As a fan of the game, I'd like to see Fred Jackson come back this season. He never gave up on his dream, even at 26, which is an eternity for a guy trying to a pro football player. The guys been a fighter his whole career and it's hard not to root for this kind of player. As a fantasy owner, he presents a troubling situation. If he's gone for the season, he's gone for the season, these things happen, it happens every year to some players and it's just part of the game ( both theirs and ours) The problem isn't that FJax could simply be a sunk cost at this point, but the longer it stays vague, the longer he holds a roster spot. He's too valuable to dump so soon but not blue chip enough where the upside answers all other questions. ( I.E. it's not like Tom Brady or Drew Brees missing 4 weeks) Every roster spot to me on my bench has value to it. It's an opportunity I can't explore waiting for what might still be a non useful fantasy player ending up 4-5 weeks from now where he would be if you dropped him tomorrow. I'm less concerned about mining trade value for him ( any incoming owner has to ask the same question, what is the value of that bench spot for X weeks?), and more concerned about a situation where what happens 5 weeks from now will be the same answer as today, i.e. that he can't help you. Or he can come back and simply be used as a change of pace/situational back to a newly entrenched starter in Spiller. Or it turns in a dreaded RBBC split right down the middle. My guess is we won't know anything until the next waiver period has passed for most leagues.