Your Sunday 24-Hour News Roundup 🗞️

All of the most important fantasy news over the last 24 hours – all in one place.

• Raiders WR Davante Adams goes down with injury on Friday, appears to be minor

  • The injury doesn’t appear to be serious or likely to threaten Davante’s status for Week 1, but it’s always unnerving when one of the top fantasy players goes down. Josh McDaniels decided to refer to Adams’ injury as not “crazy serious”, which doesn’t necessarily inspire reassurance, but until any more information is available, fantasy managers can move forward with planning and drafting Adams as usual.

• Free Agent RB Kareem Hunt continues tour, visits Vikings

  • Minnesota checks in as Hunt’s third destination in the past week, with perhaps the most obvious role being available there of any of the teams he’s visited so far. In New Orleans, Hunt would be nothing but a rotational back; in Indianapolis, he might be able to compete with Jonathan Taylor for a pass catching role; but in Minnesota, there’s a chance Hunt could become the RB1B to Alexander Mattison’s RB1A. A signing by Hunt with the Vikings would certainly shake up the backfield, but the Vikings are still going to be a pass first offense. Any value Hunt would hypothetically provide if he signed in Minnesota would come in the passing game – but there’s no guarantee that he’d be able to establish himself a role to challenge Mattison on a consistent basis.

• Raiders sign RB Damien Williams ahead of 2023 regular season

  • The signing is not as significant regarding Williams as it is as a gauge of Josh Jacobs’ status – which, evidently, is not looking any better than it did a few weeks ago. The Raiders bringing in Williams indicates that Josh Jacobs could really hold out into the regular season, which means that another Raiders running back will be seeing a solid workload at least to start 2023. Zamir White appears to be the favorite to land that role, but Williams could challenge White along with Ameer Abdullah and Brandon Bolden to form a committee in the Las Vegas backfield. Without Jacobs, the offense figures to be worse off than it would be with him in the lineup, and no RB on the Raiders’ roster currently would come close to being a 1:1 replacement to Jacobs if the season started today.