The Minnesota Vikings are sitting at 2-2 following their bye week and have fallen a considerable distance behind the 5-0 Green Bay Packers in the NFC North. Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs are 1-4 and dealing with the loss of superstar running back Jamaal Charles for the season. Conley’s deep-threat ability will go to waste in this offense, and Wilson did not impress in his brief look as a starter this year. Charles Johnson returned to practice on Wednesday after leaving the Broncos game with a rib injury, and Mike Wallace didn’t return to practice until Thursday (limited participation) due to a knee injury (although he says he will play).
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Nike terminated its contract with Adrian Peterson after the Minnesota Vikings running back entered a no contest plea to reckless assault in his Texas child abuse case.
With a more dynamic passer in Teddy Bridgewater under center, Peterson said there’s “even more” of an emphasis for him to improve in pass protection. The Chiefs led 17-3 and were inside the Bears’ 10-yard line when Charles went down.
Those are my five keys to success for the Minnesota Vikings this weekend when they face off against the Kansas City Chiefs. Friday’s practice report has not been officially released at the time of this writing, so changes to any of the following could occur.
What wasn’t a laughing matter for Peterson was seeing Charles go down against Chicago.
With Charles out, logic would say that Smith will have to crank up the passing game to compensate. He should remain on the waiver wire unless you’re in a deep league and need a bye week fill-in.
WR Stefon Diggs, a rookie fifth-round draft pick, tied the team record for most catches by a rookie in his first National Football League game. Ok, so where were we? If the Vikings can raise that “temperature” against the Chiefs, then the whole offense will perform better.
Childress, who carries the unique title of spread game analyst/special projects while serving as a jack-of-all-trades of sorts and a trusted adviser to head coach Andy Reid, first worked with Reid on the staff at Northern Arizona. The Vikings are slightly above average against fantasy RBs so this isn’t the greatest matchup ever.
And because of that, he’s confident Charles will return to be the same player he was.
Charcandrick West and Knile Davis, in theory, could form a passable committee to help the Chiefs’ patchwork ground game at least remain adequate. Davis should not be in your fantasy lineup until he does something outside of special teams. Jeremy Maclin and Travis Kelce have combined for 811 receiving yards and three touchdowns while De’Anthony Thomas has eight receptions. Defensively, Kansas City is allowing 28.6 points and 383.2 yards per game. I don’t want to bet on Charles losing a step because we’ve seen in the course of his career that he defies many normal trends. “You definitely learn, you want to protect the quarterback”.
They have no choice but to turn to second- and third-year players in West and Davis. Chris Conley seemingly is getting more involved in the offense, but he is still too raw to start for your team until he does something.
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You should be able to get most of these handcuffs at a cheap price because they’re more important for you, the owner of the starter than for someone else. Darren McFadden figures to keep his role on passing downs, filling the void left by Lance Dunbar’s injury two weeks ago. They should absolutely be force-feeding Kelce 8-10 targets per game – the player with a ceiling of best non-Gronk tight end’s only drawn that many once this season for a few reason. “Knowing Jamaal, he’ll bounce back”. Charles’ impact is hardly shown on paper. “I can’t tell which one is going to start and not start”. They can’t just throw you out there.
