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podcast I'm your host phical medic fantasy points.com man did you miss that intro flying
solo this time no more georgees we talked about but I want to get right into it but first there's
been a lot of chatter a lot of injuries already in training camp as we anticipated if you want
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to try to get through this extremely quickly uh because I have clients to see I have real
athletes that are going to come here and see me so let's get through it chrish mcaffrey strained calf
right on August 6th Kyle shanan came out said that yeah he's going to miss a couple of of weeks and
that makes sense to me so if you look at all the data generally speaking 93% of players do end up
coming back from these calf injuries without any problems this is a recurrent issue for Christian
mcaffry he did set sit out week 18 the first time that he suffered this calf injury uh last season
but I still don't think that it's going to be a very big deal if you look at the data since 2018
you'll see that NFL running backs specifically they don't injure their calf a ton and when they
do there only been 25 instances since 2018 only 8% or two of the 25 had a reinjury in that same
calendar year so the average amount of Miss time is about 2.1 games Mak sense with about the two
weeks is there risk of Christian mcaffry a little bit if you're splitting hairs would you rather
go seing lamb probably I'm still going to take Christian mcaffry he's not dropping in tears or
anything ridiculous like that I think when we get to week four five six we're going to look back and
you're going to remember how ridiculous it was to fade Christian mcaffry for a calf injury that is
not very common and has a very very good uh very good d backing it so don't fade Christian mcaffrey
so Justin Herbert planner fascia diagnosed right planner fascia injuries is what they called it uh
over the last you know several years there haven't been a ton of planer fasion injuries in general
Tony Pard is really the best bet that you have are the best comparison and that doesn't even really
make sense because Tony par is obviously a running back so for Justin Herbert what this means is that
yeah they're going to put him in a boot that means that they thought it was significant enough there
might have been some actual structural issues with it so they're going to put him in the boot then
they're going to slowly bring him back get him on a running proog program return to running program
but he's probably not going to rush very much at all especially the first month of the Season or so
this can linger he can reinjure it that's probably not going to be something that necessarily happens
but what you can see happen with Justin Herbert like again like I said he's going to lose some
Mobility he was already a guy that we were fading given the circumstances of the situation that
passing offense just isn't going to be up to par for Fantasy standards I wouldn't necessarily
take Justin Herbert not because he's necessarily at risk to to get reinjured or anything like that
I just I just don't see the upside pukaa thank you for not tagging me in any more posts that have to
do with sack that went on way too long you ruin my algorithm um I kid I kid but nonetheless on August
4th they had a joint session uh the Rams did with the Chargers mcfay confirmed that it was a burst
AAC burst apparently I don't really know if it really bursts or or if it's just like an injury
but essentially that's just a contact injury so he fell on the knee landed on it hard now it's
inflamed it's really just a matter of reducing the swelling reducing the stiffness getting him
out of pain he should be ready to play uh by week one I wouldn't necessarily worry this is a very
general injury um there probably are some specific statistics on it but what you need to know from
you know wide receiver knee and this is again in the draft guide go get the draft guide from that
perspective wide receivers in season since 2018 they only miss 1.2 games right 65% Miss zero games
11% miss one game right so puku has got all day or all day all month to get get right but this
is your last chance before the Cooper cup train leaves the station so next guy we're going to get
to here DeAndre Hopkins right he's got a strained knee which happened on August 2nd um it was weird
and Eerie they said that he didn't need surgery and the prognosis here is four to 6 weeks it's
really tough to know exactly what's going on with him but we do know that he had this weird AP job
that looked like it could have been uh you know some sort of PCL or LCL issue sorry and so the
best comparison that we have the best comp we have for DeAndre Hopkins in particular is Darren Waller
from 2021 and if I pull it up here I can tell you exactly how much time Darren Waller missed but my
goodness there have already been so many injuries um that I already lost track of when this happened
and here it is DeAndre Hopkins like I said could be an LCL best comp Darren Waller in 2021 he
missed about four games his teammate actually in 2023 TR Burks he missed about 3 weeks at Camp so
really we're probably looking at like that three to four week window for Hopkins that's going to
really put him at risk for week one of the NFL season but I wouldn't necessarily anticipate
he misses more than that he's a little older it's going to take him a little longer to heal
get back on his feet might take him a little bit to get back to uh full health um so I'm probably
I'm fine if he's like your wide receiver four it's not a big deal um his upside probably is capped at
this point so I don't know how much deand Hopkins is I'm really going to take unless he falls in
me he's my wide receiver five or something like that last thing we had here on Xavier Legette uh
he had you know an MRI confirmed that he didn't have a fracture which is good but that means he
probably sprained his foot and when we look at wide receiver high ankle or well not high ankle
but we look at ankle and foot injuries for wide receivers in particular we see that as I pull
it up here again I'm looking at the injury-prone draft guide it's going to be in the show notes
if you want to spend 20 bucks to become a much better fantasy football player you can do that
but typically wide receivers 79% of them Miss zero games in season 8% miss one game the mean amount
of Miss time for these injuries is0 seven games so not even one game when they come back right
they're differential their point differentials 78% of their average but he's going to have plenty of
time to bounce back as Xavier Leed is if anything you worry a little bit about him getting on the
same page with Patrick Mahomes before the uh the the season begins last couple notes here so Josh
down suffered a high ankle sprain and I tweeted about this before uh I tweeted at FB injury doc if
you want to go look at it so again coming from the injury-prone draft guide here is there risk with
Josh Downs yes of course what you need to know is that 80% of high ankle sprains they resolve within
four weeks only 20% of them actually extend beyond the six week Mark I wouldn't anticipate Josh DS
is going to miss a ton of time he will miss week one at most and a lot of people have been asking
me oh is this he's off my board should I you know am I worry should I worry blah blah blah 94% of
Baseline production in their second week back for NFL wide receivers after an ankle sprain high
ankle sprain let me say that again in their second week back from a high ankle sprain NFL wide
receivers production is 94% of Baseline the high ankle sprain is not always a death sentence
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