Fantasy Football Today - Waiver Wire! Jaylen Wright? Isaiah Likely? Maybe a DST Instead? Best Options for Weeks 15 and 16 (12/09 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

Who are the top priorities this week (4:15)? What are we supposed to do with Jaylen Wright knowing that De'Von Achane is trending in the right direction? Is Isaiah Likely the best tight end this week, and is this the week to prioritize a DST? We also talk about all of the shallow league players (14:00) that could be available like Jaxson Dart, Jauan Jennings, Brock Purdy, Dalton Kincaid and Harold Fannin Jr. among many others ... FAB strategy (22:40), news and notes (26:00) and our Top 3 at each position: QB (29:30), RB (30:45), WR (32:30), TE (34;05), DST (39:00) and Kicker. We also give you some Week 16 advice if you have a bye this week ... Options in shallow leagues (45:05) and deep leagues (49:30), a recap of Eagles-Chargers (53:00), the Dropometer (58:00) and a longer look at the waiver wire (1:01:00) at each position ... Email us at [e-mail] Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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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And if you're listening, watching, probably you're having a successful season, or you just really like to show. Either way, thank you very much. And thank you guys for crushing it on the WaiverWire. Thinking about some of my successful teams and the Michael Wilson's of the world and all the WaiverWire claims that we made. And you go back and look at your draft. You had a lot of duds, most likely.

It happens to everyone. waiver wire has been huge. Good morning, fellas. I was trying to think of the waiver wire team of the year. I'm starting to get that idea. You know, I do the teams at the end of the year, like the best teams. And I think we have. Yeah, I got to go back and look and see what Stafford's roster percentage was.

Oh, yeah, sure. Right. But the ones that stand out, Berset is certainly in the conversation. Rico Dada is the running back by far. Michael Wilson is probably the best wide receiver, even those only three games. Wow. You know, there are a lot of fun guys that we picked up off the waiver water that have been big contributors to a lot of people getting to this point. Fun guy.

That's a type of mushroom. So I should talk. One of the kind of mushrooms. There we go. I wasn't sure if you were going to chime in or not, but there you go. Nice work. Well, we won't pat ourselves in the back too much, but congratulations to Dave, Jamie and Heath in the podcast. You guys absolutely crushed it.

Dave and Jamie won their division. Heath is going to be, I think, in fourth place, but he has one of the highest scores. You guys were great. That was not my best league, my best team this year, but you guys represented very well. All right, we'll get our top three waiver wire priorities. Reminder, if you're in the FFT Open. Today, there are only two teams left in each division.

So championship round of the divisions, and whoever wins this week moves on to the FFT Open semifinals. And then the top, I believe, eight scores will move on to the FFT Open finals in week 17. I think I won. Did you? I think so. That's great. Way to go.

And if you're in the FFT Open, if you're not in the FFT Open division finals, please do not make any add drops. I think there were about seven ad drops that I had reversed last week. So let's cut that to zero. All right. Top three waiver wire priorities. Boy, the first one's really tough. It's injury related.

But Jamie, give me the top three priorities. So for me, it's going to be still Jalen Wright won, even though Devon Aten looked like he's going to be okay. Luther Burden is going to be two And then for three It's a little bit of I think Depending on what you need Because you might need a quarterback this week

We have a couple of tough situations With clearly some injuries And then you're looking at You know some matchups that are tough Jacoby Verset being one of them But I also think when you look at the tight ends It's not a bad idea to get another starter there And Isaiah likely taking on the Bengals

He's been very good six targets each the last two weeks So I'm going to put likely third So the reason I still like Jalen Wright at the top is because while there's clearly it sounds like there's no issues with Devon H&M playing this week, it's still a Monday night game. And if I'm the Devon H.N. H.N. manager, I want to make sure I have Jailen Wright roster just in case we get to the weekend and his ribs aren't feeling right or they just want to make sure he's 100%, blah, blah, blah. You never know how these go. So I still want Jailen Wright on my team. But if you're not the HM manager, is Wright still the number one guy to? get? Well, I think there's, again, you know, we don't know how this is all going to play out. You know, pain tolerance is probably the biggest issue here because it sounds like you could have

gone back in the game. So would you want to have Jalen Red on your team if he ends up starting this weekend? I would. I would, except the thing is if I don't have A-chan or let's say Jalen Warren, somebody on this Monday night game, right, and I pick up right, we may not even know by Sunday when we have to set our lineups. I don't. I don't think it's a bad idea to get them. Yeah, but it could obviously not work out. So you'll have to make the decision. If you have a buy this week, then you're probably not picking up Jalen Wright.

And the latest is that A-chan is feeling better, does as Jamie was saying, feeling like he's trending toward playing. Dave, who are your top three? Wright's not in there, but I agree with Jamie that if you've got Devon A-chan on your team, you better go get him and make him a priority. I put the 49ers DST as my top ad, 51% available. If you can't get them, the Jaguars against Brady Cook and the Jets, it looks like it could be that. That's 48% available. Either one of those two DSTs, I would prioritize,

assuming you don't have a stud DST already. Very few fantasy managers do. Then after that, it's Devin Singletary and Blake Corum, not with a lot of confidence. Both of those guys could put up double-digit PPR point numbers, and that would be great. And I believe that one of them, Singletary has a good matchup this week

but we know he's going to be sharing with Tyrone Tracy Blake Korm sharing obviously with Kairn Williams. I gave you four. That's my top three. The best thing about the 49ers is now they get the Titans this week. They get the Colts with whatever quarterback situation is going to be there next week.

Might be the greatest quarterback ever. Yeah, we're going to talk about week 16 for those of you who don't need anything for week 15. But you also could make a case, I guess you could make a case that Marcus Mario would be one of the top priorities. He's got the Giants this week. I don't even know if it's going to be him.

Do you need a quarterback? And if you do, then Marcus Mariotta would be at the top of the list, yes. If not him, CJ Strz. Yes. That's a good top two. You think about quarterback, right? And there's two that I'll ask you about. There's Jacoby Brissette at Houston.

And there's Mahomes facing the Chargers. You go look at Mahomes in tough matchups this year, and it hasn't been good. except week one against the Chargers when he ran very successfully. So if you have Brissette or Mahomes, are you looking at Marioita or Stroud? Brissette, yes. And I know he's been so consistent over 20 fantasy points

and eight straight starts since taking over for Kyler Murray. But we've seen this Houston defense dismantle two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL this season in Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. and so it's hard to say that it's hard to say that as good as Brissette has been that he is going to be the one to solve this problem,

this Houston problem. And I think volume is definitely going to be a big key for him. We talked about this on Express yesterday, Adam, like the Texan's offense doesn't do enough, at least they haven't so far this season, where the defense takes their foot off the gas late in games. And that makes it a problem for Berset's, that to just go out and say, okay, he's going to get some easy garbage time points.

Now, he can clearly get you, I think he's going to be 18 to 20. I don't think he's going to be a 12, 13, 14 point guy this week. I just think he throws the ball too much that he'll find a way, even if it's a multiple interception game, to still be productive, that you're not going to have a Jalen Hertz type game. That being said, I don't want to trust that when I think Mariotas has proven also to be a pretty successful fantasy quarterback and has a great matchup. And C.J. Stroud has a pretty good matchup as well. So it's a tough call. I have, I think, I have a lot of shares of Jacoby Percette. I have one,

I think, where I don't have him on a buy this week and have to play him. And I'm going to consider Mariotta if he starts in place of Jane James. I don't think there's anything wrong with adding Mariota or Stroud and then making the decision a little bit later in the week. You don't have to make the decision on Tuesday. You might have to make a decision on how to prioritize your waivers, but at least there's multiple quarterbacks, and there's more than just Marioada and Stroud. I mean, you can make the case for Shuck or Bryce Young or even J.J. McCarthy and Shudor Sanders, two guys that played better than expected this week.

I wouldn't want to start them. I am not recommending them in one QB leagues, but I think if you're, if you've got Brissette and nothing else, at least get another quarterback so you have somebody to go to in the event that you get cold feet on Brissette. Yeah, so, oh, man, McCarthy with a good game and gets Dallas and the Giants in his next two games. It's pretty tempting to pick him up. But anyway, sorry, what was like, oh, you talked about them, the Texans doing great against the top of, since two of the great quarterbacks.

How about this? The Texans this year have faced the top three quarterbacks in fantasy, Alan, Stafford, and Mahomes. those three guys combined in six-point-per-pass and touchdown leagues, Alan Stafford and Mahomes combined for 28.2 fantasy points against the Texans. Five quarterbacks scored more than that last week alone. So it's really, it's like, you could see, Brissette's done well against Green Bay. He's done well against Seattle.

He's done well against the Rams. But Texans are in another. The Colts one, they were good. He throws 45 times. He does. But I looked into that too, and I don't mean to make this a start or sit-per-setting, but it's a big decision, right? When did he not throw 40 or more times?

It was a 27-17 win at Dallas and a 27-23 loss against Green Bay through 36 passes. So they're probably not going to win this game. But, you know, they've had a few games where they've allowed about 27 points, or 20 to 27 points, and he's still through 40 or more passes. So that's encouraging. The other two games where they didn't give up that many points. They didn't give up 30 or more. He threw 31 and 36 passes.

So we can ballpark. You're probably going to throw 35 or more passes. I don't know if he's going to get to 40 this week. But he pretty much always does six out of eight times. No, no, that can't be right. I would take the over. If you're the Berset manager, you get through this week. Yeah, I know.

Because then it's Atlanta and Cincinnati. Like, it couldn't get any better. Yeah, it's amazing. All right. So to recap, Jamie says Jalen Wright, Luther Burden, and Isaiah likely. and Dave says the 49ers DST against Tennessee, Jacksonville DST against the Jets, Devin Singletary.

We think Tyrone Tracy is going to be fine, but they've got Washington. They've been running the ball kind of a lot lately. And Blake Corum, and who was the fourth one you gave? Well, the Niners and the Jaguars, one of those two. I wouldn't get both of them. Yeah, good call. That's kind of silly.

You don't need them both. But one of those DSTs plus Singletary plus quorum, and then if I put another name on there, now I'm giving you five names, Luther Burton would be next up like Jamie had. Yeah, Luther Burton's got Cleveland, unfortunately, but Cleveland could be without Denzel Ward, their top cornerback.

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what I think makes this week tricky is you got Jackson Dart and Brock Purdy available in some leagues, especially if you look on Sleeper and ESPN and Yahoo. You're talking about 70% roster percentage for Jackson Dart, who's got Washington. Brock Purdy has Tennessee. You've got even Tyrone Tracy is available. Devin Neal is available in a decent amount of leagues. So the shallow league guys kind of complicate this. Jamie, if we were going to throw the shallow league guys in there

with the Jalen Wrights and Luther Burdens and Isaiah likely... And shallow league at tight end is like a bounty of great options. Harold Bannon Jr., Dalton Schultz in a terrific matchup against Arizona, stuff like that. You know, are those guys the ones to be looking at if they're available? Without a doubt. I mean, you know, there's a reason why, like, like if you read the column like I I try not to have that section so as as deep as it is because

like it's not supposed to be you know really meant for those guys but I don't want to you know leave anybody out and you know it's it's always sort of tricky from our perspective with our roster percentages like where do I cut it off because like you can you can make a case there's some guys that are roster on our site at like 85% they're available in like 60% of leagues on other places so yes you know when you look at the quarterbacks I love Brock Party this week. It might be the start of the week. Jackson Dart, you know, I'm curious to see how he's going to do second game after, you know, the concussion.

And will he run a little bit more with the matchups so good against Washington? You mentioned the running backs. There's, you know, a handful of guys, you know, that are, you know, not just the Devon Neals of the world. But like you said, Tyrone Tracey. Chris Rodriguez, Chuba Hubbard. Chuba Hubbard, the last time we saw him was amazing. Like you mentioned, Chris Rodriguez, you know, taking on the Giants, you know, at wide receiver, we have Joanne Jennings, who, you know, has scored a touchdown in four of his last five games.

Mike Evans potentially coming back this week. Jaden Higgins has been, you know, a very solid, you know, contributor. And, and, you know, Dalton Schultz, Donald Kincaid, you know, the Harold Fan. Like, there's just so many options out there. And the thing about it is, you know, it's a plus and a minus at this point in the season because you may get some scenarios of players that were dropped, you know, in the case of a Jackson daughter, or Tyrone Tracy, or a Brock Purdue, Juan Jennings, you know, guys that were going into their buy weeks that fantasy managers have some tough calls to make that we're fighting

for playoff spots so that might be available on the other side of it though you're going to get some teams that are just you know because they're not making transactions anymore they're locked on their rosters and they may have dropped those players for this week for other moves so i think if you see those guys out there like those are break-the-bank waiver wire guys if you need to win because you need to win yeah by the way for those of you watching i do like wearing this shirt on the air because it makes everybody think i'm topless so enjoy that I see all the comments. This is an actual shirt.

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If we could just continue that shallow league conversation specifically at running back, let's say, Dave, you gave Devin Singletary as one of your top waiver wire priorities, but I think it's just as risky as Jaylon. Well, it's not just as risky as Jalen Wright, because Singletary has a role. Correct.

But I'm going to throw out these names for you, and you tell me, if Devin Singletary is available, would you take him or... I'm probably going to take about every... everybody you're about to name. Tyrone Tracy. Absolutely. Kenneth Gainwell.

Yep. Over Singletary. Okay. How about Chuba Hubbard? Yep. Devin Neal. Yep. Tony Pollard.

Yep. Chris Rodriguez. What's the scoring? What's the format? Half. Might take Singletary. I mean, Rodriguez's got the Giants this week, you know. This could be finally...

And Singletary has the... Yeah, who's going to get more carries? It's a good question. It's not... They just won't give Chris Rodriguez the huge share. He's about 58% of the carries, usually, which is not... We haven't seen them play with the lead in about a year, so... That's true.

I wonder what would happen if they're playing with elite. They're underdogs at the Giants, I believe. Tony, like, who's the best of this bunch? I know we usually save the shallow league until later, but I'm just surprised at the roster percentages for these guys, but a lot of people have given up. So, Jamie, who's the best out of Gainwell, Ramandre, Tyrone, Tracey, Chuba Hubbard, Devin Neal, great matchup this week against Carolina,

Tony Pollard and Chris Rodriguez. If Tracy's healthy, I'll go with Tracy with Neil right behind him, but the thing about Neil is you have to wait to see if Cameras healthy because of Camara's healthy, then Neil becomes somewhat worthless. So I think in the case of Tracy seems like he's fine. I was trying to find some updated news item on him yesterday. And the only thing I saw, which is a positive thing, like he did a charity event and seemingly was fine during the biweek. So I'm guessing based on the reporting and everything that we heard right after the injury, that he's going to be okay. And so, you know, I don't have him in the top

24 but he's a high inflex and you know it as we talked about this yesterday with singletary like we have a very interesting sample size of what tracy and singletary have done post cam scadaboo and it sort of i don't know if transcends the right word but you know goes through the coaching change it goes through the quarterback injury and you know they don't necessarily coincide with each other because singletary was outperforming tracy before dable was fired and then the two games with Kafka, the first of the game is the Kafka, Tracy took off, but that was also without Jackson Dart. It was the James Winston. So then Dark comes back and Tracy gets hurt. So I don't really know about how good Tyrone Tracy will be, but the matchups is fantastic. Just a quick note on

the Giants running backs. Their last five games since the Scataboo injury, Tyrone Tracy has 68 carries, Devin Singletary has 58 carries. The yards per carry is pretty similar, slight edge to Tracy, 4.0 to 3.8. This, though, is a reason maybe to think about getting Singletary. Singletary has six carries from the three-yard line or closer in this stretch. Tracy has won. In terms of receiving numbers, Tracy's run about twice as many routes, twice as many third-down routes. He has three more catches and six more targets over those five games.

Singletary, likely the goal line guy. Likely, not guaranteed, but likely at the goal line. All right. Let's go to Dave, your Fabogy, which we decided is our fab strategy. What's your Fabi these days? It comes down to how desperate you are for a given position. If you just lost Jane Daniels, you don't have a backup. Yeah, you're going to spend a little bit more than normal on a quarterback.

If your DST is the Lions or the Rams because they play each other, you're probably going to want to find a different DST and you'll spend a little more than one or two percent of your fab bucks to get that top DST. Same thing with running backs. I think the biggest spend might be by the A-chan manager who does not have Jalen Wright. You want to lock him up. You want to make sure you've got him just in case something's wrong come Monday night. Like Jamie talked about, I would want to spend, if I've got it, 10 to 15 percent of my original

budget on Jalen Wright. And you might even be able to get him closer for 10 than 15 because I don't know how many other people who don't have A-chan in your league are going to spend that much to get him. The only person who might would be the team that's playing you in the first round. They might play a little defense, try and get Jalen Wright. They might be willing to spend that 10% of that to get the guy that you want and have him in case A-chan's out. Hopefully we'll get more information on A-chan. If we do, we'll tell you on CBS Sports Network.

We haven't had a show on CBAWire show on CBS Network in a few weeks, but we're back today. at 1 p.m. Eastern, so I believe through the rest of the fantasy season, I don't know about week 18, but yeah, Tuesdays at 1 p.m. Eastern and Thursdays at 1 p.m. Eastern. I don't think we have a show this Thursday, but we'll keep you updated on this schedule. Tune in to CBS Sports Network. Yeah, next Thursday we're back there, and I think next Tuesday as well. All right. If you're in the FFT Open, by the way, if you're one of the 48 people who are still in the FFT Open, spend all your FAB, because once you get to the next round, you don't need it anymore. You're going to be the only team left in your division.

You can pick up whoever you want. You don't need any FAP. 24 leagues in the FFT Open. In those 24 leagues, how many teams, how many times you think the Justin Jefferson manager made the FFT Open playoffs, which would be the top four? So I looked at the teams that finished top four, how many of them had Justin Jefferson, anywhere from zero to 24? Eight.

two seven very good dave how many of those 24 had uh he loses oh sorry yeah how many had jackson smith and jigba 15 10 20 20 of the leagues had jackson smith and jigba in the playoffs he's going to be when Jamie writes that win percentage column he could be way up there and yeah all right I just wanted to shit out.

No, not in the FFT open no. But I had a couple win and ins and got in FFT League. I saw one of the analyst leagues you got in with a winning in. Yeah, FFT and Superflex.

Yeah. FFT League I won with Jalen Hertz. We got to talk a lot about that game. Yikes. Two turnover. I'll tell you what I do, man. Two turnovers at the same time. All right. News. You don't know that one, Dave? Not a clue. Oh, that's office space. All right. News and notes. The neighbor. Yeah. I know you don't have a clue at him. What's that? Nothing. Nothing. Go ahead.

Okay. I didn't hear you, but screw you. News and notes. Have we heard anything on time? Rod Taylor? Yes. Aaron Glenn, who loves to talk injuries, said that they are still working through their quarterback situation for this week because Justin Fields has also hurt. Right. Okay, well, they have Jacksonville on the road.

So Daniel Jones is out for the season. Riley Leonard is apparently week to week with a knee injury. The Colts are working out Philip Rivers. Dave, you said it would be Brett Rippin if it's not Philip Rivers? It would be Brett Rippin as of this moment because he's the only healthy quarterback that the Colts have right now. Leonard's week to week. That's usually a bad sign.

Anthony Richardson isn't ready. So it's Rippin. And then they need a second quarterback. Philip Rivers has been with the Colts before. He's trained Brett Rippin. He is seemingly interested in and apparently has already passed a physical. So, wow. There's a chance that old man, Philip Rivers makes one last run in the NFL.

Yeah. He's not even in my league at all. All right. Jaden Daniels elbow. I might pick him up just for the sentimental value. Jaden Daniels has not been ruled out, by the way. He might. So we talk about Mario-Ota.

It's not like Daniels has been. In fact, he could have come back in the game, apparently. Gino Smith has a shoulder injury. Kenny Pickett replaced him. And Shadur Sanders is going to start for the rest of the season. Devon A. Chan, Ribs. We think he's going to be able to play. Nick Chubb also, Ribb is.

injury. Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan could be back this week. They play Thursday against Atlanta. T. Higgins is in the concussion protocol. Drake London is day-to-day. They play Thursday at Tampa Bay. C.D. Lamb is progressing through the concussion protocol. They have Minnesota.

Ooh, boy, that's a fun one in terms of matchups. Minnesota, amazing right now against the pass. And C.D. Lamb working its way through concussion protocol. Tight end. I haven't seen anything on Mason Taylor. you just repeated yourself what you said CD lamb twice

I know I was I feel like it was just part of one thought I hope he said two CD lambs at the same time Mason Taylor has a stinger but I haven't seen

I think he's probably okay darn out Washington concussions Zach Ertz ACL he's out for the season Kate Otten missed practice short week against Atlanta probably fine. Kyle Pitts was limited

and David Adjoku's got a knee injury. Boy, the Chargers and the Eagles, they couldn't really afford to lose more offensive linemen, and they both did. Landon Dickerson for the Eagles left in the second quarter. Trey Pipkins, the right tackle

for the Chargers. He left in the second quarter. Arizona, if you want it... Something in my throat. You want another reason to be afraid of Chikobi Brissette, left tackle Paris Johnson, left with a knee injury

they're at Houston this week. Well, Tristan Worves could play. for the Bucks, but left guard, Ben Bredesen, is out this week. And there's a lot of defensive cornerback stuff. But I'm going to skip it. Let's go to the top three at each position. Get some more names for you for the waiver wire. Jamie, who are the top three quarterbacks?

Oh, we talked about two of them. Mariotta would be one for me if there is no Jane Daniels, but something you have to keep an eye on there. Two would be C.J. Stroud, just a great matchup. I know he hasn't exactly been a great fantasy quarterback Jackson's coming back from the concussion, but a much better situation. He's been much better at home. The last two games for him were on the road.

And then I have Tyler Shuck third. He's been over 20 fantasy points, three of his last four games. And his best game during that stretch was against Carolina when he had 22.9 points in week 10. So hopefully history repeats itself. But Shuck with his arm, with his legs, he's doing some nice things right now. So not a bad situation for him. Boy, these are not like super great options, are they?

Well, I mean, again, when you bring up Brock Purdy and Jackson Darry, and some of the guys that might be available in shallower leagues, then, yes, he'd rather have those guys than this trio. Mariotto's certainly been able to hang with those guys from a point perspective situation. So he's probably a little bit safer. But, yes, Stroud has been very difficult to trust. But again, you're playing against Arizona.

That's what you're hoping for. And in the case of shock, again, you know, I don't think anybody's expected him to be performing like he's performing. So he's been better than some of the guys we've been counting on. Dave, who are the top three running backs? Devin Singletary is at the top of the list for me, 57% available. The one B back for the Giants, and I think he will be the one who bellies up at the goal line. Good matchup this week against the commanders.

Blake Corm is next. We've seen his role improve over the last couple of weeks. He had a huge game last week. I don't think he can do that this week, but I think he'll still be in the neighborhood of like 10 touches. You're hoping he scores. He's not a great start. He's more of a desperation start. But, man, if anything happens to Kyron Williams or 13.

The Rams just are able to run the ball effectively this week. Then by all means, Blake Corn will be great. Then there's a giant gap as far as running backs to pick up. I've got Dylan Sampson third. I'm not real excited about it. He might get you 10 PPR points. He's definitely not the lead back for the Cleveland Browns, but he will catch some passes in what I think will end up being a close game with the Bears on Sunday.

Dylan Sampson. Okay. So, Dave, I'm going to ask you what I have. Jamie earlier, who would be, let's say, your two or three favorites if all of these players were available? And they're not in most CBS leagues, but Sleeper, Yahoo,

ESPN, I see the roster percentages for a lot of these guys are much lower. So Gainwell, Ramandre Stevenson, Tyrone Tracy, Chuba Hubbard, Devin Neal, Tony Pollard, Chris Rodriguez. Trace is a top 24

running back for me this week in PPR. So he would be at the top of the list. I've got Neal 2nd. I've got Gainwell next. Okay. Let's go to the wide receivers. Jamie, who are the top three wide receiver priorities? Luther Burden is number one,

hoping to build off what he did last week, depending obviously on Romo Dunzei's health. So keep that in mind when it comes to burden, because I don't know if he'll be as productive or have the chance to be as productive if O'Donzee is there. I have Jayon Reed next played the third most snaps of the Packers wide receivers this past weekend. I think he's going to get better.

as the season progresses. At least that's the hope. So he would be the guy that I would look to, especially if you have a buy this week. And then this is very similar to Jalen Wright. So correct me on the correct pronunciation of Ryan's last name? Flanoi. More time, Adam?

No R apparently. Flanoi. So he would be third if C.D. Lambs out, not a great matchup, but obviously you saw what he was capable of doing, which is dominant against Detroit. So you want pieces of this Dallas offense and not a bad guy to stash.

on your team just in case. All right, let's, let's solve this mystery once and for all because the audience told me I was saying, yeah, I was saying it wrong. All right, I have an NFL pronunciation guide, so Flannoy is, is how it is spelled out here. All right, Dave, top three tight ends. I'm confused on the pronunciation. You're telling me it's Flonoy? No, Flah, Flanoi. Flanoy.

Flanoy. Like you're flanoiing me. Oh, he's so flan-I. I haven't heard his name said that way ever. Yeah, Ryan Flinoy. I've always heard flora. All right. Tight ends.

Double check for Fanon, double check for pits. Isaiah likely is the best tight end that you can get off the waiver wire this week. He could leave you eye and dry, but he's also been the last two weeks, six targets, minimum, double-digit PPR points, minimum.

Should have had a monster game last week, still had a really good game last week. And I think Lamar Jackson's getting better. And he's taking on the Bengals that allowed, well, it was like at least seven or six PPR points and changed to three different tight ends last week. Two of them were huge. Another one, Jackson Oz caught a touchdown.

So likely to me is the best tight end you can get off the waiver wire. Then it's a gap, Gisicki and Dalton Schultz. And that's my top three, likely Gisicki Schultz. there's no matchup quite like Cincinnati but Schultz against Arizona that's a really good matchup too and he's just been a lot more reliable than likely

Jamie you also have likely number one is it close with Schultz yes yeah I mean look Schultz has been very consistent two of the last three not great but four of the last six you know depending how much how long you want to look at the sample size

11 or more and four of his last six but two of the last three, you know, I had the Buffalo matchup in there, which wasn't good. And then last week was a little frustrating. But I think you're just taking the chance on his involvement in the offense and the matchup against the Cardinals, which is top five or top ten and most fantasy points allowed to the position. Yeah, Schultz had a touchdown call back last week at the Chiefs. But two of the last three games been bad for him, but they've been Buffalo is number one

against tight ends in Kansas City, I think is number six or seven. Arizona's 25th. Dave, you didn't mention Colston Loveland, interested. in him. He's got the Browns. They are 11th. Been pretty good lately against tight ends. I don't mind him. I think he's a high floor PPR tight end. I just like the other guys.

A little bit more. In the case of Gisicki and Schultz, like I'd rather take the chance on them over Loveland at this point. But you can put him next up on the list behind it. And if you like him better, go ahead. Just keep in mind with Giski. We've already seen this once already with no T. Higgins against Baltimore and he was bad.

Right. So like total high risk, high reward. word type play with Gasecki. But if he, am I saying that right? Gaseki? I think it's Gasecki, isn't it? I mean, it's spelled Gassiki. Let's see.

Let's see if he's even in here. You rocked my world on Gassi. Gisci. Ryan F. Yeah. Okay. So, all right, let's recap here. Is it Loveland or Lovelin?

Loveland. So let's recap, Marcus, Mario, Ta. The top three quarterbacks, Marcus Mario Ta at the Giants, C.J. Stroud against Arizona, Tyler Shuck against Carolina. But obviously, take a look at Jackson, Dart, Brock, Purdy, maybe even Sam Darnold. You guys like Darnold this week? A low-end starter. Okay. Running backs, Devin Singletary, Blake Corum.

Singletaries against Washington, Corum, against Detroit, Dylan Samson at Chicago. But, of course, take a look at all these shallow league guys I keep mentioning. Wide receivers, Luther Burden against Cleveland, Jaden Reed at Denver. Ryan Flanoi against Minnesota. I just got it from the Cowboys, you're right. Yeah, and tight ends. It's not me who was right. It was the audience who called me out for I was saying Flournoy.

Tight ends. Isaiah likely at Cincinnati. Mike Asicki against Baltimore, Dalton Schultz against Arizona. Of the 12 players that I read, unless I need someone very specifically, like for I need this position this week. And maybe I have a buy or maybe, I guess if this were just a regular season.

I think Luther Burden would be my favorite. I don't know how long Dunez is out, so it's obviously contingent on that. But he led the team in receiving. I think he's really good. You guys feeling that? You know, these other guys feel just like kind of one week, most of them anyway.

Well, I mean, yeah, in the case of the two running backs that we like, whatever, whatever, you know, whichever one you want to listen to me or Dave, you know, they could be great. They could be terrible. you know, Tyrone Tracy's healthy and dominating touches again, and Singletor doesn't score like he's going to be bad. And obviously, Jalen Wright is so tied to the injury situation for Devon H.

N. He's going to be next to nothing if A.C.N.'s healthy. In the case of the quarterbacks, Jane Daniels may play, so that ruins Mario-Ota, and C.J. Stroud has been terrible the last two weeks, fantasy-wise. So I think it's between burden and the tight ends. Fair enough. Okay. So that's those top four positions. And Dave did not say Jalen Wright, but Jamie has Jalen Wright as his number one priority this week.

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Yeah, and, you know, depending on the roster percentage, it could be the same one for the next two weeks, especially if the Colts quarterback situation is still a mess. So it's the 49ers. They get the Titans. I know we got burned by this last week because the Browns decided to not show up and play defense this week.

But this has been arguably the best matchup of any DST for the season. The Titans' offense is typically bad. I don't think Tony Pollard will do that. I think Cam Ward will probably turn the ball over. They're coming off their by. They should be rested, hopefully as close to healthy as they can be for what they're dealing with for the course of the season. But this should be a great scenario for the 49ers' DST to be a league winner.

And as Dave said, the Jaguars right behind them with their matchup as well against the Jets and Brady Cook or even a banged up Terod Taylor or even Justin Fields. Whoever starts a quarterback for the Jets, we've seen some bad play at times. Taylor has been the most competent, as you would explain. expect, but Jaguars defense at home, their last two games at home, Chargers, they destroyed. Last week, they were fantastic. I think they'll be great again this week. So it's, well, I guess Daniel Jones getting hurt, you know, help that.

But there's a lot to like about both these DSTs. But if you're just looking for one, the top one is the 49ers. Okay. Yeah. And boy, it could really make such a difference in your, in your roster. So maybe you make them, Dave, already made the case to make the Niners and the Jaguars, your top overall priority. Another DST that's playing out of its mind right now

is the Dolphins. I mean, four straight great games, 10 sacks in their last two games. Five of their last six, they've been really good with Baltimore being the only exception, and they're at Pittsburgh on Monday night. They weren't on your list, Jamie.

You have any interest in them? 56%. I think they're roster into many leagues, I'm not mistaken. 56%. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see that. But I thought, I mean, look, I don't know that we should.

I don't know what we should buy it. into them but this this is this is probably it's as strange it as to say their toughest test of that stretch uh one of those teams was buffalo but other than that yes yeah yeah okay i like them but i i would trust the niners of the jaguars more than the dolphin and i mean you know rogers history like he's not going to throw a lot of interceptions without something fluky happening yeah he should have had one this weekend he does not throw picks when you're flying emirates business class Sipping your favorite cocktail at our onboard lounge. You'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over.

Fly Emirates. Fly better. And let's talk about kickers, Jamie. Who are the kickers to get? I think you go Cam Little against the Jets. They give up a lot of fantasy points at the position. McPherson, last time he faced Baltimore, had 24 fantasy points. I don't know if you want to count on that, but they struggled in the red zone. First game back for Virgo.

Eddie Pinero is expected to be healthy. He's been great for the majority of his tenure with the 49ers. So as long as he's playing, you take a chance on him against the Titans. Harrison Mivas and Butthead against the Lions. So he could count on that there. And then Chris Boswell coming off a strong game, gets the dolphins at home. I think it will probably be a low-scoring game. So Boswell's been good for the majority of the season, too.

And just maybe take a look at the weather. I know it's kind of a long way out, but we're focused on indoor kickers. or something like that. That could always be a factor as well. Just to help you out in week 16, if you're listening, you have a buy some players that you might consider.

Well, the dolphins are at the Bengals. Actually, they're home against the Bengals. So Tua, I don't know. Yeah. Darren Waller maybe, although Greg Dolsich is kind of out snapping him. Waller, I think, running more routes. Maybe hang on to your Chargers,

past catchers at Dallas next week. week, maybe think about JJ McCarthy. He changed things up considerably. He got the ball out really quickly and played well against Washington. He obviously got Dallas this week and then the Giants next week. So if he does well against Dallas

this week or at Dallas, then you might buy into him at the Giants, J.J. McCarthy in week 16. Devin Neal, if he's still the starter, gets the Jets, they've given up something like 17 touchdowns, the running backs. I give up a ton of touchdowns. The Atlanta offense at Arizona.

the Pittsburgh offense at Detroit. Those are some of the better matchups for week 16. And, Jamie, you actually have a segment in your column for DSTs for week 16. 49ers atop the list. They got the Colts on the road. The Vikings are at the – oh, yeah. The Vikings at the Giants. Well, actually, you know, I forgot Jackson Darts.

Not bad. Saints against the Jets, Cardinals against the Falcons. And I'll throw Kansas City. They're 66% rostered. but Kansas City gets the Chargers this week, you could certainly get to the quarterback and Tennessee next week. So they're not a bad option, right, Dave, Kansas City, DST?

Not bad at all. Okay. All right, let's take a break. Shallow leagues, deep leagues, Monday night recap, a lot to unpack from that game and anything we miss from the waiver wire when we come back. Reason number 37 why Nissan is built for our winter. Because winter getaways should be cozy, not cold.

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I don't know if we missed anything. We've covered a lot. You know what? I didn't say Joanne Jennings. I think I did. Oh, did you? Okay. All right, good.

He's been a guy that, like, you'd pick him up over Burden, right? Oh, he scored a touchdown for his last five games. Like, he's been the most consistent 49ers receiver all season, certainly in the last stretch, and that's gone over both quarterbacks. So I think just based on the matchup, yes, absolutely. He's a top 24 receiver this week. He's only getting six or seven targets most weeks, but, yeah, great. matchup number one wide receivers destroyed tennessee so jennings evans we haven't

talked about mike evans but it looks like he might play he and and jennings are rostered in about the same amount of leagues who do you prefer well i mean again evans going for 240 a game in the next five weeks so probably jennings did you adjust because it's only four weeks now yeah two he needs about probably about 200 a game i think it's 240 a game i think so it's pronounced Skisicki. Yeah, no kidding. Garrett Wilson, you could stash. So we've talked about all those running backs.

What did you say? Garrett Wilson could play this week. Really? That's an option. Well, this is the week that he's eligible to come off IR. Okay. I think they said, like, there was no update on Garrett Wilson. That was the last thing.

Again, there is no update on, but this is the week that he's eligible to return. So did I forget anyone in the shallow leagues? We talked about Purdy and Dart. We're not so thrilled. How about Trevor Lawrence? We're not so thrilled about Sam Darnal, I guess. But Trevor Lawrence is playing well. You like him?

I mean, yes. It's been two of his last three where he's been very good. And I think just looking at the matchup this week against the Jets, they're probably going to run all over them. So will he have to throw? But I think he can get you 18 plus points, sure. Trevor Lawrence has only rostered in 53% of leagues on Sleeper. always find sleeper Yahoo ESPN, they're pretty similar.

So I'm not going to check the other sites for him. But Trevor Lawrence or Brissette this week, Dave? I have Lawrence one spot higher. All right, all right. A little safer. Tight end. If we look at the shallow league tight ends, we've got Kincaid at New England.

We've got Waller at Pittsburgh. He killed them the last time they played. Yeah, he had six catches, 108 yards on six targets against New England in the first matchup. I don't think he's had more than six targets in a game all year. Oh, Dalton Kincaid is averaging 2.89 yards per route run. That is unbelievable. That is the most for a tight end since George Kittle and Mark Andrews in 2019. Darren Waller...

This is route rate average. It's probably about 55%. That's why. That's why. We've got Kyle Pitts, who's on fire right now. And again, London might play this week, but it's a Thursday game at Tampa Bay. He also had a good game against the Bucks in week one with London on the field. Okay.

Harold Fanon Jr., who's doing well, at Chicago, their 21st against tight ends. They've been better lately. Joanne Johnson against Carolina. Brenton Strange against the Jets. This is tough to think about these guys, you know, who are some of your favorites there? I'll run through the names real quick. Kincaid, Waller, Pitts, Fanon, Joanne Johnson, and strange and pit oh i said pits who are some of your favorites there i have pits fanning and

kinkade ranked ahead of tyler warren and travis kelsey this week pitts fanon mostly agree fanon first for me pits after that and then kelsey and kinkate are back to back yeah pitts is my favorite by far and when's the last time you said those words uh when you was drafted yeah at you have we, Dave, one of the reasons why in some of my leagues I didn't make the playoffs is because none of these guys are available in my leagues. So who are the deep leaguers to get me to week 16, get me through week 15, deep league options? So the good news, question mark after good is that Tyler Shuck, Bryce Young, J.J. McCarthy, Shudor, Sanders.

They're all available in north of 70% of leagues. That's the order in which I would go after them. Mario is at 67%. and he's ahead of that entire group. Can you say... It would be 100% available. Who's that? Who is?

Who is? 100%. Philip Rivers. She's... Dave, can you say that? Say that list again. I'm sorry. I missed the order.

The original list was Shuck, Bryce Young, J.J. McCarthy, Shudor Sanders. Okay. And I can make a case for any of them. Like, I thought that over the last two weeks,

There's been at least one game with Chuck. There's been two where they've played pretty well. And there's encouraging signs from all four of those quarterbacks. That's the point. Now, are they must starts? I wouldn't consider them must starts unless it's a two QB league. But if you're desperate for a quarterback and you can't get your hands on Marioada or Stroud or Percette, whatever, then that's who you're going to. It's not great.

But this is for the deep leagues, right, Adam? Yeah. Yeah, there we go. That's what I was looking for. All right. Amson, 86% available. It's about as good as it gets at running back. Otherwise, you're looking at backups.

Jalen Wright is 97%. You'd feel pretty good getting him. Other backups that you might be interested in, but they're probably not going to play that much. Or like Sean Tucker, Malik Davis, Keaton Mitchell, if he's healthy. There's not a lot. How about P. Ryan? Pryne is not terrible in this discussion, is it?

Go ahead and take your six PPR points with P. He's available in 88% of leagues. Luther Burden is 71% available. We've talked a ton about him. At this point, I'm not really stashing anybody, though. So if I'm picking up burden and I'm not going to start him, he better be the only receiver on my bench is what I'm saying there. Jalen Coker, 92% available.

You can turn back to John Mechie at 83% available, short area target if it's Brady Cook. Pat Bryant would also be someone that we would be stashing, but 94% available. Andre Yoshavas, 81% available. he could see an uptick without T. Higgins there. Tight end, likely, Gisicki, and Colby Parkinson. Yeah.

They're all available in 80% plus of CBS leagues, likely my favorite of those three. I'm glad you mentioned Yoshavus. I mean, usually we would be talking about him, but I think it's just the production wasn't quite good enough without Chase one week, without Higgins one week. But if C.D. Lamb doesn't play, I think it's pronounced Rion Flanoy. He, he's had a, let's see, a target per out run rate in, let's say, the five games without Lamb.

Lamb missed four, but four and a half because of last week. Target per out run rate's been 16.7%, which isn't good, but then 22.2%, 42.9%. 24%, 35.1%. It's really fun. Unfortunately, it's Minnesota, but he's 1% roster. All right. Let's talk about last night's game. Chargers winning in overtime, 22 to 19. A lot of turnovers. If you started A.J. Brown, you got a really good game from him, but it could have been even better.

He dropped a deep ball on the first play of the game. He had a touchdown call back on a holding penalty, but he seems to be locked in, and we're all going to start him. Jamie, give me an Eagles takeaway as Jalen Hertz scored 0.4 fantasy points through four interceptions, and he fumbled. So give me an Eagles takeaway, Jamie. Interception and fumble in the same play. It was crazy.

I would go right back to Jailen Hertz. Sequin Barkley's best he's look since the Giants game, so hopefully that's a sign of things to come. And then A.J. Brown, I think those are the must-start guys for the Eagles. Devante Smith is, at this point, I think you only consider him a starter in three-receiver leagues. He's probably going to still be ranked as a top 24 guy based on his potential. It's almost like you've got to put him in a similar situation, not as dire, but Justin Jefferson and these type of players,

that you probably don't have better. Like, you're not starting Luther burden over Devante Smith, you know, if we're talking about Waverware guys. But Smith has just been struggling. And I'm not going to buy Dallas Goddard doing this consistently. We just have not seen that from him. So plus the Raiders are actually good against tight ends. So Hertz, Barclay, Brown must starts next week.

Smith, probably still starter. Goddard, you got a great game if you started him. Congratulations. The Eagles schedule for the fantasy playoffs, two good games, one tough one. Raiders at home at Washington and then at Buffalo. let's get to week 17 before we fred about that uh Dave takeaways for the chargers man I got to look up their yards per play but I think they averaged around four yards per play they really sucked

and Herbert Herbert scored 14.2 I thought hampton everything looks so good for him then he got run over by Ngoby dean and like that was kind of the end of the fun for hampton but anyway your takeaways for the chargers I'm hoping hampton can dust himself off and and be ready to to go next week and take over the rushing workload. It was a close split as far as carries went between Hampton and Vidal. Vidal played almost 70% of the snaps to Hampton's 31%. Hampton, two of three inside the 10. I think we got a little lucky, obviously, with Hampton,

catching that touchdown on the first drive and then just hanging around enough and getting a decent run in a little bit later on in the game to boost his average over four yards per carry. I'm hoping this was a game where all the rusts is gone. He comes back in next week against Kansas City, not the easiest matchup in the world, but he ends up leading the way in terms of touches, playing time, et cetera, and Vidal goes into a smaller role. I'm nervous about everything else in this Chargers offense.

It stems from the offensive line. I don't know what the latest is on Trey Pipkins, but I know that when he went down, Bobby Hart came in and the offensive line got worse, and this is just a team that's going to continually get pressured and blitzed. it's going to force Herbert to throw the ball quickly. And you saw the numbers for all the receivers for the Chargers. I don't see this changing. I don't think we're going to see big games from McConkey, Johnston,

Keenan Allen, Gadsden, anytime soon, certainly not against Kansas City. And that means Justin Herbert, this, this to me is like a pretty decent game for him, given the circumstances that he has on top of, you know, the offensive line's bad, his left hand's broken, he's got to get the ball up fast. etc. I just think that Herbert shouldn't be counted on as a reliable fantasy quarterback moving forward. Most, if not all of the

quarterbacks that I talked about earlier, I have ranked ahead of Herbert this week. Wow. Yeah, well, look, they don't have a very easy schedule either. At Kansas City, especially think about this for Hampton, at Kansas City, at Dallas, which is kind of bad for running backs, good for the passing game, and then they finish with Houston

in week 17. So tough sledding going forward. McConkey, if you want to make an excuse for McConkey, Cooper to Gene just did a great job on him. And the Eagles, I think they gave up the fourth fewest receiving yards to slot receivers. So this was a tough matchup. The Chiefs have a great slot corner, too, a guy who can go in and out. But Macduffey got hurt last week.

So let's see if he comes back. No one's going to drop McConkey. But is everyone else in the Chargers passing game? Herbert, Gadsden, Allen, Johnston, dropable. Yes. Yep. Okay. All right. And that's it for that game. I don't have much on the dropometer. I'll take a look at the roster trend and see who's getting dropped.

But Michael Pittman, Alec Pierce, Tyler Warren. Obviously, Josh Downs is drovable. But you guys see yourself dropping Pitman, Pierce, or Warren? No. Definitely not Warren. And I don't want to drop those other two guys. Like, for example, I'd rather drop Emmanuel Wilson than Alec Pierce. That's a conversation.

Yeah, it was interesting. I dropped Pierce and I felt kind of crappy about it. Now I don't feel as bad about it. But two of the last three, again, I talked about this on the box score. Two of the last three games for the Colts. Actually, all three of the last three games. They have thrown for 200 or fewer yards.

All right, okay, they've had tough matchup. They have not had a good passing game. But Pittman and Pierce have had each of them two good games, 13 or more fantasy points in the last three. Downs has been invisible. and Warren has really struggled here. Warren has the best of the matchups, though, this week. It's the thing, like you're saying,

don't drop Pittman, Pierce. There's no way I'm starting them at Seattle, right? So if you have to make that decision. Unless you have no one else. If you have to make that decision, they might be on the chopping block. So I'm saying, you know, for a team that needs. That's true.

Yeah. Sure. Yeah, if your team's deep and you've got a bunch of receivers, then, yeah, they could be on the chopping block. You can make the move to add burden now. and then make the decision later in the week burden versus a Colts wide receiver. Yeah, I hope you don't have to drop them, but Seattle's super tough. Troy Franklin, 88% rostered.

You can drop him. Yeah, he's not playing enough. Darren Waller, 81% rostered. I'm holding him for week 16. The Bengals? I think you can drop them and then pick him back up before week 16. It's possible. Let's see who's being dropped.

Like, would you rather have? Who does likely have in Week 16? I could answer my own question. The Patriots. Oi. So we might not be as interested in starting likely. They're like 24th. Yeah, there's 24th or something.

Oh, that's true. That's true. Yeah, they've been better lately, though. I'm pretty sure we could find a tight end that's better than Waller at this point. Let's put Khalil Shakir on the drop-up. Can't find a match up better than what Waller has, though. For a team that's running the ball a ton, I don't know if it matters as much. Who is it, Khalil Shakir?

Well, they've been running because the other team's offenses have been so terrible. Like, I think this is the... Yeah, Cincinnati. That's the Littance test next week. Can they slow down in Joe Burrow? No, they can't. Narrator. No, they cannot.

Khalil Shakir on the Jopometer. Four. Yeah, I'd rather have him still than even Luther Bird. Okay. How about Chris Godwin? Same. Four. Yeah.

Kamani Vidal. Seven. I was going to say five. Okay. Romadunzei. Four. Two. Put him in the same boat as all the other guys.

Let's see if we missed anything on the waiver wire. Someone said, I didn't just read this. Did I, why are not just played Aaron Waller? So he's not playing that much? And the Dolphins, since week seven, I believe I said on yesterday's show, they have the second highest run rate in the NFL. They barely throw. Dulcich played more snaps than him.

Waller ran more routes, but not that many. So it's just not a great situation for Waller, low pass volume and not that many snaps. So I don't think you can trust them at Pittsburgh. Then you can keep him for Cincinnati in week 16. All right, waiver wire. So Purdy and Dart, who do you like better this week? Purdy.

Purdy. Which is interesting because Purdy has not been playing well. And Dart has had one bad game basically.

Here come the Titans. Here come the commanders. But I want to it just sort of feels like Dart was running on this magic

that just eventually was going to run out. Well, I mean, look, he came off a two-game absence with a concussion and clearly was not going to do the same things

against the Patriots. And so, you know, now he has another favorable matchup. It's a rivalry game. I'm sure they want to make a statement for what DART can do for this team in this rivalry game for years to come. So he's a good starter, but I think Purdy's just got a little bit more upside based on the matchup that he has and hopefully, you know, everything that's on the table.

I mean, Chedar Sanders just threw for six, three, it felt like six hundred, 360-some-odd yards and three touchdowns and ran for a score like Purdy should be great. Yeah, he should be. Okay, so also any hesitation guys with Dak Prescott this week against Minnesota and Patrick Mahomes against the Chargers, you know, are we looking to the waiver wire?

I already asked you about Percept, but are we looking to the waiver wire if you have those guys? It feels like in the case of Mahomes, like we talked about this with Justin Jefferson and Lamar J. Jackson, you know, players that you've drafted to be your studs, and at times this season have certainly been the case, more so the quarterbacks than Jefferson. Like, are the Chargers

that type of defense that you fear Mahomes that much in his own building? I don't know. I mean, they might be. Sorry, in his own stadium. I know you have an issue. They were pretty damn good yesterday. I'd feel gross losing my playoffs with Marcus Mariotta as my starter, CJ Stratt as my starter, and Mahomes finds his way. into 20 plus points. What if it's purdy or dart, though? Purdy, I would definitely start over him and dart is close. So that's a different story.

You know, you have a sample size of what those guys have been. And even Mario, look, he's had a good season as a fantasy starter and taking a really good matchup with the Giants. But still, like, you've got to be really sure that you're making the right decision by benching those guys. The charges have allowed 19 or fewer fantasy points to 10 of the last 12 quarterbacks that they've taken on. and Mahomes has been 17 or fewer in four of his past five.

Let's see what the offensive line looks like for the chiefs before we completely walk away from Mahomes here. But that's a huge issue. Well, I mean, we know if he doesn't have protection. Right. Simmons is out. Probably not playing now. Right.

So what are they doing? Yeah, right. I mean, if they're down to dust at the tackle spots, and I know that the, The replacement for Morris on Sunday night wasn't bad. Well, I mean, did you see what they were doing in the game? Yeah, it was like rolling him out, moving the whole pocket. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I mean, they had both tight ends blocking. Like, they left Kelsey and Noah Gray in the block. They're basically using seven offensive linemen. And the Texans had a 7% blitz rate, the lowest in the NFL last week. So, right, you know, it's... I don't think they're a very high blitzing team. They're not, but they're, much higher than 7%.

They felt like they didn't even have to blitz. All right, so anyway, the guys to get on the Waver Wire, Mariotta, Stroud, Stroud's got Arizona, Mariotas at the Giants, Tyler Shuck against Carolina, who's actually eighth against quarterbacks,

but they haven't faced a lot of good ones. Shadur Sanders at Chicago, they're 26th against quarterbacks. They lost a cornerback a corner last week. I don't know his status, but they lost a starting corner last week. J.J. McCart,

at Dallas, man. Is he in your top 15 this week? No. No. All right. They did make those adjustments and he looked certainly better. Dallas gives up the most fantasy points.

J.J. McCarthy has Dallas Giants, lions. They're all bottom five against quarterbacks. We will see the J.J. McCarthy test. If he does well again, then hopefully that's a positive. It's just like the volume's not going to be there for him and will he score touchdowns. Aaron Rogers.

If he's $1.50 and 2? I don't necessarily agree about the volume, though. You're right. That comes down to Dallas's offense. Dallas has a good run. The problem is that will Dallas's offense be able to crack the Minnesota code? It's in Dallas, right? Yeah.

So they put a big number on the Chiefs. Packers, I think that game was at home. Yes. Yeah, it was. It was an overtime game. They're usually pretty good. If Lambs playing, I like their chances. If lambs out, I don't like their chances.

Fair. Fair. Rogers against Miami. They've been better lately, but against kind of lousy quarterbacks. Kenny Pickett, for your deep leagues, Kenny Pickett. Superflex only.

Yeah, I might even start like a running back over Kenny Pickett at Philadelphia, but Riley Leonard at Seattle, same thing, probably not even going to be Riley Leonard. Brady Cook at Jacksonville, you know, Superflex. Okay, Bryce Young or J.J. McCarthy? Okay. I'd be on higher.

McCarthy, Young, all right. Running backs. So the Shally guys that we've mentioned 100 times, Gainwell, Stevenson, Tracy, who appears to be toward the top of the list. Chuba Hubbard. During the buy, Dave Canawe said that Rico Doudal is going to remain the early downs back or the primary early downs back.

But we'll see, because Hubbard ran really well last week. They're going to split. It's going to be annoying. It is. This is why Bryce Young is probably not going to be great. We got 40 touches for their running backs in their last. game like they want to just lean on their backs as much as possible uh devon neal's got a team that's probably will be able to do so against the saints yeah devon neal is a very good matchup against

carolina not to say that he's going to do well but even alvin camera ran well against carolina tony pollard chris rodriguez on this list as well tyler algir you know what he is by the way just we don't know about jaden daniels and we don't know about alvin camara so keep that in mind for your waiver wire pickups. And we obviously don't know about Devon A-chan, but we think he's going to play. That being said, Jalen Wright's got the most upside of any running back on this list this week going up against Pittsburgh. It's not close. Yeah, I mean, not necessarily the shallow league guys, but, no, even including them.

Devin Singletary is two, Blake Corum, Dylan Samson, Simajet, P. Ryan are on the list. And wide receiver. The shallow league guys are Jennings, Evans, Garrett Wilson. Eligible to return this week. Kishon Booty, you know how it is with him. He's facing Buffalo. They typically don't give up those big plays. Jaden Higgins.

Do we like Jaden Higgins this week, or will we try to move on from him after his first bad game in a while, really? I think he's just a good number three receiver. You know, he kind of is that, you know, Kalear Shakir, when Shakir's right range, 11 to 12 PPR points, and if he scores a touchdown, he'll be thrown.

I'd rather have burden. Agreed. All right, burden. As Cleveland, they have allowed three touchdowns, wide receivers in their last two games, but they're usually pretty damn tough. I don't know. We can think it probably the same kind of game for Burden, about 10, 11 PPR fantasy points. Sure.

Yeah. If he gets the Zakias touchdown, you feel great about it. Yeah. They'll give him maybe a carrier or two. Jaden Reed is second on the list at Denver. It's a guy we haven't really talked about. Jamie, what your thoughts on Jaden Reed? Well, I mean, as you see, once we get past burden, there's a lot of ifs.

And so, you know, trying to attach something to a good offense, if not potentially great offense. And Jordan Love has looked very good the last two games. And so read the third amount of snaps for the wide receivers behind Watson and Dobbs. And if you think about Denver's track record, this season has been better lately because Riley Moss has been better lately. But the second receiver has had more success. So if you're trying to be creative, if you're the Packers offense, Watson's not going to have a good game against this defense. So don't count on Christian Watson this week. I think Jaden Reed and Romeo Dobbs may have an opportunity to play well.

I don't want to trust Romeo Dobbs after he had two targets and no catches. So Reed got two carries. It seems like he's going to have a chance to maybe play that sort of, you know, Debo Samuel role that we talked about as rookie season. Hopefully that's the case. So he's not a bad wide receiver to put on your bench and just see what happens. Plus it gets the bears again next week. Ryan, we already talked about if C.D. Lamb is out.

Ryan Flew, Fluuranoi. Shimre Dike caught a touch. Now he had eight targets, and he's playing a lot, he's got a chance. We're not going to give a big endorsement of Chimre DK, but he got a lot of targets

and typically does get seven or more targets when he has, you know, this good snap share. Devon Valet, five targets, but I think they only threw 20 passes last week. Yep.

So that's a good target share for Valet. So that's seven targets, eight targets, and then a 25% target chair for valet in his last three games like if you're looking at the two guys we spent a lot of time on last week uh ad night mitchell and and vay mitchell's quarterback situation now is just awful yeah unless taylor comes back and then maybe feel better about it against jacksonville which a good match up but valet i think is the one you say okay can he get back to the seven plus targets

that he had each of the previous two weeks they're probably going to be trailing and and throwing the ball because of how the panthers will be running the ball on them so i think valet's targets go up and not a bad Deep League number three wide receiver. All right. And Darius Slayton has, you caught a touchdown last week. He only had three targets. He did run. So Slaten in his last four games with Dart, maybe three games at Dart,

11 PPR points are more on all three. So again, you know, when we're talking about Jaden Higgins and we're talking about some of these guys that are Velae and some of these other players, you know, that you're hoping for. Great matchup, as we know, against Washington. And he's done well with his. with his quarterback, you know, didn't do well in the one game with James Winston.

But he also has this Isaiah Hodgins problem. Last game, the Giants were trailing so big, they went three wide receivers for much of the game. But when they're in two wide receiver sets, I don't know who's out there with Wondale because two weeks ago, two games ago, it was more Hodgins than Slayton, or they kind of split evenly.

Well, two games ago was Winston, and Winston seems to favor Hodgins, and Dart seems to favor Slate. But it wasn't hard. I'm talking about playing time. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Jalen McMillan is 7% roster

Jack Bess, you know, Jack Betts coming off a good game, but at Philadelphia, at Houston, his next two games. And then, yeah, like Jamie, you didn't put Yoshaas on the list. Dave mentioned him. What are you thinking about Yosovus

if Higgins is out? I mean, we've seen this story already once, you know, against Baltimore. He was out targeted by Mitch Tinsley and caught a touchdown. So he's a number four receiver. Do you want to trust him? Go ahead.

I think just based on what he's shown us. Like, it just hasn't been very much. It's only for the deeper leagues. The week clearly behind Burden, Higgins. He can make the case he's even behind Jerry Judy, if you want to make the case. I mean, the week before that, though, Yoshavus, there was no Jamar Chase,

and Yosha had seven targets and four catches for 61 yards. Whatever. Pat Bryant and Tim Patrick, I put on it, whatever. These are just names. We're not picking them up. Okay, tight ends. we like Dalton Kincaid and Kyle Pitts a lot

and Harold Fanon Jr. a lot. And likely, Dave, you were saying. But would you rather have Joanne Johnson, Brenton Strange, or Isaiah likely? Likely. Likely for this week. Although Joanne Johnson's best game of the season came against Carolina,

four catches, 92 yards, and a touchdown. Okay, likely is so risky, right? Oh, I get it. I like what we're. we've seen from him over the last two weeks, and I thought Lamar looked a better last game than he did two games ago, and he was okay two games ago.

You're banking on the matchup. I know. It's the same thing why you get on the track. You're banking on the matchup. Like just tight ends destroy this team, absolutely destroy this team. And I think, you know, yes, it's risky at him.

It's been two games of him being involved. And Dave said it. It was exactly six targets in each of the last two games. He should have had over 18 PPR points in both of those. If he doesn't fumble going in the end zone against the Bengals and the touchdown counts last week against the Steelers. So, like, if he has those two games, just forget about it. He just scored, it's six targets and exactly six targets, exactly 12 and a half PPR points. If it's 18 plus points and now you're facing Cincinnati, like we'd be saying top five potentially for this guy.

But he's not to start a tight end. Cincinnati is allowed at least 8.7 half PPR points to 11 tight ends in their last nine games. Forget about the outcome. There is no better matchup for any player at any position than the tight end facing the Bengals. 100%. I know, but he's not, he's not, like they still have Mark Andrews. That's the concern. If Andrews were out, yeah, I mean, he's tight end one.

This is also a team that earlier this season gave up four touchdowns to the Pittsburgh Steelers at the tight end position. I know it. Like there could be an opportunity here for both of these guys to go off. So if you are the Andrew's owner, and he was starting to get going later in late in that game before Flowers fumbled on the it might have been the last drive but he had two catches on their last drive like there's opportunities for Andrews here too so do you like Kincaid pits and Fanon better than likely I do based on the targets and the the roles that they I mean look Kyle Pitts is on fire right now

like you can't get away from that certainly in PPR non-PPR you can make the case that likely is better because he probably scores whereas Pitts has been allergic to the end so I think it's a one touchdown on the season maybe two um Fanon look at looked amazing last week and matchup is clearly not something that you have to run away from. David Nujoku could be out. That's great. And in the case of Kincaid, like he already went for 100 yards against this defense,

this defense at New England, Patriots defense has struggled against tight ends as well. He came back last week. I know he wasn't the best tight end, but he certainly did enough to make you feel comfortable with him. And it's now, I believe, nine games on the season that he's played,

five of those he scored 14 ppr points or more, or 12 and a half ppr points more. But like that's, again, borderline top five guys. So I think in the case of all those guys, to your point, Adam, they're safer than Isaiah likely. But this two-game stretch that were on plus matchup, like, why would you not be excited to start Isaiah likely this week?

I'll tell you, I have one league, it's Dynasty League, where I think I could play three tight ends. I might have a choice to make between J.J. McCarthy as my superflex versus playing a third tight end. So I have Fanon and I have likely, I have Schultz. is PPR. I may play all three tight ends. That's how good their situation is.

Yeah, Schultz is looking good, too. Your list was... It's four points for passing yards. Or passing touchdowns. Likely, Loveland, Schultz, where your top three, Gassicki, Theo Johnson. Did I say that right, Dave?

Johnson's first name? Yes. And Colby Parkinson, Mason, Taylor. Ben Sinit, you know, gets an opportunity now with Earth's out. DSTs, we like the Niners. And we get, there are some leagues where you can still make ad drops for future reference. Like Ben said it's the perfect guy to put on your bench if you,

obviously in Dynasty leagues, if you can still add players, pick him up. Because he could be the starting tight end for the commanders next year, or it's 30-some odd years old, just towards ACO. We'll see. This is his audition now for the next, you know, four games. Ben Sinit. And DST's 49ers, Jaguars, Bears, Cowboys, Vikings. 49ers and Jaguars are the prizes here.

Do you like them better than the Chiefs against the Chargers? Yes. Yeah. Against better than the Chargers against the Chiefs? Yes. Yeah.

All right. This is my third and fourth DSTs for this week. Seattle's won. Houston's too. Yeah. And kickers. Cam Little, Evan McPherson, Eddie.

I have the Eagle three against the Raiders. I have the Eagle three against Raiders. Sorry. Okay. Cam Little, Evan McPherson, Eddie Pinero, Harrison, Mivas, Chris Boswell. Okay, long show today.

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