Fantasy Football Today - LAST-MINUTE Week 12 Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em, Advice, Actives/Inactives & Q/A! (11/23 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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Starting point is 00:01:19 Play Chumba Casino today. No purchase necessary VGW Group void war prohibited by law 21 plus TNCs apply. A big week in your fantasy season, a lot on the line. get those lineups set for week 12. What's up and welcome, everybody. Remember, if you don't get your questions answered on this show, you need more help. We invite you to join us at 11 a.m. Eastern on YouTube.com slash fantasy football today, 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Eastern, we are answering your questions basically for two straight hours.

Starting point is 00:01:47 Heath, it's nice to not have to talk about the weather today. No weather concerns. Let's do it. All right, so just real quick on the Bucks, Chris Godwin is expected to play, but Bucky Irving is not. and he will play expected play next week. So that is great news. And Chris Godwin, we think, is too risky. His coach said he won't play a full snap share.

Starting point is 00:02:07 Where's your rank, Chris Godwin? 48th, I think, just to get him into the rankings. But he is, I think the bigger news on Godwin playing is what does that mean for the targets of Tess Johnson? Because you're going to start a mecca boobah, it is unaffected. K.Otton and Tess Johnson are the two guys who were kind of maybe low-end starters. Tess, more of a flex, that losing one or two targets could make a really big difference in whether they're a good start or not. What about Aten? So, yeah, Tess Johnson, I feel like people could try to get away from, but Aten?

Starting point is 00:02:40 Otten is just inside of my top 12. Now, he was closer to six the beginning of the week. I've got him at 11. Okay. Big, big drop there. All right. So how about these injured running backs? Josh Jacobs, we can't tell you yet what to do with Josh Jacobs is going to test his knee during warm up.

Starting point is 00:02:57 If he plays, you start him. That's the easiest one, just because if Josh Jacobs plays, you start him. If Josh Jacobs doesn't play, you start Emmanuel Wilson. But not in the same regard as you would, Jacobs? I mean, Jacobs is probably a top six-back when he's fully healthy. And Wilson's a borderline RB1. I must start for me. We'll talk about this.

Starting point is 00:03:24 The enactives will come out at 1130s as a 1 o'clock game. The thing is when Jacobs had, I think it was a calf injury a few weeks ago, they did limit his touches a little bit. 13 carries at Arizona, 13 carries at Pittsburgh. Of course, he scored three touchdowns in those games. But they did use Manuel Wilson more in those games. And then Jacobs finally got healthier, got 17 carries, 21 carries, and then he got hurt again. Anyway, Jalen Warren is going to play. You feel good starting him.

Starting point is 00:03:49 The Bears are without three linebackers today. Yeah, I think you feel great about the opportunity against the Bears. question is, do they limit his touches a little bit? Because they have Kenneth Gainwell, who they're happy to throw the ball to. So I'm viewing Warren as someone I'm almost certainly starting. He's an RB2, not a top 12 day. And Ramandre Stevenson's expected to play. That's no surprise. Heath is a little bit lower on Trevion Henderson than Dave and Jamie are. But, you know, look, they're playing the Bengals. We've seen multiple running backs have good games against the Bengals four times this year. Ken Walker expected to play. How would you rank the four running

Starting point is 00:04:26 backs in New England at Cincinnati and Seattle at Tennessee. So I have it Walker, Henderson, Stevenson, Charbonnet. I think everybody else has Henderson over Walker. They're very, very close for me. Isaiah Pacheco is out. How does Kareem Hunt rank against the Colts compared to those four? I would put him ahead of all of those four running backs. It's a good matchup.

Starting point is 00:04:52 There's no Pacheco. He ought to have 15 or more touches. Start Green Hunt, RB2. Joe Burrow is out. So it's another Joe Flacco week against Cincinnati. We're hoping for Burrow. I would say expecting Burrow. I don't know if they lose this game and they're a three-win team, what happens.

Starting point is 00:05:08 But expecting Burrow on Thanksgiving, not at our Thanksgiving dinners, but for his game. And Aaron Rogers is questionable. We still don't know about him. And if he's going to play, but that is another 1 o'clock game. So we'll know pretty early on Rogers. And it won't really affect anything for you in terms of Warren and Metcalf and all that. Nope. Okay.

Starting point is 00:05:27 All right. So let's take a quick break here and get to some tight end news. Some, oh, wait, one more running back item. Trey Benson is out. Zonovan Knight is playing. How about Zonovan Knight against the Jaguars versus Kareem Hunt against the Colts? I would start Hunt overnight. He is right in between Trayvian and Ramandre for me, a very, very borderline RB2 or a very good flex.

Starting point is 00:05:51 All right. All right. We'll take a break and get into a few more news items after this. When you're flying Emirates business class, dining on a world-class menu at 40,000 feet, you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates, fly better. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Today, everybody, Fantasy Football Today Express. So Brenton Strange is going to play today.

Starting point is 00:06:19 Ooh, what do you think? Yeah, he's behind Kate Otten for me, behind Hunter Henry. behind Harold Fanon, but like the best option other than that group. So I believe he'll be at Tide-in 15 when I get my rankings updated this morning. He had about a 17% target share the first month of the season. Obviously, you hope that will be better with no Brian Thomas Jr. or Travis Hunter, but in his first game back from injury, it could be worse. So not a surefire start, but if you've been streaming tied-in,

Starting point is 00:06:51 I think he's a good guy to just try to put on your bench and let's see what the role is, and he might be somebody you want to start later in the year. And he is 20% rostered Brenton Strange, and he scored 9.9 or more PPR fantasy points in three of his first four games before getting hurt. Darius Slayton is going to play. So he is at the Lions, 12 points, do you think we would get from him? I mean, it would be nice if we got 12 points. I think you're best to view him as kind of a hope at Flex than a, then a,

Starting point is 00:07:24 a start, but there is some upside there with James. It's just, man, they're like 12.5.5 underdogs with an implied total of 18. So don't get too excited. Yeah. And Xavier Worthy is questionable. I don't think that's really going to change much for people. He's expected to play. I would rather start Xavier Worthy than Darius Slayton, but that's where we're at. Xavier Legat is going to play. He's coming off a huge game. the Niners past defense is pretty bad but I don't think anyone's going to I mean we've seen it before from Leighott

Starting point is 00:07:58 and then he disappears Elyleck Eowmanor's sorry great boom bust flex Xavier Leaget okay any interest in a Titans past catcher with Eich Eio Manor out I mean DK's the hope

Starting point is 00:08:13 but he would be behind Ligit for me Mike Gisicki is questionable for the people who ran and picked up Noah Fant any concerns about fan. His numbers really didn't change when Gassiki played, but we've seen in the

Starting point is 00:08:27 past Gassiki have actually pretty big games when T. Higgins has been out and now Jemore Chases out. Yeah, I think he did not have even 20 receiving yards in a game this year, Mike Gisicki. It's been almost

Starting point is 00:08:43 completely uninvolved. He's on the field a little bit, but he was playing less snaps than Drew Sample earlier in the year. So I don't have, I didn't really impact Fant that much. Okay. I'd rather start strange than Fant now.

Starting point is 00:08:57 That's a difference. And Alex Highsmith, edge rusher for Pittsburgh. He's doubtful. Good news for the Bears. I already mentioned the Bears will be without three linebackers. And great news, Philadelphia Center, Cam Juergens, clear the concussion protocol, and he will play at Dallas. We have some time for your questions here.

Starting point is 00:09:14 Dallas Goddard or Jake Ferguson in that game, non-PPR. Ooh, non-PPR. I'm going to go with Goddert, but they are. I mean, flip a coin. Daniel Jones, Aaron Rogers, or Trevor Lawrence? It would be Daniel Jones for me. Trayvion Henderson, Quinshawn Judkins, Giovante Williams, or Emmanuel Wilson, rank them.

Starting point is 00:09:39 So if Jacobs is out, Emmanuel Wilson would be my favorite of that group. If Jacobs plays, Giovante would be my favorite of that group. And then you like Henderson or Judkins better? Um, I've got Judkins like one spot higher. Okay. Judkins at Las Vegas actually has kind of a sneaky, solid run defense.

Starting point is 00:10:04 Watson or Pierce? Pierce. Um, Alec Pierce, Chigo Conquo, John Tot, what? Dotson or Dorch? Yeah, it's going to be Pierce. That's, that's Pierce. Pierce could be all right today. Who's, yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:23 He's a top 30 wide receiver for me. Who's starting Ricky Pearsall? He is one spot behind Alec Pierce. You basically just have to have a gut feeling on Ricky Pearsall. I can't really tell you why you should start Ricky Pearsall. He's a talented player. He got nothing last week. Maybe they said, let's get him involved.

Starting point is 00:10:42 Sam Darnold or James Winston? Darnold. George Pickens or Travis E.N. Oh, wow. I'll go George Pickens. Colston Loveland or Kate Otten? Otten. Strange, Fanon or Theo Johnson?

Starting point is 00:11:03 So I have Fanon and Theo basically. I'll go Fanon. Flacko or Darnold? I would go Flacko. All right. We've got plenty of time to answer your questions on our live stream from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern. YouTube.com slash fantasy football today. We'll see you there.

Starting point is 00:11:24 Thanks to Heath Cummings and all of you for watching and listening. Good luck this week. Talk to you soon.

Fantasy Football Today - LAST-MINUTE Week 12 Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em, Advice, Actives/Inactives & Q/A! (11/23 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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