Fantasy Football Today - Trade Targets, Worryometer, MIA-BUF Preview (09/17 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

Who are our biggest risers (3:45) and fallers (10:30) since the season started? We're buying Zay Flowers and Deebo Samuel but we're legitimately concerned about David Njoku among others. How do we feel about Javonte Williams? What should you try to get in trade for Williams? Also, what the heck do we make of the struggles of the rookie running backs (14:05)? ... News and notes (26:40) and then a lot of Buy Low (30:00) and Sell High (43:10) candidates. Now is the time to buy Terry McLaurin and AJ Brown. You should consider selling David Montgomery and Ken Walker, plus we have so many more names for you ... Previewing Dolphins-Bills (53:25)! Are Jaylen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, Keon Coleman and Khalil Shakir worth starting this week? And we finish with the Worryometer (1:04:30) ... Email us at [e-mail] 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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Volvo.com. This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races and he stays at his feet. It's just going to go the

distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Yeah, what's up? It is Worryometer Wednesday. Oh no. A horrible thing. We'll see who the fantasy community is worried about. Rookie Running Back, this show is sponsored by Rookie Running Backs.

This show is also brought to you by BetMGM, the sports book Born in Vegas. Welcome everybody to Fantasy Football today. Yeah, if you go on X, Twitter, or Twix, as we started calling it, a lot of, I'm seeing fantasy analysts going, hey, rookie running backs are still going to be great. And everyone else being like, why did you tell me to draft rookie running backs? that's obviously something we'll talk about because we didn't even get to talk about Gentie and Hampton from the Monday night games. Good morning, Jamie. What's that?

Neither did the commentators. They didn't talk about them? They didn't do very much. Oh, the guy, yeah. Well, I hope Chris Fowler's had a nice day or two in bed to rest. He's really gutting it out on Monday night. That's Jamie. Hey, Dave.

What's up, dude? Heath. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So we're going to get our biggest risers and fallers, and we're going to get your trade targets, and we're going to preview Thursday night football dolphins at Bills.

Is this the time to get rid of your dolphins before it's too late? Who do you guys think the most traded player is in CBS Sports Leagues? Rushie Rice. Javante Williams. Mecca Buka. One of you was right. Raise your hand if you think you were right. Dave was right.

It's Javante Williams. followed by AJ Brown and then number three Isaiah Pacheco if I had just been asleep for two weeks I've been like oh he's having that good

of a year people are selling him for Ashton Genty all right anyway who are some guys that have risen the most for you that you're just kind of buying

since preseason Heath go I will say Zay Flowers he followed up his excellent week one with an 11 target game in week two has a 42% target share

which is second in the NFL right now has is averaging 4.27 yards per route run, which is absolutely insane, a hundredth of a yard behind JSN, who's also a big riser, but we had him ranked higher in the preseason. And I think there's still, first off, you shouldn't expect him to do this all year because no one ever has. And we'll find out a little bit more when Isaiah likely is 100%. We see what the target distribution is like then. But he's a former first round pick. who's in year three of his career, who looks like he's having a breakout.

I don't want to be too skeptical, though, with guys like this, because we always thought he was talented. It was just the situation, the low pass volume, and the amount of targets that went to the tight ends kind of held him back.

That doesn't seem to be the case right now. All right, that's Zay Flowers, big riser for Heath. Dave, who's a big riser for you? Javante Williams. It's obvious.

We've seen it now two games. There was a reason why the Cowboys went with him as their main running back. And though he's, I don't know how his efficiency metrics are, but the workload is unbelievable, clearly working in short yardage situations and being successful with it. And I get why people want to get away from him because it's Javante Williams. There's all kinds of downside kind of baked in based on what we've known about him since he's come into the NFL. Back-to-back weeks with 20 pvr points is pretty good. I think the receiving traits and certainly the receiving numbers in games where the Cowboys are going to be trailing,

which, you know, I don't know how many of those games. I don't think it's going to be every week, but I think it's going to be a bunch of games where the Cowboys are going to be at least competitive because their defense isn't great. I think you're going to see good numbers continue from Giovante Williams. So you've got no choice, but to view him as a nice number two fantasy running back moving forward. With that said, he is our most traded player,

and you did put him in the notes as a sell high. So, Javante Williams. It's because if you, and it's because how many more weeks is he going to deliver 20 plus PPR points? And if you use that to try and turn him into something really good, why wouldn't you do that? Yeah. No, I get it. I'm definitely struggling with this because I have him in four or five weeks, and I just feel like I'd be an idiot if I didn't try to sell him.

But at the same time— I ran a Twitter poll this morning, and I should have sent it to you. Javante Williams will be a top blank running back rest of season. 76% said top 20. that seems about right but I wouldn't say top 15 and I'd be ner I don't know I'd be a little nervous

only 10% said top 10 but which I think he's what is he number two or three right now is James Cook 1 Christian McCaffrey 2 Javante Williams 3 Bison Robinson 4 Devani H&5

Awesome He has a good schedule though You know what's Giovante and I know I wanted to like be quick on this but he's so interesting and he's the most traded player so you get chicago this week they've had a terrible run defense he gets green bay in week four that's that's bad uh jets panthers commanders are we shying away from any of these matchups you know maybe you could say the cowboys won't have to throw so much in these games necessarily so he won't have the catches but i it's not

if he had a really bad schedule i guess i'd be nervous but jamie you haven't chimed in how do you feel about Javonte? I think it's been fun. You know, it's been fun to see him, you know, take advantage of this opportunity. You know, we, we were saying that Daniel Jones is the new Sam Darnold, Jvante Williams, is the new J.K. Dobbins, you know, a guy that gets a great opportunity that had the talent to be successful and injuries were a problem. And here he is healthy and taking advantage of this opportunity. So, you know, I think it's obvious, as you guys alluded to, you know, you try to sell them if you can, but you clearly have to make sure you're getting something spectacular in return at this point because he's playing at a very high level.

And maybe he's just a much better version of Rico Dattle who closed last year at a very high note as well. Would you turn him into Chase Brown, if he could? In a heartbeat. Agreed. What about Rushy Rice? I think that comes down to need. You know, I mean, if you're talking about a flex at this point, I'd probably rather have rice. But, you know, there's so many people that need running backs.

I can't, I can't think of a situation where if you're dangling Giovante Williams in terms of, that it's not going to bring you back something good and return at this point. Rico Dowdell in weeks 12 through 18 when he finally got the work was RB 18 per game in full PPR. That was with only 32 catches and only five touchdowns.

Sorry, on pace for only 32 catches and on pace for only five touchdowns. Javante's already scored, what, three this year. And also the difference is Dowdell average 4.7 yards per carry, 4.8 yards per carry in that strength. where we don't think Javante is going to do that. All right, but R.B18 maybe is where you kind of look at.

Heath, last thing, would you trade Javante for Genty or Hampton or any other rookie running backs? I would happily trade him for Genty. I think that might be. The only other thing I will say is, like, I thought week one was, the fantasy production was not entirely fraudulent, but at least fraudulent adjacent. Week two was the Giants. Like, I'm still pretty undecided on Javante. And Dak currently, we all think he's playing really well,

has a 2.3% touchdown rate. Like, he's probably going to double that maybe more. So the rushing touchdowns for the Cowboys are not going to be like this. Okay. All right. He, Jamie, who's a big riser for you? Devo Samuel.

Give him some credit, you know, for what the situation has unfolded. You know, we'll see what happens with Jane Daniels in this knee injury, but, I mean, he's clearly been the go-to guy in this receiving core and taking advantage of Terry McLaren's absence in training camp and developing that rapport with Daniels and developing that, you know, I think the reliability that Cliff Kingsbury was looking for, and it's been fun to watch. You know, hopefully he stays healthy and, you know, hopefully Daniel stays healthy. At some point, McLaurin's going to have, I think, the production that, you know, he's capable of doing. But right now it's been a pretty big disconnect between Daniels and McLaurin and a pretty solid connection between him and Debo. Okay, biggest fallers. Heath will start with you.

He's the biggest follower for you. It's got to be David Nijoku. Harold Fanon's role completely unexpected, week one. And so far, Fanon has outproduced Njoku in two games. I thought Nizoku had a chance to be a top five tied end this year. I thought he was the best value amongst the tight ends going between round three and round 10 and that does not look to be true at all and the bad thing is so far for the browns targets two fanning have been better plays than targets to nojoku so it's hard

to really imagine that swinging back in his favor I'm not all the way out on him yet but he's definitely definitely a big fuller okay Dave follower for you I originally was going to go with Calvin Ridley. There's 33 wide receivers who have had at least 14 targets so far this season, and Ridley is averaging under eight PPR points per game. But then I look just like a couple of spots higher, and Brian Thomas Jr. is in, he's got 19 targets and he's averaging less than nine PPR points per game. And the week two film was bad for him, man, just the fact that he's not going all out to snare every pass and every target that he gets from, from Trevor Lawrence. His only big play has really been on a run.

I'm wondering if this injury that's going on with his wrist, there's more to it than that. And I'm definitely worried about him not meeting expectations this year. Okay. Zay Flowers or Brian Thomas, Jr. I still have Thomas and I love flowers. I would take Thomas, though. I would take Thomas.

as well, but the gap is narrowing. Jackson Smith and Jigba or Brian Thomas Jr. J.S.N. JASN. I think I have them back to back. You want to hear a stat on Jackson Smith and Jigba? Is it that he's got the highest target share? Well, we have three wide receivers.

Obviously through two weeks, stats are wonky, right? We have three wide receivers with a target share of 40% or higher. That has not happened. And I just looked at weeks one and two, hasn't happened since 2017 or 18 maybe. I think Julio Jones. So that would be Jackson, Smith, and Jigba's, Garrett Wilson, and Zay Flowers, I believe, are the three wide receivers with the four. So, JSN, I talked about this on somebody on the box score, he's not running a lot of routes. He's not playing a lot of snaps for, for a, you know, an elite wide receiver.

57 wide receivers so far have 10 or more targets. 57. Here are where JSN, Cooper Cup, and Zay Flowers rank in Routes Run. They are 52nd, 53rd, and 54th.

So just in other words, it's, you know, it's a very high target, unsustainably high target share, unsustainably high target per out run rate. And for whatever reason,

the Seahawks have not been playing their wide receivers, the typical snapshot. I don't even think he played 70% of this. He played around 70% of the snaps, I think. I think Cups played more snaps

than him, right? It did in week two, I think, very slightly. I think if you look at this past week when Cup was actually involved because he was not, he was a ghost in week one, JSA had a 30% target share. That's probably more reasonable for what you should expect. Okay. Well, that would be great. All right. Oh, Jamie, who's a follower for you?

Every rookie running back. I'll just take the low-hanging fruit. But you did have them as your by-lose. So you want to talk about that? I mean, there's still so much upside for them. So, you know, at this point, you can get them hopefully as cheap as it will be because things will start to get better. But the timeshares that we were concerned about are playing themselves out in every case except for Gentie. And Gentie is just struggling right now behind a bad offensive line, bad game script and bad, play calling and bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

But, you know, I worry about the, we won't call it a fumble, the handoff exchange that was credited to Justin Herbert at the end of the game being a problem for Omerian Hampton going into week three. I wonder if J.K. Dobbin is just picking up from last year and being productive for the Broncos is going to continue to be a problem for R.J. Harvey. And now Ramandre Stevenson looking as good as he did in week two, is that going to continue to be a problem for Trevion Henderson? You know, I don't think anybody would have said through week two that the best rookie running backs would be Dylan Sampson, Bachel Tootin, Cam Scataboo, and that might be missing somebody, but I mean, that, that's where we are.

Chacoree-Crossimara looking good now to have been in a good spot. Not that he's been so good. It was good week one. Yeah, I, this is the topic of the day. Go ahead. I was looking at the snapshares for the rookies. Like that's probably the most discouraging thing for me is almost all of the high-end rookies saw their snap share go down after week one. And even Hampton, Jamie, like, we don't worry about the committee with him there as much. But what we saw was when they're chasing the score, he's not their running back that's

on the two-minute drill. He's not the running back that's on the field. And so that is concerning. But what I saw Hampton had an 80% snap share in week one. fell to 62% last week. Naji was 18% in week 1, 34% last week. Would anybody be surprised if Naji plays more snaps than Hampton this week after the way that you ended? No, but I would imagine that it would be a temporary thing.

Not something that would last a great game. They're leading to Russia right now is Herbert. Like, they can't run the ball. you know look i i don't know um i don't know how many people listen to be on the box corner listening now so i'm sorry for repeating a lot of stats but again round two running hampton's different he's getting the work genties getting the work hampton really didn't get the work last week a lot of that was late but the round two running backs they usually take a few weeks for them to get worked in this is not unusual i thought i think we all thought it would be

a little bit better for this group but um breese hall took four weeks we're before they finally gave him big work. Joe Mixen, I think it took three weeks. It does happen. It doesn't always happen, though. I mean, sometimes you're waiting and waiting, and it doesn't always get there. I feel like the one that I just don't really see right now

is R.J. Harvey as a by-low. You know, I hope I'm wrong because we were all really high on him. I kept saying it, like, his ADP is not moving. We don't understand it. You know, he's our guy, whatever. But they're using Biday. obviously Dobbins has been good. So this one, I think you might have to really be patient for.

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All right, so let's do this as we talk about the rookie running backs. Because listen, they're still really talented players. And if things break right, this could be that, you know, you could be kicking yourself. I can't believe I didn't still. I didn't buy low on these guys, right? So let's go through them and you tell me how you feel about them just going forward. Ashton Genty.

Yeah, I expect things. From a top 10 running back to a top 15 running back for me, rest of season, with the hope that he can still become that guy. Because he's the one that the workload you don't have to worry about. and if they just get their head on right and start to feed him a little bit more, you could see the path to success. Not only could you call him a top 15 fantasy running back at the moment, but he's top 15 among running backs and touches through the early part of this year,

clearly leads all the rookie running backs. There are still things that he's doing that are exciting and have translated from his days at Boise State. I don't think his biggest issue is definitely the offensive. blind followed by the play calling, and just the offense in general in Las Vegas. There isn't, it's not like Zemir White is taking away a huge chunk of work that makes us nervous. He doesn't have the same problems that a lot of these, literally almost every other running back in his rookie class has. So I feel good about him coming through, and he's a terrific by-low candidate. I'll still take Gentie top 12 rest of season, but I will say his snap share

was lower than Morian Hamptons on Monday night. Was that because they were trailing, perhaps? Right, but they're the Raiders. Hmm. That's true. They had a 10-11 minute drive that they got a field ball out of in a game where they were trailing 26. Yeah. Gino was really bad on Monday. He just had an off night.

Amari and Hampton. How do we feel about him? I don't know if that's an off night. I do. I mean, he was missing guys. He was the first, the interception, like right out of the gage just didn't see the safety. I don't know. I mean, look, he's not a great player.

18, I'm sorry to interrupt. Vegas had 18 third downs and Samir White played on 11 of them. And I think that definitely had a hand in Gentie. How many Dylan Lalby play on? He was just overall on 17% for Labby. Okay, moving on, moving on. Amari and Hampton, how are we feeling about him? I mean, clearly more concerned this week than last week.

You know, last week was okay, they played the Chiefs. Chiefs have a good run defense. Naji will see how much he gets worked in. And then you see, as Heath alluded to, the playing time shift, which I think you had to expect, you know, a better chance of Najee getting work because he was getting healthier and they had, you know, almost not the true mini by week, but essentially the true mini by week because they put on Friday. And so then the game unfolds and Najee, not that he ran dramatically better than Hampton,

but he ran better than him and then the fumble at the end of the game. So this is not the scenario that you wanted to see. When you have these type of play, especially Najee never fumbles, you know, so. that's gonna i'm sure you know stand in the mind of of our ball and again if you want to put it on hampton it's not credited to him i mean max prosby is literally in his face the moment that the the ball is on him but it's just such a tough spot to put the ball on the ground there that you know coaches like that are not going to be very forgiving so you wonder if what did you say was 60 30 65 35 essentially if now that's you know 60 40 or 55 45 you know we're starting to see a more 50 50

split headed our way. How do you feel about him? Like he's an RBA? Oh, I'd still be buying. I mean, I still buy the talent, but they can't, they can't run the ball. You know, I mean, it's just, it's a very strange thing to see a Greg Roman offense struggling to run the ball like this. And, you know, I mean, it goes hand in hand.

Herbert's playing great on top of it. But, you know, when they need to run the ball, they're just not getting it done. And so that's, I think, almost as concerning as the scenario. Yeah, people who are really, just looking at the chat, I mean, people are seriously down on Amari. And hey, on the rookie running backs general. How do we feel about Quinn John Judkins? Ascending.

Yeah, I don't think he belongs in this conversation yet. I'm just going through all the rookie running backs in order, the relevant ones, the way they were drafted. Yeah, he nailed it. Like, there's an arrow pointing up for him because he's finally playing. Now, if we get the suspension that you alluded to, I believe, on Tuesday, then we have a big problem because you know you're you're you're you're stunting any progress that he may have made and forcing him to miss time but at this point like if somebody's getting rid of him you know some sort of trade package that needs receiver help or quarterback help or whatever like

you should be trying to acquire and i'll go back to april when matt waldman was on ffti dynasty and he had judkins rated as the best runner other than ashton ginty in the class and he had one and a half NFL practices and he wasn't great, especially early when the starters are in, but he looked like a good NFL running back. I think he's a flex and PPR and has a chance to be a number two running back in non-PPR. And I'm going to do one more rookie running back thing from the chat because somebody asked Hampton or Tricori Kroski Merritt, and that's still definitely Hampton for me rest of season. But I would start Kroski Merritt over from this week. Yeah. And I would say one thing just about Judkins

to buy him you might be able to get him cheaper next week because if he struggles against the Packers which is probably going to happen you might get a frustrated manager that's willing to really get rid of him. All right, I'm just going to end with, would you rather have Judkins or Corey Kroski Merritt?

Crossky Merritt right now. I'd rather start Krosky Merritt. I think I'd rather have Judkins' rest of season. They're dead even on the trade chart and full PPR. Bill one spot ahead of Judkins and not. And Henderson's still ahead of both? Henderson is behind them both in non-PPR and ahead of them both in full PPR.

And what about Harvey? Behind. He's, he might be like RB8. He's, RB9 in the class. In the class, wow. But he's there with Tootin right now, Scatabo's on his tail. He's behind that group of Bill, Judkins, and Henderson. So the big takeaway, do you agree with that, Jamie?

The big takeaway would be that RJ. Harvey of these of the rookie running backs that we that I was going through like the way they were drafted in the NFL draft but of the rookie running backs that we were drafting in the first five or six rounds Harvey is is raising the most red flags without a doubt of course you know it's mostly just because Dobbins yeah I think if he gets a chance to play then he's going to be still a very solid fancy option I don't think any of us saw a bidet coming right that's true and that's an unsettling feeling feeling when that happens.

Dan said he wants one. It was really gross. I really wanted a bidet. I was like, oh, God, I have to think about it. Yeah. All right. So we'll go to some bylaws and so high as we've got to do the news and notes.

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The Vikings are expected to re-sign Cam Acres. The next two weeks are favorable. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh's been terrible against the run. Maybe they get a little healthier by then. Then after that, it's a really bad schedule. Cleveland, arguably the best run defense in football right now. I think you'd have to say this held Derek Henry to two fantasy points, then a buy. Then the Eagles, probably a bad matchup.

Remember, they didn't have Jalen Carter in week one. The Chargers have been a tough matchup. Then the Lions, then the Ravens. So right now, would you rather have Jordan Mason or Omari and Hampton? And I don't mean just for the next four weeks. I mean rest of season. Rest of season, Hampton. Hampton.

Yeah. Okay. I've got Minnesota charted with the second worst running back schedule rest of season. Wow. You're right. Obviously, the next two weeks are good, and they end the year. Defense has changed so much between now and week 15 through 17, but as of now, it looks good. But in between those weeks, yikes.

Let's see what happens when Darisaw's back, what they look like. Also, like there's, I think, 17. right now that are giving up less than 3.5 yards per carry on rush attempts, that's not going to continue. No, but I think Cleveland's proven themselves so far because they were really good last year. They're off to a great start this year. Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, those are kind of the teams that we expect to be good. But you're right.

It's extremely unpredictable. And those teams, those three teams are not part of that seven. Chargers, by the way, and the projected schedule rest of season is top five. Oh, okay. When does someone's asking in the chat? When does Christian Darrasaw return? It's possible this week. We're going to call him questionable for this week,

hopefully next week at the latest for Christian Darrasaw. Joanne Jennings' day-to-day with an ankle injury. Darren Waller likely out this week, but at least he was able to be limited in practice. Jalen Wright could play this week for the Dolphins. Jalen Waddle was limited with a shoulder injury. We have no reason to think Waddle won't play. They got the Thursday game.

Buffalo defensive tackle Ed Oliver and linebacker Matt Milano. practice, so they're not looking good for Thursday. Christian Kirk, baby. It is revenge game week for Christian Kirk at Jacksonville. He is likely to play this week, so is Braxton Barrios. Tampa Bay, right tackle. Luke Geddke is going to miss several weeks, and defensive tackle,

Coliza Cancy is likely out for the season with a torn peck. Minnesota, I already mentioned this, left tackle, Minnesota, Christian Darrys, questionable. Pittsburgh defense is super beat up this week, probably going to be without their top cornerback, one of their best pass rushers. They're super beat up Pittsburgh, and they're facing New England on the road. And they've been terrible

against the run for two straight weeks. Yeah. And Cincinnati signed quarterbacks Mike White and Sean Clifford to their practice squad, and Brett Rippin is their backup. Okay, into the bylaws and the cell highs, I mean, we touched on a lot of these guys. Jamie's were, you know, some of the rookie running backs. Is there anything else

you like to say, or have we wrapped up on that? No, I think we're good. I do hope that we get, I guess the one we didn't mentioned. Treveon is, you know, talked about it in the trade chart, but I would hope that we get a situation where maybe chasing points like we had in week one, and he's more involved in the passing game. Okay. Heath's bylaws, Ladd-McConkie, Terry McLaurin, Chris Olave, Quinn-John Judkins, and then if you're 0-2, or no, if you're 2-0, you're targeting the O-N-2 team that has Rishi Rice. That's someone you can buy low for, but McConkey, no red zone,

No green zone, no end zone targets yet. Seven targets per game. Target per route run rate down a little bit. Keenan Allen has more targets. Quentin Johnson has the same amount of targets, so not too concerned. And people are really freaking out about Ladd-McConkie. He has a 23% target share. They've just kind of done away with targets to the tight ends.

And it's 60, 70% of their targets going to three wide receivers so far. if that changes, I don't think it's Ladd's target share that's going down. He's at 23% I have a 24% projected at the beginning of the season. I have basically zero concern about Ladd-McConkie. Yes, there's a little more competition than we expected, although I said before the year I thought Alan was getting seven targets

game. The pie is going to be bigger than we thought it was in terms of the passing game. It's eight and a half targets per game for Keenan Allen so far. it's seven for McConkey and it's seven for Quentin Johnson. Johnston and McConkey have the exact same target chair. I think this is kind of a byproduct of, is it a question, is it a byproduct of the Chargers not being able to run the ball or just the byproduct of the Chargers saying,

listen, we've got a great quarterback, we're going to use them, we're going to spread the ball around, or could it just be both of those things? I mean, I think it's probably a little bit of both, but I think the really interesting thing, I don't know if anybody said this, but Keenan Allen has more targets than Lab McConkey, and Quentin Johnston has the same number of targets as Lab McConkey. I heard that.

Yeah, yeah. But McConkey, okay, so he is averaging the seven targets per game. When he went off down the stretch, he was averaging like 7.5 targets per game. Right. So he's shown he can be, he was wide receiver 11 per game in that stretch last year, his last 10 games.

He's shown that he can be that good, but, you know, still we wanted to see. more targets per game. But, okay, Lab McConkey's by low. Terry McClorin, Chris Olave. I mean, McLaurin and Jamie was on this before the season. I think Dave probably was, too, that McClureen would get off to a slow start because of the holdout. That doesn't mean he's going to be bad all year. He had nine targets last week. Now we get the Jaden Daniels injuries. People might be even more scared of him. I think it's a really good opportunity, especially if you don't have to have a win this week to Baylo on McClorin, who I still think's

going to be a borderline-wide receipt to rest of season. Olave? I've been really encouraged by the way that they're distributing the football and the way that they're using him. He's moving around the formation more. He's working out of the slot more. And there are not this week, but there are some opportunities coming up for the Saints in the past game schedule where I think that they will have better production. They have in the next couple of months, the Giants, the Patriots, the Bears, the Panthers, a couple times. The dolphins, I think that it could be a much, Olave was almost my biggest riser

and he hasn't even done much to earn that yet. So with McLaurin and Olavee, would you give up Giovante Williams for either of them? You have to get more than that. You have to get more than that for Javante? I think you should. Okay. But I think there's a chance both those guys are better than him, but I think you should be able to get more than that right now. Yeah. I would not do for McLaren. I wouldn't do it for McConkey. Wait. You would give up Giovante for McConkey. You would not give up Giovante for McLaurin. Correct. Okay.

And then Quinshan Judkins, we discussed. And Rishie Rice, basically, I'll just ask you this. Do you expect Rishie Rice to be Rishie Rice when he gets back? I expect him to be a top 15 wide receiver from week seven on. Okay. And there you go. So obviously you have to wait four more weeks, but you should be, if you're in a position of strength, go find the 0-2 Rishi-Rice manager.

And what was the trade you just made? I traded Javante for Rishi-Rice. I was 2-0. He was 0-2. I have Ken Walker, Travis E.T.N. and Quintan-Jadkins on that team. So I felt like Javentay was a little bit expendable. You traded your best running back. That was the response from Twitter as I traded my best running back.

I feel like Xavier Worthy could have a big month. Because he's probably coming back this week, right? I mean, yeah, again, he's... I'm not sure if we're... Are we at probably coming back this week or are we at possibly coming back this week? I think we'll find out today. I think it's possibly.

All right. Today's a big day. Today's a big day for injuries. But Wednesday is it? Thursday's the big day for me. Well, I mean, if Jane Daniels does nothing, Justin Fields is still in the concussion protocol. Like, we got a lot of guys that are coming into the week with injuries.

If they don't do anything, it's going to be a little bit of panic. Okay. Dave, Bilo on Kyrie. William's Chase Brown, A.J. Brown, and Matthew Golden. Start with Kyron Williams. Kyron Williams is still dominating touches. He's got 19 in each of his first two games. He'll be due for touchdowns and big games along the way. The only thing that really worries me, I'm not as worried about Blake Horm as you guys might be. I do think the Rams have a tough schedule moving forward. And Stafford's been playing great. He's been throwing the ball really well. And of course, there's always the concern about what happens if Stafford misses time. What does that do to the run game? That all comes into play, but you can't argue with the workload that Kairn Williams has had so far. Javante or Kairn? I think I still have Kairn higher than Javante.

I do, too. Yeah, Chase Brown is next on your by-low list. So I said Chase Brown that I would take him, I think I said round four if we were drafting today. Do you value him higher than that, 12-team league? In that range, if not a little bit higher, the good is that he gets a lot of touches. He's still fast, but bad. the offensive line isn't good. I mentioned the Vikings had the second toughest schedule rest of season,

according to my projections, but the Bengals have the worst. So those things come into play, but he should get more targets as the season rolls along. Chase Brown. Okay. Would you rather have Zay Flowers or Chase Brown? Brown. Who's like a, okay, let me take a look at this most traded list here.

Would you trade Travis ETN? No way. You'd take ETN over Brown, right? Nope. You'd take Brown over ETN. Mm-hmm. Jamie Heath, Travis ETN, or Chase Brown? Hmm.

I'm still Chase Brown, but it's close now. Feels like such a trap. I think I would still take Chase Brown. I will say looking at the advanced stats, like things need to turn around for Chase Brown. it's not an unlucky like the yards before contact her down the yards after contact her down everything looks worse and he was one of the biggest surprises last year so yeah they're going to keep running him right into the into the guards like they just run up the middle with this

guy that shouldn't be doing that they did that with joe mixing all the time and and like that's why i like zach moss going into last year's like the bangles run the ball up the middle all the time. Moss is more suited. That was my theory. Moss is more suited for that than Chase Brown. And they tried. Just Moss wasn't good enough. Brown's not this great rusher. He needs, I feel like he needs Burrow. I am worried about him, but not, it's not like he's had, he has every single carry for the Bengals. So at least he's got that, right? He's got that job on lock. Yeah. That's what we're saying? For what it's worth, in the seven games Browning played in 2023, Mixon averaged over 18 PPR points for game.

Yes. And Chase Brown was a factor then, too. Like, Mixon was very good. Line was better then. All right. Uh, was definitely better than. A.J. Brown is a by low. All right. How are we feeling about A.J. Brown?

I thought he started to flash more quickness last week. And I think Philadelphia will throw at least a little more moving forward. And it's a cheap price tag for a guy who is drafted in the top 30 range. okay i agree i hope they don't have to change offensive coordinators again their offensive plan of attack has not been inspiring through two weeks but they're two and no right which is even scarier right for us okay so let's see i've got looking at this uh mecca abuka would you'd obviously you'd give him up for A.J. Brown, I assume. Yep.

In a heartbeat. How about Garrett Wilson or A.J. Brown. Brown. Brown. Brown. How about Vlad McConkey or A.J. Brown. Brown. Agreed. All right. Matthew Golden. Matthew Golden's a by-low for you, Dave. And this is a cheap one, obviously.

In some leagues, you might be able to get them off the waiver wire. But I love the speed. I love the deep targets that he had. last week. I would imagine that the Packers can use him a little bit more, or at least vary how they use him in their offense. And he's just someone who I think is still stashable. I know what the track record is of Packers' wide receivers and the spreading of targets around. I feel like it's going to be different with Golden because of where they drafted him, the capital invested, and what they saw from him leading up to the season. It hasn't quite translated. He made a couple of mistakes in week two that if he just, you know, went after,

remember that deep ball in the end zone and he's just kind of waiting for it. If he goes after it, that's a touchdown and everybody's going crazy over Matthew Golden. So I'm hoping that he takes some coaching points and he evolves and maybe we have to be patient with him the same way we have to be patient with some of these rookie running backs. But he's a receiver I would love to have on my bench right now. Fun fact, Matthew Golden, or Jaden Reed, is the most dropped wide receiver right now, Matthew Golden's fourth.

You know, I thought about drafting. He should be a throw-in in a trade, if anything. I thought about drafting Matthew, dropping Matthew Golden in a 10-team league for Joanne Jennings. And I said, you know, we could set a lineup right. I was like, I have a co-manager. We could set a lineup now without either of these guys. So I'm going to wait because I think that Golden's going to pay off eventually.

He could see the speed. He's so dynamic. Now, Christian Watson's on his way back maybe in the next month or so. Jaden Reed's not out for the year. But you could see that Golden has something that the other receivers on the team don't have. So I kind of felt like Jennings is a better short-term play. Golden's a better long-term play. That's how I played it.

All right, we're going to take a break. We'll get through the cell highs. We'll preview Monday night or Thursday night football. And we will get to the Worryometer after this on FFT. After all these years of brewing Coors Original, we've learned one undeniable truth. Any legacy is possible. You just have to start. Core's Original.

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and I just want you to kind of just give me a quick thought on it and how you view this player rest of season. Maybe if you want to say who you trade him for. Dave, go ahead. You can start with Giovante Williams, David Montgomery, Keenan Allen, your cell highs. Or maybe we'll go to Heath. Yeah, it looks like everyone.

I was just waiting for my phone to stop ringing in the house, and there goes one last time. It's a spam call. We don't even use it. I don't know why we have it. Who am I starting with? You want Javante? Yeah, but I wanted a real quick analysis.

Just tell me how you value them rest of season. Yeah, I just, I don't think he's going to remain 20 plus PPR points good the rest of the way. But if you value him around the range of 13, 14 PPR points per game, I think he can do that. So if you can get a player in return who's underwhelmed the first two weeks of the season, Gentie makes a ton of sense. Hampton is much closer.

Those are two guys. Chase Brown would be a third one. We've already talked about this already. Yeah. Like you don't give them away for nothing. All right, David Montgomery. This, I feel like every time he has a big game, you should try and sell high on David Montgomery. He's had 61 total yards on 12 total touches.

That was last week. Detroit scored 52 points in the game. Usually when Detroit has big games like this, Montgomery is more involved. I don't think he'll be as consistent as he was in the past. It doesn't have the same sort of snap share as he had. It's a tough schedule, rest of season as well. And he's got, yeah, right coming up, Baltimore, Cleveland with the next two schedule, the next two games for Montgomery could be tough.

Keenan Allen, 81% rostered as of Sunday. He might be up from that now, but Keenan Allen's a sell high for you. And you're not going to get a ton for him, 17 PPR points per game at least. He's worth more than a throw-in on a trade, but if you can turn him into something better, Keenan Allen and something else to get A.J. Brown, that would make all the sense. in the world to me. I was offered Keenan Allen, essentially straight up for Trayvion Henderson. I turned that down. You're keeping Henderson. Okay. Keeping Henderson. Heath, your sell highs are Daniel Jones. We'll go one by one. Daniel Jones, go.

Yeah, I will come around to believing in this more if it gets through the next two weeks, or really even this first outdoor game at Tennessee who's been a pretty good past defense so far. I just, Derek Carr was the number two quarterback a year ago at this time, averaging 11 yards per attempt. It's been encouraging for Jones. Any thought that he was going to lose his job, Anthony Richardson has gone, but I don't think he's going to be someone

you really want to start in a one quarterback league. Tucker Kraft. This is an interesting one. And the next one's like it, too. It's a Nekabuka. This is only sell really, really high. But what they've done, especially what Kraft did last week on seven targets,

is not what you should. should expect, where Evan talks about Kraft being the number three tied in, and maybe he will be, but I don't think it's going to be number three like he's close to Brock Bowers or Tray McBride. It's going to be number three like he's 11.8 ppr fantasy points per game and tied in six is 11.4. And so I would like to see what does it cost for me to upgrade from Tucker Kraft to Brock Bowers or Tray McBride? I mean, I think another thing maybe you could do is if you have If you have Tucker Kraft and Tyler Warren, obviously, or maybe Harold Fannin or Joanne Johnson, just like a guy you feel like you could be okay at tight end.

Obviously, you could be better than okay if you have Warren. Maybe you just try to trade Tucker Craft for A.J. Brown or something like that. For a start or somewhere else, I don't think of a good A.J. Brown, but I'd love to. I mean, I obviously, a lot of people would be like, no way I'm giving you A.J. Brown for Tucker craft. But when I look at the chat here, I see the venom being spewed about all these guys that are having bad starts. So try. I mean, just give it a shot.

You could turn almost all these guys, though, into Rice. If you're, they're own, too. Tucker Kraft might just be a really great player. So, like Heath said, you want to sell really high. I looked at over the last five years, 19 tight ends have averaged 13 or more PPR fantasy points per game. 15 of them have had a target per out run rate of 23% or high. tire. Tucker Kraft is right around there. He's being targeted in consecutive games in ways that

we kind of have not seen before in terms of target per route run rate. So I want to see if you can do it for a third straight game, but I had the same thought about Tucker Craft. And you said the same thing about Abuka. You got to get something really, really good. James Connor is a sell high for you. Go ahead, Heath. Yeah, I thought, and they told us in training camp, and there's been a lot of things we were told in training camp that have not held true. But they told us they were going to play Trey Benson more. And they're playing Trey Benson more. And Trey Benson looks, if not better, at least worthy of having a larger share of the touches than he has in the past. We knew coming into the year, Connor has the age concerns. Connor has the injury concerns.

Now he has the Trey Benson concerns. And I think if anybody's still looking at him as a must start running back, I would like to capitalize on that. If you can't, because I have Connor in one league, if you can't sell Connor, I think I'm going to try to buy Benson and lock up that backfield. I'm not going to give up too much, but to see what I can do. No, I like buying Benson. Jamie, Ken Walker and J.K. Dobbins are so highs. I mean, Dobbins is obvious.

You know, there's the injury concern that has just unfortunately plagued him basically his entire career. So last year, things were going great, missed four games, came back and still ran well. But that was with, you know, a slug on his team. And if he loses any participation, game time, game reps, whatever the case may be, maybe there's an opportunity for RJ Harvard to run away with it. So while he's not Giovante Williams, he's off to a good start and an unexpected start. So if you can turn him into something better long term, I would look to do that. And in the case of Walker, I mean, he said as much, I think it was coming off of Sunday or Monday,

he's okay being in a time share if it's going to preserve his health. I don't want to hear that. I want you to go out and say, I want to dominate when I'm in a contract here. So, you know, he was clearly better than Charbonnet in week two. We'll see what happens in week three. There's a big opportunity for him against Seattle,

excuse me, against New Orleans in that defense. So if he has another big game, knowing that this guy missed so much time last year, knowing that there's an injury track record in his past, and knowing that Charbonnet is still going to have a role, like if you could turn him to something, great. Why wouldn't you do it? By the way, as we get ready to talk about Thursday night football, last week I said I would try to trade Tyreek Hill for Cortland Sutton, and I did. I tried in a

league, and it was turned down. This week, I've been offered Cortland Sutton for my Tyreek Hill, and I don't know what I want to do. So let me, before we get into the Dolphins, do you feel like... Have you guys made any trade? I know he has, but Dave and Adam have any trades yet. I keep rejecting trades. We're getting rejected. I tried to trade. Joe Flacko to Schaefer for T. Higgins in our Super Flex League, and he, like, was pissed off by it. He tweeted about how bad of a trade offer it was. He traded Cooper Cup to our week three opponent for nothing.

I dropped Cooper Cup after week one in a 10-team league. In a 10-team league, you approved. Is this the same league where he didn't pick up John Jennings? Actually, yeah. But. So when you said you had a manager, he just didn't decide to name Heath? No, no, different league. Multiple leagues Adams and thought about picking up Joanne Jennings, but not.

There were 10 team leagues. I mean, a 12 team league is definitely should add them. But do you guys think we should be selling our dolphins, specifically Tyreek Hill? Yeah. I mean, this could get ugly. They lose this week. They're 0 and 3. They may be, you know, firing their coach.

I'm not selling H.N. No chance. Would you someone offered you Robinson for? for a chan would you do it oh yeah yeah i give yes okay so you are selling that's not selling that's upgrading everyone will upgrade if they if given the opportunity but a chan for keenan allen and chase brown is not i mean nobody's anywhere in the neighborhood a chan for mcalfrey who'd you rather have i'd say affray a chan for heath mcalfrey for dave would you say jami mcalfrey um i made two trade jay

yesterday in one 10-team Dynasty League where I was carrying too many quarterbacks. I traded Bo Nix and C.J. Strout for Joe Burrow. So I haven't known Joe Burrow forever. And then I trade. I was offered this trade. I have a trade McBride. And I picked up Harold Fanon. I was offered Basel Tootin for Fanon. So I made that trade. Who got Jake Browning in our super? Oh, that doesn't run until tomorrow. Oh, Dave and I made a trade. Dave's made a trade. What did you do? I traded Daniel Jones.

and a round four rookie pick for Cooper Cup and a round six rookie pick. I had Joe Burho with no backup. But you got Jake Browning too. I picked up Jake Browning as well. Would you have made the trade if you knew you were guaranteed to get Browning? I wanted to have options at quarterback so I don't fall into the same trap that I've fallen into now two of the last three years in this league. And my championship window is closing quickly. So now my championship hopes are clinging to Daniel Jones and Jake Browning.

baby, woo. Would you rather have Browning, Carson Wentz, and Cooper Cup, or Daniel Jones, Jake Browning, and no I'm glad I got something for Cooper Cup, not to mention a small pick upgrade. Okay. Dave, we have a game. By the way, in one Super Flex League, Jake Browning went for the full $1,000 budget for someone. Yeah, I had to overspend for him in ours. I spent like 22%, something like that.

In a 1QB. In a 1KP, yes. I got them for 75% in the Super Flex Flex League. I tried 9-81 of my $1,000, and I was just shy. And then I got Carson Wentz for $6.51. I got Marcus Marietta in our Dynasty, Bakeberger Dynasty Super Flex League for $26, $100 budget. And I was the only one who bid, though.

I got Marioata for nothing in a Super Flex League of analyst. I could have done that. too. I have Jaden Daniels, so he's a little more important to me. Okay. Dave, there's a game Thursday night. It's the Dolphins and the Bills. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. So, do we think the dolphins, obviously you're starting A-chan. Do we think the passing game can, can hit in this game? I'm starting Tyreek. He's a low-end wide-receiver 2, and Waddle is a low-end wide receiver 3.

Would you start Keenan Allen or Tyreek Hill? Tyreek. Keenan Allen or Jalen Waddle? Allen and full PPO, Allen and everything. I have Waddle ahead. Let me give you some stats here. How about a bad Tyreek Hill stat? So he's actually sixth.

yards per route run, which is great. I think this was among wide receivers with 10 or more targets. But Tyreek only has a 20.6% target share. 23.2% target per out run rate. 23.2% is not bad.

You can be a good wide receiver there. But when he was at his best, his 1700 yards seasons, his target per out run rate was 32% and 36.6%. His target share was over 30%. So right now his target share is 20.6%. six percent. It's because Tua is leading the NFL right now, and he led the NFL last year

in running back target rate. He's 10 percent higher this year than he was last year in running back target rate, so it probably won't be this dramatic. But that is what is happening there. But the good news on this is that the dolphins, and I think if you watch the tape, my opinion, they kind of look like the dolphins again. Tua has right now actually, believe it or not, a career high in time to throw in terms of how long it's taking him to get rid of the ball. It's still quick, but he's holding the ball a little bit longer.

He has a career high in deep ball percentage. Double is deep ball percentage of what it was last year. So I am seeing a competent looking offense, but I am seeing Tua making really bad throws. I don't know what the hell is going on with him. He is missing Tyreek Hill on some big plays. He is throwing ridiculous interceptions

where he's just not seeing guys. But I think I'm, I actually, you guys can disagree. I think I'm seeing a competent-looking Dolphins offense, believe it or not, if Tua can just make the throws that he needs to make. I think tomorrow night is a big, big night.

Because right now, the evidence we have is Gino, week one against the Patriots, Gino, week two against the Chargers. Tua, week one against the Colts. 2-0, Week 2 against the Patriots. Like, those two guys were productive and had good passing games playing the Patriots.

They were complete disasters in their other two games. Are the Patriots just one of the worst past defenses in the league? But against the Colts, had Tyree Kill open, chunk play, overthrew him, interception. Had Tyree Kill open, even chunkier play, threw it out of bounds.

He's not playing. well, but there are opportunities there in this offense because I think what I'm really trying to get at is the offensive line is actually holding up. Yes. And the bills are probably without Ed Oliver again and Matt Milano for what that's worth. But they still have a, you know, a feisty pass rush. The Dolphins do not have good history against the bills. Tyreek Hill has bad regular season history against the bills. Jalen Waddle has bad history against the bills. Tua, not great against the bills. So I don't know. How are you guys, you know, Jamie's not on the stream right now. I think, Jamie's back on the stream.

But Dave, I'll let you, like, what do you think the Dolphins offense does against Buffalo? I think they give them a fight. I don't think they're going to lay down and collapse. I don't think they'll win the game. But I think that they're going to build off of what they did last week and put some points up. So I'm okay starting Tyreekill.

I'm okay starting Jalen Waddle. And Tua is just not some of them excited to start. 2QB league, sure. And A chance a must. We'll see pretty quickly how much this team cares about Mike McDaniel I think Toa by the way

has scored more than 13.4 fantasy more than 16 fantasy points once in five games against Buffalo in his career Twice Twice Two games over 20 against them Hmm

Am I missing a game, a playoff game or something? No, two in the regular season Oh okay For all this talk I only did the ones with Tyreekill, sorry. Got you. Go ahead, Heath. For all this talk about the Dolphins history against the bills,

Devon A. Chan was absolutely amazing against them in both games last year. Had three touchdowns, 15 catches, close to 300 yards. And very good in both. I think he had three more touchdowns than his rookie season against them. Not quite as many yards or catches. All right. He's destroyed them. I'm sorry, and he's an easy one.

James Cook is RB1 right now, so we're going to start him. And Josh Allen is an easy start. So that brings us to the Bill's passing game. Dave, do you like anyone other than Josh Allen in the Bill's passing game? I think Keon Coleman's a good number three receiver. I like the matchup for him against the Dolphins secondary. I love the matchup. Do they throw more than 22 passes?

I think they will. So there have been seven games that Mike McDaniels coached the Dolphins against the Bills that includes the playoffs. Dolphins have hung around in five of the seven. It's been a one-score game. Only one has been a win, but they've kept it competitive. And I think the clear weakness in this Dolphins defense, I mean, it's literally everything but their pass rush at this point. So you can pick your poison between the run or the pass, but I think Keon Coleman will be

okay as a flex this week. So there's a two-week window here for Keon to reemer. is a good fantasy receiver again after last week, not having many chances against the Juts. I think this game has the biggest spread of the year so far, 11 and a half the last time I saw it. 12. Last year,

12 now. Last year, the Dolphins and Bills played a three-point game and Josh Allen threw 39 passes. The Bills beat them by 21 and Josh Allen through 19 passes. Yeah. I mean, I can give you some,

some Keon Coleman's you know Keon Coleman Kion Coleman or Wondale Robinson I would go Wondale Wondale Wondale I got my guy higher Keon Coleman or Joanne Jennings Jennings Jennings Jennings Jennings Kennings Keon Coleman or Omari and Hampton Who'd you say

Coleman Coleman I don't hate the matchup for Hampton. It's just a matter of how many carries he gets. Can he score? Denver? Yeah, well, I think it makes sense to go with Coleman. They both feel like very low-floory.

All right. I mean, I don't think he has a great matchup or anything. Maybe Denver's run. Denver's run defense, I guess, hasn't been that good. It was great as last year. No. I mean, they look good against Tony Pollard in week one. Tony Pollard, a key on Coleman.

Coleman Pollard This could be the week where Pollard actually does something with those 18 touches His line is in rough shape How about

Keon Coleman I'll do one more Or Rashid Shahid I think Sheet I've got Coleman And Wannels ahead of Coleman I assume

Yeah All right. What about Kincaid? What about Shakir Palmer? No, thanks. Kincaid, no. I mean, Shakir's not far off from Coleman. Coleman's got more upside. But again, you know, if Josh Allen's going to throw, these are the guys he's going to lean on. So it's a matter of how you anticipate the game going. Like Coleman's got the most touchdown potential. You know, Shakir's allergic to the end zone.

Kincaid is not proven yet that he's going to be a consistent. the touchdown producer just by scoring in week one. If they could do whatever they want to in this game, I mean, the dolphins are so bad. Bill's DST, starter set. I mean, I'll start. I think you should start them. Okay, dolphins have been bad.

A lot of sacks, turnovers, punt return for a touchdown. They're giving up the second most fantasy points to DSTs. Okay, we have a poll on YouTube. Do you still have a landline in your, your home. 88% said no. But I should have a landline in my, I'm just too lazy.

Why should you? Because if there's a power outage, you definitely should. Like with the hurricane, I remember, you know, growing up in South Florida. Right.

There's a hurricane. Yep. You need that landline if it knocks the power out. Your cell phone probably not going to get service and the battery could die. So that landline spend, splurge. You know what?

I'm going to bring this up as soon as I get off the air. Say my wife, we need a, she can probably hear me. We need a landline in here. All right. Let's do the worry. How many hurricanes do you get in suburban New York City? Not many, but we've had two earthquakes, three earthquakes, I think, actually, since I moved to Mount Kiscoe two years ago. There was one when I was there.

Oh, really? That's right. It's crazy, right? We had, what was it? Was it Irma, where we lost power for like seven or eight days? I don't we didn't lose cell service I don't right you get the cell service back but if you lose power it's hard to charge stuff yeah he used the car and yeah I mean we we kept the landline for that reason primarily plus like to cancel it we're saving like a few bucks a month also I don't know who am I gonna call if we have a working Dave he's got a landline who else you're gonna call all right it's worry off it also helps for radio spots like they always prefer a landline to cell phone. They never heard one.

I asked me that in about 10 years. What, the radio? Yes. They always ask me. That's crazy. Because they know you have one. Dave, they always prefer, maybe. They prefer landline to cell phone.

Some might say that they don't care. He's Dave landlide in like the Rolodex. All right. Worryometer Wednesday. Let's finish with this. Brian Thomas Jr. Worryometer, zero to 10, zero. I'm not worried at all.

10. Yikes. Five. Four. I'm definitely making some Brian Thomas Jr. By low offers He can't be this man. No one's going to accept them.

You're probably right. So people aren't as worried as they say they are then, I guess. Calvin Ridley from Dylan. Remember those 10 safe wide receivers in the first two rounds? Yeah. Yeah. Well, most of them are safe. AJ Brown, Nico Collins, Brian Thomas.

Justin Jefferson. I mean, it's been that. Justin Jefferson. Jesus, Nico. God, it's one inch away from scoring that other touchdown. Calvin Ridley, 0 to 10, the Wariometer. Six.

I was just going to say six. Five. I mean, we're getting past the brutal part of the season for him. Alejandro. Jerry Judy and... Zero on Alejandro. He's good.

Jerry Judy and Kairn Williams. Six on Judy. Three max on Kyron Williams. Yeah. Five on Judy, four on Kyron. 30 on Judy. 30? Yeah.

How's he going to do against Green Bay this week? Probably not well. When are they going to bench Joe Flacco? Probably in week five when they're eligible. You know what? That has been the theme of the preseason, and I said it a million times. The way Joe Flacco is playing right now, I'm not sure it's going to get a lot of. he isn't you're right he's not playing well but i think it's also that fanon is so involved and

tillman is tillman i tweeted yesterday tillman has outscored jerry judy in five of the last six game that they've played together excluding the game that tillman left with an injury but that's touchdowns though and i'm not but it's also targets their targets are almost identical and now fanon's in there and samson is in there and jerusalem four didn't he have five catches last week I don't know I mean I'm really regretful of all the Jerry Judy

I have but you guys are not there yet well I think we are I think it's you know just creeping

towards a bad spot not there yet uh worryometer on bow nix being last in PFF QB

passing grades which he is through two weeks zero we we just lost Joe Burrow we may lose Jane Daniels

we don't know with Justin Fields It's like you've got to be happy if you have Boenix this point. He's got the Chargers this week, though. It could be tough. Cleo Mac might not play. Yeah, they played the whole game without Khalil Mac. Did great, but you're right.

From Feasel. Better offensive line in Denver. Yes. I'm looking forward to this game, Denver at the Chargers. Tyrone Tracy. The two best teams in the AFC West. Winner probably wins the division. Tracy's seven.

Tracy's a big worry. Tracy's a nine. Dan has a theory that I don't agree with. He has a theory that Tracy got put in the doghouse for calling out the play calling after week one. I asked you about that on Sunday, right? Did you? I think so.

Maybe I was the one that had the theory, not Dan. No, Dan had said it on Beyond the Box score. I'm sorry, I don't remember that you saying that on Thursday, but wouldn't that have happened in the first half? Because he went in the doghouse in the second half. He just hasn't run that well, and he's playing on special teams, I guess. I just... I can't scatabit was just a better runner.

if he can stay healthy because all he wants to do is just like run over people. It's just like your guy. Who? Pacheco. He got big time Pacheco vibes. Okay.

All right. We're out of here. We've got starter sit for the AFC home games tomorrow and enjoy the rest of your Wednesday. We'll talk to you soon. New Commander's depth chart was just released. Would you like to know the order?

Yeah. Who do you think is one? Jane Daniels. Chris Rodriguez. Oh, oh, and running back? Yeah,

Jeremy McNichols. Jacori Kroski married is one. Oh, that's bad news. Two. Now the big one. Who's two? McNichols too.

Yeah, McNichols. I'll say, Christian. Okay. Oh, man. I hope all of you remember what I called Mick Nichols on the Sunday stream last year.

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