Calvin Ridley: limited Wednesday with hip injury
3 days ago
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THE FACT. Titans receiver Calvin Ridley practiced on a limited basis Wednesday with a hip injury, according to Tennessee's official Week 8 injury report and CBS Sports' Garrett Podell. The Titans play Cincinnati on Sunday.
THE VERDICT. Redraft: a hip issue is the kind of thing that quietly shaves route volume and deep targets off a vertical receiver's profile, which is exactly where Ridley makes his money. Start him in deeper leagues where you have no better option, but get Friday's designation first. DFS: fade. Dynasty: nothing here changes his value.
The hip is the least interesting part of this one for me. Ridley has 10 targets in six games, five catches, 81 yards, zero scores, and he already sat out Week 7 with this thing. A Friday upgrade doesn't fix any of that. Twenty years of doing this and the pattern never changes: when a vertical guy's role has already shrunk to a look or two a game, getting healthy just means he's healthy and still invisible. I'm sitting him everywhere, deep leagues included, and using the spot on someone with an actual target floor.