SANTA CLARA – Kyle Shanahan was asked Wednesday if he was a San Francisco 49ers running back. Christian McCaffrey He will play against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Here’s what Shanahan had to say.

Question: How did Christian perform in practice on Monday and does he still look fit to play on Monday?

SHANAHAN: “Yeah he was fine. We didn’t do much but he wasn’t in any pain, he was fine yesterday and he was excited to get him out there today.”

Question: When do you think the decision will be made on whether Christian will play on Sunday?

SHANAHAN: “Public? Inception.”

Question: What do you need to see from it and what does it need to tell you?

SHANAHAN: “He’s just Christian McCaffrey and he’s not hurting. As long as everything goes well, and it’s the same with rehab, as long as he’s not sore and he’s not having setbacks in practice every day – usually if you do that In practice it means the game is going to get worse, so hopefully three in a row “He can make it through the day and not experience any of this.”

Question: If he looks like the old Christian, does his workload become the old one’s workload?

SHANAHAN: “It definitely might happen, but it definitely might not happen.”

Question: There was a heavy workload last year. Is there any thought that the issues he is dealing with are not related to the 20 games a year ago?

SHANAHAN: “I don’t believe that. I don’t think he believes that. I think these things happen to the body, I think it happened in the offseason, so I don’t think it has anything to do with the numbers. The guy’s healthy and good, they’re generally good. You know where his conditioning is and how his football conditioning is.” “We’ll have to see what happens. I usually don’t write off one year’s numbers in a way that affects next year’s injury.”

ME: When you’re making this week’s game plan, do you have to make a game plan with and without Christian?

SHANAHAN: “Yes, we have to do it as usual. Men have different characteristics, so whether a man plays 10 or 30, whether he plays all the moves, whether he gets injured in the first series or gets sick before the match, it is always the same.”

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