Saquon Barkley left Week 2 with a stinger, and as of early Tuesday afternoon, we haven't heard about his test results. Dobbins left Week 2 with a hamstring, but the team sounds optimistic that he could be okay for Week 3. Jadarian Price left Week 2 with a chest injury, but X-rays came back negative, and he could play in Week 3.
That is a whole lot of coulds and maybes, which makes waiver wire decisions regarding Tank Bigsby, Jonah Coleman, and Emanuel Wilson extremely risky. I'll break down how I am prioritizing those three in the waiver wire section below. Two guys who aren't on the waiver wire, but could be big risers because of injury this week, are Jaylen Warren and Chuba Hubbard.
I wrote about them in yesterday's projections, risers and fallers. One guy I didn't write about was Travis Etienne, who had perhaps the most troubling Week 2 of all. In Alvin Kamara's first game back, Kamara led the team with a 33% rush share.
He also had an 18% target share, tripling Etienne's workload. It was shocking after the contract they gave Etienne, and it has probably had everyone wondering if they can even flex Etienne. One reason I am not completely panicked yet is that Kamara's 14 touches produced 22 yards.
It is hard to imagine a less efficient outing. Also, Etienne led the Saints running backs in both snap share (53.1%) and route share (33.3%). Those last numbers could be both good news and bad news.
On the plus side, Etienne is still the back on the field the most and the back in position to catch the ball the most. On the downside, there are few must-start running backs that are playing half of the snaps and running a third of the routes. For this week, view Etienne as an extremely borderline RB2.
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