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If that game was this week, McCaffrey would have participated in Tuesday's practice, he said.

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Shanahan signals McCaffrey on track for season opener; denies holdout speculation.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan indicated that if the 49ers' season-opening game against Melbourne, Australia were this week instead of three weeks away, McCaffrey would have participated in Tuesday's practice, suggesting he is on track to suit up for the backfield in the season opener. However, none of the $30 million owed to McCaffrey over the next two years is guaranteed, creating financial incentive concerns that Shanahan emphatically denied were driving the absence.