Blaine Gabbert Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

SNF Inactives are out and as expected Marcus Mariota is out. News surfaced earlier today that Blaine Gabbert would start as Mariota is not healthy enough to play in a must-win game for the Titans. From an offensive perspective, we can expect the run-heavy Titans to continue a game plan centered around Derrick Henery. The Colts appear to be full strength as both T.Y. Hilton and Eric Ebron are active for tonight's game.

With the season on the line, it appears the Titans will be without star quarterback Marcus Mariota tonight vs The Colts. Considered questionable with a chance to test things out prior to tonight's game, news broke this morning that the team is preparing to play the game with Blaine Gabbert as it's starting QB. Obviously, this is a big blow to the Titans, as Mariota is a very important piece of this offense. Over the last few weeks, The Titans have leaned heavily on a run game featuring Derrick Henry and with what has consistently a historically limited QB in Gabbert we should expect a heavy dose of the run game tonight.

Marcus Mariota is active this week, but Blaine Gabbert is still set to start. Either way, the Titans offense is in a difficult spot against the infamous Jags defense on the road, so expectations should be low for both QBs.

Per Schefter, LeSean McCoy is not expected to play against Minnesota, but is going to test his cracked ribs pre-game to see if he's healthy enough to play. We'll consider that doubtful for now, setting up Marcus Murphy and Chris Ivory to share work in a brutal draw with the Vikings. Murphy is likely to take on the bigger snap total with Buffalo expected to be playing from behind in the most lopsided game of the year, so he's the guy to target here if you're interested in taking a dart throw at a low-floor backfield. Ivory will see a good chunk of the early down work, and is more likely to be involved in close if the Bills make it there. It's also looking like we'll see Blaine Gabbert as the Titans starting QB on Sunday against the Jags, which still keeps us squarely on the Jacksonville D/ST unit. Corey Davis is an intriguing value target if you're rolling out multiple lineups, but there aren't any other Tennesee pass-catchers on the radar in Week 3. It's possible Mariota is still active but we could see him fail to play a snap again. As has been expected this week, Leonard Fournette is looking likely to play on the other side of this match-up. He's got a positive game-script and should get his typical allotment of work, but his injury is still a concern. T.J. Yeldon will act in a complementary role and would take on more work if Fournette is to leave again.

Blaine Gabbert appears in line to start Sunday after taking reps with the first team in practice today. This is consistent with Schefter’s earlier report that Mariota was throwing very little in warmups, which makes sense if he was still struggling with feeling in his throwing hand.