Here are some of the most devastating injuries of the year, based on Draft Capital.
QB – Russell Wilson (BF3000) $28
Starting with the QB spot, Dave lost Russ back during the Week 5 matchup, resulting in a 2-3 record since, (somehow) staying alive. Russ is due to come back for Week 10.
RB1 – Christian McCaffrey (Dutchmen) $83
Trigger, after taking Cmac with the #1 overall pick last year, and losing him for most of the year, went back to the well in this year’s auction and made him the highest-paid player in the league. The Dutchman’s reward for this loyalty – an early Week 3 injury, and missing the next 5 games. Plus his BYE hasn’t happened yet either, so he’ll be out of the lineup at least one more time…
RB2 – Derrick Henry (Sentinels) $78
What was looking like $78 well spent ended last week when Henry went down with a foot injury that might cost him the rest of the season. Weeks 2-7 Henry was a beast, but Josh was probably hoping to get more than half a season from his highest-paid player.
WR1 – Kenny Golladay (BF3000) $21
The injuries have racked up for the Buttfuckers this year, and Golladay is looking like a bust of the signing for the Giants if he can’t get healthy. He really only had one good game for Dave in the first four weeks before getting hurt and being dropped. Jones has since picked him up, and following his 3-week inactive streak, he put up a whopping 38 points in week 9. And now he’s one a BYE.
WR2 – Jerry Jeudy (Dutchmen) $18
Another Dutchmen pick, though considerably cheaper than Cmac, Jeudy has been even less helpful so far. After a decent game in Week 1, the Denver wideout missed the next six games to injury. He returned in Week 8, and has put up two straight sub-100 games. He has also not yet hit his BYE week.
WR3 – Julio Jones (TIMMO) $13
The once-great Falcons WR is now a Titan, and has been playing hurt or missing games all year. He’s sat out three games so far (non-consecutive), and really only had one good outing so far (Week 2 win over Kronner). The inconsistency led Timmo to bench him in Week 9.
TE – George Kittle (Mallrats) $38
Kronner’s 2nd most expensive draft pick (Justin Jefferson – $39) predictably got hurt, as he often does. In the four games he played for the Mallrats he broke 100 only once, then went on the IR. Since that time the Mallrats traded him to the Dutchmen for Tyler Lockett (and then flipped Lockett to Timmo for Roquan Smith). In his one game for Trigger, Kittle matched his season-high of 156 points.
LB – Blake Martinez (Quasar) $22
There were other linebackers that went for more, who turned out to be busts, and Martinez was solid the couple games he played (165 per complete game), but his Week 3 season-ending injury crippled Sanchez’s defense, for which he was the anchor.
DL – Romeo Okwara (TIMMO) $3
Not the most expensive player on the list, but taken at a time in the draft where $3 was significant relative to the remaining balance of the other teams, Okwara was the Lions’ best D-Linemen last year and just signed a big contract with the team. Unfortunately for Timmy, he did very little in his first two games, before dropping 130 against the Ravens – and then suffering a season-ending injury.
DB – Antoine Winfield Jr. (Kaiser) $9
Given his record, and the fact that Mark won the two games that Winfield missed, and this is probably the least impactful entry on the list, but still – when you take the 5th most expensive DB in the draft, you want him to play every week. It’s even less impactful when you factor in that he picked up Anthony Averett during Winfield’s injury – and Averett averaged 150 ppg over the next three weeks.
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