Tarik Cohen

Tarik Cohen plans to sign Wednesday with the Carolina Panthers’ practice squad.

Fantasy Impact

Cohen has not played in the NFL since suffering ACL and MCL tears as well as a tibial plateau fracture in September 2020. He will provide some running back depth for Carolina as he makes his return to the NFL.

Tarik Cohen has finished rehabbing from an Achilles injury that ended his 2022 season before it started. The veteran running back is now ready to workout for NFL teams.

Fantasy Impact

With players like Kareem Hunt and Leonard Fournette still on the market, combined with Cohen's injury history, it will be hard for him to find a team willing to take him on unless he is willing to take a cheap deal. If he does find a home, it's unlikely he is viable for fantasy this season.

Free Agent RB Tarik Cohen has torn his achilles during his offseason workout on Tuesday morning.

Fantasy Impact

In what was a freak accident in a workout on Tuesday, as he was running through a drill the running back appeared to have torn some type of muscle in the video on his live and it has since been announce that it is his achilles. This is a tough blow for a player everyone loves and the league will be rooting for a fast recovery for him. With the timeline of recovery for this type of injury ranging from 4-12 months he will likely not see the field in 2022, which means he should remain on waivers for this season.

Former Bears RB Tarik Cohen appeared to have badly injured his leg in a video streamed on his Instagram live after he recently recovered from an ACL injury.

Fantasy Impact

This is brutal news for Cohen as he had just recovered from an ACL injury suffered in 2020 and was getting ready to work hard all summer to draw interest in him again for a contract. This is unfortunate timing for the running back as he is currently a free agent and may remain that way now that he has suffered what is likely a serious injury. For now he should not be rostered in any league and he should be monitored to see how bad the injury really is. Fantasy aside this is a gut wrenching situation as he has been a grinder putting in work to get in to the NFL and along with suffering some other bad breaks in his personal life and football life this was certainly the last thing that anybody wanted to see happen to this brilliant young man.

Tarik Cohen is being released by the Chicago Bears.

Fantasy Impact

Cohen missed the entire season last year with a knee injury and has yet to receive clearance to play. Cohen's release frees up cap space for Chicago and frees up extra playing time for Khalil Herbert.