Week 3 Health Check: Saturday Final Statuses and the Weekend Pivot Board

Immediate Decision Board

Receiver Decisions: Confirmed Absence Versus Uncertain Workload

Puka Nacua: Doubtful remains the official designation. Sit in planning and hold; use IR only if eligible. The Nacua-out, Colby Parkinson-active case projects Davante Adams at WR3 / 17.49 points and Terrance Ferguson at TE13 / 7.86 points. Parkinson is questionable; complete active/out branches are retained. An official Nacua upgrade and a normal-workload report would reopen his start case.

Nico Collins: Inactive. Sit and hold. The rebuilt Houston allocation gives Dalton Schultz 9.8 targets and 13.62 points (TE2); Jaylin Noel and Kayshon Boutte remain deeper receiver options. This is projected distribution, not automatic target inheritance.

Zay Flowers: Questionable. The selected if-active estimate is WR58 at 6.38 points with a limited route assumption. Prefer a healthy established receiver; monitor late inactives and restrictions. Full-role and out alternatives are modeled. Rashod Bateman gains if Flowers sits, but a rostered healthy option may still project better.

Additional receiver warnings: Michael Pittman Jr., DJ Moore, Keon Coleman and Jalen Coker are active for early games. Adonai Mitchell and Xavier Legette are inactive; sit them. Mike Evans, Marvin Mims Jr. and other later questionable players still require their own inactive checks. Andrei Iosivas and Caleb Douglas remain unavailable.

Running Backs: Clearance Does Not Grant Every Role

Pittsburgh: Jaylen Warren and Michael Pittman Jr. are active. Rico Dowdle and Eli Heidenreich are inactive. Warren projects 17.54 points (RB8); start where that fits your roster. His carries, receiving and scoring roles are modeled separately; active does not guarantee every backfield touch.

Tennessee: Tony Pollard has no game designation; Tyjae Spears is active after a questionable designation. Pollard is usable when he fits your lineup. Nicholas Singleton remains a contingency stash, not a confirmed lead back. A Spears absence can create work without assigning all receiving or goal-line opportunities to one player. The selected active Spears branch is included in the verified board.

Minnesota: Aaron Jones Sr. practiced fully Friday and has no game designation. Start where roster fit warrants; Demond Claiborne and DeeJay Dallas remain contingency holds rather than injury-driven automatic starts. Jordan Mason remains an IR hold where eligible. Travis Etienne Jr. also practiced fully without a game designation for New Orleans.

Denver: Jonah Coleman is out. His Week 3 play probability and expected points are zero, so RB44 → unranked, down, versus Friday September 25 at 3:59 PM CT. J.K. Dobbins and RJ Harvey carry no game designation, but Coleman’s absence alone does not establish their early-down, receiving, two-minute or goal-line split. Coleman is a sit and a standard-redraft drop; deeper and dynasty benches can hold if the roster cost is low. Dobbins is RB28 / 9.68 points and Harvey RB38 / 7.91 points. Their shared-game sample supports different rushing and receiving roles; scoring-role confidence remains low.

Other pending cases: Jaylen Wright is inactive; sit him. Do not treat an active designation as a full-role guarantee where the player carried a Friday limitation.

Quarterback, Tight End and Monday Contingencies

Sam Darnold: Active for the early game; Drew Lock is not the planned starter. Darnold is QB29 at 12.07 points in the completed model. Mainly a Superflex consideration; compare healthy alternatives.

Baker Mayfield: Full Friday after illness, with no game designation. The existing streaming recommendation remains. Jameis Winston remains a risky Superflex fallback, not a must-start in one-QB leagues. Jaxson Dart is a redraft drop and dynasty hold/IR where eligible.

Brock Bowers: Questionable after a Friday DNP. The selected limited-return case is TE10 at 8.65 points if active. Hold and monitor; prefer a healthy alternative when a limited role is reported. Michael Mayer is a direct contingency only if active, while Terrance Ferguson can supply a later option where available. Confirm both players' eligibility and game windows before waiting. Charlie Kolar and Mason Taylor are out and are not emergency replacements.

Washington: Chig Okonkwo is out with a hamstring injury, so TE29 → unranked, down, versus Friday September 25 at 3:59 PM CT. Sit him and drop him in standard redraft leagues unless tight-end depth is unusually valuable. Jayden Daniels is also out. The rebuilt Washington tree includes both absences; use the Sunday board for the resulting receiver and tight-end order.

Chicago: Caleb Williams is officially out. Sit him for Week 3 and hold him in redraft. Tyson Bagent returned to a full Saturday practice but remains questionable; Case Keenum is the alternate starter. Use a healthy Sunday quarterback in 1QB leagues. In Superflex, Bagent is only a conditional QB2 after Chicago confirms he is active and starting. Retain caution on Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III and Colston Loveland; their current Sunday projections use a conditional Bagent-start branch.

Philadelphia: Dallas Goedert is out; sit and hold him. DeVonta Smith and Saquon Barkley are cleared and remain starts on their existing merits. Zach Ertz is a possible practice-squad elevation, not a confirmed active workload. Prefer Dalton Schultz where available, with Terrance Ferguson a later alternative. Philadelphia’s active/out scenarios now pass the workload and scoring review.

Ordered Late-Window Pivot Board

Ranking Record and Saturday Availability Changes

Conditional active-game stat lines are preserved for audit; confirmed OUT probabilities and expected points are zero. Other players can rise incidentally when an unavailable player is removed, with no change to their statistical projection. The complete ordinal change log identifies those moves. Doubtful and questionable updates do not carry invented numerical probabilities. No ROS ranking changed. The new Sunday FantasyPros version 1 replaces the historical upload files.