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theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Week 5 Injury Updates & Fantasy Expectations

theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Score Media and Gaming

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4.9520 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Boone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ goes over the notable injury updates heading into Week 5.

  • Quarterback injuries (0:25)
  • Running back injuries (2:00)
  • Wide receiver injuries (11:05)
  • Tight end injuries (16:20)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

0:16.8

I'm your host, Justin Boone.

0:18.6

Great to have you with us today.

0:20.0

It's another busy Friday full of injury news. I was hoping that it wouldn't be quite as bad, though, because we got a few teams on buy here, but there's a lot to go over. So let's start with quarterbacks. Anthony Richardson, he's been limited all week with the oblique injury. Seemed like he was still going to have a pretty good shot to play through this. They listed him as questionable.

0:38.3

They called him a game time decision.

0:40.1

But the athletics James Boyd reported today that Joe Flacco was taken most,

0:44.9

if not all of the first team reps in Friday practice.

0:48.0

So to me, that indicates that we are probably going to see Flacko.

0:52.0

They're preparing for him to start this game.

0:53.8

And I think that makes sense, right? Let Richardson get healthy. Maybe it would be good for him to even sit a week and just observe a little bit and maybe start to think about some of those mistakes that he makes when he starts to get a little bit flustered out there, like some of the really bad interceptions that he's thrown so far this year. But regardless, let him heal up, then get him back out there in week six.

1:13.9

So Flacco more than competent to handle the relief duty.

1:17.9

Right now, I'm leaning towards that being the case and Flacco getting the start.

1:21.6

And he would be a QB2 option for fantasy.

1:23.7

If he does get the start, the matchup with the Jags, that's pretty favorable.

1:27.6

And with Flacco out there, it weirdly helps guys like Michael Pittman, who has dusted the

1:32.6

Jags three straight times now, at least 97 yards in his last three versus Jacksonville.

1:37.8

So Pittman, a wide receiver two for Fantasy this week.

1:41.1

Josh Downs, he would rack up a lot of easy targets from Flacco. He would be a wide receiver three flex. Alec Pearson, 80 Mitchell, they're kind of just dart throws for fantasy. If I had to pick between them right now, I would pick Pierce, but I think we're going to see that flip as the year continues. The only other quarterback injury of note here, Aaron Rogers, he was a little banged up with a knee issue early in the week.

2:03.3

He got in two full practices, though.

2:05.5

He is good to go.

2:06.6

So let's jump to running backs because I want to stick with the Colts really quick here.

2:10.5

Jonathan Taylor, he suffered that ankle injury last week.

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