SANTA CLARA — Christian McCaffrey professed his endearing love for the Carolina area Friday morning as he headed again to the West Coast to renew his soccer profession with the 49ers.
McCaffrey, a 2017 first-round draft select of Stanford by the Panthers, was traded Thursday evening in trade for 3 draft picks subsequent 12 months (second, third and fourth rounds) and a 2024 fifth-round choice.
“I’m eternally grateful for the entire individuals who have helped make these previous 5 1/2 years so particular for me,” McCaffrey tweeted at 7:46 a.m. ET. “Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart. Carolina, I'll all the time love you. #KeepPounding.”
I’m eternally grateful for the entire individuals who have helped make these previous 5 1/2 years so particular for me. Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.
Carolina, I'll all the time love you💙#KeepPoundingpic.twitter.com/0rBS8Ajhgy
— Christian McCaffrey (@CMC_22) October 21, 2022
McCaffrey’s fiftieth and closing landing for the Panthers got here in opposition to the 49ers in his penultimate sport, and that 19-yard run on fourth-and-1 pulled Carolina inside 17-9 en path to a 37-15 loss. Carolina proceeded to fireplace coach Matt Rhule the next day and start a reconstruction undertaking that received’t embrace McCaffrey.
In confirming Thursday evening’s commerce on their web site, the Panthers famous that McCaffrey was “one of many league’s brightest stars throughout his first three seasons” and “the next two years have been tougher, as he was restricted to simply 10 video games in 2020 and 2021 due to a set of accidents.”
McCaffrey made AP First-Workforce All-Professional and the Professional Bowl in 2019 when he led the NFL with 2,392 yards from scrimmage, combining a career-best 1,387 speeding yards with 1,0005 receiving yards.
McCaffrey, 26, is predicted to be obtainable Sunday when the 49ers (3-3) host the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (4-2). Jeff Wilson Jr. has dealt with the vast majority of the 49ers’ working again duties since Elijah Mitchell went on injured reserve with a sprained knee within the season opener. Mitchell is predicted to be out two extra video games earlier than returning after the 49ers’ bye.
The 49ers are coming off a 28-14 loss at Atlanta on Sunday, once they have been shut out within the second half regardless of efforts from Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk — their “Y.A.C. bros” who’ll now welcome McCaffrey to their yards-after-catch crew.