Ed McCaffrey reveals rooting order for 3 NFL sons; excited for Christian's return after injury-riddled season

Some parents whitethorn deliberation Ed McCaffrey has a pugnacious task connected his hands, but helium has an casual solution.

The three-time Super Bowl champion has 2 sons, Christian and Luke, playing successful the NFL, and different one, Max, coaching successful it.

No, McCaffrey has not been successful the shoes of, say, the Kelce family, picking betwixt his boys successful the Super Bowl… yet.

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SiriusXM big Ed McCaffrey and Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers instrumentality photos during time 2 of SiriusXM astatine Super Bowl LIV connected Jan. 30, 2020, successful Miami, Florida.  (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

But, helium has seen 2 of his sons connected the tract astatine the aforesaid clip – Christian's Niners and Max's Dolphins faced disconnected successful December, and successful 2026, Luke's Commanders volition spell up against San Fran. 

So, who did, and will, helium basal for?

"They’re each even. I emotion each my kids evenly, man," helium quipped successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "It’s a delicate happening arsenic a dada – occasionally, my kids’ teams play each other. But I basal for my kids."

So yes, McCaffrey does person 3 favourite teams. He admitted that the Denver Broncos, wherever helium spent 9 of his 13 seasons and won 2 of his 3 Super Bowls, person been near retired of the rotation, contempt them being his "extended family."

"I inactive basal for the Broncos, but I basal for my kids first," helium admitted.

McCaffrey was incapable to bash overmuch rooting for Christian, his mediate son, connected the tract this season. After winning Offensive Player of the Year past year, CMC suited up successful conscionable 4 games of the 2024 campaign. He missed astir of grooming campy and the archetypal 8 games of the play with Achilles tendinitis. Then, successful a snowy Buffalo, helium injured his knee.

San Francisco 49ers moving backmost Christian McCaffrey watches injured from the sidelines during the New York Jets crippled astatine Levi's Stadium. (David Gonzales-Imagn Images)

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"Yeah, the twelvemonth sucked, really," McCaffrey enactment it bluntly. "You enactment everything you person into getting acceptable for season, and past helium got wounded aboriginal successful grooming camp… And helium did everything helium could to get backmost connected the field, past arsenic destiny would person it, helium wounded his knee."

But portion helium couldn't cheer for his lad connected the field, helium was surely capable to bash truthful disconnected of it.

"Sometimes beingness doesn’t spell arsenic planned. I’m truthful arrogant of him for his resilience, his toughness, the feline wants to beryllium connected the tract much than anybody I’ve met successful my full life," McCaffrey added.

The genu injury, McCaffrey said, could besides perchance beryllium a blessing successful disguise for the 2025 season.

"He’ll person his archetypal afloat offseason successful years…" helium said, noting that Christian played successful the Super Bowl past twelvemonth and the NFC title crippled successful 2023. "Your offseason gets chopped a period and a half, 2 months erstwhile you play successful a Super Bowl… 

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"It sucks to get hurt. It’s the worst portion playing the game. Missing time, sitting connected the sideline is frustrating. But you can’t alteration the past, and each you tin bash is enactment hard each and each time to beryllium the champion you tin be." 

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