Fantasy Football Today - Week Four Start or Sit: Alvin Kamara is Out! (10/02 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: October 2, 2022

Alvin Kamara is inactive! Is Mark Ingram a must start? We also talk about wide receivers being thrust into larger roles like Jarvis Landry, Mack Hollins, Josh Palmer and Josh Reynolds. And pick up Rondale Moore if you still can. And what are you supposed to do about the Sunday night game? You can also follow the full-length Fantasy Football Today podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-podcast/id261735167 Get 20% off Fantasy Football Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-football-today%20?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-football-collection Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @ctowerscbs, You can listen to Fantasy Football Today in 5 on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today in 5 podcast." 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 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

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Alvin Kamara. What? Alvin Kamara's out? What's going on here? Michael Thomas is out. Jameis Winston is out. They're facing the Vikings in London. They're starting in an hour and a half. Who are we starting in this game? We are starting Chris Alave is the only one that I'm relatively certain I'm starting. Jarvis Landry's a low-end flex. Mark Ingram is a high-end end flex not as excited about Ingram as I was in week two because in week two he only played 37 percent of the snaps when Alvin Kamara was out the other two games when Alvin Kamara has been active he's played 33 percent of the snaps I'm just not so sure that they're going to use him in a feature

role they did activate Latavius Murray off the practice squad and he could be a two or three headed monster once again for the Saints at running back. Oh, man, I'm a little more optimistic for Ingram. That game was against the Buccaneers, and maybe they just didn't want to run the ball against the Bucs. Much easier matchup here. And Tony Jones, I think he only had two or three carries in that game,

so Ingram dominated the carries. Well, it wasn't just Tony Jones that was playing, though. It was also Dwayne Washington. There were 10 carries for Ingram. He picked up 58 yards on those. He was awesome. Dwayne Washington, Taysom Hill, and Tony Jones combined for another nine carries. All right.

So definitely somebody to keep an eye on. Mark Ingram was only 43% rostered. So you said high-end flex. So what about guys like Kareem Hunt, dylan uh james robinson i know people are a little nervous about this week where's ingram with them i'm starting those guys over mark ingram i would start mark ingram over guys like jk dobbins cam acres travis etn okay last thing on this game jarvis landry is 67 percent rostered you know where do you have him uh low in flex right around wide receiver 36 not super excited start him don't expect the saints offense to be particularly good today

let me piggyback on jarvis landry and talk about a few other wide receivers who are going to be thrust in the bigger roles you've got mac hollins for the raiders josh palmer who had 99 yards last week for the chargers and josh reynolds who i think had 100 yards last week for the Raiders, Josh Palmer, who had 99 yards last week for the Chargers, and Josh Reynolds, who I think had 100 yards last week for the Lions, if I remember correctly here. So where does Landry rank? Who's the best of that bunch? So it would be Landry, Matt Collins, Josh Palmer, Josh Reynolds. I've got Palmer at the top of that group, then Matt Collins,

then Richie James. Josh Reynolds and Richie James are kind of interchangeable in that next slot. All of them going somewhere from wide receiver 25 to wide receiver 35. Okay, so these are all start-worthy options then. If you start three wide receivers and you don't have better options, yeah.

Josh Reynolds had 96 yards last week. Pardon me. Christian McCaffrey will play. Is he a must-start? I'm starting him. Marquise Brown and Rondell Moore are both expected to play. Rondell Moore, more of a stash, I would think. Does this take Greg Dortch out of the equation, though?

Dortch is definitely behind all those guys we just talked about, including Jarvis Landry. Is he behind Rondell Moore? Neither of them are in my top 48, so they're not actually technically ranked. I would probably start Rondell Moore? Neither of them are in my top 48, so they're not actually technically ranked. I would probably start Rondell Moore over Greg Dortch. All right, Rondell Moore, 27% roster. Now's the time to go get him,

even if you don't need to start him this week. Cordaro Patterson, we're going to have to keep an eye on him. We might not know until a little bit before game time on Cordaro. Well, we'll know when the inactives come out. They said that they expect he's going to try to play, but it's a very painful injury. And the tough oneives come out. They said that they expect he's going to try to play, but it's a very painful injury. And the tough one is Sunday night. Chris Godwin and Julio Jones.

Tampa Bay optimistic that Chris Godwin and Julio Jones are going to play on Sunday night. What are we supposed to do with that information? What are we supposed to do with Tom Brady? I don't really want to start. I'm probably going to start Godwin as long as he's active but again it's a little bit risky because something could happen this evening um evans is a start brady is now in that he's very close to a start i had golf ahead him at the beginning of the week enough

things have changed that i would start him over golf now but he's not a top 12 quarterback he's like 14 or 15 for me. Do you feel confident enough that Godwin will start if you set your lineup at 1 o'clock that you leave him in? I would start him over the group of replacement-level wide receivers that we talked about. Okay, and if you need to pivot to someone else, I think Russell Gage is still widely available. Maybe you have Brandon Iyuk or Alan Robinson

or something like that. You could also, in one of Deeper League, I picked up Ben Skoronek. He plays on, and he's going to probably see four to six targets on Monday night. Okay. Okay.

And that will do it. Some people are confused about Alvin Kamara being out, Heath. Are we sure about this? Because some people are saying that he is not out. Just double, triple check on this. There was a verified Saints reporter who said he was out. Yeah, he's not playing. I'm trying to make sure, look for somebody else to say that.

But have you seen another report besides that one? NFL Network. I'm going to look at the inactives if they've come out. They haven't come out. All right, listen. We had a report that said he was out. That's what we were operating on. Hopefully we're right. Please check on it. And good luck today. We will talk to you in 12 hours with our recap of week four. All right, enjoy some early football and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks.