Fantasy Football Daily - Top 10 BOLD Fantasy Predictions for Week 9 & Rest of Season | League-Winning Calls 2025

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

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Top 10 bold fantasy football predictions for week nine and the rest of the fantasy football season. Theo Greminger, Fantasy Football Daily on the Fantasy Points Podcast Network and Fantasy Points YouTube. Join today by my guy, Andrew Cooper of Fantasy Larb. Coupe, we got to get after it. You've got a spicy one to start us out. A team coming off of a bye week. And I don't know if this is one you wishcasting this one. A lot of us are hoping for this one.

but this is your first bold prediction. Let us know. This is my first one. I feel it. And again, maybe a little wishcasting because I got a lot of this player, but I do feel it in my heart.

I've seen it with my eyes. I feel it deep down to my plums. Kenneth Walker, RB1 rest of way. I'm starting this player rest of way. And I'll tell you what. The biweek could be part of it here because this guy did miss a lot of time this off season.

And Zach Sharbne was able to learn Clint Kubiak's playbook, get some of this pass down work, get some of this goal line work. but anybody with two eyeballs knows that Kenneth Walker is the better player. And our good buddy, Ian Hartett's actually just put out a new custom stat. I'm not sure if he's going to stick with it, but I kind of like it. He called it the cool shit stat, right?

And he basically took touchdowns plus explosive plays plus tackles, the cool stuff, and divided it by carries and targets. And here were the top three players in that stat feel. Jonathan Taylor, Bejohn Robinson, and number three, Kenneth Walker. This guy is good. He's awesome. Give him the ball more and good things will happen. Yeah, I love where your heads at because we did hear that the Seahawks have talked about how he's not fully healthy. And maybe this is what exactly what he needed getting this time off. For me, it's a, the efficiency, you also get sort of a smart organization. We think they're smart. Seattle, we think Mike McDonald's pretty smart. We think Clint Kubiak's pretty smart. for them to not utilize Walker despite sort of the efficiency metrics,

I think that sort of limits their ceiling. They're a team with playoff aspirations here. They've got off to a really fast start. And I think working in Walker is going to be something that we really need to see. It's going to be a litmus test, though. There's still a chance that Charbonnet is utilized. But I said this to Scott Barrett when we recorded School of Scott. Koop, would you, could he just cook with like a consistent 50%?

snap share, like just give him 50% of the snaps. Could he cook off of that or are you looking for a little more? I think you absolutely could, man. I mean, you look at the early stages for Jemir Gibbs where, you know, David McGott, or Jamal Williams was taking all the touchdowns, 18 touchdowns. I think this guy can still be awesome regardless. I love Clint Kubiak scheme. I love the zone blocking.

I love that he mixes in. Anytime they stack the box, he goes out there and hits you with a man gap concept instead and just pulls a guard or pulls a tack. This guy, Gray Zabel, one of the most athletic guards of all time. I love the multiple tight end sets, which we'll get to later. I mean, I like the scheme so much. Kenneth Walker is custom built for it. And I think he's just going to start figuring it out, especially with a week off to sit back and say, hey, why aren't things working for me?

I'm great. The scheme's great. Let's sit down and figure it out. I think they come out here and we're going to see more Kenneth Walker because he rules. Okay, so I'm going to start us out. I'm going to go with a really high profile player. Unlike Walker, it's not a one that it's frustrating to fantasy managers at all. Kind of like on the contrary, it's Jamar Chase.

And Jamar Chase has just been on fire with Joe Flacco behind center. We've seen Jamar Chase have the most targets ever in a two-week stretch. And one of the highest ever in a three-week stretch, the last three weeks with Joe Flacco behind center. Jamar Chase has just been putting up ridiculous numbers. Chase is averaging 21.3 points per game. season, trailing only Pukiduku'a by average, but because Pukina Cua missed a game, we see that Jemar Chase has passed him by in terms of the total points. I think it's going to continue trending upward for Jemar Chase, but I'm not looking at the

fantasy numbers here necessarily. I'm not looking at the points scored. I'm looking at an NFL record that I think Jemar Chase is about to set. Jemar Chase has 99 targets right now, Coop, that puts him on pace for 210 targets this season, which is very significant. I think we've actually talked about this on podcasts. We haven't had a 200 target player since 2015 with Julio Jones. Julio Jones had 203 targets in 2015. Calvin Johnson, before that in 2012, had 204. And Marvin Harrison, Sr.

had 205 in 2002. It's a very, very, very rare feat. We've seen a couple of guys come close. Cooper Cup had 191 in 2021. That was the last time somebody sort of sniffed this crazy, crazy number. But this year, we're going to see it. And not only are we going to see it, but Jamar Chase is going to blow it out of the water.

Jamar Chase is going to set an all-time NFL record and change our perception on what is possible from a target total. He's going to have 220 targets by the end of the season. He's going to break the all-time record by 15, and he's going to break it in week 16 with a game to play, and he's going to destroy it in week 17. Jamar Chase finishes as a back-to-back wide receiver one overall, the first time we've seen that since guys like Antonio Brown, and Jamar Chase sets an NFL record with 220 targets on the season. Jamar Chase sneak preview. You picked him number one, overall this year in 2025 drafts.

You're going to pick him number one overall in 2026 as well. Jamar Chase to the moon, rest of season. Your thoughts? I mean, I love that. I mean, I just came out and said a guy would be an RB1 and you're calling an all-time record. So maybe I got to up my bold takes a little bit here. But I'll tell you what, not only did you call the bold take here and call the record,

but saying he'll do it in 16 games is the legitimizer, right? Because Marvin Harrison did his in 16 games. So did, you know, Calvin Johnson, us guys. So I'll tell you what, I'll tell you why it's possible because you look at that crazy Cooper Cup season. And the reason it was sustainable for him to keep doing that is because it was working. They went and won the Super Bowl, just throwing it to him every play. And they won the first game with Flacco. Last week, they should have won. It was a very close game versus the Jets and Justin Field fueled by weird comments from Woody Johnson. But like, it's working.

And if it's working, you keep doing it. So I see no reason for them to stop, man. I'm with you on this one. It's not crazy. Not crazy for him to come out and set the right. Yeah, it might be crazy like a fox. And it's a perfect storm for us in terms of game flow and what we're seeing. Coop, they were up 31-16 on the Jets. The Jets are without Garrett Wilson. The Jets' leading wide receiver was Tyler Johnson. Brice Hall scores three touchdowns in the fourth quarter against them. Like the Bengals can't stop anyone right now. This week, they have another game where they can put up a huge number against Chicago. Coming out of the buy week, they've got some tough, tough matchups on the road. They play your Patriots in Cincinnati in week 12. They go into Pittsburgh in week 11.

We saw what Chase did against Pittsburgh last time they played 38 points there. Baltimore on the road in week 13. Buffalo on the road in week 15. Baltimore again in week 15. Baltimore can't stop anyone. Then week 16 in Miami. And then the week 17 game, Arizona. Cardinals in Cincinnati, that could be a game where Cincinnati puts up an absolute number. So all in on Jamar Chase, bookmarked this one, people, 220 targets breaks the NFL record. Kup, what's your deck's bold prediction? Yeah, my next one here is not on an elite wide receiver right now, but one I think is going to establish himself soon as an elite wide receiver.

And that's Marvin Harrison, Jr. And again, this one, I've gone back and I've looked at every route that this player has run from last year through this year, pull it up on the NFL film. And you know me. I'm not a massive film guy, but I got to see it for myself sometimes, right? Because we look at, you know, the separation numbers, the success first man to man, and they're pretty good. They're fine. And what I've seen from this guy is that he can get open. He can run these deep and intermediate routes.

He can run the short routes. Last year, he had almost as many first read targets as train McBride. So they're trying to get things schemed up for him. He's out there getting open. It's just, it's not even for me, a bet on Marvin Harrison Jr. It's a bet on Kylo-Murray. It's a bet on Jacoby-Bissette. Can they get him the football?

The problem for this team has been that they're quick to take the low-hanging fruit and dump it down, one of the bigger checkdown Charlie quarterbacks in a long time, as Drake May would say, as Kyler Murray, who last year, through this year, top three guy getting the ball out under two seconds. For me, I'm excited to see what can happen. happen if these guys get on the same page. When you watch the film, really the only thing that this guy has trouble with is every once in a while his hand placement is bad. I don't know what to do with my hands. The ball comes in high and he tries to catch it like this. The ball comes in low and he tries to catch it like this. That's something that can be fixed. It's not a matter of him not being able to get separation. It's not a matter of him jumping every time the ball comes like Xavier will get some of these guys do. I think the fundamentals are there, the ability's there. And I think it all comes together here. And we've seen the flashes. So I think down the stretch, once they get on the same page, second year in this Drew Petsing offense. I think we're going to start looking at this guy and being like, wow, he's still getting

eight, nine, ten targets in some of these games, but now he's catching him. Now he's having 150 yards. Now he's ripping off big chunk plays. Now he's making contested catches like he can do. I mean, the guy had eight touchdowns last year, 800 yards. It wasn't a bad rookie season. It was a bad season for somebody picked in the second round of fans. So for me, I think Marvin Harrison, Jr., still plenty of time to come out and establish

himself as a big time alpha. And this is probably your last chance to go out and buy him in Dynasty because as you've seen with guys like C.D. Lamb and guys like Jackson Smith & Jigba, who didn't have particularly good rookie years themselves, they became untouchable fairly quickly. And this is a guy who could become untouchable. You've got to give yourself that opportunity. Does the Marvin Harrison Jr. second half surge hurt the Trey McBride scoring, which has just been on fire? Is this going to be Kyler Murray comes back in and Trey McBride goes back to not scoring touchdowns? Or is this something where you're, you're foreseeing this entire Arizona offense, maybe taking the next step here, Coup? I think by default of what I've, what I've described that needs to happen, the targets for Trey McBride might potentially be hurt. I mean, this is the guy, this is the tight end who's number one in virtually every

meaningful category anyway. But if they're going to actually wait and get to the second level, watch Joe Burrow, what he does. Watch how open in the past Mike Keseki has been. But he doesn't take the. checkdown because he trusts the development of the play. He trusts that the second level reads are going to be open. The intermediate routes are going to be open and they are. And then you see Jamar Chase and T. Higgins catch these balls. And then if that doesn't work, then you get the

checkdown. By nature of that, maybe you do get fewer targets, a couple fewer targets for Trey McBride. Obviously, you just continue to draw plays directly to him in a lot of cases. But a rising tide could lift all boats. This could be great news for Marv. Could be great news for McBride. Could be great news for Trey Benson when he's back. I mean, And good teams, we've seen it. You can have more fantasy relevant assets on good teams that are holding onto the football and moving the football versus teams that are just dumping it down to guys underneath and getting themselves in third and intermediate situations and having to punt and having to kick field goals.

So I do think it would be fine for everybody if Kyler Murray played better. And that's actually what you need because I think Trey McBride and Marr are playing fine. And I think if we're going to see it, it's going to start this week in this Cowboys game. on Monday night with a 54 point over under and only three point spread. Those are conditions are perfect for the Jerry Jones OK Corral. We've been seeing all year, right? Shootout, baby. Yeah, no, I love it.

I love it. And Marvin Harrison Jr., it's a player that's been incredibly polarizing, continuing to change sort of the expectations of them, if Coup is correct over the second half of the season. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, we're talking about a sleeping giant at the running back position and maybe a player that you're going to need to go trade for now in your redraft and Dynasty Leagues right after this.

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Coop, let everybody know where they can find your work and what you have going on this time of year. What's a week in the life look like for Coop these days? It's chaos, bro. We don't have enough time for me even to describe what the week is. Just know that it's all at Fantasy Alarm, all my rankings for every single player. For our members, you get all sorts of crazy stuff. rankings for every player all that for free if you just follow me at coupe fiasco i always put out

my my waiver article as my rest of season tight-end rankings the yin and yang tight end that we've been so successful with and then on every thursday and sunday i post full free my uh my tight-end rankings for the week because i'm the man of the people but you can find all my stuff on the you on the fantasy line youtube you can hear me on series xm channel 87 thursdays and friday 6 to 8 p.m also sunday morning's 10 to 11 we're all over the place brother but there's nowhere i'd rather be than right here right now. Yeah, Kup and I, we had a podcast we did every single week last year, twice a week. Yeah, I miss it.

We got to see each other a lot more often last year. But yeah, it's always great when we get a chance. I had a chance going on your show a couple of weeks ago. Highly recommend everything that Koop's doing. Your content is fire. Not going to have to his own horn, but fantasy sports, FSWA writer of the year last year. Coop's work is absolute fire.

It's going to help you become a better fantasy manager. And one thing that will help you be a better fantasy player is right now going and trading for the big dog, Derek Henry. This has been a slow drip, Coop, been a slow drip for the Ravens, been a slow drip for Derek Henry managers, some really, really frustrating weeks mixed in. We had four out of five weeks

where Derek Henry failed to score 10 PPR points, really an ugly stretch from weeks two to week five, complete ugliness. Week one was absolute fire. He had nearly 30 points. But the last two weeks were starting to see, a return of the big dog. We saw 14 points scored 130 total yards in week six against the Rams. And then this past week against the Chicago Bears coming out of their by week, we saw the big

dog score two rushing touchdowns. And what was significant about week six and week seven, or excuse me, six and weeks and six and weeks eight, my kids have me thinking a little six seven these days. Week six and weeks eight is 24, 24 carries in week six, two, one in week eight. We're getting back to the high volume, Derek Henry. What happens this week? Lamar Jackson comes back. The offense takes another step forward. And I'm going to go bold here. One thing that may have been lost in the shuffle was this season, Derek Henry passed Walter Payton by on the all-time list for rushing touchdowns. So it kind of did it quietly. You think there would have been a little bit more fanfare for this. Walter Payton now has 110 rushing scores. Derek

Henry passed him by. Henry is at 112. on the season. You're starting to see some really big names ahead of Derek Henry, but I think he goes absolutely bonkers in the second half of the year. Henry needs 11 touchdowns to tie Marcus Allen for third all time. And I think Derek Henry gets it. 11 rushing touchdowns over the second half of the year. And November is usually the month where Derek Henry starts to go nuts. Cooper almost there. Halloween is Friday. Derek Henry in his career, has 26 touchdowns in 31 games in the month of November and 2,330 rushing yards on 471 carries. I think Henry is about to start going nuts.

And I think he goes absolutely bonkers in the touchdown department. I think the Ravens are a prideful team. I think this is a team that is going to get things together with Lamar Jackson. They're going to start ripping off some wins. And it's going to be behind the big dog. Derek Henry, 11 rushing touchdowns for the rest of the season. season. He's going to finish tied for third all time in NFL history. And then we're going to be on Derek Henry watch heading into the 2026 season. And it's going to be really a test of longevity.

Emmett Smith 164, a number that Henry might never catch. But if Henry can stay healthy, I could see him playing up to like age 35 just to get this record. You can just see it now, Coupe, 35-year-old Derek Henry gets like six rushing touchdowns to get that Emmett Smith record, helping some team as like a mix-in back when he's 35 years old. The big dog will get the record tying touchdown. You're going to see 11 rushing scores. I think he's a great candidate to trade for in all facets. And if you're a dynasty manager, he's still a great candidate because there's a discount because

of his age, but he's not going anywhere in 2026. He's still going to give you production. So sort of treat him like he was 28 years old. The guy's unreal in terms of athleticism and production based on his age. Yeah, I mean, and you're talking about 164 touchdowns. That's absurd. You know, like Travis Kelsey just tied Priest Holmes for the chiefs touchdowns, and that's like 83. Like 164 is nuts, but maybe he can get there.

And I'll tell you what, you just said something that you need to tweet. You got to tweet out that every Halloween, Derek Henry turns into a monster. and dominates the rest of November. You just wrote it. Is that AI, too? It's got to be great. Did you drop that an AI? It's all right.

It's all right here, bro. It's all right here. And I think the most important thing you mentioned there is that this team has been playing without both their quarterbacks. They've not only been playing without Lamar Jackson on offense, but without Roquant Smith on defense, the guy that wears the green knot. This is going to be a better team. And I'll tell you what, the last year, they used Derek Henry to put the nail in the coffin

in virtually every game that they were winning. They didn't take him out because what they do is they use Justice Hill on pass downs, which doesn't matter for Henry to keep him to keep him fresh. And they used him to win games last year. Derek Henry last year, just in situations in the fourth quarter, when they were up by two scores, so nine or more points, he had an extra 40 PPR points just in those situations. So once this team turns around and starts winning games, which they will,

you're going to start seeing those massive Derek Henry games again, where they basically just lean up. on them to close it out everybody gets on the bus and goes home so derrick henry definitely do for super positive regression here yeah i'm all about it i'm all about it what do you have next what is your bold prediction all right so i think individually these predictions would be a little too bold a little too bold so i'm going to combine them to one and hedge my bets a little bit still with the boldness though all right people want the next breakout tight end they want the next ironday gadston the guy that you and i talked about this summer right and i'll tell you there's guys that we talked about this summer that

still have big upside and i think in the second half here if you're looking for the next breakout if you're looking for the next league winner this year's john new smith or tray mcbride look for tight ends named elijah i think one of these two elizias has a possibility to break out the clearest path for one of them is elijah royal right this is a guy who uh we loved him coming out he basically can play split end, even as a tight end. They've been using him alongside AJ Barner. The routes run pretty close for the two of them. Barner's a better blocker, a Royer's a better pass catcher.

And I'll tell you what, if you go over to Fantasy Points Data Suite, a page that we're all very fond of here, you can see that when you sort the tight ends by guys that have run at least 10 routes, Elijah Royal has the highest separation score of any of them. And he has the second highest separation score versus man to man behind only Darren Waller. I think they're looking around at Elijah, they looked at Rhonda Gadsden and said, Why aren't we using our rookie? They came out and got him five targets last week. And we've seen rookies get this bump coming out of the biweek.

They sit down and say, hey, Tori Horton, hey, Elijah Royal, sit down, okay? We're going to tell you something we're not telling everybody else. Cooper Cush. Cooper Cupp might be washed here, right? Like, he's not, he came on one target while JSN had like 15 last week. They're going to try and mix these guys in. Elijah Royal could break out without an injury to AJ Barner. An injury to AJ Barner would do it.

The other Elijah you have to have in the back of your mind is Elijah Higgins. because when you look at this Cardinals offense, they are so entrenched in this idea of Tray McBride playing slot wide receiver for him, for them, that they went out and they grabbed a wide receiver and they converted him to tight end in Elijah Higgins. And there's no tip Ryman anymore. He's done for the year. He was a blocking tight end anyway.

Travis Volk, these guys don't matter. If anything were to ever happen to Tray McBride, Elijah Higgins would be an automatic must add on the waiver wire immediately in the same sense that Isaiah likely was a couple years ago when he was the league winner down the stretch. This is a guy who basically just plays wide receiver. He scored just as many touchdowns last year as Tray McBride. He actually has a very similar separation scored to Tray McBride. The only problem for Elijah Higgins is they got a Tray McBride already.

If anything were to happen there, this guy is a handcuff in fantasy football, especially tight-in premium FFPC, Scott Fishbowl, at the same level that I would consider somebody like Blake Corm. He could step into a massive role immediately if anything were to happen. The two Elijah's, those are your two best bets for a super sneaky breakout down the scratch. And they're rostered in virtually zero leagues except for the ones on. And everyone knows about the elite athleticism. Well, most people who listen to fantasy points know the elite athleticism from Elijah Royo, a guy that Brett Whitefield and I discussed at length right on this channel throughout the draft process.

But talk about Elijah Higgins athletically because you're talking about a pretty deep cut here, Coop. Yeah, I mean, again, like I said, this is a guy who, like, when, when, you look at his profile and you were compared to wide receivers, he isn't that far off from somebody like, you know, Michael Wilson that plays split end for them. I wouldn't be surprised if it's something that we're having to Michael Wilson, maybe we'd see a combination of more Zay Jones and Elijah Higgins. In fact, the game that Marvin Harrison, Jr. left with a concussion. We saw Elijah Higgins play more snaps than he has all year. They basically just started rolling these guys out as wide receivers because that's what they are. Like this, Elijah Higgins also, I believe,

came out of Stanford just like Michael Carter. This is a guy who when you compare him to tight ends, obviously the percentiles are massive because he's not a tight end. He's trying to cosplay as a tight end. But this is a guy that his main objective is to go out and catch the ball. So I'm very excited to see him potentially. I mean, again, it's hard to say that I want to see him because I'd rather just have Tray McBride stay healthy and be awesome the rest of the way. But if anything were happening, it's just, it's very rare for us in the tight end market to just,

have this guy waiting in the wings, but they know how important that player is to them, so they made sure to have some. Yeah, no, I love this one. I love the deep cut. I have a ton of Elijah Arroyo. I hope you're right on that one. And in deeper dynasty formats, go ahead and grab yourself some Elijah Higgins. If Kup is right, then you might end up with a potential league winner.

Really, really love the profile there from Higgins. And that's a guy that I know you've been high on for now multiple seasons, Coop with his talent profile and is at raw athleticism and the potential. Go ahead. 96 percentile speed for the tight ends. 96. Listen, and that's a pretty important position. I mean, that's a pretty important speed is pretty important to tight ends more so than any other position.

We've talked about that. Kup, you've talked about that, how elite athleticism lends itself to elite tight end production, more so than we see at the running back and wide receiver a position. Simple game sometimes, guys. And I'm going to give you quick shout out. Can I just give a quick shout out to Ryan Heath, who actually did a lot of work putting that to numbers this off season as well. Yes. Because we've all known. We've all seen it. But check out, Ryan, he has an article on fantasy points where he really put the numbers together with all the positions. And it pointed to surprisingly, speed being raw speed being one of the biggest factors for tight end, much more so than wide receiver and running back, because the ability to outrun linebackers and safeties is much easier as a tight end.

And that's how you get Tucker Kraft and George Kittle and Kyle Pitts ripping off 50 yard plays. And it's why other guys can't do it. So guys like this have that in their range of outcomes. Sorry to interrupt. No, you got to give you. I love the plug. And if you want access to all of Ryan Heath's articles, all my articles, Scott Barrett's articles are incredible rankings, our incredible tools,

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shoot that over your way, Coop. And I'm going to give Scott, Scott, Scott, I know, you're already, you're listening. Merry Christmas from Scott. You already beat you the bunch. You'll have to find something else. You're a friend of the program. We're going to get you a fantasy points hat or something like that.

Give me an Elijah Higgins jersey. Maybe an Elijah Higgins throwback Stanford jersey. Now we're talking. I don't know, that would be a tough one to five. but I'm going to look for it. I'll shout out eBay. I'm going to give you an easy one, Coop. This is one that I think a lot of people are ready for. And we're hearing the drum beats. The drum beats during the by week are strong here. The beat reporters are insinuating this. We can sort of feel it coming. It's right around the corner here. We've been waiting for this

player to break out for many, many weeks. It was an incredibly frustrating first six weeks of the year because this player would do things really flash, but it wasn't the consistency. In week six, and week seven, we saw a significant, and week five for that matter, we saw a significant leap forward in the routes run percentage from Travis Hunter. He ran a route on 89.3% of routes in week five, and then week six, 85.7, week seven, 87.3. The snaps are ungodly. He's playing 100% of snaps now. And we saw the big breakout performance in week seven, 14 targets, eight reset, had a touchdown catch and finished with 101 receiving yards was wide receiver nine on the week in week seven, 24 ppr points. This is the sign of things to come. It's going to be the big Travis Hunter breakout.

Travis Hunter is going to average 15 and a half points per game for the rest of the season. And he is going to outscore Brian Thomas Jr. for the rest of the way. I think BTJ is going to kind of get it together, but BTJ is banged up. It's just not working for BTJ. We've seen what Liam Cohen is able to do scheme-wise, getting players like Travis Hunter involved. We saw it in Tampa, the design targets, the screen passes. I think you're going to start seeing more manufactured plays.

You've got the elite athleticism for the potential for big spike weeks. Travis Hunter, second half of the year, he is going to be a high-end wide receiver two with 15 and a half points per game and the leading wide receiver score in Jacksonville. I mean, we just saw, he basically just did a speed run of Chris Godwin's early career, right? Godwin was stuck as just a slot guy until year three when they got rid of Deshawn Jackson, and then he became a guy that plays slot in three wide receiver sets and plays flanker and two wide receiver sets.

As you pointed out, Travis Hunter didn't play a single snap out wide until week five. And then by week six, he was playing a bunch, and then week seven, he was full-time player. And people were giving up on Travis Hunter, week five, all over Twitter. even went out of my way to respond to somebody to be like, hey, dude, don't eat crow now. The crow's not cooked yet. You know what I mean? The guy has the guy is just now getting to play the full snap share. And as we know with the Liam Cohen offense, if you're getting that Chris Godwin

role, that's the better one for fantasy. And Brian Thomas Jr. Still has a good role. He's in the Mike Evans role. But unless you're Mike Evans, a little Hall of Fame wide receiver, you're going to face the top corner on the other team every week. You're going to be running the more difficult routes. You're not going to be getting all those gadget plays.

This one to me, I don't want to say your takes not bold. I just think it's so realistic that I'm willing to just pencil this in and say, yeah, this is how it should be. But people out there, they don't believe it. I've been seeing people trade Travis Hunter for nothing. I saw him get dropped away from a bunch of leagues. Just a silly way to go about it because you never know when these guys are going to get that full-time opportunity. And his time is now. And, Kup, we see it every year where a lot of times you see this second half of the season wide receiver breakouts from from rookies.

And it's not necessarily like a guy goes from zero to 100, but a guy might be doing exactly what Travis Hunter did. And then again, we love bringing up the self-scouting during bi-weeks. If you think a coach is smart and you believe in that coach as an offensive mind, a lot of times they are able to make adjustments when they have a longer period of time. The bi-week self-scouting is a very underrated aspect of fantasy football. We know Liam Cohen understands offensive football. I think you're going to really see it take shape.

with Travis Hunter over the second half of the year. Very exciting time for Travis Hunter managers. And if Coop is right, go ahead and send out a couple of not really even buy low, just buy him for the price he's at now. And it's going to look like a buy low by the time we get to like week 15, week 16, and Travis Hunter has put up several 20 point weeks over the second half of the year. Let's take one more quick break. And we come back.

Coop has a quarterback that he's about to drop a hot take on right after this. All right. Welcome back. Fantasy Football Daily, Theo Greminger with Andrew Cooper, Cooper Fiasco on The X. Check them out over at Fantasy Alarm. Make sure you're checking out my other episodes of Fantasy Football Daily. Graham Barfield and I dropped the start sit. Joe Dolan, Tom Brawley, and I do the Waverwire show. I do my solo show that drops every Monday recapping everything you need to know from the Fantasy Football Week. And then amazing guests like our Guy Coop join me every week on this show. We're everywhere here helping you win your fantasy leagues at.

fantasy points. Coup, get us going. I love that you put this player on the show sheet. This is a big opportunity for this young man. Yeah, I'll tell you what. One thing I love to, there's not many frontiers we can still take advantage of in fantasy, right? I mean, everyone's got access to the stats. Everyone's tweeting them out.

Everyone's sharing the info. We all got the all 22 these days. One thing that you can take advantage of, though, that is, in my opinion, one of the, my favorite ones is stigma. Once players get a stigma to them, especially when the internet's throwing jokes around, when everyone's saying, oh, blah, blah, this guy, like Kyler Murray with the Call of Duty stuff. I mean, Kyler Murray is still QB8 all time and fantasy points per game. People don't think he's a winner or a leader or whatever it is.

I don't care. I care about fantasy points. And the player I look at here as a possible guy that could end up being rostered in virtually every format and started in a lot of them is JJ McCarthy. People are looking at this guy as if they want to just give up on him after two games, right? They want to just give up on him after a game against the Bears where he started slow, but then came back and played great towards the end.

And then a game versus the Falcons here where he looked terrible. And that's what's fresh in everybody's minds. But people don't realize Theo because it was the second game of the season and nobody really knew for sure. Everyone's looked terrible against the Falcons. Here are the passing yards against the Falcons. Baker Mayfield threw for 167 yards. J.J. McCarty threw for 158. Bryce Young 121.

Marcus Marriota, 156. Josh Allen, 180. Mack Jones is thrown for 300 yards game against every team, except the Falcons, where he threw for 152. 152. And then Tua has the best game of the season against them with 205 yards. It turns out that Jesse Bates is awesome. And defensive rookie of the month, defensive rookie of the month, Xavier Watts, the other safety,

also awesome. AJ Terrell, also awesome. I mean, the Falcons might just be a really good secondary. It turns out that that might be the case. And if that is the case, that our sample size of JJ. McCarthy in two games doesn't matter and he's going to come back here and throw the ball to Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and T.J. Hawkinson and Aaron Jones. I mean, my goodness, dude, is the table set for this guy to potentially prove everybody wrong and he's out there just

floating around on waivers in virtually every single league. So yes, maybe he might come out a little slow off the ankle injury, not really running as much as the five times he did in the last time he played. But I mean, you can't rule out the possibility that this guy comes out and he's just good, right? It's still entirely possible. So for me, JJ McCartner, is, you know, now that we've already stashed Jackson Dart and he's broken out, J.J. McCarthy is the next stash for me. Yeah, and J.J. McCarthy has that mobility bonus where he's able to run the football. I think that adds a little bit extra dimension to him. And the streets have forgotten, Coop, the streets have forgotten Josh Dobbs,

Nick Mullins. We saw the resurgence of Sam Darnold, restarted the career. We saw Kirk Cousins leading the NFL in passing touchdowns when he went down with an injury. The Kevin O'Connell system has been so quarterback fantasy friendly for years. I'll even say we had a couple of usable weeks out of Carson Wentz with multiple touchdown passes in multiple weeks with Carson Wentz, a guy where before the season, if you asked the average guy on the street, they'd say Carson Wentz is retired. He's not even a backup quarterback. And he's coming like, you know, and starting a couple of games and throwing multiple

touchdowns. I think that J.J. McCarthy, there's too many smart people that viewed him as a very very. very good quarterback coming out, including Brett Whitefield. Brett Whitefield this year had Jackson Dart as his QB1 overall forever, called the guy a first round pick forever before a lot of people were projecting him to be drafted in that round and said he was the number one quarterback in this draft class without hesitation. The year before, Brett took a lot of heat for how highly he was on J.J. McCarthy.

I think Brett's been very correct. If I had to trust one person's opinion on the quarterback position, it would be Brett. And I think we're going to see a strong second half of the year for J.J. McCarthy got a real big test this week in week nine. Your expectations for him coming out of the gate here in week nine here, Coop. Yeah, I don't know about as much mobility here because, you know, he's probably not fully 100%. I know that's what Kevin O'Connell has told us. And these guys, just on Kevin O'Connell, there are certain guys that get drafted in the NFL and know exactly what to do but can't do it as a quarterback. And that's Kevin O'Connell.

That's why he's such a great quarterback coach, is that he was a quarterback. and he just wasn't a good physical player, but it's all there. Watch for these guys Davis Webb and Tim Boyle and these guys that are still, you know, they have Ben floating around and are now trickling into coaching. Those are the guys that I want my young quarterback playing with. And I expect JJ McCarthy come out and play at a high level here because we've really only seen a small sample size.

We know this guy's solid. And when you look at the draft classes that give you a QB5 off the board like Jalen Hertz that's good or Lamar Jackson, it's almost always in the midst of a really good class. How I'm looking at this class right now with Drake May and Jane Daniels and Caleb Williams, at least slinging the ball. Like, I think this is a pretty good class. I think that there's a lot of hope for, you know, obviously Bo Nix went to a playoffs last year.

There's a lot of hope for guys like Michael Pennix and J.J. McCarthy because I think that across the board, this just ended up being a good class. So I'm in on J.J. McCarthy. Still, I'm willing to go down with the shift. What else would you got for us, Theo? What's hot for you? Oh, I got a hot one for you. I got a blast from the past here.

Christian Watson came back last week. Didn't look like a guy coming off of a torn ACL. Christian Watson has been almost a fantasy football meme for the last couple of years where people get so enthusiastic about Christian Watson multiple times over, Coup. And we've been just devastated when he's gone down with injuries. But it's a player that anyone who experienced rookie year Christian Watson, it's a next level type athlete shot out of a cannon, potential to put up massive spike weeks and the potential to house it on like a 70-yard touchdown at any kind of moment. Christian Watson is 26 years old.

What's interesting is the Green Bay Packers extended him this past off season. Despite the frustration with the injuries, it's a player that they still value organizationally. And we saw it last week. Christian Watson comes back, leads the Green Bay Packers in receiving yards on the week. I, I had him very highly ranked in my waiver wire article. I'm very, very excited about this one. Christian Watson this week in week nine is going to have five catches, 125 receiving yards, and a touchdown. If you're a DFS player, throw him in a lineup. He's going to end up being one of the best waiver wire additions on the season. And I think it's going to be a slight shift here. The second half of last season, Coup, we saw Josh Jacob's show. It was run after run after run.

Packers sort of punched you in the mouth every single week. This past week, we saw Jordan Love with three passing touchdowns. Tucker Kraft looks like a challenger to finish as the tight end won overall in the season. He's absolutely locked in. And I think with Tucker Kraft and now a healthy Christian Watson, you're going to see Jordan Love finish as a QB1 the rest of the way. I think they're going to be slightly more pass happy. We saw Josh Jacobs a little more Emmanuel Wilson working in. We know he's. We know he's. he's dealing with the calf injury. They don't want to run Jacobs into the ground. He's a very important part of their piece. They want to make a Super Bowl here. And I think the Packers are going to be slightly more pass-happy, enough to handle Tucker Kraft challenging it for the tight end one overall. Christian Watson giving us a startable weekly average for the rest of the way.

Call him a high-end wide receiver three flex play, but has the ability to give us immense spike weeks, week 9, 125 receiving yards, and a touchdown at a cross. Christian Watson. What do you have? I think once the thing about Watson and players of his ilk is that once the 150 yard games or the two touchdown games start hitting, he's just going to be one of those guys that that you just eat any sort of down week and you just can't afford to bench. You look at the this team has been lacking this for a long time. Take Romeo Dubs and take Dantavianwicks and combine those guys together. They're now what, what is this? Combined between

them seven years in the league between those two players they have not one time had a regular season game with 100 yards Romeo dubs has that one game against the cowboys in the playoffs that's it dude Romeo dubs does not have a game this year with 75 yards like these are not difference-making players that's why they went out to try and get those guys and i'll tell you what jaden reed yes he's a solid player he's a part-time slot guy he's not coming back until both his injuries are healed not only did he break the collarbone but when they did that they did surgery on his foot. So it's the second of whichever those injuries are healed. And when he comes back, he's probably going to push Matthew Golden out of the slot anyway. Like, this guy could just

come in and be the wide receiver one for this team. I know people don't like it, but I'm rooting for the guy. It's not his fault that he had asymmetrical hamstrings. It's not his fault that he went and did the study and did everything to fix it. Then he tore his ACL. It's been bad luck up and down the board for this guy. He worked so hard they gave him an extension while he was out. I mean, I'm rooting for this player. I think he's got the biggest upside on the team, and I'm with you, man. Green Bay Packers games are way more fun to watch when Christian Watson is healthy. I mean, we love war daddy, Jaden Reed. We've talked about war daddy, Jaden Reed for years. But Tucker Kraft is like this breadth of fresh air. He's an absolute monster. And now you add

Christian Watson in the mix. I am a slightly bullish year on Jordan Love having a really big end of the season as well. So Green Bay, absolutely a Super Bowl contender. I think the offense is going to look a little more balanced than what we saw last year. And, Coop, this is sort of what they wanted. They drafted two wide receivers, one in round one, one in round three with Sabian Williams in round three and Matthew Golden in round one. But it's going to not be those rookies. It's going to be a blast from the past, Christian Watson, leading the wide receiver room with maybe the most entertaining tight end in football right now in Tucker Kraft every single week. Easy game, pretty simple one. What else do you have here, Coop?

I got one. You know, the people they expect the tight ends for me. You know, you and I, we're not doing as many shows these days as much as we'd like to. So I got to come back with one more tight end, man. Got to come back with one more tight end. Let me describe a tight end to you. What if I just, what if there was a tight end this year that was top five in route participation? He was top five in Target Share.

He was top five in pass block rate. He was top five in screens. He was top five in receptions versus man to man. He was top five in mistackles, right? That sounds like a pretty good player, right? That sounds like, like Tray McBride. That sounds like Tyler Warren. Yeah, it sounds awesome. Would that same player be third in receptions at the tight end position right now, too?

He would. Sounds like a player I'd want, Coop. How many first round picks do I need to trade you for him in Dynasty? Probably just one, maybe even less, just because once again, that word, right, the stigma surrounding Kyle Pitts. But Kyle Pitts so far has been reliable. Kyle Pitts has one game with less than seven and a half PPR points this year. And he had 4.8, which is in this, this tight end of Kyle Pitts. economy just fine five points i'll take five points on the on the worst week of the year for that player and i'll tell you what this guy still has crazy speed last year he broke off multiple 50 plus yard plays the only guys

over the last uh five years or so to break off multiple 50 plus yard plays in the same season are george kittle tucker craft and Kyle pits so right now the floor is actually good for this guy and the ceiling is still out there lurking this guy is going to come out and have a monster game and then people are going to look at the game log and say, wait a second, this has been the floor the whole time and the ceiling's actually higher, then you can't go out and get this guy. I'm telling you right now, not only has Kyle Pitts been serviceable and startable, but he has elite upside still. And to me, I think Kyle Pitts is going to be an elite option rest of way because of his floor and ceiling. He just needs to flash the ceiling for us. Once Michael Pennix is back, I think he's going to have one of

those big time ceiling games and people are going to look at it and say, wow, we were sleeping on this whole situation all along. It's one of those ones where when you look at the game log now, it doesn't look special. But when you sprinkle a couple big games in there with all the floor games, we're going to sit back and say, what will we miss? Why do we miss this the whole time? And the underlying stats have been there. Tight end two behind only Trey McBride and route participation.

This guy is no longer a part-time player. This is a full-time, every down tight end that runs like a four-four-two. 25 years old and he's currently averaging 11.3 points per game in PPR, which is the best that he's ever averaged. And literally no one's talking about it at all. Scott and I talked about this on School of Scott this week for like one minute. Really interesting stuff, Coup. And yeah, I think Kyle Pitts is sort of lurking out there. And just like you said, because of the name, because he's burned fantasy managers in the past, you get that discount. You continually get that discount from a Kyle Pitts fantasy manager who is just like, whatever, I'll trade you Kyle Pitts.

So if you're struggling a tight end, I think he is a very easy solution. Not going to give you the Tucker Kraft ceiling, but Kyle Pitts could give you tight end six rest of the way, something like that, Coop. Hey, here's my bold take. I think he can give you Tucker Craft here. I mean, you look at this guy. Yeah, I think he can. Tucker Kraft, he's faster than Tucker Kraft. Tucker Kraft, he's a full, you know, tenth of a second faster than Tucker Kraft.

He absolutely in the right spots can break off plays like that. And like I said, top five in missed tackles this year for this guy. So it's entirely possible. And I'll tell you, I mean, like, we always say it. We say, hey, touchdowns are fluky. Don't bank on touchdowns. You give Kyle Pitts one more touchdown. Now he's tight end seven.

You know what I mean? It's like it's that's the annoyingness of this. He has one touchdown, but he could easily break off big chunk plays. do not sleep on Kyle Pitts. I'm telling you, folks. So I love that one. I also love finding value on teams that are being completely written off

in fantasy football. And that's the Tennessee Titans. The Tennessee Titans for multiple weeks here, Graham Barfield and I have sort of talked about you can't use any Tennessee Titan like at all. These guys are completely unusable. I think there's going to be two down the stretch that sort of challenge this.

And nobody wants to. Stephen roster any Tennessee Titans right now. Chimir Dike is the really easy one. I think Chim Dike is going to be awesome the rest of the season. He has slot usage. He has elite speed. We've now seen him play very, very well in back-to-back weeks. And it's a team that's going to be trailing continually.

They have nothing. Even if Calvin Ridley comes back soon, I don't think that's going to be an impediment to Chimir Dek because they're playing different positions. I think Chimir Dike is going to give you somewhere around wide receiver 30 for the rest of the season. He's going to prove to be a really, really strong waiver wire addition. And you see it every year, Coop.

You get to the fantasy playoffs and there's a couple of names that make big impacts in that three week stretch, guys that might put up 15, 18 points. And you're just like, what is going on? How is my team possibly being challenged? I have this amazing lineup. And I'm being challenged by this guy who's using ChemDK and maybe Christian Watson. it is his wide receiver two and his flex play. I think Chimier D.K.

Really, really a fun player, elite speed on a team that's going to have to throw up some yolo balls every week because they're going to be trailing. Again, Chim DK, if he's available in your league, go ahead and grab him. The other player, I think we're seeing a changing the guard at the running back position. This is the first week that we've seen Tai J. Spears since he's come back. have the exact same number of touches as Tony Pollard, and he badly outproduced him. This past week we saw Tai J Spears score 17 PPR points. He had nine carries for 59 yards and a touchdown.

He had three catches for 23 yards. And that's now three straight weeks where Tai J. Spears has had at least three catches. I think Tai J. Spears is a great player to add if you're looking for running back depth, a player who could potentially go in your lineup during bi weeks, and be used in a flex if you're in biweek hell. And we saw how good Taije Spears was down the stretch last year when Tony Pollard broke down. Spears had a number of weeks where he's putting up like running back one numbers. I don't think this story's fully been told.

Shim D.K. and Taijay Spears, go ahead and get these Tennessee Titans, take the gross offense discount and potentially use these guys down the stretch. Yeah, I mean, it's clearly I want Tajay Spears on the pass downs. And with negative game scripts, he's just getting more straight up more snaps and Toti Pollard each week. So he's easily a startable player, especially in PPR. And with Chim D.K., like people have been saying, oh, Cam Ward's not throwing catchable passes. No one can catch them. Calvin Ridley can't catch him.

Elikai Aminar can't catch him. Well, in the last three games, Chim Dek has come out and caught 13 to 15 of them. Yeah. So maybe the reality is those other guys can't catch or they're not on the same page as Cam Ward. Well, this one player is. So you got to scoop those guys up. And on top of that, I went and checked it out. He actually played in two wide receiver sets over, over, Van Jefferson.

So he's already now into that role where push comes to shove and they want to use multiple tight ends with Chigaconko and Gunther Helm. It should be, it should be him. He just needs to be the guy over I am and are. And the way he's catching the ball right now, I don't see why he wouldn't be. Yeah, and I love that one more stat is he has eight rushing attempts on the season. So it's a guy that they're trying to get the ball in his hands. You have that added bonus that you could rip off a long run. I'm really, really excited about him.

Really a sneaky week for WaverWire production, Coop, with Watson and DK, guys that I think you could not only add, but potentially have an impact over the second half of the season. Wrap us up. What's your bonus take here, Coop? Yeah, here's a bold one. And this one, we're going to need more than just this year to figure out, to sort out. But I actually, it's crazy as it sounds. And again, I don't know.

pushes back on rookie tight ends. I think that this could end up being when all is said and done, the best fantasy rookie tight end class of all time. And people might say, wow, that's great. That's bold. There's been so many good ones. But there really haven't been ones with like a ton of guys that are all having great, great careers. There's actually only been one, as far as my records go, only one year that's had three or more guys all score 1,000 career PPR points. That's 2006 with Vernon Davis, Owen Daniels, Mercedes-Lewis, who's getting another look this year at 40 years old, and Delaney Walker. I mean, you've had years with Graham and Gronk in 2010. You had Kelsey and Ertz, and Jordan Reed as third, which that's probably one of the best all-time.

You know, the 2018 with Mark Andrews, Dallas Goddard, Mike Gaseki, Dalton Schultz. Obviously, this past, you know, this past classes with Kraft and the porting Kincaid is looking good. But I'm telling you, man, like, I think that Tyler Warren's already awesome. Colston Lovell and very young. He can be great. Arande Cadsden's flashing. Harold Fannin's flashing. And I'm not sleeping on these guys, Elijah Arroyo and Terrence Ferguson.

I mean, even Mason Taylor's already. Gunner Helm is a Chigacuankwo trade away from being, you know, at least relevant and tight-end premium. Entirely possible, man. And then that's what happens. Like when you have these good classes, I mean, George Kiddell, he was a fifth round pick.

He came out of nowhere, you know, it's like you never quite know who's gonna, who's gonna merge later on the way Randy Gadsden has. And I'll tell you what. I mean,

there's a real possibility that we, uh, five years from now are looking at the tight end landscape. And I, we just named like seven of the top 10. And this does end up being one of the all time great tight end

classes. So I'm willing to, uh, to throw it out there now and we'll see what happens. Man, we'll check that you and I will be doing this for a long time. So we'll keep that. Yeah, I called this a transformative tight end class this past off season on a number of shows.

They clown me, Coop. They clown me. They said, slow your role, Theo. They said, slow your role. Now they're on that as well. I agree with you. This is. Look at you now.

Look at me. We got receipts on that one, too. But when you mentioned some of those names, it's not only like, there's tight end classes where, you know, you'll say, oh, it's a bunch of top 12 guys. But no, this has needle movers. I think you named a couple of guys. why wouldn't be shocked over the next five years if you see Harold Fanon with a tight end one overall season? Wouldn't be shocked if you see Tyler Warren with a tight end one overall season.

And certainly would not be shocked if we see a Ronde Gadsden with a top five tight end overall season. And Loveland hasn't done a thing. He was a 10th overall pick. He's had back-to-back weeks with three catches. So you've got Loveland, you've got a Royo, you've got Ferguson, potentially Gunner Helm, all maybe taking a big step forward in the second half of the year. by the end of the season, you might have like six guys in the top 12 in Dynasty. So really, really, really a transformative year at the tight end spot.

I'm going to give a shout out to the college football listeners. I got a college football listeners, Coop. Not just NFL, not just fantasy listeners. I got people out in the college football streets. And the thing that's happening this, this college football season is all of these big jobs have opened up. It's crazy. It's a wild, the wild wild west now for. college football hires. You've got LSU just fired Brian Kelly. You have Florida open. You have Penn State open. Arkansas is open. Florida State probably fires Mike Norvell. They don't have a win in the ACC now. There's all these huge jobs opening up. And the NFL is going to make this offseason in college football even crazier. Steve Sarkisian, the head coach at Texas, one of the best jobs in the nation, regardless of NFL versus college.

Sark is going to take the Tennessee Titans job. The Tennessee Titans are going to go to the college ranks, hire Steve Sarkesian, and you are going to see the Texas job open up as well. It is going to be the wildest offseason. There's going to be more good jobs than there are good candidates, and it's going to have a cascade effect. A lot of these schools are going to open up. Potentially some NFL assistants are going to get these jobs.

Check out Zach Robinson, former Oklahoma State. Quarterback might take that Oklahoma State job. there's going to be a bunch of NFL assistants who might get these college jobs. There might even be an ex-NFL head coach who pulls a Belichick and takes a college job. There's too many big college jobs opening up, but it'll be the NFL that causes arguably the best one. And yeah, LSU, Florida, and Penn State people are not going to like me saying this, but that Texas job might be the best one out there and it might open up as well. So a little bonus college take for the college people out there.

Coop, what else do you have going on? What else do you want to promote? Yeah, we don't really have college football up here in New England, so I'm excited to see what everything you just said means, as it all trickles on now. Well, there you go. We don't have a team, but we do have a ton of transplants. And a lot of people from Long Island, who ended up going to school at like a Big Ten school or an SEC school. So there's a huge, like, I know on Long Island you've a ton of Penn State fans,

you've a ton of Michigan fans, a ton of Ohio State fans. So yeah, we're feeling it up here. So yeah, Boston people, you got to get with it, man. Got to get with it. It's fun. College football is a little fun. It, we, there was, when I was a kid every once in a while, we were Boston College and Providence College would be good at basketball.

Providence College doesn't even have a team. So, I mean, football team at least. So yeah, we're, we're slacking on that more of a pro, pro sports area. But yeah, so if people want my stuff, find me at Koup, A Fiasco on Twitter. You can hit me on Reddit. Coop, there it is. All my article is over at Fantasy Alarm. Anything that is a free article, I always tweeted out to make sure people know that's out there.

You can also catch me on Sirius XM Channel 87. We have a show every day from 6 to 8 p.m. I'm on Thursdays and Fridays. And I'm also on Sunday morning 10 to 11 getting those lineups set for you guys. So always great to be on, man. Let's do it more. Yeah, check out everything coop drops. It's absolute fire.

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