Christian McCaffrey

Christian McCaffery led the NFL in touches in 2025 with 450. As I cited heading into the 2025 season regarding Saquon Barkley, chasing these RBs the year after they post monster touch totals is not a good bet to make. Barkley finished 2025 as the RB13. In the last 13 years, only one of those RBs was a top-5 fantasy RB the next year. after seeing 400-plus touches. One. Fade CMC in 2026.
As I cited heading into the 2025 season regarding Saquon Barkley, chasing these RBs the year after they post monster touch totals is not a good bet to make. Barkley finished 2025 as the RB13.
In the last 13 years, only one of those RBs was a top-5 fantasy RB the next year...after seeing 400-plus touches. One. Fade CMC as a top-3 pick in 2026.

Christian McCaffrey had eight carries for a season-low 23 yards and caught six passes for 34 yards during San Francisco's 13-3 setback to Seattle on Saturday night.

Fantasy Impact

McCaffrey's six receptions did put him into the NFL record books as he became the first running back to register three different 100-catch seasons. However, it was the catch he didn't make that proved costly for the 49ers as a Brock Purdy pass attempt went off his hands and into the arms of Seattle's Drake Thomas at the Seahawks' three-yard line early in the fourth. The 23 rushing yards and the 57 yards from scrimmage marked season-lows for McCaffrey.