Jalen McMillan Trending Toward Return This Week
Tampa Bay Buccaneers second-year huge receiver Jalen McMillan (neck) was one among a handful of gamers, together with Mike Evans and Tristan Wirfs, that head coach Todd Bowles instructed reporters are in play for Thursday evening’s divisional sport in opposition to the Falcons. Nonetheless on IR, McMillan returned to observe final week and was capable of log a slate of restricted participations after struggling a number of fractures in his neck in addition to extra ligament injury in a gruesome-looking preseason harm. As a rookie in 2024, McMillan got here on robust down the stretch and was a key piece to many fantasy championships. Anticipating him to do the identical this 12 months is unreasonable, as he’ll possible slot in because the crew’s WR4/5 upon his return, however with the Buccaneers combating for a playoff spot, he might be an affordable DFS play who has already demonstrated large landing upside, coming down with seven landing grabs in his remaining 5 video games final 12 months.
Supply: Rick Stroud