The fantasy football week is starting up once again on Thursday and some of the top names to watch out for with injuries includes Arian Foster, Doug Martin, Roddy White and Knowshon Moreno as well as Darren McFadden and Darren Sproles.
The top name to watch out for includes Arian Foster after he dealt with a back injury last week against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night football and now it appears that Ben Tate will be the starting back on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals. Foster has been having a solid season in 2013, but the past week was no good, as he left the game with a back injury after having zero carries and yards and his last game before that was in October against the Chiefs when he had four carries and 11 yards rushing. Foster has been a tough player for fantasy owners this season, as he is a great player and has 542 yards, but the injuries could derail things.
Foster had 141 yards in his last "real" game against the Rams and the two weeks prior to that he had over 97 yards in each game as well as four catches in three games apart from the injury games and now he could be out Sunday. Foster has 22 catches for 183 yards and in his last three games before getting injured, he had 16 catches in that span and he has been averaging over four yards per carry this season, but he will be a bust pick on Sunday.
Doug Martin owners should wait out his injury and should pick up Mike James and he is a BUST pick for Monday night football, as he has been dealing with a shoulder injury and after Mike James rushed for over 150 yards last week, Martin likely will be held out. Greg Schiano said Martin could return for Monday, but with the team winless and him being a franchise player, they likely will be cautious with him. Martin had a fantastic rookie season and he has been solid this year with 456 yards, but in the past five weeks he has only rushed for over 100 yards once and he missed the last game against the Seattle Seahawks so he shouldn't be back to full strength anyway. The team needs him back, but it might be better to keep Martin out another week and let James carry the load for the winless Buccaneers against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night football.
Roddy White has been dealing with injuries all season and because of that he has been the biggest bust in fantasy and he has just 14 catches all season and last played a month ago against the Jets and had four catches for 45 yards, his best games in five weeks before that. White has not been at full strength all season and even though he was back at practice, he is a bust this week. Moreno is another bust after having some back games the past three weeks and with the team plating a bad Chargers rush defense, he could come through, but after putting up less than 3.0 yards per carry the past three weeks, he could be limited again.