NFL Week 1 is here, and we have several injuries to dive into. So let’s get to it. Here are Week 1 NFL injury updates as you set your fantasy football lineups.
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Fantasy Football lnjury Updates: Will They Play Week 1?
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MRI pending. Video suggests kneecap dislocation vs ACL/MCL. Reports suggest ACL is intact, which would basically be best case scenario. Average time out would then be 2-4 weeks.
Data favors playing at 90+% productivity. RBs with calf/Achilles designations carry a mild re-injury risk (~15%) the 1st 8 weeks.
Data favors sitting, at ~70%. Average WR hamstring = 2 weeks out, which puts his Week 2 in question. Given his history of hamstring injuries, he will carry a high re-injury risk upon return.
Data favors playing at 90+% efficiency. He does have a prior history of hamstring injuries, which gives him a moderate re-injury risk (~20%) the 1st 8 weeks of the season. RBs often do see a mild dip in touches during their 1st week of action, although it’s difficult to say if that’ll apply here given that he’s been back at practice for 2 weeks now.
Playing. Data projects a mild production dip, <10%. The real issue here is a mild concern for re-injury given that he had a relatively recent ankle surgery and was reportedly dealing with foot “soreness” this time around.
Comments suggest he’s playing. Not injured. Chase himself stated that he thinks he’d be limited if active.
Comments + data favor a Week 2 return. Absence likely wouldn’t last longer than Week 3 at latest. Expect a rapid return to pre-injury level.
Data favors playing at 90+% production. He will carry a mild re-injury risk (~10%) for the first 8 weeks of the season.
Data projects 2/3 chance of playing with minimal dip projected. Hard to know for sure, but we’d suspect this was at least partly a veteran load management-type move.
Data favors sitting at 70%, and comments suggest the same. QBs with recurrent calf issues carry high in-season re-injury risks over even 20%. We all remember Joe Burrow from last year…
Playing. Expecting full mobility this far removed from being in a boot. Even if Herbert were to be limited and not able to fully push off of the foot, he’d likely be able to overcome that with his elite arm strength. He will carry a mild re-aggravation risk in-season.
Playing. WR high ankle data does project a mild dip in both targets and per-touch production.
Playing. WR ACL data projects a dip in both workload and efficiency. Workload limits project to end ~Week 6. His efficiency and explosiveness project to ramp up to 90% around Week 10.
Playing. Expecting a relatively low impact of injury on his production. If it truly is an isolated bursa injury, the chance of him missing time due to this in-season is relatively low as well.
Playing. WR turf toe data does favor a moderate production dip + moderate re-injury risk (each ~15%).
Data slightly favors playing (60%) but with a sizable dip in production of ~20%. Hopkins will also carry a high re-injury risk for most of the season. He does however have a long history of playing through injuries.
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