Fantasy Football Today - Week 13 Start or Sit (12/03 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 3, 2023

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Insurance designed for life. It's wedding time, baby. Let's set some lineups for week 13 right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5. And good morning. Apologize for the voice. Under the weather, of course. I'm Adam Azen with Heath Cummings. All right, Travis Etienne, I think we could say expected to play. The reports have been optimistic, but it's a Monday night game.

Let's say Dearness Johnson isn't even on the table here. What do we do with Etienne? Yeah, I'm going to plan on using Travis Etienne unless we get some news this morning that points otherwise. I think the reports have been optimistic enough that you should be able to do that. If you wanted to, like, maybe you could have a Tyler Boyd or somebody. If you can get Etienne into a flex spot, that would make sense. And I'd like to do it. All right. Dearness Johnson is 27% rostered. Not the worst idea to grab him, unfortunately, the next two games.

Next three games, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay. Although Cleveland, not the best run defense. Devon, A-Chanchan is playing how did this affect your rankings of Mostert A-chan Wilson Mostert I still rank as a must start running back Wilson now that barely is inside of my top 48 A-chan is probably the most difficult person to rank in fantasy football this week I've got him right around RB 28 I would be fine to start him if I don't have two running backs that I like. I absolutely love him in the flex position. I think he's kind of like a Gabe Davis this week

where he could score you 20, 25 fantasy points. He could also have like five or fewer touches. So would you go with an A.J. Dillon, unexciting workload though, but good workload, unexciting player, or A. Chan? Like I don't generally look at my matchups, but this was one of the situations where I think especially since we've already had

some Thursday action, if you're playing against someone like DK Metcalf or CD Lamb, you probably need to play HN. Jarek McKinnon is out. Kadarius Toney will play, however, on Sunday night. How does those two things affect

Rasheed Rice, if at all? They don't really. Rice is a good number three wide receiver. Not all that dissimilar from A-Chan, except I think he has a little bit better floor. Maybe not quite as high of ceiling, but he is someone in a three wide receiver league. You start in a two wide receiver league. It's really going to come down to who you have. But we've been talking about maybe trying to get away from Cooper Cup this week. I'd still start Cup over Rasheed Rice. Tank Dell likely to play. Let's just say he's going to play. It seems like he's going to play. Noah Brown also

expected to play. Dalton Schultz is out. So what about Noah Brown this week? Another number three wide receiver. He's behind Rasheed Rice, but I would start him over DeAndre Hopkins. I would start him over Amari Cooper. I would start him over Chris Godwin and Marquise Brown. And Tank Dell

is top 12 guy. Tank Dell and Ego Collins are both top 12 guys. Okay. Chris Olave is likely to play. So as of now, we will tell you to start him. Keenan Allen is expected to play. Tee Higgins will play. I am telling people to sit Tee Higgins, but is it going to affect your Jamar Chase ranking at all?

I moved him from like 13 to 15. So again, I think there are people. I sat Jamar Chase in a league last week where I had Diggs, Dell, and Mike Evans. I'm sitting him again for those three guys. I would sit him for Cortland Sutton. I would sit him for both the Texans wide receivers and Michael Pittman.

Like he's not necessarily a must-start player, but you're probably starting Jamar chase. I've got T Higgins right in the Jerry, Judy, George Pickens. Um, they used to be number three wide receivers. They're ranked top 40 this week because there's six teams on a buy, but I really hope you don't have to start them. All right. Chris Godwin is expected to play. He's has not been a great start anyway. He's right in that same group. There you go. Ezekiel Elliott expected to play. He's has not been a great start anyway. He's right in that same group. There you go. Ezekiel Elliott expected to play for what that's worth. Bailey Zappi is going to start for new England. Demario Douglas is out.

Is there any Patriots passing game member that you're interested in? It's very slightly. I mean, Hunter Henry is always in that high end number two tight end range, but very slightly interested in Devante Parker. He's he's in that more of the Justin Watson, Jahan Dotson range of guys that, you know, maybe they'll score a touchdown. Yeah, there you go, maybe.

Joe Flacco starting for Cleveland. I got a question this morning that I thought was difficult. I said Cooper. It was Cooper or Christian Watson. Where do you lean there? I would go Cooper over Christian Watson. I'm a little bit encouraged. I've got Cooper ranked as a number three wide receiver now.

Watson is too, but he's more of a boom bust option for me this week. All right. Puka, we'll go ask some questions here from the chat. Puka or Josh Downs? One more week, I'm treating Puka basically like a must-start wide receiver, so it's Puka for me. Taysom Hill or Jawan Johnson? I think I'm going to go with Jawan Johnson,

but I like them both as top 12 tight ends. Remember, Alave is expected to play today. But still, I think Jawan Johnson could be the number two wide receiver. Okay. Start one in a guillotine league. ETN, Debo, Stevenson, Montgomery. I really like ETN more than Stevenson, but with the question on the Monday night,

I think I'd, especially in a guillotine league where you're just going to get knocked out if you're last, right? So I'd probably take Stevenson. I'm starting Zach Moss over every running back that's not named Christian McCaffrey. Okay, that's it for today's show. Good luck, everybody. Two ways to get your fantasy football information this morning. CBS Sports HQ Fantasy Football Today airs there at 10 a.m. and right here, youtube.com slash fantasy football today at 1130 a.m. is our live stream. We'll take you up until

kickoff and answer your questions. For Heath, I'm Adam. See you later.