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Dynasty and Redraft: Sammie Coates Pittsburgh Steelers (1 Viewer)

Corey Coleman broke his hand and is out 4-6 weeks. Broken finger to me is better than broken hand, but are there any recent examples of WR playing through a broken finger?

 
need2know said:
Or they run him out there as a decoy and he gets very few targets
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That would be my concern. Always depends on your options but when I got a player dealing with an injury or returning from an injury I like to hold them out and see how they respond before I put them back in my lineup, which is the approach I'll be taking with him.

 
Folks are chasing points if they start him this week. This guy already has the dropsies. Now 7 stitches and a broken finger? Bet this guy doesn't even get 5 targets this sunday, let alone 5 catches. 

 
Is the broken finger on the same hand as the laceration? 

Not that it may matter (unless the pain/clumsiness on one hand somehow cancels out the other) -- love Coates' opportunity, but if he had dropsies with a cut, he'll likely have the same level of reliability with a broken finger tossed in the mix. 

They'll have Brown, Heyward-Bey, and Rogers along with Coates. My guess is they ask DHB to step up and use Coates to stretch the defensive backfield out for more targets on middle passes to DHB and James. Brown will likely be all this team needs this weekend, though.

 
From Rotoworld: 

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette doesn't expect Sammie Coates  (questionable, hand) to play in Week 6 against the Dolphins.
Coates was trending towards playing, but he's on the doubtful side after Pittsburgh added WR Cobi Hamilton from the practice squad. The Steelers can afford to rest him against Miami's barely-there secondary. Eli Rogers will start if Coates is held out.
 
Does anyone know if he played through the broken finger last weekend or if it happened in practice? Can't find that info anywhere

 
Schefter says Sammie Coates is officially active for Week 6.   

Start him if you got him, unless you have better alternatives. 

 
Hrm. Seems to me like he's in because of necessity, given the depleted WR corps. I really want to start him, but I think his use will be more as a decoy. Hard decision given potential upside, but likely going to start a lower ceiling player in flex like Duke.

 
I'm stuck starting him at flex. Due to BYEs my only other option is Powell.

boom or bust - I figure Coates either catches a deep TD or gives me nothing. 

Hoping for the former, because Powell's floor is likely 5-6 receptions. 

We'll see if I made the right decision shortly....

 
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In at flex over Sproles (PPR). Going for boom/bust instead of safe floor play. My opponent had Hunter Henry already go so F it.

 
I actually have decent alternatives in Hurns and SShepard. Still learning toward staying with Coates due to higher ceiling.

 
Well this isn't going well...

Is he getting in the game at all?

 
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These are the days where I hate being right. Stitches for laceration takes about 2-3 weeks, the broken bone about 4-6. Assume that Coates' will have similar less focus/targets until after the Steelers' bye in WK8, so he can get back on track for their game against the Ravens WK9.

 
Stompin' Tom Connors said:
These are the days where I hate being right. Stitches for laceration takes about 2-3 weeks, the broken bone about 4-6. Assume that Coates' will have similar less focus/targets until after the Steelers' bye in WK8, so he can get back on track for their game against the Ravens WK9.
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 I put this one on Rothlisberger more than Coates:  Rothlisberger targeted him several times deep but was completely off his game today 

 So don't beat yourself up too much… You weren't right.  lol

 
Ben was really off on the deep throws today.    Against the Dolphins, of all teams.   

Better days are coming though.  Similar up-and-downs with Martavis.  

 
Hot Sauce Guy said:
 I put this one on Rothlisberger more than Coates:  Rothlisberger targeted him several times deep but was completely off his game today 

 So don't beat yourself up too much… You weren't right.  lol
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Coates usually averages north of 5 targets a game -- how many times was he targeted today? Was it frequently, or was it just one or two deep looks that misfired?

 
Stompin' Tom Connors said:
Coates usually averages north of 5 targets a game -- how many times was he targeted today? Was it frequently, or was it just one or two deep looks that misfired?
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He had 4 targets. And on the Int where Roethlisburger got hurt he was trying to force it to Coats, too. But that also doesn't mean you were correct. You were claiming it was Coates hand needing more time to heal. Coates hand had nothing to do with Roethlisburger only attempting 34 passes, and only completing 19 of them. Coates was 4th in targets by 1(rodgers had 5 targets, Bell had 7, Brown 8.  So %-wise, Coates was hardly overlooked in the offense. 

Roethlisburger was clearly off his game. Check out Antonio Brown's day. And every other Steeler WR.  It had nothing to do with Coates hand, finger or laceration - it had to do with the arm attached to Roethlisburger's hand, and the brain controlling it.  Bad day for the Steelers offense.  

Your call was that Coates injury would hurt his play. It would have been nice to see a ball thrown somewhere near his hands so we could know if that was the case. 

 
Hot Sauce Guy said:
He had 4 targets. And on the Int where Roethlisburger got hurt he was trying to force it to Coats, too. But that also doesn't mean you were correct. You were claiming it was Coates hand needing more time to heal. Coates hand had nothing to do with Roethlisburger only attempting 34 passes, and only completing 19 of them. Coates was 4th in targets by 1(rodgers had 5 targets, Bell had 7, Brown 8.  So %-wise, Coates was hardly overlooked in the offense. 

Roethlisburger was clearly off his game. Check out Antonio Brown's day. And every other Steeler WR.  It had nothing to do with Coates hand, finger or laceration - it had to do with the arm attached to Roethlisburger's hand, and the brain controlling it.  Bad day for the Steelers offense.  

Your call was that Coates injury would hurt his play. It would have been nice to see a ball thrown somewhere near his hands so we could know if that was the case. 
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Have no idea why you seem so focused on the "correct" bit. I don't care a whit, was a throw-away comment, but you seem to be out to prove a point?

Hey, I'm as invested in Coates as much as anyone else in this thread. But I did warn that with Coates ailing, team is likely going to look more to other receivers, and that Coates has a lot of downside risk and may just be a decoy that I wasn't going to trust this week. So was absolutely the right call for my squad.

As for whether it was "right" for your team, have no idea, but if he got you a bagel, likely there were other options that would have done better - on your bench or on the wire. So if getting nothing is "right" for you, well, enjoy.

As to his injury, with him not actually catching anything, hard to know at all whether his hand still affected his ability to hold on or not. Not sure you have a winning argument there either. As Ben's performance seemed much shoddier today before he was out on injury, definitely not discounting that fact on Coates' performance as you so easily seem to dismissed his mangled hand.

Having full use of your hands seems to me to be a pretty important part of being a receiver. With some questions around Coates' mechanics already, and having a busted finger and a deep cut that required anywhere between 7-17 stitches, I tend to think (and logic might even dictate) that's more likely to have an impact until fully healed than not. If you feel differently, fine with me as well.

 
In a way, the Ben injury is good for his fantasy owners. Removes the temptation to use him for the next couple weeks. I hope they both heal up so I can plug him back into my lineup for the stretch run.

 
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