Fantasy Football Playoffs Update: Keenan Allen & Nico Collins Injury News | Insights for PLAYOFFS

[Music] Keenan Allen a heel questionable I mean before you even talk about him it's just the Chargers man I don't recommend starting anyone on this team I've been burned for a while this year on Austin Eckler I don't even know what the heck to do with him anymore um you know just fired the head coach over there it's just a whole disaster but is there any good news here do we have any optimism with Keenan Allen is he going to play is it even worth him to play what do you what do you think at the moment there's not a whole lot of good news because he did not practice again today Wednesday they play Saturday so it's a quicker turnaround now if you are looking for some optimism heal injuries as long as it's not fractured typically aren't terrible they typically feel better once you get warmed up and it can be kind of a pain tolerance thing but it can make it difficult to accelerate to hit Top Speed things like that I suspect that if they were in playoff contention he would definitely be pushing to play but since they stink I wouldn't be surprised if he sits again and even if he does play if he plays you can't not start him but with Easton stick at quarterback the upside is not what is with Herbert um so another one that's a really tricky situation because because of his name and because of what he's done this year you feel like you have to start him if he plays but this situation is just not great for him and honestly I don't know if he will play because of like what we talked about before the quick turnaround of Saturday and they're playing for nothing yeah I do love me a Saturday game I'm excited to to have some games coming up on Saturday but Tom this season has just been like a war of attrition it's just like whose team can last the longest without everyone dying it's been I I really I mean of course now that we look at injuries so closely you always have but but now that I'm studying it so much you know being with you and being with the fantasy injury team like this I think this year has to be record-breaking in some ways the amount of quarterbacks that have been down the amount of just stud players that have been hurt we've talked so many times this year about stud running backs about Jamar Chase Justin Jefferson Keenan Allen Tyreek Hill all of these guys like I'm so curious to see what some of these Championship rosters are going to look like there's going to be some surprises out there and it's going to come down to depth and who gets lucky it's going to be some strange names on there I'll never forget and I hope my friend CJ is listening it had to be eight years ago at this point I picked up um Tim Hightower from the Saints in the championship week or maybe in the semi-finals week picked them up off waivers because who I don't know if it was Camara or Ingram if it was even before their time they just were out and I think Tim Hightower literally won me a championship and I just every time I see him I I almost bought a Tim hi Tower Jersey but there's so few out there I think they were like $600 and I literally almost pulled the trigger on it but that's like the types of namers we're gonna see like imagine JT doesn't play or something and Zach Moss is hurt and it's just Trace Surman bringing people to championships like it's just absolutely it doesn't make sense man but listen that's why we're here and it's there's some skill involved but you got to have some luck out there too all right Nico Collins a kef injury uh obviously guy with a bright future stud wide receiver Tom I know you don't like was it heel injuries you always tell us to oh the cast Y what okay so it's it just zaps wide receiver production in their first game back only one out of 18 receivers since 2017 have met or exceeded their pre-injury average in fantasy points in that first game back and they average a dip of 44% fantasy production so for someone like Collins who's averaging something in the low teens we're looking at maybe six seven fantasy points this week which is not what you want in the semi-finals and the reason is the calf is so critical for acceleration and top end speed that if you if it's to the point where you can't you can't get there you're not going to get open and if you're not open you're not going to catch the ball if you don't catch the ball you're not going to get many fantasy points so even if Collins plays I'm not starting him this week because of this injury but also because shroud's probably not going to play right