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Does not appear that Adam Thielen is going to practice today. He was limited yesterday with an ankle injury.

Related Players: Jonathan Mingo, Laviska Shenault, Ihmir Smith-Marsette

D.J. Chark (hamstring) has been severely limited as well. Terrace Marshall has also been limited throughout the week. This could all translate to a much bigger role for rookie Jonathan Mingo, who had already been getting a lot of buzz through training camp. Depending on the statuses leading up to the game, Mingo could be in Flex consideration for deeper leagues.

Another WR injury to monitor for the Panthers: Adam Thielen (ankle) was limited in practice today.

D.J. Chark (hamstring) didn't practice and Terrace Marshall (back) was limited.

Related Players: Jonathan Mingo, Laviska Shenault, Ihmir Smith-Marsette

This could all translate to a much bigger role for rookie Jonathan Mingo, who had already been getting a lot of buzz through training camp. Depending on statuses leading up to the game, Mingo could be in Flex consideration for deeper leagues.

D.J. Chark says hamstring feels good and he’s optimistic about Week 1.

Related players: Jonathan Mingo, Adam Thielen, Terrace Marshall

Chark injured his hamstring last week. He's battling for targets with the rookie Mingo and slot-guy Thielen. Marshall has recently returned to practice as well, but Chark does have a chance to emerge as a valuable target in this offense.

Diontae Johnson, George Pickens, and Allen Robinson will be the Steelers’ starters, with Calvin Austin holding down punt return duties and Miles Boykin adding speed and special teams duties at the back of the rotation.

Related Players: Gunner Olszewski

A forgotten piece in Fantasyland, Robinson has the ability to make some noise in 11 personnel, which the team figures to use extensively. In typical redraft leagues, he figures to be a guy coming off and back on waiver wires throughout the season, but makes for a great pick deep in best ball leagues, particularly when you have Kenny Pickett on your roster.

Frank Reich indicates D.J. Chark is injured and declines to expand on his situation "at this point." While Frank Reich wouldn't get into specifics on Chark, the fact he said the Panthers are not planning any "big moves" at WR suggests that it might not be too serious.

Related Players: Adam Thielen, Jonathan Mingo, Terrace Marshall

There are no specifics as of yet, but the fact that they would need to make *any* moves at all might be telling to the timetable they're thinking. Reading between the lines, we may assume that he will miss at least some regular-season playing time, which puts his fantasy prospects in doubt for a while. Chark was already going in the 13th round.

Carolina Panthers running back Miles Sanders said on Tuesday he "absolutely'' will be ready for the Sept. 10 opener against the Atlanta Falcons.

Sanders missed the last few weeks of training camp with a groin injury that sidelined him for the first two preseason games. While you can't always trust what players say about injuries, Sanders practiced in full pads on Monday and Tuesday and showed no signs that the injury will be a problem moving forward, and even broke off a big run on Tuesday.

RB Miles Sanders appears to be back in the mix...

Sanders has been recovering from a groin injury. It's a good sign he should be ready to go for Week 1, but he has missed a lot of camp because of the injury. We rank Sanders 21st on our RB list, but feel Sanders could be in store for 300 touches, perhaps 250 carries and 50 receptions, as the Panthers want to get him more involved in the passing game. He had 50 receptions as a rookie with the Eagles.

Texans RB Dameon Pierce played every snap of the first two drives with starters, including all 3rd-downs. A change from last year, when Pierce only played on about 25% of 3rd-downs.

Devin Singletary then came on and played every snap of the third drive with starters.

Related players: Mike Boone, Dare Ogunbowale

It's tough to read into how much this will matter once the season starts. There are many in the fantasy world who are saying to stay away from Pierce, probably more when it comes to his dynasty value. Singletary is likely to have a big role in the offense as well, but if he takes away passing down value - that would obviously hurt Pierce. The good news is there isn't a whole lot to worry about fantasy value-wise behind Pierce and Singletary.

Russell Gage is down and surrounded by trainers, in obvious duress. A cart has been brought out to take him off the field.

Related Players: Trey Palmer, David Moore, Deven Thompkins

Very unfortunate news for Gage, who was likely to get quite a lot of run this season, even after the trade rumors surrounding Chris Godwin and Mike Evans came and went. Trey Palmer and Deven Thompkins are both projected as kick returners, so one of them may get extra snaps as a speedy slot option, depending on the severity of Gage's injury.

Terrace Marshall just took a front seat ride on a cart. Not sure what happened there. Didn’t seem like anything super dramatic.

Related players: D.J. Chark, Jonathan Mingo, Adam Thielen, Laviska Shenault

Other reports claimed HC Frank Reich said Marshall tweaked something in his back. Marshall has been a disappointment after getting second round draft capital in 2021. He's battling for a top-three spot on the re-made Panthers offense, but we put him behind Chark, Mingo and Thielen on our fantasy depth chart.