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Myth buster christian mccaffrey


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The Official Christian McCaffrey myth-buster post (I want all the smoke)

Myth #1 - CMC at 5'11 208 is too small to be a feature back

Mythbuster - Let's take a look at backs of similar size that have had long, successful careers (all time rushing rank):

Curtis Martin 5'11 210 (5)
LaDainian Tomlinson 5'11 215 (6)
Marshall Faulk 5'11 210 (12)
Warrick Dunn 5'9 180 (22)
Lesean McCoy 5'11 207 (26)
Tiki Barber 5'10 200 (27)
Chris Johnson 5'11 195 (35)
Priest Holmes 5'9 210 (46)

Myth #2 - CMC is being overused 

Mythbuster - His touches per game is in line with all of the other starting RBs

Elliott - 24.4 touches per game
Gurley 23.2 
Barkley 22.4
Conner 21.1
Fournette 20.8
CMC 20.2
David Johnson 20
Gordon 19.7
Kamara 18.8

Myth #3 - Force feeding CMC has held back our offense

Mythbuster - According to analytics from Football Outsiders, our offense is

8th in the league in efficiency
5th in the league in points per drive
5th in the league in offensive drive success rate
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/drivestatsoff

According to data from Sharp Football Stats, CMC ranks (see photo):

4th among all RBs in successful run play percentage
2nd among all RBs in successful receiving play percentage

Myth #4 - CMC needs to come off of the field in the red zone.

Mythbuster - 
The Panthers are 7th in the league in red zone TD percentage

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/red-zone-scoring-pct

Myth #5 - CMC needs to share more touches with an RB2

Mythbuster - His share of touches as a % of his team's total is in line with other top RBs. 

Zeke 50.7%
Barkley 49.1%
Gurley 44.9%
Conner 41.7%
CMC 41.5%
Kamara 34.5%

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58 minutes ago, KillaCamNewton said:

side note, picked him 8th overall in my fantasy league and everyone laughed and called me a homer

12 team, I picked Julio 10th before a Falcons fan could get him and then got McC 15th. I'm in first...

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Hmmmm so I’ll point out the obvious

CMCs myth is much like the black qb myth 

and the myth huddler racists don’t want to say ‘not athletic’ enough

all of the OPs myths basically say he’s not black enough to be a RB...

thats the real myth

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People were rediculous last season talking negative about McCaffrey. It was clearly the Shula not utilizing him properly. After this season anyone who talks bad about CMAC in any way should be banned. We have not had an offensive threat at his level since Smitty in his prime and CMAC may be even better when it’s all said and done after week 16. 

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3 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

People were rediculous last season talking negative about McCaffrey. It was clearly the Shula not utilizing him properly. After this season anyone who talks bad about CMAC in any way should be banned. We have not had an offensive threat at his level since Smitty in his prime and CMAC may be even better when it’s all said and done after week 16. 

Barring injury he could one day have a 1000 rushing and 1000 receiving year if not this season. Very similar to Marshall Faulk 

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