Christian Jackson McCaffrey, a running back with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL), was born on June 7, 1996. He goes by the initials CMC. The Stanford Cardinals were the team who selected him eighth overall in the 2017 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers, where he played college football. In 2015, McCaffrey was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore and won the AP College Football Player of the Year award. With 3,864 yards, he holds the NCAA record for most all-purpose yards in a season.
McCaffrey is one of three players in history to earn 1,000 receiving yards and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season. He accomplished this feat in 2019 and owns other NFL and Panthers team records.
On June 7, 1996, Christian Jackson McCaffrey was born in Castle Rock, Colorado. He is the son of Ed McCaffrey, a former wide receiver for the NFL, and Lisa McCaffrey, a former Stanford soccer player.
After spending his first year of high school at Aurora, Colorado’s Regis Jesuit High School, he continued his education at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where he was coached by Brent Vieselmeyer.[3] He was a punter, wide receiver, cornerback, and running back. In addition to setting records for single season all-purpose yards (3,032), lifetime touchdown receptions (47), career all-purpose yards (8,845), and career total touchdowns (141), he also smashed numerous other Colorado high school marks.[4] In 2012 and 2013, he was Colorado’s Gatorade Football Player of the Year.He was a basketball player as well.
In addition, McCaffrey excelled as a sprinter for the track and field squad. With a career-best time of 10.75 seconds, he finished second in the 100-meter dash at the Mountain Vista Boulder Invitational as a sophomore.[7] He placed sixth in the 100-meter sprint (10.89 seconds) and ninth in the 200-meter dash (22.17 seconds) at the CHSAA State Meet in 2013 as a junior.