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Dr. Chao Fantasy Friday – Brady Should Have Top Weapons Against Bears

Week 7 2018

Here are my Week 7 injury thoughts going into the weekend. I am utilizing my NFL team physician experience and analysis of video and available information to make an informed opinion on whether key players will play and how effective they might be. Note, players already ruled out earlier in the week will not be discussed here unless there is information that goes beyond this week.

Deshaun Watson has already played with reports of a rib and partially collapsed lung and will play again. Fortunately, the second week will show great improvement.

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Fantasy Fact or Fiction: Will Julio Jones Bounce Back

Below are several fantasy players whose production stuck out in Week 5 in either a positive or negative manner. Let’s examine if that trend will keep up or if it was just a blip on the radar:

Blake Bortles

Week 5 Stat Line: 33 of 61 for 430 Yards and 1 Touchdown, 4 Rushes for 34 Yards and 1 Touchdown

Fact or Fiction? Fact

You would think that this stat line for this particular player would qualify as “fiction”. In some ways, it does, as it clearly is a terrible recipe for success to have this guy throw 61 passes. That is losing football. However, that really doesn’t matter for our purposes concerning fantasy. Bortles now has put up big numbers two weeks in a row and has thrown for over 375 yards in three of his five starts this year. The fact is, that when the Jaguars are without Leonard Fournette, Bortles puts up fantasy numbers and that should continue. Jacksonville has a deep and emerging group of receivers for Bortles to distribute the ball to and Bortles is good for week in and week out points as a runner. There are a ton of excellent quarterbacks in fantasy right now in the NFL obviously, but don’t discount what Bortles is doing for fantasy purposes … no matter what you think of him as a player.

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Fantasy Saturday: Devonta Freeman Is Ready to Help Your Team

Weekend fantasy highlights from around the NFL:

Miami at Cincinnati

Joe Mixon Set To Return

This comes at the ideal time for Cincinnati, as Gio Bernard (who filled in very admirably) has been ruled out and didn’t look like his usual self to finish out last week’s win in Atlanta. With all respect to Bernard, the Bengals offense is far more difficult to prepare for when Mixon is the lead guy. Few combine the receiving skills and running acumen into one package that has the size and power that Mixon possess. Miami’s defense has allowed a lot of fantasy production to opposing running backs. Expect Mixon to feast this week. It also looks like John Ross will not play after he sat out Friday’s practice and of course Tyler Eifert is now out of the equation. Tyler Boyd should be entrenched as an every week fantasy starter opposite AJ Green.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh

Devonta Freeman Is Back

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