Sep 26, 2026 · 34 min · 11 segments
Your fantasy week can swing on one word: “limited.” We break down the Friday injury reports and the sneaky details that actually predict who plays, who sits, and who’s at real risk of a setback. We…
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That'd be Puka Nacua, uh, and then we also have a Nico Collins as well that we'll get into.
So Puka, you know, obviously going into Monday Night Football, you didn't know whether or not he was gonna play.
Obviously, he was trending in the wrong direction on Sunday, didn't play on Monday, has not returned to a full practice, was seen on the sidelines today and the day before of kind of doing some sprints, um, doing some react, uh, reaction drills, trying to move a little better, which is a good sign.
But I will say that McVay said he's cautiously optimistic about him playing in week four.
We talked about on the show whether or not this is something that's leaning towards a sports hernia.
Sean McVay went out and said, "This is not a sports hernia," I'll, I'll say yet, um, "and this is not a long-term injury." So [coughs] the reason why we talked about sports hernia is just 'cause where he's having the pain, the groin and the hip, right? So when you think about sports hernia, it's either your lower abdomen or that gra- groin muscle that is torn.
And so these are like precursors to that, and so that's why I think they've, they're holding him out to be extra, extra cautious so they can have him for the long run part of the season.
Yeah, it just sounds like a very just tricky, problematic type of, you know, injury, like, uh, for him.
Um, and he was banged up going into that game, and then now he missed obviously the game against the Giants.
Um, but yeah, so it's not looking, not looking good, because if they're already talking about optimism for week four, um, you know, we would assume he's, he's out, uh, this week.
And, um, yeah, week four, and shoot, before that, before you know it, it could be week five.
And so I, I imagine, um, it's just one of these things that it's like hopefully just with a little extra rest and him not playing, um, for a few weeks, hopefully that just does him wonders.
That'd be Puka Nacua, uh, and then we also have a Nico Collins as well that we'll get into.
So Puka, you know, obviously going into Monday Night Football, you didn't know whether or not he was gonna play.
Obviously, he was trending in the wrong direction on Sunday, didn't play on Monday, has not returned to a full practice, was seen on the sidelines today and the day before of kind of doing some sprints, um, doing some react, uh, reaction drills, trying to move a little better, which is a good sign.
But I will say that McVay said he's cautiously optimistic about him playing in week four.
We talked about on the show whether or not this is something that's leaning towards a sports hernia.
Sean McVay went out and said, "This is not a sports hernia," I'll, I'll say yet, um, "and this is not a long-term injury." So [coughs] the reason why we talked about sports hernia is just 'cause where he's having the pain, the groin and the hip, right? So when you think about sports hernia, it's either your lower abdomen or that gra- groin muscle that is torn.
And so these are like precursors to that, and so that's why I think they've, they're holding him out to be extra, extra cautious so they can have him for the long run part of the season.
Yeah, it just sounds like a very just tricky, problematic type of, you know, injury, like, uh, for him.
Um, and he was banged up going into that game, and then now he missed obviously the game against the Giants.
Um, but yeah, so it's not looking, not looking good, because if they're already talking about optimism for week four, um, you know, we would assume he's, he's out, uh, this week.
And, um, yeah, week four, and shoot, before that, before you know it, it could be week five.
And so I, I imagine, um, it's just one of these things that it's like hopefully just with a little extra rest and him not playing, um, for a few weeks, hopefully that just does him wonders.
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