I've been saying it all season, and the last few weeks. He isn't going on IR, he's going to play. People are blowing his knee injury and injury history way out of proportion. He is over one year removed from his ACL injury, that is a good amount of time to recover and build the muscles around your knee, so people can stop regurgitating the hamstring line every time.

Also, stop cherry picking the guys poor stats from a bad Minnesota team. The times he played for them they had terrible offensive lines and nothing to work with. He filled in for AP one year when AP was averaging under 2 YPC.

Minnesota used him somewhat correctly in the 2017 season, and he was the only person that showed up to play the Eagles. He finished the year in 2017 9 yards short of 1000 total yards, and that was after splitting carries, after Dalvin Cook went down.

Kyle Shanahan went out of his way to sign this guy to be the RB on his new team, the same time he gets Jimmy G and is building something around him. They paid him a very nice contract for someone who never had a starting role. Shanahan has a place for him in that offense, he is the same size as Devontae Freeman, and has better hands. He even returned a kickoff for a TD against the 49ers in 2017.

People just sit here and cherry pick his stats without knowing anything about him. I have watched almost every game of his NFL career and have always liked him. I hated watching him go in when AP was on the team, yeah, he would run into the pile and go nowhere. But this isn't the same team anymore and he's not backing up the best power runner there is. He's going to be used as a weapon by Shanahan, and he has the ability to carry the load. He is the best pass catcher on the team, and he can run the ball. Sure, Breida and Coleman will get there work, but I don't think there's another 3-headed committee, McKinnon will seal his role as the primary back, the others will still be utilized though.