Catching up on all of the COVID and injury news (12/16 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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With more than 90 players on the COVID list plus our usual share of injuries, there's a lot to catch up on for Week 15. Plus, our favorite prop from Thursday Night Football might not be great news for those of you counting on Patrick Mahomes.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few injury situations to update you on right now on FFT and 5 plus our favorite |
| 0:08.8 | player prop for Thursday night's game right now. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to the show, everybody, Adam Azer and Chris Towers here. |
| 0:18.3 | No, Dave Richard tonight. |
| 0:19.5 | That's okay. |
| 0:20.2 | We've got a great player |
| 0:21.1 | prop for you for Thursday night football again that we cannot wait for. All right, Chris, let's start |
| 0:26.0 | with all the COVID news. What's the one situation that's changing the rankings the most? |
| 0:33.2 | I think it's got to be the Browns, right? I mean, they're down what, both starting |
| 0:38.1 | tackles, they're starting quarterback, their number one wide receiver, their number one tight end. |
| 0:43.2 | It is an absolute mess and, you know, frankly, they may not be done. I mean, the way this tends |
| 0:50.5 | to work is, you know, there's a couple of days delay. So if they, you know, |
| 0:54.5 | didn't shut down their facilities until Monday or Tuesday, we may still have guy. I mean, |
| 0:58.9 | you saw Washington had eight more guys added. Or no, five more guys added today. So they're |
| 1:03.6 | up to 18 players. The Rams have 11 on the COVID list. I mean, there's a lot of concerns around the league right now, and it makes the whole process of rankings, it makes the whole process of setting your lineups incredibly difficult because there's so many moving pieces. Yeah, it really is. But Brown's guys in particular, because they play on Saturday, right, that's going to be an even more difficult thing for them to come back from. |
| 1:28.5 | And I think at this point, you've got to assume Case Keenum's starting. You've got to assume |
| 1:32.7 | that, you know, hopefully David Nogoku can get back. Donovan People's Jones likely to be the |
| 1:38.5 | number one wide receiver. It's a bad situation because they are missing pretty much all of their |
| 1:44.0 | key pieces except for Nick Chubb. And let's just hope Nick Chub stays healthy. Kareem Hunt did not practice. He's not on the COVID list, but he did not practice. Leonard Fornett did not practice. He has an ankle injury. He could easily just be a rest day. But something to keep in mind, If you have a roster spot, you want to stash Ronald Jones. |
| 2:01.7 | You never know. |
| 2:35.6 | There's a lot of other news here. Austin Echler is a game time decision. So this is definitely something that we have to monitor here. Justin Jackson, is he your favorite running back? What do you make of this situation here for the Chargers if Echler does not play? Yeah, I don't think there's a ton of clarity there, but I do think Justin Jackson, if you have to pick one, is more likely to get passing down's work. I think it'll probably be a pretty even split between him and Joshua Kelly. But based on what we've seen from those two throughout their careers, Justin Jackson has been a considerably better player. So I would think if you have to pick one, and my preference would be to not. I don't have either of them inside my top 35, but if you do have to pick one, it would be |
| 2:40.3 | Justin Jackson. All right. Also, I just want to mention for the Browns, they also have two very |
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