0:06Fantasy football injury updates. I'm Theo Greinger. I'm going live today because we have this Jackson Dart news just coming in and and we got to update
0:16everybody listening in on the Rotoire podcast feed and also Rotoire fantasy football YouTube. Really devastating stuff. uh Dark gets injured against the
0:25Rams and it's sort of like a slow drip of news. Now you're hearing reports that it could be the entire season for him.
0:34This is obviously a gamecher. This is a devastating run out for fantasy managers, also for New York Giants fans.
0:42And it's it's such an emotional roller coaster for us as fantasy managers where if you drafted Jackson Dart on week one,
0:49you felt like you have one of the league winning picks. The guy has three touchdown passes, 54 rushing yards. The Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys. I mean,
1:00it was about as good as it gets. And a lot of fantasy managers were getting Jackson Dart as like a high-end QB2. So,
1:06it felt like a massive edge pick for you, a fantasy football pick that was going to turn into something massive.
1:14Now you fast forward to just a short period of time. The Giants not only lose to the Rams, you also end up losing your
1:22matchup if you play Jackson Dart because he exits the game early and then you're like, you know, maybe I'll get him back
1:27in a couple of weeks. And there was even like lip readers on X watching like uh the the team doctor with Harbaugh and
1:36people were thinking four to six weeks.
1:38Then this morning it was like a slow drip coming in where multiple beat reporters are saying it's sort of worse than anticipated. Uh you know you get
1:46the the usual suspects that you hear with Ian Rapaort, Micop, and now the the huge bombshell. I'm I'm recording this
1:55at about 3:40 on Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon and you get the Adam Shfter sending out a big post on X saying that
2:04it's feared that this could be the season. I mean, this is a gamecher. If you're a superflex manager with Jackson Dart, and I have a superflex team that's
2:12really good with Jackson Dart. Now, my team is not so good. It's very difficult to replicate this one, especially considering that the waiverwire is going
2:22to have so many fantasy managers all competing with the same group of replacement players. Because you've got Caleb Williams out this week at least
2:32and people are down downplaying this one saying Caleb could be back in a week.
2:36He's weak to week. It's a hamstring injury. I don't know. It feel it felt like it would more than a oneweek
2:43injury. Then you have Tyson Beant who would have been like a plugandplay type.
2:48I think would have been Caleb Williams managers and now Jackson Dart managers trying to grab Beant. Beent's in the concussion protocol. So you you have the
2:57replacements are even even getting uh into the trouble here. They got Jaden Daniels dislocated elbow. He's going to miss multiple weeks of the season.
3:06Marcus Mariota, the clear rep replacement there. But Mariota, I don't know. I'm I'm not feeling that optimistic. If this was maybe last year,
3:15uh you know, we could we could see it.
3:17And a quick little uh mention here, Jameus Winston looked terrible. like Jamus looked awful thrown up like
3:26moonballs. Uh interceptions that you or I could have made, especially that that first that first pick, that pick in the end zone, that was bad news. And Jamus
3:36has given us so much magic over the years, but doesn't look like that same level replacement player. So, I'm not valuing Jamus. I feel like if you're in
3:44a superflex league, starting quarterbacks are a priority. And I think the Giants might try to figure something out long term for the season, but short
3:52term against Tennessee, it should be Jameus Winston behind center. That's sort of how how I'm playing it. And I have people saying, uh, you know,
4:01Jackson Dart, Jackson Dart, uh, certainly uh, you know, you had injury risk. Yeah, I get it. He had injury risk, but it's still difficult to to
4:10overcome. Then you also have to talk about Jaden Daniels with Marcus Mariota uh replacing him. Mariota, it doesn't feel like a massive massive pick right
4:22now. I dropped my waiverwire article over at Rotoire. You can get access to all my stuff over there, including um all access using the code theo40. The
4:32waiverwire article I'm going to have to do updates to it because this is just craziness. But Jamus, you got to add if
4:37you're a superflex manager. And certainly Malik Neighbors, we have some decent injury updates there where Neighbors the shoulder injury. It sounds
4:45like he's going to be potentially playing. We are going to monitor his status for this week. You got so many injuries we're already dealing with. I
4:53mean, quarterback wise, Sam Darnold week three up in the air, but Drew Lock playing well. I don't think they're going to rush that one back. Positive
5:01note, Kyler Murray is back. Uh, expected to start week three. They've got a lot of confidence in him. Carson Wentz's 2
5:07and 0. Um, obviously finished game one and started game two. Um, Carson Wentz's 2 and 0, but Kyler Murray's going to be
5:15back. That's some positivity there.
5:17Michael Pennix Jr., um, he's back this week. He's named starter against Green Bay, but I just can't get over the Dart
5:24news. The Dart news is is just so so so problematic. It's it's just a gut punch.
5:31I know a lot of you out there have Jackson Dart. I know a lot of you were drafting Jackson Dart. And it's again,
5:37there's no easy answers for this one. If this would have happened in week one, you probably could have grabbed Bryce Young in a lot of leagues, but I think a
5:44lot of leagues he was picked up. If he's still available in your league, I I would prioritize him. Most of you kind
5:50of watching my stuff, you're not in leagues where Tyler Shuck wasn't picked up after week one, he'd obviously be one. If you're in trading leagues, you
6:00know, you can check out some managers that have two quarterbacks that are viable, but your feet are sort of towards the fire on that one. But, you
6:07know, the quarterbacks, tons of updates on the injuries.
6:11Got to look at the running backs as well. Uh, the stinger for Saquon Barkley, it sounds like it's not a major
6:18injury, but Tank Bsby should be rostered everywhere. JK Dobbins hamstring injury.
6:24Uh, we're going to keep an eye on that one. You've already got R.J. J. Harvey dealing with a hamstring injury. It
6:28sounds like the Dobbins one is not anything serious, but I don't know. I love Jonah Coleman. I think he's a player you want to roster everywhere.
6:35Um, my Jonah Coleman bags are packed and I'm and I think it could be a takeover there. We saw Emanuel Wilson running
6:42very strongly. Jadarian Price, they say nothing is serious with him there. Sort of a shoulder injury there. They said chest chest and shoulder. Uh, Emanuel
6:52Wilson I think would have viability against the Washington Commanders because Seattle's going to take him behind the woodshed. And then Jordan
6:59Mason still on the IR for Minnesota.
7:02Aaron Jones, we already saw the increased volume this past week. So running back, that's that's pretty much it. And Rico Dowel toe injury that would
7:09sort of boost uh Jaylen Warren. Jonathan Brooks groin injury that's going to boost Chuba Hubard who's getting like alpha-like uh usage um really blec usage
7:19in Carolina. Wide receiver-wise, it's a it's a mess. We talked about Malik Neighbors. You got Puka sounds like he's going to miss week three. We saw
7:28Terrence Ferguson breakout game last night. We saw Devonte Adams just crushing uh snatching souls last night.
7:34Dvonte Adams gets upgraded. Terrence Ferguson gets upgraded if Puka misses.
7:39Nico Collins, we saw like the Daltton Schultz game this past week in a losing effort. CJ Strad, tons of passing yards.
7:47They couldn't score. But, uh, Nico being out, it sounds like he's going to miss week three. You got Alec Pierce um not
7:54going on IR, but he's got a hip injury.
7:56We're going to upgrade Josh DS. We're going to upgrade um Tyler Warren. I think that that sort of consolidates things. Darius Sllayton was signed as a
8:05replacement. We know Sllayton is a player with a limited target ceiling.
8:09Mike Evans sounds like it's not going to be a whole lot. We'll look at practice reports. Jaden Reed, back injury. Um,
8:15that's a tough one right there. Um, really tough one. Jaden Reed will consolidate things when it comes to the Packers. I think you're going to upgrade
8:24Watson. You're going to upgrade Golden.
8:26You're going to certainly upgrade Tucker Craft, who I think could break out this week. Uh, I've got questions in this is
8:32I mean, craziness happening. Um, Ken Walker for Bejon. I I think you take this trade. I think you take it. I think
8:38Kenneth Walker, shout out to the super chat. Not to get off subject here, but I've got a super chat trade question.
8:44Kenneth Walker for Bejon Robinson. Gut is saying to take the trade. I think Kenneth Walker I'm going to do a rest of
8:50season's rankings update over at rotowire.com. You can access that. Um check just check out my my rankings page. It should be up soon. Um and I'm
9:00going to have Ken Walker slightly ahead of Bejon. I just think Walker's role is just immense right now. We'll see uh
9:06with uh Penn's back if we get a bump though for for Drake London and certainly for for Bejon Robinson. Um, this is wild though. I mean, we're just
9:15rolling with the punches in fantasy football. Jackson Dart sounds like he could be done for the season. I mean, just catastrophic stuff. Back to the
9:24wide receivers. I mean, we talked about Michael Pitman, uh, foot injury. We don't know what's happening this week.
9:30We know Jeremy Bernard had eight targets. Jeremy Bernard is a player that I think if you're in a deep league, you
9:36got to consider. Uh, multiple 49ers, Mike Evans, we mentioned the hip injury.
9:41They're sort of downplaying things, but Demarcus Robinson high ankle sprain. He could go to the IR. Um, and that's one where we can't count on him. So, I think
9:51Debo Samuel and George KD are going to get a whole lot. Christian McCaffrey going to get a whole lot. 49ers will
9:57find a way. That that team is is legit.
10:00I mentioned Jacob Cowing on my waiverwire show as sort of a dart throw.
10:04Then you've even got problems at the tight end position. I mean, our our fantasy football god king, Brock Bowers, should be back soon. Uh, potentially
10:13this week, which would just be like a, hey, we lose all these guys and we get back Brock Bowers. I mean, if you got
10:19Brock Bowers, you you'll take the trade.
10:21If you don't have Brock Bowers, you're like, why are you even bringing that up, Theo? But Bowowers could be back this
10:25week. Raiders 2 and0. Kirk Cousins playing pretty well. That would be a pretty nice run out for Bowowers. Dallas Goddard, though, is going to miss a
10:33while. Um, and the team signed Zack Z yesterday. So, Zack Z on the practice squad. Definitely definitely an
10:41interesting one. Um, but just a absolute disaster for Jackson Dart managers. Just an absolute disaster. Um, you know, I I
10:53fantasy football is a tough game and we always talk about it where we say it's a weekly game. Really the only thing that
11:00we can control with our fantasy teams is the amount of effort we put into the waiver wire and our start sit decisions
11:10being about as good as it gets. If you're in a trading league making welltimed trades um trying to be a week
11:17ahead on guys and all that sort of thing. Roster management is really the only thing we can control. But it makes
11:24you want to stop playing fantasy football when you have your quarterback lost for the season in week two, especially for Superflex managers. I
11:32mean, the runout for Jaden Daniels and Jackson Dart managers, um, just immense here. Just absolutely immense here. Um, people in the chat sort of talking up
11:43Puka. Pukunakua again, we have we have really no idea how long he's going to be out, but the team is sort of a little
11:51bit cryptic with this one. Uh sounds like no week three for Puka. So certainly Pukanakua managers are are tilting like crazy because you're seeing
12:01the wide receivers drafted directly behind him look like league winners and Aman Ross St. Brown and Jackson Smith and Jigba. That's an extremely tilting
12:09one. Uh, injury-wise, one other situation to mention, and I talked about this on the waiver show, but I had a Ronda Gadson highly ranked for high
12:19stakes managers and deep league managers as a waiverwire ad because you've got David and Jooku dealing with a knee injury. You've got Charlie Kolar dealing
12:29with a forearm injury. Uh, so Ronda Gadson, we know how effective he was last year. Um, and I think he's going to
12:36get some short-term viability here. and the Chargers are a complete disaster.
12:40Uh, so this is this is one where I think you want to add him, but really the story of of of this week, it's the
12:48quarterback injuries and again so hard to replicate these sort of players. And just think about where we were in week one to where we are today in such a
12:59short period of time when you talk about Jaden Daniels, you talk about Jackson Dart, you talk about Caleb Williams, it's just an unbelievable run out here.
13:10And it's a fortunate run out for Caleb Williams considering that and I know you know people like the meme and all that
13:18sort of stuff but just the way Caleb reacted to the injury. It felt like it was something massive. It ends up not
13:25being anything crazy. Um the chat is mentioning the Sam Darnold runout. Drew Lock Drew Lock played played really well this past weekend. three touchdown
13:34passes to JSN and Brian Flurry OC for the Seattle Seahawks. I think we got to also mention him where there was gloom and doom in
13:44the streets about losing Clint Kubak. I mean, we got to give Brian Flurry a big high letter grade for losing his
13:51starting quarterback and just absolutely steamrolling Arizona. So, really, really unfortunate. If you're a Giants fan, it's really tough. It's really tough.
14:02There was so much optimism. I live on Long Island, so I've got a lot of people coming up to me that are Giants fans,
14:07talking to me at like the gym and and and you know, my my my kids' friends, dads and stuff, talking about like the
14:14enthusiasm for the Giants after that Cowboys win to start out the year. And my answer to them was, "Hey, Jackson Dart's going to keep putting pressure on
14:22opposing defenses. Uh it's a team that is dangerous." and now really really uh an easy team to defend. I think if
14:31you're trying to find like a little bit of hope if it's Jamus Winston, do we see him hyperargeting Isaiah likely and Malik Neighbors? We've
14:40seen Jamus do this in the past. Again, Jameus didn't look right to me. But again, it's a very short sample size.
14:47We're going to see him time to prepare.
14:50Giants do have a home game against the Tennessee Titans.
14:55interesting to see if this will will force the Giants to lean into Cam Scataboo a little bit more. Um, so I
15:04think that's a sort of a a a question and we're going to be covering it all week long right here at Rotoire, but I
15:10just feel like it was important to hop on the mic and sort of talk out my thoughts here with this sort of uh
15:16injury runout. It's it's really hard right now, but we're going to try to get through it. Again, Bryce Young, if he's
15:24available on your waiverwire, really prioritize him tonight. And especially consider the fact that even if you don't need Bryce Young, the bodies are
15:34dropping at the quarterback position and you want to block your leaguemate from getting a cheap Bryce Young. So, if I'm in a league with trading, I'm going to
15:44make a very aggressive bid to get Bryce Young. Certainly Tyler Chuck, if you're in a league and somehow he's available um in some crazy league that didn't pick
15:54him up after week one or draft him this summer, um he would be ahead of Bryce Young. But I think Bryce Young, I know
16:00for me, when I look at like NFC and FFPC leagues, there's managers who ignored the week one performance against Chicago that I think are going to uh play
16:11catch-up. I think another one and I'll I'll give a shout out to the chat on this one.
16:18Fernando Mendoza. Um just by the way that the Raiders are playing the the window of opportunity for Cousins is still there to hold on to this job for a
16:29very long time. But at some point this year, we're going to see Fernando Mendoza and it could end up being sort
16:35of a Drake May like run out where we saw New England sort of take their time and maybe Mendoza we get at the end of the
16:42year. Maybe we get a midyear. Cousins keeps winning. It sort of keeps pushing it back. But you've got the big week
16:49four game for Vegas against Kansas City.
16:53If that's a woodshed game for for Kansas City there, and I'm not saying it will be, but if it is a woodshed game in
17:00Vegas and and Kansas City rolls them, then I think the clock starts ticking a little bit, maybe the the good graces
17:07from the the great start for Vegas will go down the drain a little bit. But yeah, um just a reminder, even if you
17:14don't need a quarterback, you want to prioritize Bryce Young on your waiver wire tonight or tomorrow night in leagues where he's still available. And
17:24if he's not available, look at the next best option. And there's going to be starting quarterbacks that you want to prioritize because you're going to have
17:34another trade ship because this is not a friendly game. This is a you trying to beat 11 people, you trying to beat nine
17:41people in a 10-man league, or you trying to beat 13 managers in a 14 teamer.
17:46That's it. That's what fantasy football is. So, if they're scrambling, you want to at least price enforce these sort of bids because Jaden Daniels, Caleb
17:56Williams, and now Jackson Dart potentially for the entire year. Just awful, awful stuff. And if you lost one of these guys, you want to double tap
18:08the quarterback position this week on the waiverwire. Grab a Jacobe Brassette to go along with hopefully a Bryce Young. Grab a a Tyson Beant if you have
18:18Caleb Williams for like the long long-term outlook. Case Keenum potentially this week. Now, that's a tough putt. That's a tough one uh for
18:26for using uh Case Keenum. I think Beent, it's sort of like if if Caleb the run out is a little bit longer than
18:33anticipated, then I think Beeent could have some value. But I think really understand injuries are happening right and left this year. You got to consider
18:42this a weekly game. Come check out the Waverwire show. Come check out my defensive streamers show. All of the stuff that we're putting out matters
18:50more. The the margins are are tighter in seasons where there's injuries. And if your team had a run out where you're
18:58completely healthy, push the chips in and really hit that waiver wire, you could build a very strong roster. But Jackson Dart, we're we're going to we're
19:07going to keep trying to trying to go through it. Um I mentioned Deshun Watson. Um I you know, I had Watson in
19:13the Waverwire article. Uh Deshun Watson playing pretty well right now and has a couple of winning winnable games coming out. Uh other questions in the chat for
19:22me with Jackson Dartton Dynasty. I'm going to update my dynasty rankings over at Rotoire. I've got to get a Jaden Daniels Jackson Dart update in there. I
19:30think Dart has the job long term in New York. Um that's I don't I think it's a without. It's a given. Uh I do think
19:38that if the wheels comp there's a nightmare scenario that if the wheels completely fall off this year and the Giants have a top five pick, they'll be
19:46quarterback options. I don't think they'll go in that direction, but that's just a I'll throw the nightmare scenario out there. sort of there because the
19:532027 draft class has a number of draftable quarterbacks. But Jackson Dart, I think, is completely locked in long-term. I think they love him. And
20:01you look at Harbaugh, the reason he took this job was Jackson Dart. He's kind of said that. I know he met with Dart
20:07before he accepted the job. And it was one of the most appealing things for him to move from Lamar Jackson to Jackson
20:14Dart. So, I think long term he's fine.
20:17Um, really, really a tough run out for fantasy football managers. Wish I had nicer things to say, but here we are.
20:24Stick with us here at Rotoire. Shows like this are dropping nearly every day.
20:29Uh, check out my show with Jim Coventry, start sit, that's on Thursday. Bold predictions show with Jacob Gibbs, that's on Friday. And we're going to be
20:37dropping shows like this anytime something relevant happens. We are starting a movement here on both the YouTube channel and the podcast. Uh, we
20:45want to help you crush your leagues.
20:47We're going to do it together. We're going to get through these injuries together as well. Keep your head up and keep grinding. Let's go win some games
20:52this week. I'll see you soon.
