Fantasy Football Daily - College Fantasy Football Week 10 Strategy Guide Revealed!

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

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Hello, I'm Eric Proton with Josh Chivalier and J.D. Yonke. And this is the CFF All Access Podcast. Thank you very much for joining us. And as I put out on Twitter, as a little teaser, we're going to kind of go off a little bit of the board. We try to stick to the college fantasy type stuff. But since we all do props and we all love props, I figured heading into week 10 would be an opportune time to dive into see what did the season-long player props markets, look like, right? We really haven't talked too much about them. It's been in the past, but now we're far enough along the path here that we're going to, we have someone that already cached and many others, we at least have an idea if they're going to be not caching with some toss-ups. So I went and had chronicled all the drops from Bit Rivers on the initial drop and then also the relevant line movement, if there was something I was interested in, checked in it a few weeks later and then again, you know, right before the opening of the seasons that we had a pretty good barometer of seeing where they opened, where they moved, and then what I played and how they worked out. So before we get into the actual play, is I wanted to talk to Josh and J.D.

Since we do have kind of philosophically a little bit difference of opinion because these season long props are a little bit, I would say almost not controversial, but they're not for everybody. You know, some people, and understandably so, they don't want to tie up their bank role for something they know isn't going to come in or not come in for three to four months while you have the ability to take that money and use it and create velocity with it and turn that over several times each week, essentially, if we're doing this during the regular season. Josh, and then, you know, JD, follow up. Can you talk to me about how you feel about season-long props and whether or not, you know, you even engage in them or, or, you know, You know how you approach them? Yeah. I mean, some of it is I don't, I haven't engaged them in the past. And part of that is that one, I can only play price picks, underdogs, which are like parlayed props.

And so tying up season long props into something and the money there is like kind of tough for me. I mean, to be honest with that, where it's like, you know, some of them where I'm like, yeah, I know this one will hit, but maybe not this other makes it a bit tough and a bit risky. Also, like, quite honestly, I've had a lot more. money a bankroll tied up into like C2C, CFF, like season long leagues and like the DFS market. And so the props stuff, like season long, I haven't touched as much as I have just the week to week stuff because I've just enjoyed that more than just, you know, tying up any kind of money into something that takes 15 weeks to hit. Just as like, it's just a hard like, you know, for my mind, I just don't, you know, I'm not,

I'm not waiting that long to get money. out, I guess, is my main deal. JD? Yeah. Similar, similar for me. I just don't have the greatest access. So I know I've gotten questions in the past years past. Like, what do you like?

They just dropped. And like there's always a million people tweeting the day they drop. And it's, I get it's exciting. It's like National Signing Day or something. But it's never been really something I do. I've done a few in the years past. And then you get like one or two people injured. And if it's on a site where you piece them together, it's like, it's just really not enough meat

on the bone in my opinion. Plus, at least for me, just the access I can get to, like pretty much being so severely limited, add to any sites I can really get real money on. It's like I'm probably not really going to have real money on it. Anyway, so, yeah, for me, it's just not worth the handicapping time to get just a few cents down. Yeah, I suppose that kind of gets you in the mind of my complete and total degeneracy because I played a lot of season-long props. year. I basically, you know, me and Bainbridge are thick as thieves when it comes to this stuff.

I basically beg him to do it with me. I'm like, come on, Bainbridge. We got too many good ones. I shouldn't say that. Bainbridge is game two. That's definitely like a big part of what we do. I went and took a look and I see it here. I have, where I see, 27 different players that I put season long wagers of one unit or more on. So we have plenty. to discuss and kind of go through, as well as, you know, some of the discrepancies from where these lines opened up to where they ended up finishing. So what I'll do here to start up, first off, let's give, as always, thank you very much for coming and watching us and for commenting. And definitely like, if you can, that helps the algorithm. We want to try to boost it up.

REC Luke Fabasco, the great Luke Fabasco from the G5, one of our favorite podcasts, of course, my boy Karen Chetty. My boy, Karen Chet, mentioning the great Cade McNamara, huh? Cade McNamara, thank you for all you've done for us and the overs. Thank the books for putting them out at 147.5 this week. He was out at 130 each of the past, I don't know, three, four weeks, and you gave him, you juiced them this week? The week he loses and he goes bye-bye and we get Brendan Sullivan.

Oh, God, what a wonderful, what a wonderful thing college props are. And lastly, the national championship, excuse me, we got Bobby played a few. Lacey at 750. Good stuff, Bobby. Thanks to contribution. O'Mary in Hampton, 975. That was his open, I believe. That was right out of the gate. That's nice work. He closed a little over 1,000. Trey Harris. We'll be talking about him. Everybody I know had Trey Harris and Ted McMillan. You see him at 900 there, dart at 2850, another great look. The thing is with these props, if you chose the right one, they were significantly slanted to the overs. And I'll kind of get to that right now. A couple of the great ones that were mentioned, Trey Harris, 675 is what we got for an open with. Wow.

I mean, simply, I don't know what it is. He already went for 900 last year. You know, he went for over that. He got a little dinged up. He would have went for well over a thousand. even though he's been hurt, he's already over that. He went over that in like week six. Like here we are, week 10.

That's in the books. That was a halftime cover there for Trey Harris. So, you know, if you pick these right with the overs, at least, you're going to be able to get paid out before that last 400, you know, excuse me, the last four months goes. Another good example was Dane Kee. Dan Kee came out at 400 even yards. He's already over that and he's cashed that and proved.

to be, you know, of him and Barry and Brown, Brown is more the manufactured touch guy with the receiving, excuse me, the return acumen. And Dainty has been the deep threat and pretty much the all-around number one weapon for whatever that worth out of that passing game. I'm going to go through a few more of just the big stuff and then get to things that I feel like I missed on. For one, Diego Pavia coming over to Vanderbilt. And just the quarterback position in general is where you got to kind of start. You get a lot of QB lines out there early. They're the ones that obviously you're going to derive the most action. And their perception, you know, in terms of perception, the easiest to project, right? But you got to keep in mind,

like some of the guys we put out, Blake Schapen was out there with a 2,300 open, gets up there to like 2450, got hurt last year, gets hurt again this year, he's out. You know, first year, over there at Mississippi State. Max Johnson gets a 2,400 open, ticks down to 2,300. We don't know what we're getting out of that UNC situation heading into the year. DJU, 2300. Again, switching, he was fine over there at Oregon State. You're going to flop him into Florida State. Does not work out in the same manner, obviously. Preston Stone, 2,700 yards he was opened at. We know what the situation is over there with Kevin Jennings. We've barely seen Preston Stone even take the field.

But, you know, those are sort of, I mean, there's cautionary tales there, but, you know, there's obviously plenty to be excited about. Diego Pavia was 1,600 yards. That's absolutely incredible. Like, he hasn't crossed that yet, but we're eight yards, eight games in, and we all know that that is easy and that's coming. Another one that I hit that was great. Brendan Sorsby, 2,000 passing yards.

That Cincinnati system, they were basing the lines off of Emery Jones last year, who is, again, is that dual threat, who's more of a solo threat. I mean, that is literally Emery Jones. And they're rescribing that skill set to Sorsby, even though he's obviously a much better passer. He's already crossed that 2,000 yards mark as well. I went, let's talk about Quinn Ewers. Quinn Ewers opens 3,100 and a half.

Do we know what's going to happen with him? I mean, Josh, Archmanning looming, you know, 3,100, that is. frankly what we've seen i think the highest i probably saw was around the 3400 mark there really wasn't the caleb williams 4100 that we saw of yesterday year yeah that was the thing kirk keel yeah i remember that yeah didn't transpire as you imagine it's like and that was last year was the first year or the clock changes too it's like all right we're going to be running the clock all the time on first downs now and we're going to throw a 4100 at you they at least modify that a bit. But you were at 3100 with who knows what happened with Arch.

That was a particularly risky line. Any one of those that you hear. Oh, and obviously, I'm sorry, Cade McNamara. They put out Cade McNamara 1450 yards. Congratulations, everybody. It isn't just the week to week, you know, caches, we were blessed with. If you went and saw him, any number was pretty much good with Cade McNamara as long as over a thousand yards or so, how can you sit there and trust him to be able to keep a job full time and for that Iowa offense? So

any of those lines that we just discussed here that popped out or anything any guys that you have curiosity about that I could give you an idea such as Cam Ward 2850. I know. Yeah. So both that. Yeah, totally.

Here, let's take a quick break. And I got some questions about process for you on this and how you decide which props you're picking and which ones you're not. But let's take a break real quick, and then I'll ask you some of those questions. All right. No, Froton, for you, I mean, we haven't talked about this,

so this is just a raw question off the top of the dome, but like, do you handicap these yourself? Like, do you have projections that you have or you look at? And is there a certain, like, percentage, yardage mark that you're looking at to choose or do you more go off a feel of like, hey, Caleb Williams, 4,100 is way too high? Or, you know, how is it? Is this more art or science to you in choosing the props that you choose to select? You know, you have 27 that you chose.

Yeah, was art, science, a bit of both. What was your process? Sure. In terms of what I do, yeah, I just do my own stuff and go through everything, take a look. Look at the same sort of stuff we'd look at for college fantasy. Historical play caller, do they have the same OC? They have a new OC. What were their tendencies?

What do they have? What do they lose? Would they transfer in? How did this player do last year? How did the player in that role do, you know, as a team, what was their explosiveness rate? Are they more oriented towards the pass or the run? You know, going through just sort of checking the boxes and then sort of see what sticks out. I'll tell you one thing that, you know, certainly dictated a lot of my plays.

Just simply injuries. You know, the higher these numbers are, the more likely you're going to see attrition effect whether or not they can hit it. You know, a good example of that was, as we'll get to the running backs, Darius Taylor. He was, we've 1100.5, 1150, it depends on where he looked. And he was pretty much, we heard he was going to miss that first game. It's like, all right, yeah, we know they use him a lot in the past game. We know they do run the ball, obviously, at Minnesota, but they're in the Big Ten,

had a very difficult schedule. It's not like it's just going to be a given. He's going to roll through it, and he's already going to season injured. So that's something I took, which, look, Darius Taylor could go Buck Wild here for a couple of these games down the stretch and beat that. But that looks things along those ilk. I did take a Hank Bachmire under, which is going to beat me. Because when was the last time Hank Bachmire didn't get hurt?

Come on, guys. Can you blame it for that one? So that sort of thing, injury factors, competitiveness. That goes back to Quinn Ewers. I took his under 31.5 under. He ticked down to 2,900, you know, pretty much after a few weeks. and the market sort of settled in on him. So that was certainly a factor as well.

You know, you have to look at like, how tenuous is the grasp on this job? Graham Murrits is a good example of that. Like, okay, you have DJ Lagway behind you. We had to have the second toughest schedule in the country. To what end? How long does that experiment keep going on for? So a lot of those things don't factor in. You want to think about, all right, right out of the gate, how can I justify an under, first off,

because injuries are going to affect it. takes one game to throw you off pace. Alan Bowman opens at 3,000. He's a good example of that, especially with the competitive effects, getting pulled, wrangle, Flores gets hurt, who knows, you know, we don't know what's going to happen.

So I'd say those are factors. And then on the other side, just looking at those artificially low lines on guys that just have either a roll switch or they just simply, you know, have more talent coming in or are in the second year of a coaching system,

you know how this all goes, and they have sort of their personnel in place. You want to look for opportunity for upside. And that's really we got like a Cam Ward, 2850, this upside there. We talked about a couple others. I'll even go as far as say, you look at Kate Klubnick is a good example,

2650 as he was lined at. He's going to bash that. I mean, that is a thing of the past here. So I would say those sort of entrenched quarterbacks, Garrett and Usmeyer at 2850 is a great example of that too. Entrenched, you know what they are, we've seen them before, you feel confident about their role, they're not going to be usurped by somebody else who's coming up behind them. That sort of stability is something that I'm willing to bet on. But more often than not, there's the Ethan Garbers and the Graham Mertzes, you know, and the Grayson McCall's.

The Donovan Smiths of the world. Look at all them. These guys all got lines 2250 on Smith. McCall 2450. You know, guys like that, Garber is 2550. Hudson Card, 2250. You had a lot of players along those lines that are either injury prone or, you know, sort of vulnerable because of performance-related potential issues that, you know,

we're well worth the speculative unders for their plays. I will say Curtis Rourke was 1950 at Open 2. And, oh, what a smoking deal. That's bad. Yeah. Let me ask you about this. You know, Bobby here in the chat, he talks about we had the I at 900 and Sautchuk 825. Oh.

It's just pain, just pain. But like, so let me ask this question. Like you have a running back position where there's just, they get a lot of hits, right? And so you just don't even know how that might play out over the long term. And so if you see, like you talk about Darius Taylor and the high rushing. prop. But even somebody like are there certain, like, is running back a position that you tend to stay away from because there is the bigger risk for injury there and missing games? Or is it just like player by player, you know, prop by prop, you know? Yeah. I would say I probably do lean

against the rushing props a little bit, especially if it's something that I like of an over, unless it's simply too good. And we'll go into what I took. So first off, the best rushing props of the year, in my opinion, because I didn't take many of them. On 712, July 12, Bet Rivers put out Quinchan Judkins at 650 and Trevionn Henderson at 645. Wow. And it's just like if you're going to have Chip Kelly there, you can have those guys balancing each other off. You don't have the same workload concerns you do with other running backs, you know, as you do with those two because you know that there's going to be that nice balance. It's a one-two punch.

There's nobody else down there besides people. He's a true freshman. You know, and that's only in Blowout City. It's a most backfields have an element of being shared anyways. And those two, you can look and say, all right, we know we're getting them. We know these two are the guys. And it's been that clear one two punch. With both of those at 650, I just, I couldn't help but, but hit a double shot on that,

you know, hit a couple times. And those two are both going to come over pretty easy. But at the same time, there was opportunity for, you know, sort of arbitrage. and the ability to middle some of these because after some of these soft early lines went out, as the season approached, I hit a few more in here, and one of them was a Quintan Judkins. On August 14th, Judkins, MGM put him out, right? Put him out at 900 and a half rushing yards. So that gave us from Bet Rivers gives us the 650, and then you're going to get a 900 over there on MGM,

because it's simply there's a large disparity in the marketplace too, where there's kind of uniformity on this week-to-week basis, especially later on in the season. And that's something we're able to kind of take advantage of for sort of outlier games because it feels like they're almost on an algorithm sort of at this point. There's no standardization to how these lines are put out. And Ben Rivers is a small operation, is trying to, you know, poke their head up above the water.

They're not exactly going to be in market with some of the bigger boys guys like MGM, Fandul, they have different lines. So that's something that when those initial drops come out, that's something that our good friend Mr. Katz, the influencer, the great Mr. Andrew Katz, so I'm sure he'll have on at some point. He certainly tried to. Oh, yeah, I'd love to have him on a talk to this, but he certainly subscribes to that as well and allows you to come back and get those middle ops because I loaded up enough

on Judkins at the beginning that when that 900 came out, that hedge is a 250 hedge. And I mean, man, I think that I think that 900 looks good on the under. I think the 650 looks good on the over and it's a two for one special. Those opportunities do present themselves at Buka. It was another guy who had like a 650 open and an 850, excuse me, you had like a 7 open and then you had an 850 later on, you know, just sort of little things that you can take advantage of at the beginning and then as things could have progressed. I will say Jordan James on the running back front. Let's give you a few that I took.

I took Jordan James over 850 rushing yards for Oregon. Feel great about that. That immediately shortly after the open on 814 at MGM went up to 900. Wow. And that was, I believe it even opened at 800. I didn't even get it open. We got an 8 open on Jordan James out there, which sometimes you just can't ignore these sort of things and just say, well, take my money for 800 yards then.

You know what I mean? on the other side Donovan Edwards 775 I took his under I was as we all know we talked about enough on the show I don't have to belabor the point but I was on Khalil Mullings which is put it that way I made sure that I acquired as many shares as I could have him because I just didn't believe in Edwards and I feel like that's looking pretty good at 775 I took Todd Brooks under 11 and a hundred and a half rushing yards that's going to be on a razor's edge but with the workload he had last year does he go and repeat another 300 carries. I'm going to say no. I'm also going to say with their defense not being as good as it was last year. And it certainly isn't. I mean, we see them, they're doing nothing but breeding shootouts over there at Texas Tech. I just didn't think they're going to be able to run the ball with the same sort of, you know, frequency and be able to lean on teams and a great defensive line. So, you know, that's another sort of a factor that went on my cap. We'll see if that goes or not. On the other side, other running backs, there really aren't any others.

Oh, excuse me, R.J. Harvey. This is a Mia Kulpa right here. RJ Harvey bought in the hype. Oh, you know, we're going to split carries with Boone. He got so many carries last year. It's 5-8-180. Like, can he do it again? Yeah, I did it again.

I took it. That was a bad idea. And I've already lost that under. It's gone. It's been blown away. Yeah. So, look, I'm not going to always going to sit here and just give you all the sunshine and rainbows.

I've got to take some bullets here, too. Also, and we will see how this transpires. Jaquinden Jackson, I took his under 825 and a half Russian yards, because, you know, Rahim Sanders wore down last year in that system. He himself, Jaquinda Jackson, got taken over from McCa and Bernard, and he got worn down. I'm like, no way. I think he breaks down.

And it was looking awful. And then he gets hurt. So now it's it. Angles. Again. Yep. The guy has no ankles. Here we are.

So, you know, that's a. three yeah that looks great especially after brail and russell just looked like an absolute animal braylin russell i think he might i mean granted it's in our way for white of discussion here i think i could very well happen you know stranger things have um a couple other things i wanted to point out here before we move on elijah badger we'll get on the wide receivers 450 receiving yards for elijah badger smoking deal like uh yeah all over that that's that's one that was in the sort of dane key territory where they're just begging you to take it. It's like

and with wide receivers you don't have the same attrition concerns that you do with running backs. Sure. You might get an ACL but more likely it's going to, it's a couple games like we've seen with Trey Harris. It's like the soft tissue stuff, they'll pull a hamstring, you know, do a groin, do something like

that, an ankle and they'll be able to at least come back and beat it. If they're giving you good enough lines here with the wide receivers, I took a few. I didn't go crazy, but I stayed at Badger. Trey Harris was 675. Just insulting.

Guys, what are we supposed to do here? He's, like, he's a, I had him as a top 10 CFF wide receiver. I'm not going to take his 675. Have to. Yeah. Like out of principle, there's, there's one of my favorite sayings. I got to do it. Travis Hunter, as our boy Bobby and Shane, Shane mentioned.

Shane got him at 774. Bro, he opened at 675 on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, 9th. I know I chronicled all these. I dated them and everything. I'm a sick of. That's amazing. So yeah, on on the 9th, Trey came out at 675, went up to 7774 and it was still a hand wave at 7774. I will say at Buka I took at over 745 proudly. I have been an Ake Bucca guy forever. You know this. You know this, Josh, right? In the Champions League two years ago, I cut I cut video. and sent it to the group talking about how people are taking my ike i like i'd birthed him he was mine the the the power wide receiver the power three wide receiver three theory potent offense

wide receiver three theory yeah so i went with him and then obviously like one of the legitimate crown jewels and i actually triple bet this i maxed it every time they let me i went there there I went to three different places that would allow me to do it. Guys, they put Tet Eroa McMillan at 900 receiving yard. Yeah. 900. With that defense, you know, coming back to Arizona, they didn't bring Tet back to Arizona, you know, to fucking put them on ice.

So that was honestly one of the great overs of the wide receiver group. And I will say, surprisingly, and I didn't take any of his lines. Luther Burton, we probably thought he was a lead pipe lock at like the 899 and a half that he was out there at. I mean, look at a bird and saying, oh, this Luther, written, 940 and a half was his open. Excuse me. I didn't touch it. And it's not going to hit. What do you think?

Do we get that out of burden? Last question? No. I mean, I don't think so. J.D. He's like, maybe. But, I mean, what is he at right now? I'm not even.

I don't know. Well, you look that up, though. The Gavin, I think he's probably right. No way. Is it 7.50? You kidding me? Yeah, never mind. 440.

Yeah, I was like 7.50. Woo. Yeah, 440. Yeah, divide by 2. He's got to get 500 yards. I mean, I don't even know Brady Cook's going to play the rest of the season. And it's like Drew Bind's not going to get him there. We saw Dr.line.

Oh, boy. That was hideous. Yeah, I agree. So that'll do. And I will just, we'll get to the, before we move on, a few of these that Bobby mentioned, the Jadnott 900 injury. That's the thing with running backs. You've got to be petrified of these injuries and why you have to bake them in. And if you notice, that's kind of what I did with my running backs, unless they were great value. Like, I didn't touch anything. There was really full price that I went over with. Maybe I'm soft. But I just feel like it doesn't take much to take the running backs off of their

line, whereas you have a little bit of leeway with the wide receivers. Also, he put out, Bobby put out, I think, Lacey 750. Bro, he opened it at, excuse me, for 50. We got an open on, on Kyron Lacey. That is outrageous right there with Trey. Also, a couple other fun ones. We got another round eight gets in 375. really real low for Ronda Gadsden, you know, like pretty surprising. There was actually real, like, awesome hedge opportunity on him because he ended up boosting right up to like that 550 to, you know, 575 range or so. So if you got that open, you got 200 yards of pretty fucking strong middle.

Sorry about that. You know, it's kind of toggle width. So I will put that. And then obviously with Sautchuk at 825, you know, we heard a lot about Javante Barnes in the preseason about him being healthy. and how he had made waves the previous season. Man, 825, Gavin Sawchuck. Adios. Sorry about that.

So, all right, boys. That's good. That's it for me, Josh. You can do the driving from here. Yeah, well, let's go. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll come back, and we'll talk waiver wire. All right.

Well, we're coming back to the back stretch of the season here, right? We have two more weeks from most of us, and then we hit playoffs. We're hitting the stretch, boys. Look, waiver. Waver wire during these next couple weeks is critical because, look, week 10, 11, 12 is when we get a lot of our second buys for teams. Horrific set of buys coming up. Yep.

And so if you're right, teetering on the line for playoffs, I mean, a lot of these pickups could be really critical. I do feel like we have some opportunity here, particularly the QV position and maybe even running back with some injuries that have occurred or just replacements from Port. performance that I think we can take advantage of here and with the playoffs coming up. But, J.D., let's start with you and your quarterbacks. Once you run down your quarterbacks that you have and then pass it off to you, Fron, after that. All right. Yeah, we got a few to mention this week.

Colton Joseph, Old Dominion, is looking like a player here. So this is continuing my theme of mentioning an Old Dominion player every week. But again, Kevin Decker as the offensive coordinator, it's a fantasy-friendly system. It hasn't shown itself yet, but it really is beginning to. They just have a lot of dirt cheap assets. And right now, Colton Joseph looks like the best one. For example, he was, what, 5200 on draft kings on a short slate. So just dirt cheap.

We're talking dirt cheap. He's a young kid. Dynasty, people have probably sapped them up already. But he's averaging 26.7 fantasy points per game. And he's hit 34 or more in three of his last four games. That's in six point passing leagues. his rushing ability is at the position. He's rushed for 65 plus and 5 straight.

So he's a guy who will be owned pretty much everywhere to start next week. Other than that, a little more desperate, but Cooper Legaw on Tulsa, we know that Wilson likes his rushing QBs, and that's what LaGa is. And you would think he's the starter going forward. He should be after he had 47.9 fantasy points last week threw for over 305 touchdowns, and he had 46 rushing. It's a pretty good matchups to finish the year. So if you're really desperate, you need a streamer.

He plays UAB in their next. game for example and you can throw them in there. I won't rehash my my reasons, but I talked about ECU last week about Hauser and Chase Sol and they both absolutely smashed. So Keating Hauser's a guy whose arrow is definitely pointing up. Still in a system that's going to run at the fastest base in the country. And he's a decent little player. Has a little bit mobility.

He hasn't really shown either. Other than that, Owen McCown, definitely a thing now. Even going back when he was in Colorado and those teams were terrible. We were watching Owen McCown being like, this guy's got a little something here. ends up at a at a G5 school and he's just throwing the crap out of the ball. 43 pass attempts in each of his last four games and their defense is really god-offal. So that's going to play. Owen McCowns the thing.

And then last but not least, Michael Van Buren, Mississippi State. The freshman has 27 fantasy points in three straight games. He's in a good levy scheme. And the defense is in your bottom two or three statistically in every single advanced metric you're going to look at. It's real bad. So he's going to keep throwing. So yeah, that's what I had this week. some interesting like streaming options here there.

None of these guys are really smashes, I would say, but there's definitely a lot more intriguing options. Some teams kind of like going towards teams, and a lot of these are rushing quarterbacks or like their original starter to start the year isn't really doing so well. Like, for example, LaGala coming in for Kirk Francis. And there's some interesting options here.

Wow. Well, you know, as we get to this part in the season, the thing about the quarterback position when it comes to Waverwire is there's only so many guys left, right? I had four guys listed with a extra credit, and J.D. hit every single one of them. I did not have Cooper Laga, but I had McCown, Joseph, Mr. MVP, MVP, himself, and then Kat and the Hat Houser. So you hit every single one, you hit the Grand Slam of all my QBs,

so I will leave them. I only say McCown, 19% owned, Joseph, 9%. MVP. I love it. I love being able to do the, the three-letter thing, like TVD, MVB. Like, I'm really excited about Mr. Van Buren. And he sounds so regal.

Van Buren, you know, the Dutch accent. I like it. And 7% and then Kattenhauser, 6%. However, a very, very, very important quarterback that needs to be mentioned and that has been talked about so many times in the summer. I mean, I've been waiting for it. five dynasty or C2C shares. It's finally,

finally Hammond time. Yes, I was waiting for you to bring them up for a time. Will Hammond, quarterback, four star, Texas Tech. Finally, we get the Baron Morton, either ineffectiveness or injury that we were talking about. There's another guy who was listed in 1,800 in a season along the line. I just didn't believe it with Barrymore. I bet it.

But I just couldn't bring myself to taking over because I'm like, I know Will Hammond is coming, looming over his every move. And while Baron Morton has done enough, has been competent as a, like a fifth year system QB. Like he's the prototype, right? Bambridge's boy. Bambridge's boy, Baron Morton, Bruno Bainbridge himself. But when it comes to watching Hammond, dude, I watched every throw he made in that game. And irrespective of what happened at the end where he fumbled on a QB sneak,

Kit Lee should have never put him in that position. I probably should have tried to get the first down by throwing. Everything else he did was awesome. I'm talking not just good, awesome. He looks the part. If you just watch, you watch just 10 throws from Wilhamman, and you know right out of the gate, he's so much better than Baron Morton. Delivery, pocket poise.

you watch him like to put him in the in the huddle he's directing traffic like he looks confident the whole time he's not overwhelmed extremely mobile way way way baron morton can't move he's basically drew bled so um right Peyton manning will hamann is an athlete and he made multiple quality scrambling plays that are at the proper times we're stepping up as opposed to rolling out everything he did just showed he is a dynasty gem to be a quality and to be cherished. Any keeper of dynasty format where Will Hammond is available, he should be the guy.

I mean, I guess Baron Morton for some reason, they're going to put him out there. I mean, if Joey McGuire is smart, he just puts him on ice, he's coming. And when he does, he's going to be a fantasy monster. So get ready and get yourself,

Will Hammond. Talked about him all off season. I projected this was coming. It is his time. Stop. Hammond time. We need to cut that. just where Proton said, Baron Morton is basically Peyton Manning.

We just need to. Yeah. We just need that. No context. No context. Right. Context doesn't matter. We've learned from the news that context doesn't matter.

Just clip whatever anybody says and just put it out there. It's the truth. Yeah, that's hilarious. You know, to his mobility point, that in the red zone, we had the RPO where he just like juke the stocks out of that defense. Oh, it was a play I'm talking about. Of course I do. I was, that's a good agility.

I was at Circa hanging out with like a actual crew of Texas Tech fans, believe it or not, for that game. Because I was there on Friday night. So I stuck around, went to the greatest sports book in the world to watch all the games at once. And it was like the fervor of these Texas Tech fans watching Will Hammond. And especially on that play, you couldn't help but be excited. You know, so I feel like for Will Hammond's first real audition, it was the proper forum for me to be in. I didn't know it was coming, but it's almost like, you know, fate dictated this was going to happen that I could be and watch it happen in real time with just the excitement all around me. The only time I've ever been around a crew of Texas Tech fans, you know, in the last few years.

Oh, my gosh, what a wonderful moment it was getting to watch. my my beautiful baby boy Will Hammond would be birthed. That's awesome, man. And look, yeah, we'll talk about more about Texas Tech later. But hey, one quick thing on Kate and Hauser. Have you guys seen the ECU schedule after the buy? Oh, down the stretch.

Listen to this set of teams. They got FAU, then Tulsa, North Texas, and they finish off with Navy. I mean, those first three. It's on. It's on. Six-point passing. Touchdown leagues. I mean, look, that kid is going to just kill it for those games for sure.

And on the other side, so are every quarterback on the other side that are playing against ECU's pathetic defense. They're going to kill it too because they got to run up for like 56 this week, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Nice job. Any game ECUs involved in points are sure to follow. And again, to JD. Great call on Soul Man. Yeah, that's good. One other one I'll throw in there, and this is just a little bit of speculative, but Marcel Reed,

you know, he took over for Connor Wegman. If they commit to him, then he's probably available as somebody who got dropped in most of your leagues. And they do play New Mexico State. I believe it's week 11. So first week, or no, week 12. There were first week of the fantasy playoff.

offs for most leagues. So you can get a nice little deal there. We play New Mexico State and, you know, could crush that. It also plays South Carolina and Auburn in the coming weeks as well. So I think there's some opportunity there with Marcel Reed as another guy. Yeah, running backs for a ton. Let's start with you on running backs. So JD doesn't see all your guys with a limited pool. So we'll start with you. And then, J.D., why don't you finish this up? Well, I'll try to keep it free since I do want to make sure that you know, poor J.D. has had to deal with monologue frotone with the season long stuff today. So I want to give him forum on these. It has to be reiterated.

It doesn't need to be belabored. Everybody knows by now. Justice for Ellison. 23% owned. Okay. Enough guys. Everywhere. No more.

Another Mississippi State guy. Man, Mississippi State, their defense is trash. Trash. But they're fun. They're fun. You got MBB and now Devon phone booth 10% owned. I mean, Johnny Daniels, not to be confused with Jack, we talked about him a little bit. He's there as well.

But man, booth is getting his. He's clearly proved to be the RB1, you know, that 50-50 share. It looks like it's tilting in his favor. And they're a dynamic offense. And they're getting down the field. And you wanted to have somebody who's in position to be able to score those touchdowns and ring them up, as well as be able to take advantage of the past every script. So when you get those draws and stuff, he's able to, you know, have some space to really work with.

I just think at 10% he's a good value. Amani Marshall, Appi State, 0% owned. Okay, all right, looks like he's that guy for right now. Have a go. Zero percent. Deep leagues, why not? And then Al J. Henderson, playing at Akron this week. Again, we talked about the halacious buys.

Okay, he's 2% owned. I talked about him a little bit before just as an arbal. mentioned but you had over 100 this week looks like he's the dude and with match and starting at akron i mean that's a nice little spot at 2% if you have a need of running back you could do worse than a plug and play there done katy what you got uh yeah you'll start with uh mr ricky hunt for ohio so anthony tias has been a volume hog we've talked about ohio fair amount on the show because they've been interesting and kind of popped out of nowhere a few of these players but uh It sounds like Tyos might be out a while.

It's unsure. It's the max. So stay tuned for news. But I think it's, I think Ricky Hunt's going to be the guy. I only had nine carries, but he took him for 89 yards and a touchdown. And they handed McCormick 13 carries, but he didn't really do much with him. I'm assuming that's just because it was a blowout. And then you already have your RB1 hurt.

You're not going to get your RB2 hurt. And you just kind of coast. So I think Ricky Hunt could be a smash if he really is the RB1 going forward. So definitely think he's worth a speculative add with some pretty high upside. Other than that, Braylin Russell, good call on Braylin Russell. very interesting back. He had five runs of 10 or more yards as a true freshman, and we know he's a big bruiser too.

He's going to force some mistackles. So, uh, Jekwinden Jackson, I, I'm a never Jekwinda Jackson guy. He has paper ankles. And now that he's hard, I don't know,

who knows what that's going to look like? And that offense is moving and grooving. JD, did you, did you see that when he had to busted that long run from the one yard line, his own one yard line? Yeah. Like pull to hand.

I don't think he actually pulled a hand me, but it's just so funny of like, he gets like, 60 yards on the field is like, I'm gas. He's like, I'm done. Yeah. It was really funny run. I loved it.

Because he's one. It was time to a better nutrition program in this offseason son. If that is any, that doesn't tell you. It was hilarious, but I mean, the kid is incredible. I mean, he's not built for 99 yard runs. But it was just funny. He's a beast. I mean, they're running back's room been a little confusing, but like,

Trey Biddy, who follows the team way better than anyone, like, falls him super closely when he was like, oh, yeah, this week. Russell's the R.B one. I'd be surprised if he doesn't get 18 plus touches. It's like, I mean, I know he's a good true freshman, but he's just like quite clearly above anybody else in that room. The rest are just complimentary guys. And I think that will be the case for years going forward.

All right, a guy I'll mention that's kind of a deep cut, but Robert Henry UTSA, so we've already talked about how bad their defense is. He's a guy who really caught my eye last year with just some extremely good metrics. And looks pretty good on film, but like those metrics like really, really stood out. And I didn't see anyone giving him love. So he's a guy that I've kind of had an eye on, and ETSA has been pretty bad this year, so he hasn't done much. But over the last two weeks, he's at 36 carries and seven receptions. So they're like clearly making a point to get this guy the ball.

And the offense has been doing pretty well. He has 15 or more fantasy points in both games. So that's like, that's okay. But when you have North Texas and Temple still on your schedule, it wouldn't surprise me if Henry is a guy that you need as a spot starter. And you're like, oh, there you go. There's 20 points just out of nowhere. So he's an interesting one. Speaking of Arkansas running backs, Isaiah Augustov.

36 carries the last two weeks for Colorado. So I know it's Colorado. Probably not going to be a smash, but I want to point out just how impressive he's been. So he found the end zone in three straight games. They do have Texas Tech and Oklahoma State still on the schedule. And he forced 10 missed tackles last week. That was tied for a national lead.

And all the guys he's tied with are like big time fantasy guys and big time C2C guys. So interesting on August stuff, that's that guy who was kind of impressive as a crew, but you wind up as a Colorado running back. Nobody really knows what's going to happen. They're still going to score points. looks like August stops the RV 1 to end the year. Other than that, keep an eye on Antoine Raymond for Rutgers. Menong guys, I mean, geez, if you're watching that game, he, like, lays down on

the field for two minutes, all of a sudden he's back in the game, then he's laying down again. So who knows what's going on with Kyle Monong guy. It's kind of a mess having to track him in his warm-ups and taking second team reps, and we're doing this two straight weeks. I really hope we don't keep doing this with Kyle Monong guy for the entire season. It makes it very hard to track, and there's never any definitive news. But Antoine Raymond, the freshman is definitely a guy who, if, Monong guys out, you know they're going to run the heck out of the ball.

Probably not going to give 20 targets to the wider receiver one every single week. I know they did it versus USC. And you might say, well, maybe they're going to change the style of play. Well, USC was out four of their top five defensive backs. And we've already, I've called out on the show. I believe how they're missing their top pressure guys, Gentry and Lucas as well. So it's just a total, a total pass funnel at this point. So, yep, those are my running mecks.

Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, definitely smashed the second half unders on Monash. guy last game and that proved to work well with him going in and out of the games. I know. Bold putting them out. I mean, they put him out and then hit it. I think it actually got took down. So, but got it before it got it took down.

Yeah. Which is nice. One of the thing with Davin Booth from Mississippi State, he does play Massachusetts this week. That's another big reason to pick him up. Oh, yeah. My alma mater. Oh, yeah.

There you go. So they might get actually no it's not at home it's at Mississippi State who was it was it Missouri that went to UMass this year went to there I don't remember yeah I think so yeah good solid 3,000 person crabs for that one nice work that's awesome well hey let's take a quick break and they'll come back and finish up with wide receivers and tight-ins all right uh frotan let's start with you on wide receivers this time all right we'll say that of the groups The wide receiver group was the least inspiring, I wanted to say, from week to week basis in terms of what's available and also what's available that you can plug in. Junior Luther Vandross for Toledo, him and Jawan Newton have been just a devastating pairing over there for the Rockets.

They have Eastern Michigan, and it's been, Eastern Michigan's been breeding some pretty nice little shootouts over there. They can score as well. I think you're going to see a pretty competitive contest. He's 17% owned, and I have him in a couple of my lineups because of just how many teams we have on buy. That somebody should take a look at. Mackay Lemon, I think we mentioned him a little bit last week. He's still only 23% owned, and he went for a buck 40 and a touchdown. He's, I know I've mentioned it.

I know I've said it. I think he's usurped Zachariah Branch as that primary slot option, and they throw the ball 35 to 40 times a game. And they did it against, you know, Rutgers. It was a question of whether or not like, all right, are they just going to run the ball the whole time? Because Rutgers has a pretty imbalanced off defense because they're, you know, 120th or something in Russian success rate of that. They just, yeah. And I know it seems impossible, but while Mark's got plenty of action and dropped an absolute 40 point bomb out there, there's plenty to go around for Moss 2. We threw for 308 yards. And, you know, the primary

recipient of that, once again, you know, for the third week in a row is Ben McKay-Len. This is not a one-week thing. It's a trend. Well worth picking up. I know they're playing Washington this week, but, you know, USC is going to do what USC does. That's a good option. And definitely, as J.D. had mentioned last week,

he was only 17% owned still. You know, he was in single digits last week, still only 17%. And that just can't happen. Yeah, for sure. What's you got, Jad? Yes. Just one more thing on Lemon.

Yeah, I know I heard Moss. They asked him who would, lead USC in receptions and receiving yards in the offseason. And he kind of immediately said Mackay Lemon. So it looks like that's going to be the case. Loves him some lemon. All right. Some guys I have, again, no smashbots.

But Otto Tia for Utah State looks like the next kind of guy up. Now that Jalen Royals is no longer playing college football. But Otto Tia, yeah, he had nine targets. Looks like he's going to lead the outside room. It was already in a full-time role. Looks like him and Kyrice White, who's going to be the wide receiver one going forward? I don't know. but you have your top outside guy, your top slot guy,

and we've already talked about Utah State. Miserable defense, decent offense, playing at a fast-paced offense only. A lot of shootouts. Other than that, Grant Page, I mean, just super deeply guy, but he moved into a full-time role. I actually led that team in pass-knaps playing on the outside, and he was the number three recruit from Colorado once upon a time in his class, who transferred Utah State.

So it couldn't be an interesting guy. He's only a sophomore, has multiple years of eligibility. JJ Jones on UNC. I hate calling out a UNC wide receiver because it's been tough. But he's been killing it. He had almost 30 fantasy points this last week, 29.9. I can go ahead and round that up. He's now gone for at least 13 fantasy points in four of his last five games.

And he looks pretty decent when you're watching play. It looks pretty decent. It looks like a really solid outside guy. Deshawn Polk on San Diego State. I know the offense has been pretty bad, but we also know Sean Lewis is the offensive coordinator, and the defense is playing some decent football. So kind of shows me they're coaching him up pretty well.

there wouldn't be surprised that the offense comes on a little stronger in these last couple games. And he has 22 targets in his last two weeks. He's at 18 receptions in that time span. So hasn't found the end zone hasn't quite smashed yet. But when you get that kind of volume and you're just racking them up, I have my eye on you, Mr. Deshaun Polk as a, again, just kind of a lineup filler. The last one not least, well, actually, maybe least, but Jimmy Holiday, Louisiana Tech, just not playing much. Well, the defense there is, it's interesting.

at their metrics, their defense is going to tell you they're like one of the best in the country. But you watch these conference USA games and you know pretty much anything can happen. And Jimmy Hollidays come on strong. They're giving him a handful of carries every single week. They're targeting him in the short game, had a decent amount of receptions last week. I think you're going to see that. Keep moving forward. It's basically him and it's true Edwards is pretty much all that's happening with that offense. So if you need some guys, those are some tough ones to fill out a lineup. Yeah, there you go. Froton. You want to close out with tight ends?

Sure. Bauer Sharp, Oklahoma, 17% owned. Bauer Sharp is like Jack Bauer, Sharp. When Jackson Arnold is out there, for those of you of the 24 fame, beep, beep, beep. Every time he's out there, he turns into a competent and not just, I'd say, you know, potentially a Big 12 caliber tight end in last game. he had 90 yards, had 10 targets.

He was used often, rode hard, put away wet. And that's because what else can Oklahoma really do is, you know, you have Dion Burks running the short stuff, and then everyone else is injured, and it's Fowler Sharp. So clearly he has a chemistry with Jackson Arnold, and that certainly showed last game. You have to give him a look if that's what you're needing. It looks like Arnold should be the QB there for the rest of the year.

And then Sam Roush, tight-end Stanford, you know, guy that in the preseason, it was no secret. You know, he's going into a fairly lucrative position with Benjamin Eurossick moving on. And that tight-end position in Stanford traditionally been a pretty good honeyhole and produced multiple NFL caliber tight ends. 15% owned, he had another great week, got a touchdown pass and was, I think, targeted seven times or whatever have you, for an offense that likes to throw the ball and is typically down. and throwing the ball. So that's something that you'll want to take advantage of as well. A couple of pretty good tight ends in the 15 and 17% ownership range. Yeah, that's good.

J.D., you have any tight ends here? I got to mention another old Dominion player before they kept my mic. My boy Conright. Yeah. I think we've mentioned him before, but he's making some explosive plays and getting targeted a handful of times each week. So, Pat Conroy. Yeah, I love that one. He's been.

I will mention one more. tight end that Bobby over here put in the comments. Tyler Warren's receptions line four and a half again. All right. So you like the book's daring us for another over on Tyler Warren. Speaking of great tight ends. No, that's great. Yeah, I was going to hit on that at the end.

Do we think that goes over? I mean, he's got to smash that right against Ohio State. Hell yeah, they're going to have to use it. How are they going to advance the ball? Is it going to be the Harrison Wallis show? Right. I don't think so. I mean, it's a clear.

advantage they have from an athletic standpoint. That's really the one in their passing in that they have, unless you're using one of the backs out of the backfield. They really don't do much. Might be given the books too much credit, but if they think Juraler's not playing, maybe that has something to do with it. But either way, it's still low, way long.

Bo Pribula? Have you seen the great? Okay, yeah, you're right. I love it. Good point, Jimmy. Yeah, well, a couple to finish this out, we talked about them last week at Nauseum, but Caleb Douglas, wide receiver, Texas Tech.

I mean, he was the guy early on in the game. And then when Will Hammond came in, Will Hammond, I was like, I had, I actually had Josh Kelly, some Josh Kelly props on the over. And I was like, oh, this is going to smash it. And I'm like, not like, Hammond only looked Caleb Douglas. The entire.

Going to the outside. He's got the arm to stretch the field, baby. We know Barry Morton, doesn't. Yeah. So you guys just on Douglas, because I think we're all in on Douglass. Like, do we think he could just be a total? fantasy stud because he's got three straight games with double digits and he looks amazing.

Yeah, he's the unquestioned X there and he's the one they listen to. And we saw Coe can kind of go down. He had an ankle injury at some point during that game. I mean, left. But gosh, if he's down, that it's literally Jeff Douglas and Josh Kelly. I mean, that's it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's what I was hoping Michael Hudson would be over the last four games

stretch of the season. No. Maybe do we finally get them if eekins down? I mean, come on. All the other freshmen have been every one of them, you know, that are the hot ones we've seen moments from. You know, and we've seen extended, I would say, examples of elite level play from most of them. I mean, we got, we got obviously Jeremiah Williams, Moore, Cam Coleman made some great plays. Westcoe, Trey, you should be Ryan Wingo. I mean, all of those guys have had moments of like, all right, we see what's possible. Want to see it out of Hudson. Come on now. Joey McGuire, Kitley, let's go. Yeah. Yeah, totally.

Hey, one last tight end for me is Houston Thomas from UTSA. Now, they use a bunch of tight ends in this last game. So, you know, it was, you know, I don't know if he does anything, but, you know, six of 10 targets, he caught for 13 yards this last game. And look, over the last three games, he's averaging 13 fantasy points per game. I mean, only had 19 this last game. So look, I don't know if he'll be anything, but if you're like desperate for a tight end and there's nothing else on the wire,

I mean, he's 0% owned. And I think you can do worse with, again, this UTSA defense being terrible. And they're loving using the tight ends. And Owen McHanna's been depending on them. So he's a, you know, deep, deep shot that I'm just throwing out there. We do have one last question that I think chat once answered. Do we think Rourke will play this weekend?

Any kind of fried crumbs you guys have on this? So he had a nail ripped off of his thumb, which, man, I would assume that's got a, it's got a hurt, right? If you're gripping the ball. But at the same time, it's not a, I don't know, like how do you quantify that? I would think there's got to be a chance, right?

Yeah. How do you even remedy that? Do you put like a fake nail on it? How does that go? Two screws put in his thumb. I mean, it sounds like, oh, man. Our boys, a huge fan. I mean, I don't know.

Full boat, huh? Yeah, surgery. You guys, you guys supposed to play baseball for, like, Eric, you played in college, right? You're a pitcher. I mean, if your thumb. That's my old man. That's Rick Frotan, former professional pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. I mean, if your thumbs messed up throwing any type of ball, I mean, what kind of

is that having on it? Yeah. I mean. Well, and with a baseball, too, it's a smaller object. So, you know, I'm two-semen. And it wouldn't really affect as much on my change. I threw a circle. But, yeah, I mean, the thumb is directing everything here.

You know, the pressure is coming off the fingertips. You know, that's where the velocity. It's the heat's coming off that. But this is, you know, posing it. I would think it would be better to probably have, like, a thumb than to have an index finger because it's that's where the spiral's coming off is the index I mean god it neither one's ideal but um for me when I'm I'm throwing it would be these two fingers I'd be more concerned about it's and the sum I think I'm just traumatized with cam risings oh he's just

got a cut on his finger can't be that bad and then seeing everything spiral straight into the ground and just wanting to off myself for three and a half hours watching that poor game trigger warning we're talking about a rourke's thumb injury yeah yes yes it's back to rising yeah this is why we'll have to see how that goes it's i i don't even i wish i had a more definitive answer for you gosh i don't yeah i mean maybe it's in play yeah one of the things that that that you know boy west huber mentored me a lot in the space he was like never would play a guy coming off of injury and his dFS more than anything else but dFS CFF like i just I just wait on all that and just see where it all comes out in the wash

and hopefully the bench is deep enough for you to play somebody else at QB. Yeah, Wes is a mentor to us all, especially JD. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, man, this is a great show. This is fun. We've got a little camerizing shout out in the chat. Appreciate you guys being with us.

J.D. and I will be on or will really be releasing the show on Friday. We've got 20 props and 20 minutes. and man, it's going to be another good week. We're excited to do this with you guys. Until next time, do small things with great love.