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It’s been a crazy, inconsistent first half of football. Maybe your fantasy team is more consistent than mine has been. Maybe you have one of these these fellas on your team. Either way, I hope you’re doing better than me.
Let’s take a look at the injuries for the week!
This has been a crazy week for injuries, but such is life as the season nears its midway point. Sometimes supposedly injured players practice, sometimes seemingly healthy players sit out, and then sometimes guys like Jimmy Graham gets placed on the injury report late in the week out of the blue. Let’s get started and see what this week’s key injuries look like heading into Sunday.
Tom Brady is on the injury report with an injured right shoulder. This is definitely something to be worried about, and you should definitely sit Brady*.
* – if you sit Tom Brady after how well he’s been playing lately, unless you have a truly elite alternative (i.e. Rodgers, Vick, Brees, Rivers) I will find you and slap you silly. Tom Brady is always on the injury report as probable.
The only significant Bears injury is backup running back Chester Taylor. He has a knee issue, but practiced Thursday and should be fine.
We’ve done the Week 13 start em, sit em, the Week 13 rankings, and the Week 13 waiver wire sleeper picks. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the injured players, as we do every Friday.
When Adrian Peterson – the best and most consistent player in fantasy football over the last four years – gets injured, there is no bigger news in the fantasy football world. Thus, we’ll lead off with news about the man they call All Day.
Sadly, there isn’t a whole lot of new news to pin our Week 13 hopes on.
We have a full slate of games this week, which means extra injuries to run through. Check out the start/sit picks, the Week 11 rankings, some waiver wire sleepers, and even this fun little contest we have going on.
Then start scrolling through the injury updates below and make sure your roster decisions include this info.
Brett Favre is injured everyone. Seriously.
What? You hadn’t heard yet? Yeah, he’s got a bum ankle. He’s been in a walking boot all week. Hasn’t practiced. The streak – the streak – is in jeopardy.
Look, let’s just get the Brett Favre portion of this injury update out of the way right off the bat. I will believe that Brett Favre is not going to start on Sunday when Tarvaris Jackson is under center and has taken the first snap of the game. Until then, I don’t care if practices or doesn’t practice. I don’t care if he says he’s going to play or not. I don’t care if Brad Childress says Favre will play or not.
If we’ve learned one thing from all of the Favre nonsense over the past few years, it’s this: no matter what, when the issue is Brett Favre playing football, expect him to play. That’s it, it’s that simple.
It’s Friday morning, so let’s do our typical roundup of the most important injuries on the fantasy football landscape, going game-by-game down the Week 8 schedule.
There are some big names on the injury report this week, especially at the WR position where Calvin Johnson, Andre Johnson, Reggie Wayne, Percy Harvin, Bernard Berrian, Anquan Boldin, and Jerricho Cotchery all are batting maladies.
Denver-Baltimore
Nothing pertinent here. Joe Flacco showed up on the injury report with an ankle, but he’s fine.
