At this point, it’s well known that Christian McCaffrey is dealing with Achilles tendinitis, but what’s not so well known is how the injury happened. The 49ers running back missed most of training camp due to what was termed a “calf” issue, but the team never offered any details about how he suffered the injury.
During an interview on the “Ross Tucker Football Podcast,” McCaffrey’s dad, Ed, shed some light on how his son got injured.
“Tendinitis is an over-training injury, meaning you’re training too hard or doing too much, and it turns into tendinitis,” Ed said, via NBC Sports Bay Area. “If I would say that Christian has a weakness, it’s that he sometimes has to protect himself from himself, in terms of training too much and doing too much.”
The younger McCaffrey is notorious for his brutal offseason training, and as Ed said, it appears that this was the root cause. The 49ers running back originally was experiencing Achilles tendinitis in just one of his legs, but by the time September rolled around, he was dealing with it in both legs. Ed offered an explanation for why that happened.
“It started with one, then it creeps into your calf and you start overcompensating and then you start feeling it in the other one,” Ed said. “It’s just tendinitis. It just means it’s very, very sore.”
That soreness hasn’t gone away, which is a big reason why the younger McCaffrey flew off to Germany in September. The 49ers running back was looking for some advice on how to get the injury to heal faster.
“He trusts his 49ers training staff,but when the prescription is just to rest, he’s going to go out and get other professional opinions from people around the world,” Ed said of the trip to Germany.
As things stand now, it’s still not clear when McCaffrey might return to the line up.
“If you have tendinitis, you have tendinitis,” Ed said. “I think of it as tennis elbow. You see…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-10-03 14:37:54
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