Fantasy Football Today - Isaiah Pacheco Injury Opens Door for Kareem Hunt & Brashard Smith! Week 9 Waiver Wire Update! (10/28 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: October 28, 2025Isaiah Pacheco is week-to-week with an MCL sprain, and the Chiefs’ backfield is officially in flux. We break down what this means for Kareem Hunt, Brashard Smith, and the Kansas City run game — pl...us how fantasy managers should approach the waiver wire heading into Week 9.... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 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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Hey everyone, during our show today on CBS Sports Network,
we learned that Isaiah Pacheco is week to week with a knee injury.
So this obviously changes things a little bit for the waiver wire.
It's going to make Kareem Hunt more attractive if he's available in your league,
and it's going to make Breschard Smith, someone that you might want to consider adding.
Obviously, Hunt would be the priority here.
Something to keep in mind is that the chiefs have a really good matchup against the bills.
They're 27th against running backs.
They just lost Ed Oliver for a long time with a biceps injury.
But then they have a week 10 by.
Maybe Pacheco is back in week 11.
It could be a one-week thing for these guys.
But anyway, I had a chance to ask Dave and Jamie
how they felt about the situation as we had recently learned about it.
And here's what they said.
Adam, before we get into the running backs,
Isaiah Pacheco is week to week with a knee injury from getting hurt last night.
Oh, and it's awful week.
for them too.
Who may be looking at Breschard Smith.
Kareem Hunt's a 74% rostered.
I think you look at him clearly as if he's out there,
you've got to go get him.
And then you're looking at Breschard Smith right now,
somebody you've got to go pick up as well.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
This ended up being running back segment after all.
No kidding.
I mean, Kareem Hunt was pretty valuable
last year for a little while.
I have to go look at the numbers,
but we can get into that.
Kareem Hunt, eight games without Isaiah Pacheco last year.
He averaged 14.
8 PPR fantasy points per game.
Now, at the beginning of that stretch, he was getting 20 plus carries in four straight
games, and then they stopped doing that.
So he wasn't quite as good, but also the offense is so much better this year than it
was last year.
Right.
And you've already seen him take advantage of these one-yard goal line touchdowns and
whatnot.
So, man, I'm thinking through my waivers right now, and I remember Kareem Hunt being
available in a league.
So now, okay, I'm sorry to detour from wide receivers, but if Kareem Hunt,
Rashard Smith, Tyrone Tracy, Zonovan Knight are available.
Jamie, how would you rank those guys?
Tracy will still be one.
Then I think it comes down to do you need to start Zoneman Knight this week
or do you're looking more long-term and Kareem Hunt could have, you know, again,
according to this report week-to-week for Pacheco, I probably would lean toward Kareem Hunt.
You know, Buffalo's run defense has been very bad.
And what you see from Kareem Hunt in a shared situation, he scored two touchdowns last night.
Nine carries for 40 yards.
You know, the little paw passes that we get toward the end zone, you know,
they like to use him in that regard as well.
So I think there's kind of a very similar path to production for night this week.
I like him better than Hunt, but very similar path to production.
Then you get to long-term appeal.
So Bershard Smith, to me, is the wild card because they've been trying to get him going.
You know, certainly been involved in the passing game.
Kareem Hunt's, you know, 30 years old at this point.
You know, does Smith now take this chance and maybe runs away with it?
So he's definitely somebody you want to put on your radar as well.
So I would still prioritize on it over Smith,
but I do want to get some shares of Smith also.
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