John Lynch: We hope to have Christian McCaffrey practicing on Monday

Christian McCaffrey is continuing to work his way back to the field, as bilateral Achilles tendinitis has sidelined him for the 49ers' first eight games.San Francisco is on its bye this week, but General Manager John Lynch noted in a Wednesday morning interview with KNBR that McCaffrey remains on track to have his practice window opened next week to potentially play against the Buccaneers."The ideal scenario versus Tampa Bay is that he continues to â" we keep using this terminology â" but ramp up, which just means increase the volume of work that he's doing," Lynch said, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. "He's been doing that, and he hasn't had any setbacks. The hope is we take it up another notch this week. Provided that goes well, we're kind of opening that window, allowing him to go back to practice. IR players can work to the side. They can't get involved in practice. And so, Christian has been kind of on that plan."And now, hopefully, you increase the volume this week. You hope you have no setbacks. I'd expect it to kind of go that way. I pray that it goes that way because he's done really well. He hasn't had any of those [setbacks]. And if so, then Monday,...