Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - EARLY Week 4 Waiver Wire Targets! Troy Franklin, Blake Corum, Colston Loveland, & Others! (09/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: September 18, 2025Looking for early waiver wire help in Week 4? Adam Aizer and Dave Richard break down the top fantasy football pickups to target before the rush. 0:00 Intro 0:25 Waiver Wire Headliner 1:20 Quarterb...acks 3:00 Running Backs 5:00 Wide Receivers 8:20 Tight Ends 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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Week four is just around the corner, and it is time to beat the WeaverWire.
Welcome to everybody.
Let us see football today, Express.
Adam Azor Dave Richard.
Here we go.
All right.
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 leagues.
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. 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 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 is still available in 60% of leagues.
I don't like the matchup in week four against 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 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.
And just to get ahead of a couple of guys, Darnold, 75% available.
I thought he played decently last week.
If Wentz ends up being okay for Minnesota, he's available in 80% of leagues.
We don't know if Jay-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.
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.
Yeah, we'll see that.
We'll see, hopefully we'll see that this week.
Okay, running back system.
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%.
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 Johnson is still available in 40% of leagues.
He figures to matter at some point.
And then two other names.
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 Corum, 66% available.
Look, I think he's going to end up getting decent work with Kyron Williams.
And if Kyron Williams fumbles a bunch or gets hurt,
quorum's going to be inserted right into the lineup for L.A.
a guy that you might be able to play
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. Great call. I are.
And then what do you think about Woody
Marks? I just don't really get the sense that
Joe Mixson... No, I think Woody
would he 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 on those two scenarios.
There you go.
Stash, what even works.
We're going to take a break
and talk about wide receivers to stash.
Always a good list there.
You even 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 wide receivers you should
stash after this on FFTE.
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okay who are some w r that we need to s t a s h in shallow leagues double check for joan jennings
and darnel mooney but in most leagues they're already rostered i put these four names under
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.
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 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 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 you know for
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 was wide
open for a touchdown in week one and alan missed him 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 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 receivers be
drafted after round nine
and finished
top 24 per game or overall
and you know
you had guys like McConkey who was kind of
flirting with that Brian Thomas Jr.
last year.
I don't really see it
right now, right? Like Tray
Harris is kind of buried and
Jack Bish. 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 not say it would not happen.
They didn't get much of a shot.
But Alec Ayo Manor is actually on the field doing stuff, you know, 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.
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.
Yep.
Tight ends?
Tight ends start and maybe end with Harold Fanon 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 as far as I'm concerned.
If you've got T.J. Hawkinson, Mark Andrews, you're a knucklehead and you started Jake Tongis last week.
Go and get yourself Harold Fanon.
I know it's a matchup against Green Bay that stuff, 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.
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 them late on Saturday.
carry him through Sunday.
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,
and Gersion 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.