I know this isn't anything official, but it is more than we will likely get from the team. It is from a fantasy football article, so excuse the fantasy aspect of it.

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Dr. Jeffrey E. Budoff is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who wades through misleading coach-speak and vague team injury information to offer advice for your fantasy team.

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Kenny Stills

Remember that article I wrote back on August 19? Remember when I concluded the section on Kenny Stills with “as long as he doesn’t suffer a re-injury or any other setbacks, I’m not concerned and plan on drafting him?” Well, guess what? Stills re-aggravated it during the third preseason game. The problem is that reaggravations of muscle-tendon injuries are often just as bad or worse than the original injury. That’s why it’s so important to rest these so that they’re fully healed before challenging them again with the stresses of football.

Worse: This is actually the second setback Stills has had with this injury. It originally happened while working out with Drew Brees and other receivers in San Diego during the offseason. His first aggravation came on the first day of training camp, possibly the first time he put significant stress on it. This quad injury kept Stills out of most of training camp and the first two preseason games. As opposed to Wayne and Floyd, whose muscle-tendon injuries passed their “stress test” (i.e. a preseason game), Stills’ quadriceps failed his. My latest information is that there’s no timetable for his return.

Stills is questionable for Week 1. Even if he plays, I see his snaps being limited. And he’s missed a lot of time that he could have used to work on timing in the passing game, so even if he plays it may not be at his normally high level. Personally, I’ve lowered my expectations for Stills for the early part of the season. I’m certainly not starting him Week 1.

Ray Rice experienced a similar injury in 2013. He was my first draft pick for one of my fantasy teams last year, and the nightmares are only now slowly beginning to recede in frequency and intensity. I hope the Saints medical staff rests Stills to allow his lingering quadriceps injury to finally heal, so that his entire 2014 season isn’t compromised.

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Larry Holder's take on it:

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TheBigEvil 11 minutes ago
What's the latest on Kenny Stills, will he play on sunday?

Larry Holder, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune 5 minutes ago
@TheBigEvil Practice is about to crank up and we'll get an injury report status on him today. My gut tells me he won't be ready, but it all depends starting today on how much he practices.

With a healthy Morgan and Cooks on the team, I'd rather sit Stills for the first few games and have him 100% fully for 12+ games, plus playoffs, than have him 75% on limited snaps for the full season. The guy re-injured it twice on the first time he really tested it (1st practice of camp, the first preseason game he played in). Hopefully we see a healthy Stills at some point this season.