THE RECORD BREAKER

A candid Q&A with Christian McCaffrey, repeat record-breaker and one of the NFL’s true superstars

- NICOLAS STECHER

On any given Sunday fans around the world tune into the National Football League to watch Christian McCaffrey of the San Francisco 49ers light up the gridiron unlike anyone. It’s not hyperbole to state CMC is one of the most electric and explosive players of all time. After shattering records in both high school (Colorado) and college (Stanford), he was drafted 8th overall in 2017 by the Carolina Panthers, and soon became one of only three players ever to record 1,000 rushing and 1,000 receiving yards in the same season.

In 2020 Christian was voted 6th overall by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 list, and was rewarded with a four-year / $64 million extension by the Panthers, making him the highest-paid running back in NFL history. Notably, soon after our interview McCaffrey was blessed by the Football Gods when the Panthers traded him to the 49ers for a haul of draftpicks, offering him a rare shot at a Super Bowl run. And all the star running back did ten days later was notch the rarest of all touch-down hat tricks: rushing, catching and even throwing a TD in the same game, becoming one of only three players in the Super Bowl era ever to accomplish this unicorn feat.

You’re one of the most electric players in the NFL, consistently a top fantasy football pick. Any bragging rights in the locker room?