SF · Bye 8
Christian McCaffrey
LMD RB4 for Week 4 · 18.9 projected Full PPR points · RB4 rest of season
Regular season
Week 4 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 18.9 points this week, RB4. Top 3: 19% · Top 12: 57% · Top 24: 82% of simulated weeks. Up 2 since Week 3.
Week 4
RB4
6th by projected points
Rest of season
RB4
6th by projected points
Projected
18.9
week 4, Full PPR
Top 12
57%
Top 3: 19% · Top 24: 82% at RB
Movement
↑ 2
RB6 in Week 3, RB4 now
Should you start Christian McCaffrey in Week 4?
Strong start
Yes, in any standard format. LMD ranks Christian McCaffrey RB4 for Week 4, inside the RB24 starter line. He finishes inside RB24 in 82% of simulated weeks.
The starter line is a standard 12-team lineup's, and is the line LMD's weekly accuracy review grades this board against.
- Draft / market prior
- Positive+0.65 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Slight negative-0.47 pts
- AvailabilityAvailable
- Neutral0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight positive+0.33 pts
- Betting markets
- Slight positive+0.25 pts
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Full PPR scoring · Updated October 4, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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First look: Peter Millar x Christian McCaffrey launch new collection
milforddailynews.com ·
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Christian McCaffrey practicing Friday
USA TODAY ·
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49ers’ Christian McCaffrey tired of same Brock Purdy question every season
nypost.com ·
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Christian McCaffrey joins elite company with his 100th career touchdown
infonews.ca ·
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49ers rookie Kaelon Black’s performance helps ease the load on Christian McCaffrey
mymotherlode.com ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to Christian McCaffrey by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 3 completed games Christian McCaffrey has averaged +1.4 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | @ LAR | 17.3 | 13.8 | -3.5 |
| Wk 2 | vs MIA | 17.5 | 22.6 | +5.1 |
| Wk 3 | vs ARI | 19.0 | 21.6 | +2.6 |
| Wk 4 | vs DEN | 18.9 | Pending | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at RB3. For the rest of the season LMD has him 1 spot lower, at RB4.
Preseason market: RB3 · ADP 5.4
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
RB4 −1
LMD has him 1 spot lower than his RB3 draft price.
Week 4
RB4 −1
LMD has him 1 spot lower than his RB3 draft price.
Full PPR scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
RB3 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 259.5 points this season, RB4. Top 3: 36% · Top 12: 95% · Top 24: 100% of simulated seasons. That is 18.8 a game over 14 remaining games. Down 1 since the Oct. 1 board.
Per game
18.8 / game
Over 14 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 36% · Top 12: 95% · Top 24: 100%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at RB
Market input
broad
Broad market coverage across several venues and markets.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.4.1. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections); PropLine (player props). · 2026 Rest of season board updated October 4, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has Christian McCaffrey #9 in 1QB and #14 in Superflex, RB4 at his position. Age 30.
1QB
#9
RB4 · tier 5 · of 297
Superflex
#14
RB4 · tier 4 · of 303
- Last season 365.6 pts 21.5 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 76% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 22.6 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 21% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated September 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Full PPR 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
1.06
pick 6 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
1.06
half of simulations take him by pick 6
Draft range
1.02 - 1.11
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 1.06 in 51% of simulations
Pick 6 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 6, the same seat picks again at 2.07, where he is available in <1% of simulations.
Slot 6's remaining turns: 1.06 51% · 2.07 <1% · 3.06 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 1.03 and 1.08.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 1.04 | 73% |
| 1.05 | 64% |
| 1.06 | 51% |
| 1.07 | 41% |
| 1.08 | 33% |
| 1.09 | 25% |
| 1.10 | 18% |
| 1.11 | 11% |
| 1.12 | 6% |
| 2.01 | 3% |
| 2.02 | 1% |
| 2.03 | <1% |
| 2.04 | <1% |
| 2.05 | <1% |
| 2.06 | <1% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1.02 | 10% | 951 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.03 | 9% | 876 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.04 | 10% | 962 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.05 | 12% | 1223 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.06 | 10% | 1034 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.07 | 8% | 817 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.08 | 8% | 798 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.09 | 7% | 663 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.10 | 7% | 709 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.11 | 5% | 543 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which Christian McCaffrey was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Bijan Robinson RB · ATL 13%
- Jahmyr Gibbs RB · DET 12%
- Ja'Marr Chase WR · CIN 12%
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · SEA 9%
Usually taken just after
- Jonathan Taylor RB · IND 11%
- Bijan Robinson RB · ATL 10%
- Ja'Marr Chase WR · CIN 10%
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · SEA 10%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Full PPR 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
Christian McCaffrey was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of October 1, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- October 1, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@8a41b71bb222a352
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-10-01)
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