If you’re a Washington fan and you’ve started thinking about the 2020 fantasy football season, there’s a crucial question that has likely crossed your mind.
Can you trust Derrius Guice this season?
We’ve seen glimpses of him in the past and witnessed some pretty impressive play. In a small sample size in 2019, he racked up three touchdowns and proved that he was dangerous with the ball in his hands. I’m not going to lie, I threw Guice in my lineup against the Carolina Panthers last year, and he rewarded me with 129 yards and two touchdowns. Not all of us could be so lucky, though, as many people drafted him in the middle rounds before the season, and were forced to let him go once his second career trip to the IR happened after Week 1.
So the golden question going forward is whether or not Guice’s injury troubles — he was again sent to the IR at the end of the 2019 season with a strained knee — are a matter of bad luck or not. Maybe he’s just injury prone?
Unfortunately for those in the former camp, a grim detail arose from ESPN’s Fantasy Football outlook that was released earlier this week. Stephania Bell, who is the company’s noted injury expert, has Guice listed as her pick to be a ‘Running Back Bust’ in 2020. If you’re to read between the lines, that likely means that she isn’t confident he will be able to stay on the field for long periods of time.
If it were anyone else on the list that had Guice as a bust, I wouldn’t bat an eye. However, if an injury specialist who has her Masters in physical therapy has doubts, I might have doubts as well.
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