NFL Fantasy Football Plug and Play-Week 2

 

Some last minute thoughts for week 2 lineups in fantasy football;

Cleveland Browns WR Amari Cooper reaggravated a groin injury in Saturdays practice and will be a game time decision, but unfortunately the Browns play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football, so you'll probably want to replace Cooper for a Sunday game player to not risk being without or having an injured player playing in your lineup with potential in-game reaggravation cutting his night and your score short.

I hope DeAndre Swift managers were wise enough and good enough to insert him into their lineups before Thursday nights game against the Vikings, with Kenneth Gainwell out with injury.

RB Zack Moss is starting for the Indianapolis Colts and should see most of the work, as Deon Jackson was terrible last week in game one.  This weeks matchup at the Houston Texans should see a favorable game script for the Indy run game, as well as for Damien Pierce and the Texans run game, so both should be good RB2 candidates...   Note that Texans QB CJ Stroud came up as questionable on the Friday injury report suddenly, but shouldn't be started in fantasy, however may give an increased workload to RB Pierce.

With WR Jerry Jeudy returning this week for the Denver Broncos, he'll be the only trustworthy fantasy relevant receiver for them, while Javonte Williams would be the RB play against the Washington Commanders, who would provide RB Brian Robinson and TE Logan as the only decent fantasy plays this week.

Joshua Kelley is a must start this week as an RB2 for the injured Austin Ekeler and the Los Angeles Chargers at the Best in the NFL run defense Tennessee Titans, as is Derrick Henry as a must start RB1 as always of course....   Note that DeAndre Hopkins is questionable and likely to be a game-time decision, so I'd put in a decent replacement regardless of whether or not Hopkins plays in the Titans run first offense and only being around 50%...

All Cincinnati Bengals should be started against the banged-up Baltimore Ravens this week in a need to win game for the Bengals, with the Ravens missing at least 5 starters including at safety and cornerback.

Hottest waiver wire pick up this week, L.A. Rams WR Puka Nacua was questionable, but will play this week, just unfortunately against the San Francisco 49ers defense with the positive position being that the Rams should be throwing quite a bit, so targets should be high for both WRs Nacua and Tutu Atwell, in addition to TE Tyler Higbee, who is my favorite Rams play this week....  Be weary of playing the 49ers, as the game could be out of reach in the 2nd quarter and the starters may then be rested in the 2nd half.

Lastly, both starting tackles will be out for the Seattle Seahawks, so I'd play a decent QB(Carr, Purdy, R. Wilson, Love, D. Jones, Goff) replacement over Geno Smith if he is your starter, but not a scrub QB to replace Geno(i.e. Mayfield, Ridder, any rookie, Pickett, Howell, Dobbs, M. Jones, Tannehill), ...