Fantasy Football Today - Waiver Wire! Is Mike Davis Legit? (09/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 22, 2020

Once again we've got a lot of enticing RBs on waivers, but once again there are drawbacks for each of them. Perhaps Mike Davis has a secure workload, but Darrell Henderson, Jerick McKinnon and the Giants RBs might not. We'll tell you how to prioritize these guys at the top of the show. Of course we'll give you options at each position throughout the episode and talk about how much FAB to spend (13:40) ... Going through the news and notes you may have missed (18:00) and giving you the Top 3 options at each position (24:48). We love Gardner Minshew, Mike Gesicki, the Colts DST and Russell Gage. Then we recap NO-LV (35:00) and wonder if now is the time to sell Josh Jacobs or Darren Waller given their upcoming schedule ... Dropometer (43:10)! And then more options at each position (46:30) on the waiver wire. Are we interested in Baker Mayfield, Chris Thompson, Keelan Cole, Mecole Hardman or Logan Thomas? ... Email us at [e-mail] Listen to the brand new Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-in-5/id1528634304 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow the new FFT Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/FFToday Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter 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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Touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Ben. All right, is it Mike Davis? Is it Daryl Henderson? Maybe you're prioritizing Russell Gage or a different wide receiver. Mike Gasicki's got a great matchup this week,

and he could have a nice season after a rough week one. Welcome to the Waver Wire show as we get ready for Fantasy Week 3. And you know there are a lot of names to go out there and get. I'm here with Jamie and Dave today. Jamie, how would you characterize the waiver wire this week? Give me some adjectives. Bountiful.

Hopeful. Depressing. All in one, huh? The only reason I say depressing is because of the guys you have to replace. Yeah, it stinks, man. That was good. You did well on your SATs, I can tell. Would you like to know my lead to the waiver wire column?

Here's what I wrote. Week two was devastating, depressing, and disastrous. One by one, big name after big name, the injuries kept coming and coming and coming. I've never seen a week like this. Wow. We say I've never seen a week like this because we forget about other weeks. No. But I've never seen a week like this wow we we say i've never seen a week like this because we forget about other weeks no but i've never seen i've never seen a week like this not the top two picks in fantasy go down oh and and the way that they they went down i mean you know at least a month for the topic

and mcafree and the whole season for barclay i mean it's uh you're just watching that go oh no oh no oh no yeah eventually you run out of no's to give. There's a nightmare Sunday every year, and this was like the all-time nightmare Sunday. But it's two weeks in a row, though. I mean, we lost the receivers. Well, last week wasn't anywhere as bad as this week. I know we lost a bunch last week, but this week was the killer.

Yeah. The killer. I wonder, like, why does Christian McCaffrey have the worst ankle sprain? Like, everybody else is like two to three weeks. Barkley missed, like, two games. Michael Thomas is not on IR yet. McCaffrey's out four to six weeks. What is that?

What is that? I'm going to guess, based on what he said, he's back three weeks. Yeah, he's beating that timeline. Let's be optimistic here. But still, Mike Davis might be number one. Let's get our top three or four or whatever. Let's get our top priorities on the waiver wire. Let's talk about

our fab spending. Dave, I'll let you start. Give me however many names you want on this wacky Tuesday. Well, I think you've got to go after running backs first whether you need them or not. Most people are going to need them. Mike Davis is at the top of the list for me because I think he's got the path to pretty much like every down work for the Panthers. And he caught eight passes last Sunday.

So he would be first. Daryl Henderson would be second, especially if those injuries for Akers and Malcolm Brown end up being pretty significant. And Jerick McKinnon is third. He might be a short-term fix at uh at running back but i would imagine he's going to see the bulk of the playing time for san francisco against the giants and that's a really good thing you know the funny thing is is like last week we gave you three suggestions of running backs and there were different orders for different guys with malcolm brown benny snell and benny snuff was first naheem hines was second and malcolm brown was third that running backs and there were different orders for different guys with Malcolm Brown, Benny Snell,

and Benny Snell was first. Naheem Hines was second and Malcolm Brown was third. That was for me. They are all disappointed. They're all disappointed. James Conner came back and Benny Snell was worthless. Naheem Hines didn't do anything. We still expect him to do something long-term, but he didn't do anything in week two. And Malcolm Brown, who knows what he would have done, but he got hurt. So could the same thing happen this week because there's not really like a standout guy? Yes, take that into account. But as Dave said, Davis's path to playing time

is right in front of you for however many games McCaffrey is out. You have Henderson, could be amazing or could be in dud because if the other guys come back, you know, you could be wasting your fab or your waiver priority. Again, take that into account. And they both could be in dud because if the other guys come back you know you could be wasting your fab or your waiver priority again take that into account and they both could be back this week that they both could be back this week mcveigh said day-to-day for acres uh which the injury sounds painful um yes and uh he said mcveigh said that brown could be available uh dealing with the

fractured pinky. So again, take that into account. Henderson may be the best Rams running back long-term, or he may be third on the depth chart. And then with McKinnon, like Dave said, it's, it's, it could be a short-term scenario, but it would not shock me at all, especially after what happened to them on the turf in the same stadium where half their team fell apart, that we don't see McKinnon getting a heavy workload and they use them in the same stadium where half their team fell apart that we don't see mckinnon getting a heavy

workload and they use him in the passing game more just to you know keep him um a little bit more in a bubble i guess i don't know you know bubble wrap not to you know run him 15 times so it could be jeff wilson and they're probably going to elevate to michael hasty off the practice squad so there may not be a, I got a starter to replace McCaffrey, to replace Barkley, whatever the case may be for your team. But Davis, to me, looks like the best of this group

for however long McCaffrey is out. And if you don't want to go with the running backs, you know, Mike Kosicki's got some long-term appeal and short-term appeal. The Jaguars, that's his Thursday night matchup. The Jaguars have allowed 13 catches on 15 targets with 198 yards and two touchdowns to tight ends so far. And we had hopes for a Mike Isiki breakout, so you could look at him.

Russell Gage will be a popular wide receiver to add. Gardner Minshew could be a great quarterback to add, and he's rostered in 54% of leagues. Now, you guys talked about mike davis talked about daryl henderson talked about jerek mckinnon you didn't mention a giants running back so i have a bunch of questions here about these running backs let's let me start with this number one could you see a scenario where mike davis is not used as the lead back and it's like what are you kidding me we thought it was going to be him and oh my gosh they curve by them that happened with the lions last year i can't remember the specifics And it's like, what? Are you kidding me? We thought it was going to be him. And oh my gosh, they curve by them. That happened with

the Lions last year. I can't remember the specifics, but it was like... It was Ty Johnson was supposed to be the guy. And then I think they went with Scarborough at the time. I don't think so. I think we had to wait a week on Scarborough. I don't remember who they went with. It might have been McKissick.

Sure. Right. So, you know, could we get one of those situations? Devontae Freeman is looming out there. So that's number one, your confidence in Mike Davis to be the lead guy. And then number two, Giants running backs, you know, not even in your top three. I think for Davis, in terms of the confidence factor, like Dave said, eight catches is what you want to hang your hat on because, you know, they're going to be chasing points.

You know that that's something that they're going to do is throw to their backs. And the fact that they did that in the, in the first opportunity that he was needed is a, is a good sign because he's not going to be a 20 carry guy. At least I don't expect that to be the case. And they may, or I would expect them to promote Reggie Bonifan off their practice squad so he's the one that could be the wild card in all this but uh i think you look at davis and the hope would be is he's a flex option for you better in ppr than non-ppr so he's not gonna be mcafree don't expect that um and i wouldn't you know rush

to start him if you don't have to but i think you you look at the giant situation is I would, as of we're recording this, if I had to put my bids in now or my waiver claims. And now I would go with Freeman over the other two guys, because I don't think the other two guys in terms of Dion Lewis and Wayne Gallman are going to be very successful. And I think maybe Freeman has, I don't think Freeman has the chance to be more successful than those guys.

If he gets the ability to play for the giants, because I don't know. Freeman has the chance to be more successful than those guys if he gets the ability to play for the Giants. I don't know if any of them could do it. That's probably the safest thing to say. They wanted a hard time finding lanes with that offensive line. Right, but I think in terms of like, Lewis is going to be probably just relegated to passing down work with a little bit of carries. Gallman's probably going to do more carries

with a little bit of passing down work. It's going to be messy. It's like how the Jets are right now. It's like Frank Gore and then whoever else is going to play. Kalen Balazs was the guy playing on passing. I was like, you don't want to have to trust those guys. But again, you're just looking at who has a path to playing time. And so I'd rank the Giants guys right now, the unsigned guy in Freeman first, Lewis second

and Goldman third. I'd have the exact opposite order, but I'm not excited about getting any of them. The only saving grace for Gallman and Lewis at this point is that we know that they're in a position to play the next 14 games. We can't say that about the other running backs. The other running backs are definitely shorter solutions, but I think you got to go after them first anyway, and then deal with a long-term

solution later yeah and wayne gallman was good against the football team last year and his one start he got a ton of work how does that work when you talk about them in the past tense i still think that people are offended by it so i'm not gonna say it i would agree but i mean you know you are talking about the history of the franchise i should just say washington but you're right i mean that occurred to me mid-sentence. I just, yeah, went football team there. Yeah, alright. And then like Henderson, you know, it's not just picking

up Henderson because you think he could be the starter this week with the other two guys out. The other two guys might play, but Henderson was really good. We finally get to see him featured a little bit. 12 carries, 81 yards and a touchdown, two catches for 40 yards. Guy averaged over 8 yards per carry every year in college.

So maybe he's just really good. Maybe he's their best running back. You at least got to give yourself the possibility there. Got the Bills this week. We haven't seen a running back get more than 7 carries against the Bills. What's up Myles Gaskin out there, guys? He's kind of a starting

running back, and he's 20% significantly more than Jordan Howard and Matt Breida it's not even close so why isn't he why isn't he like number he he is I would take him ahead of the Giants guys you know I think you look at it this way like you know if you're if you're looking at maybe who has the highest ceiling I think Davis has the highest ceiling of this group just given the opportunity of however many games will start without McCaffrey there. Then I think you look at Henderson, like you said, Adam, there's the short term,

and then there's the potential of the long term. So you take the chance on that. McKinnon has already showed you something in limited touches. You talk about explosiveness. We know what he's been when he's been healthy. And this is his best opportunity now to showcase that as long as most are, but most likely Coleman,

given the absence that he's going to deal with. And then once you get past those guys, I think Gaskin should be there and the sad thing about it is like we told you to pick them up last week and we didn't necessarily hammer the point home too much because okay maybe it was one game they're chasing points to play in the Patriots who knows how this was going to work it's now two weeks of them telling you this is our running back and here's what here's the the. Gaskin has played 88 snaps through two games. Jordan Howard has played 17.

Matt Breida has played 30. It's like the gap couldn't be any wider. Yeah, except Howard gets those stupid touchdowns. Who cares? He's averaging 0.8 yards per carry. If they're going to bring him in

at the goal line, it's obviously... I don't care. I don't care. I'm not saying you pick up Howard, but it matters for Gaskin. It matters for Gaskin and non-PPR, but in PPR, he's clearly going to be productive because right now with what he's doing, he's averaging 11 and a half PPR points per game. Again, not a starter, but if you're stuck and you need somebody to plug in, especially

once we start getting to the bye weeks, remember, we haven't got there yet. We're already dealing with all these injuries. And so this is a guy now that the Dolphins are telling you, when we are chasing points, he's our guy. When we need somebody that we trust, he's our guy, except at the goal line right now. And if Howard continues to struggle, maybe that changes. Dave, you want to throw out any more names? How about some wide receivers? Who would be your priorities? Gage is at the top of the list, and he'd still be more ppr than non-ppr i just think that that's going to be where his value is safer because of target share and then atlanta offense and then i

don't have a really great feeling about the rest of the wide receivers cory davis would be second if he's still there uh nicole harry would be a consideration again more in ppr than non-ppr i was happy with what i saw from trae Kwan Smith on Monday against the Raiders. He might be, he might be third on this list. Maybe even second on this list. If it's non PPR, like I would look at, I guess I would, I guess I'll make them third. I would probably say Davis gauge Trey Kwan in straight non PPR, no catches counting.

And then if it's full PPR, I'll go Gage, Davis, Smith, Harry. I wish I had more faith in the player, but the opportunity for Golden Tate is big right now. And he's 51% rostered. He played five games without Sterling Shepard last year.

And he was on pace in those five games. Golden Tate was on pace for 96 catches, 1,293 yards. You know what? That's a good call. And he had 80 or more yards in four or five games without Sterling Shepard and he only had 80 or more yards

in one other game rest of season. Now Barkley's out too. He had five targets. He caught all five of them. I just, I mean, I think there's some question about like if he's still got it or if he's just kind of old, but.

Sure. But at the very least, you, you know that his target volume is going to be good. And think back to those days in Detroit when the lions couldn't run the ball, I guess they still can't run the ball very well now, but he was an extension of their run game. And it's very well within the realm of possibility that that happens now in New York with Saquon out that he gets two or three screens a game on top of all the slants and digs and out routes that he runs

within 12 yards of the line of scrimmage. I'm moving them up. I think I'll go gauge Davis Tate Traquan because Traquan doesn't have a lot of long-term value. Once Michael Thomas comes back, he's not going to be helpful for your fantasy team. Yeah, and of course there could be some players who are available and you know, 20% of these. Yeah, like Debo Samuel could be out there. Robbie Anderson could be out there. We'll talk about all those guys. Let's talk about

Fab. How much on Mike Davis? I wouldn't go nuts. Like around 20%. I don't think you're going to get him. I think there's going to be somebody desperate in every league that needs him bad. And I think they'll go probably more than a third of their fab. I think you're going to have to go close to 40% to get Mike Davis. Yeah, that's a waste because you're looking at a guy that's got short-term appeal and who knows how good he's going to be.

So don't over- But if I'm 0-2 and I don't have Christian McCaffrey, it's obviously case specific, you know, if you have to win and you're stuck, then you got to spend on him. But I think if you're the smart fantasy manager, there's going to be, again, we said this last week, there's going to be guys that this continues to happen to, and you don't want to not have those fab dollars later in the season. So if you don't need Mike Davis, don't go crazy for Mike Davis. If you need Mike Davis and you're Owen too, then go crazy for Mike Davis. If you need Mike Davis and you're 0-2, then go crazy for Mike Davis because you have to guarantee yourself some production.

So it's case by case. But in the broad scope of things, I'd say 20%. I'm in a salary cap draft. I spent big on Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley. Yeah, you're stuck. Yeah, I've got to go big on Mike Davis. I don't even know if he's out there. So how big are you going to go on Wayne Gallman,

who you said was your favorite of the Giants options? Not nearly as big. If I... Give me a percentage. 15. Okay. All right.

Daryl Henderson's out there. How much you spending on him? 20. Boy, I really hope that we don't have three kind of useless running backs for the Rams, you know? Right.

So far you had two good ones, but we just didn't have them in our lineups. It's true, but we might legitimately have a three-headed monster this year. It would be the best case scenario right now is that Akers and Brown don't play, and Henderson has a telling performance, whether he stinks and you know that okay once those guys come back they're going to probably go to one of those two guys or he's awesome and then maybe that's the guy moving forward so you'd like to at least see something as opposed to you know where he does something to pass the game nothing on the ground

vice versa gives you part of this uh you know middling type of game and then you're looking at it and say what what do I do? Adam Schefter says Malcolm Brown expected to play this week. Okay. So that definitely changes it. I thought Henderson actually looked great. Yeah. Do you put him second or do you put McKinnon second?

I just don't think McKinnon is getting a ton of work, and we don't know how long Mostert's going to be out. So I still think Henderson is worth taking the chance on number two. Okay. And Jeff Wilson could be sneaky, just like a $2 bid or something. And he had two games last year he played, got some work without Tevin Coleman healthy, and he scored two touchdowns in both games. They've shown that they'll use him, Jeff Wilson, near the goal line.

All right, guys. Shagger, what are we promoting today? What are we promoting? We got Jamie at 8 p.m. on Twitch tonight. WaverWire show. Ask every single WaverWire question you have. He's going to answer and Adam will answer as well. Yeah, I'm on Twitch too.

That was kind of messed up. Yeah, I mean, you are the host on every single Twitch. Jamie's not on every Twitch. We got to give him the benefit of the doubt. But also on Friday, dropping on Saturday, we're recording a mailbag. It's Adam. It's Jamie.

It's Frank Stample from CBS Fantasy, the host of the FBT pod, is coming on as a fantasy football analyst. So get excited. Leave those questions with a five-star review on Apple. Jamie, Frank, Adam will answer all of your questions. Leave them on Apple Podcasts, five-star review. I think Frank has 11 letters in his name,

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All right. Here are your news and notes. A lot of it you know. Barkley out for the year. McCaffrey four to six weeks. Cortland Sutton out for the season. Devontae Adams is probably fine. Raheem Mostert likely out this week.

Tevin Coleman out multiple weeks. But Mostert has not been declared out yet. What a weird game. Like, could you be more depleted than the San Francisco 49ers are right now could you have to travel more than the 49ers have to travel you know what happened to them too with their plane yeah and then the MRI and that MRI machine right yeah MRI machine broke their plane was run into like on the runway uh who's their starting quarterback their best defensive player they're starting running back already down their top tight end and top wide receiver.

I mean, you want to talk? It's not a Super Bowl hangover from a play standpoint, but it's just like a Super Bowl jinx after what happened to them, the Chiefs and how it unfolded as well. And they still beat the pants off of the Jets. Well, I mean, Garoppolo and Mostert played the majority of that game.

Yeah, but Bosa didn't. And Solomon Thomas got hurt early, too. I think the Giants can win this week. It wouldn't shock me. I'd be surprised. Unless the turf monster gets the 9-0. Who's the better quarterback in the game, Nick Mullins or Daniel Jones? I don't know.

You don't know? I know. I hope it's... Well, it could be Garoppolo. He hasn't been ruled out yet. So keep that in mind. Could be Garoppolo. That's fair. If Garoppolo. He hasn't been ruled out yet. So keep that in mind. Could be Garoppolo, that's fair. If Garoppolo plays,

I would change what I said. Yeah, no, I'd take Jameis Jones over Nick Mullins. Brashad Perryman, week to week. Chris Hogan, though, avoided serious injury and he had a good game. They're at the Colts.

That's the Jets. Let's see, Bruce Irvin, Seattle defensive end. He's out for the year and cornerback Marquise Blair is out for the year for the DC Seahawks. The Jets without their center

Connor McGovern he's week to week the football team will be without their best offensive lineman Brandon Scherf expected to miss three to five weeks and Cleveland might have a pretty good run defense Baltimore should have a pretty good run defense those are their next two opponents might be tough sledding for Antonio Gibson

Minnesota lost Anthony Barr for the season Miami cornerback Byron Jones, their big ticket free agent acquisition. He's probably going to miss this week's game, which is a Thursday game. He missed most of last week's game against Buffalo. Jacksonville center Brandon Linder avoided serious injury. He's day-to-day.

Denver lost two defensive ends for multiple weeks. Draymond Jones and Demarcus Walker. I mean, the Broncos are that team, right? They are really beat up. The 49ers might be that team, but yes. Unfortunately, there might be more teams that are that team than that aren't that team.

Yeah, but for the Niners, it's starting quarterback, Phillip Lindsey, best wide receiver, Von Miller, all the Chubbs. Well, no, Chubb's fine chubbs fine now sudden corlin sudden i said he said their best receiver no i'm sorry and now two defensive you were talking about dashawn hamilton no i thought you said their cornerback i'm sorry i said yeah i said a lot of things uh and i talked about time of possession with the vikings i don't have their time of

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And then a lot of, but I would look at Ryan Fitzpatrick and Mitchell Trubisky. If you're stuck, Fitzpatrick showed you some life last week against the depleted bills defense, but look like the fantasy quarterback we saw last year. And I think it's going to be a fun facial hair shootout between Minshew and Fitzpatrick on Thursday night when the dolphins and Jag and Jaguars meet up and then Trubisky uh very

good fantasy game week one better NFL game week two uh hopefully a better fantasy game in week three in what could be a shootout against the Falcons based on how the Falcons team plays so those would be the three quarterbacks I look at. Okay, fair enough. And then if Tannehill is available, he's rostered in 74% of leagues. Yes, if Tannehill is out there, and who's the other guy I gave you? Burrow. Burrow.

I would go Minshew, Tannehill, Burrow in that order. Okay. Dave, we talked about a lot of running backs. So you got Mike Davis, you got Daryl Henderson, Jarek McKinnon, the Giants situation, Miles Gaskin. Anyone else that you think is worth at least five fab dollars, but we do know that Jerick McKinnon can't be the only running back for San Francisco against the giants. It does seem like a good matchup and it seems like one that Jeff Wilson could score in. I would spend one fab dollar, 1% of my fab on Jeff Wilson.

I would spend potentially one fab dollar on Reggie Bonathon and, uh, Damian Harris might be out there in a few leagues. He could come off of IR after week three. I know that getting a Patriots running back, you'd rather go get a root canal at this point. And Cam Newton is doing all the short yardage goal line work for the Patriots. But he impressed in training camp.

He's got some good skills. The Patriots like to use good football players. I wonder if he's worth stashing, starting. If not, maybe you don't pick him up on Tuesday night, Wednesday morning. Maybe you wait till Friday and you just tuck him onto the end of your bench, provided that you have the room. Because if he blossoms into something, man, any running back that's worth a darn is going to have good value in trade.

You could at the very least have a trade ship that can help your team out a little bit, or maybe he ends up being the lead back for the Patriots and maybe splits that short yardage work with Cam Newton gives the Patriots another option there. They might want a second option after kind of, you know, rolling the dice with Cam at the goal line one time, too many against Seattle. I will say, if you're talking Patriots running backs, if you're looking in deeper leagues, if James White does not play in week three, because of the tragedy that he's dealing with. And again, our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Rex Burkhead had four catches in that game against the Seahawks on six targets.

So he stepped up into that past catching role. So Harris is obviously better longterm, but if you're looking at a short term scenario in PPR, if you're stuck, you know, Burkhead probably going to be that guy again. And we'll see if they're in a run-heavy mode like they were week one when they were winning the game easily against the Dolphins or if they're in more of a competitive game against the Raiders who give the Raiders credit, look really good. Oh, who called that upset?

It was me. I did pick that upset. I said Raiders beat the Saints. And I said the Giants could beat the Bears. And that came down to the last play. All right. Go me. Go me, everybody.

All right. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Apparently, I'm proud of myself. Yeah. Look, I actually don't really think the Saints are so great without Michael Thomas. But gosh, I was really disappointed in their DST and their defense in general. But what the heck?

They just played poorly. They looked like they sold out to stop the run. And Darren Waller did whatever he wanted to. And Carr missed a couple shots down the field. But Carr played really well. I mean, he took what was available to him. And give them credit. They missed a lot of tackles.

All right, wide receivers. We've named some names. Jamie, give me the top names of receivers. Well, I mean, there's a few we didn't talk about. I think Marcos Valdez-Gantling is absolutely worth picking up, just based on how he's looked through two games. The drops have been a little unfortunate, but he's obviously playing a lot.

And with the way Rodgers is playing right now, especially if Devontae Adams does miss the game, he's dealing with a hamstring injury, is expected to play. But you could see more targets headed for MBS, and you just want a piece of this Packers offense when it's available to you. And right now it's available to you with, with, with what MBS is roster percentages. Do you like him better than Lazard at this point? I like him better than Lazard. Yes. Because of what his quarterback is doing and what his role

is, you know, should Lazard is, Lazard is not, you know, taking the same shots down the field. How long does it last though? Because Valdez-Scantling hasn't been exactly reliable. He's just way inconsistent on those. He's their speed. He's their speed, you know, and they don't, you know, Adams runs well, but he's not a burner and Lazard is

not a burner. And so Valdez-Scantling is their shot guy. And so far the targets have been there for him. So you got to like it. I would also take a look at some of the injury replacement guys. Michael Pittman, you know, as a guy that got six targets last week, they got a good matchup this week against the jets.

Paris Campbell is probably going to be out for several weeks. And so Pittman is a guy that's different from what they have in terms of Zach Paschal and TY Hilton. So I think he's going to be interesting. The two Jaguars guys, the Luis Chenault and Keelan Cole, are definitely interesting. But the way that they've been playing,

the fact that Chenault keeps getting carries is nice. And then now K.J. Hamler's role increases because of Cortland Sutton being out. So that's more of a long-term play because I don't think you want to trust Hamler without Drew Locke in there. But I think the fact they had seven targets in his NFL debut, and they're probably going to be chasing points most week.

This is now a discovery season for the Broncos. See what you have in Judy. See what you have in Hamler. See what you have in hopefully Drew Locke. And feature these young guys without their lead receiver there. All right. Tight end, Dave. John O'Smith, I think if he's available,

his 80% roster has got to be, I would think, number one. But maybe Gacicki. I don't know. So who do you like at tight end, Dave. John O'Smith, I think if he's available, his 80% roster has got to be, I would think number one, but maybe Gusecki. I don't know. So who do you like at tight end? Gusecki is going to be first. I can't say that he's a definite long-term solution. He's got Jacksonville this week and then Seattle and San Francisco

in consecutive weeks after that. So not great, but you could definitely stream him this week. Dalton Schultz in Dallas got the targets that Blake Jarwin was supposed to get. I think he could continue to be a good volume guy, but I don't love him this week. He's a little bit more of a long-term play.

He plays Seattle in week three. Jordan Reed was so impressive, man. Not exactly fast, but San Francisco just schemed him up nicely. Nice big size, reliable hands. They need targets in that offense. He would probably vault to second if you needed just a one-week option on this list.

But we didn't think Kittle was coming back this week? I thought that was the deal. If Kittle does come back, then obviously Jordan Reed's going to take a huge step down, but for now, I don't know if Kittle's going to play. The Giants have not allowed 20 yards to a tight end yet.

But reach more of a wide receiver than a tight end anyway. A couple more. These are just low-end guys. Jordan Akins with Houston. Could be a regular part of their offense. He played a lot in weeks one and two. I think he's their best tight end. Not a touchdown vulture like Darren Fels. Decent volume could be their

form from week to week. And Mo Alleycox, as long as Jack Doyle's out, he's going to be the top tight end for the Colts. And I think I said it on Sunday. Week one was, Philip Rivers is great to throw into running backs. Week two is, Philip Rivers is great to throw into tight ends. And if Cox is his only top tight end, he's got the Jets this week. It's a good matchup. You can see Mo Alleycox come through again. If you need him for just one week

I would probably rank them Gasicki, Reed Aspnow Alleycox as the top three. And if it's long term it's still going to be Gasicki first but I'll put Schultz second. Alright Jamie DSTs to look at this week. You got the Colts.

Great matchup against the Jets and they certainly performed better in week two than they did in week one. So matchup against the Jets, and they certainly performed better in week two than they did in week one. So that would be the first one I go look for. The Chargers get the Panthers without McCaffrey. I think they're going to make things tough on Teddy Bridgewater. And then the Browns, you know, Cleveland defense played well against the Bengals for the majority of that game, burrowed through 61 times. I don't think you're gonna get 61 pass attempts from Dwayne Haskins. And I think you'll see, Dwayne Haskins, excuse me, I like the way that Cleveland will be able to, I think, limit this Washington football team and their

offensive production. Do you drop the Ravens DST facing the Chiefs on Monday night, or do you try to roster two? I would try to roster two, but I mean that's a decision that comes down to, you know, with all these injuries that you're dealing with and with all of the, you know, the limited roster space that a lot of fantasy managers have, it's probably going to be tough to do that. So it comes down to, I think what your, what your roster construction is, but I would probably just take my lumps against the Chiefs and see if they can create a turnover or two and sack Mahomes a couple of times points are not going to be in their favor so check your DSD scoring but you know I made a decision just to give you a similar one not to the same level but I can drop the Patriots DSD to pick up the Buccaneers you know and so that was something that looking at schedule for both teams opportunity in week number two I felt comfortable enough with it so if there's a DST out there that you like, that you think you can get some good mileage out of, then you move on from the Ravens. But it'd be nice to hold on to them if you can.

After the Chiefs, they play Washington, then Cincinnati, and then at Philadelphia. Yeah, you got to keep it. I would hang on to the Ravens. If you've got to just start them and you don't want to carry two DSTs, go ahead and do it. Yeah, it's tough if you're 0-2 and you have to start them. You might be able to carry two dsts go ahead and do it yeah it's tough if you're oh and two and you have to start them you might be able to trade them i mean i think they're like they're a legitimately valuable commodity especially with that schedule after this chiefs game washington cincinnati philadelphia that's just tremendous and they've been really really good so far um so yeah uh and then uh kickers jamie's got michael badgley for the chargers rodrigo blankenship 18% rostered for the Colts

and Mason Crosby for the Packers. You know, fun game. Rodgers at Breeze on Sunday Night Football. Usually these guys go off. Prime time, especially prime time home games for Drew Breeze. Just doesn't really feel like that right now for Drew Breeze. We got to talk about that game. He looks terrible.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, not that pinpoint accuracy. He looks old. But what? Just overnight, now he's old? It's weird. Well, I mean, he is old. But it's not like a steady decline where

we saw signs of it last year. He's been at the absolute top of his game. He is, and will go down as one of the most accurate quarterbacks ever. He holds several records in terms of completion percentage, and he still was completing

very accurate passes. But you see the first game without Michael Thomas and you saw the way that he performed in week one and he's just not throwing downfield with any sort of zip. And so that's the concern

is that if you take away all these underneath routes and Michael Thomas isn't there, what's this offense going to look like? And you saw it against the Raiders, which I think their defense is not as valued as it probably should be, because I think they have a lot of nice players. And Paul Gunther is a good defensive coordinator. But you look at this Packers defense that they're facing and it could be a little bit tougher for them because I think the pass rush is better for the Packers. So, you know, I think Breeze and look, Ramchak was banged up, I think, a little bit last night. Andrews Peet got banged up as well. You know, so they were a little bit, you know, or I'm sorry,

maybe Ramchak wasn't hurt, but Peet was, you know, banged up. And so that's something that's a little bit concerning when you got to go against, you know against the two Smith guys for the Packers. Yeah, well, I mean, would you drop Drew Brees for Gardner Minshew? Yes, if that's the only move I can make. All right, but if Michael Thomas comes back in two weeks, you're going to probably regret dropping Drew Brees. I don't think so.

I think it depends on what your league is like. We may not see the rush to pick him up. How many people are picking up Carson Wentz if you drop him? And those guys were drafted in similar range. Yeah. Stafford, too. There's got to be. Well, okay, so that's the thing.

I am picking up Stafford. Gallaudet's expecting to play this week. Stafford is a different category, yes. Why is that? I don't know that Stafford should be in a different category than Drew Brees. I think it's easy to put Wentz last because, as I've said over and over, Wentz, each of the last two seasons, has not been a top 12 quarterback on a per game basis so we were hoping that he'd be better this year Breeze is missing his best weapon but yeah the best wide receiver football comes

back then you know you said you said it we we know Galladay's coming back yeah we don't know that Thomas is coming back I think when Thomas comes back it's a different story with Breeze but right now Stafford on the rise, Breeze on the decline. And that has to do with their weapons, clearly. I feel like it needs to be mentioned that Josh Jacobs, he has never proven that he can carry a big workload for a full season. Not saying he can't, because he didn't really get the opportunity at Alabama, but very few carries in college for a first-round pick running back.

Missed three games last year and was in and out of the game in the fourth quarter yesterday, banged up. He's getting a ton of work. So I don't know what you do about that. Obviously, he's awesome and you want him on your team, but do you just pick up Devontae Booker? Is Devontae Booker like uh chase edmunds boston scott kind of handcuff i mean based on the usage last night i would say it's going to

be messy if you don't have jacobs i agree booker and jalen richard um you know if you're if you're a jalen richard truther you're happy that he got rewarded after the fumble because there could have been a scenario where they don't put him back in the game and use Booker instead. But I think you look at it as Jacobs is, is probably in the sell high category. If you can get, if you get,

right. Get a package in return for him. Like you don't give them away. We were talking about him as like, you know, a top five overall player. Well, I mean,

if, if your concern is workload and, and exactly what you just said, I'm not selling Josh Jacobs. I love Josh Jacobs. But if you're putting him in a category, it's so high, you know, just based on what the potential downfall could be. Yeah. It's just injuries that could hold him back because he's everything you want

in a lead fantasy running back. Could have had a touchdown last night, you know, didn't punch one in, and then Carr had the fumble. You know, may not have gone. and then Carr had the fumble. You know, may not have gone. That could have been the play for him. I think you, you got to like the fact

that he's got seven catches through two weeks. Absolutely. That was the story for him and he's delivering on it. Yeah. I mean, the bottom line is last night,

the game was fun, but the touchdowns scored by the Raiders were the most fantasy useless touchdowns except for, except for Waller. Just the thing about the Raiders were the most fantasy useless touchdowns, except for Waller. Just the thing about the Raiders here, I don't know how you feel about this,

their next two opponents, or their next five weeks at New England, Buffalo, at Kansas City, Kansas City might have a good defense, especially at that point, they'll have their suspended guys back, bye, and then Tampa Bay. So it's tough sledding at New England, Buffalo, at Kansas City,

by and then Tampa Bay. It's tough sledding there, I think. Is there a good defense, though, in the NFL right now? Well, we just got done talking about Baltimore. Baltimore is certainly up there. Pittsburgh is up there. Pittsburgh's up there, and Melvin Gordon still had a nice-looking game against them.

Okay. I think we're just looking at this. This was the issue coming into this season with the lack of a training camp in what training camp typically is in preseason, that these guys are just not playing at the level that they're typically used to playing. They're getting better, but injuries are a problem. Honestly, I don't know that New England has a good defense. They have lost so much since last year.

Did you know the stat on Gilmore with the touchdown Metcalf's word? No. First touchdown he's allowed since 2018. That sounds about right. You should have seen my face. We were on the air and Heath even called me out.

He's like, Adam is wide-eyed right now. I was like, yep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, those guys fighting the whole game was off the track or get a screenshot of that no don't don't do that no no no it was it was amazing yeah no i'm i'm with you and and we've seen the 49ers defense fall apart uh injuries are going to continue to be a problem like buffalo's defense for example gasecki did that i think in large part because

of the injuries that they have yeah linebacker right absolutely so it's like if you look's like, if you look at, I'll tell you, I don't know, Dave, where you have Higby ranked, that'll switch for me if those guys play. Like, I have Higby ranked third right now. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah. All right, so last question then is like, do you even try to entertain offers for Darren Waller

or do you just keep them? Of course. If someone's willing to pay offers on anybody, I just don't think that the market right now, I don't know how many fantasy managers are dying to acquire a tight end unless it's a fair deal at the very least

or a really good deal at the very most. Running back is the position that I think everybody's going to be flipping on this week. The thing about a player like Waller and Higby and any of the tight ends that you drafted that you feel comfortable with maybe some of the guys on the waiver wire, if you could turn those players,

like if you're the McCaffrey owner or the Barkley owner and you need some running back help and somebody has a tight end and you could try and maybe package something and Waller or Higby or something to get a running back, and then you end up with Gusecki or maybe dalton schultz or maybe just continue to you know go the streaming of jordan reed this week or moali cox this week or one of these guys uh another guy is uh we didn't talk about it drew sample you know joe burrow is in love with his tight ends right now and drew sample now steps up without cj uz there. So there's going to be... Small sample size.

There's going to be guys that you can sort of pivot to that aren't Waller or Higby or those type of guys or Hayden Hurst if you want to flip him after one big game or Noah Fant after two big games. You know, so there's an opportunity there to sort of manage your roster a different way to get some running back help. But you got to feel comfortable if you have Waller after those first two games and Higby after what he did and Fant and, you know, now Hayden Hurst. So, you know, these guys are rewarding you if you drafted them. As long as you didn't draft Gronk or Hooper.

Gronk. Let's do the drop-o-meter. Here we go. Zero to 10 on the drop-o-meter. I shouldn't sound so enthusiastic about this, right? This is a negative segment. Adrian Peterson. Why don't you try that again then? All right, guys. Let's look. I don't really want to do this, but let's do the drop-. Adrian Peterson. Why don't you try that again, then?

Look, I don't really want to do this, but let's do the drop-o-meter. I think we have to. Yeah, I'd like to borrow the first time. Yeah, the drop-o-meter! Adrian Peterson! Get rid of these crap bags! Zero to ten for Peterson. Five.

Seven. DeAndre Swift. Zero. Two. CarryAndre Swift. Zero. Two. Kerryon Johnson. I'm taking back my seven for Adrian Peterson, and I'm going to give it to Kerryon Johnson. Kerryon played more than Adrian Peterson in week two.

Peterson is 35 years old. If he goes down, Kerryon's role increases. I will say four on Kerryon. Yeah, remember, they were limiting him in week one because he was coming back from the surgery, so he only had one more carry-on. I would rather have carry-on than Adrian Peterson. Okay. Drop-o-meter Carson Wentz does have Cincinnati

this week. Eight. Yep. By the way, we haven't mentioned Alshon Jeffrey. Is he a good player to pick up? Could return at any moment, but I'm sure they're going to ease him back in, so there's a lot of other receivers I'd rather have right now, jaylen rager boston scott drop a meter ten three it basically just depends on whether or not you want to stash a high-end backup right like a injury that's what i think in the case of scott he's i don't think he's going to help you

win this week uh daniel jones we're judging him on his one game sample size when Lane Johnson did not play in that offensive line was a complete disaster and a joke. So I think if he has this healthy offensive line in front of him, at least whatever their healthy offensive line is, you'd want to have that in case Miles Sanders goes down. Not to mention Scott himself got hurt in that game. True.

Daniel Jones, drop-o-meter. 10. Yeah. 30. Tariq Cohen. uh true daniel jones drop-o-meter 10 yeah 30 tarik cohen uh this is this is format specific so non-ppr he's a seven in ppr he's a two i think he might be a 10 either way i don't know how you're gonna feel good starting him in any format right now just gotta pick them to, man. You just need them to be trailing. Yeah, this is going to be an interesting week. Very interesting week.

They're 2-0 and Anthony Miller. They're facing it. They're at Atlanta. Like Atlanta should be an opportunity for Tariq Cohen here. Anthony Miller, 79% roster drop-o-meter. It should be an opportunity for Anthony Miller. I'll say two. Yeah, I'll say five because he's just one of these guys that's going to probably be in and out of your lineup.

And you know how much I like him, but if he's not getting targets, it's going to be hard to trust him. Benny Snell. Same as Scott, basically. Same boat as Boss and Scott. Naeem Hines. He's in the same boat as Tariq Cohen. Non-PPR, it's going to be hard to trust him.

PPR, I want to hold on to. Matt Breida. I prefer to hold on to Hines than Cohen and PPR. Sorry, Dave. Matt Breida. 10. Jordan Howard. 15.

12. Michael Gallup. Zero. Zero. All right. It's like I want to call my shot. Michael Gallup's going to have a big game this week at Seattle. He's due.

They all might. He needs, they need Tyron Smith healthy because Dak was not throwing down the field. Okay, guys, uh, back to the waiver wire. We've given you a ton of names,

but let's go a little bit deeper here. Um, Joe Burrow and Ryan Tannehill are the players who you need to check to see if they're available. They're rostered in 80% and 74% of leagues respectively. What the hell was that? Burrow,

are you starting either Burrow or Tannehill this week? Tannehill, yeah, he should be a starter. For sure, this Tannehill. At Minnesota. Burrow, no. What about Baker Mayfield? He is 66% rostered. He gets Washington this week.

They've been decent, I guess, against quarterbacks other than Kyler Murray's rushing. But what about Mayfield? Do you have long-term hopes for him? The two quarterbacks that they've faced, they've been decent. What, Washington? I know what you're saying. Yeah, they have.

I mean, they faced Wentz and Murray. They've given up points, but mostly it was it was murray's uh rushing i think for mayfield you're going to get on the high end better slightly better than what you got last week because like you want them to be in a game where they're chasing points yeah i just don't see that happening this week okay because he's not they're not going to open up the offense all of a sudden and say, you know, go throw it 40 times. Okay, so then we got Gardner Minshew, who is 54% rostered.

And, like, do you just think, obviously, this week could be good against Miami without their top cornerback. The Dolphins are allowing the most passing yards per attempt so far in the NFL. But for Minshew, is it, I mean, are you just treating him like he's legit, basically, borderline top-tier like he's legit, basically? Yes. Quarterback, rest of season? They may be this year's Miami Dolphins where everybody thought they were terrible

and they got surprising quarterback play from Ryan Fitzpatrick and they won more games than they had hoped to. They still ended up getting the quarterback that they intended to get all along into. But the Jaguars were picked to be the worst team in the NFL. They were excellent in week one across the board, offense and defense. And they went toe to toe with the Titans team that usually handles them very

easily. And so they could beat the Dolphins and end up two and one through three weeks, which nobody would have expected. And Minshew was a big part of that. So he's, he's playing fantastic. His receiving core's playing fantastic his receiving core is playing fantastic james robinson has been a huge surprise and and looks legit and i love this week i believe listen i don't know about you i believed in the jaguar since day one okay i've been on them all here all right ryan fitzpatrick adam p prisco-Azer. Ryan Fitzpatrick at the Jaguars, coming off 26 fantasy points against Buffalo, which is 47 times.

Would you start Fitzpatrick over Drew Brees this week? Yes. All right. Would you start Trubisky over Drew Brees this week? No. Okay. Let's see. Would you start Ryan Fitzpatrick or Phillip Rivers this week? Rivers against the Jets?

Fitzpatrick. Yep. Fitzpatrick or Wentz? Fitzpatrick. I have Wentz two spots higher. Trubisky or Wentz this week? Wentz. Okay. And then there's Justin Herbert. You know, actually two quarterback leagues, super flex leagues, there are going to be some decisions to make. You might see Justin Herbert out there. You might see Nick Mullins. You might see Jeff Driscoll.

I hope you see Justin Herbert out there. I mean, I don't know what Anthony Lynn is doing. You got a chance to see him die. He's trying to be cool to Tyrod. Oh, I get why he's doing it. I just don't understand why he would do it. You've got the scenario that you needed. You've got Tyrod getting hurt. You've got Herbert to play in your toughest matchup,

in your biggest division rival, and he was excellent. And not his fault that they lost the game. Like Anthony Lynn said, last time I checked, we lost the game. That was his quote yesterday. Okay, maybe you shouldn't have punted. This is what you want. You want to have... He made a big mistake, though.

He made a big... That interception, he should have just run the ball. Like want to have... He made a big mistake, though. He made a big... That interception, he should have just run the ball. Like, that's... Oh, you think... He played well. I think he played well. You don't run left and throw right.

I think he played especially well for his first game. I thought so, too. It was great. And the thing that you look for is you look for, was he overwhelmed by the moment? And I guess the camera picked up

saying on the sideline, like, man, this is cool. Like, he gets it. Like, he has the moxie to play in this league and to play hopefully at a high level. And now you got a chance to see him unprepared. Now he should be prepared. It's a layup of a game because the Panthers going on the road

without their best player. Like, you don't get a better scenario than this. So if I'm Anthony Lynn, okay, you want to be cool with Tyrod, fine. Tyrod, go. Tyrod, go make sure your test is okay. Sit out another week. And if Herbert lights up the Panthers, like he potentially could,

I'd start him over breeze. For example, if he's starting like that's how much confidence I have in him. All right, guys. So let me just, let's just kind of get through the rest of these names here. So Phillip rivers,

uh, against the jets who are awful. What's your confidence level on him? Not very high, but, but I think he could be good. All right. And Stafford, if anybody drops Stafford, go get him, right? Yes.

Yep. All right. What about Nick Mullins? What about Jeff Driscoll? Mullins at the Giants, Driscoll against Tampa Bay? If I had to pick between the two of them, it's Driscoll. Okay.

Yeah, Mullins made eight starts in 2018. He was on pace for 4,500 yards and 26 touchdowns but also 20 interceptions he had four pretty damn good games 23 or more points he had four pretty bad games yeah i'm taking mullins for sure all right running back well but driscoll himself is actually pretty good sure last year uh 20 points 31 points and 14 points in three starts uh running back okay so a lot of repeat names. But Josh Kelly. I'm sorry.

If Josh Kelly is available, he's 71% rostered. Number one. Not close. Over Mike Davis? Not close. Okay. And then you've got Mike Davis. You've got Daryl Henderson, Jarek McKinnon, Miles Gaskin, Devante Freeman,

Deion Lewis, Wayne Gallman. I really think we've covered all of these names. Some we haven't. Kerryon Johnson at Arizona. Frank Gore got 21 carries. He's at Indianapolis this week. Chris Thompson caught a touchdown. He only had five touches.

And Jeff Wilson we talked about. Rex Burkhead we talked about. I don't know that we need to spend more time on running back, I think. Chris Thompson's interesting just because you saw chasing points. He was more involved in the passing game. And so not for this week, but moving forward, you know, PPR leagues,

he could be interesting. Sounds like you guys are going to pick the Jaguars this week. Yeah. I'm going to take the Dolphins. You know what I learned in week two? That Phillip Rivers is horrible because the Jaguars defense is as bad as we thought it was going to be.

And you go back to week one and Phillip Rivers couldn't beat that team. That was pretty bad. He's not good. You know, what we're seeing is that, you know, give Ben Roethlisberger credit because of the older quarterbacks right now. Brady has not looked good. Breeze has not looked good. Rivers has not looked good.

Brady should have had a much better game last week than what the stats say. He had receivers dropping passes. Two touchdowns were dropped. I'm not ready to say brady looks bad sorry to oh i don't think i don't think he's bad but he has not looked good there definitely has been some stats and some points that should have been on the board that haven't been he's had yeah he's had some some good moments some bad moments and he did that without godman so give him credit yeah you know so new coach, all that stuff. New climate, weather's different, real estate.

Just so many things for Brady to have to think about. Well, in week two, he would have been in Seattle, so it really wouldn't have mattered. What do you mean? If he had stayed with the Patriots. If he had stayed with the Patriots, yeah. Okay, wide receivers. Deebo Samuel might be available, 74% rostered.

He's out this week. He could come back in week four. Robbie Anderson. The only issue I have with Robbie Anderson right now, guys, the Chargers defense looks pretty really, really good. Really good. A.J. Green could have had a big game. He had two almost touchdowns.

Tyreek Hill had 99 yards and a touchdown, although it took a long time for him to get good. No other wide receivers had more than 33 yards against the Chargers, but is Anderson a long-term play? I think he is. He's a short-term play, too. You don't have to play him this week to not consider him as at least a third wide receiver.

They're going to be throwing the ball 50 times. Tons of targets. A lot of them are short range and a couple of deep balls mixed in. Okay. Alan Lazard is also 68% rostered. He may be the perfect safe floor high upside receiver that no one really gave any credit to before the season started. Anderson?

Yeah. There's one guy that I just wanted to bring up. He's 81% rostered. How do you feel about Brandon Cooks if you see him on your waiver wire? I don't like him this week. He'd be ahead of everybody that we talked about. Okay. Brandon Cooks is at Pittsburgh this week.

Fuller is not injured, is he? I think he is. It's one of those, we're going to get a limited practice throughout the week, but he's not on the injury report. He did leave the game and come back. It's like what happened to Boston Scott last week, where it looked like he was in trouble

and then was able to sort of work his way through it. There's a video of him getting stretched out on the sideline with his hamstring. Yeah. So, you know, just thinks that he's hurt again. He left early in the fourth quarter and didn't come back. After the game, it was reported he had a hamstring injury. Okay.

I thought he played through it without a target. But he's okay. No, bottom line is Will Fuller's got hamstring issues right now. You don't even need to say right now. Russell Gage. Nikhil Harry. I mean, Nikhil Harry had six targets in week one. Cam Newton threw 20 passes.

And then he had 12 targets. He's tied for the team lead in targets. Yeah. Yeah. It's two guys basically getting the bulk of it. He's 40% rostered. Gets Las Vegas this week. You guys like better, Nikhil Harry or Corey Davis?

Long term, Harry. Short term, Davis. I'll take Davis. MVS, 30% rostered. We talked about Golden Tate earlier and then you've got guys like Michael Pittman who's got an opportunity now with the Colts

and Keelan Cole and LaVisca Chenault so Cole's getting more targets and he's got 12 targets through two games who do you prefer Cole two good games yeah two good games or a row. Cole or Chenault? Chenault long-term. Cole right now.

I'll say Chenault for both because I feel like we've been burned by Keelan Cole a couple of times already in his career. Alright, if you want to just put someone on your bench, is it KJ Hamler, Jalen Rager, Brandon Ayuk?

Those three, who would it be? I think Rager's got the most upside if they start to use him a little bit different. Right now, he's just running downfield, but had four catches after only one catch in week one. Ayuk is obviously a wild card because of Garoppolo, but Hamler, if he gets Drew Lockback, the opportunity is huge for him now without Sutton there.

So they're all kind of similar to me. And Pittman really belongs in this group more than the other group. Like, he's a guy you stash and wait and see on. Yeah, I mean, if you're putting him in this group, he's the best by far. I agree. But Chenault should probably be in this group too, because again,

he hasn't really done much. What do you do with the guys who are getting opportunities based on injury but we don't have a ton of faith in them? Like Trey Kwan Smith, Adam Humphries, Chris Hogan, Braxton Berrios, you know, guys like that. Scott Miller even. Yeah, you take them week to week.

That's all you can really do. And I think Trey Kwan's probably the most interesting of that group. I would hope if I'm the Saints and Drew Brees prior to the season said, That's all you can really do. And I think Traquan's probably the most interesting of that group. I would hope if I'm the Saints, and Drew Brees prior to the season said, breakout season coming for Traquan Smith, which I think we all laughed at because they bring in Sanders and obviously Thomas is there.

But if you look at the way the two guys played last night, Sanders looked lost and Traquan looked awesome. That was a pretty weak call on that block in the back, though, on Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah, it was terrible. I took out two guys, though. If Sammy Watkins is out, are you interested in Demarcus Robinson or Nicole Hardman? I'd be a little interested in Hardman.

Not this week. No. No, not against Baltimore. Okay. If Sammy Watkins is out long-term, then it's a different story. Tight ends. We got John U. Smith, who's 80% rostered. Mike Kosicki, Dalton Schultz

Jordan Reed. Thankfully we've already gone through most of these guys Schultz does look like he has a pretty tough matchup at Seattle. They've done well against Hayden Hurst and then New England doesn't really throw to the tight end much. Although Jakob Johnson called a touchdown that counted as a tight end

touchdown Jordan Reed big game two touchdowns on eight targets at the Jets. Drew Samples got Washington. They were bad against the Eagles tight ends. They were good against Arizona for what that's worth. Mo Alley-Cox gets the Jets, who just gave up two touchdowns to Jordan Reed. So you could see a lot of people going after him.

Jordan Akins, 55 yards in week two, 39 yards and a touchdown in week one. He's at Pittsburgh this week. Tyler Eifert gets Miami this week. He had a touchdown, three for 36 and a touchdown. And so far, the Dolphins, they've been fine, but they face New England and Buffalo. And Knox got concussed in that game.

Yeah, so not much to go off there. So, yeah, I mean, anything you want to say about these guys? Gasicki, Schultz, Reed, Sample, Moe Alleycox, Akins, Eifert. I mean, Gusecki, if he's going to do that consistently, he's going to be awesome. He's not going to do that consistently though. But you know, the, the thing is, is this is the type of player that can be a difference maker. You know,

I'll go back to, I said the preseason, you know, they're going to use them a lot and, and, and they like him and you know, it's a, it's, it's sort of a difference maker. I'll go back to what I said in the preseason. They're going to use him a lot, and they like him. It's sort of a concentrated offense, although Isaiah Ford getting as many targets as he did in Week 2 was interesting, and maybe Preston Williams needs some work to do. I just want to bring up one other sleeper, Logan Thomas. I know he had a bad game, but he had nine targets, and the Browns have been—he's got 17 targets in two games.

The Browns have been so bad against tight ends so far. It's a good call. So where would he slot in? Would you rather have Mo Alleycox or Logan Thomas? I'd rather have Logan Thomas long-term, but Mo Alleycox is better as long as Jack Doyle is out. Right. So Alleycox would probably get the nod for this week.

All right, then the DSTs we were going to talk about. The Colts against the Jets. Oh, yeah. Colts against the Jets. They're yeah. Colts against the Jets. They're the number one DST for me this week. Chargers against Carolina. See, the Chargers were dropped because they were playing the Chiefs,

but they played really well against the Chiefs. And the Cleveland Browns against Washington. These DSTs are pretty available, so that could be a high priority for people. And Michael Badgley, Rodrigo Blankenship, and Mason Crosby. All right.

Good show, guys. Thank you very much. Thumbs up. All right. Hey, okay. Yeah. Join us on Twitch. Happy NFL's hurt.

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great players. Yeah, it sucks. How do you feel good for anything when a guy like Saquon Barkley is done for the year? Yeah, it sucks. Or Corlin Sun is done for the year. It's not fun. Well, this was a great note to end the podcast on. Join us tonight on Twitch at 8 p.m. Eastern. Jamie will be there.

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