Christian McCaffrey: Carolina Panthers commerce star working again to the San Francisco 49ers

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The Carolina Panthers have confirmed running-back Christian McCaffrey shall be traded to the San Francisco 49ers, pending a bodily examination, in trade for a bunch of draft picks.

Based on NFL.com, the deal will see the Panthers obtain a second, third and fourth-round choose within the 2023 draft, in addition to a fifth-round choose in 2024.

It comes at a time when the Panthers need to rebuild the roster and middle it round a bunch of rising younger expertise.

McCaffrey has loved a powerful and prolonged keep on the Panthers, becoming a member of as a first-round choose in 2017.

His finest yr got here in 2019, when he led the league in yards from scrimmage with 2,392 and he ran a career-best of 1,387 yards.

Accidents in 2020 and 2021 have restricted his taking part in time since then however the 26-year-old has remained comparatively wholesome this yr, rating twelfth within the NFL in carries (85), thirteenth in speeding yards (393), thirty first in targets (43) and nineteenth in receptions (33).

The franchise fired head coach Matt Rhule earlier this month with the group struggling for type, prompting hypothesis about McCaffrey’s future.

The Panthers thanked the running-back in a tweet on Thursday, writing: “Thanks, Run CMC.”

He'll return to the Bay Space the place he attended school at Stanford, coming runner-up within the Heisman Trophy in 2015.

McCaffrey could play a minor position for his new group because the 49ers tackle the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday.