NFC South + Kerryon Kingdom, AJ Injury

He signed with someone for a week and then got cut again after the Panthers. He was struggling to get a job. Carillon Johnson, I believe Carion will receive the vast majority of the work, including goal line work. All right, we've got so much more news to cover. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. All right, AJ Green. Hashtag BTS. Yeah. This one feels bad.

Lower than below the belt. It feels below the shin. It is below the shin. Six to eight weeks. He's going to be sidelined torn ligaments in his left ankle. That is a different foot. All of his struggles last year was the right foot, right toe. This is now the left. Yeah. It is par for the course now for AJ Green. I mean, he, through the beginning of his career, always healthy and reliable, now always injured. Can I?

Can I bring out a comp here and see if you guys are as afraid as I am? I'm going to throw a name out there and see if... You can do whatever you want, King. Sweet. Doug Baldwin. Right. As in... As in last year, you started to see him dealing with injuries and then in camp, he got injured again, and we're like, well, his value was there because now he was dropping. My biggest takeaway, if you remember, our Things to Remember episode was in the preseason.

In the draft season, I'm not buying the injury dip. I was in on Doug Baldwin last year. I was like, well, he's so good. He's on a great offense. He's been a top wide receiver for multiple years. When you had Pete Carroll saying everything was perfectly fine. And then his ADP dropped. He looked juicy there. And obviously, anybody who drafted Doug Baldwin was very disappointed. So is there a comp there or not? Man, I think there might be a bit of a comp there because I was going to say, where are we willing to draft AJ Green now knowing,

He misses one to three games, and then even when he comes back, is he at full strength? I think I projected him at 77% of the season. Okay. Ooh, that's got to body him. That's just where I want him to be positioned in rankings for people prescriptively where you draft him. It's not good because when you come back from an injury like that, you don't know how limited the player is going to be. Exactly. Even if he's back in two to three games, is he not really back for four to five? Does he re-injure himself?

Here's the reality. You're over 30 years old. You don't generally trend in a positive injury direction. It takes you longer to get back. Your chance of re-injury happens more and more. I love AJ Green the player when he's healthy. So look, it's risk aversion. Do you want to take the chance on him? You'll probably get a deal on him. Nobody wants to touch him right now. I mean, if you're... Seventh round? Sixth round. Yeah, I mean, so like the Tyler Lockett's Kenny Gulladays, that area, are you taking them or AJ Green? I'm taking them.

I'm taking them. I am as well. All right. The Giants, they, by the way, AJ Green is down to our consensus wide receiver 28 at the moment. I will say this as well. I think this is, I mean, obviously this is bad news for the Bengals as an organization from a winning standpoint. I think this is bad for the fantasy.

implications for the other players as well, not a catastrophe. A lot's been made about Tyler Boyd not being as good with Agent Green off the field. Part of that was two of his worst games were with O'Driscoll. The O'Driscoll, but it does hurt. Oh, that's a throwback. It hurts Joe Mixing a little. Yeah, I remember that. It hurts. I mean, this is something I think that takes away a little bit from Mixing, a little bit from Boyd, definitely a lot of Bolton. It helps John Ross.

Yes. It does. I mean, if you want to talk about some opportunity in the first couple of weeks, I mean, you can't throw it to Boyd on every play. It helps Tyler Eifford, maybe, from a target perspective. I don't know. It's just unfortunate for fantasy owners. I mean, I've been wanting to steal a healthy AJ Green in the fourth round. It's not going to happen now.

Giants wide receiver, Golden Tate, four-game suspension for violating the PED policy. He is appealing. He is going to lose. I will be shocked if he loses. He's going to be shocked if he loses. If he does not get it reduced to two games.

Or even just removed, I will count me a surprise. Do you guys know the story? Of course I know the story. A man took, he took some medications for fertility. For fertility without checking the label before you get in the NFL. You always get popped for that. Sure. And you get popped and he acknowledged like, of course, he knew a suspension had to come. And yes, he talked to them ahead of time, just like Benjamin Watson did. When he took the same exact fertility treatments over the offseason, he went ahead and told the league before he got popped.

His suspension was uphill. But there was a big difference because Benjamin Watson was doing a full treatment. He was retired. And that's where the performance enhancing comes in. Whereas Golden Tate found out, stopped, alerted them, had no performance enhancing. And then that was before being tested. So I think it should be removed down to two. You are the king. If you could institute that yourself, I would buy into your narrative. If I can make the ruling, I don't believe he had any performance enhancing from.

performance enhancement from this, and he alerted them before ever failing. He's stupid. So I would say remove it. Yeah, it was a dumb decision. Yeah. Yeah, they've, the NFL's been pretty hard-nosed on you better know what you're putting in your body. It doesn't matter. High level of accountability there. Derek Henry, in a walking boot, got injured in Friday's practice. Titans say they're not worried about the lower leg injury. That's.

Fine. I mean, they should be worried about not having Derek Henry this year. If the entire offense is supposed to be on his back and he goes down and you look at that running back room and you wonder, what are you going to get? You're going to get Dionne Lewis. I mean, it does bring to light the fact that Dionne Lewis is a quality handcuff. And he's more than that obviously in the sense that he, because he's a past catcher, he could have some flex appeal on a weekly basis. But I had.

pretty much been leaving Dionne Lewis for dead in my drafts, in my thought process. So that's where it brings. It's too early to know. We don't even know what the foot injury is. No, but it does bring Deon Lewis to mind. You're right. Damien Williams left Sunday's practice, hamstring tweak, also mispracticed on Monday. So right now, hamstring injury for Damian Williams. We don't know how long that will be, but not great news. I mean, we hate hamstring.

injuries in training camp because they can linger. I would get mine removed. If I was going to the NFL, you know how you don't pull a hamstring? Don't have one. Get rid of that ACL? I'm removing my ankle. Everything below the shin. Two rollerblades. Obviously, these can linger. They can come back. But he should be fine timeline-wise. But there is a concern here of like, look, if Lev Bell misses camp for a hamstring issue, when he comes back, he's the guy. There's no chance someone.

It plays into a time share. Here, there is a little bit of a worry. Not, not, you know, I still got him. I didn't adjust him yet. But it's one of those, like, if you look at those top backs in the draft, that's one of the worries with Damien Williams. He, the investment in him is not. You have to get the out. Yeah, yeah. Um, let's move on. Let's talk about Sony Michelle.

activated from the PUP practiced, looked great in practice from beatwriters that were on scene. Right now, Michelle's being drafted behind Philip Lindsay, behind Mark Ingram. Tony Michelle is a value as of today. He is, and this is coming from a guy who bodied him on our first live show. He was like my bust guy because he was up at the top of the third, almost a second round pick, and he had way too much risk. But now...

I mean, if he, granted, it's gone early. He's going to, he's so, he's dropped so much since that it's so funny how the same player who can have the same outlook, I haven't changed my opinion on what I expect from him. But now when you're three rounds later, you're actually a value. All right, a little bit of hype. Let's talk about it. Frank Reich impressed with one of Mike's favorite rookies. Paris Campbell hype train. Frank Wright came out like a.

fantasy football fan with this quote. I'm saying, look, he was making legit NFL, I'm going to be a stud receiver plays. I like this Frank Reich voice. Yeah. What he did in the red zone weren't hybrid gadget slot receiver plays. They were legit. So Paris Campbell, his involvement in the screen game, one of the best screen game players in college, one of the best screen game players probably heading into this year.

Changes my opinion a little bit about Naeem Hines volume. Changes my opinion on, look, Devin Funches, he was hurt, came back in during practice, but made people think about Paris Campbell. The Twitter victory laps are hilarious. I mean, because Devin Funches left the field, and I saw multiple people say, like, this is Paris Camille season. It's over. Like, he's taken over. And then, like, they rolled Devin Funches back out. I put the sound back on any place.

So we're looking to be quick with those victory laps. That's why it's the best. As soon as you hear the news, just start running. Well, as soon as the lap is done. Yeah, you did it. You took your victory lap. Feels good. Paris Campbell helps Andrew Luck. Oh, yeah. But does he help fantasy owners? I'm still, we'll see on that. TV. I'm still weary of drafting a rookie who's not the.

number one option might be the number two option. By the end of the season, I think Paris Campbell makes some noise, but we've talked about this before. Most of the time when, look at last year, right, there was some noise-making rookie wide receivers. DJ Moore had a great stretch. Dante Pettis had a great stretch, but they were second half of the season. They don't get off to a strong start usually. All right. Kalin Blige, quote, has a real chance to win the starting job, according to ESPN's Cameron Wolf. It's going to be a...

I think it'll be a big time split there. I have them at the same carries, 175 each. Miles Boykin, Markees Brown. Any interest? Ravens Camp talking up Miles Boykin, most impressive receiver. Well, you are going to be when there's no one else except for Willie Sneed and Marquis Brown, their first round rookie isn't even on the field. Sometimes those reports are deceptive because there just aren't a lot of other players out there. Yeah. Miles Boykin, though, any thoughts, interest? Not really. The guy who's been targeted has been the.

receiver we like the best. I mean, yeah, it's not that. If I need to get a Baltimore receiver, it's Mark Andrews at tight end. Maurice Harris, wide receiver from New England. One of the guys I really liked on film in Washington last season. They had a lot of injuries at the wide receiver position. He stepped in. He played, played up to that opportunity he had, got signed by New England.

And now their beat reporter, Andrew Callahan's reporting he's been the best receiver in camp by a decent margin. I also read that... Same story. Julian Edelman, their best receiver isn't playing. Yeah, but he is playing ahead of... Nickil Harry? Yeah, Harris playing with the two sets. But that's... Harry will eventually be one of the starters. Right now it's Harris and Dorset in the starting lineup. And by the way, we do need to bring up that...

49ers running back, Derek McKinnon, was placed on the active PUP list, possibly making the mess of the San Francisco 49er backfield a little bit easier to decode because it'll be, right now it's Kevin Coleman. With a flare up to his ACL. Yeah, to his knee, yeah. Right now it's Kevin Coleman, I think is by far the highest probability odds of being.

being the guy with fantasy value, but then it's Matt Barina. And don't forget Colonel Mustard there as the RB3. But look, if someone there, somebody there will have value. 100%. I think two can have value there. Two? You think both Coleman and Burita can pay out? In a Shanahan offense, if they're a top half offense, they can both have value, Matt Berita was dominant last year. Not kind of good. One of the best pure runners in the game.

from a metric standpoint. They're going to use him. And then Tevin Coleman has the history with Kyle Shanahan. Right. And going to have a tremendous amount of pass catching opportunities. I think that they're just going to help that offense. And look, value-wise, I mean, you've got to pay for Tevin Coleman. Matt Breed is free. So depending on what you want to do, if you're not certain that Coleman's your guy, like you don't like him.

then take Breed out of value. If you're certain about Coleman, take him high. I'm fine taking either, but if I had to put a shot, it would be on Breedda because of the price. And the fact that, look, we've seen Kevin Coleman utilized by Shanahan before. And it wasn't as a starter. He was a great, you know, come in, change a pace type of back. And so who's to say, if there's someone, you know, there's always, I mean, the Falcon system of Freeman and Coleman are utilized as comps for. Yeah, it's for everyone. For everyone, any team. But if there's one person who's