Fantasy Football Daily - Sean Tucker, Michael Wilson, Pat Bryant Waiver Wire Stars | Bye Week Preparation And Playoff Strategy

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

We just lowered the prices on all of our packages, and promo code 'GURU' gets you an extra 15% off of our already discounted 50% off price tag. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠���⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/plans#⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠/ It’s the final push before the fantasy playoffs, and this week’s waiver wire is all about smart depth, sneaky stashes, and injury pivots. We break down every position with urgency and precision, highlighting the names that can save your season. At running back, the guys spotlight Emanuel Wilson, Sean Tucker, Bam Knight, and Chris Rodriguez as priority adds — all with paths to real late-season volume. Devin Singletary’s usage remains steady, while Kenneth Gainwell and Jaleel McLaughlin headline the “next man up” tier. For deeper leagues, Ollie Gordon and Bhayshul Tuten could emerge fast — especially if LeQuint Allen’s injury lingers. At wide receiver, it’s time to act before everyone else: Michael Wilson, Pat Bryant, and Jayden Higgins are flashing real chemistry with their quarterbacks, Xavier Legette is heating up, and Mack Hollins plus Darnell Mooney offer usable depth in Week 12’s heavy bye week. Andrei Iosivas gets a potential bump with Ja’Marr Chase’s looming suspension, while whispers of Tyrell Shavers make for a deep dynasty dart. Tight-end streamers AJ Barner and Brenton Strange round out the adds, and if you’re in a QB pinch, Kirk Cousins and Tyler Shough headline the streamer list with Bryce Young and Jacoby Brissett off the board. 🎧 Powered by Fantasy Points Premium — your one-stop edge for betting, DFS, and late-season domination. Where to find us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/TheOGFantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/⁠⁠TomBrolley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://twitter.com/FGDolan ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Discord here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/media/discord#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Fantasy Points for FREE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com/plans#/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast Transcription Here: https://podsqueeze.com/embedded/transcript/PReCyKJLsxjpERrcoG46j3 Fantasy Points Website - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ NEW! Data Suite - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://data.fantasypoints.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/FantasyPts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fantasypts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #FantasyFootball #2025Rankings #FantasyFootballAdvice #NFL #FantasyFootball #WaiverWire #Week7 #FantasyFootball2025 #FantasyPoints #NFLFantasy #FantasyAdvice #Sleepers #WaiverPickup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Week 12 waiver wire additions, the players you want to add on your fantasy team, players you can put in your flex, players you want to stash. Theo Greminger, Joe Dolan, and Tom Brawley, right here on Fantasy Football Daily on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network. Really, really strong waiver wire. Like a lot of weeks, guys, we're not too excited. to talk about the names, but we have a number of names that you can add this week and stick right into your lineup. Four teams on by week and week 12. Only a few weeks left until the fantasy

football playoffs. Hope you saved a little bit of fab. And Joe Dolan, Emmanuel Wilson, might be the most intriguing Waver Wire edition this week. Looks like he's going to be a plug and play for Josh Jacobs. We're recording this on Monday morning. We don't have any like recent updates on Jacobs. But if we're reading through the tea leaves, it sounds like he's going to miss at least this week and potential to miss a little bit longer. They have said that it's not a season ending injury, but they're going to be cautious with this one. It's a very important player to them. Yeah, the Packers now, they were able to escape with a win, which would keep them in the playoff picture and should still be in the NFC North picture with the Lions going

down on Sunday night football. Emmanuel Wilson played virtually every. snap after Josh Jacobs went out. He played over 90% of the snaps after he went down. Obviously, he was productive. He got in the end zone. He had a, he had a nine-yard reception. He had been getting some work in the passing game a little bit earlier in the season. But this is certainly somebody now, Theo, we've been mentioning it for weeks. Most people don't have a lot of fab budget left. But whatever you have is probably worth it if you need a running event, especially if you have Josh Jacobs. This is one of those. We were talking last week about adding priority handcuffs and just dropping some of the dead weight from your

roster to add a priority backup. This is not one of the guys we mentioned. So he's probably still out there in your league, unlike a Brian Robinson or somebody like that, unlike a Keaton Mitchell who didn't exactly have a great game against the Browns, unlike Tank Bigsby. So this is probably one of those guys who's still out there and it's somebody who's going to be plug and play. You can probably play him for the next week or two until Josh Jacobs comes back. And Tom, What's interesting is if we're projecting, even if there's any sort of like indecision with his week 13 availability, they're going to err on the side of caution because they play on Thanksgiving Day. So you get the Sunday game against Minnesota and then you get the Detroit game at 1 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day. So I think this is going to be at least two games of Emmanuel Wilson.

Like Joe said, this is a potential three down back and a team that really relies on using the running back. your thoughts. Yeah, I agree with you. The Packers are usually one of the, I've been doing this for 10 plus years, really focusing on the waiver wire. And the Packers are definitely on the more conservative side with bringing back players off of injury. So I would not be surprised if he at least sits this week,

even if he's close to playing, maybe save him for that Thanksgiving Day game. But even then, if he's not particularly close this week, if he's not practicing, it could be at least a two-game absence. And he's played well in his opportunities here, completely wiped out Chris Brooks, as Joe said, in the game in week 11. He did not have much of a role. So I would expect Wilson to get most of the work here, good off, you know, a better offense than most. I was about to say a good offense, but they've been kind of going in the wrong direction in the last couple of weeks. But Wilson has played well in his opportunity.

So this is a priority pickup for me. and who knows, maybe this Jacobs injury stretches out a little bit longer than this two-week window that we're looking at right now. Maybe it could last for multiple weeks and you have a player who could be a pivotal piece for you in the fantasy playoffs. Yeah, and Wilson was never viewed as like one of the handcuffs.

He's not like a Tyler Algear type household name. So he's actually available in a ton of leagues. A player that's also going to be available in a good number of leagues, far fewer than Emmanuel Wilson. We have talked about Sean Tucker now for about three weeks, maybe four. And Sean Tucker's been a player

we've been telling you to pick up. He sort of out rushed Rashad White for two consecutive weeks leading into week 11. And then in week 11, Sean Tucker just exploded. We talked about it last week. It's sort of the Devon A-chan corollary

guys who can burst off big runs usually have a little bit of a chance against this defense. Sean Tucker sort of proved it again. And it was unbelievable, guys, second consecutive season that we've seen Sean Tucker put up a top two scoring. Chris McCaffrey got him, but he got him by a point. Sean Tucker finishes with 19 carries for 106 yards and two rushing touchdowns. And then adds two catches for 34 yards and a touchdown.

Unbelievable performance. This one's a little tricky. Bucky Irving was back at Tampa Bay practice. Looks like he's trending towards playing in week 12. But I got to say, Tom, Sean Tucker, it's really hard to put this one back in the bag. It feels like he's going to be a player you can stick in your flex, use potentially as your RB2, even with Bucky Irving coming back. Irving was 18 points per game, but maybe there's a little bit of a ramp up.

Maybe there's a little bit more caution with the amount of volume he'll take on after missing this many weeks. And again, the shoulder injury could have reaggravation issues with it. your enthusiasm for Tucker this week if he's still out there. Is he also a push-all-the-fab-in type guy for you? I don't know if he's a push-in-all-the-fab guy. Emmanuel Wilson is definitely at the top of the list, but I would definitely spend a few bucks on him.

There's no guarantee that Bucky Irving is going to play this week. He did practice a little bit last week, but hasn't gotten a full practice in just yet. It was a shoulder injury, foot injury. We'll see how he handles a little bit of contact probably this week. I'll be monitoring his practice reports to see if he does get up the full practices. If he doesn't, we could have at least another game with Sean Tucker. And maybe this performance in week 11, maybe they'll be a little bit more cautious with

Bucky Irving. If they don't think he's close to 100%, they might want to sit him out for another week and let Sean Tucker kind of do his thing again. So I also do think he's probably past Rashad White here moving forward. and he could get 8 to 10 carries in a given week with Bucky Irvin getting back. And I don't think that there's going to be a ramp up period, as you said. It's not going to be Bucky's out there for 80% of the snaps in week one when he's back. So it could be maybe more of like a 65, 35 type of split.

Bucky getting the passing game work and Sean Tucker working more in the running game scenarios. So I think he is worth an ad, but he's not quite to that tier of Emmanuel Wilson. Joe, are you also on the Wilson over Tucker, if you have your choice between the two? Yeah, and the question becomes, like Tom said, Sean Tucker, by the way, until yesterday, his receiving production was, let's say, negligible. He had a 28-yard reception for a touchdown against the bills. He has seven catches for 30 yards on the season. So he had six catches for two yards other than that.

So what is Sean Tucker's role if Bucky Irving is back? You know, Bucky Irving, it's easy to forget because this, the, it's a what have you done for me lately league, but he was one of the premier bell cows in fantasy football. He was doing it on the ground and through the air. Rashad White, they obviously trust with passing game work. I am with Tom and saying, I'm impressed by what Sean Tucker has done. I would like Sean Tucker to be my priority ad, but I just don't know how this backfield's going to shake out.

Remember, when he had a game like this last year, he just, they just completely relegated him to the bench for the rest of the season. So I think they're going to play him a little bit more, but this is a, that would be the concern I have with Sean Tucker. Yeah, it's very interesting. I do think if, if you can't get Wilson and Tucker's available, I think he's an unbelievable consolation prize. I don't know. I'm going to take an optimistic approach with him. I had to use him in a couple of lineups yesterday and it was like, okay, like found money. I might roll with him again. It's, again, it's hard to put this one back in the bag. I understand last, season, but last season you sort of had

Bucky Irving coming on and Rashad White was like the established guy. Now you have the Rashad White has just gotten outplayed by him. He looks better. It's three straight games about rushing him and Bucky Irving could take away some of those targets

that were going to Rashad White the last few weeks. So I'm very excited to add Sean Tucker if I can't add Emmanuel Wilson. Another player who had a huge, huge week 11 and a big win for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Zach Taylor continues to lose games coming out of a bye week. Cincinnati absolutely obliterated by Pittsburgh,

but you had another Kenneth Gainwell game, and Gainwell did it almost exclusively as a receiver. Seven catches for 81 yards and two touchdowns. Every week on X, I put out the overall target leaders, and Gainwell's quietly been inside the top 10 at the running back position like all season long. The guy's been effectively catching the football each and every one, week. He's had two six catch games and now a seven catch game. Also had nine carries for 24 yards,

scored 29 and a half points, which is actually his second highest weekly score. If we all remember, he had that huge week four. We talked about him back in week five. He's been sort of a boring guy, but now we see a handcuff, get the full workload, and excel. Jalen Warren, the ankle doesn't seem serious. But how enthusiastic are you about adding Kenneth Gainwell? Start with you on this one Tom. Yeah, he's worth an ad.

I don't think we're going to have a game missed here with Jalen Warren. He was on the sidelines throughout the second half after he picked up the ankle injury and he looked ready to go back in and then Pittsburgh had a defensive score and it was a multiple touchdown lead for them.

So they felt no reason to put him out there. Actually, Caleb Johnson and even got some carries. But we've seen it twice already this season when Warren has missed. He's had a couple of monster games. They'll get him involved in the passing game. Caleb Johnson hasn't really pushed for a lot of work here

as a rookie, third round pick that they thought they were going to get more out of. And he just hasn't done it up to this point. And it's probably going to go down as a loss season for him. So Gamewell is certainly worth a pick up here. But he's, I view him as more of a, I'm sticking on my bench here. if something does happen to Warren in these last couple of weeks, I can plug them in. Maybe if I'm in a 14 team or a 16 team league,

something real deep. I can throw Gainwell out there in a PPR format. And he's going to give me a couple of catches. But we'll see if he's, I mean, it was great against the Bengals. We've seen the Bengals bleed production to running backs and tight ends all season. So I don't know if it's just going to translate moving forward here. but we're also watching the Aaron Rogers injury as well. So I do think Mason Rudolph is probably, you know,

one of these quarterbacks who will be pushing the ball a little bit more down the field and maybe not checking it down as much to the running backs. Yeah, I mean, he's clearly the behind Wilson, behind Tucker, probably one that you want to let your teammates overpay for the production there. This time of year with the holidays right around the corner, you're looking to save some money. and a great way to do that is with Chime. Chime understands that every dollar counts.

That's why when you set up direct deposit through Chime, you get access to fee-free features like free overdraft coverage, getting paid up to two days early with direct deposit and more. Learn more at chime.com slash points. Chime is banking done right? Open a checking account with no monthly fees and no maintenance fees. Get paid up to two days early when you set up direct deposit. With qualifying direct deposits, you're eligible for free overdraft coverage, up to $200 on debit card purchases and cash withdrawals.

To date, CHIME has spotted members over $30 billion. Open a checking account with no monthly fees and no maintenance fees, not to mention access to over 47,000 fee-free ATMs, more than the top three national banks combined. Work on your financial goals through CHIME. today, open an account in two minutes at chime.com slash points. That's chime.com slash points. Chime feels like progress. Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank, banking services and debit card provided by the Bankor Bank N.A or Stride Bank N.A. Members FDIC spot me eligibility requirements and overdraft limits apply. Timing depends on submission of payment file. Fees apply at out of network ATMs. Bank ranking and number of ATMs,

according to U.S. News and World Report 2023. Chime checking account required. One player I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on Joe is Bam Knight. Marie D. Merrick exited with an ankle injury. Trey Benson, it's one of these players where we don't have like an exact clarity. It's not like we're hearing

all these Arizona beat reporters being like, Trey Benson is going to be back this week. He's ready to go right now. Like, it's a little bit of a mystery when we're getting Trey Benson back. Does BAM Knight become an appealing ad

now that this backfield just no one can stay healthy. Bam Knight, again, five carries, 24 yards, but he does score a touchdown. and he has four catches. Your thoughts on this backfield situation in Arizona. Yeah, so the Demercata thing, you were talking about the Cardinals off air.

You were talking about some of the DFS success you had. Yeah, but if you played Amari DiMercato, who was probably slated to have a huge game, given that they were playing from behind the entire way, he gets hurt, goes down. Bam Knight comes in, and he also believe lost a, oh, he did lose a long touchdown run to penalty. that this is a guy who he's probably been on and off some rosters.

I absolutely should be rostered in every single league right now, especially if, if Trey Benson cannot play. Michael Carter on the roster, off the practice squad, on the roster, off the practice squad. He's obviously a guy for whatever reason they don't trust all that much. So I would think, damn night, if Trey Benson doesn't play, is absolutely going to be the lead back. Yeah, Bam Knight's one of those players.

It's an ugly name to have on your roster. if you're in like biweek hell, and again, we have four teams on by week this week. Bam Knight becomes interesting. We're going to talk about other Cardinals in a little bit. Let's talk about the Washington backfield. You woke up early. You watched a 1613 Miami Dolphins Washington game, not the best game unless you were a Devon A-chan manager.

But one interesting thing is Chris Rodriguez dominated the Washington backfield touches. He had more rushing attempts than Jeremy McNichols and Jacori Kroski Merritt combined. He also caught a pass. 15 carries for 79 yards. Your thoughts on Rodriguez, Tom. Where are we out on this one? Yeah, he's definitely the back to own in Washington right now.

If you're still holding on to Bill, Bill Kroski Merritt there, I think he's dropable at this point. They've kind of indicated the last two weeks that Rodriguez had moved into the lead rule. They named him the captain before the week 10 game, but it got banged up early in that game. And, you know, he left. But he was able to practice this past week and played. And we saw him kind of take over the backfield. And he's, frankly, has run a little bit better than Kroski Merritt has the last month or two of the season. So I don't think they're going to go away from this. The problem is they're all, you know, Jeremy McNichols is still factoring in,

factoring in. Crossi Merritt is two. So it's a little bit of a headache here with three, three man backfield. Rodriguez is also one of these guys. If they fall behind, he could get game scripted out very easily. So you want to watch the situations where you plug him into a lineup. Last week was perfect against the Dolphins. That game was probably going to stay pretty neutral so they were able to feed him touches. But he could be game scripted out of any game that this bad commander's team falls behind in. But it's pretty clear that he's the guy that's given this backfield the most life over the last two games. And he's actually scored a couple of touchdowns.

So they're on by this week. So maybe this is one of those guys. You can kind of sneak through waivers. Maybe you're out of fab or so you don't maybe don't have to spend anything to get him because he's on by. People aren't necessarily looking at him. But he could be a valuable piece for maybe a flex play later in the season in the right matchup.

And Joe, you've talked about the value of roster. handcuffs. You know, multiple times, multiple weeks. It's a great way to sort of fill the back end of your roster, instant starters. And we mentioned the Miami-Washington game. Devon A. Chan, 21 carries 120 rushing yards. He also had five catches for 45 yards, just touching the ball a ton. Do you have interest in adding Ollie Gordon just in case Devon A-chan breaks down, down the stretch? Gordon looked good yesterday. Nine carries, 45-yard. and a touchdown. He's a guy that we were like really excited about back in our preseason waiver runs. It's taken a little while, but you're starting to see him flash a little bit.

Yeah, he's just one of those guys. You have them on the back end of your roster. And obviously coming off a week like this, there were so many injuries and you might need somebody to plug in into your lineup in a flex spot and just hope they get a touchdown. He is one of those guys. But yeah, he's, I mean, Theo, you essentially said it. The analysis is he looks good. he's clearly the top backup to Devon A. Chan and would be in line for a potential bell cow role if Devon A. Chan were to go down. And it's just a matter of, are you guessing right as to which guy you picked up? And that's Ali Gordon to me. And I think that if you're a Devon A Chan manager and you have a team that's heading into the fantasy playoffs, make sure that

you prioritize Gordon this week. Miami's on a by week. So Gordon's not going to be a player that most managers, some forward-thinking ones, but not ones that are in like need of points right now. They're going to let him pass, and you can get your valuable handcuff in Ollie Gordon. Let's mention Devin Singletary. Anything to add here? Score two touchdowns, Tom. Yeah, he's the guy that's getting a lot of the goal line work here over Tyrone Tracy. So at the very least, he's going to get those opportunities.

I do think Tracy is still ahead of him. I'd be very scared to use Singletary in any given week, but they're kind of using this hot hand approach. If Tracy gets off to a slow start, it could be a Singletary week at any point. but the same is true. If Singletary plays poorly in the early in the game, it could be a lot of Tracy. So you're hoping for touchdowns if you're plugging Devin Singletary into a lineup.

You're hoping that he continues to see those opportunities near the goal line. Now another player that's heading on to Buy Week this week and again will be free in most leagues. Is there any chance that we see a Sean Payton rugpole during the by week here? R.J. Harvey had 14 touches. Jaliel McLaughlin had seven of them. We heard the reports on Sunday morning on Saturday. The McLaughlin was going to see, you know, his share of this backfield. Denver gets a huge sort of program win to steal a college football term over Kansas City. Massive, massive win for the Broncos. I'd say maybe the biggest win since Sean Peyton took over there, guys. Broncos are nine and two. They head to their by week. We're going to talk a little bit about Broncos.

Rocco's receivers a little bit later. Joe, is there any interest in McLaughlin here? Are you just going to let him pass? Sean Dayton cannot help himself. I mean, it's not like RJ Harvey came out and with the world on fire in that game. But I mean, on the opening drive, I think with Lockland had more work than RJ Harvey.

And I let out on the on the game day show on series XM, like a full on belly laugh when I saw that. I'm just like, oh, freaking course. The guy's been inactive all year. And he's going to come in and he's going to get more work than, than R.J. Harvey, it's, it's a deep league only type of guy. Like, relying on Sean Peyton backfield decisions is just, it's not necessarily the business I want to be in if it's a guy who's been inactive all year. Joe, do you, Joe, do you think he's calling Latavius Murray

and trying to get him out of retirement this week? Like, Mike Bell. Get Mike Bell out there. Pierre Thomas is probably in shape, too. So, like, we'll just have all those guys get in work. So, So, yeah, Jolio McLaugh, but it's not really, Theo, I got to be honest. It's so funny that you mentioned that one because, like, how different would the narrative be this morning for R.J. Harvey, if he would have just gotten the short touchdown, everyone would have been so excited. I'll say the one, like, silver lining for R.J. Harvey, wasn't good running the ball, but Kansas City, we always knew this was going to be a difficult matchup. I do think that it's a positive that Tyler Badee was not worked in where the, I think that the nightmare scenario would have. been Harvey's not used in the passing game. They work in bidet, and it's like they split the carries. So Harvey gets three catches for 20 yards. I think the buy week's going to be another

week for Harvey to sort of ramp up and lead the backfield. But if I have RJ Harvey, I'm adding Jal McLaughlin, so I have my handcuff. I'm rostering handcuffs this time of year, especially if I like my team. And guys, one backfield that's an interesting one, if you're listening to this and you're in a deep format. Basial Tutin's been rostered all season long. But if you're in a shallow league, he's out there in a number of leagues. Had a huge game.

Jacksonville smokes the LA Chargers. Tom, how to handle this backfield? Your enthusiasm levels for Tutin if he's available. Yeah, I'd be picking him up. He did pick up that ankle injury and didn't return. He picked it up in the fourth quarter. But it was also a blowout.

So it could have been like the Jalen Warren situation where If it was a closer game, maybe he comes back in, but that's information we'll get later this week. But I'd still want to own him moving forward. There was definitely a shift towards, you know, splitting the carries a little bit more. This wasn't just the Jaguars leading by multiple touchdowns and we're going to get Tootin work late in the game. It was pretty evenly split throughout and Tootin was pretty darn impressive. So this is a guy we want to own.

And he's probably going to still need ETN to miss time for us to really feel great about plugging him into a lineup. But the split between these two backs definitely shrunk a little bit in week 11. And let's add this in. If the ankle does turn out to be anything for Bachel Tootin, and again, we're recording this early Monday morning, should deep league managers be adding LeQuint Allen? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he'll be kind of the second back there. if Tootin is going to miss multiple weeks. Alan has been kind of working in in the passing game anyway.

So I would expect his carries to ramp up a little bit. And I don't think he'll have as robust a rule as Tootin, but he'll be one injury away from potentially having the entire backfield if Tootin does miss a significant amount of time. So, yeah, Alan is the next guy up if Tootin is out. And now you guys, we have a Josh Jacobs update, live on air. It just dropped. Does not need surgery.

They've clarified that. Does not need surgery, but his weak availability is in doubt. And this is per Bill Huber NFL. So Josh Jacobs, week 12, will be out. And again, with the short turnaround for Thanksgiving, you might be thankful for Emmanuel Wilson if he gets 20 touches on Thanksgiving Day for you. And you guys mentioned my DFS success this week.

Big shout out to the team over at Fantasy Point. We've talked about Chris Wecht, unbelievable projections, Scott Barrett and all the guys doing DFS content. They do a fantastic job. And today's podcast is sponsored by Fantasy Points Premium. And Fantasy Points Premium is going to get you all of our betting and DFS content. We are on an absolute heater right now with all of our DFS and all of our betting content. We started giving out recommended anytime touchdown bets in week six. and we're up 30 units in just the last six weeks on the anytime touchdown bets.

If you put that in perspective, if you're betting $100, you'd be up $3,000 right now. And on an even larger sample, Justin Varns, you're going to get access to all of Justin's picks, is up 103 units with a 65% hit rate over his last three years, 65% hit rate over his last three years. You can now get a fantasy points premium subscription for just 87.50. And that's not per week. That's for the rest of the year. You're going to make, and I'll just say from personal experience,

you can end up making your money back on one bet with this. It's an incredible value, 8750, and that's for the entire season. And you can use the code Theo and get an additional 15% off our already reduced packages. And guys, one of the reasons it was a great DFS play, and our guys were on this. I'll say Scott was on this one, a number of our DFS guys were on this player, Michael Wilson. And we're going to talk about him right now. Michael Wilson, unbelievable performance at the wide receiver position. Jacoby Brissette, who we'll talk about again in a little bit, has been on an unbelievable streak.

It feels like every week we're talking about Brissette and his ability to elevate talent. and around him. Trey McBride is on another level. He's on like, Trey McBride looks like a league winner at the tight end position. Brissette has five straight QB1 finishes. But the story of week 11 for DFS managers and for anybody who started him was this unbelievable performance from Michael Wilson. Wilson had 15 catches. He had 18 targets. And this player hasn't exactly come out of completely nowhere, guys. This was a third round pick. He was a senior bowl player. Michael Wilson's been in the organization. Tom, you know, you've done waiver wire content for a long time, as have I. There's been multiple

weeks. Wilson's ended up in your wavewire column, but nothing like this. This was unbelievable. It reminds me of the Kendrick Bourne. Anybody who watched us, we were all over Kendrick born for like a number of weeks and we got great performances out of him. It feels like born, but maybe even better. Your thoughts on this one, Tom. Yeah, this is. is a little bit surprising, but if you've been paying attention, he's been more involved since Jacoby Brissette came into the lineup. I mean, Kyler Murray, we're getting a larger sample here with Jacoby Prissette, and he was just absolutely killing this passing game. Trey McBride is, you know, the fantasy tight end to have, and he's going to win a lot of

league championships because Brissette is in the lineup. But we're also seeing it with Wilson here. He had three catches, three or more catches in 34 or more yards in his first four games. in his first four games with Brissette. Then we have the situation where Harrison is out and he just goes nuts. And it was pretty lucky with the really negative game script. Of course, Christian McCaffrey scores like 15 seconds into the game. And it was just the Cardinals chasing points the entire game. But when you have a quarterback who's willing to give your receivers lots of opportunities

to make plays, you can sometimes have performances like this. So we're looking at Harrison. They said maybe one to two games, but the appendectomy was in the middle of last week. This team is, I think, sitting at three and seven. I don't know if they're going to be in any kind of rush to get like a franchise type of player back on the field for a game that probably isn't going to mean a whole lot

in the grand scheme of things. So we should have at least another week here with Wilson as the number one wide receiver next to Trey McBride. And maybe he becomes, a little bit of a factor moving forward after after a performance like this in week 11 maybe they need to to start factoring you know scheming up some first read targets and we track those at fantasy points data maybe he starts to to get some more looks because of it because of this performance yeah i think i'm with you on that one it again like a game like this opens up coach's eyes

and it's like this guy earned himself a larger role harrison we don't have a timeline for the for the game he's going to be back. And it's been a three-week stretch here where it's been McBride crushing at the tight end position. And then Brissette elevates a wide receiver as well. We've seen Harrison Jr. with like a 15-point game and a 20-point game with Brissette. So Wilson basically just stepped into this role and then some. And we had the perfect storm of Arizona giving up a huge number and being in comeback mode, getting a lot of garbage time catches. So I'm into it. Joe, do you sort of share our Michael Wilson enthusiasm here? Are you cautiously approaching this one?

Where are you at? To tell you, Brett Whitefield was excited to dunk on everybody in the in the Discord yesterday because he loved Michael Wilson coming out. Yeah, I'm absolutely willing to share that enthusiasm because Jacoby Brissette might be Joe Flacco West now. Like he's just going out there. He's a veteran quarterback. He's cashing his paychecks.

And it just looks like he's having fun playing football. Just, hey, I'm going out there. I'm slinging it. it set literally an NFL record for completions in a game. Michael Wilson's probably rostered in most leagues, but also, man, if you're going real deep, if this is what they're going to do, if they can't run the ball, you know, Marri Di Mercado being hurt, Bam Knight being their lead back, Trey Benson, who knows when he comes back, heck, even Greg Dorch is viable out there, six catches.

He had a very satanic stat line of six catches for 66 yards and a touchdown. He, but he might be viable as well with the way Jacoby percent is playing right now. and by that defense cannot stop anybody so uh they have to drop back and pass quite a bit yeah i i'm i'm with you on this one and wilson seems really really interesting um and again i think jacobi brissette we've talked about him for a number of weeks i know a lot of you already picked him up i know i have a ton of jacobo brissette the guy's been a qb one every single week it feels almost exactly like the joe flaco cleveland experience we had a few years ago guys it's Like, this player was never a fantasy asset for us, but we're starting Jacoby Brissette.

We might as well talk a Brissette right now and just get this one off the table. If he's still available in your league, are you letting like a QB1 sit out there? Is he a QB1 rest of the season? I think so. Your thoughts, Tom? I think so. I added him in a couple of leagues. And I've been, I used him over Baker Mayfield last week.

It's going to be matchup dependent, but pretty good matchups in the next two weeks here. Jacksonville and Tampa Bay gets a little bit tougher with the Rams and Texans in a in three or four weeks. But the way they're throwing the ball every week, they're, you know, just they're slinging it right now. They're trusting him. You said, Flacco. I'm thinking of even like James Winston last year. Yes, absolutely. Some of those performances that he had in the middle of the season. So I just don't see them slowing down here. And this defense is kind of falling apart a little bit. So they're, they're playing in some higher scoring games right. now. So yeah, I think you want to, you'll buy in on this. And he's also shown a little bit with

his legs too. He's run a little bit, had to scramble. He had to push right on top of the goal line a couple of weeks ago. Again, I think that was against the Cowboys. So he will get an opportunity or two like that the rest of the season. So he's going to add a little bit of rushing production. So right now, he's at least a low end QB, QB1 for me right now. One other player that's interesting. Let's talk about a couple of rookies. Joe Dolan, we'll kick it to you for this one. Pat Bryant, who was a third round pick out of Illinois for Denver. This is Sean Payton guy. Sean Payton compared him to Michael Thomas when they drafted him. And Peyton over the last few weeks has gone out out of his way to sort of praise Pat Bryant. Anytime you hear him talking about the rookies, he'll point out Pat Bryant, Pat Bryant, Pat Bryant's done this. He's made a big catch here. 13.2 PPR point. but it was the opponent here. Five catches for 82 yards against the Chiefs was the leading receiver.

Troy Franklin also had 84 yards. So I guess he was the second leading receiver in terms of yardage, but had the most catches among all the wide receivers here. What's your enthusiasm level for Pat Bryant? Cortland Sutton is just sort of sitting there, having fewer and fewer impactful fantasy performances as of late. So here is the big question

that I had when I wrote up my wide receiver cornerback column this week because the chief secondary, by the way, as you had mentioned, this is a good opponent. This is a good secondary and good defense. The thing that I had wondered was what exactly is Pat Bryant's role going to be? Because heading into week number nine when Marvin Mims had been active, Troy Franklin was essentially the Broncos main slot receiver. and Marvin Mims was playing a lot from the outside. Well, we got the answer in week 11. Pat Bryant ran 25 routes.

Marvin Mims ran nine. So Marvin Mims coming back. He was the one relegated to the bench. So Sean Peyton told us with that usage that Pat Bryant is now, look, nobody's ever a full-time player in a Sean Payton offense. But he's as close to as it comes for a rookie. He was third on the team in routes. He ran more routes than Evan Ingram.

Sutton and Troy Franklin ran 33 and 32 respectively Bryant ran 25 and 72% of his routes were in the slot. So there you go. Comparing him to Michael Thomas, that big slot, Marcus Colston. That is what his role is and it was solidified after Marvin Mims came back, which is what I really needed to see from Pat Bryant. Yeah, I mean, Pat Bryant's really, really interesting right now. Tom, your thoughts on your your thoughts on Pat Bryant and also let's put Pat Bryant into context here. Jaden Higgins also continues to play well. Higgins has now had sort of three decent performances,

better than decent for a couple of them. But he has 9.5 points after a 15.2 week in week 10, and then he had a 13.5 point week in week 8. So we're starting to see Higgins at least having a decent role back-to-back weeks with seven targets with Davis Mills behind center. and he's doing it again with Nico Collins playing his best football the season. So sort of your thoughts on Bryant and then segue over to Higgins and which receiver should fantasy managers be adding if it's a either or situation?

That's a tough one. I think I lean towards Jane to Higgins though. The body of work has been more impressive over the last month. We're still struggling here though with both of these guys. They just have not been released into these full, full-time rules. They're both, you know, as Joe said, I think it was about 60% of the routes last week for Pat Bryant. Jaden, Jaden Higgins is kind of still sitting in that 50 to 65% route share most weeks. So they're still playing Xavier Hutchinson a lot. They're kind of rotating Christian

Kirk in. But if he is fully unleashed at some point later in the season, which maybe he's earning that right to. He's put together some strong performances over the last month. And I, you know, Davis Mills has elevated this offense a little bit. I think C.J. Stroud was playing better right before he suffered his concussion in week nine. So I think overall, the offense, it was really rough early in the season. It's finally starting to trend up a little bit. They made some switches in the backfield as well with Woody Marks. So I think the environment overall in Houston is improving.

And I think Higgins could have some big games down the stretch. So if I was choosing between the two, I would lean towards Higgins. He was also drafted a little bit earlier than Pat Bryant. So I do think they have, they do want to get him more involved as the season moves along here. So hopefully we see a little bit more of both of these guys down the stretch. But both of them are great pickups, but I would lean towards Higgins. Joe, last week we talked about Mack Hollins of the New England Patriots as a player you could stream against the Jets. It ended up being the Trayvion Henderson game.

But Hollins still gave you 10 and a half PPR points, four catches, for 64 yards, had five targets down from his week 10 performance. But a reminder to everyone, week 10 led, led New England with 10 targets, had six catches for 106 yards. And then in week eight, he gave you that 16 point performance against the Browns. Hollins has really trended up since Kishon Booty went out. Your thoughts on Hollins in a fantastic matchup this week against the Bengals. Yeah, I would love to start them this week against the Bengals.

angles. Drake May is an aggressive thrower. He's just, he is still the MVP leader, although Josh Allen might have staked his claim with that, with that performance. Got to, that's the thing. You got to somebody else has to be the MVP every week. That's how the NFL works, right? But

Drake May is still the betting favorite. He is playing at a high level. And getting a receiver attached to Drake May is just it's smart business right now. Don't know when Kishon Booty is going to be back, but I feel like Mack Hollins has earned his role as the Patriots deep threat. And we're going to talk about another wide receiver you might be able to use this week that's a little bit under the radar right after this.

Tom, let's talk about Andrei Yoshibus because Jamar Chase looks like he's going to be suspended this week, probably for a game. But Yoshavus is going to be in like pretty much a full-time role this week. Again, New England's going to put a ton of pressure on Cincinnati. This might be a name-your-number type scoring week for the Patriots. Yoshibus could be in a good spot. Yeah, absolutely. We'll see if Jamar Chase is indeed suspended. It feels like it's trending that way after he spit on Jalen Ramsey

and the NFL is trying to do away with those kind of backs. So we'll find out here in the next day or two. But if he's out of the lineup, we know Joe Flacco is going to throw it a lot every week. And he would be elevated into a bigger role here. And nobody can really run on the Patriots anyway. So they're a natural pass funnel anyway. So I think they're going to throw it a lot. T. Higgins obviously gets elevated.

He's probably going to be the player that leads them in targets. But Andre Yoshavos could be, you know, number two or number three, depending on how many targets Chase Brown gets. So if we're just looking at this, if you need a fill in for this week, maybe you're the Jamar Chase owner. And you're kind of pinched by this, you know, your number one overall draft pick gets suspended for a game right near the, the end of the fantasy regular season here.

I would just look towards Andre Yoshavos. Maybe he can find the end zone or maybe get you four or five catches. So I do think he'll be kind of elevated into a bigger role here if Jamar Chase is indeed suspended this week. Yeah, and a really, really tough one to lose Jamar Chase. I mean, it's just terrible

this time of year. Let's talk about another player. And Joe, I remember having this conversation with you back in week eight. In week seven, Xavier Leggett had a huge game. He had nine catches for 92 yards and a touchdown. He had 11 targets. We were like cautiously optimistic. And then it was a complete rugpole.

He had three straight weeks of absolutely nothing. Well, yesterday, Xavier Leggett, guess what? Big win for Carolina. He has eight targets. He has four catches for 83 yards and a touchdown. This was the Tetaroa McMillan game. McMillan had like the best performance he's had. since he's been a pro, and we're going to talk about Bryce Young in a minute, but are you interested

in Xavier Leggett? Are you going to let this one go as sort of a one-off guy cut a touchdown? I'm not paying for it type performance. You know, he's, he's a guy who, I don't know if he's ever going to be the player that the Panthers drafted in the first round, but a guy that big who moves the way he does, that guy's always going to have a role in the NFL, and he's kind of a red zone threat as well. And he, I view him as like the wide receiver version of Zach Charbonnet. If I put him in my lineup, he can score a touchdown. Hopefully I catch it on the week where Bryce Young decides to play well. And Bryce Young played very well this week. So that's what he is to me. He's a deep league only guy. Normally at the receiver position, that's a guy that I have no interest in really

having because he, he's touchdown or bust to me. But I mean, you could see him with the ball on his hands against the Falcons that, man, if he can complete that transaction of the ball hitting his hands and him actually securing it, that's a dangerous football player, Xavier League get. But he's a deep league only guy for me. Yeah. And Tom, like, he's well, well behind the wide receivers we talked about already. Yeah, absolutely for me. Honestly, I didn't even write him up for our waiver. Because he's, I mean, last time he had the big performance back in week seven, He's combined, you know, six point nine fantasy points in his next three games. So this is an offense that wants to run through Rico Douddle.

I just have a, I don't want people picking them up and having the rug pulled out from underneath them. So I would look elsewhere. I mean, there's a number of other spots. Heck, I would even look at the Jets receivers right now with John Mechie and A.D. Mitchell before Xavier Legat, since we now have news that Tyrod Taylor will be starting in week 12. Tyrod Taylor is starting. We've talked about him for a couple of weeks. He's an interesting one.

If you're a super flex manager, Tyrod Taylor, it sort of makes the guys like Adonai Mitchell a little interesting this week. John Mechie, a little bit interesting. The offensive passing game has to be better than what it's shown the last few weeks with Justin Fields. But let's talk about a quarterback that matters,

the quarterback that has a good match up here against San Francisco. And again, we talked about Jacoby Brissette. Jacobi Brissette had an NFL record, set an NFL record with 47 completions, broke Jared Gough and Drew Bledso's record, and they had over 400 passing yards. Now Bryce Young coming off of his, let's say, best game ever as a pro. They beat Atlanta, 448 passing yards, three passing touchdowns. We've talked about Rico Dowdell. We've talked about this Carolina offense getting better.

It seems like they're starting to trend up at the right time. With Atlanta, this win seems like it matters. They're six and five now on the season. And now they're playing in San Francisco in week 12. This looks like it could be a shootout type environment. Your enthusiasm levels for adding Bryce Young coming off of this massive performance, Tom. I wouldn't mind him this week as just like a one week type of player. The schedule isn't great.

He's got the Rams, week 13, and then a buy week. So, but you could have, you know, the Bo Knicks here, Justin Herbert, a couple of quarterbacks on by. I wouldn't mind streaming Bryce Young, but I just look at, you know, he's top 200 passing yards just twice so far. So in 10 games. So the track record really hasn't been there, but maybe they're going to throw it a little bit more.

We saw something a little bit similar toward the end of last season. had a rough start to the year, and things started to trend up in the second half of the season. So maybe we're going to see another second half surge here from Bryce Young. So this is setting up as a game, as you said, against the 49ers. That offense was clicking last week. So they could be chasing points in this game. So Monday night football, I could see them having to throw it a little bit more if they fall behind by a touchdown or two. And yeah, Bryce Young could maybe, I don't know if he's going to.

go for 400 yards again, but I could see him putting up a 225 and two touchdowns on Monday night football. And we've mentioned last week, Tyler Shuck. Tyler Shuck had his big performance. He outplayed Bryce Young last week. And Tyler Shuck, of course, New Orleans was on their by week. But I think Tyler Shuck is worth a pickup if you're in super flexing. He's out there. We mentioned Tyrod Taylor. Joe, let's talk about a evolving situation here in Atlanta. awful news for Michael Pennix and terrible news for Drake London fantasy managers we'll keep a light on candle burning

for Drake London to be back for the fantasy football playoffs not sure the timeline here PCL could mean two weeks it could mean a couple of like four weeks we're hoping Drake London is back sooner than later but Michael Pennick's a really really bad situation here now we're talking about Kirk Cousins Does Kirk Cousins return also elevate Darnell Mooney, who's been non-existent recently,

but now could serve as a de facto wide receiver one, or is this a situation you want no part of? Where are you out on this one, Joe? I want nothing to do with this, quite frankly. Theo, I put on a show for my neighbors over the weekend on Saturday. I got the Bermuda grass is going dormant, so I got my final mo in, and I took the leaf blower out, right? And I decided, you know, I've got to get the leaves into a pile, get them so they can be picked up. And I'm blowing the leaves directly into the wind coming into my face. So, like, I'm blowing the leaves and they're coming right back at me.

That is what Kurt Cousins looked like throwing the football on Sunday. He is blowing leaves and they're directly into a stiff breeze. I mean, it is unbelievable how little arm strength he has left. Tom, you might remember it the pass and overtime. I think it was a dig route to Kyle Penn. and it just died. Like, it just absolutely hit a wall. They were playing in a dome, too.

Yeah, I mean, there was no wind in that, that, uh, in that stadium. And by the way, speaking of that Atlanta job is probably going to open this year. Who is going to want that job? Yeah, well, guys, the top eight pick. It's going to look at least. At least they get that top 10 pick. Oh, wait. You're right.

Oh, wait. And I mean, James Pierce has played well, but like, not the team that should be doing that trade. Anyway, we don't want to relitigate that, but Michael Pennix is going to have now three, three season-ending knee injuries. This is, by the way, this is right now from Ian Rappaport. Michael Pennix is headed to injured reserve after aggravating a bone bruise and knee sprain from earlier in the season. Additionally, there has been damage to the ACL. Talk about bearing the lead there.

A full reconstruction could be, I mean, I don't know. there's a job I'd want less in the NFL right now. But unfortunately, Kirk Cousins, Theo, give me Tyler Schock over Kirk Cousins. I mean, I totally mean that. Give me Tyrod Taylor over Kirk Cousins. It's over. Yeah, Kirk Cousins looks like a guy who should be retired right now. Kirk Cousins, we had a lot of really strong fantasy performances, but you have to downgrade this entire offense with London out as well. And I think this week against New Orleans, Bejohn Robinson might catch like eight or nine passes and you're going to end up seeing Tyler Algier also getting a ton of touches. They're going to have to lean into their running

backs. It's going to be a weird, weird offense. Kirk Cousins was never a guy who elevated Kyle Pitts. So this is going to be a lot of running backs in Atlanta. Really an ugly situation. This team is trending down downwards. A team that got off to a fantastic start and lost a very close game yesterday, Sam Darnold had four interceptions. The Rams Seahawks game, I was really hoping was going to be this unbelievable fantasy-friendly environment. But it ended up being a 21-19 game, really a hard-fought football game. But one player who stood out was A.J. Barner is a guy that we've talked about for many, many weeks here, guys. Like, he always comes up in the conversation because he's a threat to score touchdowns.

But he ends up with 11 targets. This is by far his season high career. high, 10 catches for 70 yards. Is this like a turning point for AJ Barner? Where's your enthusiasm level for him, Tom? Is this a player you sort of want to ignore it? It was sort of a one-off based on the way that L.A. was defending. Or is this something that they're going to build on?

I lean towards it's, you know, I'm a little more tepid on this one. I do think we're going to see Rashid Shahid factored into the offense more as we move along as we get closer to the post season. They really haven't done a great job of getting him integrated into the offense yet. But I would expect that to improve over the next couple of weeks. Barner's been a guy that just has not seen a whole lot of volume to start the season. He's frankly been a little bit lucky with some of his performances. A lot of touchdown driven, but this offense has been performing at a high level.

And he's a guy that they do look at down in the scoring areas. And they still have some talented, you know, Elijah Arroyo. They spent a second round pick on him. there's still a lot of talent around him at the tight end position. But the one thing that is pretty interesting about him is he's getting a lot of these, the push pushes, the carries for first downs. And we've even saw it a couple of weeks ago for a touchdown. So that's something only Mark Andrews for the Baltimore Ravens really is getting

those type of opportunities as well. So that does increase how much I won him. but he's still a low-end guy for me. He's more of a desperation play. You're just kind of plugging him in and hoping he scores a touchdown because I think most weeks, unless somebody figures out a way

to just like completely take Jackson Smith and Jigba out of a game. I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of volume there for him in most cases. Joe, what was more surprising to you? Sam Darnold throwing four interceptions or Kenneth Walker getting a rushing touchdown. Kenneth Walker getting the rushing touchdown was more surprising to me, quite frankly.

We've seen the Darnold stuff before. I mean, isn't it funny that Sam Darnold completely craps his pants, and that's what the first time Kenneth Walker has a good game all season? Like, just what a bizarre team that is. Absolutely. And Tom, one tight end that we talked about before the show, Brenton Strange, who early in the year we were super excited about, and Brenton Strange was actually off to a really, really hot start to the season,

Look like a guy who could be a high-end, tight-end two for us. He should be back soon. Yeah, I think people have kind of forgotten about him. He was activated. The practice window was activated for him last week. He got some work in. Wasn't healthy enough to play last week, but he should be probably back in the lineup this week.

So I think he's going to go back to a pretty big role here. Unfortunately, the passing game has taken a little bit of a downturn with Trevor Lawrence getting worse with every. passing week. But maybe strange being back in the middle of the field will help him out a little bit. Of course, we know Travis Hunter is no longer in the mix. So there could be some opportunities for Strange as a little bit of the safety blanket in the middle of the field. 20 receptions was leading the team in receptions before his injury. So a guy that's kind of been forgotten about, 12% owned in Yahoo Leagues, I think he should be owned in closer to 40 or 50%.

at Yahoo legs at this point. Yeah, he had two six catch games in back-to-back weeks and weeks three and week four. Interesting speculative ad at the tight end position, Breton Strange. Guys, we covered an absolute ton of names this week. This is a long, long show for us. Stick with us here at Fantasy Points YouTube.

If you enjoyed this show, make sure you subscribe to the channel. Make sure you're giving Fantasy Football daily a subscription as well, anywhere you get your podcast. Check out Fantasy Points. All of our packages are discounted, now use the code Theo to get an additional 15% off a couple more weeks here guys Thanksgiving is next week only a few more weeks to make that last push to get to your

fantasy playoffs fantasy points is the place to help you get there we're everywhere here at fantasy points we're going to help you crush your fantasy leagues this fantasy playoffs we'll see you soon At Fandual Casino, you get even more ways to play. Dive into new and exciting games. And all of your favorite casino classics, like slots, table games, and arcade games. Get more on Fandual Casino. Download the app today.

Please play responsibly 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. If you have questions or concerned about your gambling or the gambling of someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario at 1866-531-2,600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. Thank you.