Week 2 Winners and Losers: Puka Nacua shells out another big day (09/19 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Chris Towers and Adam Aizer try to figure out where to rank 2023's biggest breakout star, talk Joe Burrow and Saquon Barkley injuries, and then discuss the biggest winners and losers from Week 2's action.
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| 0:32.6 | winners and losers from week two next on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to FFT and five. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Adam Azer. And we're talking about the winners and losers from week two of the NFL season. But first, got a actually a handful of pretty serious or at least significant injuries. We don't know how serious they are yet. I guess that's |
| 0:54.9 | the distinction between those two words when you're talking about injuries. But Joe Burrow left |
| 0:59.1 | Sunday's game with an aggravation of the calf injury that he was dealing with in training camp. |
| 1:04.4 | They down played it after the game said, you know, he would have gone back into the game if they |
| 1:08.3 | had gotten the ball back. He also said, |
| 1:15.6 | we'll see how it is in a few days. That to me suggests, along with the reaggravation, that this could be an issue for Joe Burrow moving forward. And specifically, obviously, |
| 1:21.4 | I think week three is in question. But, you know, it wouldn't surprise me if Jake Browning |
| 1:26.5 | got a couple of starts for the Bengals. And given how frustrating this offense has been so far, don't think you can feel super great about Jamar Chase and T. Higgins, at least for the next couple of weeks. I think eventually everyone will be fine. Joe Burrow will get healthy. And those guys will be the elite fantasy options. We hope they would be, but not feeling great about it. |
| 1:44.4 | We also had Sequin Barclay leave with an ankle injury, and the big concern there is the Giants |
| 1:49.4 | play on Thursday night in week three. I'd be pretty surprised that he was able to play, even if it is |
| 1:55.5 | just a minor injury, but hopefully it's just a one week thing. Adam, do you have any interest in Matt Brita or Gary Brightwell on waivers? So I think it would be Brita if you were going to pick one. And the answer is no, unless it's a long-term injury. There's no way I'm starting one of those guys against the San Francisco. Yeah, 49ers on a short week. Thursday. But if we're talking about a few weeks, then yeah, look, I look, I know that guys like AJ Dylan and Joshua Kelly were bad today, but they were still worth picking up. They still were the lead running backs and maybe you're desperate by weeks are coming up, right? Injuries happen. So I would pick up Matt Brita if Barclay was going to have an extended absence. But if it looks like he's just going to miss one game, I'm not going to waste my time on a player. There's no chance I'm starting. Some other injuries, Devante Adams left the game with a concussion. He's being, he's in the concussion protocol. We'll see what that looks like. But obviously, Jacoby Myers suffered concussion late in week one, missed week two. So there's some concern there. And Adams has had at least one concussion that I can remember, maybe two. So that's something to keep an eye on. David Montgomery left the game with a thigh injury. Jamir Gibbs also left with like an ankle injury. I'm not sure if that seems less serious, but that's something to keep an eye on. And then Anthony Richardson, Adam, this is what I want to ask you, because, I mean, |
| 3:09.4 | he looked like he was in line for just a monster game. |
| 3:12.6 | Ended up having a decent fantasy game despite leaving, I think, early in the second quarter. |
| 3:17.5 | He's also in the concussion protocol. |
| 3:20.3 | Do you have any concern that, like, his aggressive, run-heavy approach might lead to a little more risk moving forward, especially now that he's already suffered a concussion? |
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