Raiders CB Chigozie Anusiem Carted Off With Leg Injury on Special Teams

Raiders cornerback Chigozie Anusiem was carted off with a leg injury, going down on the punt team after getting dragged from behind. Trainers fitted him with a vacuum splint before he needed a cart to leave the field — never a good sign for the play that just happened.

Anusiem sat with a towel over his head as teammates came by to wish him well, then headed to the training room. There's no timeline or diagnosis yet, but the splint and the cart tell you enough about how the staff was treating it.

For context on his role: this is a special-teams contributor, not a rotation defender. He logged 54 special teams snaps across three games last season (2025), which is exactly the kind of usage that keeps a player on the fringe of a 53-man roster rather than on your fantasy radar.

That matters here because the fantasy impact of this injury is effectively zero. Corners don't score fantasy points in standard leagues to begin with, and a punt-team specialist doesn't move the needle in IDP formats either. Nobody was starting Anusiem, and nobody should have been.

The bigger picture is a roster one. If the injury is serious, the Raiders may need another body on special teams, which could shuffle a name or two on the back end of the depth chart. That's the only angle worth tracking, and even then it's a fringe-of-the-roster ripple.

Bottom line for fantasy managers: there's nothing to do here beyond well wishes for the player. Anusiem isn't rostered in any format that matters, so this is a pure watch-and-move-on situation. Keep an eye on the official update only if you're deep in a dynasty or best-ball setup chasing camp bodies.