The Green Bay Packers will host the Baltimore Ravens in Week 17. Here’s the latest fantasy football news and advice to help you with your lineups this week and moving forward, specifically regarding RB Josh Jacobs.
Is Josh Jacobs Playing in Week 17?
Jacobs (knee/ankle) is listed as questionable for Saturday’s game in Chicago, Wes Hodkiewicz of the Packers’ official site reports.
We’ll continue to monitor the Packers’ injury report leading up to kickoff for any changes. You can also visit and bookmark our Fantasy News Tracker for the latest updates.
Should You Start or Sit Jacobs in Week 17?
And this, friends, is why the NFL is a game for gladiators.
Josh Jacobs was on crutches during the work week and signed up for having 11 grown athletes chase him around the field on Saturday. I slept funny on Monday and was wondering aloud if I’d have to pull out of playing HORSE with my nephew on New Year’s Eve.
There are levels to this, and NFL players are unique behind comprehension. We’ve become so immune to superhuman recoveries that defy logic that when something like the Jacobs situation happens, we are taken aback.
- Quarter 1: 52.9% snap share
- Quarter 2: 31.8% snap share
- Quarter 3: 60% snap share
- Quarter 4 and Overtime: 12.5% snap share
When an extended rest was possible, Jacobs was trying to give it a go, but his health simply wasn’t sustainable, and that shouldn’t be viewed as a surprise.
Again, he opened the week on crutches.
So yeah, you can complain about his 14 touches netting just 4.8 PPR points for you, but if you think about the facts we had entering the game, you were the one that elected to click him in with the risk known.
It doesn’t sound as if he did any additional damage to his bulky knee, and with Green Bay battling for that final playoff spot, I think it’s more likely than not that we see him suit up again on Saturday night.
Emanuel Wilson is a must roster at this point because we simply don’t know. Could the Pack rest Jacobs this weekend with the hope that he’s close to healthy for Week 18 and (hopefully) a playoff game or two?
At the end of the day, I think you’re playing Jacobs if we think he can handle 15+ touches. This run game worked last week (Wilson ran for 82 yards on 14 carries, and that was without his average being inflated by a single attempt), and with potential chaos/limitations at the QB position, I’d expect this offense to function through the handoff.
I currently have Jacobs as in and handling 15-17 touches. That’s obviously not the 20+ that we were getting through the first two months, but he is averaging a career-high 0.90 PPR points per touch this season, and that would be enough to get us home, even at lesser usage.
Are you looking for start/sit advice for other players in your lineup? Read our Fantasy Football Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em Cheat Sheet.
Jacobs’ Fantasy Points Projection in Week 17
Jacobs is projected to score 14.7 fantasy points in PPR formats.
We project Jacobs to rush for 66 yards and 0.6 rushing touchdowns, while adding 3 receptions for 20 receiving yards.
Check out the free PFSN Fantasy Start-Sit Optimizer for the latest projections and advice for your lineups this week.
Week 17 Weather Impact: Ravens at Packers
The forecast for kickoff is 32 degrees Fahrenheit with 7 mph winds. These are ideal conditions for fantasy production.
This article is dated after he was removed from the injury report but still says he is listed as questionable. That’s not true. It also says the game is in Chicago?
Did you write this based on last weeks injury report or is the ai you used to write it as bad as the quality of this article?
Not gonna take you seriously if you don’t even know what city the game is in