Fantasy Football Today - Week 10 Start or Sit: Steelers, Rams, RB Injuries and More (11/14 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: November 14, 2021

Start Van Jefferson and Odell Beckham? Stick with Diontae Johnson and Pat Freiermuth? And we'll go through all of the RB injuries and the starts and sits among the Bucs WRs. Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's get those lineups set for Fantasy Week 10. A lot to tell you about right now on FFT in 5. What's up? Good morning, everybody. Ready to get a win? Big, big week. Adam Azer and Heath Cummings here. We got so many injuries to update you on, but Heath, let me get your take on the Robert Woods ACL tear.

Unfortunately, out for the season. They've got a Monday night game at San Francisco. Odell Beckham is going to play. Jamie and I kind of talked about it from a season-long standpoint on a bonus show yesterday. It's only on YouTube if you're looking for that.

It's not a podcast. Only on YouTube.com slash Fantasy Football Today. But just give me your thoughts for Week 10 on the Rams. Yeah, I mean, if Odell Beckham's going to play, then I think you view him

as a borderline number two wide receiver this year and rest of season. If there was ever a hope for him to getting back to being a top 12 wide receiver that's exactly what Robert Woods had been this year I believe number 12 in full PPR and there's now target opportunity there's now offensive creativity there's now a quarterback who can get him the ball it's it's everything Beckham could have asked for. And what about Van Jefferson? Who do you like better this week, Jefferson or Beckham? I would probably go Beckham over Jefferson. I don't get the, and this could be wrong,

I don't think Jefferson's going to find himself in a high-volume role. He might have a week like that where that's what the defense gives them, but not regularly. So I'll still view him as a boom-bust flex. He's only 63% rostered Van Jefferson. So I think it's at least worth adding him and seeing what happens. 63% roster and Robert Woods, 69 targets in nine games, 19 in his last two games. But there were a lot of games where he's

getting four to six targets. In fact, there were five of those games throughout the season. Okay. We turn our attention out of the Steelers. Ben Roethlisberger out this week. How does that change things for, for, for Deontay Johnson and Pat Frymuth? Well, Vegas does think it matters a little bit. I think they lost two and a half,

three points off of their implied total. So maybe Vegas thinks Mason Rudolph is only 90% of Ben Roethlisberger. It didn't have a huge impact on my projections. Roethlisberger, you know how much I love yards per attempt. He hasn't been above 6.7 yards per attempt since 2018. That's really bad. Mason Rudolph for his career at 6.4 yards per attempt. I think it's a slight downgrade for Johnson, but I'm still starting him everywhere.

It's a slight downgrade for Friar Ruth, but he's a tight end. If you were planning on starting him, you probably still are. I would start Friar Ruth over Dan Arnold, Tyler Conklin, that type of borderline number one tight end. What about Noah Fant? I got that question last night. It was a tough one. First, I said Friar Ruth. I said, nah, actually, let's go with Noah Fant. But I mean, Fant's got this dream matchup, but we haven't really seen a lot of him, Sutton, Judy, Patrick. So who do you go with there? I would probably just still go with Fire Muth. I feel more confident in Fire Muth's targets than I do Fant's right now.

Alright, Zach Moss is going to play. Let's do some running backs here. Zach Moss is going to play. Chris Carson is out. And Clyde Edwards-Ziller, unlikely, but that is a Sunday night game. So you could kind of get hosed there, but it seems like Clyde Edwards-Zehler, unlikely, but that is a Sunday night game. So you could kind of get hosed there, but it seems like Clyde Edwards-Zehler is going to be out. Damian Harris is out, but we'll do the Patriots a little separately because they have a kind of if situation. But you look at Buffalo, you look at Seattle, you look at Kansas City.

What's your level of confidence in the running backs there? I'm probably going to start Darrell Williams as a low-end borderline number two running back I think in full PPR these guys all rank somewhere between 23rd and 31st for me and I would go Williams over Moss over Collins um I would like to think that I have two better starting running backs but they're not bad flexes you like so you like Williams better than Collins? I do. Okay. Uh, Collins over Moss. No, I like Moss over Collins. Like Moss over Collins. Okay. Uh, it's, I mean, it's been pretty bad lately for the bills running backs. Hopefully they catch a lot of passes against the jets. They

all do that. Hopefully they score a touchdown against the jets. Pretty much all of them do that to all the running backs. They face aris godwin expected to play would you start him and any interest now in tyler johnson much less interest in tyler johnson i would put him behind van jefferson i've got him behind james washington so i i would rather start those guys i i'm probably i'm kind of treating godwin a little bit like deontay johnson if he's out there i'm going to play him all right mark ingram i'm assuming, is a must-start. Yeah. There's so many now of the running backs that have jumped up into that group that I could definitely see a situation where you're not starting him.

But I would start him over... I've got him in full PPR ahead of Deionis Johnson. And non-PPR, I have Johnson ahead of Ingram. I got to ask you about... By the way, we just got an update on remand. Ray Stevenson. That'll be the last thing we talk about, but what do you think about the Jaguars backfield right now? Cause that's when we don't know about James Robinson status. Yeah, I've, I've got currently Robinson projected to play, but he's not a must start. I've got him around RB 20. Um, I would start Mark Ingram. I would start Dearness Johnson. Depending on

what you tell me about Ramondre Stevenson, I might start a Patriots running back over him. Okay, Ramondre Stevenson is in. He's expected to play, so he's going to play. If Stevenson's playing and Harris is out, which is what we're expecting now, I think we'll see Stevenson

behind Ingram and Dearness johnson but ahead of james robinson josh jacobs uh melvin gordon giovante williams so a mid-range number two running back now i haven't run the projections yet but that's that's my best guess okay it's interesting because you know when when harris and stevenson have played lately brandon boldens had basically no role uh because ste Stevenson gets some catches. But now I wonder if Stevenson is more Damian Harris, maybe gets one catch, and Bolden is a viable PPR flex at least, but I'm not really willing to risk it.

I have Bolden in several leagues. All right, that is your Sunday morning update. A lot of stuff going on here. Good luck to you. Get those lineups. You're going to need like 45 minutes to do it. And good luck. We'll talk to you tonight, 8.15 ish p.m. right here, youtube.com slash fantasy football today.