Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Beat the Waiver Wire! MUST-STASH Players Before Week 10 (10/31 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: October 31, 2025Dave Richard goes solo on Halloween to give a position-by-position breakdown, highlighting the BEST fantasy football stash players you need to grab BEFORE waivers run. Don’t wait until everyone else... is fighting for them — stash these guys now! 0:00 Tight Ends 1:45 Quarterbacks 2:50 Running Backs 4:50 Wide Receivers 6:25 Defenses Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Dave Richard here, riding solo.
No Adam Azer.
He texted me.
He said, giving my grandmother a footbath for fun.
Whatever that means, whatever that floats your boat, Adam, good with me.
Okay, week 10, big time issues ahead for everybody in fantasy football.
The chiefs are on by.
The Bengals are on by.
Cowboys are on by.
The Titans are not really being started by anybody, but they're on by too.
So we need to give you some names to help you fill your life.
lineup and get ahead of it for week number 10.
It's much better for your fantasy team to pick up your players now rather than deal
with waivers and fab and all that stuff next Tuesday.
And we start with not one big name, but three big names.
And they're all at tight end and they're all going to give you zero points in week
number nine.
We talked about it already.
It's Harold Fanon with the Browns, David Nojoku with the Browns for now, and Mason
Taylor with the Jets.
And Taylor's the one most widely available.
72% available on CBS.
Nojoku around 50% of the league.
Harold Fanon around 40% of leagues.
I like Fanon the best of the three.
I think he's got some good long-term power for fantasy managers,
especially if Nojoku does get traded.
And the other interesting thing here,
we've got the Browns at the Jets in week number 10.
So it could be a fantasy tight end fiesta in that game.
Lord knows there won't be a lot of wide receivers.
Hey, one other tight end.
to keep you aware of.
And this is just an IR stash.
It's Brenton Strange with the Jaguars, 84% available.
If you've got an IR spot, you can throw Brenton Strange in there.
We know he's going to be a factor for Jacksonville at some point.
Let's high tail it over to quarterbacks.
You're going to need somebody to replace Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott, Joe Flacco.
You might need somebody for Flacco in week number nine.
Four quarterbacks that you might be able to find on waivers, i.e., they're already
rostered in a huge percentage of leagues.
C.J. Stroud, Aaron Rogers, Brock Purdy, Sam Darnold.
I don't mind some of them for week number nine.
I don't mind any of them for week number 10.
Stroud would be my favorite of the group.
He's taking on Jacksonville in week 10.
He's available in about a third of CBS leagues.
But let's say you can't get any of them.
Who do you go for?
We're going right back to that Brown's Jets game.
And we're going to Justin Fields.
And I know trusting Justin Fields.
It's icky.
It's gross.
But you know what?
He did pretty well for us last week, 54% available, taking on the Browns.
Not the easiest matchup in the world, but he'll run.
And we know that Justin Fields is capable of getting some good numbers.
If you can't get your hands on him, look for Michael Pennix, J.J. McCarthy, Bryce Young, Tyler Shuck.
Yeah, it's gross a quarterback.
Running back, though, running backs.
How about a spot starter for week nine and week 10?
I got two names for you.
first one is Kyle Monungi of the Bears,
39% available, probably rostered in a bunch of leagues already,
but he's at Cincinnati,
then he's got the Giants.
And D'Andre Swift did not practice on Wednesday and Thursday.
What if this guy ends up being the leadback for the Bears in week nine,
maybe even longer we can dream, can't we?
But even if Swift plays,
Menongai has been playing alongside him,
the numbers have been pretty good.
Jeremy McNichols is a much less appealing name.
He's got Seattle in Week 9, Detroit, and Week 10.
but he's 87% available.
If it's a PPR league, maybe he can get you to 10 PPR points.
Game script should be in his favor in each of his next two games
because I don't see the commanders building a lead with the run
against the Seahawks or the Lions.
Two more names to know.
Richard Smith, 54% available.
A lot of people are already stashing him to see how he does in week nine.
We know Isaiah Pacheco is not going to play for the chiefs.
I'm not that excited about him, especially taking on Buffalo.
But if he has a big game,
hey, you'd have them on your fantasy team.
You'd have to hold him through his buy,
but he's somebody who could evolve into something.
And then Torell Jennings.
Who is Torell Jennings?
Well, he was a guy who ended up being a fourth quarter grind the clock down
running back for the Patriots.
And the only reason why I'm bringing him up is because Rommandre Stevenson
didn't practice on Wednesday or Thursday for New England.
And we think it's going to be Travian Anderson.
And this is finally going to be Travian Henderson's time to shine.
I don't know.
This coaching staff has held him back quite a bit.
They've talked, Terrell Jennings up a lot, and he's 99% available.
Two other names, stashes.
Guys, you can't use in week number nine, but you could stash him before week 10.
Isaiah Davis with the Jets, Dylan Sampson with the Browns.
We'll be right back with wide receivers and DSTs that you could stash.
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wide receivers for week nine,
my favorite one to go and get.
It's a Titan,
but I've been talking about him
for a couple weeks now.
Shimray DK,
76% available,
takes on the Chargers.
This feels a lot more
like a one week thing.
Like even if it has a pretty good game
against the Chargers,
I don't know how many fantasy managers
are going to hold him through the buy.
I don't know what his numbers will be like
when Calvin Ridley comes back.
But Shimray, DK, the last two weeks,
a lot of PPR points.
Fantasy managers should be impressed with that.
But if you don't want to trust the Titan or a rookie wide receiver,
here are some other names to know.
Christian Watson, 37% available.
He's taking on Carolina in week 9.
Philly in week 10, these are not the easiest matchups,
but if he becomes the Packers' top wide receiver,
you'll be happy you have them on your fantasy team.
Darius Slayton is effectively the number one downfield receiver for the Giants.
Don't see that changing anytime soon.
And he's available in 74% of leagues.
He has the Niners this week.
He's got the Bears in week 10.
You could do worse at wide receiver
than Darius Slayton, who, if not for a ticky-tack flag last week,
would have been one of the most added wideouts in fantasy football.
Some other names, Josh Downs with the Colts, Alec Pierce with the Colts,
Trey Tucker with the Raiders, and some IR stashes at wide receiver,
because we can never have enough of those.
Cedric Tillman with the Browns, Jaden Reed with the Packers,
Brandon I.Euk, remember him? Of course you do.
We've been talking about him on this show for the past few weeks.
He's a good IR stash, as is Jalen McMillan with the Tampa Bay,
guineers dsts you can move on from the chiefs dst if you're not using them this week against buffalo
you shouldn't be using them this week against buffalo and then they're on by in week 10 so who could
you get the colts dst week 9 against pittsburg week 10 against Atlanta Atlanta's been giving up some
fantasy points to dsts over the past couple of weeks that's interesting and it's basically because
of the quarterback play that they have had Indianapolis's defense is starting to play a little bit better
Their pass rush has always been good.
They're an interesting unit that you could use week nine and week 10.
But for just week 10, the Browns DST.
They're taking on the Jets, 10 or more fantasy points to five of the past seven DSTs that they've taken on.
Otherwise, the Panthers DST against the Saints and Tyler Shuck,
and the Bears' DSTs, they've also been giving up some fantasy production to DSTs.
I think that those are interesting options as well if you need a DST to replace the Chiefs.
That's all we've got.
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