Daily Notes: Injuries to Kupp, Herbert, Jeudy and Smith-Schuster mar Sunday's action

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The news: Rams WR Cooper Kupp injured his ankle successful the 4th fourth of the Rams' nonaccomplishment to the Cardinals connected Sunday.

What it means successful fantasy: Head manager Sean McVay said instantly aft the crippled that "it didn't look good; it didn't dependable good," nevertheless Jourdan Rodrigue of the Athletic reported that Kupp appeared to person avoided superior wounded to his close ankle for the 2nd clip this season. An MRI volition beryllium performed connected Monday to find the grade of the injury. Kupp besides near the Rams' Week 8 crippled with a close ankle injury. Fantasy managers should see Ben Skowronek if Kupp's wounded is serious. He led the Rams with 60 snaps and 40 routes tally and besides had six targets. Van Jefferson, who returned successful Week 8, besides caught his archetypal 3 passes of the season, including a touchdown.

Going deeper: Kupp had 21 consecutive games with astatine slightest 15 phantasy points based connected PPR scoring, the 3rd longest streak successful league history. Cooper accounted for 35.7% of the Rams' receptions entering Week 10. That was the highest people successful the league.

The news: Bears RB Khalil Herbert suffered a hep wounded connected Sunday against the Lions.

What it means successful fantasy: Herbert suffered the wounded precocious successful the crippled and was rapidly ruled out. The Bears discourtesy relied heavy connected backmost Justin Fields, but it was Herbert who had the astir rushing attempts erstwhile Fields wasn't moving down the field, with 57 rushing yards to David Montgomery's 37. Although Herbert has been the amended backmost each season, the Bears proceed to divided touches reasonably evenly betwixt the two, and erstwhile Herbert near the game, Montgomery played each drawback astatine moving backmost and would spot a larger workload if Herbert misses clip owed to the injury. In Week 11, Montgomery could beryllium viewed arsenic an RB2 if that script plays out. Chicago leads the league with 36.0 rushing attempts per game.

Going deeper: Fields leads the Bears with 749 rushing yards, but Herbert isn't acold down with 643 yards. David Montgomery, connected the different hand, has 434 yards. So acold this season, Herbert has 106.5 phantasy points, portion Montgomery has 83.4.

The news: Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy suffered an ankle wounded connected Sunday against the Titans.

What it means successful fantasy: The wounded took spot connected the Broncos archetypal play from scrimmage and Jeudy was rapidly ruled out. Jeudy wore a walking footwear upon leaving the stadium and told Denver 7's Troy Renck he's hoping his wounded is not a precocious ankle sprain. KJ Hamler was ruled retired anterior to the crippled owed to a hamstring injury. Courtland Sutton was targeted 11 times by Russell Wilson, who besides connected with undrafted rookie receiver Jalen Virgil connected a 66-yard touchdown. It was Wilson's 2nd touchdown walk with 40 oregon much yards aft the drawback this season. Jeudy's wounded comes astatine an unfortunate time, since helium had scored 16 oregon much phantasy points successful back-to-back games. Kendall Hinton stepped into a larger relation owed to Jeudy's absence. He caught 4 of 5 targets for 62 yards connected Sunday. Though Hinton showed the quality to capitalize erstwhile fixed an accidental Sunday, his relation is heavy babelike connected the wellness of Jeudy and Hamler.

The news: Chiefs JuJu Smith-Schuster was ruled retired of Sunday's crippled against the Jaguars aft taking a immense helmet to helmet hit.

What it means successful fantasy: Smith-Schuster entered the concussion protocol aft leaving Sunday's crippled successful the 2nd quarter. He was going crossed the mediate to drawback a walk from Patrick Mahomes erstwhile Andre Cisco deed him high. Cisco was flagged for the collision, but the punishment was aboriginal called off. Smith-Schuster laic motionless connected the turf with his hands frozen successful a harrowing moment. , helium yet walked disconnected the tract w h assistance from teammates. The Chiefs person utilized a dense rotation of wide receivers each play but Smith-Schuster leads the Chiefs' wide receivers with 615 receiving yards. Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Skyy Moore, and Justin Watson whitethorn beryllium fixed further snaps if Smith-Schuster misses time, but Kadarius Toney has earned an progressively important portion of the Chiefs discourtesy since arriving successful Kansas City. He finished the crippled with 19 phantasy points connected 4 catches, including his archetypal vocation touchdown.

The news: Cardinals TE Zach Ertz injured his genu connected Sunday against the Rams.

What it means successful fantasy: The wounded occurred successful the archetypal quarter, and Ertz appeared affectional arsenic helium was carted to the grooming room. ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that Ertz's anterior cruciate ligament appears to beryllium intact aft an archetypal examination. Ertz was wearing a brace aft the crippled and is expected to miss a fewer weeks. The grade of the wounded volition beryllium determined by an MRI connected Monday. Trey McBride replaced Ertz successful the 3rd 4th and played astir each the violative snaps. McBride volition beryllium a waiver ligament people if Ertz's wounded is serious. The Cardinals made him the archetypal choky extremity selected successful the 2022 NFL Draft, 55th overall.

Going deeper: McBride was 1 of Colorado State's astir decorated players. The John Mackey Award victor acceptable schoolhouse records for choky ends successful receptions, receiving yards, and 100-yard games during his 2021 season. Ertz has averaged 7.0 targets per crippled this season.

The news: Chargers TE Gerald Everett suffered a groin wounded connected Sunday nighttime against the 49ers.

What it means successful fantasy: Everett near the crippled aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th and did not return. This was a devastating stroke for Justin Herbert and the Chargers passing crippled since they were already missing Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. This season, Everett averaged 6.1 targets and 9.2 phantasy points per game. Tre' McKitty volition go the superior receiving choky extremity if helium misses clip with this injury. TE Richard Rodgers ran lone 4 routes compared to McKitty's 31.

The news: Colts RB Jonathan Taylor accumulated 163 full yards and a touchdown connected 24 touches against the Raiders connected Sunday.

What it means successful fantasy: Taylor has been dealing with an ankle wounded disconnected and connected since Week 4 and had missed Week 9. This was Taylor 2nd champion phantasy shot show of the play and coincided with Matt Ryan backmost nether center. In the future, if interim caput manager Jeff Saturday and his unit volition beryllium this babelike connected Taylor, this bodes precise good for his phantasy worth for the remainder of the season.

Going deeper: Taylor had 100 oregon much rushing yards oregon a rushing touchdown for the archetypal clip since Week 1. As per NFL Next Gen Stats, helium reached a maximum velocity of 20.64 mph during Sunday's game, the fastest max velocity by a Colts shot bearer this season.

The news: Raiders WR Davante Adams caught 9 of 14 targets for 126 receiving yards and a touchdown against the Colts connected Sunday.

What it means successful fantasy: Adams is 1 of the lone agleam spots for a Raiders squad is present 0-6 successful one-score games this season. Las Vegas' six consecutive specified losses is the longest streak successful the league. Adams had 27 yards aft the drawback connected his receiving touchdown, the third-most yards aft the drawback connected a receiving touchdown successful his career. This could beryllium an optimal clip for phantasy managers to see trading distant Adams with his consecutive games with 27 oregon much phantasy points. According to Mike Clay's spot of docket matrix, the Raiders person a hard remainder of play schedule. You tin usage Eric Karabell's phantasy shot commercialized worth rankings, coming Tuesday, to place immoderate matches

The news: Jaguars RB Travis Etienne Jr finished with lone 73 full yards connected 14 touches against the Chiefs.

What it means successful fantasy: Etienne had accumulated 19.0 oregon much phantasy points successful 3 consecutive games anterior to this one. The bully quality is that helium played 76% of the violative snaps, but the atrocious quality is that the antagonistic crippled travel lowered his phantasy ceiling. As the Jaguars participate their bye week, proactive phantasy managers with large playoff positioning should prioritize Etienne arsenic a commercialized target. According to Mike Clay's spot of docket matrix, the Jaguars person 1 of the easiest remaining remainder of play schedules.

The news: Steelers RB Najee Harris rushed for 99 yards connected 20 attempts against the Saints connected Sunday.

What it means successful fantasy: It was Harris' astir rushing yards successful a crippled this season. Fantasy managers should proactively effort to commercialized him distant this week. Harris had a 37-yard run, tu longest unreserved by a Steelers subordinate this season. There had been a batch of speech successful the week starring up to this crippled astir Jaylen Warren having much of a relation successful Pittsburgh's backfield, and the rookie was much involved, playing 42.8% of the violative snaps portion Harris played 59.5%.