How Cam Akers injury affects Rams fantasy outlook

Yahoo Sports fantasy football expert Matt Harmon discusses what Cam Akers injury means for the Rams offensive players.

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MATT HARMON: Really, all we're asking for at this point in the football calendar is to avoid any bad injury headlines. And unfortunately, we got a major one today with Cam Akers, done for the season.

And this was a guy I was trying to push into the top seven, eight running backs overall this year. I think he was set up to have a monster season. The Achilles injury is just such a bummer.

I hate this for the player. I don't know that it's really going to move the needle for the rest of the Rams offensive pieces. I'm still very optimistic about Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, Robert Woods and keeping a sleeper on guys like Van Jefferson, Tyler Higbee, all those players.

I'm not really going to move them in my rankings. However, this is huge for Darrell Henderson, a guy I do think has the juice. I think at previous times, especially even last year before Akers came on, Henderson was showing that he can bring explosiveness to the table. And this rushing offense, like, we want pieces of the Rams back there.

Whoever is in the spotlight, we want them on our fantasy teams. They were top five in rushing success rate last year, top 5 in rushing DVOA. We want pieces of this backfield and I think Henderson now is the guy there. I mean, they might make a veteran addition.

Maybe somebody at the bottom of the depth chart surprises. Obviously, watch that during training camp. But for now, I've pushed Henderson up to running back 20 in my rankings. He's definitely more appealing than guys like, you know, the Mike Davis's, the Myles Gaskin.

That range that you were already kind of going, [DISGUST] at in your early best ball drafts. I think Henderson clearly becomes more appealing than those players. I am definitely ranking him ahead of those guys right now after this really brutal injury news.