You de-risk by not carrying players who never make it through the season without a substantial injury furlough.
This novel idea Partey is defensive cover has added another crock to the depth chart along with Tomiyasu and Zinchenko. Crisis aside, the trouble will be that White and Saliba, who are durable but not indestructible, end up overplayed and at risk. One of them goes down, our performances and results will suffer badly again.