If you have someone who was an injury concern in the preseason, the odds are they are trending in the right direction for Week 1. Luther Burden III, Tyler Warren, D'Andre Swift, and Kyle Monangai are off the injury report. Ashton Jeanty, Malik Nabers, and Breece Hall were full participants.
Jeremiyah Love, Alec Pierce, Jonathon Brooks, Zay Flowers, and Emeka Egbuka were limited, but their teams are optimistic they will play in Week 1. On Friday, Dan Quinn said Jacory Croskey-Merritt has been cleared to go as well. As of now, we project that all of them will play in Week 1, and most will receive their regular workload.
In this space, each week we will discuss how we are handling the most prominent injury concerns. So what injuries are affecting Fantasy managers? We cover the latest on Brock Bowers, Tua Tagovailoa, and all of the latest injuries.
Let's start with the biggest surprise of the week. Cooper Rush will start Week 1 as Michael Penix is still not ready to play. I lowered the Falcons' pass rate, pass efficiency and touchdown projection.
This is bad news for Bijan Robinson, Drake London and Kyle Pitts. Rush played one full game for the Ravens last year and threw for 179 yards, zero touchdowns, and three interceptions. That being said, I am not sure you will want to actually make any lineup changes.
Robinson is RB3 in my projections and still RB2 in my rankings. London fell from WR8 to WR15, but most teams won't have two receivers ranked higher than him. Pitts is the one who could be impacted.
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