Fantasy Football Today - Waiver Wire! Tyrone Tracy Jr., Sam Darnold, Great DST Options (10/28 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

How good can Tyrone Tracy Jr. be rest of season? Will he be better than Ken Walker? Woody Marks? He's certainly one of our top priorities (3:00) this week, but we're also looking at Zonovan Knight, Troy Franklin and a great DST to stream. What if Oronde Gadsden and Travis Hunter are available? Also, how much FAB (9:15) are we spending this week and how does Tracy compare to Trey Benson? ... News and notes (20:10) plus our Top 3 priorities at each position: QB (25:30), RB (30:00), WR (31:40), TE (33:55), DST (35:50) and Kicker. We discuss Sam Darnold, Tyjae Spears, Chimere Dike, Colston Loveland and many more ... Options in shallow leagues (40:00) and deep leagues (42:35), a Commanders-Chiefs recap (46:00), the Dropometer (51:45) and a longer look at the waiver wire (54:10) 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

This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. This is going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. Welcome to the show.

It is Tuesday, October 28th. The last waiver wire show before the NFL trade deadline on November 4th. Oh, actually, is that true? No. No, no, never mind. But there could be some trades between now and then. Should check the calendar. Or the calculator.

Yeah, it wouldn't have helped. What's plus seven? Anyway, I'm Adam. That's Jamie. That's Dave. We're off to a great start. This is fantasy football today, presented by BetMGM. Make it legendary.

We're going to give you our top priorities. Tyrone Tracy is available in a lot of leagues. But there's also, it's an interesting week because you could have guys like Travis Hunter out there, Chris Godwin out there, O'Ronday Gadsden could be out there. So, you know, they're rostered in fewer between 70 and 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues. A lot of times that means about 50, 60 percent on the other sites.

Oh, good morning, Jamie. How's the waiver wire looking this week? It was a busy one, you know, with the four teams on a buy, with the injuries, with the players who are on a buy who I think you want a roster going into their buy or pick up going into their buy. And then trying to maneuver through some of the potential trade. that could happen and the fallback from that that may occur as well. So it was a fun column to write, and hopefully you'll enjoy reading it.

Oh, yeah. And we'll enjoy talking about it. We'll do it right now. We'll do it on CBS Sports Network at 1 p.m. Eastern. So with that said, Jamie, give me the top three priorities. You know, I was thinking about that before the show started. Obviously, Tracy's going to be one just because he's going to be a starting running back for the rest of the season.

I think I'm going to put Zonovan Knight, too, just because you can use him for this week as a potential number two running back, especially with what the running back position looks like. And then three, I'm going to go back to something I did last week. We did not work out as well, but I think it will this week, just based on the matchup, is the Rams DST. You get them for a one week situation against potentially Tyler Shuck, or it could be a struggling Spencer Rattler, but they're at home and they're the number one DST to add, and most likely the number one DST to use this week. All right, Tyrone, Tracy, Jr., Zonovan Knight facing Dallas and the Rams facing the New Orleans Saints, and we still don't

know who their quarterback's going to be. Dave, how about you? Give me the top priorities. Tracy's number one. It's just a huge opportunity, potentially for the rest of the year. You don't see a lot of running backs with this type of opportunity available off the waiver wire. I think it comes down to, and we've heard this line before on the show, what do you need? Do you need a running back badly for week number nine? Do you have a running back that's on buy in week number nine? And you can't get your hands on Tyrone Tracy.

I think for one week, Zonovan Knight would be that guy. So I guess he would be the second guy. but if you don't need a running back that badly, Troy Franklin is still out there in 38% of leagues. He was excellent last week, just absolutely bounced back after a very up and down performance in week number seven. And then there's there's guys that might be okay rest of season, the Tijey Spears, the Shimray DKs,

Christian Watson is going to be pretty popular. But I think it comes down to what you need. If you need a DST, then the Rams make a ton of sense. If you need a quarterback, you can look for one of the guys that's, mostly owned, but Trevor Lawrence gets the Raiders. It's a pretty good matchup. He's available in half the leagues. His receivers

should be healthy. It really comes down to just what do you need after you put in your claim for Tyrone Tracy. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't mind taking a chance on a guy who's been pretty bad this year, but Kyler Murray, if he's playing against the Dallas Cowboys, Cowboys have given us a top 12 quarterback every

single week against them. You know, it's without fail that you would have to, who is it, Jaden Daniels got her in that game? If you combined Daniels and Mariotta that week. They would have been top 12. So it's a little bit, you know, Azer Stady. But, yeah, just a lot of guys out there that could be great.

You say opposing quarterbacks. Yeah. I've given you. There you go. Opposing quarterbacks have been top 12 against the Cowboys. I have to write that several times a year. Yeah, I'm sure. Hey, listen, Troy Franklin.

Now, we were doing some Cortland Sutton research on Beyond the Box Corps yesterday. Troy Franklin has two fewer targets than Cortland Sutton. These are the red zone targets for the Broncos. Troy Franklin has 12. Cortland Sutton has five. In the green zone, Troy Franklin has six. Cortland Sutton has three, and they have the same amount of end zone targets.

He's very involved in important parts of the field. It's not a perfect player, obviously. He's very up and down, but... The thing that's frustrating about Franklin is they get the Texans this week in the one week that Marvin Mims may not play, which would only help Franklin just a smidge, but it would help him. And then they come back in their schedule, it gets great. And so the thing that I fear is that Franklin's got 18 targets

for the last two weeks. They struggle to throw the ball. especially because they're going on the road where Bo Nix hasn't been as good. And then people drop him. And then you're spending too much fab on the wrong week for him. Yeah. Well, if you get him, you got to hang on to him. Exactly.

You're looking for commitment here. If you get him, don't get frustrated and drop him after this. But look, like you said, he's not a perfect player. The touchdown two games ago against the Giants was fluky. I thought he would have a good game against the Cowboys this week. I know we kind of went back and forth on MIMS versus Franklin, and Franklin clearly had the big game. It's just a matter of like, will they be consistent, you know,

these guys, especially when the matchups a little bit tougher. And then what if Travis Hunter were out there? If you were going Travis Hunter versus Tyrone Tracy, what do you think? I think Dave said it best. That kind of comes down to what you need, you know. So I would probably prioritize Tracy just because I don't know if Hunter, Hunter's great game is going to carry over now. There is some thought, obviously, to him building off that.

He's a rookie-wide receiver going into his bi-week, and so you'd love to see what you saw as great game, bi-week, and then come out of it playing well. Will they move him around a little bit more or just keep him in one spot? You did get the Diana Rossini report from the Athletic that the Jaguars are listening to offers for Brian Thomas Jr. I don't think they would trade him. That would be crazy.

But still, that's out there. So they both have the chance to be very solid rest of it. season. It just a matter, I think, what it comes down to. In terms of just player, I probably would rather have Hunter, but situation I'd rather have Tracy. I'm going to give you just one more player that I want to highlight real quick. Then we'll talk about Fab. It's Sam Darnold. Now, we always know the problem with Sam Darnold. They're facing the commanders. And, you know, you figure they might be able to see if Jaden Daniels plays, but they might be able to just run the ball. Commanders have a good run defense, but, you know, they don't throw a lot. Well, the commanders, at least going into last

night, and I'm guessing it's the same, the commanders were giving up the most yards per attempt in the NFL. And Sam Donald leads the NFL in yards per attempt. And Mahomes threw 34 passes last night. But before that, you had Jordan Love, Gino Smith, Michael Penix, Caleb Williams, and Dak Prescott all have good games against Washington. Twenty-two plus fantasy points. Yeah. And none of them threw more than 31 passes. So it's just a- And they lost their best pass-ratcher part of last week. They did. It's just a really bad past defense and Darnold is so efficient that he might not have to

throw that much. He might be able to do well even with that. He's my number one quarterback to add for this week. It's not for this week but it's not just for this week. His upcoming schedule is also very good. So like to compare him in Lawrence. Lawrence's schedule gets really brutal after this week. So those are the top two guys to go get. But if you're going to prioritize

one quarterback for me, it would be Donald based on what he's done and what he hopefully should be able to do. All right. We are on CBS Sports Network at 1 p.m. Eastern. So, hop on over there, watch us live. You can see the show on YouTube, YouTube.com slash fantasy football today after the fact. And I don't know if that one's going to be in the live tab. But if you ever want to see one of our shows that you missed, click the live tab if you can't find it and you'll get the full length shows. All right. Anyway, and we'll be reading your questions

on CBS Sports Network. So how much fab, Dave, are we talking here for Tyrone Tracy? And then we'll talk about the rest. If you need a running back bad enough, you're struggling in your league, you're four and four, three, and five, it's time to empty the clip. Compare him to, I was thinking about it, you know, who do I think Tyrone Tracy might be like rest of season in terms of fantasy production? I was thinking maybe like a Ken Walker.

I'd say Jalen Warren. I hope so. That's a pretty consistent, you know, reliable RB2. And then you think of yourself with Jalen Warren around my waiver wire, how much would I spend? And I'd spend a lot to get that. Yeah. So, all right, you're thinking Jalen Warren.

Jamie, how about you? Give me a Tyro and Tracy comp just in terms of fantasy production. I think, you know, we talked about yesterday on, you know, the early waiver wire. It was, I think, unfortunately, it's going to be somewhere along the lines, like a better version of Tony Pollard and Chase Brown at his worst. And I think Ken Walker is a good one. You know, guys that you hope are going to play well have the opportunity to dominate touches, but don't necessarily produce like we want.

So I thought what you said yesterday was apropos that. what he did at the end of last season was 14 and a half PPR points or more in three of his last six games. But this is a better Giants offense, you know, and so with Andrew Thomas there and what Scataboo has done. So Scadaboo since week two has been 13 PPR points or more in every game. Can he get to that? Sure. If he does, then he's Jalen Warren plus, you know, so it's a, there's a lot to like about the situation. I just don't know if he'll produce like Scataboo.

So I would probably lower it to like around 11. So, you know, basically a two point difference. And, yeah, that puts him better than those guys because Chase Brown was inconsistent. Tony Pollard obviously was disaster, you know, so he's in that low-end number two, high-end flex range, and you're probably going to start in more weeks than not. I mean, Cam Scada, it was RB7 per game since the Tracy injury or since week three going into the Philadelphia game. He's such a good touchdown score. I don't, you know, we can't expect Tracy to be that good.

My concern, and we'll move on because I don't want to spend the whole show on Tracy, but my concern, I talked about this with you, Dave, yesterday is, you know, I don't know that he's going to be the short-yardage slash goal lineback. I have no idea. I mean, when he was healthy earlier this year, it was Cam Scadaboo. They might use Singletary there. Last year after Singletary came back from injury, it was a pretty even split. Not a lot of carries between the two of them from the three-yard-liner closer,

but I think it was like Singletary had one more, Tracy had one more, whatever it was. But I just want to throw that out there because that could be Singletary's role. It's also been Jackson Darts' role at times. True. True. And then, of course, there's the five fumbles from Tracy last year. So not a perfect prospect. He only

lost two of them, but he fumbled five times. It's not a bad idea in deeper leagues to pick up single turn. Yeah. All right. But look, you know, this is an opportunity to get a running back. Now, let me ask you this. Is he that much better than Trey Benson? Just to add right now? I would probably rather have Benson the rest of season than than Tracy, even though we've seen Tracy do this?

We've seen Benson do it a little bit, not as much as Tracy. Okay. But I feel like it's a little bit better of an opportunity for Benson eventually. The problem is that Benson's only available in like a third of CBS leagues right now. Well, he's 55% rostered on Yahoo. So a lot of people out there, and ESPN are usually pretty similar. I'll check that for Trey Benson. So if you need the running back, if you need a running back this week, you can't use

Benson. He's not eligible to play. He can come back as soon as week 10. And I'd rather have Benson than Tracy rest of season. The one thing just to keep in mind is we have not heard a timeline for Benson. Hopefully we do this week with Arizona coming back from their buying. Somebody will ask about it. And there's some questions. I'm seeing it in the chat right now. So they released Michael Carter yesterday. The Cardinals did. The ESPN writer for the Cardinals said that this could just be a procedural move that they're going to bring him back. So just keep that in mind. De Mercado was injured going into their bi-week. They used Deerner's Johnson.

So there's a lot of things that play here. I think just if you're talking about short-term versus long-term, and you have the ability to do so on other sites, is if you could pick up both Knight and Benson, and then you just sort of use Knight this week, and then Benson, hopefully, when he's ready to play. But again, when he

got hurt, it was considered a four-to-six-week injury, and this will now be week five, but week four from a game perspective when they placed them on IR. So I would hope that he's trending in the direction of playing in week 10 when he's all about to return. Okay. I would hope so.

But because we don't know that, it might lean, it might lean, it might lean Tyrone Tracy, which would be understandable. If they were both coming back this week, or even if we knew Benson was coming back next week, I think you hear our guys would favor Tray Benson, but, but we don't know. It could be longer than that for Benson. All right, any, are you spending more than $5 in Fab for anyone else this week, $5 of your original, but five percent of your original? but five percent of your original budget.

I think it just comes down to what you need. And like they've said, you know, we're at the point in the season where you have to sort of save yourself a little bit. And so it doesn't do you any good to go into week 10 with the majority of your fab. So it depends on what you need and what's out there.

You know, you have two pretty prominent quarterbacks not playing this week. You know, three if you want to throw in Justin Fields, but without Jalen Hertz and Baker Mayfield, that position could be of need. So you might need to spend a little bit more there. Um, tight end really is not anybody that jumps off the page, you know, for this week in particular.

Now, if you want to, if you want to get Fanon or Najoku or Taylor for the upcoming weeks, or as you said, Adam, if Gadsden's available, that's a different story. But I think just in terms of like our criteria, you know, Colston Loveland and Juan Johnson aren't exactly break the bank type of guys. And then at receiver, it's kind of been the same story all season long, you know, so Franklin in a great spot, he's been one of these guys already, you know, we talked about. He was one of these guys we said earlier this season to add. Week two. So, yeah, it's just one of those spots. Like, you can let somebody else spend on Franklin and you get D.K. You can let somebody else spend on those two guys and then go get Trey Tucker or go get a Darius Slayton or go get another player that could just sort of fill that eight to 12 point per game range.

Maybe more. You know, Christian Watson, Josh Downs, you know, these guys have been, you know, in a good spot now for Watson or been in a good spot for Downs. Like there's just so many guys at that position that you don't want to necessarily. necessarily waste the fab on, which is kind of what I was getting out with Franklin earlier. Like, you may spend too much on him this week. He disappoints you because it's the Texans. And then somebody else picks him up because you're frustrated and you drop him. And then he comes back in week 10 and has a great game.

Let me amend your question, Adam. How many players would I spend more than 10% of my fab on? And I think the answer is one. It's Tracy. That's, and again, like if Gadsden's out there, Travis Hunter's out there, obviously, you're going to spend a little bit more than that. but Zahneman Knight and all the receivers we've talked about

Tai J Spears like maybe between 5 to 10%, but not a huge break the bank unless it's just one of these deep leagues where there's nobody on waivers and somehow some way these guys are there. I do think you make a case for night though just because of his

one week rental he could be the guy that helps you win a week. Yeah, but the thing is it could be more than one week. The problem is for night is next week. is Seattle, and they have the best run defense in football. He could catch some passes. Like, Trey Benson had five catches against Seattle. That was Benson's only game without James Connor before he got injured.

It was eight carries for 35 yards, five catches, 19 yards. But if Knight had two really good matchups, because, again, we can't guarantee Benson's coming back in week 10. It would be one thing. But he has a great matchup this week, Zonovan Knight. Cowboys are 31st against running backs. Then he has Seattle, and they give up a lot of receiving stuff to running backs, but they are so good against the run. it's insane.

So that's something to keep in mind. I wouldn't even look at it. Those are a two-week thing. I'd look at it as, can he help me win a week? And if that's the case, I'll spend a little bit more for it. I'm going to just to read a few questions here from the chat.

Tracy or Woody Mark's rest of season? You asked this yesterday on FFT Express. I think if, again, if we were going to this knowing that Nick Chubb was out of the way, it would be Marks easily. But I'm going to go Tracy just because of his potential for touches. I'll say marks. Would you drop

Chikori Krosky Merritt for Tracy? Yes. Yeah. Charbonnet or Zonovan Knight? Charbonnet. Charbonnet rest of season. Would you drop Quentin Johnston for Tracy? Probably.

Yeah. If I'm good at wide receiver, I guess I would. And then Franklin Stein, a little team named Tuesday here for Troy Franklin. That's good. And it's thematic. It's Halloween week.

I think you got bar mitzvah too, yeah. I started watching Candy Man. I've never seen the original Candy Man. It's pretty good. Looking forward to finishing that one, hopefully tonight. And looking forward to finishing this show, and we come back. We'll be right back after this break on fantasy football today with your news and notes and the top three players at each position.

What any of you actually, would you be too superstitious to say Candyman five times and then turn the light off into the mirror? Five times or three times? That surprised me. That was only three. Five times. I thought it was three. No, it's five.

It's a commitment. I don't think I'd do it. You know, he's probably not going to come, but I'm not going to take the chance. Yeah, can't do it. All right. News and notes, Lamar Jackson, they are very confident that he's going to play this week. We don't know who the Saints quarterback is going to be this week at the Rams. Aaron Glenn.

Wow, look at this. Yeah, I know. Look at this cool graphic. Aaron Glenn will not name, did not name a starter for the Jets after their week nine by. Oh, that's the dumbest thing ever. Brock Purdy's status is unknown. He's at the Giants. You could get a nice quarterback streaming option,

whether it's Mac Jones or if Purdy's available this week. Joe Flacco's got the shoulder injury. He came back, so I'm assuming he's fine. Michael Pennix is day-to-day. Carson Wentz is out for the season with a shoulder injury. J.J. McCarthy will start this week at Detroit. And Bryce Young could be back this week at Green Bay. Running back, Scadaboo out for the year.

All right, so it's actually pretty good news. Quinton Judkins and Saquanne Barclay, it looks like they're going to be fine. I can't say that with certainty, but that's the indications that we're getting. So I will ask you, are you guys going to be making any claims for Tank Bigsby or Dylan Sampson this week?

Yes. Especially if I've got those guys, the starters in front of them on my team. Okay. They're not going to be your number one claims, though. No, but there are a lot of players that aren't playing this week. Jamie alluded to it with the tight ends.

There are a lot of players who aren't playing this week who are worth picking up just to stash. Okay. Pacheco left with a knee injury super late in the game. He seemed fine afterward. Camara's got nicked up. We haven't heard anything. I wouldn't be surprised.

He's not going to practice Wednesday, but we'll see on Camara. Think about Devin Neal. I don't think Camara's going to miss time, but it's not out of the question. Let's see. Oh, and then Dave was tweeting about this all day yesterday that Rico Dowdell could be his time now.

Dave Canales was talking about it and said, We can't ignore how good RICO Dowdell has been. We basically respect Chuba Hubbard. Chuba's not going to go away, but we could definitely see more of a favorable split for Dowdell this week at Green Bay. So ridiculous. With three offensive lines been missing against a very good run defense. Right.

Don't know if all three line that will be missing. Had to cater to Chuba for two games just to make sure, I guess. Well, I mean, like he was pretty honest about it. when Chuba came back, like, you know, he wanted to find out what, you know, he said he wanted to talk to other coaches about what teams have done in this situation. And, you know, he felt that he needed to be loyal to Chuba and give him an opportunity to see what he can do. And now he realizes that Doudal was still running better than Chuba in the two games that they've been together. I mean, look, you know, sometimes we get frustrated by these situations, but you also have to appreciate the honesty that he was trying to see what his lead running back could do coming off of injury and sees that, okay, the best chance for them to win is Rico Doutlin. And look, it's two games. they probably beat the Jets with this point. I was about sad. I don't think it cost them. And they lose the game against Buffalo

unless Rico Dado goes for 200 again, which he wasn't going to do against the bills. Right. All right, wide receiver news. Drake London is day to day. They're at New England. Pooka Nakua practice, he's expected to play against the Saints.

Terry McLoren left last night with a quad injury. He's optimistic about playing this week. Nico Collins is trending toward a return, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC2. Travis Hunter could get wide receiver one treatment in the second half, according to ESPN. and Hunter's about 75% rostered on Yahoo and ESPN as well.

Luther Burden is in the concussion protocol. Alameda Zakias is day-to-day with a knee injury, and they've got Cincinnati this week, so you've got some opportunities here for the Bears. Maybe you want to start DJ more this week. Marvin Mims is in the- Love one week, baby. Yeah, I hope so.

It's see if we'll see about to... It has to be. It's, you know, commit status is obviously going to matter there. Sure, that's fair. Marvin Mims and Cush Protocol. With both the three and four receivers being, potentially out. You could see a lot more

two tight-end sets where they're both involved. I think 11 tight ends have scored double-digit PPR fantasy points against the Bengals in eight games. It's crazy.

I think all the Steelers did. Yeah. Cedelman expected to return after the buy. Rashid Shihid, I think he's fine. Tyler Lockett signing with the Raiders,

Pittsburgh signing, Marquez Valdes Scantling, and Tutu Atwell is on IR. Maybe that's why it was such a bad call by me two weeks ago when I started Tutu Atwell. Giants tight-end Daniel

Bellinger left in the third quarter. I mentioned the three Panthers offensive linemen with injuries. San Francisco lost an offensive lineman to an injury. Pittsburgh's guard, Isaac Sayamalu, left with his chest injury, and Laramie Tunsell last night. He left with a hamstring injury. And then the big news on defense, Patrick Sertan. Patrick Sertan. Patrick Sertan left with a shoulder injury. I'm sorry, guys. Who's Washington playing this week? I didn't put their schedule in. Washington is playing Seattle. Oh, right, right. Um, Okay, so they may not have Tunsel, and we'll see about McLaren. Like I said, McLaren's optimistic about playing.

Patrick Sturtain, week to week. I think they have Houston this week, right? Yep. Okay, so Nico Collins, if he plays, will not be shadowed by Patrick Sertan. Buffalo defensive tackle. Ed Oliver's out for the, not necessarily the season, he's out for a while. I'm going to skip the defense. The big ones, Atlanta, Atlanta's super beat up.

They're at New England this week. On paper just doesn't seem like the same matchup that it was. They've got a lot of injuries. But we'll check on three guys could come back this week. All right. Top three players at each position. Jamie, who are the top three quarterbacks to get? Sam Donald would be one.

So if you need a quarterback for this week, I like the setup for him taking on Washington and then long term again. So after he gets Washington in week 9, he gets Arizona, week 10, Tennessee, and week 12. I forget how they play in week 11. And then Minnesota and week 13. So like the upcoming schedule for him. Trevor Lawrence would be second.

Like Dave mentioned, he gets a great matchup against the Raiders. But then it's Houston and then the Chargers after that. So don't necessarily want to start Lawrence in those games. But for one week, he could be good. And then I put Justin Fields third just with the hope that he remains the starter. I know it's not the easiest schedule coming out of the buy for them. But when Justin Fields has Garrett Wilson and you know what he's capable of with his legs, he can get you 22, he can get you 29, and you get you 30.

So if you need somebody else for this week, the third quarterback would be Tua. How much you want to buy into Tua who's had four solid games, three crappy ones, and one in between? So one with 16 points. He's had three with eight or less, and then four with 19 or more. So with his matchup this week on Thursday against the Ravens, as we saw the Ravens defense did look a little bit better, taking on Caleb Williams, who was at the goal line 25 times and couldn't get a touchdown. Maybe to a building off the Falcons game as someone you want to buy into it. as the third quarterback for this week. But for the two that are widely available

would be Donald and Lawrence. If you want to throw Kyler Murray in there, obviously he's somebody that you could put as a top three priority as well. Yeah, I'll just ask you that. Kyler Murray or Sam Darnold, who would you prefer? Kyler's got the Cowboys.

I would prefer Darnold just because of the long-term standing because I like to match up for them this week as well. So I think both guys can have a good week this week, but I feel more comfortable with Donald moving forward, but certainly Kyler's right there. Yeah, like if you've got a quarterback who's on by, or if you just want somebody for one week for whatever reason, I think Kyler makes sense

and I think you can make the case for Lawrence over Darnold but you're right about long term. Like if you're streaming quarterbacks Darnold could be your guy. They play the Rams in week 11 so that might not be a game. I'd be really excited

to start Sam Darnold in. By the way, we don't know that Kyler Murray is That's true. Although he's expected to. He's a Texas guy who's been resting.

I think he's, I think he's gearing up for this game. Well, you had a Schefter tweet on Monday. expected to return Lamar Jackson, Kyleor Murray Lee Bryce Young maybe was the only

Jay J.J. McCarthy. Oh, J.J. McCarthy, sorry. Yeah. Okay. So we are expecting Kyler Murray to play. Let me, last thing on that before we get to the running backs.

So if Brock Purdy, what do you think about the Niners quarterbacks? Is the Giants have been pretty bad against the last three quarterbacks they've faced which just hurts twice and Bo Nix

and especially the last two, It's coincided with these secondary injuries. They suffered another one. What do you think about streaming back Jones or Purdy if he's available? How would they compare to this group of Darnold Lawrence and even Kyler? Dirty would be one for me. Sure. At the position.

Jones, it just feels as if they're using it more as a game manager. I get it, you know, the last two games. Atlanta at full strength. Houston obviously has been very good. So hard to judge. Prior to that, he was much better, at least in the first two-star. of this four-game stretch, or at least I'm sorry, the first start of this four-game stretch, he's kind of

been trailing in the wrong direction, but I don't know how healthy he's been. So I would put him behind Donald and Lawrence, for example, but pretty I'd feel more comfortable with if he comes back. But he's the guy that I guess I would start with in deeper leagues, because I would assume that Kyler, Donald, Lawrence, are all rostered already.

But if he ends up not playing, then you've got to go back the waiver wire and look for it to Mariotta McCarthy. It's going to get ugly, but Mack Jones would be my placeholder at quarterback. Okay. So listen, football fans, fantasy playoffs are approaching. You got to bring that playoff energy to your pro football bets all season long. This pro football boost pack gives you three ways to boost your payout on a winning bet. Just log into your BEDMGM account to receive your boost pack. Then place any pro football bet and apply one of the tokens. Make sure to bet up to the minimum stake odds and legs specified on the token. If your boosted bet hits, you'll score a bigger payout. From opening kickoffs to game

winning drives, this pro football boost pack is your ticket to unforgettable moments this season. Don't wait on the sidelines. Join the action with Bet MGM. Dave, who are the top three running backs? You might have heard us talking about Tyrone Tracy earlier in the show. He's Numero Uno. I almost think regardless of what you need. you should prioritize them just because of the opportunity that's in front of them. I've got Zonovan Knight 2. I've got Taije Spears 3, but if you can stash, arguably the best stash you can make this week is Isaiah Davis, 72% available. We just saw him play really well against Cincinnati, and again, it's Cincinnati, but Brise Hall's on the trade block.

The trade deadline is, you know, sometime around a week from now, depending on what Adams calendar and calculators does. But Isaiah Davis can end up being the lead running back for the Jets for a couple of weeks at least. And then when Braylon Allen comes back, he could still be the lead guy there. And he's out there, 72% of leagues, a great running back to stash, at least through the trade deadline. Do you think we've talked a lot of, hey, we go down on needs more touches. He's been better. Do you think that there's any of that building for Tijey Spears? He has been so much better than Tony Pollard, something like...

He's played more snaps than Pollard since he's come back from injury. It's been really close, but even the fact that it's been really close is good. He certainly looks like the better running back. He's the guy they prefer to have on the field when they're chasing points. He's a good receiver out of the backfield. So Pollard's another guy who could low-key get traded because I don't think he's a bad player. He's just in a bad situation on a team that's going to be a negative game script all the time. And so whoever that running back is that's going to play in that type of situation in Tennessee,

that's the one that I'd want to at least have on my bench. I don't know if I want to count on Spears as a start. He only has one game with double-digit PPR points since coming back, and it was last week because he scored a touchdown. But I do think that there is an opportunity for his role to grow. All right, wide receiver priorities. Jamie, who are the top three? Franklin, we mentioned, I think he's, you know, worth adding based on, you know,

18 targets the last two weeks, and hopefully it's something that is going to continue to build off of Tamir Adi-K, would be second, you know, just based on. on what he's done the last two weeks. And there's some thought that Calvin Ridley gets traded also, but he's dealing with the hamstring injury. So he's been out the last two games. We don't know when he's going to return. And I put Darius Slayton third.

I think we feel a lot different about him if he catches that 68-yard touchdown. And we're looking at the guy that we thought was going to fill in from a league neighbors. And now that they may be throwing the ball a little bit more because the run game could get stagnant. I think Slayton has an opportunity to hopefully finish the season strong after coming back from missing the previous two games of the hamstring injury. Not even a question. Travis Hunter would be ahead of these three, right?

Yes. And, you know, you can throw out these three names and you want to go Christian Watson, Josh Downs and Tray Tucker, and I have no problem with that either. You know, it's just, it's just one of these positions where it's not one guy standing so much taller over the field that you can just let somebody else spend their fab someplace else, and you can go a little bit cheaper and find some of these guys that are going to continue to produce. And in the case of Watson could be the number one receiver for the Packers. In the case of Slayton could be the number one receiver for the Giants, in the case of downs prior to his concussion. you know, was a top three guy for me. That week was number one for Dave. You know, just looking at the way Daniel Jones is playing.

He's got a great opportunity. Also, just so many guys in this position. Jawan Dennings is available in our range that we talk about, 64% rostered. And we know when Brock Purdy comes back, he's going to do well. Plus, again, Atlanta and Houston, seven targets each of those two weeks, did not do much with it. Now he gets the free space, essentially, in the Giants. So if Purdy comes back, like, he could go nuts. You know, so there's just so many guys available at this spot.

I just wouldn't spend too much fab on it and kind of let the position sort of dictate itself for me if I needed to pick somebody up at a wide receiver spot this week. Okay. Those Titans, wide receivers are fairly interesting too because when's Calvin Ridley going to come back? We mentioned probably not going to get traded, but... Well, he might.

Yeah, he might. They have a buy next week. Cam Ward's averaging 250 passing guards per game in his last four games, which would be 10th best, you know, for the full season. I'm not saying he's going to do that rest of the year, but they actually are throwing the ball a lot, and they're throwing for a lot of yards.

They're just not scoring. Okay, and tight ends. Dave, who are the top three tight ends? Double check for Rhonda Gadsden, but he's already rostered in well over 70% of CBS leagues. Joanne Johnson's my favorite. If you need a tight end this week, he's out there in two-thirds of leagues.

Otherwise, I'm looking to grab a tight end to stash. It's Najoku. He's also on the trade block. Harold Fanon, whose stock would go crazy if Najoku was traded. And Mason Taylor, who's most widely available, these tight ends at 70%. And had a great finish for the Jets against Cincinnati. Hopefully you can build on that and see some more regular targets moving forward.

Yeah, it's weird. A lot of the tight ends we usually look at for streaming. Some of them are on buy, but also you're getting Bowers, hopefully. You're getting Bowers, McBride, LaPorteur back. So perhaps this is a week where people won't need to- And A.J. Barner. N.J. Barner, yeah. Jamie, give me a DST to stream this week.

The Rams. No better defense than the Rams. Taking on the Saints, they've been miserable. You saw what Tampa Bay's defense did against them. Spencer Rattler's a turnover machine. He's going to get sacked a lot, especially since they lost their center two weeks ago. If Tyler Shuck starts, it's a brutal spot to put a rookie on the road. I know the environment's not bad, but the defense is just, you know, playing fantastic.

They just added a cornerback as well, making the trade for McCreary. So I think it's going to be very difficult for this. Saints offense, and you mentioned that Camara got banged up in the game. If he's out, not that he's been doing very much, but it just could be very, very ugly, and the Rams defense should be a league winner. I love the Rams DST this week, but if the Seahawks are out there, and both of them are right around 40 percent, Rams a little bit higher, a little bit more available, I might take Seattle because their DST has played great all year.

They've got a great match against the commanders, especially if Jane Daniels doesn't come back. I know it looks like that he might come back. and then after the commanders who do they've got Arizona the Rams on the road will be tough at Tennessee is a dream matchup Minnesota at Atlanta I mean they've they'll take you right up to the fantasy clubs they play Carolina in week 17 too so maybe they'll be your like 1a DST and you'll find a second DST for those matchup that they have against the Rams and one other tough game Indianapolis is in the fantasy playoffs that'll be tough on them but I might prefer the Seahawks long-term to the Rams. Yeah, and there's also Jamie's list of DSTs. The Rams are won. The Lions facing Minnesota. They've been pretty good this year, the Lions, especially at home.

Seahawks. McCarthy with a beat-up offensive line, too. Yeah, right. It's huge. Seahawks are third. Jaguars, get the Raiders. It's pretty good. This is one of the better weeks, I feel like, talking about these DST streamers.

So that's something to keep in mind when you're putting, if you're putting in fab bids, is that, you know, the Rams are obviously the prize here, but that doesn't mean that you have to spend a lot because you could just default to the Lions or the Seahawks or the Jaguars and be fine. And to Dave's point about the Seahawks, I feel the same about the Rams. Like these are defenses that have played well all season long.

You can get by with them rest of season. Jamie, Kickers, Dad. You mentioned on our show, or no, you mentioned off the air because I said you didn't ask me about the kickers. Brandon McManus, so taking on the Panthers at home. Cajami Fairbairn, which should be a low-scoring, potentially field goal fest against the Broncos. And then how do you pronounce the Patriots kicker, Andres?

Boragallis. Bargallis. He's coming off a strong game. And Jake Bates, you know, just avoid the environments and the weather kicking indoors. All right. All right. We'll take a break and we'll talk about the shallow league guys, perhaps the most interesting part of this week's waiver wire, honestly.

Buck's wide receivers, Travis Hunter, Brock Purdy. I've spoken about a lot of Gadsden. I think he's about, what, 76% rostered or something in CBS leagues. We'll talk about that. And then there to Deep League, guys, after this. Okay, Jamie, so the hypothetical now for you is basically the dream waiver wire scenario. Everybody who's rostered in fewer than 80% of leagues is available. So that's Travis Hunter.

That's Arande Gadsden. I'm looking at Yahoo. Arrondi Gadsden is rostered in 62% of Yahoo leagues. I'll check ESPN right now. He is rostered in 68%. So he's out there in a lot of our listeners leagues. Yeah, I mentioned Brock Purdy. Joe Flacco might be in this list.

You know the names. Who are the best of the best that, oh, my gosh, I can't believe they're on waivers. The best of the best. So I'll skip the quarterbacks because they're not the best of the best. I love for this week as a number two running back, Kyle Monongai. So if he's out there, I would start him this week against the bank. angles based on what his usage have been in tandem with the andre swift i think you got to look at trey benson obviously because what his upcoming season can be uh rest of the season can be excuse me

when he gets back from injury uh you mentioned Travis hunter obviously he's arguably the best receiver to go get but you have Khalil Shakir well he's he's above 80 percent i'm sorry uh you have rsit shahid coming off a strong game with a potential of getting traded you have Jacoby meyers potential getting traded you mentioned Chris Godwin um i'm going to take him over tess johnson if both are available. They're both around the same roster percentage. Kashan Booty is interesting because he's gotten three games this season with at least five targets. And in all three, he's been 16 PPR points or more. So it would be nice to see what he can do with a little bit more of a target share, but he scored a touchdown in three

straight games. He's got four touchdowns over that span, and Drake May is playing in an MVP level. And then I'm going to go back to Darnal Mooney. I know that probably sounds crazy, but I want to see what it looks like if Drake London doesn't play in Michael Pennock starts. So maybe that will help him, but not anybody that's a must-start player. And then it's Gadsden, and for me, Cade Otton, that tight end would be the two guys to go get, if we're talking about the best, the best. I know Cade Otton disappointed last week against New Orleans, but had he scored the touchdown where he fell short, I think we feel a little bit different.

And prior to last week, he had three straight games of 10 PPR points or more, plus Mike Edmonds isn't coming back anytime soon. But who's the best? I mean, who are the top three from that group? It would be Hunter, Benson, and Gadsden. In that order for you? No. It would be, in order, it would be Gadsden, Hunter, Benson.

Okay. Dave? Yes. None of these guys are available in my league. Give me the deep leaguers. So we already talked about Mack Jones is probably the guy that's going to be most available quarterback if you're looking for a streamer. And he might not even be the 49ers quarterback.

So after him, it's Tua. It's Mario de against Seattle. I don't really love that. I'd rather take my chances with J.J. McCarthy and his wide receivers. Bryce Young, they're optimistic that he'll come back. Those are the quarterbacks that are left. Hopefully you've got a shot at Darnold Lawrence, one of those other guys. Or that Brock Purdy sits for one more week.

At running back, Isaiah Davis already talked about him, 72% available. Best of the best when it comes to stashes. Blake Corm, 73% available. Does he get extra run against New Orleans because the Rams build a huge lead? other running backs to stash and that they're all filed under the backup running back who could become the next Tyrone Tracy, Sean Tucker at 86%, although that's probably going to be more short term than long term. Dylan Sampson, 89% available.

If anything happens to Quinn-Shoddkins, this is the guy. Tank Bigsby 88% available. If anything happens to Saquan, he's Philadelphia's guy. And if I had Judkins or Berkeley, I would race to get those guys now. Just put them on your bench so you're not having to spend a ton of fab. to get them if they do ever get their opportunity. Devin Neal would also make the cut 76% available at wide receiver. Shimray D.K., I've liked the film a lot.

I think that he's going to continue to get targets for however long Calvin Ridley's out. When Ridley comes back, all bets are off. He could go down to five targets per game. But he does look good. And you mentioned that Cam Ward has been averaging like 250 yards per games, so something like that. He's been making some daring throws, hitting tight windows. And D.K.'s been somebody who benefits from that.

Jalen Knoll is 86% available. I don't know if he turns into a pumpkin just because Nico Collins comes back. He did have a good game, does offer that offense a little bit of speed. But probably the better wide receiver, maybe even the best wide receiver, and we've talked about him a lot, Adam, is Darius Slayton of the Giants. Had a touchdown callback due to a tickey tack OPI last week. He's still going to get a ton of opportunities. If the Giants can't run the ball, hopefully they can because Tyrone Tracy is going to get added in a ton of leagues.

But if they can't or if they fall behind, Slayton's going to end up getting a good amount of targets from the Giants. He is their downfield receiving threat. Other wide receivers that you can stash Jaila McMillan, Ceylon, Cedlman, Brandon Ayuk, probably in reverse order of what I just said. They can all go on your IR. They're all out there in a bunch of leagues. Iuke might be the most widely rostered of that trio. Mason Taylor at tight end, 70%. Deep leagues, tight end premium leagues, Gunner Helm is 98% available. He started to get some run for the Titans, really since the coaching change there. And Chico Conco is another player on the Titans who's been on the trade blocks.

So Gunnar Helm can end up being the best tight end there for the rest of the season. I'm going to throw some Ajie P. Ryan's name in there. Just you're desperate for a running back. You need someone who might get some touches, maybe score five points. Yay. P. Ryan is widely available. And, uh, all right. Thank you for.

You right now scored Christian McCaffrey this week and Bijon Robinson. Jeez. Unbelievable. Oh, gosh. I had a fan to a lineup this week with McCaffee. I like the mega busts came in last, but McCaffrey was the headliner for me there. Oh, I no longer have an undefeated team

because I lost with McCaffrey getting outscored by P. Rhine and lost by five. In your guillotine league? No, guillotine's still alive. Oh, okay. All right. Oh, I'm sorry, because I said undefeated, no. I did have one undefeated team, non-gueteen.

Let's talk about last night's game. That's impressive, by the way. uh kansas city 28 and washington 7 7 okay um yeah thoughts dave oh yeah i'll say this was one thing encouraging here this is exactly how we want the snaps and the routes to be distributed for the chiefs i know it was not a good game for zavier worthy wasn't a well it's fine it was okay but it was basically kelsey worthy and rice playing 80 plus percent of the snaps and the other guys really didn't play that much so that at least was good. Unfortunately, we're the five catches for 53 yards a week after he goes three for

35 on four targets. But Dave, give me your thoughts on the chiefs. Then I'll throw it to Jamie for the commanders. They're awesome. Mahomes is playing great. And Rice has just come back and he's been exactly what we thought. Everybody that spent that round six, seven capital on him to be a, you know, a stud receiver when he does come back, they're feeling good right now. I think the people who traded for Rishi Rice and didn't draft him, though, they're the ones. ones that feel the best. I don't see him slowing down whatsoever. Worthy as a flex moving forward. Kelsey has to be a top 12 tight end moving forward if he's going to have opportunities to see eight targets per game. I think it helped that there were so many weird

tipped interceptions at the beginning of the game that kind of pushed Kansas City into being just trying to like force the issue a little bit more through the air. And I just think that that helped Kelsey get his targets along with Rice in this game. But yes, the concentrated targets are nice. Pacheco is going to continue to lose touchdowns at the goal line to Kareem Hunt. That's always going to be the Achilles heel for Isaiah Pacheco. And the DST is still really good. I don't know if you're going to feel good starting them against Buffalo,

but I do think that you're going to enjoy having them on your team for pretty much every other matchup they have against inferior offense is the rest of the way. Obvious statement of the year. but Kansas City is just they're doing what they're doing they're going to get Josh Simmons back at left tackle that will help things theoretically and five and three they seem a lot better than a team that's five and three yeah no kidding and they didn't even have Trey Smith

last night either you know there's their star offensive guard and they're just they're just rolling this game was so determined it was maybe we didn't know it at the time but Debo Samuel that interception hit him in the face great drive opening drive for Washington and just killed them. It's got to be a record for first five drives of a game with no punts and no points. Oh, interesting, yeah.

I thought you were going to say it was a record for the most passes, accurate passes, tipped in the air and picked off. I almost thought it, I was like, is this a Terry Rozier game? Like, what's going on out there? Oh, boy. It was not.

It was not. Okay, a couple questions real quick. Jamie L.A. talk about the commanders, but who do you think will be more valuable rest of season? I'm not saying drop this player A for player B, but who do you think will be more valuable rest of season? Xavier Worthier or Tyrone Tracy? Probably Tracy

just given his position. Yeah. Okay. Just based on how you're framing it, more valuable. If you could have only one running back from this game, Chiefs Commanders, rest of season, who would it be? Oh, Kareem Hunt. Really?

I'd say, I'd say Pacheco, but I don't feel good about any of them. I think I'd still go Bill, but actually, gosh, I mean, Seattle and Detroit next week, he's probably going to stink in those games too. It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal, and they don't throw him the ball at all, so you don't get that bone. I mean, look at what Jeremy Winnickl did. You know, so, like, imagine if that was Krosky Merrick getting those opportunities. We'd say, okay, at least he's getting that.

It just, you can't. So, Jamie, any thoughts on the command? We'll talk about Debo Samuel, two bad games. You got to hope that Jane Daniels returns. I thought Mariotta did some good things for his fantasy production. Obviously, they throw the ball very well. And like you said, the Debo drop kind of set the tone for what the night felt like it was going to go. A lot of design runs.

So, you know, Mario da may benefit from that. But, you know, looking at the matchup that he has coming up, there's no trust in him whatsoever taking on Seattle. So if you were hoping for him as a streaming option to get you by with Hertz on a buy or Baker in a buy, like, no, don't do it. And then Debo, look, he's, he's slowed down. I don't know how healthy he is, you know, missed last week's game with the heel injury. How much is the, you know, whatever explosiveness he had left, gone, you know, because he looked really good early in the season. And I know we kind of had the discussion, you know, Keith, I won't say where I was,

unless you want to know. But, like, Heath was like, I'm a little hesitant on Debo. I know Dave was a little bit more gung-ho on Debo. I was right in between. And then after hearing Dave's, you know, take on. And I was like, oh, it sounds like, you know, there's, there does seem to be some, you know, upside here for him. And now you get McLaurin coming back and then McLaurin gets hurt. And so now Debo's back in the same spot, but can you trust him with Marioato taking on Seattle?

So it's just, it's just frustrating across the board. The one guy that I will go back to for this week is Zach Kurtz. And just based on the matchup, I think there's an opportunity for him to be a low-in-starter, not anybody that I think you want to trust fully. Clearly, there's a disconnect with him in Marioo this season, three straight games that they've been together, three straight bad performances. If McCoran's out and the matchup, I think he might be the safest pass catcher that they have. Seattle's a really good matchup for tight ends for sure.

Okay. That would be Monday night football. Let's go to the dropometer. Who are we dropping this week? Let's start with, look at this graphic. Hit me with that dropometer. Bam! Ready?

One, two, three. Bam! There it is. Woo! Love it. Mark Andrew, zero to ten on the dropometer facing the Dolphins third. Thursday. First of all, I love how the dropometer goes. One, two, three, four, five, seven. There's no six on the drop. There's no nine either on the dropometer. That's funny. I didn't

notice that. Well, because six is a rate of seven and seven eight nine. There's no nine. Oh, that's great call. Yeah. Okay, Dave. Does that mean that he's, it's impossible for him to be a six. I would say that he's a, he's like a six on the dropometer. Not on this. The only reason I would, I would want to hold Andrews is, is I saw two different stories that he's potentially a trade candidate. And so if Baltimore were to trade him, does he get the benefit of going to a maybe past friendly team that would use him a little bit more?

Okay. On the flip side of that, Lamar's coming back. We know that he's got good chemistry for literally, like Lamar's entire career. So I'm not ready to drop kick him onto the waiver wire just yet. Keon Coleman. Is there an 11 on this dropometer?

Joe Brady talked this week about how he's been doing a bad job of giving Keon Coleman opportunities and he needs to do more. And like I was ready to jump through the screen on that when I saw it. But I don't think that there's any optimism whatsoever for starting Keon at this point. Matthew Golden. Nine. He's up there. Eight or nine. That has not worked out like I thought it would either.

Darno Mooney. Oh, he's on the bus. plus with Keon Coleman going to drop City. Four. Rashad White. Zero. It's like a one. Caleb Williams.

Zero. Smaller leagues you could drop them. He'd be like a three or four. It's the Bengals this week. Don't drop it. Right. But if it's a smaller league, you probably have a better quarterback anyway.

Yeah, but it is the Bengals. Jordan Mason or Aaron Jones. Zero, you said? Yeah. Do you think Tyrone Tracy will be better than? them the rest of season? Assuming that Jones and Mason stay healthy, yes.

Right. All right. Let's finish up with another look at the waiver wire and check anything that we may have missed. Joe Flacco, 84% rostered. Would you rather have Joe Flacco or Sam Darnold this week? Joe, if he's healthy. Flacco.

Would you rather have Flacco or Purdy rest of season? Pretty. I'll say Flacko. All right, Aaron Rogers. How do you feel about him? He's got the Colts. I don't know how I feel about Rogers' matchups. It's not like he has necessarily a bunch of teams

that are struggling against quarterbacks, but he has some high-scoring teams on the schedule. So he's got the Colts, then the Bengals. You know, Colts, Chargers, Bangles. That's a good matchup. Bears, usually a good matchup. I actually kind of like his schedule. Dave, how are we feeling about Aaron Rogers?

I like his schedule, too. I just don't know how often. and he's going to hit any upside when he's not taking on Cincinnati. A lot of these matchups that he's going to have, I'm thinking about the Colts and Chargers specifically. Those are teams with good pass rush. Cincinnati does not have a good pass rush. So when he doesn't have time,

it hurts his upside, basically. So he's okay. Would I rather have Kyler this week? Yes. Would I rather have Caleb Williams this week? Of course. 20 straight points, 20 or more straight points in three straight games. And one, two of those were against Cleveland and Green Bay.

so he's gotten you enough to be a low-end starter in some pretty tough matchups and then had the great matchup and it was great. Yeah. Okay, so then there's Kyler Murray this week. After Dallas, Kyler has Seattle and then San Francisco and Jacksonville. C.J. Stroud, even without Sertan,

I don't think we want to start him again. No, but after this week, though. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Buffalo. Okay. Then, all right, we talked about Sam Darnold with a great matchup against Washington. Lawrence with a great matchup against the Raiders, but then he gets Houston after that and they're number one against quarterbacks. Justin Fields, you just never know. Unfortunately,

it's Cleveland, New England, and Baltimore and Atlanta after the buy for Justin Fields. Tua against the Ravens, yeah, the last two quarterbacks against the Ravens stunk, Stafford and Caleb Williams. I really don't know what to make of them, but they're healthier and they're secondary. I know, but I, again, I don't know what that. means because you know it means they're better than they were when they didn't have a lot of good players oh really oh thanks no i get that they're better but are they good anyway i don't want to start two of this week i'm sure you guys don't either i don't want to start two of this week either but after this week it's uh starting week 11 he gets washington then a buy the new orleans

then the jets then pittsburgh and cincinnati all right could be a good finish for two of that j jay mccarthy he's got Detroit, Baltimore, probably going to have to throw. And Chicago looks like a decent schedule for him. Not that Detroit's a bad defense, but I don't know. I mean, McCarthy, when you consider the fact they only threw 41 passes in two games, but maybe we were a little too hard on him. But I get it. We don't know how hurdy was in the Falcons game.

And again, looking back on it, the Falcons defense, that was probably the start of when, oh my gosh, this team is actually pretty good against opposing quarterbacks until they fell apart against Miami. And so he had the one great quarter against Chicago. And so we'll see how good he is. You know, this is a guy that I think in deeper leagues, if you're dealing with some quarterback issues, you stash and see what develops.

Someone called me sassy pants for my sarcasm to Dave. I meant for it to be funny, not sassy. I apologize. I'm bad at funny. They nailed it. Good at sassy. Tyler Shuck. super flex leagues, but don't spend a lot.

First of all, we don't even know if he's going to be. Secondly, if he is, how good is he going to be? So don't spend a lot of fab, I think, on Shuck. Shardur Sanders, I would throw out there, someone who might get some starts at some point. And I really am not all out on Mack Jones here. Dave, you talked about him in the deep leagues, but if the Giants are still beat up in the secondary,

Giants have been a lot better at home than on the road this year. But if they're still beat up in the secondary, Mack Jones, again, like you can't judge him coming off of games against Atlanta and Houston. And he actually had a good fantasy game against Houston. He did. But he should be pretty good. He's got a chance.

If you need help, he's got a chance. I think that's one that you just wait until the end of the week because we're going to get pretty limited, pretty limited. And then if he's rolled out, Mac Jones probably not going to be a huge priority for a lot of fantasy managers. Or on the flip side, if Donald Lawrence, if those guys are all rostered already, Strouds rostered already, et cetera, you can just get Mac Jones now. And if there's like three or four other quarterbacks on your waiver, are that all look the same to you and are probably gross, then you just get back now. And then if you need to make a pivot, you pivot.

Okay, running backs in the shallow leagues. Tyler Alger is, you know, could always score. But Kyle Menongai is facing a team that has allowed 11 and a half or more PPR fantasy points to multiple running backs four times already this year. It's crazy. So Menongai is 70% rostered. We talked about Trey Benson and Tyrone Tracy. These guys would probably prefer Benson unless you,

You know, you really need someone this week. But rest of the season, we're thinking Benson over Tracy. But it's close. Zonovan Knight could help you this week. Tai J. Spears, you know, what, 9 points, 7 points, and then a big game last week. And then you got Dylan Samson and Tank Bigsby. You got Isaiah Davis, who we keep talking about.

Breece Hall could be traded. And then Devin Neal, again, keep in mind with Camara a little banged up, Samajie P. Ryan. I'm just, you know, we've talked about most of these guys. And Amanda Wilson is 17% rostered and obviously would be a pretty damn good handcuff if Josh Jacobs gets hurt. And I think Jacobs might still be a little hurt

because Wilson had a pretty piece. He technically didn't finish the game. It was Wilson. I mean, it was kind of a blowout situation. I know the final score wasn't a blowout, but he's the one who mopped up at the end, not Jacobs. If I'm finding a way to put Wilson on my bench.

You have potentially three guys this week as backup running backs that could help either in good matchups or blowout situation. So Monagai would be my favorite. You have Wilson because of potential of blowing out the Panthers at home. And then you have Blake Quorum if the Rams blow out the Saints. So you could be looking at three guys that are sitting on your bench that if you're stuck, need to flex, I wouldn't be opposed to starting them. It's funny because we had Alger in that conversation last week.

Yeah. and the last thing the Falcons were in were a blowout where they were leading. No, they were to blowout. It was a blowout, but they were doing their punch. And he still came through. Yeah. This is a good question here.

Do you think Trey Benson will get his previous workload even when he comes back? I would think so, but that's hard to judge because we had one game and he got hurt in one game with the only game he played without James Connor. So I would assume we're talking about 80% of the touches. Yeah, I think it might be a little close.

I'd say probably like in the neighborhood of like 70% of the touches, but he'll lose he'll lose passing down snaps to de Mercado or night. Yeah, probably de Mercado. Yeah, no, he didn't play on third down in that one game where he played, but he still had five catches because they throw to their running backs on first and second down. Wide receivers check on Khalil Shakir, Rashid Shaheed, Jacoby Myers. The prize would be Travis Hunter. How about Godwin and Tess Johnson

versus Travis Hunter? Who do you guys prefer there? Hunter. Kishon Booty basically just has to catch a deep ball and he's good but he has the best deep ball thrower in football right now.

For what it's worth, the Falcons have allowed the fewest deep ball completions in the NFL, but as I mentioned, their defense is beat up. Darnell Mooney, if Drake London's out,

darnel Mooney could still, you know, have a good game even though he didn't last week. Hopefully Pennix is back. It's not an easy matchup though against New England. And we like the guys who are more widely available. Troy Franklin, Chimeri, D.K., D.K. Slayton.

That's the top three for Jamie. Franklin, D.K. Slayton. Christian Watson after that. Would you drop Golden for Watson? Yes. Okay. I think so. Josh Downs.

Trey Tucker. Are we feeling like Jacoby Myers is playing this week? I would guess they're fielding offers left and right or making offers. And, you know, how injured really is Jacobi Myers. We'll find out. So they said going into their biweek that he was expected to return. But do they risk playing him with the potential of injury knowing that the trade deadline is next Tuesday? After our waiver wire show for the record.

And I don't know if Dave mentioned it, but stash, Jack Bash, if you have an open rush spot. Yeah, you had a bash. Trey Tucker or Jacobi Myers, who would you rather roster? Tucker. Tucker as of now. Could also pick up Juan Jennings, who had seven. Like Myers to Buffalo would be great. Myers

Pittsburgh would be okay Myers to New England would be okay Buffalo though would be the best spot Johnnings 64% rostered he had seven targets

last week Giants have been a good matchup lately Jalen Noel not he doesn't play that much but he's been targeted a lot the last two weeks

of course I do think that if Berrios is hurt and he left the game last week and Kirk doesn't return so Dave mentioned this

with Nico coming back I don't think Noel is really impacted by Nico as much I think Higgins is impacted by Nico as much. I think Noel is kind of tied to Kirk, but I would hope that the Texans, seeing what Noel has done,

the last couple of games, continue to give him a bigger role. So what happens to his targets when Nico comes back? I mean, what happens to Nico's targets when Nico comes back because Nico's targets haven't been there, and we've seen this offense kind of turned into this dink-and-dunk successful,

you know, those drives against San Francisco were fantastic for them. Yeah, it's very true. You know, put putted their way down the field, and it ended up being, successful. So I don't know. I think Noel is not a bad PPR guy. You know, not a great overall fantasy wide receiver, but low-end number three guy while Kirk is out, Nico or not, I think he kind of stays the same. If you could look at the Steelers wide receivers facing

the Colts who give up the third most fantasy points to receivers. Jamie prefers Calvin Austin to Roman Wilson. Wilson's still playing about half the route. So that's a lot for him, but he needs not a full-time player. Emileak Washington caught a touchdown last week. That was cool. And that's about... You've got 13 targets in the last two games, though. So, you know, what we were hoping to see as soon as Tyreek was injured, we're

finally seeing it now, potentially. Yep. A lot of layups, a lot of those gimmee targets. And it is, I guess, maybe more coinciding with the two games that Darren Waller has been out. Yes. And if Nico doesn't play, we'll talk later in the week about Xavier Hutchinson and Jaden Higgins, but who would you prefer between those two?

Higgins. Hutchinson. Tight ends. Gadsden would be the prize if available. Kate Otton, I think, would be a pretty decent consolation prize. He's got double-digit PPR fantasy points in four straight. Oh, three straight games. Yeah, three of his last four. He only had eight last week. Theo Johnson, you like Theo Johnson this week? I don't mind Theo Johnson this week. I mean, the 49ers prior to last week, it was like four straight tight ends, 10 or more PPR points. So they've been struggling a little bit. They've talked about this going into the matchup. with Dalton Schultz about how Fred Warner's replacement, not great in coverage. And so there's an opportunity for Theo Johnson. I mean, look, five starts now with Jackson Dart, three good ones. The two bad ones were against Philly. Sure.

Colson Loveland is Jamie's favorite of the guys who are widely available. Would you rather have Loveland or Theo Johnson this week? Theo. And Dave likes Joanne Johnson better than Loveland, and I'm better than Theo. Yep. one week thing the thing i mean it's not a one week thing for joan it's it's you know he's now played uh eight games i don't think they've had to buy it so six of those games five of those games excuse me he's had at least seven targets in all five he's been 10.1 ppr points or more so when

he's getting done that each of the last two weeks too and he's got 15 targets his last game so when he's been involved he's been good it's just for whatever reason those three games they went away from him. It was, you know, it coincided with Tayson Hill and Foster Moreau coming back, but they're still playing. And so Johnson's still getting his production the last couple of games. Which Brown's tight end would you rather

stash? Fannin. Fanon is probably Because the joke could get traded. Right, and we don't know what situation he'd go to. Okay. But I wouldn't mind stashing either one. You want to put Fannin first. That's fine. Mason Taylor's an

okay stash. Gunner Helm. Maybe O'Conquo gets traded with Gunner Helm. They want to get him deeply involved. Yeah. But O'Conco also, you know, we keep talking about this with Dalton Schultz prior to the receiver injuries. And T.J. Hawkinson prior to stinking last week, O'Concoe's been, I think it's like eight or nine PPR points in three of his last four. He had a zero. It's 8.8 p.R points in three of his past four.

Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, when you're stuck. What about Dalton Kincaid? Who would you drop Dalton Kincaid? for. Gadsden? It's probably... I would rather start Loveland this week than Kincaid.

Whoa. Not me. That's with or without Colcomet? Or just without Colquemette? That's without Colquemette. Okay. Kincaid has the Chiefs. I actually think that's a,

that makes sense. I mean, the Chiefs are very good against tight ends. Okay. And then if Mark Andrews gets traded, you're going to want Isaiah likely on your team. DSTs, we like the Rams, Seahawks, lions,

Jaguars. Kickers, Brandon McManus, Cayme Fairbairn, Andre Sborigales, and Jake Bates. And that's it for fantasy football today. We will talk to you at 1 p.m. Eastern on CBS Sports Network and tomorrow with some trade talk.

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