Doctor The Chuckman's Injured Reserve-ations for Two

This month’s mailbag request: Dear Pigskin Blognosticator, With the recent rash of injuries to fantasy stalwarts, sneaky-sleepers, and obscure hopefuls alike, could you please shed some small ray of hope and enlightenment, even a single beam of your blinding magnificent radiance upon the barren wasteland that is the Injured Reserve handcuff dart in the dark situation? - Your obedient servant, Steven Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA. Dear Steven, The Chuckman, DFFS (Doctor of Fantasy Football Science) is more than happy to enrich your mind with my stupendous knowledge of such matters. Teddy Bridge over troubled Waters – Unless you owned “The Bear” this injury is kind of a non-factor. Shaun Hill is the backup and every bit as capable and celebrated in not-completing passes to his intended receivers as Bridgewaters of Madison County. If your fantasy draft was built around anyone who should have been receiving the ball (through the air) from H2O your season was lost before this injury already anyways. Tony wherever I may Romo – Now this is a situation worthy of noting. Not because it means you shouldn’t draft any of his skill positions around him, but rather because they can be had at a fraction of their original cost and have an even BETTER QB in Dak (You’ll be im)Preskott! Dak has a little something I like to tall ITNESS!!! What IS itness you ask? Well, it’s hard to define, but if you looked up itness in the dictionary it would have a picture of Dak: cid:1C1A7D38-B464-4F06-BFC5-1F99FEDF74EC v.: 1. The state or quality of being THIS GUY!!! Bruce Swellington – The poor kid can’t stay healthy. Already shelved for the year due to a hammy, the one time breakout candidate now leaves a huge gap in a starting lineup that should be a statistical goldmine in the Chip Kelly up-temp offense with a QB who can’t throw further than the slot received. So who is the big winner and player to nab to benefit your football team in the wake of this young man’s misfortune?! …whatever defense is playing against them any given week is the sad answer. :p Until next month, may luck be with you (and not the training staff.) ~The Pigskin Blognosticator