Athleticism runs within the McCaffrey household.

Christian McCaffrey has the NFL in his blood, and the newly-engaged working again would “love” for the sports activities lineage to proceed if he has youngsters sooner or later, he tells PEOPLE completely.

“I’d like it if my youngsters performed sports activities,” McCaffrey, 26, — who just lately proposed to girlfriend Olivia Culpo, 31, in April — tells PEOPLE completely whereas chatting about his basis’s newest endeavor, The Logan Challenge.

“However my dad and mom by no means pressured us to play sports activities,” McCaffrey recollects.

The San Francisco 49er spawns from a household of athletes. His father, Ed McCaffrey, is a former large receiver who performed within the NFL for 13 seasons and received three Tremendous Bowl rings throughout his tenure within the League.

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His mother, Lisa McCaffrey — daughter of Dave Sime, as soon as the quickest man in America and the silver medalist within the 100 meters within the 1960 Olympics — was a profitable athlete herself, having set data in observe, lettering 4 occasions in tennis and receiving Vanderbuiklt’s first-ever girls’s soccer scholarship.

Regardless of the legacy of acclaimed athletes in his household, McCaffrey — who’s the youthful brother of Max (who had a three-year NFL profession) and the older brother of Dylan and Luke (each present faculty soccer gamers) — tells PEOPLE that his dad and mom “simply needed us to do one of the best we may with no matter it was… whether or not it was artwork or music or something.”

“I believe that might be the identical factor,” the 2x-Professional Bowler says of what he’d need if he and Culpo are “lucky sufficient to have youngsters” of their very own. “I simply need them to be blissful doing no matter they love and do it to one of the best of their potential.”

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He provides, “My dad and mom at all times stated that it is not about what you do, it is about the way you do it and doing it to the easiest of your potential. So hopefully that is the case it doesn’t matter what it’s.”

As for whether or not McCaffrey, himself, felt pressured to play sports activities like his father — not to mention go professional in soccer — the present NFL star tells PEOPLE, “There was once strain after I was a child.”

Nevertheless, he says he “removed that shortly.” McCaffrey’s father, Ed, performed for the Denver Broncos from 1991 to 2003 — in order the son of the three-time Tremendous Bowl champion and star receiver of the Colorado workforce, McCaffrey says he “was so lucky.”

“Each of my dad and mom understood what it meant to have our final identify rising up in Denver. And he had received three Tremendous Bowls enjoying in his heyday,” he says. “So there was positively strain as a child, however I discovered to make the most of my dad and my mother and all the knowledge that they’ve.”

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Subsequently, McCaffrey acknowledges him as “ one of the best useful resource on the planet” as a result of “he’s been via it.” The 49er says his father has “ been minimize, he is been traded, he is received Tremendous Bowls, he is gone to a Professional Bowl and he performed 13 years at a excessive stage.”

Since “he’s skilled each stage of the NFL you can undergo,” the then wide-eyed teen says he “ended up utilizing him to my benefit as a lot as potential, as a substitute of getting any type of resentment or feeling that strain.”

He provides, “I used him as one of the best useful resource I may ever think about proper there in my family.”

One of the vital memorable items of recommendation Ed instilled in his son? “To play free and be free. Be blissful whenever you play this recreation, it is one of the best recreation on the planet, for my part… That is actually the route that I ended up taking.”

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