Get To Know Luke McCaffrey, Younger Brother Of 49ers Running Back

Although Christian McCaffrey is now among the most well-known figures in the NFL, the surname will likely be heard in various contexts in the years to come. This is due to the fact that all of the McCaffrey brothers have some sort of football connection.

Get To Know Luke McCaffrey, Younger Brother Of 49ers Running Back

Of Ed and Lisa McCaffrey’s four boys, Christian is the second youngest. He has two younger brothers, Dylan and Luke, and one elder brother, Max.

In the recruiting class of 2019, McCaffrey, a fifth-year junior, was rated as a three- or four-star quarterback prospect. Eleven universities extended scholarship offers to him, including Michigan, Ohio State, Ole Miss, UCLA, Washington, and North Carolina. In the end, he became a quarterback at Nebraska.

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Luke McCaffrey, the youngest sibling, is a wide receiver on the team right now. He used to be a quarterback, but he moved to another position. After enrolling at Nebraska in 2019 and playing for them until 2020, he moved on to Rice in 2021. In the past, he was a quarterback for Nebraska. After that, he transferred to Louisville, where he did not play, but he then joined Rice University’s current program and gradually moved to wide receiver.

As a rookie, the 6-foot-2, 195-pound signal-caller participated in just four games and managed to keep his redshirt the whole season. Later, in 2020, McCaffrey participated in seven games with two starts as a sophomore. He completed 48 of 76 passes for 466 yards and one touchdown along with six interceptions. In addition, he ran for 65 attempts for 364 yards and three touchdowns.

After his first campaign, McCaffrey led Rice in pass receptions with 58 receptions for 723 yards and six touchdowns. That was in spite of the fact that he had to miss the last three regular-season games due to an injury.

McCaffrey is in his second year as a wide receiver and his fifth year of collegiate football in 2023. As he catches 36 passes for 316 yards and seven touchdowns, averaging 17 yards per reception, his draft status only becomes higher. It surely helps that he can make absurd one-handed catches as his helmet is falling off.

Given that the McCaffrey brothers are all involved in collegiate or professional football, it raises the issue of how one family came to have such a strong passion for the sport.

 

 

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