Christian McCaffrey dominates as 49ers clip Falcons

Christian McCaffrey ran for 129 yards and two touchdowns and added seven catches for 72 yards because the San Francisco 49ers posted a 20-10 victory over the visiting Atlanta Falcons on Sunday night time in Santa Clara, Calif.

McCaffrey, who solely had one dashing landing getting into play, totaled his most dashing yards since operating for 145 in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks in December 2023. Mac Jones accomplished 17 of 26 passes for 152 yards for the 49ers (5-2), who maintain the tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Rams atop the NFC West.

Atlanta’s Michael Penix Jr. threw for 241 yards and a rating and operating again Bijan Robinson, regardless of being held to 40 dashing yards, had 52 receiving yards and a landing. Kyle Pitts hauled in seven passes for 62 yards for the Falcons (3-3), who completed with a season-low 62 dashing yards.

After main 10-3 at halftime, the 49ers constructed a double-digit lead on Eddy Pineiro’s 43-yard discipline purpose on the 10:09 mark of the third quarter. The Falcons answered with an environment friendly, six-play, 48-yard scoring drive, completed off with Penix’s 10-yard landing cross to Robinson to chop Atlanta’s deficit to 3 with 6:28 left within the third.

Atlanta pressured consecutive San Francisco punts earlier than the Falcons’ offense superior into 49ers’ territory. With Atlanta dealing with a third-and-one from the 49ers’ 35-yard line, Robinson was stuffed on the line of scrimmage earlier than Penix’s cross to Drake London was damaged up by Chase Lucas to finish the drive halfway by means of the fourth quarter.

The 49ers then iced the sport with an 11-play, 64-yard drive punctuated by McCaffrey’s second dashing rating — this time a 4-yarder to increase the result in 20-10 with 2:26 remaining within the fourth.

After every crew traded punts to open the sport, Atlanta pieced collectively a 19-play, 60-yard drive — spanning almost 11 minutes — as John Parker Romo’s 38-yard discipline purpose gave the Falcons a 3-0 lead with 12:54 left within the second quarter.

Atlanta linebacker Kaden Elliss intercepted Jones on the 49ers’ subsequent drive, however the Falcons punted lower than two minutes later. San Francisco cracked the scoreboard with an 80-yard drive, capped with McCaffrey’s dashing rating from a yard out to present the 49ers a 7-3 lead on the 1:48 mark of the primary half.

Bryce Huff stripped Penix on the following drive and the ball was recovered on the Falcons’ 40-yard line by Alfred Collins, resulting in Pineiro’s 55-yard discipline purpose with 38 seconds left to cap the first-half scoring.

–Area Stage Media