Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Beat the Waiver Wire! MUST-STASH Players Before Week 13! Chris Rodriguez Jr, Juwan Johnson, Jags DST, & Others! (11/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: November 20, 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! (1:00) Chris Rodriguez Jr. (2:18) Quarterbacks (3:26) Running Backs (5:22) Wide Receivers (6:50) Tight Ends (7:50) 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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Let's beat the waiver wire right now on Fantasy Football That I Express.
All right, big week next week.
Get started now.
That means buy all the ingredients you need for your side dishes, get all the appropriate pies
because you don't want to be left with the pumpkin pie when there's nothing else good.
But we've got to get ahead of the game.
And because it's Thanksgiving week, there are no buy weeks.
We have three games on Thursday.
we have one on Friday and the rest are Saturday or rather Sunday and Monday.
Hey, Dave.
Adam, hello.
Who do we need to go get and stash?
I am going to put a big smile on your face because the player to go and get is 69% available.
And his name is Chris Rodriguez Jr.
Who you have been talking.
That's a weird smile.
It's a tough schedule ahead, but he checks a lot of boxes.
He appears to be the lead running back for an NFL team.
and that's really the only box that matters
when you're looking to pick somebody up off the waiver wire,
especially at the running back position.
Maybe he's just a depth piece for your squad.
Maybe he ends up starting for you.
There are some matchups along the way where he can help you.
And if he's the feature back for an NFL team,
you'd like to have that rather than some of these other ratty running backs
that we will talk about on today's show.
Okay, so let's talk about quarterbacks.
Go ahead and search your waiver wire just to see
Did someone drop Jackson Dart?
Is Joe Burroughs still available?
They're about 88% rostered.
Good luck.
Same thing with Jacoby Brissette, 32% available.
He's got Tampa.
Trevor Lawrence is 30% available.
We would never start Trevor Lawrence unless he was playing the Titans.
And that's what he plays.
That's who he plays next week.
And by the way, in week 13, tough matchups for Caleb Williams, Daniel Jones,
Jaden Daniels, that's if he's back, the Steelers quarterback.
So maybe if you've got one of those quarterbacks,
you can look to add
Berset Trevor Lawrence
or potentially a week 13 replacement
who you could use in week 12
Bryce Young,
68% available.
I think he's going to have to
throw a lot against the 49ers.
I think he's going to have to throw a lot
against the Rams next week too.
Other than that,
guys like Tua are out there,
Tyler Shuck,
Shuck's got Atlanta and Miami,
Tua next week against New Orleans.
They're not great.
They're not earth-shattering Tua especially,
but they're guys that are out there
that could give you a pivot in case you don't love your quarterback in week 13.
All right.
It's really hard to find good running backs to stash.
So Chris Rodriguez is a good call, 31% rostered.
You said there's really not a lot, not great names other than that.
Who are we looking at?
No, I mean, you should check for Bachel Tutin, and we've talked about him a lot as somebody
that you can pick up in stash, basically since August, but he's got that matchup against
Tennessee.
And if he's healthy, what if he splits 50-50?
What if he has an edge in terms of playing time and carries ahead of trache?
Travis EDN, you've got to watch out for that.
Devin Singletary is available in 58% of leagues.
His next three games are, well, he's got Detroit this week.
That's bad.
But then Washington, Minnesota, and Las Vegas, a lot of those games are in the fantasy playoffs.
That comes all three of them, Washington on after the week 14 by.
He's not a bad bench running back.
Just in case of emergency, you can fling him into your lineup.
I'd rather have Chris Rodriguez, but they're both benchworthy and they're both available
north of 50% of leagues.
Otherwise, it's Tajay Spears.
And then just for Week 13, Justice Hill,
the Ravens taking on Cincinnati.
He's 78% available.
You want players that are taking on Cincinnati,
maybe he gets a couple of catches on route to garbage time.
By the way, handcuffed stashes,
aka the next Emmanuel Wilson or Kenny Gainwell,
Blake Corm is out there in 59% of leagues.
I would get him if you've got Kyron Williams.
Tank Bigsby, if you have Sequin.
Ali Gordon.
if you have Devon A. Chan, Ray Davis, if you have James Cook, they're out there in a ton of leagues.
Now's the time.
If you're headed toward the playoffs, and everybody is, right?
Because you wouldn't be watching otherwise.
Right.
Yeah.
Go ahead and get those stash running backs in case of emergency.
They'll be 70% of what the starters were, maybe 60% in the case of guys like Gordon and Davis.
All right.
Take a break.
We're about 50% done with our show.
Wide receivers, tight ends, and DSTs after that.
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Okay, do we have any good wide receiver stashes, Dave?
We've got some okay names.
First check for Christian Watson, Kishon Booty, Chris Godwin, Tess Johnson.
They're available anywhere from a quarter to about a third of CBS Sports Leagues,
some favorable matchups coming up and also opportunities,
especially in the case of Watson.
He would be my favorite of that group or four.
Here are three wide receivers you can add and maybe even start
in week number 12.
Josh Downs leads the way, 40% available.
He's got the Chiefs this week, the Texans next week.
Those are tough defenses, but he plays in the slot.
And before his last game, he had four straight with at least 11 PPR points.
You could do worse.
And Darnell Mooney has been worse, but for week 12, there's no Drake London.
And so he's going to act as the number one receiver, seven plus targets in each of his last two games.
I don't feel great recommending him as a start.
but I might change my tune if it's week 13 against the Jets.
Kirk Cousins actually looks halfway decent and Drake London is slow to come back from his injury.
So Darnell Mooney is a stash candidate.
And then one other guy that we've been talking about is a stash for a while.
He was my favorite stash last week.
I'm still going to bang the table for Luther Burden, 75% available.
His route rate is rising.
He could be useful down the line.
That is a wide out.
I don't mind putting on my bench.
I'd rather put some of those running backs that we talked about on the bench.
But if I'm good at running back, and I just want a wide receiver that's got some upside later on,
burden is trending toward being in every down player in Chicago's passing game.
All right.
Tight ends.
Let's go.
Who is dash in there?
Do the check for Joanne Johnson, 30% available.
And then Theo Johnson as well, 28% available.
Don't like Theo's matchup as much against Detroit this week.
But if Jackson Darts back and playing, then by all means he could end up being a good target,
New England the week after a more favorable matchup for Theo.
Johnson. Brenton Strange has been an IR stash. He could be coming back soon.
Don't mind him if he starts this week against Arizona, like him even more against Tennessee in
week 13. And then in week 13, if you're kind of desperate for a tight end, T.J. Hawkinson,
Evan Engram, they've got favorable matchups. One other IR stash at tight end. And this is for, you know,
you just have an IR spot to burn. Darren Waller, it does sound like he's going to have a chance
to come back and join the Dolphins offense. He's 71% available.
Yeah, he's interesting.
I mean, he was doing some good things and he was scoring touchdowns.
That's good.
Yeah, they need a number two target there so that could easily be Darren Waller.
Good call on him.
Yeah, all right, DSTs, what do we got?
Tough matchups ahead for the Packers, Steelers, and Vikings defenses in week 13.
The big stash to get here is Jacksonville.
We're just banging on this matchup against Tennessee.
They're 59% available.
You can get them now.
Wait a week.
use them in week 13 they will be a top 10 dst then and then if you're kind of desperate you can look at
the 49ers dst they've got cleveland then a buy and then tennessee so you can be a little
patient with them then they might not be so bad even though they just are so beat up but good
matchups coming up colts dsts dst against houston dolphins dst i know that sounds gross but they've actually
we've been playing better week 13 against new orleans week 14 against the jets
chargers also get the raiders can look at them and if you see
start the Chargers against the Raiders in week 12, 13, rather.
That will be the last time you play them.
They have the Eagles, Chiefs, and Cowboys after that.
All right, Dave, Richard.
Thank you very much.
Well done.
And good luck.
Good welcome week 12.
Hey, Adam.
Yeah.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Oh, yeah.
We're not there yet.
I'm not, it's way too early to wish people happy Thanksgiving.
Hey, Adam.
Yeah?
Merry Christmas.
Happy, Happy New Year, Dave.
What are you?
going to do with your wife for Valentine's Day,
2026? I would quite figure
that out. You better figure out something
because she's going all out for Thanksgiving this year.
Is she?
We're ordering, you know?
All right.
It sounds like you'll just
stream a movie off of Paramount Plus or something for
Valentine's Day. Be a real romantic.
Yeah, naked gun. It could be better.
Did you ever see the remake? I liked it.
I did not see it, so do not spoil it for me.
There were probably five to ten times.
You're spoiling it for me.
Shut up.
Stop now.
It was weird that he died.
We'll talk to you.
See you, everybody.