injuryLamar Jackson likely out for the season
Jackson suffered a right thumb injury on his first offensive snap back from a 3-game ankle absence in Sunday's 36-10 loss at Buffalo, hit by pass rusher Greg Rousseau. Coach Jesse Minter confirmed Jackson needs surgery and will go on IR, sidelining him at least 4 games; NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Monday that Jackson is "likely out for the season." Backup Tyler Huntley was limited at Monday's walkthrough with his own ankle/toe injury, and the Ravens released Cooper Rush and signed Kedon Slovis off Green Bay's practice squad as a QB option for Thursday's game at Jacksonville, alongside undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano.
Fantasy take
Tyler Huntley carries only 67 pass attempts and 24 carries of 2025 game action behind Jackson, and he was limited at Tuesday's walkthrough with his own ankle/toe issue — so the Ravens could be down to Kedon Slovis or Joe Fagnano, both with zero NFL regular-season snaps, for Thursday's short-week trip to Jacksonville. Derrick Henry's workload (307 carries, 1,595 yards this season) gives Baltimore a run-first fallback regardless of who's throwing, but Zay Flowers' target share (29%, 118 targets) was built opposite a healthy Jackson, not a backup under center on four days' rest.
Trade deadline market: Taylor talks heat up, Barkley and Wilson stay put
With the Nov. 10, 4 p.m. ET deadline a week out, the Colts are now described as "open to trading" Jonathan Taylor, with Denver, Green Bay, Minnesota and the Giants among teams that have reached out; Taylor says he hasn't requested a trade. The Eagles and Jets both shut down speculation on their own stars — Philadelphia says Saquon Barkley will not be traded, and a source told ESPN there's "no way" the Jets trade Garrett Wilson, who signed a 4-year, $130M extension through 2030 last summer. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said he wants to keep Khalil Mack despite the 0-7 team's rebuild questions: "I want Khalil Mack here. Khalil Mack wants to be here." Other receivers still floated per ESPN's Adam Schefter: Jacksonville's Brian Thomas Jr., Indianapolis' Josh Downs, Minnesota's Jauan Jennings, Cleveland's Jerry Jeudy, and Tennessee's Calvin Ridley.
Fantasy take
Behind Taylor, the Colts have DJ Giddens and Ulysses Bentley IV, with no proven lead-back replacement on the roster — a trade would hand the league's leading rusher from 2025 (324 carries, 18 TDs) to a run-scheme offense that leaned on him for roughly 80% of its offensive snaps. Broncos entering the conversation alongside the Packers, Vikings, and Giants widens the market from three teams to four. The Eagles' and Jets' denials on Barkley and Wilson remove two of the week's most-rumored names from circulation, while Harbaugh's comments on Mack signal the Chargers aren't using the deadline to start a rebuild around him. Ridley's addition to Schefter's list puts a fifth skill player into the rumor mix without any team attached yet.
Cardinals bench Brissett for Minshew, lose Bourne for the season
Arizona named Gardner Minshew starting QB after he came off the bench to lead a 14-point, four-touchdown-drive comeback in Sunday's 33-30 OT win over Dallas, throwing for 188 yards and 3 TDs; Jacoby Brissett (10-for-23, 119 yards, sacked 4 times before being pulled) moves to third string behind rookie Carson Beck. The same game cost Arizona WR Kendrick Bourne his season — ESPN's Adam Schefter reported a fractured tibia that doesn't need surgery but ends his year at 26 catches for 263 yards in 8 games — and left RB Jeremiyah Love with a new ankle injury coach Mike LaFleur described as "not the left ankle or the right ankle, it's a new portion of the ankle."
Fantasy take
Minshew's one previous full season as a starter came in 2023 with Indianapolis (3,305 yards, 15 TDs, 9 INTs over 17 games), and he's rushed for 681 yards and 5 touchdowns across his career, giving Arizona a mobility element at quarterback that Brissett didn't provide. Bourne's exit removes a rotational receiver from a room now down to Marvin Harrison Jr., Michael Wilson, Devin Duvernay, and Xavier Weaver, with no clear replacement for his snaps specified yet. Love's new ankle injury follows a high-ankle sprain that already created uncertainty around his availability earlier this season, and Tyler Allgeier — who fits Mike LaFleur's outside-zone scheme and has gotten first crack at goal-line work in this offense before — is positioned to pick up carries if Love sits.
Jack Campbell 'improving' in hospital after neck injury
Lions LB Jack Campbell remained hospitalized Tuesday following the neck injury he suffered making a tackle against Minnesota on Sunday — he went limp on the field, was carted off on a backboard, and was kept overnight for a second night. Head coach Dan Campbell said Tuesday on 97.1 The Ticket that Campbell "is improving," without giving further medical detail; the team's statement says "preliminary indications are positive."
Fantasy take
Campbell remains hospitalized as of Tuesday, with Dan Campbell saying on 97.1 The Ticket that he "is improving." No fantasy relevance at linebacker; this is a human update on a serious injury, not a roster or usage development.
A.J. Brown's Week 9 status still unclear; Mack Hollins could return
Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said Monday "we'll see how he progresses through the week" on A.J. Brown, who's missed five of eight games this season between a Week 1 high ankle sprain and the knee issue that kept him out of Sunday's win over Miami. Vrabel also said WR Mack Hollins — on IR since Oct. 10 after leading the team in receiving yards over the first four weeks (15 catches, 209 yards) — could "potentially" be activated this week.
Fantasy take
Brown has played two full games since returning from the Week 1 ankle injury — 102 of 103 offensive snaps across Weeks 6 and 7 — for 6 catches, 75 yards on 9 targets, trailing both Hunter Henry and Rhamondre Stevenson in the target hierarchy in the second of those outings. Hollins' activation question concerns a role that, across his four full games this season, included a 76% snap share and a team-high 9 targets in Week 3, a jump from the complementary role he's held behind Doubs and Boutte since Brown returned.
Swift's 3 TDs power Bears past Seahawks on Monday night
D'Andre Swift ran 27 times for 69 yards and 3 second-half touchdowns — all in the final two quarters, two in the 4th as Seattle threatened a comeback — in Chicago's 34-17 win, pushing his NFL-leading total to 10 rushing TDs. Caleb Williams went 24-for-34 for 247 yards and a TD. For Seattle, Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught 6 of 11 targets for 118 yards and a TD (a 43-yarder before halftime), his seventh 100-yard game in 8 games this season, putting him at 985 receiving yards. Newly acquired DT Jeffery Simmons recorded 6 tackles, a sack, 2 TFL and a pass defensed in his Bears debut, four days after Chicago traded two first-round picks for him.
Fantasy take
Swift's 27 carries sit well above his timeshare with Kyle Monangai, who played Swift to a near-even snap split over the back half of 2025. All three touchdowns landed in the second half, two in the fourth, with Chicago already up and running the clock — not a sign his early-down role changed. Smith-Njigba's 118 yards and the 43-yard score track with where he's been all season: his target share has run near a third of Seattle's throws, and Monday was that same volume showing up again.
Trade deadline is Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. ET — one week out.
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