The plight of Aaron Brooks, and other Week 1 notes

	Sadly for Aaron Brooks fantasy owners, this was a familiar scene in the Raiders' loss to the Chargers on Monday night. Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images

By Greg Kellogg, Special to SI.com, GridironGrumblings.com

Snap, Crackle and Pop is a weekly column that reviews the major injuries (Snap) and then projects both busts (Crackle) and sleepers (Pop) for the coming week.

I don't think I have ever seen a man look more forlorn and lost than Art Shell looked Monday night. The man looked absolutely ... shell-shocked. Then we get reports that Jerry Porter was cheering as his team's quarterback was getting clobbered.

Porter later denied his sideline antics had anything to do with the game -- seems his mind was elsewhere.

"I wasn't even paying attention to the game," he said. "The fist-pumping was in response to some fans that were talking to me when I was sitting on the sidelines."

I'm not so sure that is any better.

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Which brings us to the quarterback he was, or wasn't, ecstatic to see being sacked. Aaron Brooks was pressured all night and, after seven sacks left him bruised and battered, will undergo an MRI on his sore knee. Head coach Shell doesn't seem to think it too serious. I guess if my offensive line played the way his did I would be more worried about them than my quarterback's knee, too. If the injury is worse than Shell thinks, Andrew Walter will take over. But that is probably just speeding the inevitable anyway.

We still don't know what will happen with Ben Roethlisberger. He says he will play. Head coach Bill Cowher was pretty clear about how important it is for Roethlisberger to practice before being cleared to play. "Yes, he needs to practice," Cowher said. "He's not going to sit there and not practice until Monday and then have me say, 'Go out and play.' ... We'll see how he feels, see how efficiently he's able to move around."

The ugliest injury of the week came when Trent Green was deep into a slide. And here I thought you weren't supposed to hit a sliding quarterback. Silly me. Green suffered a severe concussion and was held overnight in the hospital. General Manager Carl Peterson would not rule Green out for this week but didn't sound optimistic that he would play. "No, but I think I said he's very questionable. He'll be listed as questionable for this week and as the week and weeks progress we'll see where that is. But it was a very severe concussion."

Tampa Bay coach Jon Gruden gave a quick hook to Carnell Williams in week one. Williams suffered some back spasms and rather than risk further injury in what was clearly a losing cause, Gruden sat him for the second half hoping to have him ready for this week. "Anything that happens to Cadillac is a concern of mine," Gruden said. "We obviously need him. We're going to have to lean on him, there's no question about that. But, I am optimistic that he's going to be OK and ready to go against Atlanta."

Both Chris Brown and Travis Henry left Sunday's game with aching toes. But head coach Jeff Fisher discounted the severity of the turf toe injuries to his two backs. "Chris (Brown) and Travis (Henry) each have mild, sore turf toe type things."

Even though Deion Branch finally got his wish (and a new contract), don't put him in your lineups yet. Seattle is expected to keep him inactive for a couple weeks while he learns the offense.