Jaylen Watson - Returning from IR
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Source: Chiefs fear that CB Jaylen Watson has a broken ankle.</p>&mdash; Zach Gelb (@ZachGelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachGelb/status/1848213374934426061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> CB Jaylen Watson, one of their emerging young players on defense, suffered a fractured ankle in Sunday’s win over the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#49ers</a>, sources say. <br><br>He’ll have more imaging done today to determine if a return this season is possible. But tough reality for an up-and-coming corner. <a href="https://t.co/86J6M58zqm">pic.twitter.com/86J6M58zqm</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1848371948046131234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> are designating CB Jaylen Watson to return from IR, and he will practice today, sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFLonFOX</a>. This is a huge boost for Kansas City, who has been without Watson since late October due to a broken fibula.<br><br>He and Trent McDuffie are one of the best CB… <a href="https://t.co/ePRd10X5YG">pic.twitter.com/ePRd10X5YG</a></p>&mdash; Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a href="https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/1875197840265281797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If he has a break they wouldn't be waiting on an MRI...waiting on MRI would lean more to high ankle sprain/ligament damage.

That sucks because you thought he was hurt, then it was just a cramp, then he turned around and actually got hurt.

****. I hope he can get him back in the playoffs. That’s a big loss.

Unless he broke it and the MRI is to check for ligament damage

Dang. Major bummer for him.

Josh Williams needs to return to the guy he was last year.

Not sure what happened to him but it seemed like Nazeeh Johnson and Christian Roland-Wallace were out there before him.

I’m a big fan of his, but if there’s any position I trust we’ll just figure it out, it’s DB.

Hopefully, not a season ender.

Break will mean 6 to 8 weeks most likely

damn this is why the 3 peat has never been done. We've been relatively fortunate with injuries up until now. But it's not like it's cost us any games so far and DB is probably the best position and deepest on the team at least.

-If it's really that bad we'd be fortunate to have him back in time for the Playoffs.

-Injuries are stacking up but this team is still in good shape. This is truly the deepest team we've ever had.

-Roland-Wallace was lost out of the gate but once dialed in he played really well. (How does Veach do it? Good CB's are hard to find and KC has them in surplus. It's amazing.)

-The level of depth in this secondary is virtually unheard of. Joshua Williams is our 5th CB and him and Watson were on the same level not long ago.

This blows. Hope he gets well soon

Thats a shame but we have some depth here and hopefully he is back for the play offs.

Best thing about this guy is how you don't notice him in a game. He goes out there and does his job and as a corner that is usually a sign of shutting down your side of the field

Sucks. He’s done.

Chiefs are gonna be like the Avengers will all assemble for post season Omenihu, Pacheco, Hollywood and Playoff MVS.

A little hesitant to fully buy in on Gelb just yet since he’s the only one I have seen float this but, if he’s right, maybe it’s an 8 week deal?

Could be back for the end of the RS, granted you still need someone to step up.

****

So has this been verified?

Well crap! This team is like a MASH unit this year.

Add him to the long list of players we are hoping to see again in December.

Keep in mind, Nazeeh is returning from an ACL no different than Wharton was last year and in that situation reps are your best friend. I’d say he’s got a lot of room for improvement just from that alone.

Williams is capable. Roling-Wallace got a pick yesterday.

It’s probably a deal where either some cream will rise to the top or Watson will return by the time the real season begins.

Ian Rap just confirmed

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> CB Jaylen Watson, one of their emerging young players on defense, suffered a fractured ankle in Sunday’s win over the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#49ers</a>, sources say. <br><br>He’ll have more imaging done today to determine if a return this season is possible. But tough reality for an up-and-coming corner. <a href="https://t.co/86J6M58zqm">pic.twitter.com/86J6M58zqm</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1848371948046131234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Fractured ankle. I dunno sounds better than broken ankle even if they mean the same thing

Damnit. Hope he can come back.

We can overcome what’s happened so far but these injuries have gotta stop.

Man we really cannot catch a break this year

Xavien Howard. Go sign him now

His ankle caught a break...

Bad jokes aside, this is an awful year for injuries across the entire league. The Chiefs have a lot of extra wear from all the post season games, this was bound to happen at some point.

Is he gonna cost above the minimum because if so we need the money for a WR

I’d like it, although I’m not sure he’d be any better than what we have currently

I’d expect Keith Taylor to get the call up. Maybe Nic Jones.

We played yesterday without Danna, obviously Omenihu. Just hope you have no cluster injuries to position groups come playoffs and Spags will do the rest.

Damn, tough year for injuries. It's not that the VOLUME has been particularly high, but it feels like every time someone gets hurt, it's an IR situation.

Bring back Rashad Fenton. He’s a FA.

We don’t have anyone who claps in the receiver’s face after getting called for his third DPI of the game.

Need a guy like that.

Get William Bartee on the phone.

I hate losing defensive players because the defense is carrying this team. Need that unit to remain healthy.

Pretty impressive for a 7th rounder that he's starting on a SB contender. Plus, he's been playing great. Bad luck. Maybe one of these rookies will step up in his place.

Yeah, that's the bad part. None of these players injured in 2024 are coming back soon. Omenihu is a positive but he was injured 8 months ago.

Shame about Watson. Hopefully it's a small fracture and he can return in January. Time for Josh Williams to step up now. He's played on the biggest stage for two years now and hopefully a run of games can give him some confidence. Also hope to see more Rolland-Wallace moving forward as the kid may be a keeper. Nic Jones, Darius Rush and Eric Scott are all on the practice squad so it's gonna be interesting to see who they elevate. Rush's physical attributes are pretty much elite. Can the staff pull some talent out of him finally? We'll see.

They might get Hicks in there to play Conner’s safety role so he can play some snaps at CB2. He was a corner and safety at Virginia Tech

UGH

Is this the same injury Pacheco has? He also walked off the field didn't he or am I misremembering

Pacheco was a fractured fibula rather than ankle, but close enough. And yeah, he walked off the field.

Steven Nelson

Given the injuries we have been dealt, it is ****ing crazy that this team is 6-0, especially given the schedule that we've played. Amazing...

This has just been brutal. Major injuries throughout the league, the Chiefs as bad as any. But you know what, I think the way to fix it is to go ahead and add an 18th game, and another round of Wild Card!

What's the best case scenario for a fractured ankle?

Sounds like 6-8 weeks, but I don't think we've ruled out soft tissue damage.

Dexter McCleon is available!

ProFootballDoc is saying this is almost assuredly season-ending.

Super bummed for the kid, hope he can come back next year and earn a nice payday from some team in 2026.

It's next man up. Truly no better position group that we are better at developing. Just please, enough of these season-enders.

We will see if it is the next man up. There has to be a limit tho?

No he said depending on severity he could be back by playoffs so why you're putting a negative spin on it is weird. All fractures aren't one and the same hence why Adam Schefter also said they are looking at images to determine a timeframe. A minor fracture could see him return within 6-8 weeks.

Depends.

DAMMIT! :banghead:

Yes. So hard to 3-Peat. Just one more reason why. But IN SPAGS WE TRUST!

So you're saying he could be incontinent but still play? I'll take it!

Sounds like the Cook injury but less severe

He said "late playoffs" in the post I saw, which if that's the case, you can't count on him to be as good as the other guys for a few weeks after return anyhow.

:eek: LMAO

Just stop being a negative spin artist fgs and let's wait until they get further confirmation. Dr Chao isn't dealing with Watson so what he says really doesn't matter :evil:

Seems like every week we have to sacrifice a player to get a W.

I'd be shocked if he plays this year unfortunately

Yea either someone is gonna have to step up and be something they haven't been before or your praying some vet refinds the fountain of youth.

Where is Ekoe Boye Doe ? Poach him for some depth. That dude has some talent and surprised me he was cut so quickly.

Just did a search he is back in his home country Ghana. Just strange he was on the active SB roster to waived the next year. He reminded me a little of Sauce Gardner.

Realistically they're gonna take Josh Williams, who has started games and played in Super Bowls, and insert him into the lineup while they find someone else to replace him on teams. It's a no brainer.

And the opportunity you know he's been waiting for.

Ya'll know Spags and Veach will kick over a rotten log and find a plus corner.

It's what they do.

Now stop dooming.

Vikings got Stephon Gilmore pretty cheap.

He’s been fine from what I’ve seen. I always think he’s about to fall off a cliff, but he never does.

I think Boye Doe must have got hooked chewing Khat and became a pirate back in Ghana.

Speaking of which...seeing Emmitt Smith on a Depends commercial yesterday made me feel older than I should as a Gen X.

It's hard to keep healthy legs in 2024.

Yeah, I'd be surprised if this isn't fractures that occurred as part of a high-ankle sprain.

Now that said, Cook's injury happened in week 13. Had it happened in say week 9, we may have gotten him back by the post-season.

If we have a long playoff run, we probably get him back. It's still awfully early in the season.

But man, we seem to take a bullet every week. And none of them are short term. It's pretty brutal.

Losing Eric Fisher wasn't the end of the world for us during that playoff run. But eventually we took one more bullet than the team could reasonably withstand. The cascade effect of these injuries is going to continue to pile up on us.

I know we're sitting at 6-0 but it still feels to me like we're going to have to hustle to stay above 12-5 (what a strange bar that 12-5 would feel disappointing). There's gonna be some pain coming.

He didn't forget how to play. And he's been healthy. CB play is just notoriously erratic apart from the very top of the heap guys. So someone like Williams is going to have tough games and when someone else plays better than him, it's going to be hard for him to prove his worth and get that spot back.

But now that the Watson hurdle has been removed, there's no reason to think Williams CAN'T step up and be solid.

Like I said, it's the cascade effect. We're already insanely thin at WR. We're getting thinner at DB. We just cannot continue to take these long-term injuries to starters.

Man....I dunno. I know the offense has taken some arrows, but it also feels like it's just on the edge of just breaking out.

Get that going and ....I just don't see how it's not 14/15 wins.

Right?!?

How did everybody feel about Roland-Wallace steeping in? He had a pick and tackled well but gave up a catch or two.

Does it?

I feel like it's on the verge of finding an identity and playing to that identity quite well. But that's a 25-30 rush/gm, short/intermediate passing team.

A RBBC that is effective but not explosive with a play-action passing game that is going to take a couple deep shots/gm while using some WR motion on reverses, etc... to find some space in the middle of the field for the TEs.

Honestly, I think the offense we saw on Sunday is about what we'll see going forward and what may make/break any given game (offensively) is just hitting that deep shot.

I mean I could EASILY see a scenario where Mahomes doesn't hit 4K yards passing this season but we end up with 1,500+ yards from Pacheco/Hunt.

And that's not a bad offense, but it's an offense that probably settles in the 16-21 ppg range and if they hit 27+ it's going to be off a big special teams play, a short field created by a turnover or they hit that shot play. And there WILL be games that happens.

But there was a lot that went right schematically yesterday and we put up 325 total yards. That's...not exactly 'breaking out'. It's...okay.

I think this is roughly where we're gonna live for a bit. And it's fine but it's gonna be a bit of a throwback offense.

And with our bye being so early and injuries now starting to ding some depth on the defense, we're asking a lot of them to keep this up.

millennials are in their 40s now

you know just to rub it in

That's possible.

But if you can hit said deep shot or two and you can get some secondary WR to play up a bit (JJSS stays healthy, Hardman, traded WR) I think you're in a good spot with the TE's coming on.

I really like what they've got at RB if Hunt can keep it together, Pacheco comes back and Perine on 3rd down.

But in the end......until the QB un****s himself a bit we're just kissing our cousin.

That little baby Jesus comes down from Heaven and heals it instantly. That's pretty much as good of a scenario as you can get.

I think that's awfully easy to say...if you're the Jets.

It wasn't hard to say when we had Rice and Worthy. Hell, it was doable with JuJu and Worthy.

But man, this is JuJu. I said it when we signed him. The issue isn't even availability, it's how LONG he'll be available and that even when he's on the field, he's always one play from being gone or limited for 3-4 weeks. You can NEVER count on him. Ever.

This receiver room is Worthy and scraps. I like Hardman and he is STILL, almost by definition, scraps.

At a point you've gone beyond his ability to make chicken salad. And man, we're at that point. And god help us if Worthy goes down as well.

We cannot continue to operate like this. We have to add someone or we're going to be playing Marty-Ball with Hunt/Pacheco.

And virtually every single one of us is going to acknowledge how that works in the post-season. History says...poorly.

Oh, it sadly, hinges on adding someone and probably JJSS getting healthy.

It's not ideal. But when you take a stick of dynamite to a single position group, you get this.

I hope they don't think they can roll into January this way.

JJSS is never going to be healthy.

Your 'not ideal' is simply an impossibility. So when even the best of bad options is not going to happen, why are we pretending like it will?

Lets say the Chiefs have 700 snaps of offensive football left to play this season. Do you think JJSS will play half those? I don't think he'll play in half the GAMES left this season and I don't think he'll play 2/3 of the games he plays at full gallop. You might get 300 more snaps from him this season. Lets squint and say 400, but 100 of THOSE will be after not practicing all week, carrying an injury designation and then 'feeling something' in the 2nd quarter and trying to gut through it.

The guys is the brokenest of broke dicks this league has.

We CANNOT simply ignore the WR room. It's not viable.