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

McCaffrey has been sidelined for roughly a week with an injury described as 'muscle tightness.' Mike Florio suggests this may be a hold-in for contract renegotiation rather than a legitimate injury, noting the timing is suspicious given that Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs recently reset the running back market. McCaffrey is in the next-to-last year of his contract earning $12.5 million with no guaranteed money, while the average for elite backs is $19 million. Florio argues McCaffrey is taking a quiet stand to secure more guaranteed money in the out years without the visibility of Robinson and Gibbs's holdout.

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