Fantasy Football Week 15 Injury News: Adrian Peterson Returns

The Bills indicated they will not update Johnson’s status until Tuesday when they return from a day off. It is a short week with most teams returning to action on Saturday for Christmas Eve football. It will be interesting to see how that impact injury situations.

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Part of the limited performance might have been the Patriots eventual sizable lead. However, given that the Broncos were getting back into the game a bit and McGahee was performing effectively when running, something had to be up. John Fox will chat with the media on Monday and might shed some light on the injury.

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After the game, Green said it was an injury he has dealt with before and he was optimistic he would not miss the games. Green indicated he suffered a similar injury in college and played through it. This followed word from an LA-based orthopedic surgeon who said Green could play through the pain if needed. Although it is a short week leading up to Saturday’s Christmas Eve game against the Arizona Cardinals, Green should be good to go.

Green’s 115-yard performance was enough to put him over 1,000 yards in his rookie season. He now has 61 receptions for 1,0006 yards and seven touchdowns. For more on Green and the Bengals, check out Cincy Jungle.

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While he’s only played all or part of 10 games this season, Peterson has been one of the more productive backs in the league when he’s in there. He’s scored 11 touchdowns in that time, rushing for 872 yards and adding 16 receptions and a receiving TD for good measure. He wants to surpass 1,200 yards on the season again — he’s never finished under the landmark in his career — and will have his work cut out for him to do so. If he’s serious about getting there, that can only mean good things for fantasy owners. As 31 NFL teams have found out, when Peterson wants to get somewhere, it’s really hard to stop him.

Baldwin is on target to become the first undrafted rookie to lead his team in receptions and receiving yards and is 22 receptions and 54 yards away from breaking the records for most by an undrafted rookie free agent.

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Washington was held out of Wednesday and Thursday’s practices and is officially listed as “Questionable” with an ankle injury that has nagged him for the last couple of weeks.

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“It’s nice to get there early, get used to the elements, get acclimated to everything and get ready for the game on Sunday,” Welker said on Friday according to Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston. “I don’t know if it’s a huge deal, but it’s still a long flight. I think [it’s good] getting there early and making sure we put ourselves in position, and if there is any acclimating to do, we do it.”

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Vick is officially listed as “Probable” on the team’s final injury report of the week.

Vick was held out of Wednesday’s practice, but practiced fully and expects to keep playing his style of football.

Maclin said his hamstring has improved over the last week, Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News reports.

“It’s a complete difference,” Maclin said. “I thought I felt pretty good last week, but now you can actually see it on film and stuff like that. I practiced full-go today, so I’m ready to go.”

The Hall of Fame-caliber return specialist has 25 receptions for 355 yards and a touchdown this season, but has all but disappeared from the offensive game plan. Hester has just four receptions for 47 yards in the last six weeks and was kept off the stat sheet in four of those six contests.

Seattle’s special teams units have allowed two punt returns for touchdowns this season, but have tightened things up in the last three weeks, allowing just 8 return yards on four returnable punts.

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“It’s looking pretty good right now but I’ll keep waiting,” Starks said according to Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “It’ll probably be another game-day right now but I feel good about it.

“I’ve obviously been feeling better each day and I have a little time right now between the game time so it should get better as the time comes along. It’ll be another game-time decision and hopefully I’ll be able to play.”

Smith is officially listed as “Questionable”.

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Head coach Pat Shurmur said that Hardesty will be active and available to play, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported on Friday.

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For those wondering, the designations break down as follows:

Out: 0% change of playing

Doubtful: 25% chance of playing

Questionable: 50% chance of playing

Probable: 75% chance of playing

According to Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News, Robinson is expected to play, but will be wearing some extra padding under his jersey to protect his right shoulder.

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For those wondering, the designations break down as follows:

Out: 0% change of playing

Doubtful: 25% chance of playing

Questionable: 50% chance of playing

Probable: 75% chance of playing

Peterson also gave a reason near and dear to many people’s hearts: fantasy football. AP is one of the best fantasy running backs in the game and he has acknowledged that people have contacted him via Twitter asking about his status and hoping that he would play. Fantasy football has reached the playoffs and now is as important a time as any for fantasy owners.

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Here are the pertinent players from the final injury reports for Thursday Night Football:

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