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Per Rapoport, Love suffered an MCL sprain between grade one and grade two in the final seconds of Green Bay’s Week 1 loss to the Eagles. Now all eyes are on the Packers’ backup situation. Malik Willis, who the Packers traded for late in the summer, opened the season as Love’s backup. He took two snaps to end the game on Friday. His second rep was a game-ending sack on a failed hail mary play. An inability to handle pressure plagued Willis in Tennessee and appears to have followed him to Green Bay. Sean Clifford, on the other hand, was waived when the Packers cut down to their 53-man roster and then landed on the team’s practice squad. Neither option looks good and the Packers could ultimately land a free agent addition as their best bet.

Brown had an MRI this afternoon but this matches the tenor of a morning report from Jordan Schultz that Brown is expected to be fine. How fine that “fine” is, whether it’s a couple days off in practice or potentially missing Week 10 against the Cowboys, remains up in the air. Brown appears to have avoided anything super serious though, so that’s a sigh of relief for fantasy managers.

Whatever concerns there were over London’s hip injury can seemingly be laid to rest. This news comes after the team announced they would conduct additional tests on London’s hip to determine the extent of his injury, which means he should have a realistic chance to suit up in Week 10 against the Saints. We’ll see what the team reveals when it releases its first injury report on Wednesday, but this is about the best news London and his fantasy managers could have hoped for.

Akers appears to have staged a takeover of Ty Chandler’s backup role, with Chandler not seeing a single offensive snap to Akers’ 16. Aaron Jones is always banged up and has dealt with a hip injury multiple times this year. Does this mean that Akers is one wrong Jones turn away from real fantasy value in the Kevin O’Connell offense? It sure seems like he’d at least be the main back on running downs in a committee. He’s a deep-league speculative pickup.

Thielen’s 21-day practice window was activated on October 23rd, so the Panthers have until November 13th to officially activate him. He was questionable this past week, with Dave Canales saying that he would not play on Friday. It’s also possible that Thielen could be traded before the deadline. Life offers you many different Adam Thielen possibilities sometimes. As of now, it would seem he’s unlikely to be ready against the Giants in Germany.

There’s some hope that Collins will be able to return for Week 10’s game against the Lions, but it doesn’t sound like Ryans is ready to fully commit to that idea. The second-year head coach said Collins is reaching speeds up to 20 miles per hour in training, which is encouraging, but added the team will “see where he is” in his recovery as the week progresses. Collins will be in line for a hefty target share whenever he returns to the field and would be a solid WR1 in Week 10 if active.

McVay said he didn’t think it was an “IR thing,” but Havenstein already missed Week 1 with an ankle issue earlier this year. Warren McClendon played in Havenstein’s place after he left Week 9’s game and will presumably fill in for him in Week 10 as well.

Parsons has missed the Cowboys’ last four games while recovering from a high-ankle sprain but appears set to return for Week 10 against the Eagles. This announcement comes just hours after it was revealed Dak Prescott (hamstring) would miss several weeks, which could make things tough for the 3-5 Cowboys. Parsons has totaled 14 tackles and one sack in the four games he’s appeared in this season. The Cowboys are currently allowing the second-most points per game (28.1) and the sixth-most yards per game (364.8), so Parsons’ return will be a welcomed one as Dallas looks to save its season.

He added “I’m not going down that road.” Rizzi will have to leave that road for Michael Thomas on X: The Everything App. Carr will remain an uninspiring fantasy QB2 against the Falcons in Week 10, but at least he won’t be Spencer Rattler.

Jarrett noted that the “tendon looked good” in his MRI and that he’s positive about his recovery. We’d expect a missed practice or two this week, but perhaps this will just be a minor injury for the Falcons’ longest-tenured defender.

It’s possible the Vikings will need to bring in a new kicker this week as Reichard missed multiple kicks against the Colts and was clearly in pain after he followed through for much of the night. The Vikings are also placing snapper of snaps longer than normal snaps Andrew DePaoloa on injured reserve with a hand injury.