Fantasy Football Cut-N-Go: Return of Megatron This Weekend?

Cut-N-Go is Fantasy Football FanHouse's weekday roundup of the NFL news with fantasy football impact.

It would appear that at long last our national fantasy football nightmare is over and Calvin Johnson is going to play this weekend. OK, let's be fair and emphasize the word "appears." Nothing is certain until I actually see Johnson in uniform and jogging onto the field. However, the notion and possibility of his return is probably the best news many Megatron owners such as myself have heard in quite sometime.

It's been far too long to not have this ubber stud in our line-ups. And trust me, this is speaking from a guy who owns Johnson in every single league. I drafted him in the first round every time around. He was who I wanted and this is not what I was expecting. Take the good with the bad, but I'm expecting all good if he finally plays again this weekend. And of course, it should also be noted he's the only player on the field that gives the Lions a chance to win a football game.

As a sidebar to this same story, Kevin Smith will most likely suit up and play for the Lions as well.

Other Fantasy Football Notes.
• Roddy White returned to practice for the Falcons from a semi-mysterious knee injury. Of course, not to force panic upon anyone, but the words "limited" were circled around his Friday activities. As always, the suggestion would be to monitor this closely come Sunday morning.

• Both Anquan Boldin and Devin Hester appear iffy for this weekends showdown between the Cardinals and the Bears. However, both insist they will play. Hester actually practiced on Friday, so you can kinda lean on that positive. However, for Boldin you have to bless the man for trying, but he's been hobbling around in the past few games. You wonder if a game off might help?

• For those holding out hope that Anthony Gonzalez could still make up for lost time with a strong finish, better change that plan. It's the breakout season that just wasn't meant to be. Gonzalez will undergo surgery on his injured knee after a setback in practice and now he's out for at least another 2-3 weeks. Why not just call it a season already A-Gonz? If you haven't already, it's time to cut him loose from your fantasy team.

• Not that it's much of reason for excitement, but Darren McFadden will be back after the Raiders' bye week. His role of course, we haven't a clue. His value in fantasy football ... well, not good.

• We all know you shouldn't tick Tom Brady off before facing him on Sunday. Yet, Joey Porter seems to think his play can back up his talk when he proclaimed that Tom Brady is a protected man or has his own set of rules. That said, I'd expect Brady repays Porter and his Dolphins mates with a thrashing this week like only he can deliver. The over/under on TD's is at (4.5) and the over is getting hammered. Yeah, it's gonna be nice to start Brady this week.

• Lastly, you should be pretty safe with Aaron Rodgers and Donald Driver as both are listed as probable this weekend, but did manage to practice Friday.