NFL Injury Report 2024 - Fantasy Football Week 2: Lamar Jackson, Puka Nacua
We head into Monday Night Football with multiple significant fantasy football injuries from Week 1.
Some of these injuries are minor, but there are elite names such as Josh Allen, Jordan Love and Puka Nacua dealing with ailments that we’re going to have to monitor in the NFL injury report for Week 2 and moving forward.
NFL Injury Report For Week 2: Fantasy Football Injuries
Let's dive into the fantasy football injuries highlighted in the NFL injury report for Week 2.
We'll examine which important players are facing injuries, how these challenges could influence their performance, and what changes you might need to consider for your fantasy lineup.
NFL Week 2 Injury Report: Quarterbacks
Josh Allen Injury Update - Hand
We weren’t aware of any sort of hand injury coming out of Sunday’s victory in which Allen totaled four touchdowns, but head coach Sean McDermott said there’s an injury there that’s been looked at, he’s been cleared of, and he’ll play on Thursday.
Lamar Jackson Injury Update - TBD
We have no idea what to make of Lamar Jackson’s absence from Monday’s practice, so we’ll leave it at a TBD until Wednesday. Why Wednesday, you ask? Head coach John Harbaugh told reporters that’s when the injury report comes out. This is one of the biggest fantasy football injuries we’re going to need to track throughout the week.
Jordan Love Injury Update - Knee
On Monday, NFL insider Adam Schefter appeared on the Pat McAfee show and said he believes Jordan Love will miss 3-to-4 games due to a sprained MCL. After watching the play that Love was rolled up on, this is the best-case scenario.
NFL Week 2 Injury Report: Running Backs
Kenneth Walker Injury Update - Abdomen
At the end of the Seahawks’ Week 1 victory against the Broncos, Kenneth Walker was not on the field due to an abdomen injury. After the game, Walker was asked about it and he said, “I’m good.” It’s definitely a situation to monitor throughout the week, though.
NFL Week 2 Injury Report: Wide Receivers
Puka Nacua Injury Update - Knee
The lack of news surrounding Puka Nacua’s knee injury during the offseason was always strange. In the first half of the first game, Nacua re-aggravated the same knee. According to Adam Schefter, tests are still being done, and at this time, he’s considered week-to-week.
*UPDATE: The Rams have placed Nacua on injured reserve with a sprained right PCL.
Jordan Addison Injury Update - Ankle
It was definitely concerning to see Addison ruled out of their Week 1 game with an ankle injury after he’d been dealing with the same injury all preseason. Head coach Kevin O’Connell spoke with the media on Monday suggesting it’s significant soreness. Still, he hopes he’ll be available to play in Week 2, which implies it’s not a serious injury.
Rome Odunze Injury Update - Knee
At some point during the Bears' Week 1 win against the Titans, Rome Odunze injured his knee and head coach Matt Eberflus said he’s getting an MRI on it, and we’ll know more when Wednesday’s injury report comes out. Listen to Eberflus here:
NFL Week 2 Injury Report: Tight Ends
David Njoku Injury Update - Ankle
Per Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, David Njoku has suffered a high-ankle sprain and that is an injury that typically has a 4-to-6-week recovery timeline. It’s unlikely we’ll be plugging Njoku into our lineups until at least Week 5. Damn fantasy football injuries!
Jake Ferguson Injury Update - Knee
Jake Ferguson has been diagnosed with a sprained MCL and a bone bruise but still has a chance to play in the Cowboys home opener in Week 2. Head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters he’s going to work with the return to practice group on Wednesday.
Player News
Packers signed WR Bo Melton, RB Emanuel Wilson, and P Daniel Whelan to their exclusive rights free agent tenders.
Melton caught on with the Packers in 2023, totaling 16 receptions for 218 yards and a touchdown in five games. He added eight receptions for 91 yards in 17 games last season. Melton will continue to be a depth piece in an already-deep Packers wide receiver room. Wilson has also been with the Packers for two seasons and rushed for 502 yards and four touchdowns as Josh Jacobs’ immediate backup last season. He will compete with MarShawn Lloyd for that role again. Whelan is the team’s punter and will be back for 2025. All three signed their exclusive rights free agent tender and will essentially be on one-year contracts this season.
Seahawks re-signed Johnathan Hankins to a one-year contract.
Hankins hasn’t had a PFF run defense grade above 52.4 since 2020 and is primarily called on to play early downs. He turned 33 in March. He’ll be a complimentary piece behind Jarran Reed and Byron Murphy II if he makes the roster out of training camp.
Chargers placed the UFA tender on RB J.K. Dobbins.
This gives the Chargers exclusive negotiating rights if he does not sign with a team by July 22 or the first 2025 NFL training camp opens, whichever comes first. The tag is mainly useful for compensatory pick reasons as Dobbins will still count towards Los Angeles’ haul in the formula if signed before then. The Chargers currently do not project to add a pick in 2026 per Over The Cap’s Nick Korte.
49ers signed OT D.J. Humphries.
Humphries played in only two games for the Chiefs last year as he spent most of the season rehabbing a late 2023 torn ACL on his own. He wasn’t appreciably good in either of those games, but he was rusty and does have a history of better than that. Entering his age-32 season for the 49ers, he’ll probably be trying to win the right tackle job opposite Trent Williams in training camp.
Patriots released LS Joe Cardona.
The team selected his replacement, Julian Ashby, in the seventh round of the draft. This snapper of balls who are longer than usual is only 33, and it’s possible he picks up his career elsewhere. There aren’t too many remaining Patriots Regimes in the wild in 2025, but Nick Caserio does still run the Texans and they let Jon Weeks walk this offseason so that’s one speculative fit.
NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill said he would be “flabbergasted” if Derek Carr played for the Saints this year.
“I would have trouble understanding why you would allow that to happen, you’re trying to build a new culture, you can’t let that guy ... you just got a rookie QB, this is the example you’re going to give him,” Underhill continued. Both Underhill and Mike Triplett believe Tyler Shough will be starting for the Saints in Week 1, with Underhill saying he had “80 percent or higher odds to start 80 percent of the games this year.” Shough would be an uninspiring superflex pick, perhaps a QB3, but given how things have played out with Carr over the past months it sure doesn’t seem like the Saints have a reason to want to continue this relationship. Mickey Loomis literally asked reporters to stop asking him Carr questions at his pre-draft press conference.