Puka Nacua
Doubtful
Missed all three practices. Do not start him. Expected back in Week 4.
The Friday injury reports landed and they answered one question and left the other one open: Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) is doubtful and effectively out, DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) is a game-time decision, and the lineup you have set right now leaves your two healthiest receivers on the bench.
LordHaveMRSA (0-2)
0.00
Free Jacobs (1-1)
0.00
Nothing decided. Neither team has had a starter on the field. First kickoff Sunday, 1:00 PM ET.
DJ Moore
Questionable
Separated shoulder, game-time call. He is in your flex and he should not be.
Joshua Palmer
Free agent
Healthy, and the only Buffalo receiver who is. No bid needed - just claim him.
1. Where the matchup stands
Zero to zero, and that is real rather than a reporting lag. Neither you nor Rjay25's team, Free Jacobs, had a single starter on the field Thursday night. Everything in this matchup happens Sunday, and the only piece already in the books is Brian Robinson Jr. (Atlanta Falcons), who banked 11.0 points on your bench - ten carries, 50 yards and a one-yard touchdown in Atlanta's 35-14 win at Green Bay. He was never a start over Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) or Cam Skattebo (New York Giants), so there is nothing to regret there. He is locked.
The projections have you at roughly 93 against roughly 114. That is a twenty-point hole, wider than the thirteen points yesterday's report quoted, and the reason is Brock Bowers (Las Vegas Raiders). He is listed as questionable with a knee issue, but head coach Klint Kubiak said his absence from Friday's practice was planned, which reads as a man who is playing. He is in Free Jacobs' flex for 13.3 projected points. The rest of the gap is Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Ravens) and Jahmyr Gibbs (Detroit Lions), projected for nearly 48 points between them, with Dalton Schultz (Houston Texans) coming off a 12-catch, 140-yard game at tight end behind them. You do not own an answer to that group.
A correction to yesterday's report, which said you were fourth in points allowed. You are second. Only Andre35 has been beaten up harder. And here is the number that actually matters: your maximum possible score through two weeks - the points you would have if every start had been perfect - is 192.84, the lowest figure in the league. Your bench has cost you 9.7 points all season. You are not losing to bad lineup decisions. You are losing because this roster does not score enough, and that is the problem the next two weeks of waivers have to solve.
2. The injury news that landed since yesterday
Puka Nacua (Los Angeles Rams) - downgraded to Doubtful
This is the change. He was questionable yesterday; he is doubtful now, having missed all three practices with hip and groin soreness. Head coach Sean McVay put it plainly: doubtful means more unlikely than likely to play. Do not put him in your lineup under any circumstances - his game is Sunday night at 8:20 PM ET, seven hours after your other slots lock, and a zero there is unrecoverable. The good news is the next sentence out of McVay: barring a setback, Nacua should be back in Week 4 against Philadelphia. Hold him.
DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) - Questionable, game-time decision
An AC joint sprain, which is a separated shoulder. He was limited in Friday's practice and head coach Joe Brady said he is giving Moore all the way through until game time. That is not a lineup you can build on. Remember what the injury already did to him: in Week 2 he played 31 percent of Buffalo's offensive snaps - that is his snap share, the percentage of his team's plays he was on the field for - and caught nothing on zero targets for minus 0.1 points. His game is in the 1:00 PM ET window, so the inactive list posts at 11:30 AM ET. Even an active DJ Moore is a decoy at 31 percent of the snaps.
Keon Coleman (Buffalo Bills) - Questionable, also game-time
Ankle, limited Friday, same game-time language from Joe Brady. He is the more interesting of the two Buffalo bodies if both play - he caught all six of his targets on a 74 percent snap share in Week 2 while DJ Moore was invisible - but 'questionable ankle, game-time' is not something you start in a game you are twenty points behind in. Bench.
Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) - cleared, off the injury report entirely
Good news you may not have known when you added him Friday night. Kupp was carrying a back injury, which is why his snap share collapsed from 78 percent in Week 1 to 43 percent in Week 2 and why he has only 9.5 points on the season. He was a full participant Thursday and has been removed from the report. That 43 percent was the injury, not a demotion. He is startable. Just understand what you have: Jaxon Smith-Njigba (Seattle Seahawks) went for nine catches, 155 yards and three touchdowns last week. Kupp is the third or fourth mouth to feed in that offense now.
3. Your lineup - one real mistake and one game-time call
| Slot | Player | Kickoff (US Eastern) and the call |
|---|---|---|
| QB | Drake Maye (New England Patriots) | Sun 1:00 PM at Jacksonville. Start - you own no alternative. Projected 18.4, which flatters him: one touchdown against four interceptions and 21.8 total points in two weeks is bottom-tier quarterback play. This is the hole nobody is talking about. |
| RB | Kyren Williams (Los Angeles Rams) | Sun 8:20 PM at Denver. Start. 31.2 points in two weeks with a touchdown in each. Denver's front is the toughest matchup on your card and he put the ball on the ground Monday night, so brace for a 10-point night rather than a 16. |
| RB | Cam Skattebo (New York Giants) | Sun 1:00 PM vs Tennessee. Start, and lower your expectations. Jaxson Dart (New York Giants) is on injured reserve with a torn meniscus and Jameis Winston (New York Giants) starts. Skattebo averaged 4.4 yards a carry with Dart on the field and 2.9 without him - defenses no longer have to respect a running quarterback. Tennessee is still the softest run defense he will see, and this game has the lowest point total on the entire slate at 37.5. Volume, not efficiency. |
| WR | Xavier Worthy (Kansas City Chiefs) | Sun 1:00 PM at Miami. Start. 4.8 then 13.5 points, and the snap share climbed from 77 to 86 percent, which is the part that matters. Kansas City is favored by ten. |
| WR | Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) | Sun 1:00 PM at Washington. Start. Healthy for the first time this season, 78 percent of the snaps when he was. Projected 7.3. If you would rather have the higher projection, Rashid Shaheed (Seattle Seahawks) is 8.4 in the same game and had six targets to Kupp's two last week - it is genuinely close, and either is defensible. |
| TE | Trey McBride (Arizona Cardinals) | Sun 4:05 PM at San Francisco. Start, obviously. 42.6 points on 23 targets in two games. He is the best player you own by a distance and it is not close. |
| FLEX | Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) - CHANGE THIS | Sun 4:05 PM vs Minnesota. Put him in for DJ Moore. 86 percent snap share, 8.3 and 8.8 points - dull, but dull and available beats a game-time separated shoulder. His 4:05 PM kickoff is also the free option: DJ Moore locks at 1:00 PM, Godwin locks at 4:05 PM, so you can watch Buffalo's 11:30 AM inactive list and still have Godwin as the fallback. |
You currently have Cooper Kupp (Seattle Seahawks) at wide receiver and DJ Moore (Buffalo Bills) in the flex, with Chris Godwin (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) on the bench. That is backwards. Godwin plays 86 percent of Tampa Bay's snaps, has been on the field for every meaningful series of both games, and projects for 9.4. DJ Moore, on a separated shoulder and a game-time decision, projects for 12.0 on the assumption that he plays a normal complement of snaps - and the last time he played on this shoulder he ran 31 percent of them for zero targets. Start Godwin over DJ Moore. Keep Kupp in the other slot.
4. Waivers - you have $80 of your $100 FAAB left
| Player | Why | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Palmer (Buffalo Bills) | Yesterday's report told you to bid $8 on him and you chased Dontayvion Wicks instead. He is still sitting there, unowned. He is the only healthy receiver in Buffalo while DJ Moore and Keon Coleman are both game-time questionable, he caught a 43-yard touchdown on three targets last week, and Buffalo's game has the highest point total on the board at 50.5. The projection systems have him at 1.9 because they have not priced in the injuries in front of him. Claim him today, before someone else reads the same injury report. | Free - claim now |
| Kayshon Boutte (Houston Texans) | The best-projected free agent on the board at 8.8, and it is usage rather than luck: his snap share went 46 percent to 72 percent and his targets went two to five. Houston is a 1.5-point favorite at Indianapolis in the 1:00 PM window, so he is also a legitimate Sunday substitute if you need one. | Free |
| Tyquan Thornton (Kansas City Chiefs) | 12.6 points in Week 2 on four targets and one of the most-added players in the league over the last 48 hours. Speculative - Kansas City has Rashee Rice, Travis Kelce and your own Xavier Worthy ahead of him - but he is the kind of ceiling swing an 0-2 team should be taking. | Free |
| Darren Waller (Carolina Panthers) | 18.3 points in Week 2 on three catches. A league-mate added him Wednesday and dropped him Thursday, so he is back on the board. You own Trey McBride and do not need a tight end, so this is only a name to know if McBride gets hurt. | Skip unless McBride goes down |
Waivers processed Friday at 2:09 AM ET and you went 0 for 2. You bid $11 and then $10 on Dontayvion Wicks (Philadelphia Eagles) and chaseelson30 took him at $33, with Elicito's $25 also losing out. Nothing was spent, so your $80 is intact - FAAB is the $100 season-long budget you bid with - but the lesson is that this league prices breakout receivers in the thirties and your bids were not in the conversation. When you actually want someone, bid like it.
Everything below is now a straight free-agent claim rather than a waiver bid, because the Wednesday-to-Friday waiver window has already run. First person to click gets him. That makes the first row urgent rather than theoretical.
5. One line on the rest
Your quarterback is the real problem, but not this week
Drake Maye (New England Patriots) has 21.8 points in two games with one touchdown and four interceptions. The free-agent quarterbacks - Kirk Cousins (Las Vegas Raiders) at 14.6 projected, Malik Willis (Miami Dolphins) at 15.9, Geno Smith (New York Jets) at 15.6, Jacoby Brissett (Arizona Cardinals) at 15.4 - are all projected below Maye's 18.4 this week, so there is no move to make today. Put it on the list for Week 4 if Maye throws two more interceptions at Jacksonville.
The monster game you did not own
Bijan Robinson (Atlanta Falcons) ran 29 times for 194 yards and two touchdowns Thursday, and Drake London (Atlanta Falcons) caught nine passes for 194 yards on ten targets. Both are long rostered in this league, so there is no add there - the point is only that your bench running back was on the same field and got 11 points of the crumbs.
Nobody on your roster has a bye this week
All 32 teams play in Week 3, so every player you own is either done, playing Sunday, or hurt. There is no bye to plan around until later.