CHARLOTTE, NC – Facts San Francisco 49ers sending second, third and fourth picks in 2023 and fifth picks in 2024 to Carolina Panthers let the star run again Christian McCaffreysources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday night.
The deal gives San Francisco an offensive player needed to compete for the Super Bowl. It also gives McCaffrey the chance to be on a winning team for the first time since his rookie season in 2017 when Carolina won 11-5 and returned to the Bay Area, where he starred in school. university at Stanford.
When healthy, McCaffrey is one of the best dual threats in the NFL. In 2019, he became the third player in NFL history to have the 1,000-meter javelin and the 1,000-meter receive in the same season. He’s 670 yards from the script – a lead team dashes to 393 yards and leads a team of 33 catching the ball in 277 yards – this season is fourth in the NFL.
“I am forever grateful to everyone who has helped make the past 5 and a half years so special to me,” McCaffrey posted on Twitter Friday morning. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Carolina, I will always love you.”
I am forever grateful to everyone who has helped make the past five and a half years so special for me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Carolina, I will always love you💙#KeepPounds pic.twitter.com/0rBS8Ajhgy
– Christian McCaffrey (@ CMC_22) October 21, 2022
Injuries are the biggest problem for the former Stanford star. He missed 23 of 33 games in the 2020 and 2021 seasons after being injury-free in his first three NFL seasons. He took time out this past season to talk with Hall of Fame re-run Marshall Faulk, who had some of his most productive seasons starting in 6th grade, about training practices. and his diet can keep him competitive.
McCaffrey has so far avoided injury, playing 85% of Carolina’s catch.
Speculation the Panthers (1-5) could continue from McCaffrey, 26, began after coach Matt Rhule was fired on Monday after the team fell 1-4 with a 37-15 defeat to the 49ers. According to a source not in the Panthers’ office, Carolina originally requested two first-round draft picks.
The Panthers announced the move on Thursday night and thanked McCaffrey in a tweet. Carolina did not disclose compensation from San Francisco.
Financially, the deal makes sense for Carolina. McCaffrey, the eighth pick of the 2017 draft, is on contract through the end of the 2025 season with a base salary of $11 million in 2022 and 2023 and $12 million in 2025. He has a cap. maturity is $19,550,750 in 2023 and 2024, and $15,450,750 in 2025.
The trade also makes financial sense for the 49ers this season. McCaffrey has a base salary of $1,035,000 in 2022 after his contract is restructured in December 2021. Between the $26,938,000 dead the Panthers have on their books in 2022. and his 2022 and 2023 limits, Carolina will have a 2023 capped savings of $1,198,500.
The Panthers have also received many trading calls from their other top players, wide receivers DJ Moorebut the team sees Moore as the foundation for the long-term roster, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
What helped the 49ers facilitate the trade was that their six additional third-round draft picks were granted to them for losing to Robert Saleh first. New York JetsMike McDaniel arrives Miami Dolphins and Martin Mayhew arrived Washington Commanders on recent vacations.
Thank you, Run CMC. pic.twitter.com/tkKD8aByDa
– Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) October 21, 2022
The move ultimately gave McCaffrey the chance to play for the 49ers and coach Kyle Shanahan, a pairing that almost happened when McCaffrey entered the 2017 NFL draft. San Francisco kept the #2 pick in the draft. draft, and Shanahan has said several times that he really considered McCaffrey as the first pick of his tenure before choosing to play as a defensive midfielder. Solomon ThomasMcCaffrey’s teammate at Stanford, after dropping to 3rd place.
Furthermore, the Shanahan and McCaffrey families have long had a dating relationship with McCaffrey’s father for nine seasons, Ed, played for Shanahan’s father, Mike, with Dancer broncos.
McCaffrey went 104 script yards and faced the Niners in San Francisco’s 37-15 win over the Panthers on October 9. Before that game, Shanahan said McCaffrey looked like he was back on his own after the confrontation. traumatized in recent years.
“McCaffrey is healthy,” Shanahan said. “And he looks like he used to. He’s a problem.”
McCaffrey now joins the talent skill pool that includes the recipient Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk and tight ending George Kittle. But the 49ers hope McCaffrey can help start the offense that has been disappointing in the first six weeks.
The Niners go into their Week 7 game with Chief of Kansas City ranked 22nd in terms of offensive points scored (18 per game) and 18th in yards per game (340.2).
For the 2023 NFL draft, San Francisco has now handled most of its top picks. It did not have the first choice as it moved to the Dolphins as the last part of the transaction until the quarterback draft Trey Lance in 2021. The earliest pick the Niners will have in that draft is the third round.
The 49ers are expected to have three picks in that round as they own a pair of offset picks in the third round. They no longer have one of those picks or any picks in the first, second, or fourth rounds.
Meanwhile, the Panthers will replace McCaffrey with the 2021 draft pick Chuba Hubbard and D’Onta Foremanwho was acquired in a transaction with Tennessee Titans during the season. Foreman has 12 37 yards and Hubbard five for 39 this season.
Dejected McCaffrey said, “All I want to do is win,” after Sunday’s loss last October 24. Los Angeles Rams reduced the Panthers to 1-5. Now he will have his chance.
ESPN’s Nick Wagoner contributed to this report.
