Fantasy Football Today - KC-NE, Carson/Mixon, Falcons WRs (10/04 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 A lot of difficult decisions for fantasy managers. We're going to help you out right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5. Good morning, everybody. It is Sunday, and it's time for some football games here. But what about the Patriots and the Chiefs? And we do have some good news about the Saints and the Lions. Adam Azer here and Heath Cummings on Fantasy Football Today in 5, a podcast that gets you caught up fast on the fantasy news and advice you need to know.

Starting point is 00:00:24 Follow and stream us on Spotify. Heath, good news. It was a false positive for the Saints, so it looks like all systems go in that game, Saints and Lions. Well, all systems except for Michael Thomas. He will not be a go. But, yes, Alvin Kamara will be there. Emmanuel Sanders, they will be playing the Lions.

Starting point is 00:00:44 You can start your Saints and Lions except for Michael Thomas. What a stressful day yesterday was. More positive tests coming out in Tennessee. Of course, we know the Chiefs-Patriots game is going to be moved to Monday or Tuesday. Real quick, before we get into that, you've got to tune into CBS Sports HQ. Download the CBS Sports HQ app. This is exactly perfect for a situation like this. Fantasy Football Today is live from 10 a.m. Eastern until kickoff.

Starting point is 00:01:11 So download the CBS Sports HQ app. Watch it on your connected device. If you have the CBS Sports app on your phone, you can watch it there. Plenty of ways to watch it. Go to CBSSportsHQ.com, but make sure you're checking it out. Also, I've been talking about the uh the twitch stream that we're going to do for the patriots chiefs that's now going to be for the bills and the raiders which should be another very good game um that's that's a 4 25 p.m eastern game

Starting point is 00:01:33 four o'clock eastern on twitch bills raiders will be hanging out for that one okay what are we doing with the chiefs and patriots right now what would you tell fantasy managers? I have changed my rankings to reflect how I would handle the Chiefs and Patriots if I was in a league. Some of our leagues, and I think this will be unique, but some of our leagues, Jamie and Dave and you, as commissioners, have said, you guys can name replacements. And if they play on Tuesday, you can use them. And if they don't play on Monday or Tuesday, then you can use the replacements and if they play on Tuesday you can use them and if they don't play on Monday or Tuesday then you can use the replacements on Sunday if that's the case then you don't really have a lot of decisions to make other than make sure you have a replacement my rankings are to

Starting point is 00:02:14 reflect leagues where that's not the reality and so I got to Patrick Mahomes is not a top 12 quarterback for me in my rankings right now I think you if you have two quarterbacks and you have Mahomes you're probably just starting the second guy. It's possible we'll get more information before kickoff. The ideal situation would be if you have Travis Kelsey

Starting point is 00:02:35 to have Robert Tanyan as your second tight end, so you could wait until Monday evening to make that decision. If you have Patrick Mahomes, I think your best case is probably Nick Mullens, so you could wait until Sunday evening to make that decision. If you have Patrick Mahomes, I think your best case is probably Nick Mullins. So you could wait until Sunday evening to make that decision. Every intention as of Sunday morning, they did not have more positive tests on Saturday. Every intention is we're going to play the game Monday or Tuesday. But we just told you the Tennessee Titans a week after the start of their outbreak just had new positives that were not positive a week ago

Starting point is 00:03:05 so this is completely up in the air i think it's pretty easy to mostly get away from the patriots with brian hoyer likely as their starting quarterback i don't think you want to start any of them anyway so probably just get away from them with the chiefs if you could get a sunday night or monday replacement, that would be ideal. Okay. Good luck to everybody out there. I really hope they play that game. We want to watch it. We want to see it. All right. We got some big news here. Chris Carson is expected to start. Joe Mixon is expected to play. Are you comfortable starting either of these guys? Carson at the Dolphins, Mixon at the Cowboys, or Mixon against Jacksonville? More comfortable starting Carson. It doesn't sound like Carlos Hyde may be available for that game. So it might be Carson and Travis Homer. And it's a very good matchup against the Dolphins, I think. So Carson's a borderline top 12, top 15 type running back. when he was 100% I didn't feel great about it. I would definitely start Devin Singletary, Daryl Henderson,

Starting point is 00:04:07 David Montgomery, James Robinson, Mike Davis. What's that? Ronald Jones. Ronald Jones. All of those guys over Joe Mixon. Okay. Before we get into some quick starters, sit.

Starting point is 00:04:19 Are you, as of right now on Sunday morning, are you putting Calvin Ridley, Julio Jones, Russell Gage in your lineups? Yes. The way I said it on Twitter on Saturday was my teams have been decimated. I drafted too many Titans, Steelers, Chiefs, and Patriots. The news has been mostly encouraging about those Monday night wide receivers. If they don't play, I'm going to lose with a bad replacement anyway. I'm putting them in my lineups.

Starting point is 00:04:45 There's too many players missing between injuries and the COVID situations. We're going to have to roll it with Julio and Devontae Adams. The news has been very encouraging, including Russell Gage and Calvin Ridley. I'm just starting them all. Starter sit, Terry McLaurin or Odell Beckham? I'm going with Terry McLaurin. He's

Starting point is 00:05:01 shown a pretty safe floor, even against good corners of 11 to 13 fantasy points. Baltimore certainly has good corners, but there's also a chance that we see a quarterback change in this game. I'm not sure that would be a bad thing for McLaurin because Dwayne Haskins has been terrible. I'm going to go with McLaurin. Would you start Hunter Renfro over one of those wide receivers, McLaurin or Beckham? I would not, but Renfro is in the same discussion as Beckham as a low-end No. 2,

Starting point is 00:05:27 high-end No. 3 in PPR. Actually, take that back. In full PPR, I would start Renfro over Beckham. Let's fire through the rest of these. Ready? Brandon Cooks or Justin Jefferson? Brandon Cooks. Ronald Jones or Daryl Henderson? Daryl Henderson. Ronald Jones or Odell Beckham?

Starting point is 00:05:44 That one will be format-dependent. Jones and non-Beckham and PPR. Ronald Jones or Odell Beckham? That one will be format dependent. Jones and non-Beckham and PPR. Mike Davis or DJ Chark? I'm starting Mike Davis over almost everyone. He's a top 12 running back for me. Devin Singletary or T.Y. Hilton? I'm starting Devin Singletary over almost everyone. He's a top 12 running back for me.

Starting point is 00:06:02 All right, we went a little long today, but you needed it. We had some big information to get to you. So thanks a lot for listening to Fantasy Football Today in 5. Make sure you're watching CBS Sports HQ today. Make sure you're downloading the Fantasy Football Today podcast. Follow and stream us on Spotify. Leave us a five-star review and good luck in week four,

Starting point is 00:06:17 everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.

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