Fantasy Football: Is ‘injury prone’ really a thing in 2024?

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Hola, and welcome to the opening of NFL training camps, also known as the point in time that casual fantasy football managers start to cram for their upcoming August and September fantasy drafts.

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This is also the time to catch up on the injuries to NFL players that are impacting fantasy football. This being football, there is plenty to talk about, so we’ll try and sift through to the most impactful injuries that we need to watch going into draft season.

Since I wrote a similar article to this last year as my first effort with Yahoo Fantasy, I also started co-hosting the Injury [PRO]NE Podcast with Dr. Edwin Porras, who was recently on the Yahoo Fantasy Football Show with Matt Harmon. They discussed several of the same injuries we’ll be discussing here in a little more depth. Call this a good tandem piece along with the episode.

Without rehashing the introduction from last year’s article, it makes sense to sum up several of the important concepts that I’ve picked up from working with one of the leading injury experts in the fantasy sports industry:

Players are NOT injury-prone. Football is violent, as only 2.3% of players in an NFL game don’t suffer some injury.

Youth (age 25 or younger), athleticism, draft capital and injury complexity matter in determining a return to form after major surgery.

Look at the date of surgery, not the injury date. Rehab and recovery only start post-surgery.

Injury history matters.

Multiple, unrelated injuries to different body parts should not set off red flags — see: Christian McCaffrey (2022) and Keenan Allen (2017)

Injuries need to heal and be rehabilitated properly before players return to form. Can’t rush the body’s healing powers, no matter how much these players resemble superheroes.

If players do return to the field the year after season-ending injuries, it sometimes takes another full offseason before they return close to their previous…

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Publish date : 2024-07-19 14:48:07

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