Fantasy Football Today - LAST-MINUTE Week 11 Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em, Advice, Actives/Inactives & Q/A!  (11/16 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

It's going to be a windy Sunday and we'll tell you how that is changing our rankings. We also talk about Ricky Pearsall, RJ Harvey, tight ends you can add and much more.  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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giants Cincinnati at pittsburgh Tampa bay at buffalo baltimore at cleveland heath what are your reads here. So I made a bigger adjustment to the Packers Giants and the Ravens Browns with a very small adjustment to Tampa Bay and Buffalo, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. I think I'm still going to start Joe Flacco and Aaron Rogers as low-end QB-1s. I'm still going to start D.K. Metcalf. I was already concerned about Baker Mayfield against Buffalo, a much better defense to run again than it is to pass against, and Buffalo hasn't that a quarterback score 20 fantasy points since week one. Yeah. So I would get away from Mayfield if you can. Yikes. What about Abuka and Tess Johnson and hate Otten? Uh, Bucca's the only, well, and Otten's probably the way

he's targeted, not going to be affected by the win too much. If anything, I would think his target share might go up. I'm still starting Abuka. I'm not starting Tess Johnson. Oh, boy. All right. Heath, I hate weather stuff.

Not that it's anyone's fault or people are wrong. Yeah, you know, you would like for everybody to play indoors. No, indoor football is terrible. I've been to an indoor football game. It's not natural. I just,

I hate that it sinks for fantasy managers that gets to this point of this season and you have to worry about something like that, something that we have no control over that's very hard to predict. I hate this. Unlike the other things that we have lots of control over and are very easy to predict.

I think it's, you know, hey, this is a matchup. We have 10 weeks of data, but this team is done. Like, that's what we do. That's our job. Predicting how it's going to, how the weather's going to affect is very frustrating. Anyway, all right, let's get to the injuries here. Thankfully, not too many. Let's talk about the 49ers.

Ricky Pearsall, Brock Purdy, looking like they're both going to be purdy. They're back. Okay, they're back. At Arizona this week, what does this do for the 49ers passing game? It definitely makes things a little muddy, huh? Yeah. I mean, the 49ers passing. In terms of Purdy, I think Mac Jones has been 19.8 or better in three straight games.

This has been a relatively pass-heavy offense for two reasons. One, they can't run the ball. Two, they can't stop anybody. And so I like Purdy as a top 12 quarterback. I would start him over both Flacco and Rogers in that game we just talked about. John Jennings is still my favorite 49ers wide receiver, but he and Ricky Pierce all are both wide receiver threes. All right.

And we're going to start Purdy over. over Mayfield, too. I am. Yeah. Okay. J.K. Dobbins is likely out for this season. It's a shame. We'll see what R.J. Harvey can do today.

Brian Thomas Jr. is not expected to play, and Brenton Strange is not going to play. So how does Parker Washington look to you right now and Jacoby Myers against the Chargers? Worse than Joanne Jennings and Ricky Pearsall. Oh, wow. I've got Washington right behind Pearsall. I've got Myers about five spots back of that.

There's still number three wide receivers like those other guys, but I'm not super excited about them. Devante Adams is expected to play. Drake London is expected to play. Sam Leporta on IR. Out of the blue almost. What a bummer. They get the Eagles on Sunday night.

What do we do at tight end? Injury stuff definitely much, much worse than weather stuff. The weather stuff will go away next week, hopefully. Obviously, we've been talking about these guys all week, but in a few leagues are still available. So KDOT and Dalton Schultz are the two top choices to go see if they're available. Theo Johnson, probably next. And then if you really are in one of these leagues where you're like, why is he saying these dumb names? Because they've been rostered for four weeks in my league.

Let's take a chance on Greg Dulcich this morning. He was up to a 70% roster share last week. The commander's defense is awful. Why not? I'll tell you real quick what Dawson Knox has done over the last two years without,

without, sorry, Dalton, here we go. So earlier this year, he had two targets. One of them was in the end, Zoni card touchdown.

Last year, 8 points, 7.6 points, and 1.5 fantasy points. So, oh boy, it is super flimsy. I can't even recommend it. Because in three of the last four games without Kincaid,

he's had one to two targets. It just happens. to keep catching touchdowns. I actually have Brock Wright ahead of Dustin Knucks. Yeah, I think that makes sense. And Luke Musgrave is out there in a lot of leagues too,

unfortunately. But I'd rather have Dulcich than Wright or Musgrave or Knox. Okay. Okay, there's also, you know, Chigo Conquo who gets you around eight points some weeks. I wish Brenton Strange were playing. That would have been a nice pivot.

But it's tough. A lot of the tight ends we like, they're rostered now. You know, people have caught on. Okay, take a break here. and get into a running back note, some wide receiver notes, and your questions after this. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.

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Zonovan Knight, though, is expected to play. That's a 4 o'clock game. And what does that mean for the Cardinals running backs? I was really hoping we'd get a little bit more MRA Di Mercado. Now the only thing you can do is hope for that. There's no reason to expect it. I currently have Knight just ahead of DeMercato. They're both between right around RB30.

I'd rather not start either one, but you might have to. Okay. Darius Slayton is out. Did you give Wondale a big bump? I did not. I mean, he's still a borderline wide receiver too, which is where he was for me at the beginning of the week. I'm more starting to feel nervous that this whole thing is just going to go terribly bad.

Because the Packers defense is incredible. The wind's blowing 30 miles per hour. And it is James Winston. We love to focus on the fun part of James, but there's a reason he's not a starting quarterback in the NFL. It's because sometimes it goes so awfully bad that nobody wants to see it again for two years. Yep. And in that same game, Matthew Golden is questionable, so we'll see if he's back. Calvin Ridley is expected to play.

Last time he was healthy, he had a huge game. Any interest in Calvin Ridley, unfortunately, it's against the Texans. I did pick him up in a couple of leagues. I'd like to have him on a roster. I really don't want to start him. He's right around wide receiver 40. And Pittsburgh is very injured on defense. I don't know that's really going to change anyone's decisions

in terms of starting Chase and Higgins, but maybe it gives you a little more faith in Flacco, even though that's one of the wind games. And Lucas Havrissick is going to kick for the Packers today, which ordinarily I'd be interested in picking him up. He's been good in two games, but with the wind, as bad as it is, I think I'm going to pivot to someone else, but McManus is not going to kick.

All right, a couple minutes for questions. here. Would you start? Oh, yeah, we didn't really talk about the JMO angle here, but with Leporta out, the question is, would you start R.J. Harvey or Jameson Williams? I actually have both of them in a half PPR league, and I'm actually going to try to start both, but who would you pick? In a half PPR league, I would pick Harvey. I am the high guy on Harvey. He's a top 15 back for me. And you put, so any format, you go Harvey over Jamo. I would. All right. Do you like Jamo? Did you bump him up with the Leporto? I did bump him up. He's a, uh, a borderline wide receiver 2.

So I think we've got a wide receiver 25. Still behind D.K. for me, but ahead of all the guys that don't have those names. Okay. DJ Moore or Jacoby Myers? I would go Jacobi Myers.

Washington, Parker Washington or Tess Johnson, half PPO? Parker Washington for me. Okay. So that's a bit, is that a win downgrade? No, a little bit. bit but I was not like I was low on tez Johnson coming into the week he gets four or five

targets a week yeah um he had one game where it was not true he also has one game with one target so I'm not sure he just has to score a touchdown Dawson Knox or no a fan this week half ppr uh this is exactly the situation where I'd be going to see if Greg dulcich is available but if I had to choose between those two it would be no a fan for me um No. Packer, now, so you're going to start the Packers, DST, because even if James has a good game, he's probably going to throw some interceptions. Woody Marks or Chase Brown, half PPR? I have half PPR.

That one is much closer, but I have Chase Brown. Devante Adams or T. Higgins? Devante. Dobbs, Shaheed, Quentin Johnston, Pearsall, pick two. I will go Dobbs and Pearsall. Yeah. No, Dobbs and Quentin Johnson. Yeah, I'm excited that Pearsall is back,

but I really want to see what this looks like before I trust him. And Jennings, too. I mean, we just haven't, we have basically zero sample size. I mean, yeah, not basically. We have zero sample size of everyone healthy. And, right? I mean, Kittle, McCaffrey, Jennings. Week one?

Kittle got hurt in the first quarter, like right at the beginning of the second quarter. order. So, and I think, I don't even know, was John Jennings playing in that game? I feel like he was on a snapout in that game. Well, I don't know. I think he played the full game, but he played. Yeah, I think he played like two-thirds of the snaps. Okay, whatever it may be, it's a different situation. Now, last one, this is Jennings' question. Jennings, Quentin Johnston, R.J. Harvey, Rashad White, pick two. Harvey and yikes. I'll go white. Okay. All right, thank you, Heath. we're going to be live at 8.30 a.m. I've got to get this edited and published. Let's go.

We'll talk to 8.30, YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. And again at noon eastern, YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. Get those lineups set. Good luck. See you soon.