Team news: Las Vegas Raiders

Does Jakobi Meyers still desire to be traded?

“Oh, for sure. But I'm a professional at the end of the day. I'm just trying to play good football.”

Meyers went on to say, “I got no control over that. If I'm here, I'm here.” So it at least sounds like he'll continue to play if a trade isn't made. He's also open to an extension. Given the reports there are a lot of WR-needy teams, it's very possible Meyers gets moved to a better situation.

Raiders head coach Pete Carroll said TE Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers should be ready to go after the bye week.

Bowers is dealing with the knee injury and Meyers has both knee and toe issues. The Raiders could certainly use both back in the offense. Bowers owners are hoping he can return to last year's form, and he did have five targets for 108 yards in Week 1.

Jaguars coach Liam Coen said earlier in the week that he needed to get Travis Hunter more involved in the offense, and the touchdown was a natural part of that. Hunter set career highs in targets (14), receptions (eight) and receiving yards (101) against the Rams. He also played just 12 snaps on defense, down from last week's 22.

"There definitely was a plan going into the game that we wanted to utilize him more on the offensive side of the ball, specifically trying to get the ball into his hands," Coen said. "Then the first half was just kind of funky the way we couldn't get anybody the ball consistently and get into a rhythm and then he was able to make some plays in the second half."

Related players: Brian Thomas Jr.

BTJ was dealing with the injury at the end of the game as well, and it remains to be seen what his status is going forward. But outside of one week, Thomas hasn't stood out and if the injury causes him to miss time, Hunter could have an even bigger role in the offense. It definitely seems the team is purposely trying to get Hunter the ball, which is good news for fantasy owners.

TE Brock Bowers is listed as doubtful and WR Jakobi Meyers is questionable for Sunday’s game in Kansas City.

Related Players: Michael Mayer, Tre Tucker, Dont'e Thornton, Jack Bech

Mayer is a good streaming candidate this week, but the other ancillary pieces are a little risky to depend on. Tucker could be an interesting WR4 option without Jakobi, but Geno Smith can be ignored in leagues of all sizes.

The Raiders have played without tight end Brock Bowers the last two weeks and his status for Week 7’s trip to Kansas City was a topic at head coach Pete Carroll’s Monday press conference.

“I’m hopeful, but we’re looking after him,” Carroll said. “There’s a big bye coming up and all that kinda stuff. An extra week, a couple of weeks you’d get, before you’d have to come back. I’m optimistic always, but that doesn’t mean we’re getting him back. You look at the long haul of it, it might be best to just guarantee that he’s full speed and back. So we’ll see how we handle that.”

Bowers is dealing with a knee injury that he suffered in Week 1 and played through for several weeks before sitting out in Week 5. On Monday, Carroll said he’s hopeful that Bowers is well enough to play against the Chiefs but certainly left to door open to Bowers coming back in Week 9 after the bye. The Chiefs-Raiders game is an earlier game on Sunday so owners should have plenty of warning.

Raiders tight end Brock Bowers suffered a knee injury during the team’s Week 1 win over the Patriots and has been dealing with it since.

Bowers did not play in Las Vegas’ loss to Indianapolis on Sunday and his status is now up in the air for Week 6.

“[H]e’s week-to-week,” head coach Pete Carroll said in his Monday press conference. “We got to see what’s going on and see if we can get him back. And he’s dying to play. We went all the way till Saturday’s walk-through to see if he could go, and it didn’t feel like he could. So, we’ll just start over again, do it again this week.”

Related players: Michael Mayer

Bowers owners are likely thinking back to when they heard the knee injury wasn't considered serious. Since then, Bowers had limped through a couple of weeks and now is in danger of missing his second-straight week of action. As the story said, Mayer also didn't play due to a concussion but could be back this week and may be a decent replacement option for Bowers owners.

No practice for a second straight day for Raiders tight end Brock Bowers, who has been battling a knee injury.

Related Players: Ian Thomas

What started as a potential "rest day" looks to be a little more serious now. Ian Thomas can be left out of streaming consideration, even if the sophomore misses Week 5.

Raiders TE Brock Bowers, who was a limited practice participant Wednesday due to a knee injury, didn’t practice today.

Related Players: Ian Thomas

Hopefully this was more of a rest day, but Bowers has been dealing with this issue for a few weeks now. Ian Thomas can be left out of streaming consideration, even if the sophomore misses Week 5.

In the first two weeks of the season, Jaguars No. 2 overall pick Travis Hunter played more offensive snaps than defensive snaps.

That trend flipped in Jacksonville’s Week 3 victory over Houston.

Hunter was on the field for 37 offensive snaps (53 percent) and 43 defensive snaps (68 percent).

Related players: Brian Thomas Jr., Dyami Brown, Parker Washington

He’s now played 59 percent of Jacksonville’s offensive snaps this year and 47 percent of defensive snaps, plus four percent of special teams snaps, the story said. But the more concerning news is his usage. He had one pass for 21 yards on two targets in Week 3. He had eight targets in Week 2. Hunter has 10 receptions for 76 yards, with only two of his catches resulting in first downs this season. He's now a huge question mark for fantasy lineups heading into Week 4.

Jaguars WR Brian Thomas Jr. (wrist) is off the injury report and good to go Sunday.

Meanwhile, Texans WRs Christian Kirk (hamstring) and Braxton Berrios (hamstring) are both off the injury report and set to make their season debuts.

Related Players: Travis Hunter, Dyami Brown, Nico Collins, Xavier Hutchinson, Jayden Higgins

Brian Thomas should continue to be slotted in as a fringe WR1/2 play, with Christian Kirk is much further down the list as a WR4/5 as the ball continues to be spread around behind Collins.