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Upon hearing that San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey had been added to the injury report on Saturday, fantasy football managers with stock in the superstar rusher went into panic mode.
That's an understandable response, especially in the first week of the fantasy football playoffs. After all, McCaffrey is one of the best players at his position in fantasy.
However, ESPN's Adam Schefter is offering some relief in the wake of that news.
Despite being added to the injury report with a back issue on Saturday, Schefter reports that McCaffrey is expected to be "good to go" for Sunday.
"Despite being added to the injury report today as questionable due to a back injury, 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey is expected to be “good to go” Sunday vs. the Titans," Schefter reported.
We can all breathe now.
While that's certainly great to hear, don't you dare let your guard down.
It still makes sense to add Brian Robinson Jr., who would take the reins of the backfield in the event that McCaffrey doesn't play.
Serving as more motivation to do that is the fact that the 49ers play in the late window on Sunday, so if McCaffrey does get ruled out and you don't have Robinson, you'll have less options to replace McCaffrey.
Another suggestion is to place McCaffrey in your flex spot if you currently have a running back there. That opens up the opportunity to replace him with a wide receiver if need be.
One thing we remain concerned about now with McCaffrey if he does play is he might have a limited workload.
With the real playoffs approaching, and with a layup matchup against the Titans, the Niners might want to take it easy after his new injury and could opt to give Robinson more work.
To be clear, nobody is reporting that, we're just considering all possibilities here.
Regardless, you cannot sit McCaffrey this week, so you just have to roll with him no matter what is said about his workload before the game.
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