How Will Nico Collins & Keenan Allen's Injuries Affect Your Fantasy Football Team?

[Music] on to the best wide receiver room in the NFL and we're of course talking about the Texans with Nico Collins and a calf injury I mean they're doing all these things with what' you say 27 year old Noah Brown and obviously rookie tank Dell and CJ stra what a freaking team but imagine when they get Nico Collins back what's going on with him can we expect him to possibly play oh my goodness you just said that they have the best receiver room in the NFL that's that's now that is slightly sarcastic everybody I'm not sure how serious I am I'm I think I'm kind of serious uh but you they're they're pretty good they're pretty good they're their quarterback's pretty good we'll go with that come on man Noah Brown guys's Elite guy's a first-rounder next year Noah Brown he's the best yeah I'll let you pick him okay so Nico missed last week with the calf injury he did return to practice today although I did see a tweet from I forget where early in the day saying he wasn't going to practice but he did in fact practice uh let's think about the function of the calf it functions like a spring so when the foot hits the ground the Achilles and calf complex loads and then as it gets ready to push off the ground it literally recoils and pushes off so when there's an injury to one of the calves you're not getting that same recoil that as the other one which is going to impact acceleration speed power explosiveness Etc and this is why we see a gigantic dip in fantasy production 45% dip in fantasy production from receivers in their first game after a cap injury and that's sample size of 17 it's it's not tiny only one player there met their pre-injury Baseline in the first game back and Joe can I guess can I guess who it was yeah please guess this this go goes back to 2017 I just want to say Julio Jones because he's always like defying things and always hurt back in the day no good guess it was from it was actually from 2017 when our data set start so I'll give you one more guess Antonio Brown yeah that's right yeah all right I'm just thinking of stud receivers from that point okay good job good job do you do you follow that guy on Twitter by the way or on any social media don't think that that would be good for my um perception of what is sane in this no it's not it's not healthy for anyone that guy is we should try to get him on the podcast because he might just be crazy enough to to sit down with two football nerds like us and just talk about random things but that that's a topic for another time um anyway Nico Collins sorry that's actually not a bad idea I'm gonna reach out um yeah so even if he plays this week I'm not starting him I know he's been very good on the year but 6% of receivers are hitting their pre-injury Baseline after this injury it does get better in games two and three it gets much much much better so Collins will be valuable again this year I would just advise against starting him this week all right so Noah Brown would probably be the better play this week in that situation Nico Collins though man why even though he missed time wide receiver 16 still man 13.3 points per game he's another guy that's going crazy and again can't say enough good things about the Texans at and four now I believe and CJ strad I mean we it's been the CJ strad show but that guy is legitimately in the MVP conversation which is something that is absolutely wild last guy Tom it's Keenan Allen a guy that has he's wide receiver three right now but a this one is a shoulder injury I got that right I know it and he did not practice today has it looking for him they play Let's see they play Sunday one o'clock they play the Packers so at least it's an early game but you know what what more can you tell us here on Wednesday night about Keenan Allen we saw this happen um I put up a Instagram video on our Instagram page fantasy injury team pretty much outlining what the injury was we saw him land straight on the side of his left shoulder with the defender landing on top of him classic way to injure the AC joint and remember with the AC joint there's six different grades one through six we remember Anthony Richardson grade three a C joint injury that's borderline of whether rehab will work or if they need surgery Richardson of course needed surgery Keenan Allen return to the game and scored a touchdown so that tells us right there it's a minor grade one or two not practicing today well guess what he's been in the league 10 something years he doesn't need a practice so I am I'm not expecting this to be a problem for him upper body injury not going to affect his ability to run routes run after catch and he's already demonstrated that he can still catch the ball as he returned to the game after the injury he is of course make sure that he's practicing throughout the week make sure that he does play Sunday but as long as he plays fire him up have to fire him up now on the off chance that he does not play do what I was doing some research on what the odds were just take Eckler everything I don't care if it's inflated I don't care how high it is it was going to be my bet of the week time but it's something like minus 155 so the odds aren't great eckar to score but my goodness man Josh Palmer on the IR Mike Williams out for the year if Keenan can't play or if he's banged up a little bit now side note I don't even know that I could play Quinton Johnston still even if Keenan Allen is out but again like Tom said man if Keenan is in you're playing him and I'm Still Loving Eckler for basically everything this week just because they have to give the ball to somebody all right