Bears Matt Forte could benefit Chester Taylor

Jul 12, 2010

How will sharing the workload with Chester Taylor benefit Matt Forte?

Tim Spencer: We certainly hope that it improves everything. One of the things that I was looking for last year was for him to improve his yards per carry and his yards per catch. I think that will improve this year because he’ll be fresh. He won’t have to take the entire load. He can share it. I think it will be good for our team and good for him.

Chester will do well and they can kind of feed off each other. We have a good scheme, and I think it’s going to be a good year. If we can keep everybody healthy, I think that we can do some of the things that we thought we would do last year.

Fantasy Impact:

It will remain to be seen how the workload is split up among Forte and Taylor. It seems as though, right now anyway, Forte may be in line for more work if they expect his yards per catch and yards per carry to increase. Forte has fallen to 22nd in 4for4's rankings this year. Last year he was projected to be a top-five back.

yesterday

Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson officially Out for Week 12

Adam Schefter

yesterday · 4:12 PM EST

Cowboys list TE Jake Ferguson as out for Sunday’s game vs. Washington due to his concussion.

Related Players: Luke Schoonmaker

Fantasy Impact:

This puts Schoonmaker more or less in TE streaming consideration, but there are far better options this week, which puts him low on the totem pole.

Eagles WR DeVonta Smith officially Out for Week 12

Mike Garafolo

yesterday · 4:04 PM EST

Eagles ruled out WR DeVonta Smith (hamstring) for Sunday against the Rams.

Related Players: A.J. Brown, Jahan Dotson, Johnny Wilson, Dallas Goedert

Fantasy Impact:

It's a bit of a crapshoot as to who the "WR2" on the offense will be, but now that he's ruled out, Brown and Goedert should get a nice boost to their bottom line. That would lock Goedert into a no-doubt TE1 role in Week 12.