Fantasy Football Today - Week 7 Start or Sit (10/24 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Damian Williams, Alex Collins, they will play this week. Jermichael Hasty as well. However, Darren Waller might not play this week. We'll help you set your lineups for Fantasy Week 7 right now on FFT in 5. Good morning. Happy Sunday. All right. Big day of football coming up, even though all the good teams are on by.

Starting point is 00:00:20 I'm Adam Azar with Heath Cummings. Let's talk about some of the tough lineup decisions that you may have to make. Let's start with the running back landscape here. So Bucs running back, or Bears running backs against the Bucs. What are we doing? I would rather not start a Bears running back against the Bucs.

Starting point is 00:00:36 If I had to start one in non-PPR, it would be Khalil Herbert, but he is not inside my top 30. If I had to start one in full PPR, it would be Damian Williams, but he is not inside my top 30. If I had to start one in full PPR, it would be Damian Williams, but he is not inside my top 30. So I would really like to, I think we got a little bit of uncertainty

Starting point is 00:00:51 with as good as well as Herbert played last week, who will get it the majority of the touches and it's a terrible matchup. Alex Collins will play on Monday night. Jamichael Hasty comes off IR and will play on Sunday night. We'll talk about the weather in that game in a second.

Starting point is 00:01:07 But who do you like better, Collins or Eli Mitchell? I have Mitchell ahead of Alex Collins at this point. Mitchell in that low-end number two running back range. Actually, it was weird because I split up the running back touches

Starting point is 00:01:21 a little bit between him and Hasty just because of the uncertainty with Hasty coming back. But also I've bumped up San Francisco's rush attempts quite a bit because of how bad the weather is supposed to be there. So I do still like Hasty more than Collins. Definitely a better matchup for Mitchell better than Collins, not Hasty. Okay, and Hasty, you might want to pick him up.

Starting point is 00:01:40 He might be ahead of Trey Sermon on the depth chart as he was in the beginning of the year and we'll see you know they're in week two mitchell wasn't really running that well hasty came in give them a nice spark but we really haven't seen that much but he's not the worst speculative ad are you sitting devo samuel by the way i can't um and the nice thing is i wouldn't think and this isn't been totally true this year. I wouldn't think bad weather would affect his targets as much because his, his targets are more similar to running back targets. A lot of the time closer to the line of scrimmage, those are the types of passes they're probably going

Starting point is 00:02:12 to throw in this game. And we've got really bad weather in this game, by the way. So what about Carson Wentz, Paris Campbell? Well, Paris Campbell's on injured reserve surgery. Michael Pittman was the one I'd really boosted up because we don't expect T.Y. Hilton to play either. And so I'm just now kind of making those changes. I had boosted Pittman up into no doubt must start number two wide receiver range with Hilton and Campbell both expected to be out. Now he's going to be more of a high end flex.

Starting point is 00:02:40 I still think he'll get a big target share, maybe 30% of the Colts targets, but I don't know how valuable those targets are going to be in this weather. All right, so let's get back to the running back landscape here because you're going to go with Mitchell, Alex Collins, Chicago running backs. What about Devontae Freeman?

Starting point is 00:02:56 What about Devontae Booker? I actually have Booker currently ranked the highest of that group. It's Booker, then Freeman, then Mitchell, then Collins, then the Bears. Okay. And JD McKissick, where does he factor in now that we know Antonio Gibson is going to play today? And where does Gibson factor in? Yeah, I'm probably going to start Gibson over those guys. It sounds like it's just a pain tolerance issue. And I assume they're going to deal with that

Starting point is 00:03:25 before the game if he's going to play and so he's not going to have too many pain issues unless he re-injures something so I would start Gibson ahead of all of those running backs McKissick's right in the mix with those guys in full PPR I would start him ahead of Collins I'd start him ahead of the Bears but I would still start Freeman and Booker and Mitchell ahead of McKissick in full PPR and non-PPR I'm starting pretty much all of those guys ahead of mckissick i think he's going to go back to that pass catching role only and if you have daryl williams and chuba hubbard then thankfully you have one of those back all these guys yeah you can we can at least feel a little bit more confident in giants news ingram and slayton are going to play and i think it's john

Starting point is 00:04:04 ross is going to play or something like that. That was the other one they were updating. But Sterling Shepard may not play. He's going to be a game-time decision. We've got to come back to Darren Waller after this. But what do you think right now about the Giants' situation? They have a 1 o'clock game. Well, you said Giants news.

Starting point is 00:04:21 The Giants news would be if Sterling Shepard doesn't play. Because he's the only guy that we really want to use in the passing game here. Slayton impacts the Dante Pettis, John Ross, Colin Johnson, speculative deep flex plays. I would now expect that Slayton's going to be the guy who's in that wide receiver 40 range that you can use if you really need a hope he makes one big play type wide receiver 40 range that you can use if you really need a hope hope he makes one big play type wide receiver if shepherd is able to go then he's a number two wide receiver you should start okay and it looks like davante parker is not a guarantee by the way looking at this dolphins game he is facing an uphill uphill battle according to ian rapaport so that was another wide receiver i thought maybe you could pivot to if you were desperate. But Parker, you may not be able to do.

Starting point is 00:05:06 Now, Darren Waller, 4 o'clock game, 4.05, and he is questionable, and he truly may not play. So I guess Ricky Seals-Jones at 63% would be the best. Mo'Ally Cox at 24%. O.J. Howard, 14%. That's the best.

Starting point is 00:05:24 That's the best. Without Antonio Brown, without Rob Gronkowski, the last time this team didn't have Antonio Brown, 26% of their targets went to Gronk. The three games they've played without Gronk, Antonio Brown has led the team in targets. There is a major target void here. I think you can expect a little

Starting point is 00:05:41 bump for Evans and Godwin. They're both top 12 wide receivers. Tyler Johnson is not a bad deep sleeper, but OJ Howard and Cameron Brait, both quality streamers. I would actually start Howard over Ricky Seals-Jones. Brait would be right behind him. Those are the two guys, and one of them should be

Starting point is 00:05:57 available in pretty much every league. Those are the two guys you go get if you're worried about Waller, because they play not even 4.05, 4.25. You'll have plenty of time. There you go. And if you're super desperate, Foster Moreau would be the backup for Darren Waller. All right, thanks a lot to Heath Cummings.

Starting point is 00:06:12 Thanks to all of you for watching and listening. Good luck in Week 7.

Fantasy Football Today - Week 7 Start or Sit (10/24 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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