Chaka said:
I love your analysis but I am curious what makes you so confident this is a multi-week injury.
And do you think it is multiple missed games or are we talking a "limited" situation where AJ gets rolled out as essentially a decoy?
It's important as we need to understand how to value Johnson. He doesn't have much value if we have to worry about whether or not AJ is healthy or a decoy.
If you think AJ will be out for a couple weeks Johnson has legit value otherwise he's a guy you can never reliably start.
Have no choice but to guess.
Injury reporting rules and/or Vrabel have been garbage since covid or the last season and this one.
It's not a tear (he'd be in noticable wrenching pain) so they will need time to treat it to even give a prognosis.
Injury report comes out Wednesday. Waivers are before.
Chao guessed a few weeks tonight.
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As far as Johnson, it's not simple.
He was the starter all camp after winning the spot sometime in like May. Also AJ and Julio sat all summer.
The Downing (new OC) plan was 3WR offense with all three switching spots.
They couldn't pass protect as they've been two TE or three TE for about a decade now and maybe the Ts are spoiled or...idk.
Week two and three, they used (guess) 50? percent two TE offense and the pass pro was fixed and Henry is steam rolling. They also elevated a TE and FB which seems to be working great. Essentially back to Arthur's offense.
My guess is they continue two TE which means Johnson plays less when AJ and Jones are healthy. It doesn't worry me though because on third they're rolling 3WR and...back to the brand new managing Julio.
There's a lot of guesses no doubt but there won't be answers so I'm laying it out best I can.
Google Marcus Johnson and you'll see how well he did this summer. The guy seems to have hit his potential.
The other side-.
If ya don't, someone else will and he could be a lottery ticket.
What are your other waiver WR choices in a deep league?
The best I saw was Lazard for like a minute tonight then Adams shook it off and rocked.
Pitt Washington was surely claimed last week as was Hamler.
All I see are 3-4 catch 50 yard guys that you probably dump asap. Johnson's got that floor and a way higher ceiling.