LeSean McCoy’s minor knee injury from Week 15 may not be so minor after all.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter has the news:
Bills RB Leseasn McCoy tore his MCL and is considered week to week for final two weeks, per league source. More testing scheduled for today.
With McCoy extremely unlikely to suit up for Week 16, which is the fantasy championship in a majority of leagues, Karlos Williams and Mike Gillislee immediately enter (or re-enter in Williams’ case) the fantasy radar.
Gillislee is an intriguing option, as the third-year player out of Florida has exploded for 146 yards and two touchdowns on just 14 carries (10.4 YPA) in the last three weeks, including a 60-yard touchdown run on Sunday:
Mike Gillislee breaks out for the 60 Yard #Bills #touchdown!
After McCoy was injured in Week 15, Gillislee out-touched Williams, 6-4. However, Williams, who was playing in his first game back from a hamstring injury, was the clear workhorse in McCoy’s stead earlier in the season, and the belief is that he’ll take over the majority of snaps next week:
Williams, who was a legitimate RB1 when he was starting for McCoy, has to be the top waiver-wire add this week.
As for Gillislee, he has shown enough in the last couple of weeks that suggests the Bills will give him some work. He’s still likely to be almost impossible to trust in a fantasy championship, but his talent makes it worth throwing him on the end of your bench and seeing how this week’s practices play out. He’s worth an add if Williams (31 percent owned in Yahoo! leagues) isn’t available.