It’s fantasy football championship week, and there are myriad injuries to be navigated in the most important week of the fantasy season. To find out who’ll be playing and who won’t be, host Pat Fitzmaurice (@Fitz_FF) brings in Dr. Jene Bramel of Football Guys (@JeneBramel), who’s been doing first-rate injury analysis for years. 

Jene talks about some of the challenges COVID-19 has posed for both the NFL and for health-care professions this year. Then he dives into all the pressing injury news, with details on the status of James Robinson, Kenyan Drake, Raheem Mostert, Antonio Gibson, Christian McCaffrey, Julio Jones, Ronald Jones, Ezekiel Elliot, DeVante Parker, George Kittle and more. He also talks about whether Joe Burrow will be ready for the start of the 2021 season, whether we should be worried about the cumulative effect of Odell Beckham Jr.’s injuries, and whether we can confidently take Saquon Barkley in the first round of 2021 drafts. 

Jene and Pat discuss whether injury-proneness really exists in the NFL and which teams are the least forthcoming with injury information. Jene explains how he got into fantasy football, and how a Ben Roethlisberger motorcycle accident turned him into a Football Guys injury analyst. He also talks about his own championship prospects for this week and makes a compelling sales pitch for IDP leagues. 

Host: Pat Fitzmaurice (@Fitz_FF) 
Guest: Jene Bramel (@JeneBramel)                   
Podcast produced by Colm Kelly (@OvertimeIreland) 
In association with TheFootballGirl.com 
Music provided by International Jet Set

Fitz On Fantasy

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Fitz on Fantasy is THE podcast for obsessive fantasy football enthusiasts. Brought to you each week by Pat Fitzmaurice with a special guest from the fantasy football industry to discuss fantasy's hottest topics and dish out plenty of advice, with occasional forays into food, music, TV, and other real-world topics. Fitzmaurice has been sharing top notch fantasy tips since the '90s, when he was an editor at Pro Football Weekly. He was 2017's second-most accurate ranker in the FantasyPros accuracy competition. His work has appeared on 4for4 and SI.com and can currently be found at TheFootballGirl.com.  Thanks for listening, and don't forget to subscribe to make sure you don't miss a show. Follow Fitz on Twitter at @Fitz_FF.