Mark Sanchez officially named starter

Dec 18, 2009

To nobody’s surprise, Jets coach Rex Ryan officially named Mark Sanchez as the starter for Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons.

Sanchez, who suffered a sprained posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee two weeks ago, shared first-team practice reps with Kellen Clemens on Wednesday and Thursday before taking all the snaps Friday.

“Mark will start,” Ryan said Friday. “No great surprise to anybody."

Sanchez will wear two knee braces.

Fantasy Impact:

today

Rams expect WR Josh Reynolds to play more significant role

ESPN

9 minutes ago

The Rams expect that Josh Reynolds will, or at least play a significantly increased role, this season.

Fantasy Impact:

The Rams think Reynolds can step in with the loss of Brandin Cooks to the Texans. A fourth-round pick in 2017, Reynolds served mostly as a backup the past three seasons, but filled in as a starter when needed. In 48 games, Reynolds caught 61 passes for 832 yards and seven touchdowns.

Rams Beat: Expect young backs to be featured at RB

ESPN

14 minutes ago

A sixth-year pro, Malcolm Brown provides experience and is dependable -- he rushed for a career-high five touchdowns last season. But expect the young backs to be featured after the Rams recently invested in them with early draft picks.

Related players: Cam Akers, Darrell Henderson, John Kelly

Fantasy Impact:

The Rams traded up to get Henderson last year, but he only played on 8% of the snaps in 2019. Akers was a second round pick back in April, so it makes sense one of these two takes over at some point. The writer feels Akers should be a presence between the tackles but missing offseason workouts because of the pandemic could hurt him, perhaps at least to start the season. We rank Akers the highest among the Ram backs.

yesterday

Report: Cowboys, QB Dak Prescott not close to multi-year deal

Calvin Watkins on Twitter

yesterday · 7:02 PM EDT

Source said Sunday afternoon Cowboys are not close to reaching a multi-year contract with QB Dak Prescott.

Fantasy Impact:

The deadline is July 15, which is this Wednesday, and while the situation could change, the report of not being close isn't exactly optimistic. Prescott would enter 2020 season on $31.4M franchise tag if no deal by deadline, the tweet went on to say.