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The Eagles are conducting exit interviews after a loss to the Buccaneers in the Wild Card round capped off a disappointing back half of the season. Rapoport reported that Sirianni was expected to present a plan for the future in his meeting with owner Jeff Lurie, including changes to the coordinators and overall staff. Sirianni may be on the hot seat if Lurie does not like the direction he intends to go in, but changes are in store for an Eagles team that finished the season losing six of their last seven games.

Wan’Dale Lamb, as some have called him, will get ready for his weekly allotment of passes with an aDOT under five against the Giants this week. He’ll be more of a WR2/3 in most leagues for the remainder of the year as Mike McCarthy tries to create the world’s most horizontal offense.

He has not practiced since suffering the concussion in Week 11 against the Texans. It will remain the Luke Schoonmaker show against the Giants and Schoonmaker is a PPR Scheme TE1 flier this week. Ferguson’s concussion must be pretty serious for us to see no signs of even a limited practice at this point and fantasy managers reliant on him may want to start making other plans for Week 14.

He was questionable despite not practicing last week, so a limited practice should put him in a better spot to be active in Week 13 against the Eagles. Smith has had a down season in coverage but is one of the best in the business against the run and his physicality will be key for a Ravens defense hoping to minimize the damage against Saquon Barkley.

He seems to be trending towards playing for the first time since Week 8. He had just 13 carries in the six weeks before he hit injured reserve. Williams is firmly off the fantasy radar unless one of Taysom Hill or Alvin Kamara get injured at this point.

That does not necessarily mean he’ll play, of course, but Brown has made posts of him working with the JUGS machine on his Instagram account. Brown was not expected to play in the regular season after suffering the dislocated collarbone on his first snap of preseason play. However, it appears there still might be some room for him to come back to the team in the playoffs, and perhaps some late-season play, if he continues to rehab as well as it looks from the outside.

Shrader is now firmly on the wrong side of questionable, having missed both of the Chiefs’ first two practices this week. The Chiefs notably signed K Matthew Wright to the practice squad on Tuesday. Shrader makes for a very risky start, if active.

Tucker should be available for Aidan O’Connell’s first game back from injured reserve. The speedy field-stretching wide receiver is entirely dependent on explosive plays to return fantasy value, offering fantasy managers the lowest of floors. This is the type of matchup where O’Connell should drop back at an above-average rate though, giving Tucker WR6-viability.

Apple will be eligible to return Week 18 if the Chargers deem it important for him to do so. He played 47 snaps for the Chargers between three games this year. The 2016 10th overall pick has mostly been on practice squads this year and is essentially just a journeyman corner at this stage of his career.

There was some question on if the team would suspend Robinson after he was arrested for drunk driving early Monday morning. They opted not to, and will let the legal process play out. Robinson is a deep-league touchdown-or-bust FLEX play against New Orleans.

The ineffectual rusher appears highly unlikely to play in Week 13 and would only be an RB6/7, if active. The Raiders will undoubtedly be playing from behind against the Chiefs this week, which should result in a pass-heavy game script. White should not be rostered at this time.