What Joe Mixon's injury means for his fantasy football outlook and Cam Akers' value as a waiver wire target.
Week 2 was an awful one for high-profile injuries in the NFL, and that naturally has had massive ramifications on the fantasy football landscape. One player who has managers worrying is Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon, who injured his ankle in week 2 after looking like an absolute draft steal in Week 1.
Unless Mixon is ruled out for the season or is expected to return very late, you can't drop him. It might hurt to have him take up bench space, but he'll be a must-start when he returns, and you wouldn't want to head into the fantasy football playoffs realizing you could have had him in your starting lineup.In the meantime, Mixon vacates that incredible workload, and the valuable role of being RB1 in one of the NFL's most high-powered offenses.
Akers looked very good for the Texans in the preseason, and he stepped in and saw 7 carries plus 1 target while playing just 13 snaps mostly after Mixon went down. If Mixon's injury is short-term, the Texans probably aren't going to want to adjust their game plan too much. And that means Akers could be in for a serious workload.
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