He Plays the NFL’s Least Valued Position. He’s Never Been More Valuable. 

By every shred of modern football thinking, San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey should be a gigantic waste of a team’s budget. He’s the highest-paid player at a position that is no longer highly prized by the league.

That’s also what makes him an extraordinarily rare outlier these days. San Francisco has emerged as the Super Bowl favorite in large part because McCaffrey completely defies NFL logic.