Fantasy Football Injury Outlook: Aaron Jones, Austin Ekeler, Travis Kelce, Puka Nacua

Welcome back to your FantasyPros + SportsMedAnalytics injury report for Week 2. We’ll get right to it, but don’t forget to drop a follow on Twitter/X @SportMDAnalysis and @FantasyPros, and stay up to date throughout the week at sportsmedanalytics.com. Check out the full Week 2 fantasy football injury report. And below we dive into a few injured football players.

Week 2 Fantasy Football Injury Report

Aaron Jones (RB – GB)

Comments suggest a mild severity hamstring strain, but not practicing all week makes Jones likely to miss Week 2. Pending progress next week, lean towards return Week 3. Upon return, upper tier RBs like Jones tend to see only a mild performance hit, but do have 10-15% elevated re-injury risk.

Austin Ekeler (RB – LAC)

Likely out Week 2. Comments suggest high ankle sprain, and injury report progression suggests relatively mild severity. Average timeline = 2-3 weeks, so in most cases we would see Ekeler back Week 3-4. These do tend to impact RB performance for ~6 weeks post-injury and carry an elevated re-injury risk during that time.

Puka Nacua (WR – LAR)

TBD. Lean towards playing Week 2. These do tend to cause noticeable performance dips up to ~15% for WRs of Nacua’s style this soon after injury. Re-aggravation rates are relatively low but if they occur would be likely to knock him out for an average of 2 weeks.

Travis Kelce (TE – KC)

TBD. Lean towards playing. Given Kelce’s personal durability history in combination with average bone bruise timelines of ~2 weeks, our algorithm rates him a 75% chance of playing. Production impact projects to be relatively low. While re-aggravation can occur, those rates are also relatively low for a player of his profile.