Fantasy Football Today - Week 3 Waiver Wire: MUST ADD Players, Injury Replacements & Streamers (09/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

Jamey (2:36) and Dave (5:56) start the show naming their top three waiver priorities, including Jonah Coleman, Bryce Young, Dalton Schultz & Denzel Boston. Adam introduces a special edition of Fantasy Cops (21:01) before covering the latest injury news and notes (24:13) around the league. They break down the top waiver pickups at every position, including quarterbacks (28:12), running backs (29:41), wide receivers (32:25), tight ends (36:20), defenses (40:17) and kickers (48:22), plus shallow (46:19) and deep league targets (49:07). They also recap the Rams win over the Giants (54:48), including the Jaxson Dart injury and Davante Adams huge game, before going position-by-position for an in-depth look at the waiver wire (1:00:37). Find out the latest on Kyler Murray, Rachaad White, Tank Bigsby, Tre Tucker, Josh Downs, Hunter Henry & more!Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcastsWatch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

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. Up to the races and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.

We are into Fantasy Week 3. Let's go. Hope we have some two and O. You guys have any undefeated team still? Several. Oh, wow. Amazing. Really?

No. All right. Yeah, we're into week three. I think the real question is how many winless teams do we have? Oh. And I got a couple. One league I'm tanking. Both of my dynasty leagues.

One I'm trying to tank. The other one, I'm not. I'm winless in both. And I've got one other redraft league where I've started O and two. That's it. That's pretty good. That's it. Out of 14, not bad.

Maybe three winless redraft. teams. Yeah, it's no good. We've got to get a win this week. We got some quarterbacks coming back. Michael Pennix Jr., Kyler, coming back, but we of course have more quarterbacks who are injured, like Jackson Dart last night. However, with Jackson Dart, with Caleb Williams, we don't have season ending injuries. We still don't know with Jaden Daniels. We had a lot of running back injuries last week, which usually means a good waiver wire week. However, these running back injuries might be very short term. So it's a little bit of a tricky week when it comes to waiver wire priority. Jamie, what does it look like who are the top three players to get for week three?

The top three for me are Jonah Coleman, Bryce Young, and Dalton Schultz. I think you're looking at there's an opportunity here. You said it. We may get J.K. Dobbins back and RJ Harvey back, but what if we don't? And Coleman looked good in his performance against Jackson. He was a really good run defense.

I was glad that he was involved in a passing game. If one of the two are out, I still think they're. you can use Coleman as a flex, and if both are out, then I think he's a must start running back even against the Rams. Bryce Young has been awesome through the first two games this season, but it's now seven of his last 10 games going back to last year, over 20 fantasy points. Again, kind of coincides with Jalen Coker's emergence. And then Dalton Schultz is coming off this amazing performance, but it's now 22 targets in two games. One of them without Nico Collins. We don't know if Collins is going to return, and he did very well in two games against the Colts last year.

So those three, assuming that the Broncos backfield is depleted, would all be must starts for me if, again, Coleman is the starter for Denver. Jonah Coleman, Bryce Young, Dalton Schultz. And, you know, if you add Coleman and then both Harvey and Dobbins play this week, are you going to stick with him? You know, just say, this is a guy I want to have because, look, Jobbant Dobbins is always hurt. And maybe Harvey just stays the third downback.

I would say if you add him and those guys return, go look at J.K. Dobbins' player page. Go to where it says career. Go look at how many games he has missed. And then know that he's already dealing with a hamstring injury. So I love J.K. Dobbins. I'd love to see him stay healthy. He said in the preseason when he had the minor injury,

I forget what it was, that he wasn't going to let, I think it was ankle. He came back right away to practice. Sounds like he's going to return this week in some capacity. But it's just unfortunately what it is. history has been. And Jonah Coleman may be the future of this Broncos backfield and they're coming off a win where he had a big part in it. So I wouldn't be surprised if he now is working his way into a bigger part of the rotation

if everybody's healthy and, you know, may end up playing more than one of the two. I think if it was going to be any of them, it would be Harvey. Okay, Dave. So Jamie's top three priorities this week are Jonah Coleman, Bryce Young and Dalton Schultz. One thing about Bryce Young, maybe you'll start him against Cleveland this week. I don't think it's clear what kind of matchup that is. Trevor Lawrence lit them up. And then Baker Mayfield struggled, but Baker's not really playing that well.

But then he's got Detroit the following week, which looks like one of the best matchups for quarterbacks. Then he has a buy. Then he's at Philadelphia. So I guess what I'm saying is with Bryce Young, maybe in the next four weeks there's only one matchup that you really want to start him in. However, I'm not really approaching it that way. He's playing so well.

I want to see where this goes. You don't have to start him immediately, but I feel like it's the kind of guy that you want on your team because he might legitimately be breaking out. out. Normally I wouldn't put a quarterback in the top three unless it was overwhelmingly obvious. You can make an argument that it is for Bryce Young. We just lost three starters. Like we're down, Caleb Williams, Jane Daniels, and Jackson Dart. Like there's three managers in every league looking for a quarterback right now. And so if he's not a priority for every league where he's still available, which, you know,

it's not that many leagues. I don't know what you're doing. All right, Dave, who are your top three priorities this week? First of all, I think it's a get what you need week. In a vacuum, Coleman is still my number one. I would put Schultz second, and I would put Denzel Boston third. And it's not to slight Bryce Young. This is not me saying that Bryce Young's going to be bad. If you lost Kayla Williams or Jackson Dart, you better go get Bryce Young.

But this is going to be, you know, three teams in every league that need a quarterback if they don't already have a backup quarterback. And there's probably going to be another quarterback on the waiver wire that could be not as good as Price Young. I think they're staying power with Bryce Young. but I don't think you have to make them a priority unless you have to, unless your quarterback situation is dire. Then, of course, you're going to put Bryce Young at the top of the list. If your tight end situation is dire, you're going to put Dalton Schultz at the top of the list.

If your receiver situation is dire, you will put Denzel Boston as one of the top wide receivers on your list. But if you don't have a dire situation, then I think what Jamie said about Jonah Coleman is good. And he's somebody who you want to roll the dice on. You're going to make the commitment for a couple of weeks. I know when I drafted him, you remember how crazy I was over Joan of course, a month ago. When I drafted him, I wanted to commit to him for a month, just to see what would happen. There was a lot of really good stuff that he did in week two.

There was some bad stuff he did in week two as well. And you think about Sean Payton and what his track record is with running backs. He doesn't put it all on one guy's plate. And so I worry about Jonah Coleman being a mega breakout. And I don't think it's going to happen as long as Dobbins is healthy. and eventually R.J. Harvey will come back. So no matter what the situation, unless it's legitimately what we saw in week two,

where it's Dobbins is out, Harvey is out, that's when we'll see Coleman getting a ton of work. But short of that, you're going to see Coleman split. That being said, if we're just taking a roster spot and we're going to see what we get with somebody, we're going to do a little investing, then Coleman's the guy. So what is your thought?

Let's say Dobbins is out, and I think Dobbins is going to play this week, But you're picking up Coleman right now because we know the history of J.K. Dobbins. So in your opinion, if Dobbins at some point suffers a longer-term injury, what is the split looking like between Coleman and RJ Harvey? Coleman running downs, Harvey passing downs. Coleman at the goal line. Okay. Jamie, you agree with that?

Mostly. I think they'll mix and match a little bit, not as like the Rams or Bears type situation, but I still think Harvey will get enough work on first and second down to, be somewhat relevant and Coleman will catch passes probably on first and second down as well. So I don't think they go completely away from Harvey in terms of using him as a rushing down's guy. Because they've done it already the season with Goldman with Dobbins. Let me double check one thing on Harvey. Give me 30 seconds. Yeah, that's fine.

What is the success rate is inside the five. Okay. I just want to say, because I can foresee it. We're sitting here leading with Jonah Coleman and people are going to pick him up and they're going to go, I can't believe you told me it. It really is a long-term thing, but there's also, like, no guarantee that Dobbins and Harvey are going to play this week. And, you know, you'd have a starting running back, but it's kind of also just because we know this. This is why we liked him in the preseason.

Now he's got this opportunity here potentially. All right. So there's that. Dalton Schultz, Jamie, does it bother you at all that Dalton Schultz has done a lot of his work this year? I don't necessarily want to call it garbage time, but trailing in the fourth quarter. for example, this past week, he had eight catches for 72 yards on nine targets and a 45% target share in the fourth quarter alone against Cincinnati.

And so much of it was Cincinnati had a 20 to 6 lead the entire time in the fourth quarter and they just let him catch these short balls. And C.J. Stroud so far, like we don't expect the Texans to be 0 and 2 and trailing all the time. C.J. Stroud so far has 58 pass attempts in the first three quarters of two games, 58 pass attempts in six quarters. And in the fourth quarter of the two games, he has 35 pass attempts. So with Schultz,

do we think maybe it's overinflated because of these game scripts that are sort of unexpected for Houston? I mean, I'm not expecting him to average 11 targets per game. So no, I'm not expecting him to, you know, do what he's been doing. And so however you want to, you know,

categorize or separate it, you know, from, you know, when he's getting it done. The thing that I think, you know, you're just looking at the week three game, you know the Colts are going to come out and score on the first drive, because that's what they've done. You know, so they'll probably be trailing again if they don't get the ball.

But this Texas defense has clearly not played to the same level. You know, facing Josh Allen and Joe Burrow back-to-back weeks is much different than facing Daniel Jones. So we'll see what they do in week three. I just think you look at Dalton Schultz right now. If Nico Collins plays, you dial back expectations. If Nico Collins is out, you're still looking at somebody who we said when Jaden Higgins was injured.

this is going to be the guy who's second on the team of targets. We love that scenario. So there's a lot of passing going on right now in Houston that we didn't expect. There's a bad defense in Houston right now or struggling defense Houston that we didn't expect. Again, I think that has to do with who they played. So we'll see. But I still think you're just looking at Schultz. And when you get to, like Dave said, you got Colston Lovell and struggling.

You have a maybe scenario of Kyle Pitts bouncing back, but still we don't know what it's going to look like with Michael Pennix. We have maybe Brock Bowers coming back. we have maybe this, maybe that, you know, Tucker Kraft, whatever, you know, some of these tight ends who are struggling. It feels pretty good to look at Dalton Schultz and, you know, getting those opportunities and coming off this monster game and now facing a Colts team that just got beat up by Travis Kelsey. So I think there's an opportunity here for Schultz to be a top 10 today.

Okay. Last question here before. We're going to move on here. But Jonah Coleman, Bryce Young, Dalton Schultz, Denzel Boston, they're all rostered in about 50 to 60% of league. So for the people who have been listening to 10 minutes for 10 minutes and going, well, I can't get any of these guys. who are some names of players that are much more available.

And yes, we will do this later. We'll do this later. But just a few names here that we should prioritize for the people who are going, I can't get any of these guys. Dave? Jamie, no, you got, Jamie, sorry. No, I mean, there's two obvious running backs in Tank Bigsby and Manuel Wilson, just with the injuries that, you know, you're looking at there with potentially

Sequin Barkley being out and potentially Judarian Price being out. Now, similar to the Broncos, it sounds like those two guys are going to potential, or the starting running backs there are going to potentially play. I think when you go to quarterback, you know, if you want to go very deep, you're looking at Michael Pennix, you know, playing for the first time this season, and hopefully he takes advantage of the weapons that are available to him. You have now Marcus Mariotta and James Winston. We know that they've had very good, you know, they both have a good history

of helping fantasy managers when we put in this situation. So hopefully those guys take advantage of it. Geno Smith and C.J. Stroud both have great matchups this week. If you just want to go on a week-to-week basis, and Stroud's schedule coming up, excuse me, Gino's schedule coming up is very favorable as well. So, you know, there's quarterbacks that can help you in the, in the dire situation that a lot of fantasy managers are in with those three guys being out.

Receiver, there's, you know, plenty of guys. You know, Dantavian Wicks, Adnan-Nichael, both coming off, strong starts the season, you know, both, or at least in week two in the case for Adnigh-Mitchell. So there are receivers that can help you talk about a lot of others as well. And then at tight end, you know, you have similar to Gino-Smith, like Kenya Sadiq's matchup is as good as it gets. Aranda Gadsden's got a great situation. Now, Pat Fryermuth has an unbelievable history against Cincinnati Bengals.

Ten games, he's played them in his career. He's averaging 14.6 ppr points against them. And of those eight games, he scored at least 11 ppr points or more. So he just beats up on the Bengals. Helps with their problems that we've seen over the last several years and then struggling. So there's lots of different ways you can go with this. I agree with Dave Denzel Boston is the number one receiver. The reason I didn't put a receiver there is just because there's so many options that kind of, you know, sliding scale, you know, from Boston.

But like Boston and Tucker, to me, are almost identical in terms of what they're capable of doing and have done so far, at least coming off week two. So, like, I think it's almost in your best interest. Like, you could play defense as well, you know, by picking up Schultz or a quarterback to block one of your opponents from getting what could be a starting option for the rest of the season. Okay. Well, that was basically the segment. You're going to, there's a few other names, definitely to throw out a little bit later. I mean, talk about those guys. We're not doing it later.

Hey, real quick, real quick. This is a strike against Jonah Coleman after all. So 56% success rate inside the five last year for RJ Harvey. Five of his seven rushing touchdowns came from inside the five. I wonder if he's the default goal line guy in a world where Dobbins is out. Harvey is active. Coleman is active. And that obviously takes some of the upside away from Jonah Coleman.

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It really depends on how badly you need the quarterback, the tight end, the receiver, the running back. But I don't think I'd be in for any more than like 10% on any of these guys. Maybe you could talk me into 15% on Coleman if you just want to take the chance on the upside. But I don't think that this is just like last week to me where I don't think this is a break the bank week for anybody. I'm pretty tempted with Bryce Young. I mean, it just not break the bank.

What's your quarterback situation? Yeah. Even if I have a good quarterback situation, like I would spend, yeah, I think 10% on Bryce Young. If I had a good quarterback situation, if I didn't, I think, you know, 20 to 30 might might work for me. Is that crazy? Okay. It, I mean, it clearly depends on you might have to do a little work here to see who else in your league desperately needs a quarterback this week. There's three managers in every league that needs a quarterback. So assuming they don't have a backup already, yes. Right. And it's a, yeah, it's a rough week. So all right. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Jamie in the column, he actually puts all of the, all of his fab recommendations in there, which is very cool. So you can read the column at CBS Sports.com. com slash fantasy. And we'll take a quick break. And when we come back, if we have time, I'll sneak in a quick fantasy copse. And also,

oh, Gino Smith and C.J. Stroud have great schedules coming up. And so that's not just great for them, but obviously think about all the pass catchers on their teams. Gino Smith has the lions and the bears up next. Stroud has the Colts, the Cowboys, and the Titans up next.

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We got a longtime listener, first time emailer. This is from Chris. Going into week two on Monday night, I was up by, five points my opponent had Puka Nakuwa. As you know, he was scratched. There was another league member who had Malik neighbors, and no matter what, he already lost week two. Both teams decided to trade one another and said in the fantasy group chat, there was

a part two coming to this trade after week two was over. Remind you, these two members are family. And even though I got extremely lucky with Malik neighbors scoring 1.1 fantasy points, I wound up getting the win. Is this collusion? Should this be illegal when an entire trade cannot be finalized on the day of the transaction? This is definitely collusion. Well, I mean, it's collusion if there's the second part, right?

There's no collusion. Which they admitted to. Well, they haven't done it yet, though. It's not collusion if they hold on to the players for a considerable amount of time. Right. If they make a trade back this week, then it's collusion. I don't know that the second part is necessarily trading the players back, but I don't know.

What if the second part is like... If they let the trade stand for the rest of the season, it's clearly not collusioned. They've made a trade. That's normal fantasy football stuff. So what is the fact that they literally win to the fantasy group channel. Like, yeah, guys, we're just going to trade back after a week. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Clarify. They did not say they were going to trade. They did not say they were going to trade back. They said there was a second part. That could mean two running backs being added to the deal. Right. Right. So that's why it's a gray air.

area here. Yeah, I think until we know what part two is, we can't really adjudicate. I think you really have to put a rule. And I obviously don't do this because I never see this happen in my leagues. But if this kind of stuff happens, there needs to be a rule in your league where if you trade a player to a team, you can't trade those players back for like three weeks or something like that. There's got to be a period of time where those players are kept on the team. I don't know if that really helped. That's a tough one. So what are we thinking, in general. Let this one stand for me. I think we need to know what part two is and hopefully get that answer before Friday. So email whoever wrote you back and say we have the official

fantasy cops on Friday and we could answer that question when we get to it. All right, quick shout out to our boy, June, another long time listener. He was eliminated from his guillotine league when Matthew Stafford took three kneel downs at the end of the game. That's amazing. News and notes. We had an our guillotine league and I don't know if Sam's on the stream or not, but it was Sam and Marone came down to Kyron Williams, I think it was Karin Williams. Sam definitely had Camp Scataboo, and I think Sam ended up losing.

Yep, lost by one point. Yeah, which is brutal. I'm on a text chain with Marone, and sweating it out. It was both you guys just had rough weeks, and sorry, Sam. Yeah, I lost Nico Collins, too, obviously going into it.

Yeah, 75.9 to 74. point three. Oh, that's a tough way to go. All right, Jackson Dart, knee injury, sprained MCL. That, you know, could be maybe one of those four to six weeks or weekers, we'll see. Jaden Daniels, we still don't have a timeline here with his elbow injury. Dan Quinn did say

expected to return this season, but now they're exploring more things here. Caleb Williams, week to week with a hamstring injury, has not been ruled out for Monday night football against the Eagles. I really hope he plays would look forward to that game. Sam Darnold expected a practice. On Wednesday, he could play at Washington. He's another guy you can get on the waiver wire if he plays at Washington.

Kyler Murray is going to start this week at Tampa Bay. So I guess you guys would just rather have Bryce Young than Kyler Murray rest of season at this point. I have Kyler second on the list. But yeah, I think at this point looking at what Bryce Young has done, I would lean toward Bryce. Michael Pennix Jr. is going to start on Thursday at Green Bay. At running back, Jonathan Brooks is going to miss some time. He re-agravated his groin injury. If you drafted Chuba Hubbard, congratulations.

J.K. Dobbins has a hamstring injury, so does RJ Harvey. Dobbins, it seems like they're expecting him to be ready for week three against the Rams. Rico Dowdell, not sure about this one. He left with a toe injury, gets the Bengals this week. Jalen Warren, tremendous usage after Dowdle left the game. And Saquan Barclay has a stinger. Kind of weird we haven't really heard anything on this one here. We'll keep an eye on Saquan Barclay and what it means for Tank Bigsby and all that.

Question, if Tank's, if Seekwan Barclay were out, and J.K. Dobbins were out. Who would you rather have this week? Tank Bigsby against the Bears or Jonah Coleman against the Rams? Coleman. Do we know if RJ Harvey is out too? No, but Tyler Badee took that Harvey role. Let's say he's out.

Let's say he's out. Then it's Coleman over Bigsby. Because we know Biggsby is going to... Raps, excuse me, with Will Shipley. Yeah. He's the announced guy, Biggsby, the running. down sky. All right, wide receiver news. Nico Collins may miss another game.

Zay Flowers could play this week. At Dallas, that'd be awesome. That game's in Brazil, right? Is that right? Yes. Yeah. But, oh, does that mean we have an early game on Sunday? No, 430. Okay. Because when we have early games, our Sunday show starts at 930.

8.30. Yeah. Okay. We'll tell you about that, I think, next week. Michael Pittman status is unclear. Mike Evans, looks like he's going to play, but they're going to monitor him. He's almost certainly going to miss practice on, well, I wouldn't say that.

Mike Evans is going to be on the injury report. Jaden Reed, we don't know. Caleb Douglas left with an ankle injury. The Colt signed Darius Slaten. Alec Pierce is going to miss several weeks, if not more. I mean, he could miss the season at this point. Right now he's going to try to avoid surgery,

Alec Pierce, but he's going to miss some time. Jalen McMillan, this I thought was so interesting that Ted Hurst just completely played over Jalen McMillan. Jaille McMillan barely played. Well, they said McMillan is not fully healthy yet, but he's getting closer. So we'll see what that split looks like because I think Hearst in 8% of leagues is a good pick for pickup for deep leagues, but not if McMillan's going to get more play. And Malik Neighbors has this shoulder issue. His shoulder popped

out. They popped it back in. We'll see if he's able to play. I assume he would. He returned and had one horrible cat, one catch for one yard against the Rams. It gets the Titans this week. Dallas Goddard sprained MCL. He's going to miss time. Hopefully he goes on IR for your roster spot. And Zach Ertz was signed. He is 35 years old, but he did average about 10 points per game in each of his last two seasons with Washington. That's not bad.

Brock Bowers will practice this week, hopefully back. And David Noghoku and Charlie Kohler are both on IR. So we do have some deep league tight ends that are interesting. And then we've got a lot of offensive line stuff here. Giants really horrible night in terms of injuries, including left tackle, Andrew Thomas, Patriots right tackle. Mike On Wenwu long-term injury. Is he officially out for the year?

Not yet. Not officially. Top three at each position, Jamie, who are the top three quarterbacks to get? Yeah, you mentioned two quarterbacks already. Bryce Young would be one, and then Kyler Murray would be two. And I go back and forth between James Winston and Marcus Mariotta as the third one. You know, if you need somebody for a one week situation, or maybe a little longer, you can go with C.J. Stroud or Gino Smith just based on their schedules. But we've seen what James and Mariotta have done when given.

opportunities to start as recently as the last two seasons. And so I think there's lots of upside there, especially if Malik Neighbors is healthy for the Giants. So depending on what you're looking at, what you need, you know, if you feel more comfortable with Stroud or with Gino Smith, I'm certainly fine putting those guys ahead of James and Mariotto. But the top two for me are locked in and Bryce Young and Kyler Murray. I agree with the top two.

No love for Jacoby Brissette. He's up there. You know, I mean, it's been a little frustrating so far to start the season that he threw the ball 37 times. I got you 18 fantasy points in week one. Very disappointing game. Seattle in week two. We know the schedule is not getting very easy as it moves along.

This is easier in week three than it was last week. But I think there's just as much upside with James and Mariotta as we've seen similar to Preset as he came in last year. You know if you start to look at some of the sample sizes for those guys. And then when you look at the schedules for Stroud and for Gino, I think you can make arguments that those guys are in just as good a situation. So as we know, as we've already talked about, there's lots of managers that need quarterbacks right now.

So if Jacobi is in the top three for you or maybe even number one, just based on what he did last year, sure. Go ahead. All right, Dave, who are your top three running backs? Coleman's number one. Bigsby's number two, if we're working on the assumption that Saquan Barclay is not going to play this week. And maybe you even stash Biggsby because Saquan hasn't looked like Seekwon so far this season. And then Emmett Johnson's number three. And that's more of a stash play.

you're seeing the guy who's the backup to Kenneth Walker the third looking good on limited reps. They're talking about giving them more reps, which makes sense. They've given so much work to Kenneth Walker through the first two weeks that they've got to take some work off of him. I know that sounds terrible to people that have Walker, but he's still going to get over 20 touches a game. Johnson would be third for me. So give me Coleman 1, Bigsby 2, Johnson 3. If you don't want to worry about the Eagle situation because it could be very short-lived, then Emmett Johnson would jump to number two.

Gosh, I hate when we don't know a running back status when we're making our waiver claims. I just hate it. It's an argument for pushing your waiver night to Wednesday night instead of Tuesday night. But it's really frustrating here. We won't know with the Eagles if you're going on that assumption because they play Monday.

Well, they won't get a practice report, but we might get a report about San Juan Berkeley. And just keep an eye on, and I agree with Dave on the first two. I'd actually just, and Emmett Johnson's awesome. So if you're just taking a long-term approach, that's the rest of the season deal. He might be number two easily if you just want to avoid it. But Emmanuel Wilson, if there's no DeDarion Price, clearly the Seahawks told you who their backup guy is right now.

So, you know, Wilson coming off 21 carries has got an opportunity to take on a Washington defense that might be horrible. So I think Wilson is in the discussion for the top three. Just one thing about the Eagle situation is it's probably not going to be all Biggsby, because we saw Will Shipley play a lot. And he's another one. Like if you are in a deeper league and you can't get Biggsby because Biggsby was drafted in a lot of deep leagues already, like take a flyer on Shipley and maybe he has another seven for 24 and a couple catches. And especially if it's a full game situation for the Eagles taking on a bad bear's defense. All right. And I forgot to mention the Judarian Price News.

He has a chest injury, but it doesn't seem like it's a big, or is his shoulder. I forget what it was. He left the game with what was classified as a chest injury. and then Mike McDonald said it's more of his shoulder. So we'll see. But this is where it's tricky, like you said. We have all three of the main injuries sound like they're not serious, but you also are talking about we don't know how price will play it through pain

and what the Seahawks will do. We don't know what Barclay's situation is right now. We do know that Dobbins has a terrible injury history, but it sounds positive. So you just have to be a little bit cautious with your fab. You may end up spending too much on somebody that doesn't help you immediately. Okay. Wide receivers, Jamie, Who are your top three wide receivers?

So Denzel Boston, I agree with Dave, but I really struggled with between him and Trey Tucker just because I think there's opportunities for both to be successful. And you saw what we were hoping for for Trey Tucker in week two when he had five catches for 119 yards and a touchdown on seven targets. So there's plenty of upside there. Boston is the much higher ceiling if things hit for him. It's just you don't want to chase the fluky touchdowns,

and that's the thing that's a little concerning. But Deshaun Watson is playing much better than anybody expected. Boston is showing that he's a playmaker. and I hope this continues. I just don't know if like the, when you see the touchdowns, the garbage time won and we won against Jacksonville and then he's bouncing off defenders against Tampa Bay.

Like you just don't want to overestimate what he can do rest of season, but there's just so much to love about what he and Concepcion can eventually become. I put Rashad Bateman third. We do expect Zay Flowers to come back, but you've heard me say this now for basically two weeks since Jacoby Lane's injury is that there's two guys missing. So whether Flowers returns or not, Lane is not coming back anytime soon.

And Bateman, very small sample size, but it's now eight games going back to 2024 with at least five targets. He did it again in week three, where he gets you 15.8 PPR points or more in now six of those eight games. So there's just an opportunity here for Bateman. If Flowers is out, must start wide receiver against the Cowboys. If Flowers is in, I think he's still a starter in three receiver league. So you can go at Nine Mitchell. You can go, Donavian Whigs. There's just a lot of different players, this position that you can sort of say all sort of fall in line as number three receivers.

I just think when you look at Boston and Tucker's situation, it shouldn't change anything. Bateman situation could change. Mitchell's situation can change when Omar Cooper's back. Obviously, Don Tavian Wicks now has a plus because Goddard's out. We don't know what they'll do with Zacherts, but maybe McCoy Lemon starts to get a little bit more run. So there's lots of different guys. I mean, we'll talk about it when we get to a position. But I think for me, it's the top two locked in and then Rashad Bateman right now is there. I agree with the top two locked in. When Brock Bowers is back, I wonder what that means for Trey Tucker and whether or not we can count on him. is anything more than like a low-end boomer bus flex.

I think they're staying power with Denzel Boston. He had a 94% route rate in week two. It's like 97% in week one. So we know right away he's a full-time player for the Browns, seven targets in week two. That's huge. He should have had two touchdowns against Tampa. He had one ball go right through his hands.

I kind of wish that that wasn't the case. But I do think that he's, I think he's going to be a good contributor as long as, long as Deshawn Watson is the quarterback. And I don't worry about the play and the almost touchdown where the ball went. I think it was right through his hands. It was really close. It could have been knocked away.

I don't remember off the top of my head. But the bottom line is I think that there's staying power. I think that there's room for him to get you like five for 60 every week. And that's a number three receiver. If you had to pick right now for both of you, if you had to pick right now, who would you say is the best rookie wide receiver rest of season? forget about what they did in the first two weeks. How can I forget about what they did over the first?

No, no, no, you don't get that production. Yeah, I cannot say Cornell Tate. No, I think it's either Boston or Tyson. Because if Tyson comes back, the way that this New Orleans offense has been operating. In fact, if that dude's out there and you've got IR spots, stash city. You just wonder, though, if Vela has done enough to make that a problem. I'm going to say Malachi Fields. I'm going to say Denzo Boston.

Yeah, I've been impressed too. It could always go super south with Sean Watson, obviously. But yeah, I'm glad you brought up that almost touchdown because the touchdown he had was completely fluky. That was ridiculous. So he actually, hold on, he had the ball and it looks like it got knocked away. Okay. I don't think it was a drop.

Yeah, it's fine. And, you know, he wasn't credited. He plays all the time. Yeah, but it's tough. It's good question, Jamie. He did not drop. Dave, who are your top three tight ends? Shultz is number one.

That's easy. Just too much target volume. Check down guy. He's almost running one of two routes every single play. And whenever they're up against his own coverage, he's going to get a lot. I put Gadsden second because without Nojoku there, without Kohler there, it seems like he's going to have the opportunity to play a lot for the chargers. And I don't know.

I think that Justin Herbert could use a short area target. I put Fryer-Mew third. And it's not with a lot of confidence. I just like the matchup this week. And if you're getting him, you're streaming him. So Schultz won, huge staying power, especially in PPR, Gadsden, Firemeath, 2, and 3. Yeah, the only thing I'll change to that is my God, Terence Ferguson finally got involved last night, and he looked awesome.

And Pug and Kuhna Kua may not play in week two, but this was expected to be the third option in this passing game, and Stafford finally looked like Stafford again, and the Rams back in America looked like the Rams again. So give me Terrence Ferguson. He might be, you know, if you want to talk about deep league options? Like, hello. It's scalable in 80% of leagues. Yeah, I mean, just an absolute stud, as we talked about in the offseason, if you ever got the opportunity.

And if they were going to move on, remember, there was the talk of them moving on from Devante Adams at one point. Like, this was the guy we were very excited about. And you finally got to see it last night. So Ferguson. You put him ahead of Gadsden and Firemuth? Without question. Okay. Unless you tell me right now, Pooka's coming back, but we just don't know.

Yeah, but Puka was warming up, right? He was questionable the whole. Yeah, but I don't think that you're not going to get this from. Ferguson. But I think there's opportunity still for Ferguson to get plenty of chance. Remember, Kobe Parkinson was a streaming tight end by the end of the season. This kid is much more athletic and productive than, or has a chance to be more productive than Kobe Parkinson. He was. And I think what I would say is this, right? Like, Terrence Ferguson probably has more long-term potential. Pat Fryermuth has a 13.5% target chair in each of his first two games. They're just, they've thrown

79 passes in two games. That's not great. But, you know, this is what I, okay, long-winded way of saying, if you maybe want to pick up Ferguson, you can't get Schultz, get Ferguson, if you think that there will still be options on the waiver wire like Pat Friarmouth, like O'Ronday Gasson, and maybe people just won't pick them up, there might be other options. T.J. Hawkinson's playing the Buccaneers, they look like they're absolutely horrible against tight ends. Darren Waller, maybe Hunter Henry. I'm telling you. Hunter Henry. I'm surprised Hunter Henry's not on this list, by the way. He's on the list. It's like if you're talking matchups, it's Kenya, Sadiq, if you want to trust. Yeah, but I mean, Sadiq's got. Look what the Lions have done.

They may know a fan look like a star. They made Juan Johnson look like John Johnson. And then Dalton Kincai just absolutely obliterated them. I know. Let me tell you about... He's too much of a reach for me, I think. I could see it happening. He's very much a reach.

But if you're just playing matchups, like it's Friamuth and it's a Sadiq. Right. So the case for Ferguson is simply this. If there is no Puka Nakua, we saw it last night. 72% route rate, nine targets. That's awesome. Yes, buy into that. Week one, Puka's on the field.

He had a 45% route rate. he had one target. I thought the route week one. Yeah, maybe you do. But the route rate, though, that's the difference.

Right. They didn't use them a lot. And maybe that was just because they were trailing in the game. I'm not exactly sure what goes into it. We could research that if you wanted to. But the bottom line is that as long as Pook is out, yeah,

I'm with you on Ferguson. And that makes them a priority until we know if Pook is back. And if Puck is back, then maybe you pivot off of Ferguson. Okay. So to recap, Bryce Young, Kyler Murray,

and then James Winston or Marcus Murray, those were the top three quarterbacks for Jamie. At running back, Dave went Jonah Coleman, Tank, Bigsby, Emmett Johnson, a wide receiver. Jamie said Denzel, Boston, Trey Tucker, Rashad Bateman. Yep. At tight end, Dave said Dalton Schultz, Arronday Gadsden, Pat Friarmouth, but you just heard a spirited case for Terrence Ferguson.

Ferguson makes sense ahead of Gadsden and Firemuth. Okay. So Schultz, Ferguson, Gadsden, Friarmouth. And now it's time for coverage you can count on, sponsored by Nationwide. like your fantasy roster is more than just your offensive starters. Nationwide is a great insurance company and one of America's largest financial services companies as well.

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By the way, Jimmy also likes the Packers against the Falcons, even with Michael Penix, the Bengals at Pittsburgh. Defense is playing pretty well. And the Giants, hopefully get Brian Burns back. Giants against the Titans this week. Dave, do you have another DST or any thoughts on the DSTs? I like the Giants and Bengals for sure.

What about the bills against the Chargers, just the way that the Chargers have looked so wonky? Do you even consider Buffalo to get a couple of sacks and turnovers in the game? Yeah, it's not bad. It's not a great week for DSTs. You know, the Packers really is just like what version of Pennix are we going to see? Hopefully it's a good one. I always get a little curious how some of these teams, especially starting the season.

So the Packers back-to-back road games, Dolphins even back-to-back road games. You know, they're finally coming home. So does that sort of give them a little bit of juice, you know, just being back in their building, especially being on the road. Dolphins stayed out west for both of their games to start the season after playing the Raiders and the 49ers. So not that means you're getting away from the chiefs by any stretch, but going back home is always a little bit of a good option. Somebody mentioned the Panthers.

Yeah, you can go with the Panthers as well, coming off a strong defensive performance and taking on the Browns, but the Browns, I think, got to give them some credit. They've looked much better than I think anybody expected. They've started slow in their first two games, and then especially last week they started to put it all together, at least through the air. By the way, great news for the Chargers.

They lost their left guard for a while. So awesome stuff there. What's that? What's that? Which one? Not Pipkins? No. Coyote Owasica.

Yeah. Absolutely no idea how to pronounce it. That is not good news. Okay. We'll be right back with Deep League, shallow leagues. I guess we'll recap last night's game. Devante Adams, wow.

We'll be right back on fantasy football today. Jamie, as we take a look at the shallow leagues, there's some really good names. There's a couple guys in particular. that it's like, well, I guess you throw Shuck in there as well. Guys who are a rostered in about 75% of CBS leagues that I think would be just like, oh, man, pick them up immediately. I'm not going to say them yet.

Who do you think are the shallow league guys that it would make Jonah Coleman look like garbage on the waiver wire? Number one, and it's not close, is Josh Downs. You mentioned Alec Pierce and his injury and downs seven for 72, nine targets. They add Darius Slate, and I don't think that impacts downs. So you also have a looming suspension for Keenan Allen that could happen at some point this season. So Downs looks like the number one receiver and at least number two in terms of targets, maybe number one moving forward. So Downs would be first. Chuck would definitely be on that list.

Joanne Johnson would absolutely be on that list based on what he's accomplished. I got one more. I'm trying to think if there's a running back one. Yeah, Rashad White. Yes, Rashad White. Yeah. You know, I jumped the gun in saying that he did not look great in week one. and looked much better

and the guy that I think we were all hoping to see in week two, mostly from a reception standpoint, you know, clearly being one of the go-to guys in the passing game. So hopefully that continues. You know, Jacori Kroski-Merrett's going to have games. I think when they're playing with the lead

or have an opportunity to, who knows how that'll, you know, go moving forward without Jane Daniels in there. So Rashad White's a great call you. Yeah. Shuck is available in half of Yahoo Leagues. Yeah, Rashad White is too. Yeah, 56% rostered.

We're Shuck here. Shuck is already rostered too high on sleeper. But if he's out there, then do you like him or do you like Bryce Young? I kind of like Shuck. Yeah, I think there's probably a little bit more upside with Shuck. Just, you know, and I don't know if that's fair to say that to Bryce Young, just what he's done in the first two games. But I think like you said before, Dave, once they get Jordan Tyson back, then this could be one of the best receiving course in the league if they like continues to do this. I did skip kickers.

I apologize. Kickers that Jamie has on the waiver wire, Trey smack against Atlanta, Spencer Schrader against Houston, Ryan Fitzgerald at Cleveland, and Will Lutz against the Rams. Those are some kickers to look at. If you could tell me in 15 seconds,

what goes into your kicker waiver wire picks? Recent performance, environment, and projected score. Recent performance, okay, good stuff, good to know. And later in the year, obviously, we'll factor weather in with kickers as well. Well, Dave, you waste a lot of my time today. What are we doing here talking about Jonah Coleman and Rashad White? You know what?

I've got nothing out of this show against none of these guys are available in my league. Who are some of the deep league guys that we need to know? Even if you want to repeat some that Jamie mentioned earlier. Sure. So these are going to be players that are available in less than 40% of CBS Sports League. Jacobi Brissette is the top quarterback for me. You can certainly look at Marcus Mariotta as well. I don't love the matcher for Marioita this week,

but we know that he's going to be the starter for the commanders for the next several weeks, maybe even months based on what happened to Jaden Daniels. Gino Smith would probably be next best, and he's available in about 80% of CBS Sports League, so that's pretty good. Running backs, do I say his name, Adam? Do I say it after we talked about him yesterday?

We haven't brought his name up yet once. Who is this? Caleb Johnson. Oh, yeah, yeah. Packers. Okay, so how about some positive things about Caleb? He played as many snaps as Lloyd. He remains, uh, okay.

Well, that's, he played as many snaps. There you go. Pretty positive. No, he had some good runs, but it's, he really only gets yardage when the offensive line is blocking. He's not a creator and he's not a burner. And I don't know how good of a pass catcher he is. And he's available in over 90% of leagues if you're desperate for a running back that might see eight touches and probably not work at the goal line and definitely will not work on passing downs.

That's my ringing endorsement for Caleb Johnson. And I have to say his name first because all the other running backs that we've talked about today, save for Emmanuel Wilson, are rostered in 40% plus of CBS Sports League. So, yeah, of course, Wilson would be the guy available in 95% plus. If Jedarian Price was out, you could always start your week by adding Emmanuel Wilson and then changing it off to Caleb Johnson or Keaton Mitchell or Devin Singletary. I'm going to throw up just going over these names. At what point do you think Josh Jacobs is back? And I know we don't know the answer to that. Week seven. Week seven. Oh, you're making decisions as if Jacobs will be back in week seven, basically. Week seven at Detroit. Okay. The alternative would be week nine at New England. Somewhere in there. You'll have them for the second half of the year. This is. my assumption. It's not based on obviously any news. Nothing's come out. He remains on the commissioner's exemplarist. I suppose that there's a chance that he stays on it for the entire year, but just the track record of players that have had the transgressions that he's had,

along with the no contest plea that he made, suggests he's trying to get his season back at some point. Yeah. Okay. So, Dave, give me like two or three deep league wide receivers that you'd prioritize. Davidman's a great one because he's a very in over 60% of CBS sports leagues. Adonai Mitchell's another one who had double-digit targets in week two. And I think the Jets will be, I think the Jets are going to throw the ball a good amount this year. Maybe a little bit more than we gave him credit for.

They didn't have to do it so much in week one. They definitely did in week two. They absolutely will in week three. And there's been good club about Adnigh Mitchell with Gino Smith since August. So I would put him on the list. I would also put Xavier Hutchinson on the list. And then going to tight ends, we talked about, I'm already, Terrence Ferguson, Ronda Gads.

and Pat Firemuth, those would be the three. Okay, yeah, I actually think the deep league-wide receivers are pretty appealing for deep league-wide receivers, but I'm thinking in my leagues, you know, three-receiver PPR leagues, Xavier Hutchinson nearly had a 40-yard touchdown catch. CJ Stroud missed him. And it seems like Nico's going to miss another game.

It's just my kind of gut from reading the T-leaves. And if Hutchinson had caught that ball, you know, he's 7% roster, he's probably up to 30% this week. He wouldn't be top two, though. would not be top two if he had caught that ball. Who would, who would be? Well, I mean, Denzel Boston and Trey Tucker. No, no, I'm talking about the deep league guys.

No, no, no, no. He would be a good short-term ad because I don't think anybody's interested in starting Hutchinson when Nico's back. But he's got the Colts, right? And the Colts just, their past defense so far against Zayflowers had 150 yards and a half. And then you had Xavier Worthy Jalen Royals with a touchdown. You had 80 yards for Tyquan, you know, is so like it's just, it's just, it's just, it's It's a good enough sample size when Nico Collins has been out. Small, but three games over the last two years,

and he has six targets or more in all three of those. The weird one, though, was Jared Wayne, like getting seven targets. And he had a bunch of opportunities. Oh, they like him. Yep. Okay, and there's also. And then there's one more. There's one more. Khalif Raymond is like the only consistent Bears pass catcher through two weeks of the season.

But it's Tyson Bayesian, though, that's the thing. I think Tyson Baygeon is actually going to keep this off. offense on time, and that might actually work against Khalif Raymond, but if you want some, he's low on the list. Like every other receiver we've named should be ahead of Khalif Raymond. Just one more. One more injury replacement because he played well in week two.

It would be Keon Coleman. He's 4% rostered and had six catches, and, you know, he's on the field a lot. So we'll see against a bad charter defense. Absolutely. And then there's Kendrick Bourne who, well, whatever. I kind of like Kendrick Bourne in that deep league format. And Ted Hurst, I think, is in. interesting, but again, I was a little disappointed. I guess the McMillan thing still lingers,

but Ted Hurst could have had a pretty big game. Caleb, or Baker Mayfield just did not play well. And keep an eye on another just deeply guys, Jeremy Bernard has had eight targets against the Patriots. That was a tough matchup. We don't know when Pittman's coming back, and Bernard may get an opportunity to maybe supplant Pittman as a number two receiver there in Pittsburgh. Need some Purell. Am I right? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Rams 28 Giants 6 Yeah Jimmy J. said Aaron Judge hurt Jackson Dart hurt This is how it goes At least you had the Knicks And that is how I feel

Because you guys don't care But my college football team Is also extremely injured right now But the Giants last night Oh I mean Dart then neighbors Andrew Thomas late in the game

And Andrew Thomas looked like crap The whole game I thought and then Brian Burns, horrible game for the Giants. Hopefully they get back on track their schedule is so much easier. Tennessee, Arizona, at Washington, New Orleans are the next four games. Gosh, wouldn't it be great if Jackson Dart were available for these games? There's so much like revenge game narratives between the Giants and the Titans with coaches and players on both sides. Yeah, yeah.

And what do you think about neighbors, Jamie? One catch. And, you know, he was okay against Dallas, but horrible in this game. Do you have long-term concerns for neighbors? Not really. I got a little excited when James came in because we know what James typically does for wide receivers and then immediately neighbors gets hurt.

So we just don't know the extent of what he's dealing with. Hopefully it'll be 100%. You go back to the comments he made prior to week one about if he's not feeling 100% is he going to play. So you wonder if the shoulder's bothering him if he's going to go out there. I love the fact that he came back into the game if he's not 100%.

So that's clearly encouraging. But look, the Giants offense just looked lost last night. you know, Scataboo couldn't really do anything. It's just frustrating that he keeps coming off the field so much. Mike, what was your question? More touchdowns or catches Sunday night for Scataboo and Coram? They both had one. I'm sorry, Coram had one and Scatabu had four.

Yeah, it was good to see at least. Yeah, I just, look, he's going to have games like this where, you know, when he's facing a good run defense, I think the Rams are going to have a good run defense. It's not going to be ideal for him. So I think you just kind of just throw this game out because Dark getting hurt so early in the game just kind of probably put them in a little bit of a shell shock mode. And then the Rams just did whatever they wanted to almost offensively. So great to see the Rams play at this level again. I guess really the only frustrating thing is which version of Devante Ab's going to get when Puka is back.

So this is probably a cell high window for sure for him. Yes. Little Ferguson continued to be involved when Puka's back. And Kairan's got to stop fumbling. I glad they continue to go to him right after the. the fumble, but this is now, I think you fumbled both games. You don't want to see that.

Yeah, they just kept possession. He got it back, you know, but Kyron getting the ball punched out twice. It's something he's got to clearly work on. Scadaboo played 59% of the snaps, which isn't really that bad. It was annoying when Harris was in in like a goal to go situation, but scataboo

there was inside of two minutes, so I don't know if Scataboo would have ever been in there. No, he was in there because he was in there on like the first play or, was in there in one of those plays and then they just took him out for Najee Harris or maybe they took out Harris for Skad, whatever. It was stupid. It was interesting that it wasn't Singletary because usually Singletary is their hurry up back. Yeah, well, it wasn't hurry up though because it was like they got the ball after the fumble at the 10 yard line. So, yeah. Maybe. Maybe you're

right. I'm going to throw out some names here for Adams here because I understand the cell high, but we also saw what he can do. He's still a really good player even at his age. Those catches he made were amazing. Devante Adams or Ladd McConkey rest of season. Ladd. I just don't know how injured the ribs are for him, like, and the Chargers looks so loft. I might go Adams. Adams or Travis A. Chan. Adams. I would lean Adams. Adams or Buckie Irving. Bucking. That one's close. I'll take Buckie also. Adams. or Scataboo.

Adams. I was drafting that way. I'll take. I think I'll take Scatabu. All right. Drop o meter time. Zero to 10.

Brian Thomas Jr. Five. Marshall. Seven and ten team leagues. Maybe four and twelve team leagues. Yeah. I mean, he's starting to make a pretty compelling case for a worst guy on your bench.

Marshawn Lloyd. Three. Oh, God. Gosh, I'm higher than that. They might have just like a three-headed crap monster for three more weeks. Four more weeks. Chris Rodriguez. Nine.

Seven. He's a handcuff. Yeah, he's a handcuff. Jordan Love. I think Jordan Love's going to bounce back. I do, too. Would you drop him for Bryce Young or Tyler Shuck? Yes.

Those I would consider, but, you know, I think the minute that you drop Jordan Love, he's getting picked up in every league because of the three teams that are looking for quarterbacks now. Quentin Johnston He gave me a more week Chris Godwin Two I told you it was a Joe Boo week It's a 10 in non-PPR and in half PPR

In full PPR it's like an eight He put the boo in Joe Boo Boo by garbage. Baker Mayfield is only happy when he is running around like a maniac throwing the ball 100 yards downfield.

Like just take... His guy's stay in the pocket, yeah. Yeah, just take what the defense is giving you. Like, stop overcomplicating things. Chris Godwin is open, but they're facing Minnesota this week. So even if you want to hold Godwin, it's going to be another bad way probably.

I can't start him and feel good about it. All right, back to the waiver wire. Tyler Shuck, Bryce Young. I don't know. Did you say who you prefer? I think you did, but I forgot. I said Chuck. Shuck, but it's close.

All right. Bryce Young is number one. If Shuck is not available, then it's Kyler Murray. And then James Winston versus Mariotta. I don't know. I think I'd probably go Mariota because I feel like Daniels will be out longer, but it's close between the two. I feel like you're streaming either way. And so if you're streaming either way, you'll start the quarterback taking on Tennessee this week. I'm thinking more of two QB leagues if you're looking for more long time. Oh, these aren't one QB leagues unless you're stuck. know, like Dave keeps saying, which is true, that every manager in your league or majority of manager leagues have two quarterbacks already. Like, these are the guys you're picking from. So, you know, it's whatever sample size you want to use for both of them, it's going back to 24. It's James with the Browns and his nine games, 19.3 fantasy points or more than five of those.

Mario da started eight games last season and scored 20 fantasy points or more in four of them. So it's almost like identical. How they'll do it is different. Mario not all four of the games we scored 20 or more fans points, but in four of the eight starts, he got you 40 rushing yards or more. And James, we know it was going to have a lot of spike games.

I think you feel a little bit better about James because he played so much last night if he had a better game. But that was really, I think, just a byproduct of the Rams just being a great defense. Like you said, Adam, we get the Titans this. week, this should be one of those games where James goes off. It's Titans, Cardinals, Commanders, Saints. I'm going to guarantee it.

That's a tiebreaker for me. I'm going to guarantee it. Ready? And I'll grow another beard, if I'm wrong. James Winston is going to have at least one 30-point game in the next four weeks. No, 26. He will hit 26 in at least one of those games. No, I think you're right.

I think 30 works. Oh, by the way, I owe you a dollar. Dan did see Scarface. We never circle back. Yeah, because Dan, like, I'm not going to get it. to why I knew he would see Scarface. I'll tell you off the year. C.J. Stroud and Gino Smith have good

matchups this week. Assuming Nico Collins is out. Who do you like better? C.J. Strad or Gino Smith this week? Gino. Stroud. I'm sorry. Nico's out? Yeah. Yeah, Gino.

All right. We got Jacoby Brissette. We got Michael Pennix. Sam Darnold at Washington this week. If he's back, Deshawn Watson. He's running a little bit. 22 yards last week, 38 yards in week one. His first time. 20 point game, by the way, since week three of

2024. Wow. And Tyson Bayesian is a 2 QB league guy as well, but he might have a brief run. You know, I would say what about Kirk Cousins? There's just so many guys. Like, Kirk Cousins could be okay against New Orleans. He's been solid so far. I'd rather start for set.

All right, running backs, running backs here. Mike Washington Jr. and Woody Marks, Tyler Alger, these are shallow league guys. Plus, Rashad White would be the best shallow league guy. If you saw Jonah Coleman and Rashad White on your waiver wire, who are you getting? What do I need? Right. Do I need a run back?

This week, it's Rashad White for sure. If I need somebody that's long term, it's Coleman unless we know for sure that Dobbin is going to miss this week. I think I would pick Coleman because of both those guys are on my waiver wire. That means the waiver wire is kind of plentiful for backup backbacks. And so I'd rather just roll the dice on Coleman hoping that he's the guy this week. And if I'm wrong, then I cut him at some point. and I pick up a different running back before Sunday. The Eagles are at the Bears Monday.

The Seahawks are at Washington. Washington's been pretty good against the run so far, to be fair. If both Saquan Barkley and Judarian Price were out, how would you rank Tank Biggsby, Will Shippley, Emmanuel Wilson? Jamie? I would go Tank Biggsby, Emmanuel Wilson, Will Shippley. Okay. There's also Emmett Johnson.

There's Alvin Camara who had five catches. He might just get you some PPR points. points. Tadje Spears. So many yards, though. Tadjay Spears stinks. But he's on this list because he's 50% rostered and he plays. And Caleb Johnson. Yeah, Dave talked about him.

And then there's DJ Dallas, who's another option. That's another injury. Just to keep an eye on. Aaron Jones did leave briefly in the fourth quarter within the injury. And it looked like DJ Dallas got his foot stepped on. And then immediately Aaron Jones came back in. And Dallas was not listed on the injury report. I just wondered if it was like, hey, I don't care what you're dealing with.

go back in. And then he got absolutely blasted where his helmet came flying off. I just hope Aaron Jones is fine because he ran really well. I'm going to reach you some wide receivers that are available in shallower leagues. And how many of them do you prefer to Denzel Boston? Do you prefer Casey Concepcion? No. Boston.

No, Boston. Romeo Dobbs or Denzel Boston? No. Boston. Boston. Xavier Worthier, or Denzel Boston. Boston. Boston.

Josh Downs or Denzel Boston? Downs. Downs, Downs. Devon, Veilay or Denzel Boston? Velae. I think I'd go Velae for now. Denzo Boston or Trey Tucker. Boston.

It's close, but Boston. Yeah, it is close. Tucker, man, every time he's had a game like this, he's followed it up with a dud in his career. Three games, and this was his fourth game with 80 or more yards, and the previous three games, he had five catches for 41 yards. He had one catch for 58 yards in a touchdown on one target,

and he had two catches for 13 yards on two targets. He's so inconsistent, but it's maddening because this guy is blazing speed. Rashad Bateman, yeah, unfortunately for Bateman, Zay Flowers, looking, trending in the right direction. For Bateman, they talked about using him differently, and 25% slot rate by far a career high, 8.7% motion rate by far a career high. And those were things that existed in week.

week one as well. It wasn't just week two. And now he gets Dallas. So maybe he could be something, you know, this year. But we know how it is with the Ravens. Adonai Mitchell, like zero to ten on the addometer for Adonai Mitchell. Five. Six.

Would you drop Chris Godwin for him? No. Is it a non-PPR league? No. Is it a half-PPR league? Sure. Yes. Dantavian Wicks, zero to ten.

Five. five. If DJ Moore were out this week, where would Keon Coleman be ranked? Zero point zero. Oh, I can't do that. I know, I know. He'd be up there. He'd be a borderline number three receiver.

38, 39, is range. Yep. Okay. Keenan Allen, got an opportunity here with Alec Pierce out. Khalif Raymond, Caliph Raymond should have was a yard away from having a touchdown. I think Caleb Williams was a little late on the throw. And if he throws it on time, or maybe you just couldn't throw it on time, whatever,

That's a touchdown for Khalif Raymond. Go away, Khalif Raymond. That's so funny. Xavier Hutchinson already made the case for him. Hutchinson or Malik Washington, who did you pick up for this week? Hutchinson for this week. I think Malik Washington is just going to be what he is, which is... Eight PPR points.

He'll get you, yeah, maybe like a 10-11 point week. It's just what happens now with Caleb Douglas if he misses the game. And I like Kendrick Bourne a bit just because, you're not going to get 95 passing yards most weeks from Jacoby Brissette. And Bent Bourne's on the field. He's their slot guy. And he had 15.5 points in week one.

He had a terrible week two, but they all had terrible week twos against Seattle. Jeremy Bernard. What's that? Not Tray McQuard. Well, even he, like, yes, he scored. It wasn't amazing. Yeah, like 43 yards on 10 targets or something.

All right. And then, okay. All right, let's go to the tight ends. Jouan Johnson, Jakeford. Ferguson, Dalton, Shultz. Jamie, how would you rank them if they were all available? Or you could drop one, you know, for Schultz. Joanne Johnson, Jake Ferguson, Dalton, Schultz.

Schultz, Joanne Johnson, Jake Ferguson. I'd rather still have Terrence Ferguson than Jake Ferguson. Dave agrees on Schultz, Juan Johnson, Jake Ferguson, it seems. And then there's Terrence Ferguson, who we agreed should be number two on this list. Pat Fryeemuth. Jamie talked about his great history against the Bengals. Six touchdowns in those 10 games, too. That's amazing.

Hunter Henry, you know, if you're struggling at tight end, Hunter Henry's a guy you can pick up. He ran, I think he led the team in route participation. He led the team in targets. Not many, but yes. But Drake may only through 22 passes. Yeah, listen, this is what we said going into the week that you can say Dobbs or Demario Douglas or Matt Collins or these guys.

It was going to be Hunter Henry is the one that was the preferred option. Same thing with the Texans. It was the tight end is the one that has the best opportunity. And both those situations came to fruition. Yeah, it wasn't a big game because the game script. I mean, they had a defensive touchdown. They barely had a throw. But the next two games for the Patriots are the Jaguars on the road and then the bills on the road.

So, you know, you could get six, seven targets maybe for Hunter Henry. Darren Waller caught two touchdowns. Remember, he had one called back in week one at Cleveland this week. Arande Gatston. You think Gadsden could be awesome? I mean, what an opportunity here for Gadsden. He was really good last year with, you know, five targets is usually the number I'll look for. And I think it was eight games, six of those he had.

10 PPR points or more. So when he got chances, he was productive. It's just A, do you want to trust the charges right now, which is just so hard to buy into with these guys? And B, like the bills, for the most part, have been very good at defending tight ends. So will this be one of those games where he just doesn't do very much

and you get frustrated with him? He's still worth exploring, though, if you have some tight end concerns. And then there's Kenyon Sadiq who has a great matchup at Detroit. Then he's at Chicago, and Zach Ertz. Not great matchup. The best matchup.

The best matchup so far. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's true. I mean, they're... 10 plus half PPR points or more to three tight ends

in two games. They've played four tight ends if you throw in Dawson Knox and all four have scored touchdowns. Yeah, that's amazing. And Mason Taylor's hurt. Any interest in T.J. Hawkinson because Tampa Bay is also,

but Tampa Bay is giving up the second most fantasy points to tight ends. Hawkinson's a touchdown or a bus. I think when you look at Hawkinson and Brent Strange and those type of guys, like if they score, you'll be happy with starting them. It's kind of the same thing with Jake Ferguson. He had two catches for seven yards in a week one. Then he comes back and has four catches and two of them are touchdowns.

And so now all of a sudden he looks like a potential starting option. So just don't chase those situations if you don't have to. But could easily do have one of those games, yes. And we haven't seen what Hawkinson looks like with Kylo Merck. Anthony's asking Gadsden or Loveland, and I would for week three. and I would expand it to say how many of those waiver wire tight ends

would you start over Colson Loveland this week? Loveland's 18th for me this week. Schultz for sure over Loveland. Ferguson would be over Loveland if we knew Nakua would be out. I'd like to hear some of those names that you've got ahead of Loveland.

I have Hunter Henry ahead of him. I have, it's a pretty good week for tight ends. Joanne Johnson ahead of him. With him Juan, I'm trying to think like, where's the, I'm thinking of my tight ends

in the team. Let me see if I can give you some. Andrew's over him. Yeah, I'm with you there. Pitts? Yeah, for sure. Jake Ferguson. I do have Jake Ferguson over a level in this week.

Harold Fanon Jr.? I do have Harold Fanon over him. Darren Waller. I don't think I have Waller over him. Okay. Trying to get an idea. And Fryermuth? Definitely, Firemuth.

Wow. DST's Chiefs. That matchup is just too dreamy. Chiefs against the doll. The Dolphins, is that at the Dolphins? It has to be at the Dolphins. It is right. It is right.

Packers against Atlanta, Bengals at Pittsburgh, Giants against Tennessee, and the kickers again are Trace Mack, Spencer Schrader, Ryan Fitzgerald, and Will Lutz, and a comment from the chat. Did Heath hit Adam in the eye? No.

I have no idea what happened in my eye, but it's a little messed up right now. It hurts like hell. So I'm questionable. Watch your hands and go to the bathroom. Disgusting. It was disgusting when you set it off the air And it's disgusting on the air

But why? Do I have to wash my hands? I don't even get it. All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow With the Worryometer Wednesday On Fantasy Football today. See you later. On podcasts.