Toe injury limiting Stewart

Carolina Panthers rookie running back Jonathon Stewart is being limited to one practice a day while he nurses a toe injury.

Stewart also apparently has some catching up to do after missing the team’s 16 organized team activities.

While he’s expected to ultimately wrest the starting job from DeAngelo Williams, it might be wise for fantasy players to have some alternatives, at least through the season’s first handful of games.
Williams isn’t really seen as an every-down back and that’s why Stewart was drafted. But Williams likely will handle the heavy load at least for a month or so if it takes Stewart longer than camp just to catch up.

“Certainly for Jonathan this is very new to him,” quarterback Jake Delhomme told the Associated Press. “This is minicamp to him. He did not have the 16 practices that we’ve had already.”