to secure a new contract. McCaffrey is in the next-to-last year of his deal earning $12.5 million with no guaranteed money, while the average for elite backs is $19 million. Florio notes McCaffrey is 'looking at 12.5 saying, What's wrong with this picture?' and may be taking a quiet stand to renegotiate without the visibility of Robinson and Gibbs's holdout.

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