News on Ja’Marr Chase, Christian Watson, and Zay Jones Impacting WR Rankings

It’s all the time a problem to navigate by accidents in fantasy football. The WR place has a number of gamers coping with points. The time to set Week 10 lineups is close to. What’s the newest damage info on Ja’Marr Chase, Christian Watson, and Zay Jones?

Newest Information and Harm Updates Impacting Fantasy

Ja’Marr Chase, WR, Cincinnati Bengals

It was an underwhelming outing for Ja’Marr Chase final Sunday night time in opposition to the Payments. The Bengals gained the sport, however Chase didn’t actually do a lot, catching 4 of eight targets for 41 yards. The eight targets had been tied for a season-low.

Dud video games occur. Nobody is definitely involved about Chase’s standing as an elite WR1. The true concern stems from Chase leaping excessive to aim to make a catch and falling exhausting on his again. Shortly after the play, Chase was seen on the sidelines getting therapy on his decrease again.

Chase remained within the recreation however mentioned himself that it solely bought worse as the competition progressed. Consequently, Joe Burrow keyed in on Tee Higgins because the Bengals salted the sport away.

At the moment, Chase is being listed as having a again damage, which is clearly no shock. However we don’t have any specifics on what is definitely improper. Each Chase and head coach Zac Taylor have described it as soreness.

Chase didn’t follow on Wednesday. That’s not but trigger for any concern, as Wednesday practices are largely meaningless. Chase can be the kind of participant who might go DNP-DNP-LP, draw a questionable tag, and play on Sunday.

Whereas it’s too early to attract any conclusions, Chase has adopted a really cautious strategy to accidents ever since his hip situation final season. For those who recall the way in which he spoke about Burrow’s calf pressure, he was championing Burrow sitting out and letting it heal moderately than try to play by it. Primarily based on Burrow’s early season efficiency, Chase was in all probability proper.

After final week’s recreation, Chase was very selective with his words, emphasizing the significance of him getting wholesome.

Whereas the Texans have been enjoying effectively, this can be a recreation the Bengals can probably win at dwelling with out Chase. The damage doesn’t sound overly severe, and I might not anticipate Chase to overlook multiple recreation. But when I needed to hazard a guess proper now, I might say the chances Chase misses this week’s recreation are extra probably than not.

The silver lining for fantasy managers is that the Bengals play at 1 p.m. ET. Consequently, managers gained’t have to take a position on Chase’s standing and make selections with restricted info. We’ll know whether or not he’s enjoying and capable of act accordingly.

If Chase can’t go, Tyler Boyd would step into the all-too-familiar WR2 position, the place has excelled prior to now (however not essentially this season). In Week 5, with Tee Higgins absent, it was Trenton Irwin who stepped as much as see 10 targets. He can be a desperation Flex possibility if Chase sits.

Christian Watson, WR, Inexperienced Bay Packers

I’ve misplaced monitor of what number of instances I’ve written a couple of Christian Watson damage. The not-so-funny half is it’s by no means been the identical one. Up to now, Watson has appeared within the damage report with a hamstring pressure, knee sprain, chest situation, and again situation. He was additionally evaluated for a concussion final week, however finally cleared.

Since getting back from his hamstring pressure that price him the primary three weeks of the season, Watson has not missed a recreation. That is regardless of leaving a number of video games with accidents.

According to Rob Demovsky, Watson was training simply superb on Wednesday. That is nice information for Watson’s Week 10 standing. Wednesday practices could also be meaningless by way of absences, however when injured layers truly take part, it’s an especially constructive signal towards their gameday standing.

Provided that Watson bought in a full follow, I’ve no considerations over Watson’s capacity to play this Sunday. Nonetheless, I’ve grave considerations over Watson’s enjoying capacity.

I’m very completely satisfied to see Watson on the sector and wholesome. That’s nice for him. However he belongs miles away from fantasy lineups. With Jordan Love enjoying poorly, and Watson unable to command targets, or get open, or actually do something significantly efficient on a soccer discipline, on the naked minimal, he belongs on fantasy benches. I wouldn’t thoughts seeing him on waiver wires, the place I might fortunately depart him.

Zay Jones, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars

Probably the most mysterious accidents this season has been Zay Jones’ knee. He first harm it again in Week 2. It’s now Week 10, and probably the most detailed description we’ve got is it’s a knee damage. That’s all we all know.

Jones missed Weeks 3 and 4 earlier than returning Week 5, aggravating the damage, and never having the ability to play since. Final week, the most recent replace was the Jones would possibly return after the bye, and likewise would possibly go on IR.

To begin this week, Jones did follow on Wednesday. According to Adam Stites, Jones participated in particular person drills, seemingly to check out his knee, earlier than heading again inside. That doesn’t sound overly optimistic.

Fantasy managers who’ve been stashing Jones on and off their IR for weeks could have needed to drop him. For those who did, don’t really feel dangerous. At this level, it doesn’t seem probably Jones will play this week, and there’s a nonzero likelihood he doesn’t play once more this season. No matter Jones is coping with, he can’t appear to shake it.

The Jaguars will proceed funneling targets to Christian Kirk, Evan Engram, and Calvin Ridley. There isn’t a WR3 on the Jaguars of any fantasy consequence.

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