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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

Eagles Injuries, Lions RBs and Downgrading Le'Veon Bell (Fantasy Football Today in 5 Debut Episode)

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Fantasy Football Today in 5, the fastest way to keep up with fantasy football, released its first episode today, which you can find right here. Download and subscribe now for more insight and advice from the FFT crew! Our regularly scheduled Monday episode of Pick Six will be dropping soon so stay tuned!

On FFT in 5, the crew reacts to the Jalen Reagor injury and wonder if it's time to drop Carson Wentz in the rankings. Also, Le'Veon Bell's training camp could be going better, and as D'Andre Swift struggles to return to practice you need to move Kerryon Johnson up your draft board!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Another injury for the Philadelphia Eagles this time it's Jaylin Rager.

0:03.6

Another bad report for Levion Bell and much more from around the NFL landscape.

0:08.0

Fantasy football today and five starts right now.

0:10.4

Welcome everybody. Today is August 31st. It is Monday morning. You're listening to

0:16.3

Fantasy Football today in five. A podcast that gets you caught up fast on the

0:20.3

Fantasy news and advice that you need to know.

0:22.6

Follow and stream us on Spotify and anywhere else podcasts are found,

0:27.2

including Apple Podcasts and Stitcher and so many other places.

0:30.2

I'm Adam Aiser, I'm joined by Jamie Eisenberg.

0:32.0

Let's start with that big news.

0:33.4

Jaylin Rager, a tear in his shoulder, he's out three to four weeks for now.

0:37.6

What does this mean for the Eagles offense and let's talk about Carson Wentz's

0:40.4

fantasy value?

0:41.4

I mean clearly it's a downgrade for Rager who was

0:44.5

being drafted in the latter half of drafts and now basically undraftable unless you

0:48.8

know you're going to sit on him for a few weeks while he's out and who knows if it's only three to four weeks, you know, based on the season being so close.

0:56.3

So it's a downgrade for him. It's an upgrade for guys like the Sean Jackson, Greg Ward,

1:00.8

J.J. Siegel, Whiteside, and hopefully Ashon Jeffrey, you know, we don't know if he's going to be back anytime soon,

1:05.6

but the tight ends get a boost, Zach Ertz and Dallas Scott, and hopefully Miles Sanders and Boston Scott.

1:10.4

But for Carson Wentz, it's just another hit, you know, a guy that's dealing with a back injury himself, losing his left tackle and Andre Dillard.

1:17.0

So the offensive line is banged up. The receiving corps is banged up. He's banged up. He's still a low-end starter, but now he's behind the elder statesman of Matt Ryan, Tom Brady and Drew Bries.

1:26.2

And to Sean Jackson, look, week one is against Washington.

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