Archive for the ‘Inactives’ Category

You were warned about Darren Sproles when we screamed at you earlier. Sorry about that.

When the inactives for the three late games were finalized a short time ago, the Saints made it official. Sproles won’t play today against the Raiders, as despite some optimism surrounding his hand earlier this week, he’ll now miss his third straight game.

Expect the three-headed monstrosity in the Saints’ backfield to continue in terms of the workload distribution, with Chris Ivory and Mark Ingram on the higher end and ahead of Pierre Thomas, but only slightly. You can still feel good about your Ingram or Ivory flex play against the 21st-ranked Raiders run defense, but those good vibes will likely end next week when Sproles returns for real this time, and some kind of a four-way backfield pie slicing begins.

There’s been positive reports about Darren Sproles all week, including earlier this morning. Although it was known that we wouldn’t get a definitive word on his playing status and his potential return after a two-week absence due to a broken hand, optimism was high.

Now Jay Glazer has taken your good feelings, and punched them right in the nose. Glazer reports that barring a very surprising turn around over the next few hours, Sproles will be inactive when the Saints’ game in Oakland kicks off at 4:05 ET.

Glazer was kind enough to pass that along less than 10 minutes before the early games, so you should do a lot of clicking, and do it now.

This Christmas, Bill Belichick wants an injury report. He’ll smile with glee on Christmas morning while tearing apart the wrapping paper that’s covering paper, and then quickly scribble down the name of every Patriot.

No one truly expected Wes Welker to be inactive today, but it’s still a natural, instinctive reaction for fantasy owners to get concerned whenever a receiver of his caliber appears on the injury report, and misses the majority of the week’s practice sessions.

Never fear, young fearful fantasy fiend, because after we supplied other good news this morning regarding Owen Daniels and Julio Jones, more cheery vibes on the Welker front lead our roundup of the other most notable actives and inactives for the early games.

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Today you’ll likely continue to be reminded that being active doesn’t always mean being effective. Also, the sucky Bills run defense just got even suckier. Sunday!

Here are the most notable inactives/actives so far for the eight early games, and we’ll likely, probably add a few more. Known depression has been confirmed, and there are few surprises.

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