{"id":1029070,"date":"2026-10-16T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1029070\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:42:16","slug":"49ers-vs-commanders-offers-mccaffrey-vs-mccaffrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1029070\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers vs. Commanders offers McCaffrey vs. McCaffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANTA CLARA \u2013 A happy Christian McCaffrey<\/a> is about to complete \u201cthe cycle\u201d for his family business with his three brothers.<\/p>\n

Monday night,<\/a> McCaffrey will lead the 49ers (5-0)<\/a> against his youngest brother, Luke, and the Washington Commanders (1-3-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the only brother I\u2019ve never gotten to play with or against, so this completes the cycle of sharing the field with one,\u201d Christian, the 49ers\u2019 offensive dynamo, said Thursday. \u201cI know it\u2019s different uniforms but I\u2019m proud of everything he\u2019s done and I\u2019m excited to see him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luke McCaffrey is scrapping through his third season with the Commanders. Active only two games so far, he\u2019s overshadowed on the depth chart by veterans Terry McLaurin and Stefon Diggs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve been able to play against him. It\u2019ll be cool just to share the field,\u201d Christian added. \u201cObviously there\u2019s nostalgia with that, going back to Little League or high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The McCaffrey boys cycled through Valor Christian High in Highlands Ranch, Colo. When Christian was a senior, younger brother Dylan was a freshman.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, at the 49ers\u2019 joint practice with the host Los Angeles Chargers, Christian reunited with older brother, Max, who is the running backs coach under Jim Harbaugh. (Christian was on the 49ers\u2019 Injured Reserve list when they won in December 2024 at Miami, where Max was a Dolphins assistant.)<\/p>\n

Another checkmark in the family circle came Oct. 4, when Christian played (and scored) in his first-ever game against the Denver Broncos, whom his father, Ed, played for from 1995-2003 after being part of the 1994 49ers Super Bowl-winning squad.<\/p>\n

Want more McCaffrey personal information? It\u2019s been quite a family-oriented couple of months for Christian McCaffrey. On Sept. 29, his wife, Oliva Culpo, gave birth to their son, Roman; they, along with 15-month-old daughter Colette, \u00a0are at their offseason home in Los Angeles with his year-old daughter, Colette. \u201cDon\u2019t tell her but I\u2019m sleeping fantastic,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s still playing fantastic, too, and with a relatively lighter workload \u2014 80 touches so far compared to 108 a year ago through Week 5.<\/p>\n

His 2026 stats: 61 carries, 286 yards, five touchdowns; 19 catches, 137 yards. Last season, en route to a NFL-high 413 touches, his five-game totals were 69 carries (282 yards, no TDs) and 39 catches (390 yards, three TDs).<\/p>\n

So who do his parents, Ed and Lisa, root for in this one? \u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to do. They might just go all-black neutral,\u201d Christian said of his parents\u2019 wardrobe.<\/p>\n

MORE FAMILY TIES<\/p>\n

Making his Bay Area debut in the NFL is Washington Commanders\u2019 assistant running backs coach Jesse Madden, a grandson of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and former broadcaster John Madden.<\/p>\n

Commanders\u2019 third-year general manager Adam Peters previously worked as the 49ers\u2019 assistant general manager and graduated from Monta Vista High-Cupertino.<\/p>\n

Dan Quinn, the Commanders\u2019 coach, got his NFL start with the 49ers as a quality control coach in 2021 under Steve Mariucci. Quinn spent four seasons with the Niners before eventually parlaying his role as Seahawks defensive coordinator 2013-14 to his first NFL head-coaching role with Atlanta in 2015, with Kyle Shanahan as his offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

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