Fantasy Football Today - Waiver Wire and Monday Night Miracles! (10/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 12, 2021

What a game! So many Fantasy matchups were decided in overtime of the Colts-Ravens game and we'll share some Monday night miracles with you before getting into the Fantasy impact of Jon Gruden's exit ...(3:00) and the top waiver wire priorities (5:10). Devontae Booker, Darrel Williams or Kadarius Toney? And how much FAB should you spend (14:00)? ... News and notes (22:00) and the top players to add at each position. QBs (25:10) including Taylor Heinicke and Teddy Bridgewater, RBs (28:00) including Alex Collins and Brandon Bolden, WRs (33:40) including Rondale Moore and Amon-Ra St. Brown, TEs (36:05) including Hunter Henry and Dan Arnold plus DSTs (39:30), Kickers and IDP ... Recapping Colts-Ravens (43:30), the Dropometer (49:10) and more waiver wire adds at each position (52:00) ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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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Starting point is 00:00:59 BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Beck. So Devante Booker or Daryl Williams, or is it Kadarius Toney, or maybe Hunter Henry is available. Who is your number one waiver wire priority? You'll hear from Dave and Jamie. They'll tell you who they are prioritizing this week as we get into week six of the fantasy football season.
Starting point is 00:01:42 But you know what? Who cares? How about that game last night? Monday Night Miracles all over the place. Did you guys get one last night? Jerkface Dave, hello. Jerkface Dave, all right. You know I'm mad at you.
Starting point is 00:01:59 You know I'm mad at you for beating me by one point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait to talk about that that's going to be fun uh yeah i needed it i needed the help michael pitman thank you very much that was a nice touchdown sammy walk-in sorry you got hurt yeah it's so cheap yeah uh you you had a tough week adam sorry about that but uh i needed i was in a weird this is how you know you play in too many leagues in the fishbowl i, I needed like 25 points from Hollywood Brown in order to beat Mickey O'Connell.
Starting point is 00:02:29 And in the Kings Classic, I needed Marquise Brown to score under 16 points so I could beat Mike Clay for the second week in a row. And it didn't happen. But the point is that there was this big middle where I could lose both games. And that second touchdown really cemented it for me. I needed that miracle to at least get me the win in the fishbowl. First place in my division, baby. Kiss division.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Far and away. First place at four and one. I love it. Let's go. Jamie, how about you? Monday Night Miracle? Yeah, two. One against Heath.
Starting point is 00:03:00 I don't know if he had anybody left, but I had Lamar jackson and uh jonathan taylor and the 70 i think or 80 maybe 80 points they scored combined um 70 points i don't remember what it was uh was uh what helped me beat him and then i had uh we're in a 24 team office league that i was playing adam silverstein one of our producers, and he was up, I think, 144 to 99. It's tight end premium, full PPR for wide receivers. And I had Marquise Brown and Mark Andrews. So watching the score just slowly stalk him down,
Starting point is 00:03:38 track him down, was fun. How about Joshin from California? This is the best one I saw. He was down 130 points. And he had Jackson, Mark Andrews, and Jonathan Taylor. Some funky scoring in this league, I think, because he scored 261 points. He won by 14. Those three guys gave him 144 points.
Starting point is 00:03:57 It was that kind of night. It was a super awesome fantasy football night. We'll talk about the game later. The big news, John Gruden out as Raiders head coach. Ritz Passaccia is the interim head coach. Is there a fantasy impact to this, fellas? I don't think so yet. I mean, you know, we'll find out, you know, how Carr is going to respond. He's the one you got to keep an eye on the most because, you know, he was so linked to John Gruden and the way he's performed the latter part of last year and certainly the
Starting point is 00:04:25 beginning part of this year. You know, I don't know if they gave up on him in the game against the Bears. You know, you could probably point to a few things and say maybe they weren't, they weren't, you know, fully into it. And you heard some of the comments from the locker room, you know, a lot of unnamed players, you know, saying things that they're disappointed in their coach, clearly understandable. So we'll see. You see. I think they're probably happy he's gone under the circumstances of the things that he said, as disgusting as they were. So we'll find out. We'll find out how the players respond and what happens moving forward.
Starting point is 00:04:56 But I don't think from an on-field situation you're going to see much change. I can't imagine in the middle of the season that you're going to see a dramatic difference like this. Okay. We got a live stream tonight. If you want to join us 8 p.m. Eastern, go to youtube.com slash fantasy football today.
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Starting point is 00:05:33 Tuesday night, as I mentioned, Thursday at 2 o'clock, and Sunday morning at 11.30 a.m. Plus, the Sunday night show is on YouTube, anything we do, basically, youtube.com slash Fantasy Football Today. Okay, give me your top three waiver wire priorities. Jamie, you can start.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Oh, by the way, did you know that the number two player at a position, number two, is available in almost half our leagues? Who is it? Tony? No, he's not number two. Not yet. It's the Cowboys DST. Yeah, he's not number two. Not yet. Uh,
Starting point is 00:06:05 it's the Cowboys DST. Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't think of a way to frame that without giving it away, but, uh, Cowboys DST number two facing new England. So they're a priority this week.
Starting point is 00:06:16 They're Jamie's number one DST. But other than that, Jamie, who are we looking at? Um, Daryl Williams would be one for me. Tony would be two and Booker would be three uh if you need a running back I could certainly understand you want to take Booker over Tony but uh long term you know
Starting point is 00:06:30 I think Tony's got certainly a much you know higher ceiling and based on what we've seen and certainly what this Giants receiving core is looking like right now with Gallaudet missing at least one week if not longer so uh Williams was someone if you recall Adam I think you know you asked us this question who's the player you rostered the most or drafted the most Williams was that guy for me. Um, I, unfortunately if I had to drop him in a few leagues, you know, the, the, the more shallow 12 team leagues, just because of, of, you know, other, other roster moves, but I, I drafted him everywhere in, in the dynasty league when Heath was tanking, uh, I offered him a fourth round pick for Daryl Williams. We made that trade. Um, I have him in that 24 team league. You know,
Starting point is 00:07:04 he's somebody that in this scenario, I was looking forward to seeing what was going to happen. And now it's playing out. I didn't want it to be at the expense of Clyde over to there. I was just going to see if he was going to struggle at some point and they would make a switch. But he's somebody that I have in a lot of leagues. And I hope a lot of people able to pick them up because,
Starting point is 00:07:18 you know, starting running back to the chiefs can be a pretty good position. Dave, do you have the same priorities? I honestly believe that it depends on what you need and if you're really good at running back and you just want to add a playmaker that could you know like take your flex to the next level it's tony but for the most part yeah it's the same order where daryl williams has a chance here to be a a starter for your fantasy team for the next four weeks at least.
Starting point is 00:07:48 And he was already getting a lot of those high leverage touches that make running backs quality in fantasy football. He's playing near the goal line. He was playing on passing downs. And man, after Edwards-Elair got hurt, he played 76% of the snaps for the Chiefs. He was 4-4-4 on snaps inside of 10 yards. And he was 3-4 on third and fourth downs. So he's playing a lot in situations that you want your fantasy running back to play in. So
Starting point is 00:08:11 absolutely happy to get him first. But again, if I'm totally good at running back, Tony's going to be the guy. Tony's awesome. Now everybody's hurting in that passing game for New York, including Tony. There's talk that he's got an injury that might game for, for New York, including Tony. There's talk that he's got an injury that might be a little bit dicey. Big deal here for this week. Cause it might not even have Tony. I mean, it seems like he says he's going to be fine, but they seem to indicate everything is fine.
Starting point is 00:08:36 I'd be shocked. They absolutely need them. So even if he's not at a hundred percent, they've got to have them out there. They're running short on wide receivers. I mean, when did he tweak his ankle on the way back to the locker room after he threw the punch?
Starting point is 00:08:47 It was his punching ankle. But I think Shepard and Slayton have a good chance to come back. You know, they were not put on IR. They've already missed two games. That's true. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't pick up Kadarius, Tony.
Starting point is 00:09:01 But just throwing that out. And the bigger thing is Daniel Jones. How many games is he going to miss? A lot of moving parts here for the Giants. Now, who do you guys think is out longer, Clyde or Barkley? Clyde. Barkley, it sounds like Joe Judge said, you know, it sounds like they dodged a bullet, I think was the phrase he used.
Starting point is 00:09:19 I think the one report I saw was one to two weeks. You know, so he's a quick healer as we've seen you know is he going to rush back too soon that's the question you have to ask yourself in regards to Barkley if he's playing but I think he's going to get out there you know that we had this situation with him two years ago with the ankle injury and he came back after three weeks a high ankle sprain that seemed to be much worse and so he wasn't right until three weeks later so just keep that in mind again in starting him but for Booker you, you're looking at maybe a one- to two-week window, and the matchups aren't good.
Starting point is 00:09:47 So even if it's just a one- to two-week situation for both guys, Darrell Williams versus Devontae Booker, I'll take Darrell Williams. Okay. I think that makes sense. Booker is 10% rostered. Williams is 38% rostered. If you want to have a little more faith in Booker, just look at what Wayne Gallman did last year.
Starting point is 00:10:05 He had a six-game stretch where he scored six touchdowns. Actually had a nice yards per carry. He was really good. His touchdown, I was like, was it a hard schedule? Yeah, he faced the Eagles twice, the Buccaneers, and Washington, and he scored five touchdowns in those four games.
Starting point is 00:10:24 I just think Giants like to run the ball under Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett likes to run the ball near the goal line. That's what you're hoping for. Big fear for me is if Daniel Jones is out this week, who knows how long with a concussion. How much are you going to trust the Giants'
Starting point is 00:10:40 offense with Glennon against the Rams and the Panthers in the next two weeks? That's got to be weighing on you guys, right? When you, when you look at Booker and then to a lesser extent, Tony. It's one of the reasons why Booker isn't a slam dunk is even the third guy on this list for me. I just, I like the fact that you're getting a running back. Who's going to get theoretically 15 touches.
Starting point is 00:10:59 So there there's other running back like AJ Dillon. He doesn't quite make the threshold, I think, because he's rostered in too many leagues. I think he's only available in 34% of leagues. But if I'm looking like more rest of season and a long-term approach, I like Dillon better than Booker. Totally. You made a case for Dillon over Williams, too,
Starting point is 00:11:18 if you really wanted to, long-term. Yeah, but I think that I could pick up Williams and either start him. Like, I don't know how confident people are going to be in starting A.J. Dillon this week. Oh, I would agree. You're starting Williams over Dillon. Right. So Williams is someone who's got potential to gain some value. Maybe you trade him after you pick him up,
Starting point is 00:11:37 or you potentially start him over a running back that you're really not. I feel like Miles Sanders, for example. It's just something like that where it's an easy call to start Daryl Williams over Miles Sanders. But I'm worried about Booker in this situation, in this Giants offense, not coming through and certainly being a zero once Saquon Barkley comes back. It's just one thing that you've got to think about
Starting point is 00:11:58 when you decide to put in your fab on Booker. Yeah, in terms of putting fab on Daryl Williams, first of all, let me ask you this compared to last week, are you more or less excited about Williams than you were about Damian Williams? Same. You know, I think you're looking at,
Starting point is 00:12:13 you know, short-term absence for the starter. Uh, I guess the only difference would be is that like Dave said, they've been using Darrell Williams in, in some key spots, whereas Damian Williams, I don't think was getting those same type of opportunities he did early in the season in week one and week two,
Starting point is 00:12:28 but then it sort of shifted back to really a lot of David Montgomery. Uh, so Daryl Williams might have a little bit longer leash than what Damian Williams would have had if you're just looking at something that you need, but they're, they're similar. You know, you're, you're looking at, you know, uh, a guy who's going to get a lot of work for a short period of time. And if you want to spin it forward from what you saw from Damian Williams, I don't think Jarek McKinnon has as big of a role as Khalil Herbert has. So you saw Khalil Herbert take a significant portion. Game flow obviously mattered in that game.
Starting point is 00:12:58 They were playing with a big lead, and they didn't need to work Damian Williams as much as they probably needed to. Or they didn't need to work him that much because they had Herbert and he was running well. But I don't think McKinnon is going to take that much. I don't think he's getting 18 touches like Herbert had. So in terms of the second guy that's going to be there. I don't think he's doing that unless he shows off and plays well.
Starting point is 00:13:19 For example, this week, and their schedule is a lot better than what the Giants have. They've got Washington this week, at Tennessee after that, Giants, Packers. And then there's two more games for their by Las Vegas and Dallas. There is a chance. Tell me if I'm wrong. Do you think there's a chance that there's a six game stretch where Clyde Edwards,
Starting point is 00:13:34 he layers out and Daryl Williams leads the way and then they get their by. That's the other part of it. So you might, and that's a long time. That's a long time for a sprained mcl isn't it six weeks it is but we don't we just don't know and and obviously if they put them on ir if they don't put them on ir then you can expect clyde edwards to be back in a couple of weeks three weeks at the most so what they decide to do with him this week will go a long way in determining
Starting point is 00:14:00 how much you can get out of daryl williams but you've heard us talk about it with Chuba Hubbard and with Damian Williams last week. If your record's bad or if you need a running back badly, it's time to take that fad that you've got and spend most of it to get Darrell Williams. You're talking minimum 50% of your original starting budget to get him on your team. All right, yeah, we'll get into fab in a second.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Darrell Williams, he has Washington this week. They do have a good run defense. They give up 3.69 yards per carry to running backs, but they give up a lot of fantasy points because their defense overall is struggling, so they're giving up touchdowns, and they've had six receiving touchdowns to running backs in their last three games.
Starting point is 00:14:37 But three of those were Cordero Patterson, but still, you take those out, that's still three in the last three games. So this team gives up points. Then it's Tennessee, then the Giants. So good schedule coming up for Darrell Williams. Not quite the same for Booker with the Rams and the Panthers. So, yeah, let's talk about how much fab.
Starting point is 00:14:55 Dave, you laid it out there. At least 50% of your original budget on Darrell Williams. If you need someone, what about Kadarius, Tony, what about Devante Booker or anyone else you really liked this week? I haven't thought too much about Tony, but I would imagine I would go in the neighborhood of 20% of my original fab budget to get him on the squad. Booker will probably be less than that because it's only going to be a couple of games. They're tough matchups. He's not that great. If I really needed a running back and he was my backup plan, I'd probably go close to 20%.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Call it 17% for Booker. Okay. Jamie, what do you think? No, I agree. I think it's just a matter of, you know, somebody tweeted when I said Williams is the number one waiver I had. They said I spent all of my budget on Mitchell, all of my budget on Hubbard, all of my budget on Damien Williams. So I'm negative 300 in the
Starting point is 00:15:52 hole. What am I supposed to spend? You know, so it's like people have already, you know, there's probably one person in your league that's down to, you know, less than 20%, probably worse than that in some cases. So if you've been, you know, stingy, then you can be a little bit more aggressive. And the nice thing about it is I don't know every other site, but I know on our site, if you click on the waiver priority list, which you have that in every league, and if it's a fab league, it'll show you how much money everybody has left. So if you know that you have a lot in reserve, you know how much you can spend. You don't have to necessarily spend it all.
Starting point is 00:16:21 So let's say you're sitting on like 85 and the next person has 75, you can spend 76 and still have at least a couple of bucks left. If you know that that's what you got to do to get them. Yeah. By the way, thank you for bringing this up because we got four teams on by this week. So probably should just lay that out. We have the Falcons. We go after Williams.
Starting point is 00:16:39 Yeah. Falcons, Saints, jets and 49ers. So there are some, there are some good running backs there. I mean, on the Falcons and the Saints that aren't playing. But also, if you're in a CBS league
Starting point is 00:16:50 and you go to the players' stats page and you're looking at all the free agents and maybe you're sorting by projections, they're not going to have players that are on by. So if there are any players, like maybe you want to stash Matt Ryan because he's been playing a little bit better. And this doesn't have to be necessarily for this week.
Starting point is 00:17:06 But just going forward, there are other ways to look at free agents, players on the waiver wire. You might miss them if they're on buy because they're not going to show up in the projections. So one thing you can do is go to the roster trends page, sort by rostered and started or something like like i always go most rostered i do this in every sport is i go to roster trends most viewed uh and it'll show you all the players that most people are looking at so it's typically the list of guys you can sort by position and
Starting point is 00:17:37 it'll show you the top guys that are typically being you know targeted for your waiver leagues anyway um that's that's just the way i do it. But yeah, you can do most roster as well. Yeah. You can do most added, most rostered, most rostered is good because it'll show you that sometimes there's someone who just slips through the cracks at 90% own or rostered or something like that. Holy cow.
Starting point is 00:17:54 He's available in my league. So you could always do that as well. So just different ways to approach the waiver wire. Go ahead, Dave. Yeah. On, I don't know how to find that most viewed tab on ESPN or on My Fantasy League, but in those formats, you can search by how many projected fantasy points they're going to have, how many fantasy points they had last week, how many fantasy points they have on the season.
Starting point is 00:18:14 And if you kind of sort through all three, you get a little bit of a viewfinder to look at free agents who are available that you might have missed because of certainly because of the projections one, because the projections guys, obviously Matt Ryan, those players aren't going to be projected this week. All right. We got to get some more names in here. So if there was a fourth guy, who would it be? Would it be like Hunter Henry or,
Starting point is 00:18:36 you know, the receivers are not exactly great in terms of picking up somebody to start. There's some several guys, you know, maybe Hunter Renfro and PPR just based on what he's done. But if you want to speculate still Rondell Mooreell moore you know a lot of people dropped him he's at 55 percent uh i'm all around st brown you know based on what he's done the last two weeks and now quintus cfis is out for however long he's gone for with the collarbone
Starting point is 00:18:59 injury um i think hunter henry would probably make the most sense. Like Dave said, you know, A.J. Dillon is at 65%. So I didn't include him in the running back waiver ad list. I put him in the make sure, you know, whatever I would say, check Steve's available list. He would be, I think, better than Booker, like Dave said. So, you know, he should be in the top three conversation. What about Sterling Shepard? It's 67% rostered and 94 yards or more,
Starting point is 00:19:28 nine to 10 targets in each of his first two games. Another great, great player to speculate on because if Galladay's out, I'd be really curious to see what the Giants do, who lines up where with Shepard and Tony, both being significant pieces of the offense. And like you said, Adam, we're looking at this with not knowing how long Daniel Jones is out.
Starting point is 00:19:46 So it's more pick up and stash as opposed to pick up and start. But yeah, if Shepard was dropped, he certainly should be worth that. Shepard or Tony? Tony for me. Tony. So Tony was the fourth wide receiver selected in the NFL draft. And who was the fourth wide receiver the year before wasn't it rigor oh it was rigor over jefferson sorry yeah it should have been okay who was the fifth was jeff what do you think about um i mean does tony have a chance to
Starting point is 00:20:21 go all justin jefferson on us what his ceiling? I think we saw it last week. Just a volume type of receiver who can make amazing plays after the catch. We actually saw it two weeks ago, but we didn't think it could get to what he did last week. And the fact that he was able to put up numbers with Mike Glennon just as much as he could with Daniel Jones, I mean, it's kind of easy to do, but he also made some great contested catches down the sideline, downfield.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Could end up being a real weapon for this Giants offense for a long time. It's exactly the type of player that they need to make defenses play them a little more honestly. Okay. All right. That's probably enough. On that, we will get into our
Starting point is 00:21:01 waiver wire priorities at each position in just a moment. We, of course, will recap last night's game and the running back situation. Not so good for the Ravens, but that's going to work out well for Mark Andrews and Marquise Brown and maybe Rashad Bateman going forward. How great was that report, by the way, that teams are looking to trade for one of the Ravens running backs? I wish they would, like set Tyson free. Yeah. Okay, so let me talk to you about Lightstream here. If your credit card bills are keeping you up at night, this is a really
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Starting point is 00:23:00 Top one. Top one, okay. Rob Gronkowski could play this week. Sprained MCL for Claude Edwards. E-layer, do we know anything? Try-re-kill minor knee injury. Do we know anything about Kelsey? Stinger, I would expect he plays.
Starting point is 00:23:14 Okay. Juju is out for the season. Dave, thoughts on Claypool, Deontay Johnson, Najee Harris, how it affects them? And the tight ends. Not that these are tight. These are tight ends to watch. Ebron and Fryermuth, especially it affects them. And the tight ends. Not that these are tight. These are tight ends to watch Ebron and Fryer Muth, especially Fryer Muth. I wonder if he sees an uptick in playing time and targets moving forward.
Starting point is 00:23:31 I think it's great for Claypool. And you saw it again last week when Juju went out, Claypool started to step up and see a lot more throws go his way. We could see him begin to evolve a little bit more now that Juju's out of there. And I think that a lot of those short targets could end up going to Deontay Johnson, and he could continue to just rack up double-digit targets. I know he didn't last week, but he'll go right back to it now. Okay, and then as far as the Giants go, don't know on Daniel Jones.
Starting point is 00:23:59 They're hoping that left tackle Andrew Thomas is back this week. Barkley's going to miss maybe two games right now, if we were just guessing. Gallaudet, maybe two games. Tony should play this week. Shepard and Slayton could be back this week. You are really talking about, arguably, their seven best players on offense
Starting point is 00:24:17 all injured right now. Very strange. Samaje Pirine on the reserve COVID list. Joe Burrow went to the hospital with a possible throat contusion, but he is fine. Justin Fields I wasn't laughing at that, by the way. You said the Giants' seven best players
Starting point is 00:24:34 are injured right now, and somehow Evan Ingram is healthy. I think it's true, though. I don't disagree. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Justin Fields played through a hyper extended knee he's fine rashad bateman should be playing this week for baltimore max williams is likely out for the season jamie mentioned quintez cefas with the broken collarbone tampa bay linebacker levante
Starting point is 00:24:58 david could miss some time you could think about tay crowder as an IDP ad. He had a big game for the Giants, and he's playing every snap, filling in for Blake Martinez. Miami is hopeful for Tua this week. Not so much for Terod Taylor for Houston. Ryan Fitzpatrick could be back in week seven when they face Green Bay. Jarvis Landry could play this week. Damian Harris appears to have avoided injury,
Starting point is 00:25:20 or serious injury anyway. Looks like he could play this week. Trey Lance. He might miss some time with a sprained knee, but the Niners are optimistic that Garoppolo will be back in week seven. A couple of cornerback injuries. Green Bay's Kevin King could miss time with a shoulder injury. So that is a terrible secondary right now.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Darius Williams for the Rams. He's likely out this week and could go on IR. And Curtis Samuel week to week with a groin injury. Okay, done with that. Top three at each position. Jamie, if I need a quarterback, I must not be playing fantasy football in 2021, but what do I do if I need a quarterback this week? Let's just say I've been starting Zach Wilson
Starting point is 00:25:57 and he's on a bye. I mean, you might just like Russell Wilson. I'll forget about that. Sorry, go ahead. You might have to replace Russell Wilson. Oh, yeah, him too, yeah. The first guy I'd look at is actually Taylor Heineke. You know, this Chiefs defense has clearly been miserable. And, you know, you throw out last week's game,
Starting point is 00:26:14 which was his worst start fantasy production-wise, 23 or more points in three of his four starts. And long-term, Jason Lockham, for our CBS Sports NFL Insider, reported that Ryan Fitzpatrick could actually return in week seven, but he might return as the backup. So even if Fitzpatrick does come back, he might not get his job back. So if Heineke has a good game against the Chiefs,
Starting point is 00:26:35 let's say they pull off an upset, but certainly the matchup is fantastic, he may solidify himself as a starter for at least a few more weeks. So Heineke would be the first guy I would look at. Then it gets a little bit more dicey, but Trevor Lawrencerence against the dolphins this team stinks clearly defensively so uh hopefully he takes advantage of it he had his second best game of the season last week you know maybe his best game in terms of just how he played uh but for second best game fantasy wise and then the third guy for me would be teddy um you you've seen what he's done and and it's interesting you know. We've seen him have some good performances. He's been good when he's been over 34 pass attempts. And we'll see how he does against the Raiders if he's throwing the ball
Starting point is 00:27:15 more. But his three best games have come when he's attempted at least 34 passes, including last week when he had 22 at Pittsburgh, which I think was a nice performance given the defense he was facing. Right. And you could look at the Jets game for Bridgewater and be disappointed, but he was 19 of 25 in that game. He only scored 11 fantasy points, but he's been 22 or more whenever he's had to throw the ball. So Heineke, Lawrence, and Bridgewater, any interest in a guy that has only played one game,
Starting point is 00:27:45 but he comes back hopefully this week and get Jacksonville and Tua Tungabailoa if you're thinking more long-term for a Russell Wilson replacement, for example? I just want to say something. We mentioned CBS Sports HQ and the shows that we do. We have every week Tom Spencer, who's in the booth with Jim Nance and Tony Romo, and they're at the game with the Bucks and the Dolphins and he said to us on Sunday
Starting point is 00:28:11 that the Dolphins think Tua can play this week I just want to bring up also because he you just reminded me of it he also said look out for Myles Gaskin in that game against the Bucks and you saw what happened in that performance so you know, we try to give you guys a lot of different tips in different places. Tom only comes on with us on Sunday mornings typically in our noon show. And so if you're looking for anything in the CBS game, wherever Nance and Romo are, Tom's going to give you those insights from the coaches.
Starting point is 00:28:40 You know, Adam, you reference it all the time about how you like to watch the broadcast from the coaches' meetings. He's giving it to us straight from the coaches' meeting. So it's a great asset that we get on FFT, on CBS Sports HQ. But if Tua plays, I think he's a decent streamer, sure. Okay, Dave, top running back priorities, Williams, Booker, and? Well, Dylan will be ahead of Booker if he's available in your league and if you're not in an absolute bind for a running back this week in a PPR
Starting point is 00:29:06 league, which is to say that if it's a non PPR league or half PPR league, I would rather have Dylan than Devante Booker this week. Alex Collins is still available in 36% of leagues. If we're talking about Dylan, then we should talk about him too. We just don't know if Chris Carson is going to play. And it is a terrible matchup without,
Starting point is 00:29:23 without Russell Wilson there against Pittsburgh. He's not a priority guy, but somebody that is going to play. That's something that helps. Brandon Bolden is next for me. He's available in 83% of leagues. He's PPR only. Patriots are probably going to have to check down a lot against the Cowboys. Khalil Herbert is available in
Starting point is 00:29:39 75% of leagues. Ramondre Stevenson, 79%. Sonny Michel, 32%. He's probably not even worth picking up. So I'll go Williams. What he's worth picking up. He's worth, I guess like,
Starting point is 00:29:53 but like you've got a session, you can't use them. Like he's worth picking up. If you've got Daryl Henderson. Yeah. If you don't have Daryl Henderson, I, I wouldn't prioritize him out of anybody.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Henderson is the most, one of the most injury-prone backs. He's already been hurt twice, and Michelle is probably an every-down back on a top-five-ish offense if Henderson gets hurt. So what's your lineup situation? What's your roster situation if you're going to pick up Sonny Michelle and not pick up a lot of the other guys that we're talking about? No, I'm not saying he should be the top priority,
Starting point is 00:30:23 but I would say if you're not going to start Brandon Bolden ever, I'd pick up Michel. Roster percentages are so different, so I know that's kind of silly. It's more of a 10-team league. I think Michel, well, first off, two things I want to bring up. You mentioned, Dave, non-PPR and half PPR for Dylan. There was actually a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Matt LaFleur, saying they want to use Dylan Moore in the passing game.
Starting point is 00:30:45 And so he had four catches last week. It seems as if, you know, this last game in particular, he is taking the Jamal Williams role. You know, I thought it was going to be, okay, maybe Aaron Jones a little bit more in the passing game. And that's what it seemed like early in the season. And maybe Dylan takes on a little bit more of the rushing duties away from Aaron Jones. That game last week was, that was, that was Jamal Williams from a year ago, you know,
Starting point is 00:31:04 involved in the passing game, supplementing in the run game. And if that's something that continues, I think Dylan can have value in every format. And then in terms of Sonny Michel, I said this on Friday's show after the Thursday game. Jordan Roderick reported in The Athletic that this was Sean McVay's plan all along when they acquired Michel, was to use him in tandem with Henderson. I know he had a little bit of an arm injury that allowed Michelle to play, but if they're going to use Michelle in some short yardage situations and, and maybe more of a closer type role,
Starting point is 00:31:31 if he's getting, you know, 10 plus touches, he can work his way into the flex conversation and deeper leagues. Yeah. And he's, and he is, you know,
Starting point is 00:31:38 much more roster than Khalil Herbert and Brandon Bolden and all that. But Bolden, I think the Cowboys give up the most second. I don't know. They give up a ton of receiving yards to running backs. And you could see a game script for Bolden. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Those are good stuff. Let me just clarify. You need a running back this week. It's a non-PPR league. I think the order should be Williams, Dillon, Booker, Collins. And that's assuming that Dillon and Collins are available. If it's long-term, regardless of format,
Starting point is 00:32:11 it's Williams, Dillon, and then I'm not even sure if there is a good one long-term. Maybe that's where Sonny Michel comes into play. Yeah, I think with Collins, I'm looking, and I forgot to mention this in the news and notes, but Carson apparently has turned a corner and has a chance to play this week. But he's got a long-term neck issue. It's not hard. And he hasn't really been super great as it is. So I do think that's... Super great.
Starting point is 00:32:40 Right. That's a backfield that's probably going to see a significant split week in and week out right you just have the the risk of what's what's the offense look like without russell there it's easier to say i was almost tempted the order i gave you adam was collins third after booker and um and daryl williams i was almost tempted to put khalil herbert there at the third spot simply because if something happens to damien williams in the next couple weeks, Herbert's the every now and back for the Bears, and they showed you how much they like him, and he actually ran, I think,
Starting point is 00:33:10 better than Williams. Now, again, it was how the game unfolded that he was taking on a defense, again, that might have given up, but he looked explosive and somebody that you might want to take a long-term look at. Dominated the fourth quarter. I don't know if they trust him on passing downs. Yeah, but he dominated the fourth quarter. I thought that was so interesting. Maybe they just like him better. I don't know if they trust him on passing downs. Yeah, but he dominated the fourth quarter. I thought that was so interesting.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Maybe they just like him better. We don't know. Or they were just giving him some work. But why would they give him the most valuable work? They're trying to ice the game in the fourth quarter. You don't go to your backup running back in that situation. And they go to his. Well, they're both backup running backs, though.
Starting point is 00:33:40 All right, but someone's the number one when one guy's hurt. Right. Didn't Williams have a quad injury coming into the game uh yeah yeah so maybe they wanted to try and ease off him a little bit and give herbert a little bit of work and get him some experience at the same time how about that a smart coaching decision by the chicago bears all right wide receivers here bears are i mentioned it on yesterday's show, the Bears are going to win maybe two more games rest of season. They have a dreadful schedule, a gauntlet coming up. All right, Jamie, top wide receivers to get other than, Canary is Tony one, who else?
Starting point is 00:34:16 Tony would be one, Rondell Moore would be two. You know, I hope they give him more work like we saw last week because it was fun to watch. And, you know, three carries on top of, I think it was eight targets um he's now had two games with eight targets i think um two games seasonally six targets excuse me he scored 13 ppr points or more in both of those games so give him opportunities you know i know they have such a loaded receiving core but still uh fun to see uh i'll still go back to renfro he may may be at his ceiling in PPR leagues. He's at 62% rostered on CBS. But if he's still available in full PPR or even half PPR,
Starting point is 00:34:50 his floor has been basically 11 PPR points. You know what you're getting. His ceiling has been 18-plus points. So with the way this team operates, I think he's right there. And then Amon Ross St. Brown, I'll put him fourth just based on two straight games with eight targets. Now Cephas is done. Teams are clearly taking away TJ Hawkinson.
Starting point is 00:35:08 He was my favorite Lions receiver coming into the season. It took a couple weeks for it to sort of matriculate and go his way. But now it's happening and I think it's worth that. He's worth adding for sure. More so PPR than non-PPR.
Starting point is 00:35:19 So why did you end up putting those guys other than Tony, I understand, but ahead of Tim Patrick who has scored 12 or more PPR fantasy points in four of five games? Not a high ceiling, but 12 or more. Actually, it's what, 12 to 13? 12 to 14. More so long-term than short-term.
Starting point is 00:35:39 If you need somebody for this week, I have no problem going back to Patrick. But you also are getting Jerry Judy back maybe as early as next week. So how long is this going to continue for him? And this was his best game in terms of catches and targets. I hope it continues, but with the Crowder receiving core, are they going to continue to feature him as much as the third receiver and potentially fourth option? So I just think those other guys,
Starting point is 00:36:03 certainly more so PPR than non-PPR. Again, Patrick for this week might be better, but I'll take those other guys, certainly more so PPR than non-PPR. Again, Patrick for this week might be better, but I'll take those other guys in terms of stashing on my team. Oh my gosh, I just found the number one waiver wire player. Jerry Judy's only 80% rostered. Check all your leagues for Jerry Judy.
Starting point is 00:36:18 You can put him right on your IR. Well, no, he's rostered in leagues that have IR spots. Well, you never know. He could still be out there in leagues that have ir spots okay so you never know he could still be out there in leagues that don't have ir spots you tell me every single one of those 20 of leagues don't use ir spots i'm saying that it's much more likely that he's now now he's worth stashing okay i understand if you had to drop him four weeks ago but now jerry judy's worth stashing even if you don't have an ir spot so So get him. Dave, tight ends.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Hunter Henry is first for me, 60%. Is he rostered in 60% or available in 60%? Rostered. I think he's rostered in 60%. 61%. A little less than half of the leagues that you're in, he's available. But I believe he's second on the Patriots and targets over the last three games. Scored each of the last two.
Starting point is 00:37:09 We noticed three weeks ago that John, John who Smith was making mistakes and, and Hunter Henry wasn't. So I figured that Hunter Henry would get more work and he has, it's nice to see him get this opportunity. And I think you write it out while you can. And again, the Patriots probably going to have to throw a bunch against the Cowboys in week number six.
Starting point is 00:37:24 My number two tight end is Dan Arnold. He played 73% of the snaps for the Jaguars. It was a season high for him. I think he's going to run a ton of routes. I think he's going to be a part of this passing game now for Jacksonville. And he's available in 95% of leagues. So double-digit PPR points last week. I think he had 12.
Starting point is 00:37:43 And I think he could come close to that week in and week out. I would trust him if you're streaming the tight end position. After that, it's ugly. Jamie, maybe you've got somebody who is better than Ricky Seals-Jones or Evan Ingram. I'm not really feeling those guys, although it does look like Heineke has a thing for throwing to Seals-Jones. Yeah, Seals-Jones has, I think, run a route on almost every dropback that
Starting point is 00:38:06 Heineke has in the last two games that Thomas has missed. So that's something to buy into. Now you have Curtis Samuel missing time with the groin injury, so that should help. If you want to buy into Njoku, I don't know what to tell you. He had the decent game in week one
Starting point is 00:38:21 when he had three catches for 76 yards. After that, he had uh three catches for 76 yards after that he combined for four catches for 34 yards on five targets in his next three games so he's he's shown you at least already the season that he can disappear after one strong performance but you know they're looking for something because odell beckham's not getting it done so people's jones and rashard hagins and now no joku you know maybe this is a jumping off point, but for me, the top three would be Henry, Arnold, and Seals Jones. I wonder if we are reaching a point at
Starting point is 00:38:51 tight end where it's going to be kind of static. Dalton Schultz, Dawson Knox have entered must-start territory. You got Logan Thomas. He's out at least two more weeks. He's 66% rostereded but I just don't know who's gonna emerge at this point I I don't I don't know I I couldn't believe how bad the
Starting point is 00:39:13 tight end waiver wireless was this week which is not an insult to you Jamie I mean it's not it's not your fault I'm just saying it's just the options way to go Jamie you blew it I know I didn't mean to say it as if you made a bad list i'm just saying it's the options are so bad out there and i hope you have your tight end um because i can't even think of like a prolific offense that could produce a tight end that's maybe tunyon gets back in the mix or something like that i it's bad but i mean tunyon's the same guy week in and week out you're hoping he catches a touchdown. That's why you start him. And there's a bunch of tight ends that are like that off the waiver wire.
Starting point is 00:39:51 For all we know, that's what Hunter Henry is. We just like that there's a lot of targets attached to him for now. By the way, on Nujoku, the seven targets he had, the most targets he's had in an NFL game since September of 2019. And on Tunyon, he has eight or fewer yards in four or five games. I mean, that is taking touchdown or bust to an extreme part of the outside. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:14 We'll take a quick... Oh, sorry. DSTs. We're not taking a break yet. DSTs. Jamie, who are we looking at at DST? You mentioned the Cowboys. I think they're the one to look at because they'll probably turn over Mac Jones, especially after what the Texans just did to him. I know I said the Dolphins defense stinks, but still the matchup against Jacksonville, you can buy into that. And hopefully,
Starting point is 00:40:34 you know, what the Dolphins have looked like is more a byproduct of their defense being on the field forever because their offense stinks. And look, two of the last three games, they played Josh Allen and Tom Brady. So take that for what it's worth maybe they can get some turnovers on trevor lawrence uh the bangles they get detroit you know their their offense has clearly struggled and we've seen some good moments from the bangles defense when they've been healthy and then after what happened the first half right first three quarters against the ravens last night the colts defense gets houston so hopefully they can uh you know put the fourth quarter in overtime behind them and get back to playing defense the way they did start that game and get after davis defense the way they did to start that game
Starting point is 00:41:05 and get after Davis Mills in that group. I think you've got some good options here. The fact that Bengals are 12% rostered, they were a huge letdown against Jacksonville that Thursday night. But they didn't have Jesse Bates. And I think they got a couple of... Oh, no. Awuzie came back.
Starting point is 00:41:23 But Trey Waynes hurt his hamstring. Something to keep an eye on, but... Awuzie's the one that you want to have in that lineup. Yeah, he came back in the game after getting banged up. Yeah, all right. Good options for DST this week.
Starting point is 00:41:37 Yeah, kickers first. Greg Joseph, I'll go back to him. I think we keep saying him every week. Chase McLaughlin gets Arizona. Evan McPherson uh greg joseph i'll go back to him i think we keep saying him every week uh chase mclaughlin um gets arizona evan mcpherson uh maybe actually when he makes the kick he can celebrate that way as opposed to celebrating when he misses the kick and then uh zane gonzalez uh taking on the viking oh man that was tough i felt bad for him he's so young like the the differences between him and and uh crosby who who's old and gray and seasoned,
Starting point is 00:42:07 and McPherson just exuberant, grammatical. I was ready to do the trio of Gators celebrating on Sunday with Kyle Pitts and then Tony and then McPherson. I guess McPherson would have been second. McPherson was ready to do it too. He celebrated. He did, yes.
Starting point is 00:42:27 All right, Dave, IDP. I got to run. I'll i'll tell you guys all right oh wait i mean one last thing where do you have the packers dst this week uh probably not ranked because they're not very good without their guys healthy okay all right i mean they're playing chicago they don't put up a lot of points so i kind of like the packers dst yeah not bad all Thanks, dude. Love you, JR. IDPs. Harold Landry, linebacker for the Titans. He's been putting up some good numbers lately. I would go to him. Matt Judon with the Patriots. Really, the last
Starting point is 00:42:54 three weeks, he started to step up and put up some good fantasy production. Amani Oruwari. Oruwari. A corner for Detroit. Again, last three games, good quality fantasy production. A corner for Detroit. Again, last three games. Good quality fantasy production if you need a guy. And Kevin Minter is expected to replace Levante David at linebacker for Tampa Bay.
Starting point is 00:43:18 I don't know how long he's going to be available for or how long he's going to play for because I don't know how long Levante David's going to be out. But Minter is someone that you could turn to as a linebacker. A couple of easy points there. Yeah. And I've already mentioned Tay Crowder, but it's the same thing. If you get a guy who's going to play almost every snap in the middle of a defense, very valuable. We will take a break, and when we come back, Baltimore and the Colts.
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Starting point is 00:44:12 All right, what a game last night. 31-25 in overtime. So I just, you know, I know the way we started the show was a little unusual talking about our teams or whatever, but you don't get, you don't get this kind of where such huge fantasy swings in the fourth quarter and overtime and and
Starting point is 00:44:31 yeah hundred point deficits getting made up it was crazy so anyway all right there are people out there that started latavius murray going where are my fantasy points i started that guy they started naheem hines where are my my fantasy points? I wanted to get them. Mo'Ally Cox. Are you happy with his three for 50? So not everybody. Yeah, Mo'Ally Cox. You should be happy with three for 50
Starting point is 00:44:51 for Mo'Ally Cox, for a guy who's rostered in 3% of leagues, by the way. What are you talking about? He was scoring like crazy last week. Oh, okay. Well, there's a reason why he's rostered in 3% of leagues.
Starting point is 00:45:02 I'm being sarcastic. Okay, okay, okay. Latavius Murray was actually only started in 22% of leagues. I do not recommend Mo Alleycox on fantasy. There you go. Unless you want to have a funny teammate. Carson Wentz starting to play a little bit better, so that's encouraging. He's got Houston this week, so
Starting point is 00:45:15 you could look at him as well. 26% rostered. What did you think about Taylor? If you take away the 76-yard touchdown catch, it's a good game, but it's not a great game. He's still having trouble really getting going in the running game. He had 15 carries, 53 yards, and a touchdown
Starting point is 00:45:32 and 116 receiving yards and a touchdown, but you can't rely on a 76-yard touchdown catch. What do you think about Taylor? I feel like the mistake the Colts made was not using him more in the second half. He looked good toward the end of the game, if you ask me. That offensive line, at times it looked good and at times it didn't. I would imagine that next week against
Starting point is 00:45:52 Houston, they really try and make that a big point in their offense is to get Jonathan Taylor moving again. I think they'll have the opportunity to against Houston. If you've got Taylor, you're happy with the production. It's been two straight weeks where he's been great. You're he's not a sell high by any stretch. He's a must start. Naeem Hines drop in PPR or keep 76%. I can't tell you when to start Naeem Hines with any confidence.
Starting point is 00:46:19 You don't know when that good game is going to come. And it's just, it's a, it's a copy of 2020 where week one, he had a big game. Everybody rushed to pick him up thinking he's going to be a consistent part of the offense. And then he wasn't. And then sometime mid season, he comes back and he has a big game and everybody
Starting point is 00:46:35 rushes to pick him up. And the next week it's the old fool Jew. And he's, he's not going to be good on a consistent basis. So I would keep him on the bench. I don't think the game script for the matchup against Houston is going to be particularly on a consistent basis. So I would keep him on the bench. I don't think the game script for the matchup against Houston is going to be particularly favorable for him. And I
Starting point is 00:46:51 was going to say, in a game like this, they could have used him a little bit more than they did. But then again, they had the lead for most of the game. So this was not the type of game script that would have helped Hines. Right. And the problem with Hines is it's not like his bad games have been six PPR fantasy points. He has three games
Starting point is 00:47:08 with two or fewer PPR fantasy points. Completely useless. And that hurts. Michael Pittman, do we have to talk about him? I hate... We do have to talk about Michael Pittman, but we don't have to talk about how you dropped him and I picked him up and I beat you with him.
Starting point is 00:47:23 Such a lucky play, too. We talked about it this time last week where Michael Pittman, but we don't have to talk about how you dropped him and I picked him up and I beat you with him. Such a lucky play, too. We talked about it this time last week where Michael Pittman was getting a lot of volume. He was getting a lot of air yards. He was getting good end zone targets, targets inside the 10. He had five of them coming into this game. And then he did have
Starting point is 00:47:40 a lucky play, but it was the type of play that Pittman is supposed to make. He's a big outside type of wide receiver who can make contested catches, and he's hard to take down. So when he catches those contested balls and defenses can't bring him down, what do you think he's going to do? He's going to score.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Definitely a number three receiver in PPR moving forward at minimum. Okay. And a nice game from Paris Campbell. That was his first of the year and then on the other end um marquise brown continues to be incredible actually i bet he's a top five receiver right let's was it done in the first half too yeah but it only takes one play for him and the fact that they cannot run the ball on this game it took him about six or seven so he is sixth in non-ppr and marquise brown is sixth and
Starting point is 00:48:27 sixth in full ppr i mean he has 28 catches that's not bad for marquise brown uh so okay he also has uh yeah five touchdowns are you fully are you fully buying the breakout do you think rashad bateman what is this, there you go. He tweeted from last night. He was live tweeting where Hollywood Brown was among PPR receivers this season. Wow. You're totally buying it with him and obviously Andrews who buy. The one downside to Brown is that he's susceptible to injury.
Starting point is 00:49:04 He's not a big guy and he oh he's already like limited in practice every week there I would say that if there's a sell high from this game it's him but you need to sell high you don't just get them off your team for whatever do you drop Tyson Williams Latavius Murray for if? If I'm the Ravens? No. Oh. For anything that's available. Yeah, I don't feel good about starting those guys.
Starting point is 00:49:32 Certainly, Tyson Williams, you cannot start. If you want to keep him on your bench just to see what happens, I don't blame you for that. I still think he's a pretty talented running back, but I'm not the one in charge of his workload in Baltimore. I think Latavius Murray is a touchdown or bust running back. Let's do the drop-o-meter. Zero to 10. Ryan Tannehill facing the Bills this week, then the Chiefs, but Ryan Tannehill. He's a seven. He can be dropped. He's already rostered in over 90% of leagues. People are
Starting point is 00:50:02 going to start to look toward other quarterbacks. I would start Taylor Heineke over him this week. I watched the film on Heineke. He's very inconsistent. Sometimes he makes amazing throws, and sometimes he's terrible. I'm surprised that report from JLC about Fitzpatrick may be backing up. I agree.
Starting point is 00:50:21 Again, we're not in the building with these teams. They might say, well, Fitzpatrick is just like Heineke. And we've seen it from Fitzpatrick where, you know, we call him the YOLO quarterback. He doesn't really care. He's just going to throw to his guys. And that's what Heineke did. He had 11 targets to McLaurin last week, but a lot of those throws took a little longer
Starting point is 00:50:39 to get there than they should have. Some of them were late. Marshawn Lattimore was all over McLaurin. I would imagine in an easier matchup like this week against Kansas City, we could see McLaurin have a much better game. Trey Sermon. Trey Sermon, if you need to drop him
Starting point is 00:50:55 during the buys, I think that's fine. I would prefer to just give him another week or two just to see what happens because you know these 49ers running backs roll. But he's droppable. He's a six. Corey Davis. Four on the drop-on meter.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Jamison Crowder. He's a seven. He's a 10 in non-PPR. I would say he's a seven in full PPR. Tyler Boyd. Non-PPR, he's like a five. PPR, I wouldn't drop Tyler Boyd, so zero. Sam Darnold, Minnesota, then the Giants, then the Falcons.
Starting point is 00:51:30 I would only drop Darnold if I'm good at quarterback. I've got somebody who I really like, and Darnold's my number two, and I don't think I'm ever going to need him. Otherwise, I'm going to hang on to him. Odell Beckham. Do not drop, zero. Allen Robinson.
Starting point is 00:51:48 Four. Robbie Anderson. 44. All right, quarterbacks. It's over for Robbie. They've given him. It's 18 targets in his last two games. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:01 And he just hasn't come through. He came close last week. There was a deep ball that was close to his way. And then he was frustrated. He was shown frustrated on the sidelines. I just think it's over. It wouldn't surprise me if he had one more, one good game in his next two or three.
Starting point is 00:52:16 But I can't start him with any confidence whatsoever. And we've named a bunch of receivers that I'd rather have than Robbie Anderson. Okay, then let's take a look at quarterback. If you need a Jameis Winston replacement, we gave you Taylor Heineke against the Chiefs who give up the second most fantasy points to quarterbacks.
Starting point is 00:52:33 Washington actually gives up the most fantasy points. So if anyone drops Patrick Mahomes after a disappointing game, I would probably start him this week against Washington. But Heineke's one. Trevor Lawrence is two for Jeremy. What kind of league would that be? A guillotine league? I guess.
Starting point is 00:52:50 It's the only one. It's the only one that would make sense. Trevor Lawrence, two for Jamie. Bridgewater, three. Wentz, four. Roethlisberger, five. Justin Fields. Jameis Winston is on a bye.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Matt Ryan. Do you have any disagreement here with this list? Anyone that you want to promote? I do. I like Heineke first and Lawrence second. Roethlisberger's third for me. The Seattle defense is not good, and the Steelers are looking to get right any way they can. And I think Roethlisberger has a chance to come through for like a 22-point game. Not really a high ceiling for Roethlisberger, but I like him better than Bridgewater.
Starting point is 00:53:28 I like Wentz better than Bridgewater as well. Wouldn't surprise me if Wentz had to end up throwing a lot against Houston. I bet the Texans give the Colts a hard time. Indy playing on Monday night, on the road, short week, emotional loss. I don't know how resilient they are to bounce back and just completely manhandle Houston. So I think the Colts can win that game, but I think it's going to be a dogfight,
Starting point is 00:53:54 and I think that we could see Carson Wentz come through with another solid game. I picked him up. As soon as Russell Wilson went down, I went to the waiver wire in one of my leagues. It's a 14-team league. Wentz was the best available quarterback. I picked him up. I'm starting him this wire in one of my leagues. It's a 14-team league. Wentz was the best available quarterback. I picked him up.
Starting point is 00:54:07 I'm starting him this week as a Russell Wilson replacement. All right, then. Good. If your long-term stash, let's say Fields, Winston, Ryan are available, who would you take? And Tua, who would you take? I think Ryan would probably be my pick of those guys.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Let's go on to the running backs. You can check on Sony Michelle and AJ Dillon. I would also think, you know, Michael Carter, he's carving out a role for himself. He's 81% rostered. Right. He's barely out there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:39 JD McKissick's interesting. Obviously, McKissick's probably rostered in a PPR league, but the Chiefs have allowed 50-plus receiving yards to a running back in three straight games. So this could be a good game for McKissick, and that's the most ringing endorsement I'll give him. We've got Darrell Williams, Devontae Booker, and Dave likes A.J. Dillon as a must-add if he's available. He's the number two guy if he's available in your league, ahead of Booker and Dave likes AJ Dillon as the, you know, a must add if he's available.
Starting point is 00:55:05 He's the number two guy. If, if he's available in your league ahead of Booker, Alex Collins is 58% rostered. And then you've got Khalil Herbert. You know, we taught, we did talk about him,
Starting point is 00:55:15 but he had seven carries in the fourth quarter compared to two for Damian Williams. Uh, and then you've got Ramondre Stevenson and Brandon Bolden because Damian Harris is a little banged up Stevenson got 11 carries last week but only 23 yards and then Bolden Dallas allows the
Starting point is 00:55:33 seventh most receiving yards to running backs a lot of that was Austin Eckler but there have been three running backs who have had five or more catches against Dallas so you know you have to throw against Dallas Giovanni Bernard. That's what can end up happening in the game. I don't see the Patriots coming out and
Starting point is 00:55:49 being successful running the football against the Cowboys. Bolden has three, six, and four receptions over his last three games. He had four catches against Houston. He only had six yards. You're buying into Bolden for those catches. You're hoping that he can come through on a 10-point PPR floor.
Starting point is 00:56:07 Yeah, you can look at Giovanni Bernard. Pretty inconsistent. Two catches in three of his four games, nine in the other one when they lost. And Jeff Wilson at 18%. But he's out a while, right? Well, we don't know. We don't know
Starting point is 00:56:21 what the situation is. I think I just read it, though. I think I just read it, though. I think I just saw an update, like Thanksgiving-ish. See if I can find that. Yeah, I think Panhand said something like November for him. But if you can stash him on your IR, you should do it. I don't think he's going to be back in week seven.
Starting point is 00:56:47 Let's talk about more wide receivers here. Kadarius Toney is the prize. Pittman is 16% available. Who did you say, Shepard or Toney? If Shepard's there, I'll take Toney. But I'm going to take Shepard. I think I'm going to take Shepard over everybody else that we'll talk about but not cadareous tony would you draw a little bit i might be able to do is get both of them i think i can get tony with my first waiver claim and shepherd with my second because there's just
Starting point is 00:57:16 not as much buzz about shepherd maybe and again if you're on cbs and you're only looking at the projections i'm thinking shepherd probably won't be projected on Tuesday. So you might not even see him, see him in your waiver wire and the stats page. Uh, would you drop LaVisca Chenault for Shepard or Tony? Yes. And who's number two for you for Jamie? It's Rondell Moore. Then it's Renfro, St. Brown, Tim Patrick. Number two for me is going to be Rondell Moore. I think he's got a chance. Like you talked with Jamie about Tim Patrick and who could step up as a good play this week. And I agree with Jamie that Tim Patrick could be someone that we're cutting two weeks from now when Jerry Judy's back. Cause I don't think Bridgewater's got enough to support Judy and Sutton
Starting point is 00:58:02 and Tim Patrick. So you can use Tim Patrick now, but you can use Rondell Moore now, and there's some long-term potential. So I think that makes him a little bit more interesting than Tim Patrick. There's another receiver that you didn't talk about though. And that's Darnell Mooney. He's available in 41% of leagues. And I look at him the exact same way that I would look at Rondell Moore.
Starting point is 00:58:22 I think that he's still a good fit for, for, uh, Justin Fields. We didn't see it in this matchup against Las Vegas last week. at him the exact same way that I would look at Rondell Moore. I think that he's still a good fit for Justin Fields. We didn't see it in this matchup against Las Vegas last week because the Bears didn't need to throw a ton. I think the Bears are trying not to throw a ton from game to game. You brought up their schedule. They're going to have to throw a ton from game to game.
Starting point is 00:58:38 They've got Green Bay this week. I think it's Tampa Bay the week after that. They're not terrible matchups for the passing game for Chicago, which is a matter of them executing on it. And I think that Darnell Mooney is going to be one that gets a decent amount of targets in these games. I really like the idea of getting him at one point when I was going through my waiver order, he was ahead of Rondell Moore, but I think Moore's going to be more popular. So he should get the claim ahead of Mooney. But honestly, my top three, assuming Shepard's not there is going to be Tony Moore, Mooney, but honestly, my top three, assuming Shepard's not there, is going to be Tony,
Starting point is 00:59:09 Moore, Mooney, and then Tim Patrick and a Munros St. Brown can go after them. Why prioritize Moore over A.J. Green or Christian Kirk? Because I think he's just a little bit more exciting, and I think that if he's going to get more carries from game to game, if that ends up being a consistent part of his workload, then I think that gives him a nod over those guys. You could stash T.Y. Hilton, Rashad Bateman. If you're in a really deep league and look at James Washington, who will now be the number three receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Starting point is 00:59:37 This one's kind of risky, but you talked about Hunter Renfro, right? Or no? Well, we've talked about Renfro just in general. He's solid safe safe ppr floor guy but i got two more of those guys that are like that that are going to be available in pretty much everybody's league kendrick bourne with the patriots has been getting some good target share and adam humphries hasn't necessarily been getting good target share but he's been getting open i mentioned that i watched a lot of the tay Heineke film. There were back-to-back plays where Humphreys was open in the end zone,
Starting point is 01:00:08 arms like this, hands like this, waiting for the football from Taylor Heineke, and Heineke missed him. Once Heineke started getting Humphreys involved late in the game, that offense was really starting to move, and Humphreys isn't an every-down player for Washington. Maybe that changes, and he ends up being one of those low floor PPR receivers.
Starting point is 01:00:26 At the very least, I think he's a great DFS play in GPP. In case I forget, Jamie wanted me to tell you that he has the Packers DST right after that group you mentioned, and they are top 10 for him. So you guys are in agreement there. Good,
Starting point is 01:00:40 good, good. All right. I've tied the third DST. You can pick up tight ends. Henry's first with a bullet. Dan Arnold was second for me. And then it's a bunch of old names that we've hyped up before
Starting point is 01:00:54 that I would be worried to trust. But if you're in a pinch, Seals Jones would be first on the list just because he's playing a lot, and Washington's going to throw a lot against Kansas City. Evan Ingram would be next because we don't know how healthy that receiving core is going to be in New York. And then David Nujoku fresh off a career high 149 yards. He would be third.
Starting point is 01:01:14 It was like the argument for Nujoku would be all right. Something's going on between Baker Mayfield, Nodal Beckham. They just can't get on the same page for whatever reason. So the Browns are smart to use other receivers. And I think Jamie alluded to this because he brought up Donovan Peoples Jones. Hooper didn't do anything in the game. Maybe this was the Cleveland Browns saying, all right,
Starting point is 01:01:35 Njoku is going to be a big part of our offense moving forward. This was his breakout game. He's going to continue to get targets. I'm not ready to trust it because the body of work over his career, it shows that Njoku is not a consistent stat producer. Here's one more guy I just thought of for the waiver wire, by the way. Jarvis
Starting point is 01:01:51 Landry. Could be back this week. He is 65% rostered. Okay. That's a good one. Yeah, I don't think he's a huge priority. Well, yeah, I'm just saying that's going to hurt Njoku, but we saw Landry wasn't really much with Beckham last year, so
Starting point is 01:02:07 it's so hard to trust this offense, but Landry is 65% rostered. And Zach Ertz is like 67% rostered. So that's a tight end that you could go to. He had a terrible game, but he had seven targets. So he's out targeting Goddard lately
Starting point is 01:02:24 and he's would you rather have urts or or gosicki or sorry urts or henry my bad i'd rather have henry would you rather that's going to be a week-to-week thing gosicki or henry gosicki okay dst's cowboys against the patriots at the patriots dolphins in london against jacksonville the bangles at detroit the colts against houston the packers against the bears options for you yeah that's not my order i like cowboys bangles packers dolphins or packers colts dolphins okay and kickers, Greg Joseph, Chase McLaughlin, Evan McPherson, Zane Gonzalez.
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Starting point is 01:03:26 You could have just gone with McLaughlin Group. That would have also worked. Thanks for watching and listening, everybody. That would have hit our target audience of ages 80 plus. Wrong! Everybody's listening to Sarah McLaughlin. McLaughlin. McConklin.
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