Legendary Panthers Jake Delhomme and Jordan Gross are the lucky ones. They joined the Panthers’ radio team in the summer as color commentators at the right time. They get to watch Christian McCaffrey write his MVP story more often than most anyone else.

“You kind of feel sorry to keep bringing up how good he is,” Gross told Serby Says. “Honestly, it’s a very similar feeling that I’ve always had about Luke Kuechly.

You just keep saying look how fast Luke is, ‘Look how well he reads the defense. He knew where it was going before it was going there.’ You just keep helping praise on Luke. Well, now I’m doing the same thing with Christian. Especially when you’re trying to verbalize to the audience how great the play was. They almost get tired of hearing it ’cause there’s so many of ’em.”

McCaffrey, entering Sunday’s London game against the Buccaneers, is on pace for 2,771 yards from scrimmage, which would break Chris Johnson’s record of 2,509 set in 2009.

McCaffrey is special because he isn’t only Run CMC. He is also Catch CMC.

Delhomme: “Listen, Marshall Faulk was that type of back to me. Marshall was so dangerous catching the ball out of the backfield … but even just running. Marshall could run between the tackles, and bounce off guys. It’s hard to compare anybody else, because usually you don’t see running backs … and I’m going back to the catching of the football and his route-running. Usually you just don’t see that good of a combination of both. And Marshall was that way when he caught the football and how he ran his routes and things like that.”

Run CMC.

Delhomme: “Marcus Allen fell forward. He always was going forward. Christian is the same way. He gets hit, but it’s not like he goes down. He just keeps powering forward. It’s almost like he has that bruiser back mentality and then the skills of a wide receiver.

“He’s all muscle. His lower half is really, really powerful. Really strong legs and calf and behind, and obviously ripped up top, too. But very strong lower half that enables him to have that initial power.”

McCaffrey has silenced naysayers who doubted he could run between the tackles in the NFL as a 5-foot-11, 205-pounder.

Delhomme: “When they played the Rams this year, he scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Clay Matthews was wrapped around one leg, and the other safety, who come in for [Eric] Weddle, he had the other leg. And Christian carried them into the end zone. You don’t see that. And that’s the power that he possesses that you would not think that he has.”

Run CMC reached a maximum speed of 21.95 mph on his 84-yard TD romp against the Jaguars.

Gross: “His vision’s really, really good. A lot of times when you watch tape on a running back, there’ll be numerous times in a game where they miss the hole. We always had O-line coaches — John Matsko [now the Panthers’ running game coordinator], my last one — always says, ‘I’ll never tell a running back where to run,’ but a lot of times you have to bite your tongue as an offensive lineman when you know the hole was B gap frontside and they cut it back or for whatever reason.

And you just don’t see Christian miss very many hole opportunities.

“I think a little bit of that is naturally God-given, but his understanding of the game, and also just his patience in the hole … not like Le’Veon Bell was a few years ago where he would do that stutter step. [McCaffrey will] just [be] changing up the rhythm of his attack with the pace that he runs the ball with and he sees the hole so well. And then his ability to make defenders miss is impressive, and it’s a little bit sneaky because it’s maybe not a big, splashy move, it might just be a stutter step and a cutback inside, it might be a stiff-arm. But people have a tough time tackling him in the open field, and that’s shown up with a lot of the yards after catch or after-first-contact yards he’s getting.”

Run CMC’s head-over-heels flip into the end zone after hurdling Jaguars cornerback Tre Herndon at the 2 on his 5-yard TD run went viral immediately. He has 105 carries for 587 yards and six TDs rushing this season.

Delhomme: “I think what amazes me is he’s such an every-down back — from between the tackles, outside the tackles to running routes. That’s the thing that I think what separates him from most running backs. Listen, he’s a fantastic runner of the football — inside zone, outside zone, outside stretch, running power whatever it may be. His quickness and his balance. I think Alvin Kamara, his balance, it’s freaky to watch, and I think Christian is similar to him.”

And there’s Catch CMC.

Delhomme: “When McCaffrey lines up as a wide receiver, I’m telling you, if he was playing receiver all game long, he can have 10-12 catches against the best cornerbacks in the National Football League. I am dead serious.

“I went to camp in August when Buffalo came in town for two practices. He was split out, and Tre’Davious White, who I think’s a very, very good cornerback … and I saw Christian run a slant on him and I remember saying to myself, ‘This kid’s just as good as any wide receiver that the Panthers have.’

Gross: “You usually get the linebacker guarding him one-on-one when he runs routes, like his father [Ed] did. Linebackers generally are used to covering tight ends, which can be great route runners but they’re oftentimes bigger, not so quick. Or they’re used to covering running backs, which don’t typically have the discipline and the understanding of the routes in the passing game like Christian does. So he gets incredibly favorable matchups and that same elusiveness that he has with the ball in his hand, you see it when he’s running his routes, his ability to get open if he’s in man coverage is second to none. And the quarterbacks are looking for that.”

Catch MCM has 31 receptions for 279 yards and one TD.

Gross: “[tight end Greg] Olsen and a couple of receivers ran kind of some clear outs to create him a one-on-one matchup and he turned at about 10 yards, put his hands up like you would expect the ball to come to him then, but the defender bit, he just gave the slightest little juke to his left and then back to his right. It looked unfair. That’s how good he is at getting himself open.”

Machine McCaffrey has somehow played 98.2 percent of the snaps.

Delhomme: “The Panthers revere him. The coaches, the players, the trainers, equipment managers — he’s all-ball all the time. There’s no outside distraction. It’s eat a certain way, stretch a certain way, take care of my body a certain way.

“I’ll give you a prime example. [Last] Saturday morning I was at the facility. And I went in the equipment room after their walkthrough, I had to go get something from the equipment manager. And somebody was looking for the strength coach and they said, ‘Well he’s outside with Christian finishing Christian’s workout.’ The rest of his team is all back in, leaving, it’s Saturday, the hay’s in the barn. Well, Christian is so specific in everything that he does in his workout, and I don’t know what it was, but that to me kind of tells you exactly who he is. He’s so forward-thinking in how he takes care of his body.”

Gross: “The talk right now is the number of reps he’s getting and the number of carries and catches, which is kind of a double-edged sword because you want to keep give the hit hand the ball and he’s really carrying the offense right now, but at the same time you wonder about the longevity issue with that many touches.”

McCaffrey, very much like Saquon Barkley, is a coach’s dream.

Delhomme: “The telling thing to me, he caught a cramp late in the game. He came out for a play, which rarely happens, and he was stretching on the sideline about ready to go back in and the backup Reggie Bonnafon broke loose on a 59-yard touchdown run, and to see Christian’s reaction on the sideline — that to me kind of typified exactly what I thought he was, or what I knew he was. He was more excited for Reggie Bonnafon scoring than you ever see him when he scored a touchdown.”

Gross: “Everybody loves him, he’s committed and he works hard and he works hard in practice and he has fun, interacts with the guys, and sometimes when you have somebody’s who’s having so much success he can kind of start to be a little bit separation from the pack as far as ego goes or they’re living in the moment a little bit too much, and you don’t get any of that out of him and it’s just so refreshing to see.”

Delhomme wasn’t assigned the London game. Gross is there gushing for all Panthers fans.

Gross: “I hope they know what they’re looking at, because it’s not gonna come around too many times.”