Darren McFadden’s Status For The Season Still Up In The Air

The Raiders are still in contention for both the AFC West and Wild Card berths, though. Having McFadden back on the field would likely help them in their pursuit of the playoffs.

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Here we sit over a month later and McFadden still isn’t playing. His injury is a mid-foot sprain and his progress has been slow in returning. So slow, in fact, that McFadden could miss two more games, NFL Network reports.

McFadden’s injury is probably hurting your fantasy team but it’s not necessarily hurting the Raiders right now.

Does this rule out a return in Week 12? Not yet. It’s still early in the week, but considering he hasn’t stepped foot on a field -- practice or otherwise -- in four and a half weeks, the odds that he’ll suddenly get right in the next four days don’t seem very encouraging.

McFadden continues to make progress from the mid-foot sprain that has kept him out of the Raiders’ last two games but has yet to resume practice or workouts.

Jackson refused to comment on how close McFadden was to returning this week but left the door open:

Initial reports after that Week 7 game suggested he could be ready for Week 9 but that obviously wasn’t the case. Now it’s looking like his total rehab time will be 2-4 weeks.

The Raiders are tied for first place in the AFC West with San Diego so Thursday’s game is a big one as far as the division race is concerned.

For getting a Raiders win Taiwan Jones could be quite solid. For fantasy purposes, not so much. Bush has proven to be one of the best backup running backs in the NFL and he will continue to benefit while McFadden is sidelined. The Chargers enter Thursday Night Football with a struggling run defense. The Raiders passing game has a few question marks at this point so they will want to exploit the run advantage where possible to try and swing the upset.

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Given that the Raiders have a short week before the Chargers game on Thursday Night Football, this is not a surprising development. Preliminary reports were indicating the injury could cost McFadden two to four weeks. At this point he is approaching the outer limit of that timetable.

In replacing McFadden two weeks ago, Bush rushed for 99 yards on 17 carries. He is one of the best backup running backs in the league and should put together a solid day against the Denver Broncos. The Raiders still have question marks about their passing attack, but Bush provides them with solid punch on the ground.

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For McFadden owners, the Raiders could release some information in the next couple days, but the odds are high that we don’t hear any hard confirmation until early next week when the team has to provide an injury report for week nine. In the meantime, if Michael Bush is on the waiver wire, he remains a strong handcuff for McFadden even if Run DMC is able to go in two weeks.

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The severity of McFadden’s injury is still unclear but the Raiders know that they cannot afford to lose him for any significant amount of time. But the location of the injury is said to be to his foot. We’ll update you as soon as we know more.

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