Fantasy Football Daily - CFF All-Access Strategy Guide Hacks for Week 5 Success!

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

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What? Why are you shaking your head? You're welcome. Welcome to CFF All Access Live stream. I'm excited to be here with JD today. How you doing, JD? I'm doing all right. I've been under the weather.

So it's been a strange weekend trying to stay awake to watch some games and grab the latest news. And hopefully my voice makes it through this one. I'm with you. And apparently Froton didn't get the memo that he needed to be here to save your voice. So here we are. He's stuck in that. Atlanta airport, so we're missing our boy, Eric Froton at CFF Roton on Twitter.

But we're going to hold it down today. Actually, like, after you hit me up and said that you weren't feeling well, I like immediately started to get allergies. And so I'm over here fighting. So we're going to battle through, you know, we're going to do what Jackson Arnold could not. We're going to try to hold on to our job here. So I don't know if anybody has seen that breaking news, but, oh, Jackson Arnold lost his job today officially. You know, you got benched in the second half of the Tennessee, Oklahoma game.

And now we're going to see Michael Hawkins take over after, you know, he did a little bit better. It looked like than Jackson Arnold in the second half of that game. I don't know how much you caught of it with you being sick, J.D. But any thoughts on the news that Michael Hawkins will be taken over for Jackson Arnold? I mean, it's surprising. I was kind of buying into the take that, well, we can't block these guys. because we can't block anybody in Tennessee as James Pearson, a whole lot of really good defensive front players. I was kind of buying into the fact that, well,

if we can't block them, we can't do anything offensively. It was not a game. It was a snooze fest. I felt pretty comfortable, basically not paying attention. That came from the first couple drives. I mean, it was not close. And it shouldn't have been with the way Oklahoma's been operating offensively. So I'm a little surprised here because you play Auburn,

and you would think this might be a chance to get Jackson Arnold a little bit back on track. I mean, I've been a Jackson Arnold critic. I think we all agree that his ceiling is exponential, but I mean, that's not exactly what you're going for right now. What you're going for is winning games in the SEC where you're a new conference member and you're trying not to get housed. And the way they're blocking, I don't really care who's at quarterback. Now, I do care who's at quarterbacks. Now we have a true freshman and we play dynasty formats. But I hadn't really been too interested in Hawkins because nobody thought he would be starting games sparring an injury. So do you have a strong take on this Hawkins character?

I mean, I'd really be curious to hear what Nate, you know, from Camps to Canton has to say, he's kind of a resident OU expert. But from what I've, you know, read and heard is that they really like him. And I think this is kind of a choice between Hawkins and Jackson Arnold Long term. And they chose Hawkins. So there's, you know, there's some, and some of this, too, was like, I listened to the cover three podcast today. Those guys do a great job. They have way more insiders than I do. My only insider is Nate.

So, but they're, I mean, they're saying that this is essentially like, hey, people are going to get a hold of the practice tape there at Oklahoma. And, you know, people are going to try to come by Hawkins, you know, through an NIL deal. So they really thought highly of him. And I think they are willing to lose, again, from my understanding, they're willing to lose Jackson Arnold in order to play Hawkins. So, you know, it could get really ugly if Hawkins just can't, you know, can't throw the ball or just isn't any better than Jackson Arnold, then you kind of, you could lose both of them in the process. But from what I hear,

Michael Hawkins is a really good runner, so very athletic. So I guess we'll see. I mean, I don't really know. I mean, you know, I don't know if this is what for me, J.D., like when I have guys, like, that I think, like, with Arnold, that are going to be the starters for two or three years, I don't tend to like really look at the other guys coming in a ton and just kind of like bank it away. And so I need to go watch some Michael Hawkins. But if he is a runner, then obviously those guys have lots of value in CFF. I just wonder, we know Oklahoma's got a tough schedule in the SEC. Like is Hawkins going to be able to, like you said, like is Hawkins going to be able to do anything?

Is Arnold? Was he going to be able to do anything without a line? I don't know. So it feels a little tentative. But we can talk more in the waiver wire part of this, you know, about whether we would even pick up Hawkins because it's interesting for sure. Anything else jump out to you this weekend as you watch games? Not really a ton.

Nothing really jump into mind. I know we kind of we're going to have a segment we're going to talk about like some studs that aren't exactly studying so far. And that's just been a big takeaway. in my opinion is where do we calibrate some of these guys we didn't think we're going to have to calibrate at this point. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a really big one. You know, I think even for me, some of the things that stuck out were Jaden Blue.

Finally got, you know, he was set out against UTSA, but came back this week. They gave him 25 carries. He had like 125 yards and then four touchdowns, including a receiving touchdown. So it was ULM, so we're not taking too much from that other than the fact that he got 25 carries. But Trey Weisner didn't play. But there was some concern, I think, for him, for me. And then Breschard Smith taking over at SMU. I mean, he's been the guy, but seems like the move to Kevin Jennings is a move towards

an RPO offense there for SMU and really to lean in the run game. I think that means Breschard Smith is just going to be wheels up, especially with this wide receiver designation. And then old fluff, Bothwell. Oh, M.G. Did you get to watch any of fluff on Thursday night? Yeah, he's really good. Yeah.

He's a monster. Yeah, is he going to, okay, so we know, like he's going to be good this year, right? I mean, he probably average 20 points a game. He should, right? They should give him the requisite carries for him to do that. What happens after this year to Fluff? Is he, you think this is the, you know, is he going to be a casualty to the NIL transfer portal era

and go into the P5 or P4? What are your thoughts on what's going to have with them at the end of this year? It's what's so frustrating about playing the, formats we play in right now because that used to be I felt like a huge edge especially for me in dynasty formats is okay you have a young guy who I'm pretty sure is going to get playing time at the G5 level like normally if that happens at the P5 level they're like a top four round draft pick and it's like oh here's a got named fluff no one knows about it you can pick him up on waivers because you think he might get some carries and you know but now it's like well yeah

what happens to him he's going to go transfer be a third string Auburn running back next year gee that sounds enticing a fifth string Ole Miss player like it's just it's really frustrating Like you have to take your shots on these guys because if he does stay, you get three, four years of pretty good production. It looks like he's going to be fantasy relevant this year. And then obviously he would smash going forward. But it's just pressure. And then this year, like, yes, he's a very good player. I think he's going to be fantasy relevant.

JD, you there? Yeah, for a second. Go ahead. You were saying you're pretty sure he's going to be fantasy relevant? He's still fantasy relevant. He's splitting time with Bullock. And then Gio is a running quarterback as well. But they're operating a good tempo.

they're going to score a level. At the end of the day, it's just really, yeah. No, I agree. I mean, this is why like a guy with like Sire Gaines too for Boise State that we knew going into the year was going to be a good true freshman running back. Jentie's going pro, but is he going to stay at Boise State? I mean, Gentie did. But if he doesn't, then holy cow, like you just spent top two, three round draft capital on a guy that's probably going to go to UCLA or whatever. And again, just rot on the bench. So it's making our, my favorite form. It's making it very tricky to even figure out what to do in that format. So, you know, story for another day, maybe a conversation in the off season for us to have about

dynasty and what to do there. But I think it's an interesting conversation for sure. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and then I got a fun segment for us to do next. This Giving Tuesday, Cam H is counting on your support. Together we can forge a better path for mental health by creating a future where Canadians can get the health they need. when they need it, no matter who or where they are. From November 25th to December 2nd, your donation will be doubled. That means every dollar goes twice as far to help build a future where no one's seeking help is left behind.

Donate today at camh.ca.ca. Slash giving Tuesday. All right. I wanted to do a little segment, J.D. I want to get some of the people in the audience involved too in this. but I want to do a little segment, you know, lots of people do this, the buy, sell segment. And we're a third into the college fantasy football season. And so we've seen some guys, both that have been drafted high and those that haven't,

that are either doing well or they're underperforming expectations. So I'm going to get a little heat check, figure out who are these guys that you're going to buy, sell on based on where they're at right now. We're going to do people kind of that were had high ADP. in the offseason first. And so I'm going to get your opinion on buy-sell here. And then in the chat for you guys that are there, I'd love to hear whether you guys in the chat would buy ourselves

some of these guys too. So the first guy that I have on this list is a guy that was a top three pretty much consensus pick in almost every league that I drafted in. And it's Caden Salter. And so we're, what, I think three or four weeks in for him. He's averaging 237 yards passing. That's not really where he makes his. money. He made his money on the ground last year, but he's only averaging 33 rushing yards.

And I don't even know if he has a rushing touchdown yet. He has averaging 18.8 fantasy points per game. This is the consensus QB1. But last week against ECU after a slow start, they picked it up, and he had 26.5 fantasy points in that game. So, you know, a third way through the season, are you like buying Caden Salter? Would you try to buy shares of him? or would you sell him off? Like, where are you at with Caden Salter four weeks into the season? More so on the bearish side. I mean, the thing with Salter going in is, like, he has a weird formula to CFF stardom.

Like, obviously, okay, that's stupid. He throws a deep a lot and he runs a lot. So, like, one plus one equals two. But Liberty doesn't operate at a very fast tempo. They're 77th in place per minute so far this year. They had the number one rushing offense in the country last year, and he was the quarterback for a team that did that. So it's like if they're going to absolutely pound everyone into oblivion,

and he's a quarterback who runs really fast and has CJ Daniels on the outside, then he can be hyper efficient and just kind of find ways to get 40 points. Most games doing that. This year, Liberty's not quite as good. They've had smash matchups, Uteb, New Mexico State, Campbell, and he just wasn't very great in any of those. And then now, I mean, Liberty's been weird because Quentin Cooley, we, okay, yeah, Jamie Chadwell said it doesn't sound good, we'll see, and then all of a sudden

he's back on the field. So thank you very much for that, Chadwell. In a game, that was what, delayed multiple hours, so could it make lineup changes? So basically I'm sick of seeing liberty. And Salter's giving me PTSD. But he's going to be fine. I guess if you're trying to buy loads, probably the sharp move because he still has wheels. They're starting to figure it out. ECU's a very good defense. Their best cornerback by far was out with a torn ACL. So that made it a little easier. We know Chadwell's going to scheme up the offense. Their advanced metrics are better than you would expect of looking at them.

They've still been top 25 in some metrics, which I did not expect to see. Again, terrible competition. So overall, I think the sharp money would be to buy low, but I would not be in a hurry to do that. Yeah. Yeah, I think the fact that he is averaging what, 237 yards passing so far this year. I mean, that's a bonus from last year with what he was doing in that phase of the game. And you imagine, right, that these teams are going to key in on the run game and he'll be able to open it up. Yeah, it's just hard.

It's hard when you invest such high draft capital on the guy and he's just not delivering. He had a buddy that we have a different, it's a one QB format. So QB's not going to go as high. But he got Ashton Genty first round and then went Caden Salter second round. Man, I'm going to lock down 60 points a game. And then Salters is averaging 18.8. It's just a killer, especially early on in the season. So that's about another guy that was a top three consensus pick this year,

Ollie Gordon. I mean, this is a guy really, for me, I mean, I'm hitting the panic button on this guy after, you know, two straight weeks of touting him in DFS, weeks two and week three, and him dudding out. I was just like, man, like that's painful. So we know what he's been done so far. I mean, the numbers, I guess, aren't terrible. He's averaging 18.

you know, well, 21 touches a game and 79 yards. Only got four touchdowns on the year, averaging 16 and a half fantasy points, but I think under 10 the last two weeks. What are, is it officially time to hit the panic button on Ollie Gordon? Yeah, I haven't felt good about Gordon in a while. The yards per carrier are just super concerning. And I know Ollie Gordon's a boomer and bust guy, kind of the way he runs, right? It's like if he breaks one or two with the line of scrimmage,

could be gone, but if he doesn't break him, he's going for negative yardage or one or two yardage, because he's kind of big and lumbering. And once he gets full head of steam, we'll look out your toast. But there's no way to feel good about it. And, you know, the offensive line, everyone loved to talk about how old they were going into the year, but they kind of forgot that was just a bad offensive line last year. And they're bad again this year. And we haven't really seen coaching-wise that that's going to change.

The Big 12, I still like Big 12 players because this is the conference of chaos and games are going to be close and Oklahoma's top 10 in tempo and we know Gordon has the talent. I could still see him pulling through, but I think he's going to be more boomer busts. And there's going to be a few weeks where he's, I mean, he's done it three weeks in a row now. So what I'm really looking for, especially at this point in the season is, okay, by now we kind of know who we have. And I'm looking for my consistent guys who's going out there is going to be consistent, who's going to get me 20 or close to it. And if they don't get me 20 or close to it, it's because something really went wrong. And whereas Ollie Gordon, it's like, you don't really need much to go wrong.

They just can't really block. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And, you know, and coinciding with that, you have the passing game that's absolutely going bonkers. And so they really are taking advantage. And we know that Mike Leach, I mean, he likes to run the ball, right? And he's had Justice Hill, I mean, plenty of running backs, Joseph Randall, throughout the years that were really good, Chuba Hubbard, obviously.

But we know that he loves that air raid spread it out. And so, yeah, I mean, this is a tough one. And it's another one that, yeah, I totally sell. You know, it just hasn't even looked good. And it's not even against teams that are all that tough to even run against. And so, you know, it's just, it's just tough. Here's another one that's maybe a little bit more controversial. But Jaden Ott, right?

We saw him, you know, go off the first week against UC Davis, but then have a couple weeks here that he just really didn't do much. Now he did get injured. So that's part of it. But what are you doing, you know, again, Jaden Ott is a guy. He's averaging 13, 12.4 fantasy points per game. He is, again, four receptions, 20 yards, essentially a game. So he's getting the passing work. But are you worried about Jaden Ott or is he a guy that, you know, he'll bounce back, just tough injury. And once he's

healthy, he'll be good. A little bit worried, not quite as much as Gordon. I was big on him last year because spavidol, the offensive coordinator was running tempo and you get the good offensive line coach in there. It was just a beautiful, beautiful combination for a running game, especially one as good as a ot who catches passes and is a home run threat and the volume log. So it was just the perfect storm last year. This year, there's a couple things going on. Mainly the defense is good again, which I didn't see coming. They had regressed for three straight years and all of a sudden Wilcox remembered how to coach defense. So cheers to Cal. Two, they're 130 second in tempo. they have absolutely put the brakes on this thing.

And it's because they know, I mean, they've had two starting wide receivers out to starting offensive linemen out. And they know Fernando Mendoza is not exactly going to go toe to toe with the most elite of quarterbacks. So I don't really know if I see that changing. I still think there's a lot of positives for all. He's got a bi-week this week, though. And then he plays Miami, Florida.

So are you feeling good about him until week seven? And if you paid a first or second round draft, you're definitely not. wanting to say, well, I may not get a CFF-worthy week out of this guy until week seven. So as long as it sounds, if I could have this guy on my stretch run, I mean, he has Oregon State on the schedule. And we just saw what Mockaby did, the Oregon State good Lord. And before that, Oregon just went wild. So he's got that. He has NC State.

We'll like about that. Defense. Good Lord, Wake, Syracuse, Stanford. So he actually has a lot of smash spots. So if I could get this guy for cheap, I don't know if now's the time. But maybe if someone panics after week six where he still doesn't have a good week, I could see. being a home run guy over the course the stretch run. Yeah, that's a great point.

And you do wonder, too, with that offense, I mean, the defense, like, did they get good? Or have they played Auburn and Florida State, you know? They haven't really been pushed yet. I guess Miami will be that test for them to really see kind of how good they are. But yeah, I think that's a great point. I mean, you think Jaden Ahn is a guy, hey, wait a couple weeks. and let's buy him in a couple weeks when he's low. And so much of CFF is matchups, right?

Unless you're the Georgia's of the world or Ohio states of the world, Michigan, where you can just, you have the things you do well and you can do them against anybody, then a lot of this is for a guy like Jaden is like, yeah, can you get the right matchup? And those are juicy matchups that you mentioned at the end of the season that really could win you your leagues again. know. So I like that a lot. Very smart. Okay. Another guy, let's transition to the wide receiver position. And these are two guys here. I'll give them to you together. Because I think they're similar. But Ricky White and Evan Stewart. So both these guys had a boom week and then two like pretty bad weeks.

And those the big week for Ricky White was against Utah Tech. And then Evan Stewart, you know, they had that crazy game against it's Boise State. And so what are you doing? Are these guys just bust? Like, are you treating them differently or treating them the same? What are you doing with Ricky White and Evan Stewart? I'm treating them differently. And I'm glad you said you view them similarly because I do too.

I think they have similar profiles in that they're not getting enough volume as is. And I mentioned before, that's one reason I was huge on Ricky White coming in the year. The volume was elite. And, I mean, he had a huge ceiling as well. So it's just not that way anymore. the floor we've already seen the floor i mean it's hard to feel good of starting this guy in weekly because the i-tete that shows you all you need to know is sluco like the guy on deep balls he can huck it really far but it is not really landing close to white he has had some more

difficult matchups than we'll probably see in mountain west so i would be very surprised if white isn't averaging like at least 18 fantasy points per game in mountain west play so i'm not fully pulling the plug on him but like he'll get you some duds he just says like on against Fresno, I believe that's this week. Like, okay, is you going to put Cam Walkridge? The best corner in the conference on him? Is he going to have another dead week? Wouldn't surprise me at all.

And again, just kind of a pace of play thing. They're trying to sit on the ball. Their defense is a lot better this year. It's just an overall style of play that and the in the targets and the safe targets, the easy, the PPR scams going down. Yeah. And then Stewart, I could say a similar thing. I think, I think Tess is a safe guy and they have a great rushing attack.

And they're playing the Big Ten now. So there should be some close games. Evan Stewart's just going to have a lot of, hopefully not too many, but he's going to have a fair amount of single-digit fantasy play. Yeah. Totally. Man, Ricky White. I mean, you and LV in general, right? I mean, they're 3 and 0, right?

And they beat two, you know, powerful opponents during that time. I mean, this is a team that they have a system that's probably, that seems to be working for him. I mean, Sluca for what he does and that system is actually pretty good. I mean, this has always been a system except last year, the Go-Go offense that's been more, you know, option. based. So this feels like Sluca's a better fit for what they want to do. Ricky White's year is a bit of an anomaly for

Brennan Marion as an actual offensive coordinator. So yeah, I'm worried too there. And then Evan Stewart, I mean, we just has never been consistent. And it feels like you always wondered whether it was

him or the QB and it just seems like maybe that's just part of his profile. And he's going to always test well. but can this guy actually put a back-to-back weeks there any good? And he's got all the town in the world. But, man, and there's just so many mouths to feed in that offense. So you just kind of wonder if, yeah, he's just not it. So both these guys, you know, unfortunately there are guys that I really liked earlier in the year.

I was off white a little bit, you know, as I kind of talked to more, you know, the people deeper into the off season. but Evan Stewart's a guy I just thought, you know, outside wide receiver and this Willstein offense is going to go. And it just doesn't look like that. That appears like it's going to be the case this year. All right. Let's switch your gears. Let's go to some lower ADP guys and talk about them.

So these are guys for us that didn't get drafted very high, but have been producing pretty well. And so there's the first one is maybe not controversial because we just seen them go. So I'm going to give you a little softball, but then I'm going to get into some ones that I think have been controversial over time and have shown flashes and they gone away and get your opinion on them. So are you buying or selling Ryan Williams at this point? Alabama, wide receiver one at this point. Is the true freshman for real? Is he going to sustain this in SEC play? I know I'm going to be the opposite side, but I'm selling just because it's been a little boomer bust.

Well, it's been only boom so far, but I can't count. on the volume and the rushing quarterback. It's an explosive offense. It hasn't really been a consistent volume offense. So I would try to sell in, I would try to sell in redraft. Yeah. So, yeah, and I think a lot of people would be on the buy side. So what would you, do you have an idea of what you feel like his value would be for people?

I don't even trade that much because my opinion of value apparently is like so far off on these players, which I think sometimes helps me. but for trading it doesn't help me at all because that's i don't know i see some trades go through i'm like that is terrible and then i'll offer a trade i think's way better and it never gets accepted so i'm not a big trader so i don't i don't migrate for this conversation i feel like you could like get a guy i mean i don't know what the range but like think of like a maybe like a dion burke's type or something i mean obviously he's coming off a bad game but would somebody trade Ryan Williams for Dionne Berks. Is that around the value or who'd you take in that?

Dionne Berks or Ryan Williams? Berks. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm super curious what he looks like with Hawkins. I mean, obviously, Jackson Arnold, lean on him quite a bit, but it seems like they're going to have to do more and more of that. So that's good.

All right. Let me ask you one more, and we'll take a quick break and get to our last three here. but Dante Wright, three straight weeks of 20 plus fantasy points. I think he's had nine targets per game, basically. Those three games that he did that against was Navy, Coastal Carolina, and Utah State. So not the best defense is, but he's in the American. So not too worried about that. And his only struggle was against Oklahoma.

Dante Wright was a stud for a bit at Colorado State and has dropped off at Temple. is Evan Simon for real and is Dante Wright like a guy that we should be buying in CFF? Is Evan Simon for real? No, do I care? No, I want to be very clear.

There's only one correct side to be on for this whole Dante Wright controversy over the years. I've always been on the same side. I'm always on Dante Wright's side. This guy's just been absolutely crapped on for no reason. He was CFF relevant as a true freshman for a Steve Adazio team. What else do you need to know that this guy's a talented player?

Okay, and then some crap happened. Norvel comes in, okay, and I was going to get beat out by Melcon Stovall. Oh, crap, Malcolm Stovall is not as good as Dante, right? Okay, so he butts heads with the coaching staff. He sits out the year, whatever. He transfers, everybody forgets about him. Reemerges at Temple. Again, nobody cares.

I'll buy a few shares. This guy's getting like 10 targets a week. They have some, you know, they have some stuff that happens. He misses a few games. It doesn't have a huge year statistically, but they were quite a few games there where he was having double-digit targets. And then he comes back this year and everybody else is kind of gone, except for Dante, right?

And there he is getting double-digit targets again because he's good at football. No one else on this team is, okay, sorry. Sorry to the Temple football players. I know you're working, training very hard, but your staff did not assemble the right roster to compete. But there's Dante right. Okay, he's the outcast because he doesn't belong. There belongs on a better team.

But apparently he doesn't get along very well with the coaching staffs, other places. So here he is a temple is the last chance you kind of guy. Yeah. Well, I'm just glad that Sand Drayton can actually put out an offense as decent. So, you know, Dante Wright, yeah, I mean, I think he's absolutely a buy at this point. I mean, you got this, the beautiful compliment of a guy that can take a, you know, a screen pass to the house, right? Or you can catch a 50-yard bomb. And, you know, when you have a high floor and a high-ceiling guy like that, I mean, you want those type of guys in your team. And this is a team that's probably going to be playing.

playing from behind quite a bit. So the profile for receivers really good here. So I agree with you. And let's take a quick break here. And when we come back, we're going to look at a couple other players that are a bit more controversial. All right. This next one, I think he's controversial. It's Kyle McCord. And at Ohio State, I'm trying to figure out what happened there because what he looks like at Syracuse is unbelievable. I mean, decisive. He's throwing good. routes. I mean, at at Iowa State, looks like you're seeing ghosts and he wasn't even getting rushed.

And he's throwing up like Marvin Harrison. I mean, I don't know if like Marvin Harrison just said, you can't throw it to anybody else. And so maybe that's what happened. But this kid is averaging 358 yards passing a game and three touchdowns. I mean,

I know we've, you've probably heard this admonizum at this point, but like obviously he grew up, like with this OC or, you know, with Fran Brown, the, you know, and a bunch of these other guys that are on staff there in that area. I mean, they talk about all the time on these broadcasts that he's familiar with his stuff. He looks comfortable playing back and with people that he's been around quite a bit, even growing up as a New Jersey kid. And he's averaging like 28.7 fantasy points per game and just looking unreal.

Is Cal McCord a guy that you're buying at this point? Are you selling? I would more so want to be on the buy side. I still don't think his fantasy game is crazy. I don't think his game is super fantasy friendly is the thing. He said some good matchups. But more so, I mean, I don't think the defense is great. And he's obviously performing great.

And I could see it clicking all year. So I would more so be on the buy side. I do think there could be something to the whole Marvin Harrison thing. he might say, hey, do you, you really don't want to mess with me. You heard what my dad's done to people in the past, right? He could, he could make you disappear, Kyle McCord, and hello, Devin Brown. So I could see that. Kyle McCord is one of those guys that just has me questioning, like, should I ever

rely on the eye test? Because sometimes it goes way wrong because you had the eye test last year. I mean, it was punishment watching those Ohio State games. And it's way different. He looks good. He's got a good support and cast. Defense stinks overall. I'm buying.

Yeah. I mean, and listen to the schedule. I mean, Holy Cross this weekend. Then he's got UNLV. That might be a, might be the toughest defense he plays other than Miami. Because then he's got NC State, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech, who's decent, Boston College,

and then end of season, California, Yukon, and then you'll probably have to bench him the last week of the year against Miami. But, I mean, he could score 30 plus points in those, you know, at least four or five of those games. Yeah, even Miami. not be like they might have some shootouts because that offense yeah keep scoring in the secondary is the weakness so i actually really like miami and dFS like nobody owns south florida and dfs

like sean atkins our boy the box you had receiver he's like 13% owned on like whatever it was you know not a very big slate it's like i i don't know i yeah all those matchups are fantastic yeah yeah i totally agree um so yeah come of course surprisingly is a buy i mean and you know too like he's got Pena and he's got Arronda Gatson to throw to. I like Yomari Hatcher a lot. I think he's a great deep threat. So lots of weapons there

that he can throw to and I think they're only going to develop more and more as this season goes along. And look, Jeff Nixon, anybody surprised for what's happening. This is what he did at Baylor and he took a, man, who was a quarterback back in the day that wasn't even like that great? It's not Blake Shapen, but he's basically

just like him. Anyways, the quarterback that he had there was like decent but he was putting him 25 30 fantasy points a game um you know back in the day with this guy and when he was with matt rule there at baylor back in the day so charlie brewer that was it yeah poor kid couldn't stay healthy with concussions but when he was healthy he was putting up points and doing with jeff nixon so this is what jeff nixon wants to do and let's throw the ball around and he's a good oc for sure all right another one that i know is controversial uh because i've been on the wrong side of this controversy for a long time is Kay Clubnik. I mean, this is a kid,

man, he was for sure seeing Ghost against Georgia putting up three fantasy points in that game. But then he's come back and against App and NC State, which look, we've seen them, these aren't very good defenses. But, I mean, he's averaged 40 and a half fancy points, 293 yards passing, four touchdowns, and then 37 and a half, you know, rushing yards in those games. and then another touchdown or two. What are we doing here, JD? Is he relevant or what are we doing? Shane wants to know.

He is. He is. Yeah, too much Clemson-love going on here. They look good, okay? You don't have to bring up the matches. I mean, you do for App State, okay? In NC State, whatever. I know their defense hasn't been good, but you can see it, man.

You can see it. You can see it. And going into the year, you're like, there's pieces. There's no hole. there are pieces. There's the O-C. There's the O-Lion returning people. They were good statistically. He didn't really look like it on TV. He's experienced. He can run. The receiving core comes back healthy.

They have these freshmen who knows if they'll actually be impact. Well, they are because Westco. Oh, my God. And Williams is finally healthy. And then you have Mafa who's going to keep the chains moving and who clearly is playing hobbled because they didn't want to keep giving him carries. And they kept having K lighted up. So if that's going to be a thing with Mapa, that's huge. because it means more fantasy points for Clubnick. And if it's not a thing with Maffa, who cares? That means he's healthy and they're moving the chains and they're scoring. So I'm buying in.

And we've already mentioned the ACC's schedules. Just look at it, baby. We got Wake, Virginia, Stanford three of the next four weeks. Yep. And really, I mean, the only tough defense that you see on there is potentially Louisville. And that's a team that shouldn't really, I mean, he should be able to put up points. He'll actually have to play in the fourth quarter. So that might be actually good for him.

Yeah, I mean, look. we wondered what Kade could look like with outside wide receivers that were competent. And I mean, we know Brian Westcoe, he's flashed already. T.J. Moore is coming on. And I think as soon as he's ready to go too, I mean, this is going to be a tough offensive stuff. And this is all without Tyler Brown, who's also really good wide receiver as well. So, you know, Shane took it too far here saying Kade thinks he's Lamar Jackson. but uh you know but like look he kid does have you know he's not he's not going to be lamar jackson

but he just got some wheels and so you know willing yeah physical runner with some wheels yeah so i'm excited for the kid i mean i don't who knows what he'll be in the nfl i mean but the kid at least is going to be looks like he's going to have another couple decent years here in college and um you know good good for clemson fans Yeah, man, that 55-yard run was awesome for sure, Shane. That was awesome. So, all right, one more here. Henry Parrish.

So this kid, again, the average 24 fancy points per game, did nothing week one as they were kind of figuring out the rotation and then has gone absolutely bonkers. Other than this last week, against Georgia Southern had a 14.9 fancy points. Obviously, Ole Miss is a good offense. Henry Parrish looks like he's the bat for now. But it's Henry Parrish. so I think this is an interesting one what are you doing with Henry Parrish

I'm buying I don't feel great about it you know freaking Ulysses Bentley whatever Proton's name it was some Civil War reference or grant reference or something this guy is the guy that the CFF communities loved for so long and I've always just kind of not really liked him and didn't really think he knew how to get north and south

and then going in the year I'm like man I think Bentley is the best back on the roster you can catch a little bit. And then I finally buy some Bentley shares and an underdog. I'm taking them a fair amount. It's like my sixth or seventh running back. And then I'm still on Wall Jackson. And then all of a sudden, Bentley can't even get a snap except for on special teams. He's clearly in the doghouse.

So like if that weird situation resolves itself, shout out if you have any info on that. Couldn't find anyone else looking. He's just mysteriously disappeared. Doesn't look like the end is. But we know he's talented. So if he's got out of the dog house, okay, that's talented. I felt pretty good that Diggs was not coming back anytime soon this off season. And even if he does, he's going to take a while to ramp up.

So even if he does Bentley does actually gently earn carries, I mean, Parrish has always been a pretty good goal line runner. This offense can score a lot of points. It's hard not to feel good about Parrish right now. Yeah. I mean, Parrish is the type of back that gets the yards that are there. And it seems like this offensive line is helping him out a bit. And he's not a bad runner. The thing that I hesitate with with Henry Parrish is not his ability, but it's just his health, man.

I mean, I, you know, just watching him at Miami the last couple years and be the lead back and then getting hurt, whether it's like, you know, a shoulder or whatever. He's just not a huge back. And in the SEC, I just wonder if he'll hold up over time and really be able to take the punishment that comes with the SEC. And like, look, this is a team that's really going to want to go far. But, yeah, I mean, I think is Parrish going to put up 30 points a game? I don't see it. But can he put up 17, 18, 20 points?

I think that's probably more in his wheelhouse. And that's a great, that's a good CFF back. That's a good flex play for sure. So I would hesitantly buy unless you get some like crazy good offer in order to, you know, trade him. So, all right. Let's talk about. Let's transition here to WaverWire talk for a few minutes here. You know, I think this week the waiver wire is a little bit more slim as we get into like the fourth, fifth week of the year.

I mean, we're going to talk about guys like maybe Michael Hawkins or other guys that are replacement guys. And then some guys that went off. But let's start off. You know, we mentioned Evan Simon earlier. And I want to start off with a question from Shane. He said, what do we think about Evan Simon? He's the quarterback from Temple. don't see him losing the job after that performance last week.

And you mentioned a little bit with Evan Simon. What are your thoughts on Simon, JD? I'm going to be honest. I haven't thought about the guy until his name's been brought up here now twice. Which means I don't want to think about this guy unless he forces me to for a few more weeks. He's one of those players for me. I think they were playing Utah State as well, which is like a must-fate defense, in my opinion. All-offense, fast tempo, terrible defense.

They have like four of their best defensive players leave in the portal like during the offseason like spring exits. So yeah, do it a few more times. Yeah, I mean, you put up a 50 burger on anybody and that's that's nice. But yeah, Evan Simon isn't a guy that I wrote up this week in my article. And so yeah, he's not a guy that I'm going to invest any type of draft capital in at this point. But what are there some other? Because there were some quarterbacks this week that did go off. and I think are worthy talking about.

So you have any that you suggest to people? Yeah, there aren't going to be as many this week. I think there's one clear winner this week that needs to be discussed. That's Alonza Barnett. Yeah. And the James Madison Dukes. I know Josh is a big fan. He threw for 388 yards against North Carolina.

There it is, baby. Five touchdowns. And then, oh, yeah. What did he run for? 99 yards and two scores. So couldn't quite get to. the century mark on the ground disappointing performance for mr barnett um i just want to say i did shout him out after week one okay and before the curve i said this guy's running the ball a lot

and what i didn't mention then which i should probably mention the broadcast couldn't stop mentioning is the coaching staff from holy cross who else is from holy cross matthew sluka they love this running quarterback hit some big shots through the air they have a decent wide receiver room um there still some decent talent there i know it was drained but still enough talent clearly if you're dropping that many point Carolina. So I think he's the clear number one. And I believe he's an underclassman as well. So in dynasty formats, again,

as long as he doesn't go transfer to be a holder for some SEC place kicker, like him some Barnett. And you know, I know you remember this, JD, but Barnett was the starter last year in front of Jordan McLeod, who won Sunbelt Conference Player of the Year. I mean, this is a player that apparently in practice has been unbelievable. And then he came in and just, you know, he's struggled in the first half again this year in the opener. And then he got loose.

But like, so there's clearly been talent here and two coaching staffs that are very good have liked them. And so it's, it's awesome to see him actually go off. And so I think you can trust what your eyes are seeing because, again, this is a guy that beat out the Sunbelt Conference player the year last year. Jordan McLeod's at least a decent player. I mean, he's again doing it at Texas State. So, wow. I mean, I think JMU in general, all of a sudden, like, I, you know, they lose literally, what, 30 transfers. And I think they all went to Indiana except Jordan McLeod.

And we see even Indiana is doing pretty decent to start the year in the Big Ten. And all of a sudden, they're reloading. And they might run the table in the Sunbelt. Now, I don't think they're going to make the playoffs. But holy cow, like this team is pretty decent. And Cam Ross and Mario Dallison, you know, look like they got some wide receivers there for him to be able to throw to. And then George Pedaway at the backfield, this is going to be an offense that, again, looks like it's going to be dangerous. So Lonze Barnett, I really like that call.

A guy for me is Blake Hervath from Navy. When we saw them pull off the upset this week against Memphis and just drop, you know, half a cent. on the Tigers. And I tell you what, man, I went back and watched that game and Horvath has some wheels. I don't know if you saw that 90-yard touchdown that he had. He was pulling away from Memphis defenders at like, he started this run at the 10-yard line. He was pulling away at the 50. I mean, it, like this kid can run.

I think he's the best quarterback they've had since Malcolm Perry, which isn't saying much, right? But here's the other thing is if you remember last year, they transitioned to online. almost like the pistol style and where they were wanting to throw it a little bit more. And I think he had like 190, 200 yards passing in this game on top of having like four touchdowns and 211 yards rushing. So I think, and this is the second week in a row, they've had 35 plus fantasy points. Like this dude is for real. Like I, I'm buying Blake Horvath right now.

And, yeah, I'm, I'm super interested again. the American's not a tough conference. And if Navy's back and they're looking good and they have Blake Corvath, you know, as a quarterback, this could get really interesting, in my opinion. And maybe it just came up, maybe it's a fluke, but two weeks in a row tells me that, like, maybe this kid's also for real. And he's interesting. Did you any thoughts on Blake or did you get a chance to look at him at all?

I was kind of forced to because I saw there were some like steam going on in the betting market for Navy. and I kind of heard some people like slyly talking about this Navy offense. And I'm like, yeah, I don't know. Again, it's kind of one of those slime of things. It's like maybe like forced me to believe. Yeah, they forced me to believe. I mean, my goodness, they're clearly, clearly cooking with some gas. What's really funny is that we'll talk about some of their running backs here in a minute.

But it's like it's not even the running game that's like going so well. I mean, they're averaging 300 yards. So like it's going well. But like these running backs are catching like crazy passes out of the backfield. So it looks dynamic for sure. Let me just pull up some of their stats. Yeah, they're top 10 in EPA per play, top 10 in success rate, obviously top five in rush rate, top eight and EPA per rush,

and then passing the ball, fifth and EPA per pass, fourth and passing is supposed to this, and the line is blowing people off the line. So, yeah, and the defense still is struggling to get stopped. So you could be working with something. Yeah. And then two other quarterbacks, again, we mentioned him here several times.

If you haven't picked him up by now, then that's on you. But Tyler Huff from Jacksonville State. another great week. I mean, you put up 26 fantasy points. I think he's 25 plus the last three games. Conference USA is probably the worst conference. Probably worse than some, honestly, FCC conferences. So take that for what it is. Tyler Huff is the guy that you should be investing in. Let me, let me ask you about Michael Hawkins. We talked about him a little bit of the beginning. You know, is he a guy that people should grab and stash or just wait a week, let other people take a chance on him? I just think it's hammered out.

I think, and kind of just given our tone on him so far, I think we're viewing him kind of like arch last week. Like it sounds really fun and exciting. Can't wait to see it play out, but I'm not going to be spending top dollar because somebody probably is because it's Oklahoma and the kid can run. It's just kind of hard for me to see him smashing.

Like I see three games, Maine, LSU, South Carolina. Yeah. Where I would consider starting him. And there's some other matchups here. Like, I wouldn't even consider. like I'm not doing it against Texas. I'm not doing it against Alabama. And again, I could totally change my tongue.

Maybe the kid comes out and staff is right. But at this point, I'm not really sure why I'd have a ton of confidence in this staff. Yeah. And speaking of Archman, I don't know if you saw any of the YOLM game. I think it was on ESPN Plus. But he looked like a true sophomore quarterback making his first career start. So it's pretty evident that Quinn Ewers is the guy for anybody that's wondering. I know a lot of people didn't see that game.

and they might have just saw some stat lines, but, man, he missed, like, wide open jade and blue on a, like, a swing route. I would have gone for 70. And just overall, I mean, threw a couple picks to ULM, and they weren't like the wide receiver, it went through their hands. They were just, like, bad, bad picks. So I think Quinn yours is going to be awesome, but I think the controversy is officially over as long as, long as Quinn's healthy. So, no surprise there. Okay, let's transition. Actually, let's take a quick break and then we'll transition to running backs.

All right. Man, this is a position that to me is pretty thin. You got Club Mullings and Kid and Durham that are 25% owned. And honestly, there's not a lot of running backs on the waiver wire this week that I absolutely love. Anybody that you got on top of mind? What's the guys coming up for me? Are guys who we discussed last week? So good job team.

A guy who stood out to me who, again, I'm not going to go crazy about this guy. But I think who could be interesting in some spots is Floyd Chalk for San Jose State. Yep. He was guys. Some people were drafting this offseason. I didn't really want to because I thought the offensive line might stink. And I think they're going to throw the ball a lot more than they're going to run. Right now, it looks like that might be the case.

But it also looks like they're going to be in a lot of shootouts. And he looks pretty good. And we saw that on Friday night when he had 21. point four points over on fan tracks, two touchdowns, work off a 66-yard run. Looks like a pretty decent player. So he's a guy that I thought, well, you know, I haven't really mentioned this guy.

I haven't really dropped this guy. I haven't picked him up. But if he's out there on the waiver wire and some good matchups where they're going to score a lot of points, it's not unreasonable. I think he's going to have a decent amount of solid game. Yeah. All right, question here on Avery Morrow.

I mean, he's got wide receiver designation as well. That's not the one I was looking for. Here we go. Any reason why Avery Morrow got a lot more touches last week. Do you know, I saw that he got more touches, but I don't know what happened there. You know, I wasn't up to date on that.

I didn't look into it for the fact that I watched the Colorado game last week. So two weeks ago, and Justin Marshall was knocked out of that game. It looked like for good. He did come back in the second half and got a few carries. Actually had a really nice run. But, like, was not the workhorse he was before that was clearly hobbled. So I'm just thinking they're playing Utef. And Utef is god awful.

Yeah. they gave him a little bit of a rest is kind of what I'm thinking. Yeah, Evri Morrow tends to be in the doghouse too, quite a bit with that staff. So I'd just be careful. I mean, he could be, you know, he's, look, he's shown talent before, but I'd be careful. He'd in right. He's a guy that I wrote down, Leland. I mean, look, the stats over the first few games are crazy.

21.6 fantasy points per game. He's averaging running back for Navy, averaging four receptions for 80 yards per game. I mentioned Horvath looks like he's an above average passer, but they're averaging 300 yards on the ground. And I think, I don't know exactly with Horvath, but I think it's like 120, it's like 125 yards passing or something like that. I don't think it's a ton. And Hydenreich right now has 80 yards of that. I mean, that type of like volume is insane. Feels a bit unsustainable to me. So while the numbers look good, I, I just don't know if this is the type of guy that I'm going to like,

he can win you weeks and he can lose your weeks, in my opinion. I wrote him up. So it's a guy that I like, but I like him because there's real, it's like George Petaway under like 15% own and like really not a lot of other guys for me. So any opinions on, on Eli Hydenreich? I think I'm kind of with you. Not a lot of volume to really rely on. But yeah, there's not a lot of guys.

And he's clearly one. I wanted to give some hat tips to like the deeper leagues were drafting where some people took him because you could see he had that startling efficiency last year and he like led the country and yards per catch. But okay, it's Navy who cares? Yeah. But when you factor in what you were talking about where they're thrown a little more and you get a QB upgrade and the defense things, you can see where if he gets high targets a game, I mean, he's now done this over a year and a half where he is. Yeah. Somehow the nation's preeminent deep threat. Yeah.

with running back designation, which is crazy. Okay, let me ask you about this. This is a little bit off topic, but not off topic. It's actually really on topic. Sam Brown, not the wide receiver from Miami, but the Rutgers running back, who stole some carries and DFS from our boy who had a rap on his calf, Kyle Munungai.

I don't know if you saw that. He got hurt, came back in, but, you know, calf injuries feel like the precursor to Keeley's injuries sometimes, you know, not trying to wish that for Kyle, but like Sam Brown, I mean, he's looked decent. Is he a guy we're stashing and just seeing what happens in that offense? He could be, man. Sam Brown, he's tough. To the way I heard the writer's talking about him, just a guy who can't really stay healthy, we don't know if he'll contribute.

He's been surpassed by a true freshman as the RB2. and then here he is two touchdowns and we know they want a workhorse and if mona guy's out we know Sam Brown can be a workhorse and they want to be competitive are they really going to make a true freshman be the workhorse doesn't look like it so gosh yeah it's tough I think I think he's worth a flyer if you if you got a spot especially deeper leagues could be getting you a 30 carries a game all of a sudden yeah for sure all right question here not that one that's just a hell no Darrell Robinson. So he transferred in from Charlotte to Yukon.

I think he had a decent game this last week. Any thoughts on Dorel Robinson for Lehman? I hadn't. Some people were asking me about Cam Edwards last week. So if I'm getting asked about two different Yukon running backs, I'm probably going to have the Evan Simon responsive. Show me. We know he's supposed to be a talented player and we know Yukon wants to run the ball, sure.

but let's say give me over 20 carries and back-to-back games and then I'll look. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, it's just got to figure out what's happening in that backfield before spending any kind of draft capital or starting any of these guys. And, you know, in CFF, we can't be taking chances and are starting lineups, right? Because every week counts when you only have 10 or 11 weeks. All right. Let's take a quick break here. and then we will

we'll get to wide receivers and tight-ins. All right. Again, a couple more here. Again, not a lot left on the waiver wire unless they're higher owned this week. But anybody stick out to you on the waiver wire this week at wide receiver or tight-in? Isaiah Horton. I know you're the Miami guy.

And I was kicking myself in DFS because I knew I'm stuck in the Miami-S South Florida game, I felt really good about all my reads, came real close to a takedown, and it's just like looking at Horton. I'm like, the way they've talked about him all offseason, and then like the way he's performed, like they're clear, in my opinion, he's looked like they're clear. I mean, I don't really consider Jacoby George. Like, he's fine. He's whatever.

He'll have your big game against some turd teams. Maybe he could have done against Southport, but like, I'm just not interested in Jacoby George. It's like Horton looks, like he really could be something. It looks like Kim Ward likes him. Didn't play him. I'm an idiot. But he went off and I would not surprise me whatsoever if he's their wide receiver too at the end of the year. No, I think you're right.

I think they're going to have two all ACCC wide receivers and he'll be one of them with her strepoh. So look, I mean, the kid, first couple weeks I went, I think four catches for like 80 yards, four catches for 70 yards and then comes back this week and has eight catches for 108 yards. You know, and he had like one week against Ball State or something that he didn't do much. But look, this kid is really good. This coaching staff loves him. Mario Cristobal came out today and was just raving about him saying that, look, his work ethic and his body are matching each other. He's like really transformed his body.

He's got the work ethic. They don't have another six foot four wide receiver like this. He's the only one on the roster. So when you're the only one and then you have Sam Brown who's struggled with consistency catching the ball. We know what Jacob George is, mentioned that. Look, Isaiah Horton absolutely is a guy that you can, and you can probably. get him because he's got eight catches for 108 yards but he didn't have a touchdown he's got robbed the goal line so you know i think he's a guy that you could get and not have to like spend a bunch of

money on because like maybe just people assume they don't know what to do with that miami wide receiver core so i really like that isaiah horton call a lot i think that's one that that you can get and get them for cheap this week um and so i like that um guy for me is cameron ross um from jamban Mew. He's 6% owned. He did get hurt a little bit in that game. It was like shaking up a little bit in the North Carolina game, but had seven catches for 107 yards in the TD. And look, if Alonze Barnett is going to do this,

and they're going to be competing for a spot in the, you know, if they want to have any kind of shot at the CFB playoffs, then they're going to have to win with style. And so, because, you know, they're not going to just there's other teams that they're really going to have to compete with like Boise State. So I could see them really trying to go after it. And Cameron Ross could be a guy that takes advantage of that. Because he has the wide receiver one, in my opinion there at JMU.

So he's a guy that I would consider. What are the guys you got, JD? I want to go to the deep cut first. Kean Magwood on Ball State. I was interested in Ty Robinson a little bit heading into the year. He got hurt on their very first play. of their very first game. That's unfortunate luck.

But Keene Magwood, he kind of interested me because the passing attack should see an upgrade. And we talked about their running back to Sloan. I know he's good receiving back. They could throw it around a little more, but they don't really have a wide receiver one now. And Magwood was their second leading returner, essentially, if you would have extrapolated Ty Robinson's production from last year over a full year. And I think he's a pretty good player. And then last week against Central Michigan got our first taste of Maction.

he went for 98 yards in a touchdown. So I think he could be one in like deep leagues that just really know what he cares about. And if you need an extra starter, kind of like a Heidenberg, you could throw him in there. And then another guy I wanted to talk about was why. I've mentioned him before, but I have to mention him because he's sitting here at 6%. He shouldn't be 6%. It's Kristen Fitzpatrick from Marshall. This guy got 20 targets in the first two games, big outside receiver,

made the catch of the year so far. And it's still only 6%. Then he goes against Ohio State and has another. I mean, he doesn't have a great game because it's Marshall playing Ohio State. But he finds his way onto a sports center once again with an amazing catch. So clearly he's up to something. And it's an air raid offense, going to run a lot of plays. Defense looks bad.

We talked about this being the formula for guys you want to be on. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a really good one. Another guy that's still pretty low-owned is Ted Hurst from Georgia State. I mean, he had a bi-week this last week. So I don't think people want to pick them up. But people also might forget.

about him and he's a guy that over the previous two weeks had 18 targets 13 receptions 2 and 11 yards and 3 touchdowns for 26.1 fancy points per game um so look he's got an ideal matchup this week so even if you're picking him up for one week he's got georgia southern you've seen what teams have done against georgia southern just lighten them up so um ted hers is definitely a guy that you could consider we've got a question here for kenny odum from utep at 13 targets this last week. Any thoughts on Kenny Odom? He's a guy that put kind of my best of the rest category in my article, but didn't actually write anything on him. Thoughts? Yeah, he's another guy that's put out to me as well, because I've been, I kind of added Cam Thomas everywhere. And then I went back,

kind of looked at the staff's history and was like, you know, they don't always really feature a wide receiver. So I'm trying to figure out, like, is Cam Thomas for sure going to be a weekly starter for me? If he's getting 10 targets a week, is that going to, is that going to happen going forward and I couldn't come away with a good answer it's like well maybe maybe not we'll see they're kind of want to run into fast tempo they'll probably have some good cf players but it kind of made me a little more tepid on even cam thomas and then now maybe odom in general in that like they're going to have a decent offense but they're not necessarily going to have a you know a huge cff producer so i'm more in wait and c mode i'm more so trying to find ways to bench cam thomas perhaps and

uh odom could be worth a flyer um but yeah i'm more so just like they haven't shown their good enough and they haven't shown they have a volume hog. Yeah, I agree with that. All right. Last question here from Shane says is cynical touchdown dependent. Any thoughts on that? Who is cynical? Who got Shane?

You're talking about the... Am I supposed to know who this is? Oh, the white kid. Cynical. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, anytime you get 20 targets over a two-week span, you're interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you.

Right, tight-ins, Matt Louder, man. I don't know where this came from, but a kid had like nine targets, seven catches, 91 yards, and a touchdown for Boise State. Again, it's Portland State, so we're not putting too much into that. But any time that a tied-in gets nine targets, it's interesting. And then they're going in, they're playing Washington State this week, that spread is pretty high. I mean, John Mateer can make any game interesting.

And so Louder, I think, can absolutely be in play this week. So I think even as a tight-in streamer, Latter could be interesting. Any thoughts on Matt Latter? Not many. Not many thoughts on Matt Louter, if you have to. Yeah. Eli Stowers, or Stowers, he had another big week. Are we buying him now?

Yeah, I think so. It looks really good. I guess it's true that there was a bidding war on the SEC forum, and Vandy ended up with him somehow. Man, Vandy over here. actually looking like a decent team. Kind of crazy. All right.

One other guy. Sorry real quick. I just wanted to shut him out because I feel like I have to say his name. And I know the guy only had one target. But DJ Thomas on South Alabama, DeMarcus Thomas was a guy that I've drafted in the past because they believe he's from Ole Miss. And I'm like he looks like an SEC talent to me.

Looks really good. And that offense is going to score a lot. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how great the target share is going to be. But I do know they're going to score a lot. and I do know he looks really good. I do know that defense. I'm looking at him.

Yeah. Yeah, I like that. One other guy, Nikki Domelin, this is the Duke. Duke tied in. Any thoughts on him? I think he had 100 yards and a touchdown this last week. Yeah, it came against Middle Tennessee State, but any time you're going to throw it around a lot,

and he's kind of a veteran guy. Kind of like that when there's like veteran guys that pop. It's like, well, we know the staff probably likes him, and we know the starting spot is probably assured, and now you have a scheme change. So he's probably going to be catching more passes. depth option perhaps and i think too i don't know i think they said that jordan more is going to be fine this week but you don't know and it seems like um jordan more is a bit of a security blanket

for uh a guy that's not a very good passer malik murphy and so maybe nicky kind of took that over i didn't see the game to be honest so can't really say what actually happened in the game but um yeah maybe he's a guy that that that malik with third to more if Jordan if Jordan was actually out and he had to rely on somebody else. So good questions. Man, anything you're looking forward to this week?

Any games at your big CFF matchups that you're into? Yeah, I got two games I'm looking forward to. Uh-huh. First one is at the Coliseum. Yes. How does USC respond after suffering its first big 10 loss, which came in the most hilarious fashion possible for U.S. his first big 10 game.

One team could complete a forward pass. The other could not. Forgot it existed. I forget that was third and 16, fourth and 16. They just threw it up. Michigan's like, oh, my God, they threw the ball in the air. What is this? How do we stop this?

And then, of course, they just run the ball right out of them until they die. So that was hilarious. Anyway, how are they going to respond? Me and Froton will hopefully see from the sidelines at the Coliseum. Hopefully we'll see a nice good game there. And, you know, Braden Locke, you know, star of the show. Then you're going to head on over second game. Take a little trip on the freeway.

A nice easy drive, no traffic. Knock on wood. Go to the Rose Bowl, Dylan Gabriel versus Garbers. The quarterback matchup of the century, you're telling me we can see Garbers and walk in the same day. You got to be kidding me. This is awesome. Anyway, me and Proton are looking forward to that.

We're trying to hit a double header. It looks like it might happen. That's going to be awesome, man. Yeah, I mean, it seems like the timing of those two games is going to work out perfectly for you guys. Man, sideline, you're going to have to let me know how that is. So I'm trying to do the same thing for the Georgia, Texas game here with Froton in about a month. So we'll see if we'll see if you can actually pull off that magic.

That'd be crazy. I'm looking forward. I'm going to the Texas and Mississippi State game this weekend. And I'm looking forward to that. Mississippi State has the worst coverage grade, according to our friends over at PFI. and then also the worst pass rush grade. So I'm expecting these wide receivers just to cook. And it should be really fun.

Leland is asking, Josh, I was late to the party. Did you guys solve the Ollie Gordon deal? Bro, we created a whole segment around your question with Ollie Gordon that you asked me earlier last night. So go back and listen to that earlier. We are officially out of time. Though, thank you guys so much for listening. JD, what's you got cooking on fantasy points this week?

You know, we got the afternoon slate. We're covering that, of course. Covering the afternoon slate. USC Wisconsin should be on there. Should be on there. And then we're coming back with our betting article each and every Wednesday. Me and Josh have been hitting that. See if we could find some winners.

Cooking that up, stern it up, slowly stirring, simmering until we find some winners. I think we hit like 66% this last week. Did you go two for three? Well, you can speak for yourself because I had Georgia Tech. You know, I had the Utah. Okay, of course they're going to beat Oklahoma State. Oh, no, yeah, that's right. Oklahoma State ain't no good.

You know, they've been super overrated. We know this. We know this. Georgia Tech plus 10 and a half. Oh, my God. That was one of the worst beats ever. Boy, yeah, that was bad. That was bad.

Yeah. Well, but your boys almost covered on the New Mexico game. I thought that was going to be super close. Yeah, then they came one point shy. Yeah. That hurt. but it was fun man this week uh yeah i think we called the ruckers version of tech which is which is sweet and then miami um took it to usf so that was a good one um we also uh man

mike bainbridge has been on a heater he we can't get him on this podcast but he all he's own is apparently looking at props all week because my man is 14 and one over the last three articles on his like top picks so he does five picks every week 14 and one basically printing money over here doing props. Just brought out a new tool at Fantasy Points 2, where we actually look at our projections and we compare those to the price picks, props that are up there.

And so that's really fun too. And yeah, we've been having a good week and doing some props. We got lots of stuff at DFS too. I love for you guys to join us in the Discord. And on Fantasy Points, you can do that through the QR code down here and the bottom that has CFB plans there. If you're liking this show, please like, comment, subscribe. It really helps us as we continue to grow this thing.

And man, we got some big plans in store in the next couple weeks. And so excited for what we got coming. But until next time, do small things with great love. What? What? What are you shaking here, Ed? You're welcome.