Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast. I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score.

We are back at it here to start another week. I'm glad to have you with us. And it's a solid week fantasy-wise, including another light list of injuries, nothing too long-term, mostly guys leaving their games and returning later. But we're going to go over all those. And then we're going to talk about the top waiver ads for week 12 and for the rest of the season. Let's start with the injury roundup though.

And there weren't any quarterbacks who got hurt this week. Nothing worth noting anyway. So we can move right to the injured running backs. James Cook, he came up limping a little bit after a tackle on the sidelines. It was good news though. He stayed in the game. so not something that you need to have high concern on,

especially with the bills on buying week 12.

So he should be fine when they return in week 13

the raiders backfield it got a little banged up this week alexander madison left with an

ankle injury it's a mere white left with a quad issue and for white it seems like this is an

aggravation of that quad injury that he was dealing with a couple weeks ago and aggravations are never good

Normally it takes longer to heal from an aggravation than it did from the original injury and then for Madison

He hurt his ankle hopefully we'll find out more about that and the severity of it today or tomorrow

But he wasn't able to come back into the game so it's definitely possible that he could miss some time

Which means we might be looking at a scenario where the Raiders are down their two

top backs in week 12 and the options behind them they are not great we're likely

looking at a committee it would be Amir Abdullah who scored a receiving

touchdown this week but he's mostly been used as a pass-catching option out of

the backfield there I expect that that's what's going to continue with him so perhaps we see the rookie Dylan Lobby

maybe he takes on some of the early down carries and the matchup with the

Broncos they're gonna have to go against the Broncos it's not a favorable one

here so we'd only be looking at RB3 flex options for these two fantasy wise but

if you're desperate you got guys on by you got some some injuries, Alabi, Abdullah, they're worth consideration. Some other RB injuries, Taj Spears, he's in concussion protocol. So just when you thought he was going to come in, start to eat into Tony Pollard snaps like he did last week, Spears sidelined again here. And we'll have to see how fast he can progress through that protocol. Some guys can do it in a week. Other guys miss a game or two. Regardless, the matchup with the Texans pretty hard for running back. So for them in week 12, not looking forward to that. It's not going to be a prime spot for Pollard to excel like he has in some games earlier this season. But volume-wise, we might see him get more work if

Spears can't get cleared for week 12 and then Julius chestnut would step into

that number two role again like he did when Spears was out before and then

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