A year and a half is a long time out of football, which is where Ben Jacobs will be going into a contract year in 2020 after a long illness variously diagnosed as concussion, sinusitis and/or whiplash. Even if fit, Jacobs' fantasy average is far enough below the midfielder baseline in his tagging role to make him worth bypassing. Best of luck to him for beating what sounds like a nasty condition.
Use-by tag on Jacobs
A year and a half is a long time out of football, which is where Ben Jacobs will be going into a contract year in 2020 after a long illness variously diagnosed as concussion, sinusitis and/or whiplash. Even if fit, Jacobs' fantasy average is far enough below the midfielder baseline in his tagging role to make him worth bypassing. Best of luck to him for beating what sounds like a nasty condition.
Jacobs on the nose
After nine years in the league, Ben Jacobs has battled poor form, many injuries and the burden of tagging the opposition’s best player every week. After his brightest start statistically last season with three fantasy tons before the bye, he missed most of the second half of 2018 with what were thought to be concussion symptoms, but turned out to be chronic sinusitis which also plagued him through the 2019 preseason. Long-term draft watchers will recall Jacobs as one of the all-time great junior football accumulators. If he were ever released from tagging, he would shape as an intriguing prospect but that does not appear to be on the cards as he was given a run-with role in every game last season. When you couple that with his injury history, he is not draftable at this point without an eye-catching preseason.
Jacobs' grasping of the heel
Three separate breaks to a maetatarsal bone in his right foot have restricted Ben Jacobs to three VFL games since round 8 of 2016. Before that, he had established himself as one of the most dangerous taggers in the league. In his absence, Trent Dumont has taken over those duties. Jacobs is so good at it that if fit, he should walk back into the same role if the coach wants to run it. He is not a fantasy player unless he gets freed up to create, which is unlikely.
