After logging just one limited practice on a short week ahead of TNF in Week 15, Guerendo proceeded to be the only 49ers RB to touch the ball in any capacity in a game to forget for fantasy managers. That full workload was reassuring for those who were planning to rely on him in the semi-finals this week, but he’s since popped up on the 49ers injury report as a DNP with a new hamstring injury. Hamstring injuries are, to put it plainly, not good news at all – and especially not at this point in the fantasy playoffs. It’s only Wednesday and Guerendo went into last week’s game banged up, so there’s a chance that this could just be the 49ers taking it easy with their newly anointed starting running back. However, if Guerendo would continue to miss practices and ultimately be ruled out for Week 16 against the Dolphins, fantasy managers would have to go all the way down to the bottom of the rabbit hole to pluck Patrick Taylor off of waivers as a potential low-RB2 start. If it would get to that point, it would be tough to stomach starting Taylor in what will be the second-most important week of the fantasy season. RBs Ke’Shawn Vaughn and Izzy Abanikanda would be the deep waiver additions after Taylor, though it would probably take another injury to Taylor (which can’t be ruled out at this point) for either of them to have any significant value in lineups.
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