Fantasy football: Expect Colts Trey Sermon to cook in place of injured Jonathan Taylor
Well, Cam Akers could be a thing again this week.And boy, are we tired of trying to pretend Cam Akers is fantasy relevant.
If this were happening within the movie “Mean Girls,” somebody would be telling Gretchen to stop trying to make Cam Akers happen.Nevertheless, Joe Mixon is expected to be sidelined with an ankle injury, and backup Dameon Pierce could be out with or limited by a hamstring problem.So here comes Cam Akers, again.He has gotten chance after chance after chance, and he has thoroughly disappointed pretty much every time.
We tired of trying to make Cam Akers happen on our fantasy rosters, with no success.No more!We bring this up because we’re a tad worried the guy we’re about to talk about could turn into the next Cam Akers.
He has some opportunity in the past but hasn’t done great.But because it is a small sample size, and because we expect a healthy volume of work this week, we are going to give Trey Sermon the chance to prove he isn’t as aggressively mediocre as Akers.In the past, Sermon has been the presumed handcuff to Elijah Mitchell then Christian McCaffrey in San Francisco.
But he was not impressive in limited action.He landed in Indianapolis last season, where he played behind Jonathan Taylor and Zack Moss, and again, got limited reps with no highlight reel material.Now, Moss is no longer there, and Taylor will be out Sunday with a high ankle sprain.And Sermon is the guy waiting to take his place.When Taylor was out to begin last season, it was Moss who inherited the feature workload, and he excelled.
Moss finished as a top-10 running back in four of the first five weeks — scoring better than 20 in PPR three of those games.Moss is a fine player, but he isn’t otherworldly.It isn’t like he sets a standard too high for Sermon to reach.
Sermon doesn’t have to be as good, he just needs to be better than Cam Akers.And Sermon has a couple of things going for him.First, quarterback Anthony Richardson could be out, too.
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