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13 min
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Aug 19, 2026
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Wed, August 19, 2026
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Alvin KamaraBraelon AllenBreece HallChris GodwinChris OlaveD'Andre SwiftGeorge KittleJonathon BrooksJordan MasonJordyn TysonJuwan JohnsonKeenan AllenMarShawn LloydNico Collins
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Alvin Kamara

NegativeInjury5:32

Alvin Kamara is expected to be sidelined for at least a month due to a sprained MCL. Given his age and injury history, the recovery timeline could potentially extend further.

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Braelon Allen

PositiveSleeper11:43

Braelon Allen is a must-draft handcuff in the final two rounds of fantasy drafts, as he could see significant opportunity if Breece Hall's groin injury lingers.

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Breece Hall

NegativeInjury10:41

Breece Hall suffered a strained groin two days ago; JJ Zachariason notes it is not a major concern but acknowledges the injury could linger into the start of the season.

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Chris Godwin

PositiveValue17:04

Chris Godwin has received a slight bump in rankings, likely due to the injury to Emeka Egbuka.

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Chris Olave

PositiveProjection9:06

JJ Zachariason has moved Chris Olave up in rankings due to Jordan Tyson's injury. Olave is now a target for the end of the second or beginning of the third round, with expectations to perform as a WR1 while Tyson is out, before sliding back to a WR2 role upon Tyson's return.

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D'Andre Swift

PositiveValue13:58

D'Andre Swift has moved up from a fifth-round to a fourth-round pick; the injury to Kyle Manungai (hyperextended knee) makes it safer to bank on Swift as the starting running back for the Chicago Bears. Additionally, JJ Zachariason prefers Swift over Cam Akers following the Matt Nagy signing.

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George Kittle

PositiveValue17:27

George Kittle is moving up in JJ Zachariason's rankings due to recent positive injury news.

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Jonathon Brooks

PositiveBreakout15:43

Jonathan Brooks is a massive riser in redraft and dynasty rankings due to positive camp buzz and Chuba Hubbard's week-to-week hamstring injury, which currently solidifies Brooks as the starter.

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Jordan Mason

PositiveValue17:14

Jordan Mason is moving up in rankings; JJ Zachariason notes that reports from Vikings camp suggest Mason is the preferred target over Aaron Jones.

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Jordyn Tyson

NegativeInjury8:58

Jordan Tyson is expected to miss the first five to seven weeks of the season; the team has a bye in week eight.

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Juwan Johnson

PositiveUsage18:28

Juwan Johnson is moving up in rankings as the Jordan Tyson injury creates more target availability for him to operate as the team's second receiver.

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Keenan Allen

PositiveValue0:37

Keenan Allen has received a significant bump in rankings to WR56 following injuries to Alec Pierce and Tyler Warren. He is now considered a viable late-round target in double-digit rounds.

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MarShawn Lloyd

NegativeBreakout18:48

MarShawn Lloyd is a big-time riser in rankings due to his strong camp performance and the injury/suspension risk surrounding Josh Jacobs.

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Nico Collins

PositiveProjection3:45

Following Jaden Higgins' season-ending torn ACL, Nico Collins has moved up from a late second-round pick to a mid-second-round pick. He is now tiered with Drake London as a prime wide receiver expected to see a high volume of targets.

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Stefon Diggs

PositiveValue17:08

Stefon Diggs has risen in JJ Zachariason's rankings, attributed to a good landing spot.

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Tank Dell

PositiveValue4:14

Tank Dell has been moved up to around WR60 following the Jaden Higgins injury. He is a recommended late-round target with upside, supported by his rookie-season average of 15 fantasy points per game.

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Travis Etienne

PositiveValue5:41

With Alvin Kamara sidelined, Travis Etienne has been moved back into the tier of round-three running backs. He is viewed as a potential three-down player in a Kellen Moore offense and is a recommended target in the third round.

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Tyler Allgeier

PositiveValue12:16

JJ Zachariason has moved Tyler Allgeier up his rankings as a priority handcuff due to Jeremiah Love's high ankle sprain, positioning him ahead of other handcuff running backs.

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Tyler Warren

NegativeInjury0:15

Tyler Warren is dealing with a groin injury suffered during practice; he is expected to miss a considerable amount of time, resulting in a drop in fantasy rankings.

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Episode Transcript

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0:00I'm having to update my rankings every
0:02single day with news. I want to talk
0:04about the players that I have recently
0:05moved up dramatically and honestly are
0:08now targets in drafts. And the first
0:10piece of news that I need to discuss is
0:12what's going on in Indianapolis. So,
0:15right now, Shane Stiken told reporters
0:17that Tyler Warren is dealing with a
0:19groin injury that he suffered during
0:21today's practice. Now, obviously, you
0:24may go, "Okay, well, Mason, uh, we're
0:26definitely not moving up Tyler Warren
0:28with that report." And yes, I moved
0:30Tyler Warren down my rankings, but there
0:33is somebody that all of a sudden is a
0:35little bit interesting in fantasy
0:37football, and that is Kenan Allen. So,
0:40the Colts have signed Keenan Allen. That
0:42news came out yesterday, but it is
0:45official today. Now, my initial thought
0:48with Keenan was this is a wide receiver
0:51that I really don't want anything to do
0:53with. I mean, yes, you have the injury
0:55to Alec Pierce. really his only
0:57competition was Tyler Warren and Josh
0:59DS. But I still thought Keenan was
1:02washed up. Again, not much interest for
1:04the 34year-old receiver. But if Tyler
1:07Warren is also injured, all of a sudden
1:10Keenan Allen is a name that I at least
1:12have to consider at the very minimum.
1:15Now, I'm not going to be saying this is
1:17some premium target in your fantasy
1:19drafts. I mean, very similar to Naji
1:21Harris, who we'll talk about later, but
1:24I did have to move him up my rankings a
1:26considerable amount. I actually did just
1:28go through and put him at wide receiver
1:3156. So now, I think in the double-digit
1:34rounds of your fantasy leagues, Keenan
1:36Allen is a fine target because not only
1:39do you have the Alec Pierce injury, but
1:41you also have the injury to Tyler Warren
1:43where Tyler Warren is going to miss a
1:44considerable amount of time. Keenan was
1:46viable at the beginning of last year
1:48where he actually looked like a pretty
1:50good fantasy option in the first seven
1:52weeks, but then the veteran older wide
1:54receiver lost all his steam and then in
1:56the second half of the season he did
1:58pretty much nothing. So late round
2:00option that you can now look at, but
2:02obviously uh he's not the most exciting
2:05name in the world. Now, the other thing
2:07that we need to discuss is news came out
2:10today that Jaden Higgins has officially
2:13suffered a torn ACL. Now, this freaking
2:16sucks for a multitude of reasons. You'll
2:18see the Flock League draft on Friday,
2:21but obviously I did have to go through
2:23and update my rankings. First thing
2:25being is I moved Nico Collins up a bit.
2:28I previously had Nico down here with
2:29like Malite Neighbors behind A.G. Brown.
2:32But instead of you needing to wait until
2:34the very end of round two of your
2:36fantasy drafts to take Nico, I think
2:38he's right up there with Drake London
2:40because now he's in a very similar boat
2:42that this is a wide receiver in his
2:44prime that is just going to see a
2:47ridiculous amount of targets. So Nico
2:50went from being a late second to a
2:52midsec round pick in fantasy drafts. And
2:54then going over to Tank Dell, this is
2:56probably another name that I need to
2:58move up similar to like the Keenan Allen
3:00range. I would throw Tank Dell in here
3:02up with like um Omar Cooper Jr. around
3:05wide receiver 60 where he is somebody
3:07that you can look at at the end of your
3:09fantasy drafts but obviously not that
3:11excited. I mean he did suffer a very
3:15serious injury at the end of the 2024
3:17season which held him out all of 2025
3:20but he is about to turn 27 and going
3:23back to his rookie year. He averaged 15
3:25fantasy points per game. So, there is
3:27some upside now that the wide receiver 2
3:28here is out. Now, going over to Alvin
3:32Kamara. Um, Kamar wasn't that exciting
3:35of a fantasy option anyway this season,
3:38but what Kamara was is he was going to
3:41be a block to ETN's usage as a receiver.
3:47But obviously, you can tell I am rocking
3:49the ETN jersey for this video. Alvin
3:52Kamar is expected to be sidelined for at
3:54least a month due to a sprained MCL. And
3:57I believe this is the third time that
3:59Alvin Kabar has suffered a sprained MCL.
4:02Alvin Kabara a very very old running
4:05back. So I mean honestly the timet maybe
4:08be longer for someone like him. But for
4:11me now I actually do think I need to
4:13move Travis ETN back inside the tier
4:16with these round three running backs. I
4:18know it seems crazy and please correct
4:21me if I'm wrong, but if this injury to
4:23Alvin Kamara is pretty serious and ETN
4:26looks to be a three-own player in a
4:28Kellen Moore offense and he is fully
4:30healthy himself,
4:32what's stopping me from putting him
4:33ahead of Bree Hall who is currently
4:35injured with his own groin stuff. So, I
4:37think I am going to move ETN up where
4:40you don't need to wait until the fourth
4:41round of your fantasy drafts to take
4:43him. I actually think you could look at
4:45taking him in the third. Now, obviously,
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5:35deal. Now, let's stay in New Orleans and
5:38let's look at the injury to Jordan
5:40Tyson. So, the Tyson stuff obviously has
5:43made me go through and really
5:45re-evaluate how we are viewing Chris
5:47Lave previously. I previously had a L in
5:50this tier of wide receivers that you
5:53would want to take at the very earliest
5:55in the third round and potentially he
5:58could slide to the fourth. Those are the
6:00guys like Devontto Smith, T. Higgins, Z
6:02Flowers, Cedaro McMillan, Waddleb Bua,
6:05Garrett Wilson and Lad Maki. But
6:07instead, I have moved Chris Ave up
6:10inside the same tier with these other
6:12wide receivers that you could actually
6:14consider at the end of the second round
6:16or the very beginning of the third. So,
6:18Jordan Tyson going to miss the first
6:20five, six, seven weeks. They have a week
6:23eight buy. And Chris Ave should pencil
6:25in to be a wide receiver one during that
6:27stretch. Now, of course, when Tyson does
6:30eventually come back, I think Ave will
6:32slide back down to being a wide
6:33receiver, too. But here in the short
6:34term, a lav looks like he is absolutely
6:37going to crush. Now, moving over to some
6:39of the handcuffed running backs that we
6:41can discuss. A Bris Hall suffered the
6:43strained groin. This was two days ago.
6:45It's not that big of a deal. But one
6:48thing that I really like doing in my
6:50fantasy drafts if you are drafting early
6:52is I like going through and rostering a
6:55bunch of handcuffed running backs and
6:57not even drafting a kicker, not even
6:58drafting a defense, just picking up
7:00extra running backs to see if an injury
7:02occurs in front of them. And now Brilen
7:04Allen does become one of those running
7:06backs that in my opinion must be drafted
7:09in the final two rounds of every fantasy
7:12draft because there is a very real world
7:14scenario in which this groin injury for
7:16Bree Hall lingers into the beginning of
7:18the season and Brilen Allen's an
7:20incredibly young running back only 22
7:22years old. Yes, he had the devastating
7:24injury in week four last year but we can
7:26go back and look at what he did in his
7:28rookie season in his second NFL game
7:30ever. He almost cracked 20 fantasy
7:32points. So, I think Brilen Allen is
7:34somebody that should be rostered. I also
7:36did move up another handcuff running
7:38back with Tyler Algier because we have
7:41Jeremiah Love dealing with the high
7:42ankle sprain. Now, reports came out that
7:45more likely than not, we are not going
7:47to see surgery for Jeremiah Love. He is
7:49safe on that front. But I'm moving
7:51Algier ahead of all these other handcuff
7:54backs because very similar to Brilan
7:57Allen, if the starting running back
7:58ahead of you is injured, I mean,
8:00obviously you do become one of the
8:02better targets when it comes to handcuff
8:05RBs. Let me skim through the expert
8:08average rankings on flockfantasy.com for
8:11y'all real quick because one thing that
8:13we actually have on the site is we do
8:16track the rankings changes over time.
8:18So, not only can we see my own rankings,
8:22which of course I'm updating every
8:24single day, but we can check in on the
8:26movement from the other experts on the
8:29site. So, we can see the other experts
8:31on the site are also moving Crystal Lave
8:33up. He has jumped from being the 30th
8:35overall player to the 26th. We can see
8:38that DeAndre Swift has jumped up.
8:40Actually, yeah, that is a player I
8:42missed out on talking through. We
8:44probably should hammer in DeAndre Swift
8:47given the Kyle Manungai stuff because
8:49Kyle Manungai did have a hyperextended
8:51knee. And with Manungai being out for
8:54the next few weeks, this does just make
8:56it a little bit safer for you to bank on
8:59DeAndre Swift being the starting running
9:01back for the Chicago Bears. So,
9:03previously DeAndre Swift, according to
9:05the expert average rankings on
9:07flockfantasy.com, was more so viewed as
9:09a fifthround pick. Now, I do instead
9:12view him as a fourth round selection
9:14that you can go through and move up.
9:16Again, I want to reiterate, these are
9:18actually not my current rankings. These
9:20are the expert average on
9:21flockfantasy.com. So, don't wonder why
9:24these rankings look different than my
9:25top 100 list you saw yesterday. Like
9:28just small note, I have Cam Scatteraboo
9:30now down as a fifth round pick. And I'd
9:32rather have Swift over Scat given the
9:33Nagi signing. Now, going over and
9:35looking for other risers, Marvin
9:38Harrison, Parker Washington have gotten
9:40slight bumps, but I don't think there's
9:42too too much to discuss there. Um,
9:43Jonathan Brooks has been a massive riser
9:47in rankings. Both reddraft as well as
9:50Dynasty. Like, go through and look at
9:52the Jonathan Brooks value chart in
9:55dynasty fantasy football according to
9:57the flockfantasy.com average rankings.
10:00But with Brooks, it's extremely simple.
10:02one, he has had a ton of positive buzz
10:06coming out of the Carolina Panthers
10:07camp. And at the same time, obviously
10:10last week, we did get word that Chuba
10:12Hubard is now considered weak to week
10:15with a hamstring. So, as of now,
10:17Jonathan Brooks is the solidified
10:20starting running back for the Carolina
10:21Panthers. Other risers have included
10:24Chris Godwin's gotten a slight bump up.
10:26I think this is due to the Eggbuka
10:28injury. Um, Stefon Diggs has risen.
10:30Obviously, a good landing spot for him.
10:33Um, let's see if there's anything else.
10:34Jordan Mason is moving upwards. All
10:38reports out of Minnesota Vikings camp at
10:40the moment are that Jordan Mason is the
10:43guy that you want over Aaron Jones.
10:45Jakori Kroski Merritt is moving up.
10:47George KD's moving up as he's had better
10:49injury news as of late. And yeah,
10:52Deshawn Stribbling big time riser. Not
10:54only do we have the injury to Ricky
10:56Pierol, Mike Evans got banged up and
10:58Deshawn Stribbling has been performing
11:00incredibly well at camp. Denzel Boston's
11:03been a big camp winner, so he's been
11:05moving up these rankings. Jonah
11:07Coleman's been a big camp winner has
11:08been moving up these rankings. Jawan
11:10Johnson gets a noticeable move up given
11:13the Jordan Tyson injury. They're just
11:15going to be more targets available for
11:17Jawan Johnson as the second receiver in
11:19this offense. Keenan Allen again gets
11:21that big bump up given not only the
11:23injury to Alec Pierce but more
11:25importantly the injury to Tyler Warren
11:28as well. But Marshon Lloyd will be the
11:32last player we probably want to give a
11:34shout to. Marshon Lloyd big time riser
11:37given the injury and suspension risk
11:40that you have with Josh Jacobs. And
11:42Marshon Lloyd's been performing well at
11:45camp in his own right. But I think
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