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This week marks the last of the bye weeks for this season. Whether you need to find replacements on the waiver wire or not White Travis Fulgham Jersey , make sure that you check to see who is available to make sure that there aren’t any possible upgrades out there for your team.We’re getting to the point in the season where owners who are on the playoff bubble will have to make tough decisions. They may need to release a useful player in order to field a full roster because they need to win this week no matter what. We all hate those kinds of decisions but if you’re on that playoff line, you can’t worry about next week until it actually comes. Here are some players that could help you pop that bubble and get you into your league’s playoffs.——JAMAAL WILLIAMS, RB, Green Bay Packers (8 percent owned in CBSSports.com leagues)Williams is likely to be the number one claim due to injuries to both Aaron Jones (MCL) and Ty Montgomery (ribs). We don’t know how long either player will be out of the lineup. What we do know is that MCL injuries usually take at least three weeks to heal and the injury to Montgomery is a re-injury to the ribs he broke several weeks ago. The Packers might take the cautious approach and hold Montgomery out until they are positive that those ribs are healed. The Packers don’t have much of a passing game without Aaron Rodgers and the offensive line (which was already average at best) lost their best player for the season last week, Bryan Bulaga. You may not want to break your free agent acquisition budget for Williams unless you just don’t have anything to lose.SAMAJE PERINE, RB, Washington Redskins (14 percent)Perine has done very little with his opportunities this season as he only has 175 yards on 57 carries, but he could be the starting running back this week and every starting RB has value. The current starter, Rob Kelley Danny Amendola Jersey , left the game Sunday with knee and ankle injuries that could sideline him for an undetermined amount of time. If that were to happen, Perine would be the starter and a possible flex play.AUSTIN EKELER, RB, Los Angeles Chargers (5 percent)We don’t want to overreact to Ekeler’s performance Sunday, but it’s hard to ignore that he had two scores and outperformed Melvin Gordon versus what may be the best defense in the NFL in the Jaguars. Ekeler was also the RB the Chargers trusted (incorrectly, as he fumbled) to try and close out the game. Gordon is still the starter here, but he has been battling injury all season long and if the team decides to shut him down early as they fall out of playoff contention or if they just decide to limit his snaps, Ekeler will be the primary beneficiary.JAMISON CROWDER, WR Trey Flowers Jersey , Washington Redskins (39 percent)If the Washington defense continues to perform anywhere near as poor the rest of the season as they did Sunday, then they will have to throw the ball early and often. Terrelle Pryor might be the biggest free agent bust and Jordan Reed can’t stay healthy. That leaves Crowder as the first look on most pass attempts for Kirk Cousins. In deeper leagues, Josh Doctson (41 percent) could also be a pickup.CHARLES CLAY, TE, Buffalo Bills (47 percent)Clay returned from a knee injury Sunday and although he only caught two balls, he should return to being a red zone threat for Tyrod Taylor and the Bills for the remainder of the season. The addition of Kelvin Benjamin could take away some of those looks from Clay, but that also assumes that Taylor and Benjamin will have the kind of chemistry together that Taylor and Clay already have.ERIC EBRON, TE, Detroit Lions (48 percent)Sure Damon Harrison Jersey , it’s hard to rely on Ebron, who had his issues this season and has pretty much been a fantasy disappointment since coming into the NFL, but the Lions aren’t very good at running the ball and will have to use the passing game to score points. Ebron won’t be the first or even the second look on most pass plays but he did catch a touchdown versus Cleveland on Sunday and could still be a red zone threat with the size advantage he will pose over most corners and safeties that will try and cover him. It seems weird to propose today’s Question of the Day just a week after the Green Bay Packers lost a game to the Detroit Lions due, at least in part, to some unlucky circumstances. It’s not often your kicker misses four field goals in a game, and even a few calls (see: punt glancing of a Lions player) went against the Packers last Sunday. Week 5 was unlucky to the Packers. They may have still ended up losing to the Lions had they been more lucky, but it’s undeniable a few things fell Detroit’s way that night.Well, that didn’t last long, because on Monday night Ricky Jean Francois Jersey , the Packers picked up a big win over the 49ers thanks to at least a little bit of luck. Green Bay was about to give the ball back to San Francisco after failing to convert a third down a what would become the game-winning drive. However, an illegal contact penalty kept the drive alive, and Aaron Rodgers would easily bring them into field goal range shortly thereafter.This doesn’t feel like a rare occurrence for the Packers. Whether it’s a fortunate call or a highly improbable play that goes in their favor, Green Bay seems to pull out some crazy wins that they had no business of pulling off. So today’s Question of the Day is:Are the Packers the luckiest team in the NFL?My answer: Yes, but not for the reason that you think. The bad calls, the ridiculous Hail Marys, they’re all a false perception. I really don’t believe that the Packers get calls that other teams wouldn’t, or that the league is really trying to favor Green Bay to win. If that were really the case, Aaron Rodgers—one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game—would have a lot more than one Super Bowl. What happened to the Packers Monday night was the exact same thing that happened for the 49ers when the Lions were in town. The Lions were about to get a potential game-winning play Christian Jones Jersey , and a ticky-tack defensive penalty ended their chances. Those kind of game-changing calls happen on a weekly basis, and every team has a horror story. But the Packers are the luckiest team in the NFL because they managed to do something that no other team has ever done or will probably ever do again. They managed to have a Hall of Fame quarterback as a face of the franchise, and quickly followed it up with another one. Obviously, Green Bay deserves credit for drafting both Brett Favre (Note: They didn’t draft Favre, they traded for him after one season with the Falcons) and Aaron Rodgers, but even in their wildest dreams, they couldn’t have thought that both players would turn out as good as they did. Drafting quarterbacks is hard, and the Packers won the lottery in back-to-back eras. You don’t get any luckier than that.Your turn.Tweets from https://twitter.com/PrideOfDetroit/lists/lions-coverage |
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