Aaron Rodgers injury fallout + Week 2 Waiver Targets (09/12 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Aaron Rodgers' season might be done after just four snaps, as he suffered an Achilles injury during the season opener. Chris Towers and Dan Schneier talk about the fallout from that injury, including whether Garrett Wilson could still be a WR1, plus a look at the top waiver-wire targets heading into Week 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Aaron Rogers injury fallout plus week two waiver targets next on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to FFT in five. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Dan Schneier. And we were planning on just |
| 0:16.0 | talking about winners and losers from the Bill's Jets game and some waiver wire targets, but then |
| 0:20.5 | four snaps into the game. |
| 0:22.4 | That all changes. |
| 0:23.2 | Aaron Rogers goes down with what the Jets believed to be an Achilles injury, quote Robert Sala head coach. |
| 0:29.5 | It doesn't look good. |
| 0:31.5 | I mean, the ramifications of this are significant for the Jets, for fantasy, for the Packers, who needed Aaron Rogers |
| 0:40.0 | to play 70% of the snaps to get a first round pick back in that trade. |
| 0:45.3 | Doesn't look like that's going to happen. |
| 0:47.0 | But, Dan, what I want to ask you is, look, Bruce Hall looked awesome. |
| 0:51.3 | He looked awesome in this offense with Zach Wilson early last season. |
| 0:54.0 | I think he'll be fine. |
| 0:56.1 | Can Garrett Wilson be a wide receiver one with Zach Wilson as his quarterback? |
| 1:00.5 | I don't think so, Chris. And I think it's going to be a very frustrating year for those who invested heavily in Garrett Wilson. |
| 1:05.8 | Not by anything they could control, just bad luck we, you did a great job going over for |
| 1:11.2 | those who want to go over to CBS sports. What Garrett Wilson's numbers looked like was Zach Wilson last |
| 1:16.4 | year and they weren't pretty. They were borderline unusable. And I don't think it will be as bad this |
| 1:21.4 | season, but I can't expect a major jump, uh, considering it's a new system. Zach Wilson had very |
| 1:26.5 | little time, if any, with the ones this preseason and in training camp. So that's going to be something he's going to have to get used to. So I just don't see it happening this year with Garrett Wilson without Aaron Rogers. Yeah, I was on CBS Sports HQ doing the post game hit, and they asked me for my biggest winners and losers from the game. I sent it about maybe 10 minutes before the end of the game and I had Garrett Wilson as the |
| 1:47.8 | biggest loser. Immediately after that, he has that circus touchdown. Just unbelievable play by |
| 1:55.1 | Garrett Wilson to bring in that touchdown. He had what, five catches for 34 yards and a touchdown. He needed an absolutely |
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