Fantasy Football Today - LAST-MINUTE Week 4 Fantasy Football Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Advice! Actives/Inactives & Q/A (09/28 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: September 28, 2025We do give you the advice you need on the Patriots running backs, Jauan Jennings, Chris Godwin, and many 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 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday 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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All right, we got an early game today.
Let's get those lineups set right now on Fantasy Football Today Express.
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For the Bucks Eagles game, looks like the Bucks are coming into this game healthy
or at least healthy enough for these guys to play, not Mike Evans,
but Baker Mayfield, Tristan Worf's their left tackle.
Chris Godwin, all expected to play today against the Eagles.
Godwin could be on a snap count.
Mayfield's had this biceps injury, his offensive coordinator,
talking about how he's gutting it out or something like that.
uh any trepidation starting mayfield then what about godwin so are you are you accepting the bicep
injury or is this faker mayfield that's a great question oh i wish i do um i i would prefer
not to start baker mayfield but he is still qb 13 our top streamer gino smith i would
start over him justin fields is going to be active now i would start justin fields over him i'd
start Jordan Love, Brock Purdy over him, but he's still ahead of someone like Jared Gough.
Okay, here's one of the more annoying ones, I think, is now that Joanne Jennings is playing,
how do we rank the 49ers wide receivers?
There's also been some talk expected to play, sorry.
Yeah, Jennings could be on a snap count himself.
So I'm still viewing Ricky Pearsall as a must-start wide receiver.
I'm viewing Jennings as a number three wide receiver.
he's wide receiver 31 for me ahead of tray Tucker who we were pretty excited to get back or who had a great week last week
but still behind dk metcalf who i don't really want to start but is playing this morning
okay would you start juan jennings or like a wondale robinson kind of player joan jennings
okay uh joan jennings or travion henderson
so that's probably going to come down to format
Jennings is, listen, he still has the upside to be a top 20 wide receiver for sure.
I've got him projected for 12 fantasy points.
I would start him over Henderson and full PPR.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's move on here to Justin Fields.
You said you're starting him over Baker Mayfield.
Where is he in your rankings?
He is QB8.
Has the potential to be QB1, fantastic, fantastic matchup.
and he's healthy.
It's not like he's coming off of an ankle,
and we don't know how much he'll run.
I expect him to be Justin Fields.
And Tyree Kill and Darren Waller are expected to play.
Teteroa McMillan and Chuba Hubbard are expected to play.
Colson Loveland is not expected to play.
And here's a frustrating one.
Remandre Stevenson, according to Chad Graff,
who covers the Patriots for the Athletic,
well, according to Mike Grable,
he's just quoting Mike Brable,
not expected to see a reduction in playing time.
So I had Henderson in the lineup.
I'm going to have to talk it over with my co-manager,
but I'm at the moment planning to bench him for Zach Ertz in the PPR League.
So it's interesting because when you say not expected to be punished,
is that beyond how he was punished last week?
It said business as usual, what Chad Graf said.
I think he said business is useful for the Patriots running backs.
In the second half of that game last week,
I don't know that Romandre Stevenson touched the ball,
and Trayvion Henderson had like 11 touches.
No, the implication is he is going to get his regular role.
He is not going to be punished.
He was punished last week and week three, not this week, week four.
That was the report.
That's what Vrable said.
Well, yeah, I don't, I mean, listen, I don't think we know anything.
And I don't think that it has been predetermined at the beginning of this week
that one guy is going to get a certain number of touches because it's been pretty fluid
so far this year.
It was nine touches in week one for Ramandre.
It was 16 in week two.
and it was seven last week.
So I'm still starting Henderson over Stevenson.
Neither one of them are top 24 running backs in full PPR,
which is Henderson's best format.
He's RB 29.
Stevenson's RB 35 for me.
Okay, I'll just read the exact tweet.
Mike Vrable said Ramandre Stevenson won't be punished by cutting his playing time
for the two fumbles last week, business as usual at running back for the Patriots.
And people you can do with that.
Yeah, I just, and I wasn't trying to dispute that.
I just don't think based on what's happened through three games, business as usual tells us very much.
Yeah.
Well, it tells me that that's not a great role for Trayvion Henderson.
You know, that's that way.
But he also, Chad Graf also mentions that starting left guard, Jared Wilson is out and starting right guard.
Mike Owenu is questionable.
So the Patriots could be shorthanded on the offensive line against the one.
One thing that the Raiders keep doing well, defensively, they are a good run defense.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
They're playing the Bears.
Not the Raiders.
My apologies, they've already played the Raiders.
All right, let's take a break.
The Bears are playing the Raiders.
That must have been, yeah.
Yeah.
It's one of the properties of math that I use there.
Okay, so we're going to take a break.
I would have not have gotten that wrong at 8 a.m.
I'll tell you that.
7.45 a.m. start?
Yeah, I don't know the matchups.
We'll be right back with a few more news items and your questions after this.
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All right, some ones that probably don't matter to you.
Noah Fant is out, and Marvin Mims is questionable, and Evan Ingram will play.
They've got Cincinnati.
It's Monday night, so we won't maybe not even know if Marvin Mims is going to play,
but any interest in Troy Franklin this week?
I really don't want to,
and I just want to clarify the Patriots are playing the Panthers,
which is a great thing.
Right, yes, they are.
And they're expected to play Chuba Hubbard and Tetero McMillan,
who I mentioned earlier.
Yeah.
Anyway, Franklin.
No, thank you.
And Isaiah likely expected to play
to this downgrade Mark Andrews for you?
Yeah, he's, I mean,
Mark Andrews was not someone you could really rank,
based on a projection, at least not very high anyway,
when he had three points in the first two weeks of the season,
this makes me even more skeptical of trusting the one good week.
Two more things here.
Xavier Worthy expected to play.
Worthier, Godwin?
I'm going to go Worthy.
I think the difference between the two is I could see a massive game for Xavier Worthy.
I don't really see the huge upside for Chris Godwin.
And so Worthy is like our wide receiver 37.
Godwin is just
try to sit him for me.
Worthier Jennings.
I'm going to go Jennings.
Chorri Kroski Merritt is questionable.
Are you ranking him?
Yes, he has expected to play.
Again, what's his number of touches going to be?
I don't think it's reliable.
He's RB 33 for me,
one spot ahead of Isaiah Pacheco.
Adam needs some coffee ice cream this morning.
I can't believe you had such a bad take about that.
that.
I shouldn't be surprised.
No, you should be.
I mean, I'm surprised that you're in on coffee ice cream.
I mean, why would anybody ruin ice cream by making it taste like coffee?
It just doesn't make any sense to me.
You saw the results.
I am in the majority.
What was the, what results?
My Twitter.
Yes.
All right.
I'm going to take a look at that.
But let's read up.
56% like or love it.
20% don't care and 20% don't like it.
I wish I didn't have to bring that up.
All right.
Tony Pollard or Brian Thomas Jr. in Flex.
Oh, I will go with Brian Thomas Jr. as long as it's full PPR.
Scataboo.
Henderson, Golden, start two.
I'm going to start the two running backs.
I agree with Jamie's call that this could be the breakout game for Matthew Golden.
It's just hard to project that.
Right.
But, I mean, I feel a little more confident in a Golden breakout than a Henderson breakout.
Golden played about 75% of the snaps last week.
He's got, you know, a great matchup.
So, right, right.
If you compare Henderson and Golden, who's more set up?
You think Henderson is still more set up for that?
Well, they both, they both have a great matchup.
Henderson has maybe the best matchup for them.
I don't know who Henderson's playing, so.
Yeah, he's playing the Panthers.
and I think we're totally guessing on the number of touches for the Patriots running backs.
Like even week one, Trayvion Henderson had six targets.
If you're telling me, Trayvion is going to have six targets.
That's a great spot for a breakout.
It might be more than Matthew Golden.
Six targets.
That'd be, yeah, that'd be nice.
The only thing that should taste like coffee is coffee.
I agree with that.
But this one says coffee ice cream is so good.
PPR, pick two, Keenan Allen, Ricky Pearsall, Debo, Samuel.
I'll go Pearsall and Depot.
By the way, on that last question, you have Judkins.
I'm sorry, you have Scataboo head of Travion.
Oh, yes.
Scatabu is a top 24-ish, 20-ish running back?
Okay.
Judkins or Jordan Mason, PPR?
Jordan Mason.
Joanne Jennings or Jalen Waddle or Kroski Merritt.
It's tough because with Darren Waller there, obviously playing the John News Smith role,
we could see Jalen Waddles.
targets impacted i would start jennings but just barely just wait you just wait henderson or
jalen warren uh i'm jalen warren uh half ppr bryan thomas junior or david montgomery
ooh half ppr is a good one and montgomery's role in the passing game has been a bit of a
mystery really good a couple of weeks i've got him at 10.4 i've got brian thomas at better than that
i'm starting thomas all right last one jameson williamson williams
Williams, Xavier Worthy, or baseball today.
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Yeah, I have no idea who B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-W is.
I would start Worthy over James.
All right, enjoy B-B-B-B-B-B-B.
We'll see you in 29 minutes for our live-stream, folks.
I'll be up by then.
Talk to you then.
See ya.
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