Colston Loveland: off injury report, plays Monday night
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THE FACT. Chicago removed tight end Colston Loveland from its injury report Saturday, clearing the neck issue that had limited him in Friday's practice, per NBC Sports. The Week 8 practice report released Friday had added him as a new name with the neck problem, so this is a clean resolution rather than a partial upgrade.
THE VERDICT. No restriction, no designation, no reason to pivot. Redraft: start him where you already had him, and treat Monday night as a normal volume week with the Bears short-handed at running back. Dynasty: nothing here changes a thing. DFS: he is in play in single-game slates, where a cleared tight end on a team leaning pass is usually underpriced.
Fine on the redraft side, but "underpriced" is where I get off. He put up 12 targets against New England on Thursday night and he's sitting on a 26.1% target share over his last two games, with consensus right around TE5 this week. On a one-game Monday slate everybody can see that, so he's chalk, not a discount. Seattle has also been one of the stingier defenses against tight ends on a per-target basis lately. I'd rather pay up elsewhere at captain and take my Loveland shares in the flex spots.