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The Colts are ruling out WR Alec Pierce, CB Kenny Moore II, RB Tyler Goodson and S Daniel Scott.

Pierce is a bit of a surprise seeing how he's been practicing, but he did not pass the concussion protocol, according to Shane Steichen. That's his second straight game.

Related Players: Michael Pittman Jr., Josh Downs

In a follow-up question with Shane Steichen, he said "working through that" regarding Adonai Mitchell playing this week, which is all the more interesting with Pierce out. It's possible we see a condensed target tree with Pittman, Downs, and Tyler Warren taking the vast majority of the work. Pittman is a WR2 candidate, Warren an obvious TE1 and Downs would move up into a WR4 role for managers searching for WR help.

Falcons WR Darnell Mooney suffered a hamstring injury yesterday in Atlanta's win, but with the bye coming up, it's likely that he doesn't have to miss any games, sources say.

Related Players: Drake London, Kyle Pitts, Ray-Ray McCloud

It's been a tough year for Mooney, who missed Week 1 due to a lingering shoulder issue before logging only 29 snaps in Week 4 before exiting. He has seven catches on the season and can be dropped in most leagues over the bye.

Falcons WRs Drake London and Darnell Mooney do not have an injury designation for Sunday night’s game vs. the Vikings and are good to go.

Related Players: Ray-Ray McLoud, Kyle Pitts

Good news for Michael Penix and great news for fantasy managers who took a stab at Mooney's cratering ADP as the summer moved along. London should return to back-end WR1 consideration, and while Mooney should be more in the WR4 range in his first game back, their should be better spots ahead for him.

Packers WR Jayden Reed will miss 6-8 weeks with a broken collarbone.

Related Players: Dontayvion Wicks, Malik Heath, Romeo Doubs, Matthew Golden, Savion Williams

This would presumably tighten the WR rotation a little bit, but as we saw on TNF, it would take a lot of consolidation to be able to trust any of the Packers receivers to garner a large workload. Continue to hold Golden, and potentially also Doubs in deeper leagues, but TE Tucker Kraft is the easiest click of this group, even after Reed's injury.

Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris expects wide receiver Drake London to play in Sunday's Week 2 prime-time road game against the Minnesota Vikings.

"That's not saying that he is," Morris said Wednesday. "But when you ask me, 'Do I expect him to play?' Of course. Drake is an ultimate tough guy, and when he says he's going to practice, that tells you a lot."

Related Players: Ray-Ray McCloud, Casey Washington, Kyle Pitts

There's still no concrete update on Darnell Mooney, but it seems as if he is trending in the right direction to suit up sooner rather than later. If London is good to go, he'll be a high-end WR2 in a great matchup against the Vikings.

Drake London exited Sunday's season opener between the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the fourth quarter due to a shoulder injury and did not return. The Falcons were already thin at the wide receiver position going into Sunday's game. Darnell Mooney is also battling a shoulder injury that kept him out of Week 1.

According to a report from NFL insider Ian Rapoport, London suffered a shoulder strain and is considered day-to-day.

Considering Mooney was a game-time decision, he will likely make his season debut in Week 2, the story added. London appears to have avoided a major injury, but there's still some uncertainty about his status for Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings. We'll hopefully know more Wednesday when the injury report comes out, but this will be something to monitor for those invested in the Falcon offense.

Christian McCaffrey seemed unbothered by the calf issue that crept up Thursday, and he did not appear on Shanahan’s Monday afternoon injury report.

Related players: Brian Robinson

The story went on to say that despite CMC's 31 touches, the 49ers at least made an effort to give him more breaks than normal. He played 76% of the offensive snaps. By comparison, he played 85% of the snaps in the 2023 opener in Pittsburgh, and that was a blowout win, the story went on to say. Robinson carried nine times for 33 yards. With all the injuries piling up, it's easy to see CMC continuing this pace, especially if he really did escape from Week 1 healthy.

49ers RB Christian McCaffrey (calf) is officially questionable for Sunday's opener against Seattle.

What's Kyle Shanahan's level of concern about Sunday? "Questionable concern. I'm not going to say anything about Christian, guys." Says it happened yesterday.

Related Players: Brian Robinson

This is quite ominous considering how last season went, but a lot of people are reporting this is more cautious than a serious injury. We should still consider McCaffrey a fantasy RB1 if he's on the field, with Robinson closer to the RB4 range.

49ers are listing RB Christian McCaffrey as limited at today’s practice due to a calf issue.

Related Players: Brian Robinson, Isaac Guerendo

It feels like we should panic, but players are limited in practice all the time (right?). We'll keep an eye on things but Robinson should be in our queues to plug in as an RB2 in case CMC is sidelined.

Falcons OC Zac Robinson on Darnell Mooney: "Day to day, but he looks good out there. He’s running really well, catching the ball. We’ll keep monitoring the situation, but he has looked pretty good."

Related Players: Drake London, Ray-Ray McCloud, Khadarel Hodge

Good sign for Mooney, but not good enough that we should be shoving him in lineups quite yet. When we've received the all-clear, he will be an option as a fantasy WR3/4 after putting up good numbers last year, with a lack of additions to the WR room ahead of 2025.