Christian McCaffrey joins 49ers, this short list of Bay Area stars

McClymonds High School and USF legend Bill Russell was only a Boston Celtic in the NBA. Candace Wiggins and the Ogwumike sisters all became WNBA stars far away from Stanford, in no small part because the Bay Area doesn't have a team.

McCaffrey accrued 5,128 yards from scrimmage and scored 31 touchdowns in three years on The Farm, finishing second to then-Alabama star Derrick Henry in Heisman Trophy voting in 2015. The Carolina Panthers selected McCaffrey No. 8 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft, and two years later he became only the third player in NFL history to finish a season with 1,000 receiving yards and 1,000 rushing yards.

McCaffrey's college pedigree brings him closer in line with another Stanford star-turned-49ers staple: John Brodie, the 1956 consensus All-American quarterback whom the 49ers drafted No. 3 overall in 1957. Brodie was NFL MVP in 1970, and San Francisco later retired his jersey number. Chastain was a three-time All-American — once at Cal, then twice at Santa Clara — with two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal under her belt by the time women's professional soccer leagues formed in the U.S. She later played one season for FC Gold Pride of Women's Professional Soccer in 2009, when the club called Santa Clara's Buck Shaw Stadium home.

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