San Francisco 49ers legend Jerry Rice is completely comfy with Christian McCaffrey taking down a few of his information.
Rice holds the 49ers’ single-season document for touchdowns scored in a season with 22, a mark he set in 1987. McCaffrey might be taking intention at that mark through the closing three weeks of the season, as he has already tallied 20 scores on the season.
So far as Rice is anxious, his document was made to be damaged.
“What he brings to the desk, I’m speaking about from scrimmage, from dashing the ball, from catching the ball, scoring touchdowns, he does all of it man, he does all of it,” Rice instructed 49ers linebacker Fred Warner in an look on “The Warner House” podcast, via Jordan Elliott of NBC Sports activities Bay Space. “I make certain once I go to the ballgame and I’m out on the sector that I stroll over and I say good day to him and simply work together with the gamers.
“Information are supposed to be damaged. I used to be very lucky to have so many nice gamers round me and I believe the identical factor is occurring with [McCaffrey]. He’s a whole ball participant, works very exhausting, may be very all the way down to earth. So it’s okay, it’s alright. I acquired fairly just a few information now, okay? I don’t thoughts sharing a few of these information.”
Rice has all the time been fairly magnanimous about sharing his greatness. It helps that his place in 49ers and NFL historical past may be very a lot safe, and dropping just a few information to McCaffrey or anybody else is just not going to decrease it.
McCaffrey has not less than one landing in all however two video games this season. At this level, he definitely appears more likely to set a brand new mark.