Christian McCaffrey has run into another injury scare.

The 49ers listed McCaffrey, 29, as a limited participant in practice Thursday due to a calf injury ahead of Sunday’s Week 1 opener.

As a result of an Achilles injury last year , McCaffrey missed the majority of last season, playing in just four games for the 49ers. 3

The Stanford alumnus also missed significant amounts of time during the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to numerous injuries, playing just 10 games across the two years.

Up until this point, McCaffrey has appeared healthy in training camp for San Francisco, with head coach Kyle Shanahan saying last month that the running back was starting to look like his old self.

“Yeah. I think he hit like 25 [mph] yesterday or something like that. I’m just making that up,” Shana

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