FFT Express - Josh Jacobs Update + BIG Week 1 Injury News: Tua, Love, Nabers & More! (9/10 Fantasy Football Podcast)

week one injury update right now on fft xpress we've got a lot to update john including the latest in the josh Jacobs case right now they've returned the latest in the josh Jacobs case he has pleaded no contest what do we think right now uh for Jacobs i think if you drafted him with a late round pick you'll be happy i would expect him to play after serving some sort of a suspension and i don't think it'll be season long typically the NFL suspends players a minimum of six games for domestic violence i would imagine that would be the case here we just don't know when that's going to be announced until then he's going to be on the commissioners exempt list but one thing to point out you get credit for games however you say time served i think is probably the best way to put it you get credit for time served if you're on the exempt list and then you're given a suspension so let's just say the ruling doesn't come out until week three but he's been on the exempt list of this whole time the games he's missed count or the suspension and yeah we'll keep an eye on that now to a tongue out by loa hurt his oblique member michael panics juniors not ready to go yet so it could be Cooper rush going to Pittsburgh to quarterback the Falcons this week fun which would you even start drake London and Kyle pits if that were the case absolutely would start both of them i would lower expectations for both but i remember when Cooper rush was starting in Dallas i want to say it was 2024 it was played a bunch of games and cdlam had some big games so i don't mind one of those guys with high expectations and you don't want to miss out on kalfits being the other remember and this is something that he talked about a lot during the offseason and preseason the suspanski offense will call for the tight end to be the primary read and a bunch of plays it's just a matter of will it happen enough and i think with any quarterback that's going to look down field it works against Kyle pits it works for drake London any quarterback that's just trying to get the ball out fast works out better for pits not as much for drake London i think Cooper rush sort of falls in between those two buckets not that he's necessarily the most accurate or best thrower to actually be the guy out there and it doesn't help that he hasn't worked a ton with them remember he joined the falcon's late during training camp so this is an interesting spot i think you lower expectations for both london and pits but you start them both yeah but i'd start michael mare over pits if Cooper rush is going to be the quarterback i'm not there i know that i know some of you guys are just crazy about no i'm not i'm not but the dolphins are such a good matchup and like i i thought the same thing about Cooper rush i'm gonna just say Cooper rush in those eight games in 2024 with the cowboys he wasn't bad like cd lamb wasn't bad but Cooper rush had an eighty six point six passer rating six point two yards per attempt he was on pace for three thousand five hundred sixty four yards twenty three touchdowns so wasn't really that good and then i thought you know what he's gonna come in and be all right for the ravens last year and he was terrible and he got benched for Tyler huntly so i do have that kind of stuck in my head um you know it's it's risky but uh all right that's that's the falcon situation um all right yeah i mean what what are the other big injuries we're looking at right now position i want to start with because there's a bunch at every single one of the major positions well in terms of players who might actually miss a game i don't think we have any quarterbacks other than two all right no he's the only one my home's practice and full on thursday germ i love what we're hearing here limited on wednesday the floor is optimistic saying quote we feel good about where they are with germ i love it and i'd we should say for the record we're recording this thursday afternoon yeah so we don't have the latest from Arizona thursday afternoon friday obviously is a day away you're gonna have to check the injury report on cbsports.com but for now limited expected to play sounds like someone who's gonna be probably a number two fantasy running back for a lot of people all right ash and jenny's going to play jonathan brooks as he expects to play or or um yeah he said he expects the place and chubahubber doesn't even know on the injury report so carolina will have both of their backs against chicago okay we're gonna talk about that game on friday's episode uh shuntucker may not play is that gonna make a big difference for you with buckie ureving i think it improves buckie ureving's opportunities to score we know that that's a big role that shuntucker had last year so it could swing a decision or two for buckie fantasy managers okay we're gonna take a look at wide receivers when we come back and maybe we'll talk a little bit more about rock bowers and kenyon cedique first round pick super fast super athletic tight end for the jets he's been practicing in full hopefully he gets out there we'll be right back on fantasy football today express maybe the biggest week one question well is george kittle but he's gonna play tonight depending on what you hear of this you know he's gonna play and hopefully he may have already played yeah exactly how did he do Adam what did you think of how george kittle played you know considering you only played 68 percent of the snaps i thought he did really well five catches uh 42 yards had a touchdown called back almost had a really big game uh you know i guess people will take that 9.2 full ppr but malik neighbors it's a sunday night game and it looks like he's gonna play we're optimistic right he he's he was a little coy about it with the media and he said it's gonna be up to him if he plays and how much he plays but john harboss said he was ready to go earlier this week so i'm thinking malik neighbors is gonna play he's been ramping up all training camp long i'm cautiously optimistic we're gonna have a nice game from neighbors against talus is he a top 20 guy he is give me a second to bring up my latest receiver rankings he is a top 21 guy okay okay and i guess we can't sit here and say definitively that malik neighbors is going to play but it's training in the right direction same thing with a mecca abouka maybe jaylin mcmillan will get out there this week he's been limited what about roe mo dunes a he was limited on wednesday we don't have the latest on thursday obviously it's an issue if he's not at a hundred percent in a offense that has colson level and has luther bernard bernard's been talked to baton lovelins been talked to baton we've been focusing on roe mo dunes a in his weird foot and on top of that the panther secondary has some good corners on the outside jc horn chief among them they could do a decent job limiting of dunes a on the perimeter and that's usually where he lines up there's also another issue in chicago they're left tackle as each of pillows not gonna play that does mean some possible concern for their left side of their offensive line never a good thing when you've got a right handed quarterback like the bears have against the kind of an underrated defense that got jaylin Phillips is offseason maybe they've tried to improve their defense in carolina we'll see how they do jaylin philips is their best pass racher yeah and it's a big deal and they were i think they were 15th and points per game last year so it's not like they were a bad defense or it's about average right exactly so that's why i call them underrated i don't think people consider carolina even an average defense maybe um chikobi mayors day of this is an interesting development he's got a thumb issue he guess we have to say he's questionable well we don't know he was limited on wednesday but he's been trending in the right direction for more than a week so there's definitely a chance that he could play for jax and villain he would obviously take some target volume away from both parkour washington and brian thomas juner and it could be especially concerning if the jaguars don't have to throw a lot in this game we're figuring it's a one sided game cleveland's offense isn't very good their defense is interesting but they're probably in that same boat at this point is carolina where we're just not sure how much better or worse from league average they are so i'm not starting jacobie mayors in any leagues but if he's playing it might put a twinge of sadness into your expectations for parkour washington and brian thomas juner mayors is wearing a no a non contact jersey on thursday allic pierce has been limited with a heel injury so this is different than what's kept him out for so long as now he's got a heel issue could be related to the injury that he was sidelined with too we don't know what's going on there but pierce at not a hundred percent could be just somebody that runs downfield a lot and with the ravens previously previous iterations of this defense would play a lot of man coverage i don't think they're going to do that this year so unless he's running free i don't know how many targets he's going to get he makes me nervous this week i'm much more interested in joshdowns what do you think about kenya and sadeek i think i want to stash him i wouldn't expect much from somebody who didn't get a lot of training camp in and i he's he's obviously getting healthy at the right time but i just not convinced that we're going to see sadeek getting a lot of work and getting a lot of targets in this first game against teniseet yeah all right that is it for fantasy football today express all of your injuries will update you again on friday morning on the big show and for Dave i'm at him also we have mailbag coming up tomorrow should be fun for Dave i'm at him have a great day talk to you later on fantasy football today express paramount podcasts