Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995. His all-time favorite athlete is a right-handed pitcher at Division III Linfield College in Oregon.
SANTA CLARA — There’s a running back renaissance taking place in the NFL and Christian McCaffrey has yet to take part in it.
But it’s been a slog the likes of which McCaffrey is unfamiliar. He has 149 yards on 43 carries, a 3.5-yard average that is down from 5.4 in 2023 when he was the. Most telling, the 49ers’ most frequent visitor to the end zone since Jerry Rice — McCaffrey had 39 touchdowns in 33 regular and postseason games going into the season — has has played three games and hasn’t scored a touchdown.
“I feel like I’m getting a lot better,” McCaffrey said Wednesday. “My mindset is always the same whether I have success or failure. I think when you lose maybe you don’t jump out on the stat sheet and your failures get highlighted. But there’s stuff that happens when you have huge games that I’m upset at. That mindset has been the same my whole career and nothing is going to change there.”
General manager John Lynch cited the game circumstance and is convinced McCaffrey is on the verge of breaking out.
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