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49ers RB Christian McCaffrey shared some details of his injury rehab process<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Christian McCaffrey emerged \u201csore but felt good\u201d from Sunday\u2019s season debut featuring 56 snaps, 19 touches and 107 yards from scrimmage. The 49ers\u2019 23-20 win over the Buccaneers in Tampa launched his comeback after two-plus months battling Achilles tendinitis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re dealing with an injury and come back, it\u2019s a common misconception you have fresh legs,\u201d McCaffrey said Thursday. \u201cFor a long time there I was struggling walking to the bathroom. So you can\u2019t train for a long time. They\u2019re fresh in the sense they haven\u2019t been beat up, but you also have to get back into training. That\u2019s why it takes long sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he rehabbed with the 49ers\u2019 strength staff and sought advice from other athletes with similar ailments, McCaffrey was aghast at how outsiders portrayed themselves as experts in his plight.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing I learned about the whole process is you get a lot of Instagram doctors out there,\u201d McCaffrey said. \u201cI had guys diagnosing my injury, PhD doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m watching a Sunday night game and some doctor is talking about my injury on TV,\u201d McCaffrey added. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it. I\u2019d never talked to him in my life, he\u2019d never seen imaging, talked to me, diagnosed me. It\u2019s just kind of the world we live in now.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaffrey resumed practicing last week after 51 days away from team activities, and he came off the injured reserve list Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to stay focused on my plan, what I trusted in, go from there and limit the outside noise,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause everyone has an answer and they\u2019re all different.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaffrey approved of his debut outing, especially his on-field vision as well as what he saw on film afterward, including a 30-yard reception from a pressured Brock Purdy on a fourth-quarter touchdown drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was insane,\u201d McCaffrey said of the throw. \u201cMost of the time when you\u2019re throwing that ball and you see it go that high, that ball is going to go much farther than 20 yards. But he somehow managed to drop it in a bucket on his back foot with pressure in his face.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaffrey\u2019s encore comes Sunday when the ascending 49ers (5-4) host the spiraling Seahawks (4-5).<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say \u2018any given Sunday\u2019 for a reason. This is a division game, at home, with a good team,\u201d McCaffrey added. \u201cWe know what this game is about: going out there and executing and playing as hard as humanly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Achilles tendinitis, however, remains a mystifying ailment to last season\u2019s AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year. He missed most of training camp, then returned to practice for two weeks before the season opener in which he was a game-time scratch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I had the answer of \u2018Here is exactly what to do before and after,\u2019\u201d McCaffrey said. \u201cSometimes maybe I overcomplicated things. Who knows, man? I mean, I\u2019m learning on the fly just like everybody else. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately the first part of the season, they didn\u2019t work for me and it\u2019s just something I\u2019ll have to live with,\u201d McCaffrey said. \u201cBut I feel good now, I like the plan now, and I\u2019ll keep rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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