Ahmad Bradshaw Not Practicing, But Expects To Play Week 13 Against Packers

The Green Bay run defense is only middle of the road in the NFL, so a healthy Bradshaw could go a long way towards the Giants pulling off an upset.

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The New York Giants ruled out running back Ahmad Bradshaw for their week 10 game against the San Francisco 49ers, according to Mike Garafolo of the Newark Star-Ledger who first reported the news last night. The Giants made it official today. Bradshaw has a stress fracture in his foot. He missed last week’s game against the Patriots.

Brandon Jacobs will again carry most of the Giants’ rushing load this week. Last week against the Patriots, Jacobs carried the ball 18 times for 72 yards and a touchdown.

Bradshaw has been dealing with a cracked bone in his foot and implications of the injury have been across the board from out indefinitely to no big deal. He could potentially get surgery on the foot but has held off the decision for now. If he has surgery, the absence would be further extended to an indefinite time frame.

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At this point, the best advice I can give is if you have Ahmad Bradshaw, but no Brandon Jacobs, D.J. Ware is worth grabbing if it won’t require releasing anybody significant. Even if Bradshaw can’t go on Sunday, the odds are in favor of Brandon Jacobs getting most of the carries. That is no guarantee, but unless you are sitting with only one running back in your starting lineup, Ware is not a good starting option this week.

If you have Brandon Jacobs on your roster, he might be a good start no matter what. The Giants are a 4:15pm ET game, which means you might be forced to make a decision early in the day depending on start times for your running backs and flex position. If you have to make the decision before the 1:00pm ET games and don’t have other decent options, start Brandon Jacobs. He will get a decent number of carries no matter what, and it would not be surprising to see Bradshaw start but eventually give way to Jacobs.

Giants head coach said on Thursday that Bradshaw would see a foot specialist but he wasn’t sure whether surgery was needed. Surgery would make him miss a significant amount of time, maybe even the entire season.

The Giants play in New England on Sunday so we may not know until the inactives come out on that whether Bradshaw is available. He didn’t practice on Wednesday.

If Bradshaw decides on some kind of corrective surgery on his foot, he would miss even more time. If that were the case, the Giants would need to re-assess their running back strategy moving forward. When all backs are healthy, Bradshaw is the primary back, but Jacobs gets upwards of ten carries a game. If Bradshaw is out, it will be interesting to see if Ware or Scott emerges as a viable fantasy option. Jacobs will be the primary fantasy option, but that could change depending on the Giants strategy.

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Now the Newark Star-Ledger is reporting that Bradshaw suffered a cracked bone in his foot, an injury that will sideline him indefinitely. Those are about the only details we have right now and his status for Sunday is up in the air.

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Bradshaw stated after the game that the injury was an aggravation of a preexisting issue. If that’s the case, this will be an injury you will want to keep an eye on as the season moves along. It would not surprise me if Bradshaw was fairly limited in practice this week while he heals that injury. He finished the game with the injury so I don’t expect him to be a problem next week, but you will want to keep an eye on this through the week.

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Bradshaw got his foot taped and returned to the game. He finished with 13 carries for 50 yards in the Giants 20-17 victory against winless Miami.

After the game, Bradshaw said that his foot is “just sore right now.” (via New York Daily News’ Ebenezer Samuel)

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