The Training Room: 7 Injured Players to Buy Due to Injury

Aug 23, 2025

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Injuries can make or break your season in fantasy football. It is important to be aware of various injuries as you enter draft season. Here is the last part of a series of four articles discussing certain players who are dealing with injuries that should be acquired in your drafts on an injury discount. There are many more players who have injury risk, but if I did not mention them, then I believe that their risk is already baked into their current cost at ADP and are not an injury value. The players listed below are strictly players who have an injury risk that have been faded too far and deserve consideration for drafting.

De'Von Achane, RB MIA

Injury: Calf Strain

It would be easy for the mind to try to connect the dots of De'Von Achane's recent calf strain to the recent Christian McCaffrey debacle. However, it is exceedingly rare that these calf strains wind up turning into Achilles problems. I have 21 cases of calf strains for running backs since 2016: three of those cases missed over three weeks, with no cases missing more than six weeks. This means that 85.7% of calf strains for running backs have returned to play in under three weeks. All of that being said, I do think managers have been fading Achane too much due to the calf strain, often seeing him drafted in the mid- to late-second round now. If he is falling that far in your drafts, strong recommendation to buy the injury discount. I know there are multiple concerns, including bad offensive line play and bad overall offensive structure, but Achane is the most likely to absorb even more targets after Jonnu Smith's departure and a potential trade of Tyreek Hill.