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Why you shouldn't be afraid to draft Christian McCaffrey

Why you shouldn't be afraid to draft Christian McCaffrey

Yahoo31-07-2025
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and Establish the Run's fantasy analyst John Diagle implore fantasy managers to draft running back Christian McCaffrey, despite all the injuries he endured last year. Hear the full conversation on the 'Yahoo Fantasy Forecast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I do just want to give you the floor to implore people why they should take Christian McCaffrey.
Because I, I know that in our bubble, Dale, like we know how good he is and how impactful a player he is, but there's gonna be a section of people watching this show right now or listening to this podcast and saying, I'm never taking this guy again after what happened last year.
Tell the people like you think that is a mistake.
He's the only running back who has had 2.
1+ points per game in multiple seasons, the last three years, not even Saquon Barkley accomplished that.
And as we saw last year, even when he returned and was not at full strength, he outtouched Jordan Mason 42 to 3 in those games.
They are not going to use anyone else and it's a conversation like we had with Will Fuller whenever he was still at the tail end of his prime, when people are more scared of the injury.
But you shouldn't be asking that.
You should be asking when you're not injured, can you win me your my league?
And Christian McCaffrey literally breaks fantasy football as the RB one when he's healthy.
And now you can get that guy at the back of the first round solely for recency bias.
So, I am back in one more time with Christian McCaffrey as a hero, anchor RB build, and then that first 2nd round turn is where you can then take someone like Nico Collins, I know, I listen to Matt Harmon shows.
I know Nico Collins is a personal favorite of both of ours, but Malik Neighbors is some time there as well, as we talked about earlier, Drake London is someone who should be going higher, someone I'm very high on as someone who could break out as a potential wide receiver one.
So you can go RB wide receiver to start, and then come back around and see who's left over.
But Christian McCaffrey, if you're in the back end, I think you should just be building your entire lineup around him.
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