Sunday Night NFL Injury Report - Jordan Addison, Kenneth Walker, CMC + more

what is good deepo Chona Sportsman analytics thank you for joining it's Sunday night week one we don't have all the info yet but we've got a lot so let's get it popping starting with Jordan Addison so the video looked like he re-aggravated his high ankle injury which he had been dealing with since training camp about 2 to three weeks ago now the comments suggest this is a mild reag gravate but even still a reag graved high ankle is usually worse than the initial so average timeline here would be about 2 to 3 weeks the data does favor him missing week two but there's an MRI probably pending for Monday and so we'll find out a little more after that's announced next up we have Kenneth Walker so he left with an abdominal injury and he did not return it was the very last series of the game now the key with abdominal issues is that they're often played through by running backs you do generally see a little bit of a decreased workload in snap counts and Touches for running backs but nonetheless they are often played through the key to monitor with Kenneth Walker is that his is a little bit riskier because he's had prior surgery in this area for hernas just about a year ago so with Kenneth Walker we'd lean towards him play playing week two but the practice reports are really the key here next up we have Christian mcaffrey playing Monday night now the data favors him playing at over 90% of his Baseline production as as long as he's healthy and that's really the key caveat because the reinjury risk is about 15 to 20% the first 8 weeks back for a calf and achilles type issue the running backs are always on their toes with their side to side agility and for that reason there is a relatively high risk of reinjury but as long as he's healthy it shouldn't impact his production next Jake Ferguson so the video here suggests an MCL sprain the most concerning possible outcome here would be potentially an ACL and we did see the knee rotate a little bit but it didn't Buckle it didn't look that severe to me and therefore I would lean towards an average timeline here on MCL of about 2 to four weeks although we do certainly expect them to get an MRI on Monday and sort of give us a little more info afterwards early comments from Jake feron and Dak Prescott do suggest that he probably avoided the ACL outcome so we're more and more confident that probably MCL like I said said 2 to 4 weeks is the average but the key here also is that the there typically is a production dip even for about 6 weeks post injury next up we have Josh Allen so he hurt his non-throwing hand on the play when he jumped over a play a Defender and landed on the left hand so again non-throwing hand it wasn't wrapped up in the locker room and that suggests although it's not sort of confirmatory it does suggest that it's not fractured and and therefore we would expect Josh Allen to play in week two next we have Jordan love so he had an MCL sprain it was pretty gruesome by video reported timeline 3 to 6 weeks the average is really 2 to four for quarterbacks and and can be sometimes even pushed up so we would suspect him to be on the or the shorter end of that timeline now obviously if he put put on IR that's a minimum of four weeks out so with Jordan love the key to keep in mind is is is that his rushing is expected to dip for about the first 6 weeks post injury passing production typically does not dip so when he comes back we would expect him to be just about the same and the and the Green Bay pass catchers to be just about the same level as him pre-injury then we have Keenan Allen a little bit of a vague report here so he was he went to the tent he had an undisclosed injury there's a lot of reasons to have a high-risk sort of barometer with Keenan Allen he's got he's up there in age he has an extensive soft tissue history and he had a foot issue even going into week one so all of those together make him high risk in general now we add in that this new injury or potential injury is of undisclosed variety and so the practice reports are going to be the key to his week 2 status then David and joku he was seen pretty severely limping on his ankle there's likely an MRI pending for him on Monday to be determined but the data would slightly favor him missing week two even if he has a mild high ankle type issue that would still probably hurt his availability in the short term then we have JK Dobbins and it's really hard not to root for JK Dobbins however he did get run down from behind on a breakaway run and he likely would have taken that to the house if he was at a Peak Performance but it just tells you he's still regaining strength and that's pretty normal at this point about 12 months post Achilles repair he's already doing really sensationally well in order to put up 130 yards his first game back the data projects around week 8 to 12 where he would likely hit his 90% of his pre-injury explosiveness next Kyler Murray now he looked pretty fluid cutting his numbers weren't crazy impressive but again just watching him he didn't seem to hesitate he ducked and dodged Defenders he evaded most hits which is good to see from an injury risk standpoint the data on acl's for quarterbacks predicts year two is his return to pre uh ACL injury rushing ability and the comments from Kyler Murray this offseason sort of predicted the same so week one if anything just confirmed what we suspected there then Joe burrow now we need a little more info to know if his lack of production here was because the Patriots played good defense and his o line particularly amarius Mims they first round tackle was out and injured but we would lean slightly slightly towards that being the explanation rather than this totally being from his wrist the reason for that is that he had an acute repair shortly after the injury with modern implants which are quite strong so we would suspect that at this point Joe Burrow's passing is relatively wellmaintained and he was pretty accurate so overall we're thinking and hoping that this was just a matter of the o line being injured and a strong defense hurting Joe burrow then the Colts Anthony Richardson so we saw him make a couple deep plays and that pretty much tells us his throwing strength and accuracy isn't really negatively affected by this 2023 shoulder surgery that he had and that's sort of what the data had predicted as well so it more or less confirms suspicions now the one key caveat with Anthony Richardson that we didn't know is what is his injury risk going forward last year of course he got injured multiple times in just four games and today if you watched him he wasn't really sliding he was taking on big hits and that makes him a high injury risk actually pretty similar to the level of risk for running backs so we would suspect they go to the film room and they tell him to start avoiding some of these hits but uh if he isn't then he is going to be a high reinjury risk going forward next up we have a pair of Achilles so we start with Kirk Cousins now he had severely severely limited mobility in the pocket also looked like he didn't have much zip on the ball and kurk cousins didn't have the strongest arm to begin with but certainly looked weaker than normal now this was also a strong defense led by TJ watt so with that in mind it's hard to know how much is just an outlier defense and how much is truly KK cousins but if he has this sort of inability to avoid pressure even in the pocket then Kirk Cousins is going to be a high injury risk and we may see Michael pinx sooner than you think then Aaron roders so in some ways you can kind of get some insight into Aaron Rogers based on the Kirk Cousins experience here however it will likely be better than cousins one because Rogers hurt his left leg Which is less critical in pushing off and really launching the ball two Rogers has a much stronger arm at Baseline than Kirk Cousins and for that reason even if he can't push off all the way you would expect him to still be able to use his upper body and core strength there to work to his advantage and then thirdly Rogers has had three extra months to recover from this injury since it's happened right at the start of week one so overall I don't think you can necessarily gain a lot on Rogers Insight just based on cousins but there is I think you're going to see the common thread being very very limited mobility in the pocket and definitely limited rushing outside of it now Rogers since 2020 has seen his rushing numbers decline anyway so we would certainly expect that Trend to continue with Aaron Rogers then Justin Herbert so optimism here in that he didn't look at all limited he was moving around pretty well pushing off firing off passes really doesn't look like he's going to have a whole lot of impact at least in the short term of this injury however he does still carry a mild reag grav risk for the season and with that being said even if it gets reaged with Justin Herbert you would expect him to still be able to launch that ball pretty strongly because of his Elite arm strength and secondly you can sometimes manage planner fascia is issues with things like steroid injections and then thirdly Justin Herbert has played through a number of injuries in the past so overall we would say he's relatively unlikely to miss time even if this does flare up then less optimism on DeShawn Watson now the data is pretty convincing that his shoulder surgery from last year is no longer limiting him or negatively impacting his play the question is is he even good anymore and we don't really know that but the evidence does not necessarily suggest he is the other thing though that is a little bit of a confounder here is that he was playing against a strong Dallas dline in front seven with Micah Parsons and Demarcus Lawrence and then you also look at his o line which had multiple players out with injury so those are potentially confounding factors that played a role in this poor performance a little hard to know for sure but we don't have a whole lot of Reason a whole lot of excuses other than that to make for Deshaun Watson so far so he may just not be good anymore then we have DeAndre Hopkins now he played but had pretty minimal production just one catch on Sunday the data projects a dip for him to continue for about 6 weeks and with that he's also going to have a high reinjury risk during that period so DeAndre Hopkins there's not a whole lot of sh short-term optimism here add in the age and overall he's again a high-risk candidate for the rest of the season Mark Andrews now he didn't put up a lot of numbers we don't suspected that this was related to injury and if you look at his 2023 ankle the data from that suggests that at this point that shouldn't really have much impact on his production and then furthermore if you look at this this car accident that he had there was no real injury reported he returned to practice and and did participate pretty much fully so we're suspecting that the scheme rather than the injury is what led to his weak production here he was often double teamed or bracketed by a what is a very strong defense so with that in mind Mark Andrews we're thinking has some reasons for optimism going forward next up is Josh DS of the Colts so he was out this week the data favors a week two to three return with week three being a little more likely now we would expect him to have about a 15% production dip as well as a similar reinjury risk when he first comes back from his high ankle next is Marshon Lloyd so he is trending towards a week two return in fact his practice data almost suggested he was going to come back week one hamstring data here for running backs projects that they come back at their pre-injury per touch efficiency in terms of production but typically with decreased touches initially and with Marshon Lloyd he's already been dealing with soft tissue injuries throughout training camp so you have to factor in that he's at a pretty high reinjury risk whenever he does return next we have t Higgins of the Bengals another hamstring this one for a wide receiver the average timeline on that would be about 2 weeks so the data does slightly favor him missing week two wide receivers tend to see pre-injury efficiency but with increased targets and a high reinjury risk when they do come back so T Higgins we got to follow those practice reports pretty closely to really know if he logs three limited practices that in some ways would be what I would consider best case scenario that would give him about a 2third chance of playing week two however if he misses any time then we're looking at 50/50 at best then Maris Hollywood Brown now the data on this favors a week two to three return with week two being a little more likely typically players specifically Dan Danny amandola before and Tyreek Hill after that came back from the same injury in SC joint came back at a relatively high level and did not have any reinjury pop up throughout the season or even actually afterwards so with this being a relatively rare injury to begin with we expect there to be a low reinjury risk and Hollywood Brown probably coming back week two then we have Russell Wilson so of course he did not play he was inactive for this game despite being in full uniform which is a little odd but Russell Wilson style kind of fits that uh he we would lean towards him being available for week two but likely not starting given obviously that they won week one with Justin fields and the other part of this is that with a calf injury C quarterbacks are going to be at high risk pretty much all season long next up we have Roman Wilson also of the Steelers so he was practicing in limited fashion this week and he's trending towards playing week two but the data does favor a production dip as well as an elevated reinjury risk when he does come back and then we have a series of defensive players that we'll hit real quick starting with taleno hunga of the 49ers safety coming off of an ACL here you do typically see a production dip their first year back but he is trending towards a week two or three return then Marshon Latimore he's got a hamstring injury for the Saints there's a high reinjury risk at this position and therefore we'd lean towards him missing week two Jaylen Ramsey did play week one but he's going to have a really high reinjury risk as a DB with a hamstring issue and so we wouldn't be surprised to see him go up and down a little bit this season and then lastly we have amarius Mims now he's trending towards a week two return and as we mentioned with the Joe burrow comments that could be big in terms of really finding out how much of Joe Burrow's performance is related to his own true limitations from his wrist and how much is just that his o line couldn't hold up and that's all we got for today drop your questions in the comments and we'll hit the FAQ shortly see you next time