Slate Stats › NFL › Injury impact
Christian McCaffrey injury: status, history and who gets his targets if he is out
San Francisco 49ers · Running back · status this week: not on the week 7 injury report (week 7 report, captured Wed 21 Oct, 6:15am)
Over his 9 full seasons on record, Christian McCaffrey played 112 of 149 regular-season games (75%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026. Season by season.
The San Francisco 49ers room absorbs +6.68 carries, and Kaelon Black takes the largest single share at +6.68. The work stays overwhelmingly inside the running back room.
Where the work goes
Change in projected carries for every other player in the offense. The bars are small on purpose — a vacated role is shared out, and any tool showing one replacement absorbing a whole target load is telling you something the data does not support.
Every player in the room
| Player | Carries now | If he sits | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian McCaffrey RB · 75% snaps | 16.00 | — | OUT |
| Kaelon Black RB · 23% snaps | 5.80 | 12.48 | +6.68 |
Injury history
Over his 9 full seasons on record, Christian McCaffrey played 112 of 149 regular-season games (75%), and 6 of 6 so far in 2026.
| Season | Team | Played | Missed | Listed out | Questionable | Injuries listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | SF | 6 of 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | SF | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Calf |
| 2024 | SF | 4 of 17 | 13 | 1 | 2 | Calf, Achilles |
| 2023 | SF | 16 of 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Calf, Oblique |
| 2022 | SF | 17 of 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Thigh |
| 2021 | CAR | 7 of 17 | 10 | 2 | 0 | Hamstring |
| 2020 | CAR | 3 of 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | Shoulder, Thigh |
| 2019 | CAR | 16 of 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | CAR | 16 of 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | CAR | 16 of 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Shoulder |
What the data says happens
Measured across every regular-season game from 2018 onward, each beneficiary compared against his own trailing four-game form and net of what the same players do in weeks the room’s number one actually plays.
| Room | Receptions gained | n | t |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receivers | +0.112 | 2,094 | 2.36 |
| Tight ends | +0.103 | 1,258 | 2.16 |
| Backs | +0.610 | 1,042 | 11.17 |
The room total is predictable. Which player takes it is not. Every candidate predictor of who gains — pecking order, snap share, route depth, trailing targets — correlates at roughly r = 0.02. In any single week one player usually takes about 60% of what was vacated; it is simply not predictably the same one.
Christian McCaffrey’s full stats and usageSnap share, target share, game log and this week’s projection