Every week in this space, we will break down the injury report and what it means for Fantasy Football in Week 2. We'll talk about how we're handling injured players we expect to play, as well as waiver-wire replacements for those we don't expect to play. In Week 1 the majority of the injuries we saw were at the wide receiver position and that trend continued on Wednesday when Nico Collins left practice with a hamstring injury.
We'll start there and work our way through the rest of the injury reports as they come in. The early reporting on the Collins hamstring injury has been confusing, to say the least. The gist is that the team does not think it is serious and sent him to a doctor for an evaluation.
That leaves room for both optimism and pessimism. The way I am reading it is optimistic for the rest of the season, pessimistic for Week 2. Collins didn't practice Thursday and I have moved him below DJ Moore and Jameson Williams in my rankings, in case you have to make that decision before we get any real new information.
My favorite add off the waiver wire would be Xavier Hutchinson, though Kayshon Boutte and Jaylin Noel could get a boost as well. Dalton Schultz would be a top 10 tight end against the Bengals if Collins doesn't play this week. No team gave up more Fantasy points to tight ends last year than Cincinnati.
This isn't surprising, and we aren't ringing the alarm bells yet, but it may be safer to start Williams and Moore of Flowers if you don't have another option. Flowers caught five passes for 150 yards and a touchdown before leaving Week 1 in the second quarter with a hamstring injury. The team is calling him day to day and our expectation is that he will play.
But that's no guarantee and if he doesn't practice Friday he will be tough to trust on Sunday. If Flowers is out, Mark Andrews is close to a must-start tight end in Week 2. Andrews had a 42.9% target per route run in the second half without Flowers.
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