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Fantasy Football: Christian McCaffrey’s surprise inactive status caps Week 1 full of injury and disappointment

If you’ve found yourself reading this, I’m sorry. It probably means you were one of the very unfortunate fantasy football managers bitten by the injury bug, or even worse — bitter disappointment because even your healthiest players somehow found a way to let you down.

Gather round; this is a safe space. Let it all out here, and I promise, we’ll survive it and hit the reset button in Week 2.

Of course, injuries plagued all of the league in Week 1 (and even prior). The Minnesota Vikings continued their streak of bad injury luck with their quarterbacks with a season-ending knee injury to J.J. McCarthy in the preseason. The Green Bay Packers lost QB Jordan Love to an MCL strain in Week 1’s primetime showdown with the Eagles. He’s set to miss some time, though he managed to avoid a stint on the injured reserve list.

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Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua returned from a knee injury only to suffer a PCL sprain Sunday night and ended up on IR himself after just 25 snaps. Promising rookie wideout Rome Odunze is also set to miss time now with a knee injury of his own, dealing with a sprained MCL and considered “week-to-week”.

Two of everyone’s favorite mid-round tight end options, Jake Ferguson and David Njoku, suffered knee and ankle injuries, respectively, and could miss time. Even those with healthy tight ends like Travis Kelce, Mark Andrews and Trey McBride, everything just felt difficult in Week 1.

Not to mention several other duds from high draft picks like Marvin Harrison Jr and Chris Olave or, in some cases, whole teams like the Falcons and Panthers.

All of that hurt (literally for them, figuratively for us). None of it prepared us for what was to come, however — the surprise “inactive” status for San Francisco 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey in Week 1’s Monday Night Football matchup.

Of course, it’s not…


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Author : Yahoo Sports

Publish date : 2024-09-10 00:19:34

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