Fantasy Football Today - FFT on CBSSN: UPDATED Fantasy Football Week 14 Tiers & Rankings! QB, RB, WR, TE Breakdown + Must-Start Sleepers! (12/04 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 4, 2025

Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard, and Heath Cummings break down all the key rankings and lineup decisions you need to win this week.We’re diving into the top QBs, RBs, WRs, and TEs for Week 14, revealing our toughest players to rank, and naming our favorite start/sit calls at every position — including some big surprises... Email us at [e-mail] (1:00) QB Rankings & Start/Sit Debate (14:00) RB Ranking (26:12) WR Rankings (39:25) TE Rankings (50:27) AskFFT Mailbag to close it out! 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 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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Ontario. Welcome to fantasy football today, presented by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. I'm Jamie Eisenberg. That's Day Richard. That's Heathcom. He's got a legendary game tonight between the Cowboys and the Lions, at least we hope. Got a legendary week. It's week 14.

Last week before the fantasy playoffs and the majority of leagues. Got four teams on a buy. That's not necessarily legendary, but we're going to give you some legendary fantasy advice to help you get those lineups right. And guys, it's going to be fun with the first position that we're talking about because it's quarterbacks. And usually it's a very deep position. There's a lot of guys that we like.

Not so much this week. Let's start with the rankings here. Start right off the bat here with the quarterbacks that we're hoping are going to be in the top 12. But there's going to be some guys that we're a little bit concerned about, especially when you start to get past. Really, for me, it's the top three. I feel good about Josh Allen, Dak Prescott, and Matthew Stafford.

I feel okay about Jared Gough. I feel okay about Joe Burrow. And then it kind of gets a lot of questions. I do like Jacoby Brissetti as the start of the week. We'll talk about that in the second. But as soon as we get to Patrick Mahomes, like we're going to show you some guys or talk about some guys that are tough quarterbacks

for us to rank. And Dave, that's the first name on your list for you, is Patrick Mahomes. And I get it. His offensive line's a mess. The matchup is not easy. He's clearly been awesome. He's been awesome at home. But is he a slam dunk?

I feel great that Patrick Mahomes? Patrick Mahomes is going to win me my fantasy week. I don't feel great, but I don't think I'm sitting them unless I've got Jacoby Bressett, Joe Burrow, Jared Gough, one of those types of quarterback. Dack Prescott. Stafford could have those two, obviously. But we saw what this Texans defense did. to Josh Allen and the Bills when the Bill's offensive line had some issues.

And it was ugly. And I am nervous about what's going to happen to Patrick Mahomes. But I'm nervous about 20 quarterbacks this week. So it's really tough to look at Patrick Mahomes and say, oh, yeah, sure, he's going to get 25 fancy points, put him in your line if he's good to go. I don't know if it's going to happen. When protection breaks down, he can't throw down field. He's going to need to get the ball out quick and really lean on his mobility.

Maybe he gets to 22 fantasy points. Heath, you do projections, and when you're projecting quarterbacks for this week, is there... Anybody good? Is there anybody good at 40 fantasy points? So I've got seven at 21 or more. I've got 11 at 20 or more. Okay, so it's still a good number of quarterbacks. But most weeks, that's closer to like 16.

Yeah. So it's definitely a bad week. One of those quarterbacks that's at 20, but I don't think you could put an accurate projection on them is Lamar Jackson. And it's because he's been awful for the last few weeks, and he has the upside to score more points than any quarterback at any given moment. And we saw glimpses of it last week. He really had a rough time in terms of what his pass catchers did for him and what the officials did. There was a pass interference penalty called on Zay Flowers that wiped out a touchdown that I think that play probably happens three times a game and doesn't get called a penalty.

There was the Isaiah likely catch where he fumbles going into the end zone. He scores those two touchdowns. It was a good game. We're not even thinking about whether or not we're starting Lamar Jackson. Now we really have to think about it. I don't dislike the matchup at all. I do think he looked a little bit better last week. The rushing production was up a little bit last week to 27 yards on the ground.

This is a must-win game in the division. I think we get good Lamar Jackson, I hope, but there's no floor. So, Dave, I know you have Lamar Jackson to sit. We just got through doing a segment on CBS Sports HQ. You said the Steelers backs are against the wall, too. Everybody's backs are against the wall, too. Obviously, this is a win, I don't want to say win or go home situation because they can each still win the division with a loss here. But when you're looking at Lamar, I know you're saying to sit him, his track card against Mike Tomlin is awful.

The rushing production should be fantastic for Derek Henry in this game as we just saw what Buffalo did. So can Lamar Jackson overcome maybe game script and history here? For me, it's almost like it's FOMO. It's because I know what this guy can do when he's right. And I know it hasn't been great. But as he's just, you know, illustrated, last week if he has 20 plus points, despite the fumbles and the miscues, if he comes away with a positive fantasy line, are you still sitting him in this match? Probably not, but he wouldn't be like a top eight quarterback for me, even with the touch. None of us haven't there.

And if you see, none of us happened there. Right. And let's remember, that was against Cincinnati. And that's one of the easiest matchups for basically any position in football. And the fact that he had seven fantasy points, and he could have had in the neighborhood of 20, like you talked about. That's still not great. still not what we expect. And you talk about FOMO, dude, I've had FOMO for the past three weeks with Lamar Jackson. I've had enough. He said that he looked better last week.

I didn't see a lot of it. And I'm very worried about what the Steelers are going to do, given their history, given how they've taken them down, especially as a thrower, as a runner, he did well last year in the playoff game against them. I'm very concerned. And this is also a factor. The Steelers have allowed one quarterback to get north of 20 fantasy points since week nine. Josh Allen went up against this team last week and didn't get 20 fantasy points against them. Yeah, I mean, look, game script has been bad. Their run defense has been awful.

This should be a huge game for Derek Kennedy. I agree. You brought up something on our podcast today. I don't know if you remember about what the scenarios may be if you need production from your quarterback. Can you repeat that? No, I think if I am a 15, 20 point favorite in my matchup this week and I feel like, man, 18 points would be fantastic,

then I think there's probably 18 quarterbacks that you could start over Lamar Jackson. If you're just looking for the guy to give you okay production, but if you look at your projections or if you're looking at it yourself and you think, man, I'm a huge underdog in this game. Lamar Jackson's exactly the type of guy that you throw in your lineup

because it's not going to matter if you get 16 to 18, you need 30. Lamar Jackson can give you 30 any given week. One of those rare quarterbacks, obviously, and a guy I think you're looking at in that, I'll bump it up a little bit to 20, 18 to 20 or 16 to 20 is Daniel Jones. He was, to me, very good the last two games

because of who he was playing. At Kansas City, gets you 20 fantasy points. Against Houston gets you 20 fantasy points. And now this week he's taking on a Jacksonville defense that, for the most part, has been bad this season. But I have some PTSD of a quarterback going into Jacksonville that was playing well, and that was Justin Herbert. He was the start of the week three weeks ago when he went into Jacksonville, and they destroyed him. And it wouldn't shock me if Daniel Jones completely vomits all over himself in this matchup, because the Colts never win in Jacksonville. It's been 2014 since they actually won against the Jaguars in their building.

And you're talking about a quarterback that's not mobile right now because of the broken leg that he's playing for. or the broken bone in his leg. So could he still get you 20 fantasy points? Yes. I think he's proven that. He's had a very solid season. His receiver should have big games this week. Michael Pittman and Alpiers specifically.

Tyler Warren obviously should play well. And let's be real. Jonathan Taylor is not performing at the same level that he was a few weeks ago because of the teams that he's faced and a Jacksonville run defense is great. So can they limit Taylor and force Jones to throw? Yes. But I'm just a little bit concerned like, can Jones be top 10 like you have him? Can he be 15th?

You know, is a guy like Tarad Taylor potentially better who's coming off a 20 point game himself. So I think if you have Daniel Jones, you just kind of start him. I think our host Adam Azor said it on our fantasy football today podcast. I don't want to trust Daniel Jones going into a must-win game to get into your fantasy playoffs, but hopefully he does deliver like he has the last two games with 20 plus points. All right, let's talk about some starts and sits here. Heath, you have a guy that's coming off a huge game in Jordan Love. Can he do it again? I don't think he's probably going to throw four touchdowns again, but I do think that it sets up for him to get into that 20 point range, maybe 22 points once

again. He's been very, very good this year. One of the most efficient passers. in the NFL. He just hasn't got to throw all that much. Last week, we saw him throw 30 times. He throws four touchdowns. I think he throws 30 times against the Bears in a very important divisional game. I think the Bears will score enough points to keep him passing. And when he's passed, he's mostly been awesome. You look at 19 touchdowns, three interceptions, most efficient year for him as a starter. He's awesome when he's not pressured. And the Bears have the second lowest pass rush pressure rate in the National Football League. So Jordan Love is going to have time to just like he did on Thanksgiving.

You saw what he did on Thanksgiving? He attacked downfield. He's going to do the exact same thing against the Bears. Should be fun. We'll see if Jaden Reed's able to play. See if Matthew Golden's able to play, but he's been getting by, Dante Amy Wicks, for example, had a big game last week.

And obviously, Christian Watson's been playing well. So I was a little bit concerned without Tucker Crafter, how he would perform. But a great game last week. Hopefully, should have another solid game. Dave Baker Mayfield does not sound like we're going to get Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan back this week, but he still like him in this matchup at home.

Yeah, because it's the Saints. And this is another team that doesn't get a lot of pressure on the quarterback, and we saw Chris Godwin come back last week. I know we debated a little bit about how much of it was breakdowns by the opponent versus how good was Chris Godwin. I thought Godwin was good. He dropped a touchdown.

That would have changed things for Baker Mayfield's numbers last week. I think he comes through this week. I like him as a top 12 quarterback. I think when you look at the quarterbacks for me ranked 10 through 15, they're all in that range of, they might get you 20. And I think Baker Mayfield's a little bit better than that. That's why I have him 11. And he might even go higher than that in the ranking.

I hope so. It'd be fun to see because he was miserable against the Saints. Usually he's 20 or more. He didn't need to do anything. Well, now it's Bucky Irving back, and the defense still facing a backup quarterback, or at least that. I do like the defense, and I love Bucky. A young quarterback. So I hope Baker made, but his track record's home has been great, and his track record against the Saints in their history, aside from that week 10, or week eight games, excuse me, very, very good.

I'm going to go Jacoby Brissette. He's our start of the week. Just excited for what he's been doing, seven straight games of 20 more fantasy points since replacing Kyler Murray. And this Rams defense, I know it's great for the most part. in terms of their fantasy points allowed to oppose the quarterbacks. But when they're on the road, four quarterbacks of six, 19 and a half fantasy points or more. And the thing about Jacoby Brissette is the volume is going to help him here. So I think as we saw Bryce Young, for example, last week, we saw Mack Jones when they played the Rams in their building.

He had a big game 29 fantasy points against this Rams defense. I think Jacoby Preset, 40 or more pass attempts will matter, and he has another big game here against the Rams in his building. Let's talk about some quarterbacks that said, Dave, you already sort of laid out Lamar Jackson. Anything else you want to add about while you're sitting, Lamar? Even if he had his best game in the last three weeks with a touchdown, that's under 15 fantasy points. That's bad. Heath, you got Justin Herbert as a sit here. How much of this is the uncertainty of if he will play or just if he does play, you don't want to trust him in this matchup against the evening?

Yeah, that 15 where I've got him ranked is not really taking into any risk of him not playing. That's just where I project Justin Herbert to finish this week. He's averaged six and a half yards per attempt this season when Joel is not on the field. That's a bad quarterback. Now, he's not a bad quarterback, but the efficiency is bad without Alt, and now he's not healthy either. I don't want to start him. Yeah, it's just tough to trust. And it's not like you have a backup plan because everybody has Jalen Hertz, you know, and you don't want to trust Tray Lance.

You know, it's not like we're seeing a situation where, okay, Justin Fields doesn't play. Maybe Tarad Taylor would be okay. Tray Lance is awful, you know, so it's not like, you know, you're waiting until Monday night to, you know, get a good replacement option here. So probably somebody you want to avoid. For me, I'm going to try and sit Caleb Williams. Look, he's been struggling as a fantasy quarterback. A lot of it is game script because of the run production that the, you know, Lions have had, but it's been now too bad outings in a row. 11.5 p.R. 11 and a half fantasy points

against Philadelphia, 10.3 fantasy points against Minnesota, week 11. Packers felt for the last five quarterbacks to 16.2 fantasy points or less. This is just not going to be a game where they asked Caleb Williams to win. It's going to be a game where DeAndre Swift and Kyle Mononga probably carry the way for Chicago to hopefully win this game. So I don't think Caleb Williams is a starter in a one quarterback league, still starting in Superflex and two quarterback leagues. But if you can get away from in one quarterback leagues, that's probably the smart way to go. I would, I know it's crazy, I would start to Rod Taylor over Caleb Williams. All right. We're going to take a break right now.

We come back and get into the running back rankings. I'm going to tell you the guys that we like at a position. Again, we've got four teams on a buy. It's not exactly easy, but we'll give you the start to sit. Some players that were a little bit nervous to rank. That's next year on Fantasy Football today. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 racing. And Bubba Wallace.

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We don't have the running backs for New England. So don't have to deal with that crazy mess between Trevianne Henderson and Ramandre Stevenson. And we don't even know the starting running back for the Giants is going to be coming off of their buy because Tyrone Tracy did suffer an injury in the week 13 loss of the Patriots. Although he says he's going to be fine, but keep an eye on there. All right, here are the running back rankings, one through 12. And you don't see a name on this list that you typically see, and that's my fault. And that's Saquan Barclay, because I do not have him ranked as a top 12 running back for this week. So let's just start right there, because Barclay has been miserable.

He's been very tough to trust as the guy that we drafted. He's been tough to even say he is a number two running back for the last couple of games, 13.1 PBR points or less in four straight games just had 5.6 points last week in the loss to Chicago. Failed to catch a pass, hadn't scored touchdown since week eight. This is not the guy that some people were talking about as the number one running back in fantasy this year, the number one running back in fantasy. And I know we didn't necessarily agree on that from our standpoint.

I don't want to say we've been proven right, but it's been a tough season for Seque Juan Barclay. So for me, he's still a starter. You're obviously not going to outright benched Seek Juan Barclay. So whether you start two running backs in the flex or two running backs, or two running backs you're starting him, how do you guys feel about Barkling this matchup against the Chargers? They've been very good against opposing running back.

So it's not even an easy matchup for him. Do we trust him still as that guy? I feel like they've been kind of uneven against the run this. Chargers? Yes. They have weeks where they look like a really good defense, and they have weeks where it looks like the only thing you could do against them is run, because the past defense is much better than the run defense.

He's not in, as you can see here, the area where I'm considering benching him. He's just right on the edge of the top 12. I'll go ahead and say it. We were right. He wasn't going to be the number one running back. But I don't think he's fallen that far. Last week was a disaster. the week before that he had 14 fantasy points.

Like he's going to be somewhere in that 12 to 14 point range most likely. But I do still think he has the upside. The biggest problem for Saquan Barkley is he's lost about a yard before contact per rush attempt. And that makes things a lot more difficult. Yeah, and that's a byproduct of the offensive line. And certainly not having Lane Johnson, huge factor on the right side of that line, but also the entire offensive line. Injuries have shuttled people in and out.

The left side of the line hasn't been great. He himself hasn't been great. play calling's been predictable defenses are on top of these things and that's what's made him worse and then you tack on to that what we discussed before the year started which is sayquan barclay's coming off of a massive workload he's going to be tired he could wear it down thank goodness he hasn't gotten hurt but maybe fantasy managers could almost wish that he had because then they wouldn't have to think about starting him i looked at my rankings before the show started today he was 12 for me one spot out of jivante williams that's not going to stay that way i'm going to

move jivante ahead he is a high end number two running back for me the one thing that i do and again I'm the low guy on him, is that this is probably a game, especially if Herbert does not play, where the score doesn't take them out of running. And that's what's happened to them a couple of times recently, is that the score has taken the run game away from them. And so maybe they keep this game close, but we just found out Jalen Carter are not going to play for the Eagles. So we'll see if that helps the Chargers offense, and maybe we change our opinion about some of the players there. Let's show the list, 13 to 24 of the rankings.

And Dave, you got a guy on this list in Jalen Moore, and that's been tough for you to rank, at least for this week. How do you feel about 12 PPR points from a running back? Now, if it's your low end number two. Better than Saquoan Barkley. And maybe so, but I'm still going to start Saquan Barclay over Jalen Warren, who's splitting time with Kenneth Gainwell, tough match up against the Ravens. I think it's going to be a low-scoring affair.

I don't think you're going to see a lot of opportunities for Jalen Warren to hit a bunch of home runs like he's done occasionally this year, and he's not even gaining the type of target volume that he got once upon a time. Kenneth Gainwell's been getting that. So I'm nervous about Jalen Warren. It goes back to a point that we made in the very first segment of the show. there aren't enough running backs that you can look at and say, oh, yeah, definitely start him over Warren or anything else.

We're short on studs. So he's going to make the top 24, but for me, he's a low-end number two running back. Yeah, I think we're all in the same range. The one thing that I do like, he's got a touchdown each of the last two weeks, and I think from what Mike Tomlin said, and he's typically tutor's word with stuff like this, we've got to be more physical, we've got to run the ball a little bit more. I don't think that lends itself to Kenneth Gainwell. And I know for you, you don't like Lamar Jackson.

And the offense's obviously been struggling. So if this game stays close, they'll be able to run the ball. Last week, they couldn't because of how Buffalo dominated time of possession and obviously ran right through them. So if the game stays competitive, I think Jalen Warren has an opportunity here. But again, we're not saying he's a slam dunk must start guy by any stretch, but still a number two running back. And then Heath for you, you got Devin Neal as somebody that's a struggle for you. Understandably so. Right now, Alvin Kamar, not looking like he's going to play, did not practice on Wednesday.

Yeah, and I think the tough thing is this is obviously an awful matchup for rushing the football. But for Saints running backs, rushing the football has been awful all year anyways. That probably doesn't matter. He scored 9.9 fantasy points last week the week before he caught five passes, had seven targets. Tyler Shuck has thrown five to seven passes per game to running backs. I think this is like one of the tougher decision points because for me, in full PPR only, he's right at the edge of that RB2 flex range. And so you're going to have a tough decision about whether you're actually going to trust this guy in a full PPR league or not.

Do not expect good rushing efficiency. see, do not expect a touchdown, but there is the chance that he has five or six catches in this game and scores you 12 or 13 PPR faint points. It's hard to get over somebody who's going to play as much as he is, and 70% of the snaps in the last two games. So, again, we don't expect Alman Kumar to play. So at worst case, I think you use Devon Neal as a flex. Let's talk about some starts here for Week 14.

So Heath, I'll start with you. Gwinshan Judkins, been a little tough to trust as a must-start guy. I know most people have kept them in that number two running back range. This could be one of his better games, though. Yeah, and this is a sneaky good run defense. I think, because since they've gotten their guys back, they've been much more difficult to run on. But it's arguably the best defense in the league

against definitely the worst offense in the league. The Browns are going to play from ahead. They've thrown 45 passes the last two games, and one of those they lost by three scores. So they would really love it to just run the ball 40 times. I think they'll do that. And Judkins may even catch a pass or two. If Dylan Samson's not in there,

he'll have a higher share of the rush attempts. He's a guy you've got to start. When I look at the rankings, I feel like I'm more too low on him than too high on him. But the reason we're low on him is the Titans have been so good against rushing efficiency recently, and Judkins has not been. It's just one of those where they'll just keep knocking on the door, and eventually the door will open, and he hopefully finds him in the end zone.

I love the fact that he's getting those wildcat opportunities, too, since Schroederer Sanders has been the quarterback. David got Zonovan Knight as a start, and as of now, we're not expecting Tray Benson. Now, Mario Di Mercado did practice Wednesday on a limited basis, so he's getting closer to being healthy. Does that change anything for you? That would take away some passing down opportunities from Zahneman Knight, but he was losing a lot of those to Michael Carter anyway.

I think that this is their best running back. He's had at least three catches in three straight games. He's scored in three straight games. He's had at least 13.2 PPR points in three straight games. And this Rams run defense once upon a time, they were dominant. Three running backs in the last four weeks against him at 15 plus PPR points. That includes Chuba Hubbard last week. They've given up some touchdowns lately.

Maybe not as strong of a run defense as they were earlier in the year. And I think the Cardinals are going to compete with the Rams in this game. High scoring affair, I want to have players in this matchup. The best running back for Arizona is Zoneman Knight. He's the number two running back for me. Since Trey Benson got hurt, I believe it's only two games where Knight has not gotten at least 9.4 PPR points or more. So the floor is very safe. And the ceiling, as we've seen, 13 plus PPR points in three in a row because he's found the end zone.

So I think Zoneman Knight is in that number two running back range. For me, I'm going to go back to DeAndre Swift. And I know it's kind of been, can we trust him? What's this going to look like? Kyle Monongai, all this stuff. I think the Packers' run defense is going to be a little bit of trouble. Since Devonte Wyatt getting hurt last week, we saw what this run defense could potentially look like.

Certainly last week it was bad for them. But you've seen now three running backs on the season. The Giants had Tyrone and Tracy and Devon Singletary, the Lions, Jemir Gibbs, and Dave Montgomery. And I think this is going to be the third time where Swift and Kyle Monongai both get an opportunity to run well. This is what the Bears' offense is. Their offensive line is doing a great job run blocking at this point.

And Ben Johnson, we saw it in Detroit. We're seeing it now in Chicago. The rushing attack is just fantastic. And I think Swift has a chance for another good game. Let's talk about some running backs to sit. So, Dave, I'll start with you. Kareem Hunt, last week, not great. The three previous games, great.

Is it just Isaiah Pacheco or is it the matchup? It's the matchup, and it's the offensive line. It's got nothing to do with Isaiah Pacheco. But that offensive line, both tackles look like they're going to be out. One's already on injured reserve. The other one, Juan Taylor, looks like he's unlikely to play. Trey Smith, the guard, he's unlikely to play. This is a tough spot for Kareem Hunt against Houston,

who's been pretty good against the run, I would say. The Texans just did a nice job against Jonathan Taylor last week. So if they're going to do a good job against Jonathan Taylor, you know Kareem Hunt's in trouble. They've only given up two touchdowns on the ground because I know we're all going to say Kreme Hunt needs a score touchdown. Two touchdowns on the ground to running back since week seven. So if he doesn't score, we saw nine PPR points. That's probably the ceiling, I would say, for Kreme Hunt, if he does not find the end zone. Heath, for you, David Montgomery tonight.

No, Bueno. No, no, no, no. The last three weeks have really been no Bueno. We got a touchdown in one of those games, but six. five and eight rush attempts for David Montgomery in his last three games. She only had two games prior to Dan Campbell taking over play calling where he had single-digit rush attempts. So his role has fallen off.

He hasn't played in 40% of the snaps in the last three weeks. This offense is going more to Jamir Gibbs. I think you probably have to do that more if there's no Monroh, St. Brown, so that you can throw the ball to Gibbs more. So Montgomery is a touchdown-dependent flex. I don't really even want to flex them. We talk about difference makers, and the cowboys, when they acquired Quinn and Williams

and acquired Logan Wilson. So in the last three games, they are number one in fewest fantasy points allowed to opposing running backs. That includes matchups with Seekwon Barkley and Ashton Genti.

Like, that's how good they have been. Yeah. And so the best performance against them was Kareem Hunt, 14 carries, 58 yards. Like, they are just eliminating running backs. So you look at Jemir Gibbs, you're still going to start him.

I don't think anybody's going to get away from him because of his role in the passing him. But David Montgomery, if he doesn't score a touchdown, it's just absolutely miserable. So with what they've done, and the opponents that they've done it against.

Like, this defense has just completely turned around, and I don't think you could trust David Montgomery at all. For me, I'm going to get away from Woody Marks. And this is frustrating because it's been three straight games of 17-plus touches. The role in the passing game has been non-existent, which is what we liked about when he first started to make some fantasy production and be a part of this Texan's offense. But he's got three catches in the last three games,

one in each contest, and you're looking at a Chief's defense that is still very good. So this feels like a low-scoring game based on how these two defenses will probably play, certainly with the Chief's offense and some of the struggles that we could be looking at. I just don't think you could trust Woody Mark's at this point. So hopefully finds the end zone last week. The touchdown went to Nick Chubb that easily could have been marked, and I think we feel a lot better about it. But just looking at the situation right now,

Woody Marks a flex option at best, and that says something given the week of what we're talking about with 14s on a buy and some of the running back. So there's your look at some starts and sits at the running back position. We're going to take a break now. We come back and get into the wide receivers that you need to start. This is feeling, wide receiver and tight end starts to feel a little bit better. So as a show goes on, we get to some of the players we like a little bit more.

So we'll tell you about the wide receivers to start and sit next year on Fantasy Football today. Welcome back to Fantasy Football today, presented by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We're talking about wide receivers for week 14 and the guys you need to start, the guys you need to sit, and hopefully some guys that we feel a little bit more confident. And there are some guys that were a little bit concerned about where to rank them. And we'll start there. We'll show you the rank list one through 12. And I don't think any concerns with these.

guys, although just keep an eye on the situation with Arizona because Marvin Harrison, Jr., once again, did not practice on Wednesday, dealing with, excuse me, on Thursday, dealing with that heel injury, so we'll see if he's going to get out there. If not, Michael Wilson, all systems go, but Greg Dorch also did not practice, so keep an eye on that dealing with a chest injury, Chris Olavet, battling a back situation, something to monitor there. But for the most part, we feel great about these guys. When you get to the next list, 13 through 24, then we start to get to some questions.

So we show you those players from a ranking perspective, and we'll talk about some of these guys, starting with a guy Heath that is going to be close on this list, and that's Zay Flowers. So tough to trust. I know Dave wants to sit him this week, so Dave is not really welcome the city of Baltimore right now. I'm not like Lamar Jackson and Zay Flowers. But where do you come out on Flowers just from the standpoint of, is he trustworthy? Well, it's interesting, because I think we think of him as like this boom bust wide receiver,

and we certainly got the bust last week, even though I think his touchdown should have counted. But if you look at the prior seven weeks, it was about the most consistent. consistent wide receiver in fantasy football. It was between 11 and 14 points every single week. Now, he didn't score touchdown in any of those games. That's generally the type of guy that I would be saying, yeah, you start this guy.

Eventually, he's going to score a touchdown. But it's been since week once since he scored a touchdown. I feel a lot about him like I do Lamar Jackson. There's FOMO for sure because he has the ability. He's had multiple 25-point fantasy days in his young career. And there seems to be besides one, one week, a pretty reasonable floor of 11 to 14 fantasy points. That sounds like a starter.

That sounds like a flex more than a starter. Not a wide receiver this year. Well, maybe, but there are a bunch of other wide. It sounds like Khalil Shakir is what it sounds like. Essentially. Sort of. And I just don't think he's got the same type of upside as other wide receivers do, especially in this matchup against Pittsburgh because the last three times he's played

against him hasn't been any better than 15.3 PPR points. And I would, yeah, 15.3 from Zay Flowers, I would love that. but he's been as low as 11.9. So to Heath's point, he's been right in that range of around 11, 13 PPR points. That's a good flex at wide receiver. And that's what I would think of them as. It's how I have him ranked.

He's good. He's not great. And I think I can find some other guys. Christian Watson, Alec Pierce, more upside. I'm starting them. Michael Wilson, Jameson Williams. Of course, I'm starting those guys ahead of Zayflower. And those make sense just from the standpoint

of what their upside is. You know, the downside is probably a little bit lower than Zayflower. So, you know, what Heath was saying about Lamar Jackson, depending on what you need. I just think you kind of know what Flowers is at this point, and the lack of touchdowns, again, last week, notwithstanding, but the lack of touchdowns just very frustrating. So hopefully Lamar gets going.

We get Zay Flowers going as well. Matchup is actually very good. We just not have seen a lot of teams have to throw against the Steelers lately. But understandably so. We have Flowers in a very similar range. Your Sportsline is very excited about Flowers at number 14. Dave, a guy that you're concerned about or tough to rank is Debo Samuel. So I went back and I looked at all the different situations,

and this is with Marcus Mario to quarterback. It changes if it's Jane Daniels. all the different types of situation, scenario coverages that Debo Samuel's target per route rate has been. And when has he gotten a high target per route run rate? And with Mariotta, the only time when Debo Samuel has had a high target per route run rate is when Mariota is getting the ball out quick. 2.5 seconds or fewer, he's seeing a target on 32% of his routes.

They're not downfield. They're very short, but that's when he's getting involved. And what do the Vikings do? They get after the quarterback. So even though I think that he could see a lot of targets in this game, I'm not sure. sure if he's going to be capable of breaking a bunch of them for a big place, especially with Terry McLauran back. I'm just, I'm nervous about how good he can be. So he's in that flex range for me, too. As a matter of fact, I like safe hours better than I like Debo

Samuel this week. So it makes me tough, it's tough to trust him, especially if I'm going to look at him and say, okay, this is going to be a good week for him. I don't know if it's going to be that, especially with McLarenback. And what about the week that Zach Ertz has? That throws a wrench into the whole thing because he could end up taking target volume away from Debo Samuel as a short area target. Minnesota's number two infused fantasy points allowed to opposing wide receivers and McCorn three games with Debo Samuel. Samuel's best game was last week, last three games with McCorn, 11.1 PPR points and that's the game of Mario da through 50 times. I don't know if we're going to see 50 past attempts marks Marioita against his Vikings defense. That makes me like him even

less. Yeah, it's tough and I know we're looking at you know McCorn as okay we're just throwing right back in there and I think you should just based on the upside because his last two games against Denver, fantastic against Kansas City was very good too. What Minnesota has done Certainly in game flow matters, but the last three teams that they face Green Bay, Chicago, and Seattle. No wide receiver, double-digit of PPR. That's including Jackson Smith and the Jigba, who's been the best wide receiver in fantasy. Let's have a quick Justin Jefferson conversation because he's the toughest guy for me to rank this week. Comes in as a low-end number two receiver.

This feels like a great blow-up spot for him, except his quarterback blows up, and that's unfortunate, and J.J. McCarthy. So he's just been bad, and we know that's the big reason why Jefferson, for the most part, has struggled. Six-plus targets in every game so far this season. And at one point, we were saying, oh, it's nine post targets in every game this season. But Washington is fifth in terms of most fantasy points allowed to opposing wide receivers. We see almost every number one wide receiver last week was Cortland Sutton just go off against this team. Can Jefferson have one of those weeks?

Do you feel confident about that, Heath? Because you have them the highest ranked at 16. No, not confident at all. I think there may be a few more guys that you guys feel like you like than I do. Alex Pierce and Christian Watson. Right, like those types of guys that I'm just still starting Justin Jefferson ahead of them. I do think that there is a chance against Washington that J.J. McCarthy maybe has. like 180 yard game. And so it's eight for 90 for Justin Jefferson or something like that.

I think we probably get a little bit too certain about especially quarterback starting their first year and just they're going to be this awful every game. And Justin Jefferson's still awesome. So when I go through and look at the rankings and I've got a choice between Justin Jefferson or Alec Pierce, I don't have that choice because I've got Pierce quite a bit lower. But I'm just going to go with the guy that's named Justin Jefferson. And I think that's what most people will do when they see their lineups, you know, so you'll see maybe projections that say Pierce over Jefferson. You'll see rankings that have Pierce over Jefferson. And you're going to be like, am I really stealing Justin Jefferson for Alex? Despite the fact that he's been better, despite the fact that...

You've done that last week. Yeah. And it's the same thing with Lamar Jackson, same thing with Patrick Mahomes. You know, when we say avoid or sit or be concerned about these guys, you don't listen. We understand that. But that's what, you know, we're hoping to lead you to the right direction here and give you the right suggestion. But I get it. So, you know, where most people come out and not trusting those guys. But we'll take. talk about some starts now. One of these guys is Christian Watson, who's been better than Justin Jefferson for the last month. Will he do it again? It's a great matchup for Jordan Love I talked about earlier. The Bears don't get after the quarterback, and when Love has time to

throw, what does he do? He goes down field. And the other thing that the Bears do a lot of is play man-to-man coverage, especially in close games or when they're trailing. And in those situations, talking about target per run rate again, Christian Watson sees a target 33.3% of the time. That is ridiculously high. And it makes total sense, because if he's a a one-on-one situation. He's usually running past somebody. And Jordan Love, all he has to do is just get the ball in the vicinity near him and hopefully he comes down with it. Usually they go for a touchdown. That's been the target per route run rate since Tucker Kraft has gone out because Kraft used to be that guy. Now it's not. It's Christian Watson. He looks good. I think he's the

number two fantasy wide receiver. I would take the chance on him against Chicago. And we all have him ranked in the top 21. So great opportunity for Christian Watson. Let's talk to Terry McCorn because, you know, again, matchup's not easy. The matchup isn't easy, but I think the fact that he played 46% of the snaps last week and still led the team with a 31% target share tells you he's back. You were really right about him at the beginning of the season. The holdout really derailed his season, it seems. He got hurt, couldn't get healthy. I think he's healthy. When Terry McCoran's healthy, you start him. Yep. And again, you know, what he did against Denver was amazing because that's one of the best secondaries. What he did against

Kansas City, not a huge game, but this score a touchdown there. And both those did come with Mark's Marriott. So we might get a boost if even Jane Daniels start. So hopefully we get another big game from Terry McClure, and again, you see we all have them ranked as a number two wide receiver. Jacoby Myers has been very good for the Jaguars the last three weeks, and that's only been with six targets, but we're looking at a Colts defense, no Soss Garner, well aware, dealing with that calf injury. We've seen Myers score a touchdown each the last two weeks, no Parker Washington, at least that's the expectation dealing with that hip injury. So I'm hoping we get a little bit of a up-tempo game here between the Jaguars and the Colts,

and we see the Jaguars have to throw a little bit more because Trevor Lawrence been living under 30 pass attempts for the majority of the second half of the season so far, so in the last two weeks. but when he has to throw, this is a guy I think he's going to lean on quite a bit. So a number two wide receiver, Dave's a little bit lower just outside that top 24 range, but somebody that we all like as a number two wide receiver for this week.

So guys that we're looking to avoid, so Heath, you brought up a great point on our podcast this morning about the difference in what's happening in Denver. Cortland Sutton's fine, but the number two receiver we might be seeing a shift between Troy Franklin and Pat Bryant. Sean Peyton is Sean Peytoning once again.

Last week, we saw Pat Bryant play more snaps than Troy Franklin, run more routes than Troy Franklin, and see twice as many targets as Troy Franklin. It was a four or five-week stretch where Troy Franklin was seeing a bunch more targets than Cortland Sutton. This is kind of what Sean Payton does. It's just throughout the season, it ebbs and flows.

Franklin, I'm not sure at this point that he's in the doghouse, but he's certainly not the guy we thought he was a couple of weeks ago when he was their clear number one option in the passing game. And there is a risk that he's just a 50, 60 percent snap share guy in this game. that Bryant's actually the better option and that you don't even want to start him as a top 36 wide receiver. I think there was two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we actually had him ahead

of Sutton for one week in the rankings. That's not the case anymore at all. No, you can't do that anymore. However, I do think that Troy Franklin, and this is just based on the track record of the season, has much better games against one high safety defenses versus too high. And last week the commanders, and really they've changed the way that they play defense with Dan Quinn

calling the shots. They played with a lot of too high, and I think Sean Payton saw that and decided this isn't for Troy Franklin, when it's a single high safety, his target per route run rate goes way up, his efficiency goes way up, and what do the Raiders play a ton of? Single high safety, cover three especially, and he's had his best numbers against cover three. That's why I haven't ranked as high as I do as a flex as a number three type of wide receiver in the 30s. I don't want to put him any higher than that in case there has been a real change, but I do think he's worth

trying one more time as a flex. And let's just be honest here. They played this team in week 10, and they were miserable throwing the football. Bo Nix was awful. It was at home where he's typically awesome, and the Raiders, look, their past defense has been very Jekyll and high. At some points, they look great. They do a great job against tight ends, for example. I don't know how much you want to necessarily trust the entire passing attack here for Denver, so I think that plays into it because

Cortland Sutton looked, to me, looked a little bit better and then he has in recent weeks last week. But to your point, maybe this is a match-up situation, a game-flow situation, and we see a good performance for Troy Franklin. But I understand why there's some trepidation to clearly start my rights. So you're going to Sid Zay Flowers. We talked about that. For me, I'm going to try and get away from Roman Dunezay.

Very difficult, again, on a week where we have four teams on a buy in some of the receiver situations that we're dealing with. But 8.3 PPR points are less in four of his last five games. As we've sort of illustrated, we expect a lot of running from the Bears. Caleb Williams not necessarily asked to win this game. Now, if they're trailing, that certainly helps with Dunez. But he's been six plus targets almost every game in the season. So the production has just not been there despite the volume

and still being the go-to guy for the Bears. But Colston-Lauvelin stepped up recently. Luther Burns is getting more involved. And again, really, I just think it's going to be a running attack for Chicago and the past defense for the Packer is still very good. I'm going to make things uncomfortable for Caleb Williams. So I don't want to trust Romo Dunzee in a two-receiver league. Clearly you're starting him in three-receiver leagues,

but if you can get away from him, that's the right move to make. All right. We're going to take a break right now. We come back and get into the tight ends. We still have your questions coming up. So send them to us on social media using the hashtag Ask FFT, but tight ends are next here on Fantasy Football today. Welcome back to Fantasy Football today, presented by BEDMGM. Just got some news that Lamar Jackson not practicing on Thursday, not a great sign after being limited in practice on Wednesday.

So something to keep an eye on there. And then some good news, potentially, Dalton Kincaid returning to practice, dealing with the knee injury, he's been practicing on a limited basis each the last two weeks. But hopefully he's going to be full because the matchup is absolutely fantastic taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. They are the number one team in most fantasy points allowed to the position. so we would love to see Dalton Kincaid out. I'll show you the rankings 1 through 12. I'm sure for most of us,

Kincaid will be in this list if he does start. But some guys that were a little bit concerned about ranking for this week. Dave, for you, it's Kyle Pitts. And I know we've gone back and forth. Oh, it's a great situation for Pitts. It's coming off a great game. Can he do it again?

He's coming off a great game. Can he do it again? Yeah, it's Seattle. So that makes me nervous. That's a good defense. I've gotten a little bit better. Over the course of the year, you're correct. But lately, how's it been?

Last week, it was T.J. Hawkinson. had a good game, despite Max Brosmer being absolutely miserable. What did Hawkinson? He had 11 p.R points for the season high. Which for him is amazing, right. And I think if Pitts gets 11 ppr points, we'd be pretty happy with that. It's two of three games with Kirk Cousins. He's come through.

So I have him rights as a starter. I just don't want to move him too high. You know what I mean? Like, I think he can be okay. I just don't think he's one of the best tight ends you can go with this week. Yeah, their last four games against tight ends is giving up 11 points to T.J. Hawkinson, giving up 11 points to Gunner Helm. giving up a touchdown to Colby Parkinson,

and then, of course, Tray McBride had like 100. Yeah. All right, so I should feel better about Kyle Pitt. I'm always nervous to start him. I love Kyle Pitts. He's got a 26% target share when Kirk Cousins plays because whenever Kirk Cousins plays, Drake One doesn't play. So when you have that competition of Cousins and quarterback in London out,

I just start Kyle Pitts when you're facing a defense that's awesome against everything except for tight ends. you've started even harder. So it sounds like you should sounds like you'd like him even if Drake London plays. You wouldn't like him then? He would be probably around 11 or 12. I think he's sixth for me right now. Okay.

But that's still a top 12 tight end. That's still pretty good. Well, it's still tight end. You say it's still tight end. Believe me, quarterback stinks, running back questions, wide receivers, okay. To me, tight ends the best position in fantasy right now because we get so many guys.

I think it is relative to, I think the conversation we had about Zay Flowers' instructor. I'm talking about how he scores at least 11 points every week, and Dave's poo-pooing that. A guy could score 11 points at tight end. Oh, yeah, that's great. Champion of the Universe. Yeah, right.

He's a Hall of Fame. Harold Fanon, which I'm surprised, usually you just put him at 8 or 9 and say he's good to go, but why are you concerned about him? Again, speaking of the champion of the universe, Harold Fanon, 26.8% target share in two games with Shored Sanders. That's elite. Leads his team in receptions, yards.

and touchdowns. That's elite. It's the Browns. And I'm really concerned that facing Tennessee they might throw 15 passes. And he could have a 30% target share and see four targets. So that's the, I've got in like fifth or sixth in the projections. I've lowered him to 10th in the rankings because of that risk of a low volume pass game. But he's awesome. Yeah, no, he's certainly done a great job. And I always go back to this. Like, what's the floor of the position? And to me, the floor is somewhere between eight nine ppr points. 8.4 ppr points in four of his last five games. So he's been not terrible

for the majority of this last stretch. He's certainly outperforming David Nogoku and then last week you get the touchdown. For me, the toughest guy is Dalton Schultz because he's been so good and such a big part of this offense whether C.J. Stroud or Davis Mills. But now you're taking on a very good team at defending tight ends in the Kansas City Chiefs. Now we saw him against the best

team at defending tight ends against the Buffalo bills two weeks ago and he was terrible. But he gets right back to 11 ppr points last week against the Colts. So I think you've got to trust in what the target share will be you got to trust in what the production has been for the majority of the season and just hope that he can get to that level of production eight plus points nine plus points hopefully double digits so it's a low end starter but still a little bit concerned all right so for the starts you got Kyle Pitts for you he so we covered that one Dave joan johnson last week

was not a great game for him but you got to like the targets you got to like the targets and it's been that way for a long time does devon valet take more targets away from him this week because I thought devon valet look pretty good I'm not ready to start him is any more than like a low-end PPR flex, but I still think Joanne Johnson's going to have opportunities against Tampa. They're weak against the past. And I just think that he's somebody that Tyler Shuck looks for in the red zone. We've seen

that before this season. So he definitely makes the cut as one of those tight ends that should have that safe floor of 8 to 9 pPR points and does have a ceiling in the neighborhood of 12 or 13 PPR. Only four times this season, Johnson has failed to get to 10 PPR points more. And you say targets, well, even though Vellet had

that spike in targets last week, Joanne Johnson's most targets with Tyler Shuck was last week with nine. So that's a very encouraging sign, especially against a matchup against Tampa Bay, where he did get over 10 ppr points earlier this season. For me, I'm going to start Brent Strange. He's been solid, you know, for the healthy games that he's played. He's played four healthy games, or last four healthy games, excuse me, 10 ppr points or more. So hopefully that continues against the Colts. Their fourth worst in terms of most fantasy points allowed to the position. So I think Strange is going to have an opportunity here, especially Parker Washington being down to be another go-to-guy for Trevor Lawrence. Let's talk about some sits here. And for Dave, you got Dallas Goddard as a sit. Is it just time to forget Dallas Goddard as a even, you want to roster on your team. Yeah, this is the time of year where if you've got a second tight end, who's probably your first tight end, and that's made Goddard your second tight end, it's time to let him go. Five or fewer targets, each of his last three games.

Only three tight ends this year against the Chargers have had at least 9.2 half ppr points in a game against them. It's Derwin James. He takes away tight ends, and that's an easy cover for him with Dallas Governor. He's still running a lot of routes. It's not like he's being asked to block more. He's just not getting targeted. Players like that you can't trust.

Mark Andrews, somebody you want to get away from? Yeah, congratulations on the new contract. Hopefully he scores a touchdown and maybe then he could get close to 11 fantasy points. But he has one game all season long above 50 yards. The last two weeks he and Isaiah likely have the same number of targets. The last five weeks since week nine, he and Isaiah likely have the same number of catches, likely has 70 more receiving yards. It's just entirely can't Andrews score a touchdown. And I think we've got big reason, the whole reason we're thinking about sitting Lamar Jackson

is we don't know how many passing touchdowns are going to have. And if Lamar Jackson sits, you can definitely not trust anybody in passing game if it's Tyler Huntley. So easy got to get away from there from you. I'm going to sit Colston-Lauvelin. Just a tough situation for him taking on Packers' defense that's been good against tight ends lately. Limiting Dallas Scott or Theo Johnson, T.J. Hawkinson, kind of in the same range of a player like Colston-loveland. But a lot of it is really past attempt. I don't expect the bears to throw the ball very much in this matchup.

All right, we're going to take a break. We come back and it gets your questions. That's next year on fantasy football today. Send them to us using the hashtag AskFFT. will help you with any of your fantasy dilemmas here on CBS Sports Network. Welcome back to fantasy football today, presented by BenMGM. It's all your questions to end the show. So JETS wants to know last week with the regular season tied with two other teams for the last two playoff spots.

So win you get the scenario there, so need a quarterback. Okay, here we go. go. Patrick Mahomes, Jacoby Percet, Joe Burrow. Dave, what are you going with? I'm going with Joe Burrow. And Mahomes is third on this list for me. All right. So Burrow over the other two, that's fine. We'll just make it easy. Go with Joe Burrow. Would you go with Flowers, Heath, or Michael Wilson or Greg Dorch? It would definitely be Wilson if that's one of the Arizona wide receivers he's talking about. It'd go Wilson, Flowers, Dorch for me.

And what if Marvin Harrison plays? Would that change anything? It would probably go Harrison Flowers, Wilson, Dorch. Okay. Next question? Oh, boy. Who to pick up here? Man, I don't have a telescope. I can't read this. Yeah.

All right, so it's Trevor Lawrence, Terrod Taylor, C.J. Straub. I need a quarterback. I do go Lawrence. You go Lawrence? I would go Lawrence as well. Yeah. Okay, there you go. Great question.

Joe Burrow or Jared Gough? Last one. Gough. Agreed. Jared Gough. Going into tonight's game, taking on the Dallas Cowboys. Let's hope he has a big game. Again, we're not expecting him on Mount around St.

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