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Kafka will be the Giants’ associate head coach in 2024, in addition to being the offensive coordinator. He was most recently interviewed by the Seahawks for their head coaching vacancy, though that job went to Mike Macdonald. The Seahawks were also interested in him for their offensive coordinator vacancy, though the Giants blocked that interview request. Kafka now stays with the Giants and takes on the associate head coach title, setting himself up to be a head coaching candidate again next offseason.

Higgins did not practice this week and is set to miss Cincinnati’s second matchup with the Ravens. It will be his third game sidelined because of the quad injury. Mike Gesicki has operated as the Bengals’ de facto No. 2 receiver in his absence. The veteran tight end caught five passes for 100 yards and two touchdowns last week. He will remain in the TE1 ranks for a potential shootout with Baltimore. Andrei Iosivas is running plenty of routes sans Higgins but is nothing more than a touchdown-or-bust WR5.

Edwards’ practice window is open meaning the team has three weeks to officially remove him from injured reserve. The former Raven has been out since Week 4 because of the ankle injury. He had already started to fall out of the backfield rotation before going down, so it’s unclear how much run he will see once activated. For now, fantasy managers can continue to treat J.K. Dobbins as a volume-based RB2 and Kimani Vidal as his backup.

Today was the Panthers’ final day to bring him off the NFI list. He practiced in full last week and was a full-go today as well. All signs point toward the rookie making his NFL debut in Week 10 versus the Giants, though don’t have to make him active if they think he needs more time to recover. Fantasy managers should take a wait-and-see approach with this backfield. In his first game off the ACL tear he suffered in college, Brooks will almost certainly play a backup role to Chuba Hubbard. Brooks will spend a week in the RB5 ranks while Hubbard is no longer a locked-in RB2.

Young took over for an injured Andy Dalton two weeks ago and has fared better in his second stint as the Panthers’ starting quarterback this season. He has three touchdowns with as many interceptions and got his first win of the year with an upset over the Saints on Sunday. Dalton may still be the better starter in a vacuum, but Young has done enough to get a third nod in a row as the Panthers wade through the second half of yet another lost season. Fantasy managers can ignore Young as a streaming option versus the Giants this week.

Billings will be placed on injured reserve this week. He suffered the injury in Chicago’s Week 9 loss to the Commanders. Billings has one sack and two TFLs in eight starts this year.

The team signed Jalen Reagor to their active roster in a corresponding move. Reagor and DJ Chark will serve as depth options in the Chargers’ receiving rotation. Chark was activated from injured reserve last week but did not suit up on Sunday.

Cooper sat out of the Bills’ Week 9 game against Miami because of the wrist injury. Head coach Sean McDermott called him “day to day” on Monday. It looks like fantasy managers can tentatively plan to have Cooper back in their lineups this week. With Keon Coleman likely out because of a wrist injury of his own, Cooper may be forced into a full-time role in his first game back.

Goedert went down with a hamstring injury in Week 6 and has not played since. He did not practice at all last week before being ruled out on Friday. A return to practice is a step in the right direction for the veteran tight end. The Eagles win need to see how he progresses throughout the week before we get a better idea of his Week 10 availability. If Goedert is cleared to play against the Cowboys, he will straddle the TE1/2 border.

We’ll assume it’s a limited session until the Eagles’ final injury report drops. Either way, this is good news for Brown and his fantasy backers. The stud receiver went down with a knee injury on Sunday and did not return. An MRI didn’t reveal any major issues and he is currently considered day to day. Barring a setback, Brown is on track to suit up as a fantasy WR1 versus the Cowboys.

The Texans used J.J. Taylor and Dare Ogunbowale to give Joe Mixon a breather last week. The two backs combined for just four touches. Mixon will remain a workhorse back and an RB1 for Week 10 against the Lions.