Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Beat the Waiver Wire! MUST-STASH Players Before Week 4 (09/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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Starting point is 00:01:20 Free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Week 4 is just around the corner, and it is time to beat the WaverWire. Welcome to everybody. Let us see football today, Express. Adam Azor Dave Richard. Here we go. All right.

Starting point is 00:01:45 Who is the one player we should be stashing right now? The one player that I think we should be stashing right now is Troy Franklin of the Denver Broncos. He's available in 49% of CBS League. He's going to be available in more leagues on other sites, including Yahoo, ESPN, and Sleeper. I love the target volume through the first two weeks of the season, and I think he's going to be impactful most of the time. Maybe it's like a potential flex play. I doubt he evolves into someone who becomes a must-start fantasy receiver, but he could end up mattering. He's got speed.

Starting point is 00:02:22 He can make plays after the catch. He's got timing and rhythm down with Bow Nix, and he's got an offense that is, looking for that number two target guy we thought it could be evan ingram so far it hasn't been we thought it could be marvin mims nah he's in a in a complimentary role i think it's going to end up being franklin i really liked what i've seen from him through the first two weeks of the season okay let's get into the position by position stuff here looking at week four and start with some quarterbacks any quarterbacks that we need to beat the waiver wire with well jake browning's still available in 60% of leagues i don't like the matchup in week four against

Starting point is 00:02:58 Denver. I don't hate the matchup week three against Minnesota. Top 15 type of fantasy quarterback and we know he's going to be a steady starter for Cincinnati pretty much till December at the absolute earliest. So he's certainly

Starting point is 00:03:13 capable of being a good fantasy quarterback, maybe not necessarily a great one. If you don't like that matchup against Denver, there are some other names. I love Stafford against Indianapolis in week four. I think the Cinderella slipper falls off of Indianapolis in that game, and I think Stafford's been playing great.

Starting point is 00:03:32 And just to get ahead of a couple of guys, Darnold, 75% available, I thought he played decently last week. If Wence ends up being okay for Minnesota, he's available in 80% of leagues. We don't know if Jay J.J. McCarthy is going to be back or not. But in deeper leagues, if you want to try and just get your hands on somebody, he's got the Steelers in week four. And the Steelers defense just has not been what we thought they would be so far. this season.

Starting point is 00:03:59 What do you think about Bryce Young at New England? New England's one of those teams that we're targeting, I think, from a standpoint of passing production. And then let me check real quick, Justin Fields' roster rate because he gets Miami. Justin Fields is 82% rostered. Yeah, he's two rostered. And I think the Patriots defense changes significantly if Christian Gonzalez is back. Fair enough.

Starting point is 00:04:21 Yeah, we'll see that. We'll see, hopefully we'll see that this week. Okay, running backs to Stash. All these guys are simply stashes. They're not players that you can go and use potentially in week four. But if you want to carry them through week three, it makes sense. Woody Marks for Houston, 77% available. The two backups in Washington, Chris Rodriguez at 84%.

Starting point is 00:04:42 Jeremy McNichols, 93%. I like Rodriguez better, but I'm not coaching the commanders. So they might like McNichols more. Certainly McNichols is the better pass protector between the two. If you are patient, Caleb, John, Johnson is still available in 40% of leagues. He figures to matter at some point. And then two other names.

Starting point is 00:05:03 Breschard Smith, available in 94% of leagues. If Isaiah Pacheco struggles against the Giants, the chiefs are going to have to go in a different direction. Blake Corm, 66% available. Look, I think he's going to end up getting decent work with Cairn Williams. And if Cairn Williams fumbles a bunch or gets hurt, Corm's going to be inserted right into the lineup for L.A. A guy that you might be able to play,

Starting point is 00:05:26 even if there's not an injury to the starter and this won't be until week five at the earliest is Tijey Spears. He's 37% rostered. Correct call. And then what do you think about Woody Marks is I just don't really get the sense that Joe Mixx? No, I think Woody

Starting point is 00:05:39 Woody could end up mattering. Here's his pathway. Joe Mixon doesn't come back and Nick Chubb doesn't impress. Yeah, which is, that's it. I feel like it's pretty, I feel like the odds are pretty decent

Starting point is 00:05:50 on those two scenarios. There you go. All right. We're going to take a break and talk about why receivers to stash always a good list there. You would take a look at Brandon I. You could start running a little bit, but it still might be a ways away. But we'll tell you which

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Starting point is 00:06:24 Learn more at Amex.com.ca. All right, we're back. Should it be FFTE or FFTEX? Express starts with an E. Yeah, but FFT, or it could just be FFTX. Whatever. Who are some W-Rs that we need to S-T-A-S-H? In shallow leagues, double check for Joanne Jennings and Darnell Mooney,

Starting point is 00:06:48 but in most leagues they're already rostered. I put these four names under a category called Start or Stash, meaning you can use them in week three if you so choose. Wondale Robinson's available in more than a third of CBS sports leagues. We know what his floor is in PPR. Franklin, we've already talked about in Denver. And then two other names. One of them, Adam's going to love a lot.

Starting point is 00:07:10 Rashid Shaheed for the Saints, 48% available. And Christian Kirk. Look at Adam raising the roof. 48% available. Could be a solution to Houston's offensive issues, at least as a safe, short area. target for C.J. Stroud, I don't mind the idea of grabbing Kirk, seeing how he does this week. If he gets a lot of targets, a lot of catches, okay, cool. He's somebody that you might be

Starting point is 00:07:34 able to use down the line. And if he doesn't, then you go ahead and you cut him and you pivot to one of the other names on this list or a bunch of other receivers that are out there in, in the majority of leagues like Dobbs, Dantavian Wicks. You mentioned IUC as an IR stash. There are two other IR stashes, Jalen Coker for the Panthers, and Christian Watson for Green Bay. You could always carry them if you've got an open IR spot, no harm, no foul. And there's one guy that I think isn't getting any recognition. It's Josh Palmer because, look, all of the bills wide receivers had bad games in week two because they steamrolled the Jets and Josh Allen barely through and Josh Allen left the game

Starting point is 00:08:18 you know, for a little rest in the fourth quarter, right? So he only had three targets, but they all had bad games. True. He's basically right up there in targets with Coleman and Shakir. This is not a full-throated endorsement of Josh Palmer, but it is a guy who's playing on the bills. And again, it's always like, well, what if they had made that play? It was wide open for a touchdown in week one, and Alan missed him.

Starting point is 00:08:40 You know, what if he had made that play? Then he might be, you know, he might be 45% roster or something. he currently 19% roster. He's absolutely one of the deep stashes. Luther Burden is a deep stash. Isaac Tesla is a deep stash. And less deep of a stash. And we just have to say his name because everybody's saying his name is Elegio Manor.

Starting point is 00:09:01 And just the role that he seems to have gotten in Tennessee is a pretty good one. He's available in two thirds of CBS leagues. Right. I talked about before the season started that five years in a row, we've had at least, oh, man, at least two rookie wide restrictions. receivers be drafted after round nine and finish top 24 per game or overall. Yep. And, you know, you had guys like McConkey, who was kind of flirting with that,

Starting point is 00:09:28 Brian Thomas Jr. last year. I don't really see it right now, right? Like, Trey Harris is kind of buried and Jack Bess. I don't think it's going to really happen for him. But, and the Texans guys just had their shot. And it didn't happen yet. You know, that's say it would not happen. get much of a shot.

Starting point is 00:09:48 But Alec Ayo Manor is actually on the field doing stuff. He might be the best candidate right now. So is Tori Horton caught a touchdown last week in Seattle. Yeah. Okay. Is this right? Is Dantavian Wix really 8% roster? That can't be right.

Starting point is 00:10:05 He is available in 92% of leagues. That's weird. Absolutely. Listen, if you're reaching for Josh Palmer, double check to see if Wix is there and reach for him first. I agree. tight ends? Tight ends start and maybe end with Harold Fannin, still available in 48% of CBS leagues. I think some managers were turned off by his production last week. You shouldn't be he's startable this week.

Starting point is 00:10:29 As far as I'm concerned, if you've got T.J. Hawkinson, Mark Andrews, you're a knucklehead and you started Jake Tongass last week. Go and get yourself Harold Fannin. I know it's a matchup against Green Bay, that's tough, but I think he can be a good target getter and good with those numbers. two other stash candidates at tight end. Isaiah likely, who was back at practice this week, available in 52% of leagues. And Colston Loveland, who available in 52% of leagues, had a lot of hype coming into the year.

Starting point is 00:10:59 I heard Ben Johnson talk about this week how his tight ends have been playing a lot and they haven't been targeted a lot. He wants to rectify that. And maybe that means some good things for Loveland. The note that I wrote next to his name, Adam, is you could add him late on Saturday. carry him through Sunday.

Starting point is 00:11:16 If he does nothing, you drop him and you pick somebody else up on Wednesday. Could definitely do that. Any DSTs you like next week? We're thin on DSTs that I like next week, but New England against Carolina, they're available in 72% of leagues. They've got a sick pass rush,

Starting point is 00:11:32 and Dersian Gonzalez might be back. For Detroit, they're available in 54% of leagues. They've got the Browns. Browns have given up some good numbers of DSTs. Thank you, Dave Richard. Good work, as always, on the Beat the Waver Wire our players. This has been FFTX and we will talk to you on Sunday morning with another edition.

Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Beat the Waiver Wire! MUST-STASH Players Before Week 4 (09/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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