Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Beat the Waiver Wire! MUST-STASH Players Before Week 12! Burden, Neal, Watson, Fannin & More! (11/13 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: November 14, 2025Adam Aizer and Dave Richard go position by position to highlight 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) Luther Burden (1:12) Quarterbacks (2:28) Running Backs (4:22) Wide Receivers (6:34) Tight Ends (8:30) DST #FantasyFootball #NFL #FantasyFootballAdvice #Podcast 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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All right, let's get ahead of the game.
Let's beat the Waver Wire for Fantasy Week 12.
Week 12.
Once we get to Thanksgiving, it starts to get like, whoa, this season's almost over.
This is nuts.
We've got to win.
You know, you've got to beat that WaiverWire.
You don't want to lose out on those good players.
We've got Denver, Chargers, Dolphins, Washington, on a buy next week.
Dave Richard, who's the headliner for the Beat the Waiver Wire segment?
The headliner is Luther Berger.
and the third, and we've talked about him this week on multiple shows, 77% available, has Minnesota this week, Pittsburgh next week, season high 49% route run rate last week. And we know this, DJ Moore, limited in practice on Thursday. He's probably going to play. Alameda Zakias, two drops last week, officially. I wonder if they phase him out and they give this rookie a try. Ben Johnson openly said, quote, there's a strong argument that we should get the ball to him more.
Seems like a good stash candidate to me.
Put them on your bench.
Let's see what happens this week.
And maybe against Pittsburgh, we have this high flying rookie end up in our
lineups as a flex.
All right.
That would be great.
Yeah, Luther Burden.
All right.
Anything else.
How about the quarterbacks?
We do have Bo Nix, Justin Herbert, Tua and Mario D on by.
And there's some tough matchups in week 12.
Joe Flacco's got the Patriots, Caleb Williams, has the Steelers,
Daniel Jones, as the chiefs.
And Adam, if Dak and Baker have bad games this week, you might not be excited to start them next week in tough matchups.
So the first thing you should do, double check for Brock Purdy, double check for Aaron Rogers.
They're rostered in over 70% of leagues.
So they might not be out there in your leagues, but they might be interesting plays with their matchups,
Purdy against Carolina, Rogers at Chicago.
The big get is still Jacoby Brissette.
Against Jacksonville at home, 61% available.
Jaguars have allowed at least 30 fantasy points to quarterback.
in three straight games, including Davis Mills.
They've got Justin Herbert this week.
That could be another 30 burger.
And Marvin Harrison Jr. could be back.
We're not starting Jacobi Bressett this week,
not because of the matchup more so,
because he doesn't have MHJ.
So if Marvin Harrison Jr.'s back,
Jacobi Burset is a go as a fantasy option in week number 12.
You can also look at Trevor Lawrence in that same game.
And then the desperation plays are James.
That's if DART is still out by then.
Michael Pennix, Tyler Shuck,
Falcon Saints, play each other next week.
and then just a desperation quarterback to add in two QB leagues.
Jamie's talked about him,
Shadur Sanders,
just in case the Browns make the switch from Dylan Gabriel,
and they give their other rookie quarterback a try.
All right.
Any running backs, LOL?
Yeah, LOL is right because there's nothing really there that's good,
and there are some tough matches for Chase Brown,
Kyron Williams, Aaron Jones.
You might have to replace Rashad White by this time next week.
Titans running backs have probably already been replaced on your team already.
do a double check for Tyler Algier, do a quasi double check for Amari DiMarcato.
He's out there in about a third of CBS leagues.
And then the best of what's left, it starts with Sean Tucker.
Zonovan Knight is on the list there out there in at least 40% of CBS leagues.
But things happen fast in the NFL.
If Buckeyer rings back, Sean Tucker's not going to play.
If Trey Benson's back, Zonovan Knight's not going to play.
Zonovan Knight isn't even 100% either.
So it's kind of a mess at running back.
You can't really go to the waiver wire.
and find somebody you can just immediately plug into lineups.
But Adam, I do have a stash.
Devin Neal, this is more of deeper leagues just because he's a rookie running back coming
out of a buy, 88% available for the Saints.
Do they turn the page from Alvin Camaro, let their rookie get some more run?
He's got Atlanta next week.
So not necessarily the easiest of matchups, although Jonathan Taylor would tell you that it's
one of the easiest of matchups.
But Devin Neal is someone that you could at least speculate on.
I would rather speculate on Luther
Burden, for example,
and there's some other tight ends
that we'll talk about
that I'd rather speculate on,
but for those that are running back
hungry,
rather, excuse me,
Devin Neal is an option.
And I know he's got to buy next week,
but if Chris Rodriguez is a starting running back,
the main running back,
he's only 13% rostered,
you know,
could do worse.
I've seen people pick him up in my leagues.
We will probably talk about him
a week from now.
Yeah.
All right,
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All right, we're back.
Welcome back, everybody.
I just made a very strange face.
I was like,
okay.
As far as faces you make.
Luther Burden, you mentioned.
Any other ones that you're really itching at stash?
He's the biggest stash that I would itch,
but I would check for Christian Watson,
who's 35% available,
and might end up.
being the number one wide receiver for the Packers.
That wasn't necessarily a good thing on Monday,
but he had his downfield opportunities.
He looks pretty good.
He's running fast.
He does things that the Packers need on offense,
certainly things that Matthew Golden wasn't able to give this year.
So I would double check for him.
I would put him on the stash list too.
Would I take him over Luther Burden?
I think I might just because DJ Moore could end up playing.
If DJ Moore ends up playing,
then what could realistically happen for Burden is that he might play
50% of the snaps. So you can move Watson head, but he's already rostered in two-thirds of CBS
leagues, a receiver rather that you might be able to start as Parker, Washington still,
40% available. You just have to make sure that he's available. He's at Arizona in week 12.
You might be able to use Washington in week 11. Some other stash-wide receivers and Burden is
way ahead of these guys, but names to know. Jaden Higgins with the Texans,
Roman Wilson and Calvin Austin with the Steelers. They've got Chicago in week 12. Those
are interesting guys. Wilson especially, 11 and a half or more PPR points in two of his past three games. I wish he played a little more. And maybe he will because Calvin Austin hasn't had more than 10.6 ppr points in four straight games. He's been playing ahead of Wilson. Maybe a change comes here. Maybe it happens this week for the Steelers against the Bengals. And that would benefit Roman Wilson quite a bit. Some IR stashes at wide receiver. Brandon Ayuk, Jaden Reed, Jalen McMillan. Yeah, if you've got the IR spots available, go ahead and
plug him in there. Nick Millen's available in 92% of leagues, by the way.
And Chris Godwin's available in 33% of leagues for what that's worth. He could be back next
week. He's practicing right now. And I don't think he's going to play in week 11, but he could
play in week 12. So could do worse. Tight ends. Tough matchups for Dalton Schultz next week. Jake
Ferguson, Joanne Johnson. That's on top of not having Rhonda Gadsden and Zach Ertz. Check for
Harold Fanon. Still out there in 30% of CBS leagues. People have been slow.
to gravitate toward him.
How about this tight?
We've talked about him every week on the Waiver beat,
the Waiver show.
I was about to say the Waiver Beat show.
That's not funny.
The Waiver beat.
Brent Strange,
84% available.
The Jaguars team reporter expects him to play in week 11.
Oh.
This is somebody who could pencil in for 10 PPR points.
We know that there's all kinds of trouble with the receiving core in Jacksonville.
This guy's going to be pretty steady for Trevor Lawrence,
and a good third down option.
Again, 84% available.
It takes on Arizona in week 12.
They have allowed at least 14 half PPR points to a tight end in three of their past
four games, almost nine half PPR points to a tight end in six of nine games.
Other tight ends that are interesting, Pat Fryermuth, against Cincinnati this week,
that's usually a good thing for tight ends.
He's 85% available.
And then he's got Chicago the week after that.
They have a lot of bunch of numbers of tight ends as well.
Theo Johnson could be on the list for however long that Darius Slaten is out.
and then another stash name.
It's the same stash name as last week.
Luke Musgrave, 78% available.
And an IR stash behind Brenton Strange,
because I don't know how long Strange is going to be on the IR for.
Darren Waller, still on IR.
Maybe he comes off of IR.
Maybe he gives the dolphins a little something.
He's available in 71% of CBS leagues.
Guess we just picked up Brenton Strange in a league.
Hopefully it's not a league that I'm in.
Otherwise, I'm going to be mad at you.
It's not.
It's weird.
that he's nobody really wanted to put him nobody really wanted him so he's not i are eligible but
when he comes off i are if he does this weekend i will drop david and joku for breton strange
okay i'm not that's not as going to start i'm not going to start strange this week he's going to be
my second tight end all right dsts it's a little grocery dsts and obviously you've got to replace
denver and the chargers uh the texans next week have buffalo the patriots have the bengals
the rams have the buck so three ds that we love might not be ranked as high as they
normally are. There's a slew of DSTs just to check for. They're already rostered
north of 65% of leagues, the Falcons, the Eagles, the Bills, the Browns. Here's two that you
could use in week 11 and week 12, one more so than the other. The Chiefs going up against
Denver and then Indianapolis. It's not the easiest matchup for them either week, but they're
a good defense. The Vikings are 53% available. They've got Chicago and Green Bay. I would look
for a spirited effort from the Cowboys defense, and especially their first game with
and Williams this week against the Raiders, 56% available.
I would only use them this week, don't want to use them next week.
So if you're desperate for a DST in week 11, the Cowboys would be an option.
Other desperation DSTs, the Niners against Carolina, they're out there in two-thirds
of leagues, the Cardinals against the Jaguars.
They've given up a lot of points of DSTs lately.
And the Raiders, I know they stink, but they're taking on the Browns.
That game's going to stink.
And the Browns have allowed at least 10 fantasy points to a DST six times in nine games this year.
All right, that's Dave Richard.
Beat on the waiver beat here on Fantasy Football Today Express.
Thanks, everybody.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.