Christian McCaffrey to miss "a few weeks"

[glenwo2]

Wow...that is GIGANTIC Good News!

 

So....these next two games will be an opportunity to further create a Non-CMC Gameplan for Sam and the rest of the team to execute so that when CMC comes back, Sam will be like "You get a pass, you get a pass, everyone on the Panthers gets a Pass from me!!"

[NAS]

Great news!

[Panthera onca]

Great news for sure.

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Our run game might improve actually. We will adapt our scheme a little to accommodate Hubbard as the primary ball carrier and take advantage of his traits. Defenses don’t know what that looks like yet. 10 days to prepare for Dallas. 

Edited September 24, 2021 by USDepartmentOfSavagery

[t96]

2 minutes ago, SteveSmithTD89 said:

The pro of these stupid TNF games is we have 10 days till Dallas, almost like a mini bye. Means he likely misses only 2 games against Dallas and Philly with plans to have him back for Minnesota. 

The team not placing him on IR seems to indicate they also think he'll be 100% by that 3rd game. We saw last year they aren't afraid to shut him down till he's 100%.

Yeah and I'm pretty confident even without Horn and McCaffrey that we can at least split those 2 games and get McCaffrey back sitting at 4-1 if not 5-0.

[pantherdad]

18 minutes ago, BurnNChinn said:

And Tremble, did u see him run lol.

I didn’t think he was ever gonna make it to the end zone lol 

[hepcat]

I'm cautious with this update. A "few weeks" can turn into a month, can turn into him coming back too early like last year. If this team is in contention in November, hold him out as long as possible for a playoff push.

[BIGH2001]

We were in most games without him last year with a significantly worse roster. I think we can make ends meet until he comes back. 

[TheRumGone]

I’m guessing he’s gonna be out 3-4 weeks. I hope he heals up and doesn’t reaggravate it down the stretch when we need him most.

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Selfishly just hope he’s back in time for the New England game on 11/7 since I’ll be making the trip to Charlotte for that one. 

[trueblade]

20 minutes ago, Adb6368 said:

Royce freeman is known for his pass protection. Not so much his running. 

I thought Freeman had on of the best runs of the night on one of the very few plays where there was actually a visible hole to run through. Chubba might be pretty good but he's a rook and still growing into his NFL body. Think about how different CMC looked his rookie year to now. Royce needs to be the lead back as soon as he knows the playbook well enough.

[Darknight]

36 minutes ago, Monrowed said:

Awesome, now the Panthers just need Hubbard and Royce to try and make up 75% of what CMC can do.

As long as they don't throw the ball to Hubbard then he'll be fine.

[SBBlue]

Fantasy league players throughout the county rejoice.

[ThPantherFan]

49 minutes ago, t96 said:

Friendly reminder that the IR rules have changed last year and this year, and now you can place as many players on IR as you want and ALL of them are eligible to return after 3 weeks.

 

So basically, if IR is not the plan as of now then the team thinks he's got a shot to play in 3 weeks or less. Otherwise they'd take the roster spot. Definitely encouraging news given the alternatives.

Great information.  Thanks.