Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - LAST-MINUTE Week 1 Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Advice! Actives/Inactives & Q&A (09/13 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 13, 2026

Get your LAST-MINUTE fantasy football advice before the 1 PM ET games! Adam Aizer and Heath Cummings start with the latest injury and availability updates, including Malik Nabers and his uncertain status. Then we break down how Cooper Rush impacts Falcons pass catchers Drake London and Kyle Pitts, what to do with Rome Odunze, and quickly run through updates on Emeka Egbuka, Alec Pierce and Tucker Kraft before answering your biggest fantasy questions from the chat.

Good morning, folks. Let's answer your starter set questions and give you the big news right now on FFT Express. Week one, here we go. It's September 13th, and we've got updates for you and some non-updits for you, like Malik Neighbors. What is your advice to the people who are asking about Malik Neighbors in the Sunday night game? I don't think this is one. The fantasy analysts are going to be able to help you out with. If Malik Navers plays, we rank him as a mid-wide receiver 2 with certain wide receiver 1 upside. He's been a full participant at practice all week long. You know, sometimes we have these situations where it seems like the team is being more cautious than the player is. This is not what this situation feels like.

Malik Naver said that he was going to ask God if he should play. It's Sunday. Maybe he's going to do that this morning and let us know before the game start. That would be very nice. I would probably just say, if you have two wide receivers that you feel really good about starting or just good about starting, then I'd try to get away from neighbors. If you're in a three wide receiver league, personally, I'm not going to start someone like Jalen Coker over Malik neighbors. If you could go get Malachi Fields to put on your bench, or if you can put them in a flex spot and maybe wait out for an RJ Harvey, then I would be happy to do that. But otherwise, you're just kind of rolling the dice and you have to choose whether you want to roll the dice.

Do you think it's Fields or Mooney? I think they will both be more involved. Fields is more exciting. Mooney probably has a better floor. Okay. I guess one more guy, maybe Pat Bryant, if you really want to go that route, he's on Denver. You could start him Monday night.

But yeah, Neighbors is going to be a very tough one. Meanwhile, Cooper Rush has had back spasms yesterday. He's still going to start for the Atlanta Falcons in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh won't have, looks unlikely that they're going to have cornerback Joey Porter Jr., their top corner. Yeah, what do you think about London and Pitts?

You hate it. But I'm not going to get away from them, most likely, more likely to get away from pits than I am London, just because, listen, most for leagues you start two wide receivers and maybe three. Some leagues you start three wide receivers and maybe four, Drake London with my wide receiver six before the Tua news. I'm still starting Drake 1 and as a wide receiver too. Pitts, I have a terribly difficult decision just to let you know the range that I have him between him, Isaiah likely, and Michael Mayer.

He'd be last for me. Yeah. In that group. But you were lower on Kyle Pitts than I was all summer. But he'd be first for me in that group if two away. Right. Right. But he's in that group for you if two is playing.

Whereas for me, he's in a tier above those guys. Yeah, well, I mean, you're going to tune in to the live stream from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and I'll talk more about Cooper Rush. He hasn't really had a situation like this. He's basically played, you know, a chunk of games with the Cowboys in 2022, a chunk of games with the Cowboys in 2024. And two games last year, he got benched in one of them. Unfortunately, they were against Houston and the Rams. So it's not like he had easy competition with the Ravens. But, I mean, he was absolutely terrible for Dalton Schultz, absolutely terrible for Jake Ferguson with Dallas. You know, the Ravens, I'm not going to say he was terrible for Mark Andrews. Andrews didn't do anything all year.

But what he did do consistently is target the hell out of C.D. Lamb and Zay Flowers. Both of those guys had target per route run rates over 31%, which would flirt with the league lead over a full season. He's never had a situation like this. You know, you've got Bijon Robinson's going to get a lot of targets. You got Pittsburgh. you got London. But the fact that the two tight ends,

Schultz and Ferguson were so bad with him and not targeted, really. What I would say that that tells me is that Cooper Rush probably just looks at his first read and throws it to that guy. That's what I thought. He was pretty low on first read percentage last year, according to fantasy points out of. But that wasn't a lot of game. I didn't look at 22 and 24. No, I mean, that's a good thing for London.

I think, I mean, he's going to get the ball to the guy who needs to get the ball. I don't know how it's going to work with pits. But right, I see what you're saying. I mean, he's in that range of questionable guys. All right, we're going to take a break. We've got a lot more to get to. So we're going to get to it a lot faster than that. Those are two of the bigger news items here.

We'll tell you about Jeremiah Love and Romo Dunezay when we come back on FFT Express. Okay, welcome back. So Romo Dunezay is expected to play. I've had a really hard time recommending him this morning, though. I'd like to not do it. How do you feel about O'Donzee? How should compare him to someone that we know as a tough match? matchup and DJ Moore.

Would you rather have DJ Moore or O'Donzee? I've got DJ Moore, I think seven or eight spots ahead of Roma Dunzee. I went and looked this morning to see if it had updated and on my hard rocket, or on it, it was 58 and a half yards for Luther Burden as the over under. Colson Lovelin's 52 and a half. Luther Burden's in the third or Roma Dunesay's in the 30s. That's kind of the way that it was all week. That tells me either the people who are setting those lines don't think Roma

Dunzee is fully healthy or think he's the third option in the offense, which I think either one are believable. So he's a boom-bust, wide receiver three, but he's behind Brian Thomas for me. He's behind Jordan Addison and Christian Watson for me. Okay. We're going to play it safe with Romodunzee if we can. Jeremiah Love at the Chargers. This is a four o'clock game he's expected to play. What do you think about love? Flex at best is how I'm viewing him. He's right behind Tony Poller, Bachel Tootin, David Montgomery. don't trust that he's going to have a big workload. They're nine and a half point under dollars.

They've gotten over under in the teens. I think it could be better. But if you have to start him, there's hope because he could, if he's healthy, he could go score on just about any play. Would you start Quentin Johnston over him? Yeah, so I think that's probably a full PPR situation. But yeah, I've got Johnston ahead of him in full PPR,

not in anything else. The Mecca Buka is going to play. Jalen McMillet is doubtful. Sean Tucker is doubtful. Cincinnati cornerback DJ Turner, their shutdown corner, he is going to play. So this is a game we're really looking forward to.

Are you cool with Emeka Buka? Yeah. Yeah, I have been, I think, the high guy on him so far this week. He's a wide receiver two on starting him. The vibe I'm getting is that it wasn't really that bad of an injury and that he should be fine. We're vibing.

Okay, yeah, because I know turf toe has been thrown out there, but I didn't see anything official on that with Emeka Buka. Alec Pierce is going to play in the game of the week, Indianapolis and Baltimore. And Baltimore defensive tackle. Matabuque will not play. What do you think about that game of the week? I just want to thank you for not ruining Lion's Saints or Bingles books.

And I think it's also like, I don't think anybody else recognizes this, but I want you to know that I see you. And you're clearly just trying to get Zayflowers off to a slow start. Absolutely not. You're going to start Alec Pierce? No, I don't really want to start a Coltswide receiver. Pierce is my favorite Coltswide receiver.

I have Pierce and downs almost back to back right behind Romadunes. Tucker Kraft signed a big contract extension, but we don't know what kind of playing time he's going to get in week one. Tucker Kraft, Kyle Pitts, Michael Mayer, Isaiah Likeley, what do you think? They are all within a half a point in my projections. That is currently my tight end five through tight end eight. I have Tucker Kraft at the top right now, but that is subject to late line movement.

Tune in. At the time. No, I'll be on. 11. 11th when everybody else will be on. I'll be on at noon. I will have all the projections fully updated with the latest information.

And hopefully a little blurb about how many snaps Tucker Crafts going to play. He's such a weird player because he could play half of the snaps and have five targets and have 80 yards and a touchdown. Yeah. Chikobi Myers is going to play, which really doesn't change much. We were kind of expecting that, and we ranked all the wide receivers on that team as if Jacoby Myers were going to play, but he is expected to play today. And the Chiefs are expected to start an undrafted rookie Khalil Benson at left tackle. You've got to start mayor over Kelsey, right? Oh, 100% I would start mayor over Kelsey.

I'd almost start Kirk Cousins over Patrick Mahomes, but I don't want to start either one of them. Yeah, I would. And again, we said this at the beginning of the week. week. The dumbest line of the week has not changed. The chiefs are still two and a half point favorites. So maybe I'll look all wet. But no, I don't want to start Kelsey or Mooms. And I think it might be windy. I don't know. I looked this morning because there was some talk about it being a little windy there. It seems like it's not going to be too bad according to roto grinders. But it's something to keep an eye on. Take a look at the weather in Kansas City tomorrow night. That's pretty much it for the important stuff.

Let's get to some questions here. Gainwell or Marshawn Lloyd, half PPR? I think I'm on an island with this answer, and I'll try to tell people when that's true. I would start Marshawn Lloyd over Kenneth Gainwell. I know Jamie would start Gainwell over Lloyd. Oh, half PPR, he might be with me. Definitely Lloyd for me.

I'm on your island. Thank you. Yeah. London or Jaden Reed, PPR. Definitely Drake Lennon for me. Oh, Dunezay are neighbors. I would go. with neighbors.

Yeah. Yeah, risk it. Parker Washington, Christian Watson or Tucker Kraft? Wow. So I have Parker Washington ahead of Tucker Kraft. I would probably,

Parker Washington. I've got Watson, Washington one spot ahead of Watson and Kraft is right in that same neighborhood. Waddle or Parker Washington? Waddle for me. Let's see. Michael Mayor or Joanne Johnson.

Or Mark Andrews. Mayor, for me. And I've changed on that. I was originally Joanne Johnson. I'm Michael Mayor now as well. Jordan Mason or Jonathan Brooks have PPR. I think it's much safer to go with Jordan Mason, probably more upside with Jonathan Brooks,

but I would probably do Mason. Caleb Williams or Trevor Lawrence? It is Caleb for me. Okay. Start one. Chris Godwin, Marshawn Lloyd, Jordan Mason, PPC. I think it's actually Mason for me in full PPR.

I might go with Godwin. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Lloyd over Mason. I apologize. Okay. Okay. Full PPR, Godwin.

Maybe. Yeah, right on the border there. Cornell Tate or Cortland Sutton. I will go with Sutton. Marshawn Lloyd or Parker Washington, PPR. It's Lloyd for me. Getting a lot of Parker Washington questions.

understand and getting, you know, some Trevor Lawrence questions like Lawrence or Daniels in four point and six point, this one here? Yeah, that's going to be Daniels for me and both. I just think, you know, you have to at least bake in the possibility that the Jaguars throw 26 passes today. That's one of been, and I just glanced at the lines. I generally update them a little bit later in the day, but that's one of the bigger line movements is that the Browns, I think, are down to 15.25 for their team total.

Yeah. And I can see a pick six, you know, just that kind of stuff that could really get the game script bad for them. I still like, we still like Parker Washington and Trevor and all that, but it's, what kind of odds can I get on Chador taking a snap today? I don't know from me or just in general. No, from you. Plus 180. That's pretty low. I think it might be lower than that.

Golf or Lawrence? Golf for me. All right, that's our last one. We are going to answer your questions for two straight hours. Join us at YouTube.com slash fantasy football today at 11 a.m. Eastern. We're going to set a record our most watched live stream, a Sunday morning live stream ever. We'll see you then. Thanks for watching and listening to Fantasy Football Today Express.