A VERY POWERFUL SIGNING FROM LOS ANGELES CHAEGERS : LA Signs 2 New Players Ahead Of Tough Ravens Game...

Your 4-6 Los Angeles Chargers have inked two new additions, with a date against the 8-3 Baltimore Ravens looming.

Daniel Popper of The Athletic reports that, with linebacker Tanner Muse now officially on the team’s Injured Reserve list due to a knee issue, the Bolts have looked internally to replace him. Los Angeles has inked practice squad linebacker Blake Lynch to their active roster, while replacing him on its practice squad with edge rusher Ty Shelby.

We knew Muse was likely to wind up on the IR after news leaked yesterday, so this isn’t entirely shocking information, though it is a bummer nevertheless.

Muse, a 6’2″, 227-pound Clemson product, was only pressed into service for the first time in 2023 last week, where he recorded one solo tackle against the Green Bay Packers in a 23-20 defeat.

Lynch, a 6’3″, 233-pound vet out of Baylor, has 45 career tackles, two sacks and three pass deflections to his credit in his four seasons between the Minnesota Vikings, and now the Chargers. He spent 2022 and parts of 2023 with the Arizona Cardinals, but was exclusively a practice squad player while in The Copper State.

There’s no replacing a guy like Cooper Kupp, something the Rams learned the hard way last season when he went down with a season-ending injury. But at least after Week 1, they seem a lot more well-suited to survive his latest absence, with how Tutu Atwell and especially Puka Nacua stepped up against the Seahawks.

Nacua, a fifth-round rookie, put together a tremendous NFL debut, catching 10 passes for 119 yards on 15 targets, and it could have been an even bigger line – he had a couple of drops, while Matthew Stafford just barely overthrew him on what could have been a long touchdown in the second half. I liked Nacua as a sleeper coming into the season, but of course I didn’t see this coming – if I did, he’d be on more than just four of my rosters.

Now, Nacua might be my top priority on waivers in the leagues where I didn’t already have him stashed. In today’s newsletter, I’ve got the injuries you need to know about coming out of Sunday afternoon’s action, plus my biggest winners and losers from Week 1 so far. But before we get to that, make sure you check out my early waiver-wire targets column. Here are what I would say are the five highest-priority adds in Fantasy heading into Week 2: