The Eight Injury Situations For 2025 We Must Get Right with ESPN's Stephania Bell (Episode 897)

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan welcomes ESPN's Injury & Fantasy Football Expert Stephania Bell to the show to discuss the biggest injury situations heading into this season, and how you need to handle them ahead of your Fantasy Football drafts this year

In this episode, we discuss:

- Did Stefon Diggs discover yacht parties to be the perfect ACL recovery approach?

- What the 49ers are doing to ensure Christian McCaffrey is 100%, and do we buy it?

- The eerie quietness surrounding Joe Mixon

- Could Chris Godwin miss substantial time Tampa Bay?

- Will Kenneth Walker's foot injury become a lingering nuisance to your team?

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:18 - Christian McCaffrey

11:02 - Chris Godwin

17:55 - Brandon Aiyuk

20:29 - Stefon Diggs

24:24 - Isaiah Pacheco

27:19 - Kenneth Walker & Jayden Reed

31:35 - Joe Mixon

35:36 - J.K. Dobbins

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 897 of the official.
0:20.4	Stop Run.com podcast.
0:22.3	My name is Adam Levittan, and injuries, unfortunately, remain a massive part of fantasy football.
0:30.2	More specifically, adjusting better than our opponents to injuries to me is one of the bigger
0:35.1	edges that we will find to discuss this season's injuries.
0:39.9	I am joined by an old friend of the show, an actual physical therapist, one of each August
0:44.9	most anticipated guests.
0:47.1	It is Stefania Bell, senior writer, injury now analyst at ESPN, one of the co-hosts on
0:53.3	Fantasy Focus Football podcast and the fantasy football now Sunday morning show during the season.
1:00.0	Stefania, really appreciate the time.
1:02.0	How's it going today?
1:03.5	It's going well.
1:04.5	We're getting close, aren't we?
1:06.6	It's almost that time here.
1:08.1	I describe it to everyone as once you get on, it's like the runaway train, and you can't get off until sometime in February. But much anticipated, but then a little bit terrifying. And then once I'm going, it feels much, much better. But thanks for the intro. It's always a pleasure to join the show. I'm a big fan. Yes, I appreciate that. and I know that it's time for the season to start because I was doing a draft and I saw Jacori-Kroski-Merick go at 67 overall.
1:34.4	And that is how I know that it is indeed time for the season to start.
1:38.4	On today's show, we are going to discuss eight of the most important injury storylines heading into the fantasy football
1:45.3	season. We'll hit on short-term outlook, long-term outlook, and anything else notable. Reminder that all
1:51.9	of our rankings bake in every injury, small or large. If you have a draft coming up, I unbiasedly,
1:58.5	of course, think you'd be insane not to show up with our draft kit.
2:07.1	Check it out at Establish the Run.com. Again, on the injury stuff, a lot of stuff is probabilities and guessing at different outcomes. We're trying to weigh all that by both base case and ceiling
2:12.7	outcome, which flows through to the rankings you can find in the draft kit. All right, Stefania, I want to start
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