{"id":5189,"date":"2024-11-03T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2024-11-03T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:20:08","slug":"update-49ers-exonerated-no-nfl-rules-broken-in-christian-mccaffrey-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnews.azontree.com\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: 49ers Exonerated – No NFL Rules Broken in Christian McCaffrey Injury Report!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The San Francisco 49ers didn’t violate the NFL’s rules regarding the injury status of star running back Christian McCaffrey in Week 1, the league announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

“We have looked into the 49ers’ reporting of the playing status of Christian McCaffrey for the team’s Monday night game against the New York Jets,” the league said in a statement, via NFL Network’s\u00a0Tom Pelissero. “We have found no evidence of a violation of the league’s Injury Report Policy in this matter.”<\/p>\n

McCaffrey was revealed as inactive for the 49ers’ clash with the New York Jets mere hours before kickoff. After the game, backup Jordan Mason said that he learned he was starting on Friday (h\/t\u00a0Mike Florio\u00a0of Pro Football Talk).<\/p>\n

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McCaffrey was initially\u00a0listed\u00a0as questionable due to calf and Achilles issues, participating in practice on a limited basis throughout the week leading up to the game.<\/p>\n

Despite Mason’s comments after the win, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan claimed that he never told the running back that he was in line to start.<\/p>\n

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“I never told Jordan he was gonna start,” Shanahan told reporters (h\/t\u00a0Florio). “Told him he had to be ready a bunch. But it might have been [running backs coach] Bobby [Turner] or somebody trying to pump him up. But I knew he was gonna have to play a lot. Told him that it wasn’t gonna be like usual.”<\/p>\n