The most tragic injuries of the fantasy football season

We’ve got some bad news. That pain you’ve been feeling from the injury to one of your anchor fantasy players, the incident that might have sent your entire season sideways, well, there is no soothing ointment for that. It is gonna sting until next season.

There is something that might provide the smallest sense of relief, if only that of the cathartic variety. That remedy is to rehash those fantasy tragedies, to confront their reality so that you can then learn to live with it. To do that, let’s dive into this season’s most catastrophic fantasy injuries.

We acknowledge we might be on an island here, because our most significant injury is to a quarterback, and they generally don’t carry a ton of fantasy. But the loss of Joe Burrow for a huge chunk of the season caused more damage than most.

It goes way beyond the fact that fantasy managers who had him had to find a replacement. What was so devastating was the ripple effect that touched basically the entire Bengals offense. Jake Browning and Joe Flacco provided fleeting moments of relief, but they were more of a tease than a cure.