Christian McCaffrey Battles Bilateral Achilles Tendonitis

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00:00And the update around Christian McCaffrey was that he was not even going to be stateside.

00:04He was going to fly to Germany to see a specialist to deal with the Achilles tendinitis

00:09that had him placed on IR for the San Francisco 49ers. Well, a further update last night from

00:16ESPN's Adam Schefter is that he is dealing with Achilles tendinitis not just in one leg,

00:22but in both legs. So maybe he's going to Germany to get answers on this,

00:28but there does not seem to be an end in sight for Christian McCaffrey. The IR stint that is

00:35up to four weeks could be continued beyond. Now, Jordan Mason has been fine. The Niners handled

00:42business as a double-digit favorite against the Patriots on Sunday to improve to an even 500,

00:49two and two. But when you're losing the best offensive player in the National Football League,

00:53at least he won offensive player of the year a season ago, it's never a good sign.

00:59And it's never a good sign when uncertainty clouds the situation.

01:04Yeah. So it's, it's kind of crazy how this worked out, right? It's been bothering his one leg for a

01:09while. And because of that, he's been unbeknownst to him over using the other leg to compensate for

01:16the pain in the right leg. And now he's created tendinitis in both of them, but it still is the

01:22only one leg that seems to be bothering him. But here's the other problem. They keep saying,

01:28there's nothing you could do except rest this. That's the only treatment. If there's no tears

01:34and nothing requires surgery, then the only thing that is going to help this is basically

01:40resting it and not playing NFL football. So who knows, Ben, when he's coming back at this point,

01:47and if it's worth it, because if he comes back and he pulls it,

01:50what then what we're in the next year before we can see him again.