Aug 11, 2026 · 47 min · 9 segments
The hardest part of fantasy football isn’t finding upside. It’s knowing when “comeback season” is real and when it’s just a roster trap. We put five high-profile injury returns under a rehab lens and…
Evan JeffriesHostEric B. MackHost
So I wanted to get into Christian Watson, right? So he tore his ACL in January of 2025, and was ma- able to make it all the way back in October, uh, for last season's, uh, Packers season.
And he played, uh, about 10 games, and he had a relatively decent, um, 10 games.
Now, he's been a, a Packer for four years, uh, he's had many difficult times trying to stay healthy.
Um, he had both sides, and then I remember going into that season where he tore his ACL, they were talking about the asym- symmetry of his hamstrings, and that one side was so much weaker.
Mm.
Yep, what is the hamstring? It's the second protector of the ACL, or m- the main protector of the ACL.
Yeah.
But I think this will be his first season being healthy, really, kinda in the off-season and coming into it ready to go.
Uh, with his, you know, hamstring, uh, injury [laughs] about, uh, the ACL there.
So that, that's kind of, uh, a reminder of that.
But yeah, I mean, I think, uh, some, like obviously we're gonna talk about a few guys, and last show, uh, we talked about some guys like, uh, as well coming off injury.
And so I think with, with Watson in particular, he's obviously, um, like on a, during...
He's in his second year a- after injury, and it, and it kind of like, obviously don't have like all the data in front of me, but it feels like when a player comes back, uh, from this kind of injury, um, it's not so much like is the player back.
Uh, it's also like how effective they are.
And it seems like usually like in year two of like a, a Achilles tear, or in, in this case ACL, uh, you really get like the best, um, out of the player.
So I wanted to get into Christian Watson, right? So he tore his ACL in January of 2025, and was ma- able to make it all the way back in October, uh, for last season's, uh, Packers season.
And he played, uh, about 10 games, and he had a relatively decent, um, 10 games.
Now, he's been a, a Packer for four years, uh, he's had many difficult times trying to stay healthy.
Um, he had both sides, and then I remember going into that season where he tore his ACL, they were talking about the asym- symmetry of his hamstrings, and that one side was so much weaker.
Mm.
Yep, what is the hamstring? It's the second protector of the ACL, or m- the main protector of the ACL.
Yeah.
But I think this will be his first season being healthy, really, kinda in the off-season and coming into it ready to go.
Uh, with his, you know, hamstring, uh, injury [laughs] about, uh, the ACL there.
So that, that's kind of, uh, a reminder of that.
But yeah, I mean, I think, uh, some, like obviously we're gonna talk about a few guys, and last show, uh, we talked about some guys like, uh, as well coming off injury.
And so I think with, with Watson in particular, he's obviously, um, like on a, during...
He's in his second year a- after injury, and it, and it kind of like, obviously don't have like all the data in front of me, but it feels like when a player comes back, uh, from this kind of injury, um, it's not so much like is the player back.
Uh, it's also like how effective they are.
And it seems like usually like in year two of like a, a Achilles tear, or in, in this case ACL, uh, you really get like the best, um, out of the player.
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