Mark Ingram out for this week's game

Is Ivory active yet?

If so, I want to grab him.

At least I wasn't expecting much out of him. Shitty thing is I picked him up due to bye weeks for other players so looks like I will be starting off down a player. Luckily my opponent doesn't look to strong.

Yeah, I was way wrong on Ingram, and I'm disappointed in myself for thinking so.

I didn't like him much coming out of Bama (as a pro), but I thought with the Saints offense and their lack of a runner like him, he could be huge.

While Saints HC Sean Payton won’t yet rule out Mark Ingram for Sunday’s game at winless St. Louis, he said Chris Ivory would be activated from the team’s physically unable to perform list for the game.

“Mentally he understands and knows what we’re doing. He did well today,” Payton said. “He had some good runs today. I think it’s just the football aspect of getting comfortable with all the little things that come with it. You can be in shape and yet there’s still that aspect of trying to be in football shape.”

Therefore, Payton said, if Ivory plays, he would not necessarily slide into all of the plays that normally would have been called for Ingram, who leads the Saints both in carries (85) and yards rushing (329) this season.

“I don’t think you can realistically go into the game and say he could potentially end up with 22 carries or 18 carries. I think you have to monitor that, but there are some of the same things that he does that Mark would be inclined to do,” Payton said of Ivory, who rushed for 716 yards in 12 games last season.

“We’ve run Mark in our goal line and short-yard packages. The switch if it were to occur would be pretty clean in those areas. It’s an area that (Ivory) was very good at a year ago,” Payton said.

Fantasy Impact:

It sounds as if Payton has already decided that Ivory will be the goal-line back with Ingram out. If Payton is being above board, it would put a dent in Pierre Thomas's upside against a bad Rams rush defense.

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Yeah, I was way wrong on Ingram, and I'm disappointed in myself for thinking so.

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Well he'd be a lot more productive but Sean Peyton like to throw jump balls at the one inch line.

ok, with this news I snatched up Ivory.

I have a bunch of byes this week so I had already picked up Moreno earlier as a possible flex option. I have Foster as 1 RB so need a second and flex option.

Pick 2 out of these 4.

Tolbert
Battle
Moreno
Ivory

who should I start between these 3? (bye week blues too):
Harvin (questionable)
DeAngelo Williams
Ivory

Should I chance it and go with Ivory or should I play it safe?