Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Midseason Review + Trade Targets, TNF Preview - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/29

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Fantasy Football show for Oct 29, 2025. Rest of season outlooks and trade targets! Which players in the top 10 at their position should be traded away now? Who is being undervalued in fantasy football leagues? Plus, a preview of Thursday Night Football with the Ravens at Dolphins! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(04:15) Backup Options(12:50) NFL News(17:00) Thursday Night Breakdown: Ravens at Dolphins(23:50) Mid-Season Review(24:10) Quarterbacks(31:10) Runningbacks(45:45) Wide Receivers(54:10) Tight Ends(56:45) Mailbag(57:10) Trade Ja’Marr Chase for JSN?(59:30) Trade Emeka Egbuka for Ashton Jeanty?(01:01:15) Chase Brown or D’Andre Swift rest of season?(01:03:10) IR roster rules(01:05:45) Accepting a previous trade offer quickly after an injuryConnect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Fantasy Footballer's Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast Wednesday, October 29th. I thought you had a Dodgers shirt on, Mike. It does look like it does. That would have been a problem. It's not.

It's a no effect. They're in the World Series, right? And that's actually happening? Yeah, the World Series is going on right now. Look at my knowledge. Who's the other team? Oh, man. It's not the Marlins.

I didn't know who it was until yesterday. I know the Marlins were close. You guys don't know who's in the World Series? No, I do now. I also know it's 2-2. Yes, it's 2-2. All right, yeah. I'm so knowledgeable about baseball.

So what is this other mystery team? The Toronto Blue Jays. Oh, that doesn't count. Name some of their top players historically. Historically? Yeah. Bo name it. Bo name it.

Okay. We're good. We're not a baseball show. We're a football show and we got a busy one today. Thursday night preview. Backup options. I think there's probably like three or four franchises in major league baseball that I could name any player from any time.

Like you're saying there's only a few that you could name a player. That I could name a player. And almost all of the historical players I could name were from the Yankees. Roy Halliday, right? Roy Halliday. Yeah. And he passed. right. I thought he had a tragic

passing. I think you're right, but if you're wrong, it's even funnier. No, no. He had a, well, it's not funny. The man had a tragic passing, but I know him because he was, back when I actually played baseball video games, he was in there. He had a, I think, a circle change that was just so nasty. Oh, man. That's a good time. Yeah. Well, there's your baseball segment. NFL news to catch you up on as well?

I have a problem. Okay. We know. I have a problem in one of our leagues Our League of Shadows that we play with Rich Eisen I did not bid enough I'm looking at the waivers that just went through I did not bid enough for Tyrone Tracy

I was the second highest bid I did not bid enough for Cream Hunt I was the second highest bid But my running backs this week are currently O'Marian Hampton Quinn John Judkins Bye Saquan Barkley

Bye I have to start too I have to start two problem? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Looks like I will be starting Emmanuel Wilson and Samajip. I would still can't get better than that. I would start the best of my bi-week players. Yeah. They genuinely might score the more points. They have the best chance of scoring this week. We have our, well, Pook-Nukum still in the lead for the Meglabel. I think that's two weeks in a row. Impressive. On Wednesday, we check in with the 20,000 plus of you in the Megalable. Pook-Nukum in the lead.

Smokey the Bear still in second. Unless that wasn't updated. I think there's a chance There is a chance There's no way those two I'm on it We're still in the lead So you're gonna have to tell me There's a chance

Someone didn't do their job I want to know who to yell at The leader right now Is Pook Nukeem And the second place team Smoky the Bear Someone did their job

They're doing their job We're so good at work Two weeks in a row Yeah Good work Unbelievable Good job everybody Good work Brooks

Man I really wanted to bury someone Over on X, you can follow us at the FF Ballers. Jason is at Jason FFL. Mike at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway if you want to follow us. Individually, we have backup options to kick off today's show. Backup options, presented by progressive insurance. Waiverwire went through this morning.

it did which we have we do have terrible news about our chopped league oh man the person with brock bowers aka the ring aka seven days until you get chopped was second to last they were they were going in they were projected to lose down away from losing and getting chopped with powers but that curse is currently 14 on hiatus oh it's happening next week the most dropped players on sleeper over the last 24 hours. Obviously, Kirk Cousins, we know why. Joe Flacko. This one, yeah. I was talking to Jason because, you know,

we have the segment every week. I think it's very helpful. You don't always get the waiver guys you want. People dropping Joe Flacco was insanity to me. I know why, though. I understand that he's hurt. No, no, that's not it. Okay, please enlighten me. This happened because there were six teams on by

with quarterbacks people had. Flacco was the pickup for the one week and they're going back to their staple at quarterback. Now, you're saying you should roster two quarterbacks. I don't know if that's the case in every one of these situations. I think in most situations it is the case. What we have seen from Flacco in his three games are two great games, one good game. And the last time he was a starter in 2023, he had nothing but good game. So there's kind of, he's at least someone that you should be holding. I don't think that's the case if you have Lamar Jackson. I don't think that's the case. That's fine. But I mean, if you're looking at them, that would have been

one of the situations that maybe he was a filling for. Let's go to the bye weeks. Kyler, give me flacco. Jared Goff, give me flacco. Trevor Lawrence, I'll take flacco. Gino. Gino is already on. Please don't mention his name. I'm going through the quarterbacks who were actually on by. Stafford, I mean, I think it's flaco. Maybe there's going to be weeks. Yeah, I think the Jaden and the Lamar managers

were the ones filling in a lot. But yeah, I agree with you. Like, Joe is a, but he's hurt now. Yeah, he will be back. Which compounds the issue of rostering multiple quarterbacks. Like, I don't. And, you know, I get sometimes you need a spot, but it's like dropping him to a potential opponent, I

just because of the shoulder, we got the report that he is day to day, I think it was. Yeah. With the, uh, the, the, the AC joint. I would not be dropping Joe Flacko. Uh, people dropped Kyle Monangai, which I don't understand because he's getting over 50% of snap. Yeah. People drop Bashard Smith, which, again, you have an injury now to, did you guys mention this on the show?

We did. We found out right afterwards. MCL issue for Isaiah Pacheco, which will. Week to week. I mean, it looked like Cream Hunt was done. Done. And then he scores twice last week. He's like a bad penny. And now just keeps coming back. Uh, so I'll just jump in. They honestly need to trade for somebody. I'll jump into. There are rumors. There are rumors. For who? Brise or somebody? Of them trading for. the running back. But I'll jump in here. My backup option is Breschard Smith. If people dropped him, that's now a big whoopsie with the Isaiah Pacheco injury. We don't know if Pacheco will miss time for sure. But when someone is classified week to week, you have to imagine it's

at least one, if not multiple weeks. And it's an MCL. Like he's not going to play this. Right. And then the split between Kareem Hunt and Smith, we don't know how it's going to shake out. I mean, the Cream Hunt, I think, is still the more valuable of the two. However, like, Prashard Smith, he has juice. We've seen Jerich McKinnon have dominance on a short or a small amount of touches for the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. So I think that he, if he got dropped, he should be picked up. Yeah, I'll hop in then.

Mine is one of the three most dropped players. it's a defense. It's the Indianapolis Colts. That's a lot of players to be dropped. Yeah, I don't understand why the Colts are getting dropped across many, many leagues. This is a team that has I mean, they're playing good

ball in all three phases of the game, but in our scoring in the league of record, we are they're the number three defense right now. They're scoring a lot and the way that they're scoring matters. I realize the other team's going to have to go for it on fourth, catch up. Maybe they end up

giving up a lot more yards, a lot more points, but they are getting after the quarterback. I'm looking at the last few weeks since week three, four sacks, three sacks, four sacks, two sacks, three sacks, four sacks. They're getting it done every week. And then they're going on the road to Pittsburgh. The Steelers' offense is not some juggernaut that I'm afraid of. And then they're at home against Atlanta. So look at your leagues. They are getting dropped everywhere. I don't really understand why. Pick them up. When you have a defense, or I'm sorry, When you have an offense that is scoring the way that the Indianapolis Colts do, which they currently have the most points per drive of any NFL team since 2000, the way that things are going right now for them, that turns into a negative game script, which is it can be a positive for your defense. If you know that the other team has to throw, that's the, that's when it's much easier to get a quarterback sack.

Pin your ears back and go. That's when interceptions happen. That's when interceptions happen. That's when interceptions for touchdowns happen. So I'm with you. I think the Colts should be picked back up. I think you're going to see Cleveland hit tons of waiver wires because they're going into the by week, and that's another defense that's a high-scoring defense that you could stash away. I got a gross one. Yeah, you do.

But this is the game of football. I mean, yeah, double nasty. Nick Chubb. So I didn't know who you were going with, but if I may look for a button, there you go. Okay. That's a trip. That's a triple nasty.

Disgusting. I mean, it is something you need to pay attention to because you can be discussing and gross, but you're talking about who you're starting this week in a bi-week situation. And by the way, I got him in one of our leagues and you were bidding behind me. He had 17 carries. When this team is playing at home or they're playing ahead, Nick Chub is their guy. There's no comment about Joe Mixon ever coming back. He's not running well, but he 17 carries.

He's running. He's running. He's actually outpacing Woody Marks in yards per carry in rush success rate, in force miss tackle rate. You look at last week, that game script in particular, if they are ahead,

you know, they're at home three of the next four weeks. Do you know that they're once again against Denver? Yeah, we talked about it. At home. They are in a tremendous defense. There are a lot of game scripts that happen for this team where they get it going. I mean, Nico comes back. They're at home. Their defense gets cooking against Denver. We know

Denver's offense randomly turns off, 17 carries. It's all I'm going to say about that because nobody wants them on the roster. But you could go out there and you can play what, like a Monongai or a Tajay Spears, Breshad Smith. If I have that many guaranteed touches, something good can happen. And it has happened for Chubb this year. He's had games where he's been productive from a fantasy perspective. He's been the top, a top 20 running back two times. I mean, this was the most opportunities he's had on a season. I don't want to ignore that. Sure. I found

a funny stat here that I had not realized. Because Woody Marks had a great game. His, you know, the counterpart here for the Houston Texans rookie Woody Marks, who scored 13 points and a half point scoring format. Good enough for running back 19 on the week.

Solid. But the funny stat is he had four catches, including a monster 50-yard reception. Woody marks? Yeah, I saw that play. Yeah. You know his final receiving line? It's got to be sub-50. Four for 49.

With a 50-yard reception? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's... That just tickles me when that stuff happens. It's not going to be easy to predict either of them ever being productive, but I don't think a player that can get 19 opportunities should sit on a waiver wire. That's all. I can agree with that even though it's disgusting. Yes, it can be gross. All right, that was backup option sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at Progressive.com. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league, presented by progressive insurance. We talked about Joe Flacco dealing with an AC joint sprain.

It leaves his status up in the air for this week's game against the Bears. This is usually one of those injuries. You can take a shot, go out there, and play through it. Yeah, it does. It was the first time since the trade, though, where you do have that momentary panic with like Jason Higgins it's like oh my gosh what would happen if their hero went down and didn't play like

an AC joint sprain is one sack I mean it's one sack and you come down on the shoulder and you're out of the game it's a very fragile situation but if you have any Cincinnati Bengals skill player you better be lighting prayer candles that Joe Flacco plays it is a fragile situation guess who's back if he's gone

browning Yeah. That's how you say it. Yes. Browning. That's how they call them up, too. Hey, browning. Get in here. Oh, man.

And take off your blindfold. Isaiah Pacheco considered week to week with a sprained MCL. We just talked through the implications there. Dan Quinza, Jaden Daniels will practice on Wednesday. He looked like a happy guy on the sideline of that game. There's a lot of optimism. He'll be back for my matchup against Al Borland. The Falcons.

some updates from head coach Rahim Morris Michael Pinnock's I feel really good about he feels really good about Pinnock's coming back says Michael's in the building and in meetings we'll see how he does in the walkthrough yeah yeah they'd like to

Can you fail at the walkthrough? I guess if Can you limp through a walkthrough? Yeah when you got a bum leg or foot whatever is I don't remember Drake London expected to practice this week that'd be good Yeah we like that

George Pickens and the Cowboys have not engaged in contract extension talks of any kind of course not what do you this is guys this is jerry jones if anything if george pickens gets resigned to the dallas cowboys it will be way too late and cost them way more than it should yeah if you're the agent for george pickens you're not even remotely considering an extension this is i want that market i think it's that he likely he's gone yes the mark exactly he is going to make so much money the way he's playing this year and why he's playing this year and

wide receiver needy teams he'll top the market it does seem that way trying to pull up the wide receivers who are free agents right now so you got uh evans kirk debo jacobby yeah trying to scroll to see if there's anyone it's george pickens close to noteworthy as pickens but doesn't seem so okay dante johnson the free agent himself the eternal only free agent, Deonti Johnson visiting the Giants. And then full practices for Lamar Jackson. He'll be back on Thursday. Giants got to be super

desperate. Yeah, that's, uh, yeah, we'll see. I mean, you've got to, I know coaches are competitors, but they're, they're buddies. They all know each other. They're in a fraternity. And he's played for all of them. Yeah. Yeah, you're like, they got to be like, dude, you don't want them. You can call. You don't want none of that. You can call three of your buddies and be like,

hey, what, what, what happened with Deonti? And they're going to tell you. And you're going to not want to to sign him. Yeah, it's the arrested development bit. Maybe it'll work for us. It never works. Maybe it'll work for us. No, I doubt he sees the light of day

over there. Because once he visits a team, that's when they get to know him. That was news and notes. Sponsored by Progressive Insurance, quote today at Proclusive.com, progressive casualty insurance company affiliates and third-party insurers. Not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. We'll take a break. We'll hit the Thursday

night preview. the Baltimore Ravens 2 and 5 traveling to Miami but we were not talking about that yet Thursday Night Breakdown Mike's giving me the button symbol right like you got to start your segment officially and I thought that that I thought the same thing you did thought that the button was you saying

that I was going to almost upset this. Yep. Which I do kind of believe because, like, I know we do our picks here in the office, like I took Miami in our little picks thing. It's a seven and a half point line, Baltimore on the road. The overrunner is 51.5. Juicy. I mean,

this is the highest... It's gone up since I took the under... Yeah, I did hear about that. If you missed that story, you listened to the end of yesterday's episode. Yeah, Jason. Jason... Oh, thanks... Do you just scroll pulling that up and smash buttons. I was trying to be quick.

Are you a button? You have no idea how quick I was. That news came around and I was on top of it. It was so quick that I didn't even get the right game. The button mash better. That should be your Instagram. Baltimore heavy favorites on the road here against Miami. The, you know, the offense is going to get Lamar Jackson back.

We had the defense performed better last week. You know, Lamar came out and said what we all know at two and five. Every week's going to be a win or go home game. It's do or die every single week. It's the position that the, that the rival Bengals were in last year with Joe Burrow and the slow start that they had. And I really think if there's anything you can do, you don't have much time. The game is tomorrow, but if there's anything you can do to trade for Lamar to trade for Derek Henry.

I think rest of season these guys will be, they're like the scariest people that I don't want to face rest of season. The number one easiest schedule for quarterbacks, number seventh easiest for running backs, 10th for wide receivers number one schedule for tight ends it is juicy their defense is not going to stop people and they're going to win they might win every game here on now it's all business Jason

you see they got they got rid of the games oh I didn't I didn't see that yeah Lamar said get this stuff out of here no what games like games in the locker room oh like ping they're doing ping pong and I think there was maybe some arcade machines it's all gone so he's hurt but he gets rid of their games yeah that's right

okay well look I I do think Miami could keep it close. They've been playing well. It is confusing because Miami has been a tremendously bad rushing defense. And then they go and shut down Bijon last week on the road. I feel like Atlanta shut down Bijon. I mean, the Kirk shut down. I mean, it was a mess.

Both teams are tied for dead last and offensive plays per game. But the Ravens now have an implied point total of the highest of the entire week. You play Lamar when he's healthy. You do that every week, just like you do with Devon A. Chan in this game. Derek Henry in this game. You know, Waddle, he's in every week's start. Absolutely. I mean, since Tyreek has gone down, he's the wide receiver four, the wide receiver 17, the wide receiver four, and he had one down game at wide receiver 87, but every

wide receiver has down games. You're going to be involved. This defense isn't good. But even in tough matchups, I'm going to be starting Jalen Waddle. Zay Flowers. I think he is, what, wide receiver two category. He's going to be started with Lamar with us. Awesome over under.

Now, Jason, you made a comment before we started the show that you had picked up Mark Andrews to play in this matchup. I know that you have been playing this. It's like a roulette game with six bullets in the six chambers. Yeah. It's just a lot of really good odds for you and the tight end. That is exactly how it feels. It does it feel like you have probably no optimism for this week?

No, so I picked up Andrews. This is a good matchup for tight ends. Lamar is coming back. touchdown opportunity is there. He will absolutely wreck me. That means this is an Isaiah likely game. I have been saying this is where I'm going to be paying attention is Isaiah likely. We have not yet seen one game where Lamar and likely are together. This was to start the year, there's a lot of conversations like, who would you rather even roster going into the season? Andrews or likely. Well, likely got hurt. Then Lamar got hurt. Now we're going

going to see like what they might have planned coming into the season. Now, obviously, I just put my chips on Mark Andrews. Mark Andrews is, you know, 60% snaps, has been really involved in the offense. Obviously, had a career high in touchdowns last year. I think you- Do we need to try to talk him out of this? Yeah. So you know his points, right? Mark Andrews? Yeah. I think, yeah. I mean, he had tough, man. He had the one game of 24 points. I mean, I don't care about anyone's points when Lamar Jackson wasn't playing. I couldn't care less about. That's fair. We could talk about Zay Flowers and. No, that's, so you think this will be one. Yeah, I just think this is a game where I would take the over. I think a lot of points will be scored with Lamar Jackson back

against the Miami defense. And so I want pieces of this game. All right. Any other, you know, have you been watching Ollie Gordon? Do you think he's going to become a player you care about at any point? I don't think so. I think he's a good player. He was the R.B. 18 last week, is why I asked. He had 10 carries for 46 yards. He has the potential to get into the end zone like he did last year.

Touchdown reception. I think it was pretty fluky. It was fluky. He's still not getting enough opportunity. I mean, he played 30% of the snaps. He is a good insurance option for Devon A. A. Chan is an undersized back, and if he goes down, it'll just be Ollie Gordon there.

So he's a fine backup. But no, I don't think he's not going to break out wall. Manung guy where I'm, you know, in desperate times, you can put Manangai in as a flex. I don't think you can. I wouldn't do that with Gordon. Okay. Yeah, I was just curious about that. What about Malik?

Do we talk him? Meh. Meek. Okay. Yeah. It's pretty risky. I knew he was in the top 20, but it was, yeah, four for 36. I mean, he's just, that's disappointing.

Yeah, I mean, 22 yards, 30 yards, 36 yards. I did a film study when after Tyreek went down watched a bunch of Malik Washington. I was just so disappointed. He's very fast. He is, uh, I said this. He is very fast. There will be big plays that he has this year. I just don't know that you can predict him.

I mean, you could say, hey, this is the Ravens high over under. They're going to need to throw the ball a lot. Maybe this is the game where he has one and that's fine. But that's all you're doing. You're just kind of like guessing that. that he might get a straight-line speedy play. I don't think he's a very good wide receiver. You're going to keep Jameson Williams or Alec Pierce on your roster.

Yes, yes. Let's move on. Review Osores Rags. All right, we are getting into a mid-season review here. We're at the midpoint, man. I know, looking at... We are cruising. Yeah, looking at the top players in each position after eight weeks,

what we think will change, what is surprising. It's super interesting. I mean, these lists are great to review. At the quarterback position, Mahomes is number one. He's tied right now for the second most fantasy points per game. He's averaged in his career. Unbelievable. So Mahomes is one.

Lamar Jackson is two, obviously has missed time. But you had QB 3 and 3 and 5 for his missed games. Alan at 3. Jalen hurts it 4. and then you get some new faces. I mean, it's Drake May at number five. He is the only quarterback in NFL history with a completion percentage above 75%

and 9 plus yards per attempt. He did it again last week in an impressive fashion where you start this game. You're being slowed down by Cleveland. You're getting sacked by Miles Garrett. You commit a turnover. You commit a fumble, and then you just bounce back

and dominate the rest of the ball game. He's been outstanding. I don't think any of us really, really have doubts about him rest of season. No, at this point, he's shown enough. His schedule is also very good going forward. I know on the Falcons team in the League of Record, they have Drake May.

And I was really worried. You mean Josh's team? No, no, I don't. That was not a misspeak. I understand, but people don't know who you're talking about. Yeah, when you say the Falcons, they think the Falcons the team. That's fair. I mean Matt Pingree, who we call the Falcon.

And anyways, their team is one of the super teams in our league of record, very high odds to make it to the championship. And I thought that their weakness was Drake May. And now I look at that, you know, that was, you know, a month ago. Like, oh, maybe he'll falter. He has been flawless. Like, not only is he great in the pocket, his downfield shots are so accurate, but he gets out, he runs the ball. I mean, there's really, there's no hole in his game right. If you want to know what it looks like on a season, because I think that's helpful sometimes when you look at how they're performing, he's on pace for 4,300 yards and 32 touchdowns, while also running for 530 yards and four more touchdowns.

So that's where he's at. It's been awesome. Daniel Jones, he's been a top 12 quarterback in six of eight weeks. Just embrace it. Yeah, I mean, when you're scoring at the rate that they're scoring, it's so much upside. And they're getting healthier, you know what I mean? Like, they've had a lot of weeks where they were missing players. Downs has been hurt. Alec Pierce got knocked out with a concussion. They have weapons to give you

big plays, and then they have, you know, Jonathan Taylor to play action to. It's just, it works well. Bo Nix is sitting at seven. It's been more, uh, he's the roller coastery with him. Yeah, he's the weird name of the list so far. He's the one where you're like, uh, do I feel great locking him in rest of the season? No, no, he's, his play has been really erratic. Last two weeks have been amazing. Well, yeah, but even the last two weeks, like two weeks ago, who's the quarterback one, but also he had four points going into the fourth quarter and looked like a trash quarterback. Yeah, but he can do it.

Yes, no, absolutely. I mean, I love Bo Knicks, the man, and coming into this season, I was pretty high on him in the quarterback rankings, but just the eye test, and it's so weird how he can play very well, and then really poorly, underthrow guys, throw it behind him, throw picks where he's not seeing the defenders. He just thinks he can do more on the move than he can. That is exactly what it feels like. Like he gets on the move and he thinks he's Superman and he's trying crazy stuff.

He just gets adrenaline going. There are quite a few quarterbacks I would take over Bo Nix, locked into my starting position. Who are ranked after him? That are ranked after him. Jaden Daniels is the first one. I'd much rather have Jayden. Daniels is at number nine in points per game right now?

My one note for Bo Nix as we're going through the second half of the year. and I've mentioned Pat Bryant a couple times, but Pat Bryant is getting more integrated into the offense. He had a super boss touchdown catch. Super boss. So if he can truly step into a role as a three, and now you're talking, it's Cortland Sutton, the breakout of Troy Franklin,

and the upside of Pat Bryant, that would make me feel a bit more comfy for those championship weeks. They're so deep at the past catcher position. in my opinion. You know, you have Mims that at any moment can give you a big play. You have Evan Ingram who's been targeted eight, eight, seven times. I mean, he's, he's been targeted a lot. Their versatility, throwing the ball to R.J. Harvey, like, it gives Nix a really nice baseline that, you know, whether or not, I mean, I would take Jaden Daniels over him, certainly.

Yeah, that, I would do that too. But how about, how about Herbert? I think those are neck and neck. Yeah, I would probably take Herbert over Nix. I would probably take Dak over Nix. I would probably take love rest of season. My second half sleeper over Knicks. I would probably take Baker Mayfield over Nix, although his schedule is a little rough. So is Dak. The Dallas Cowboys passing schedule coming up. It's got a rough stress. We highlighted it. Now it's at home for a few of those difficult matchups, but they're still tough. No question. Yeah. And then rounding out the top 10, Herbert, Daniels, Stafford and Dack tied. And outside of the top 10, Jordan Love is the next closest one at 18.7 per game. Then Baker,

Gough and Rogers. The best one is Justin Fields, sitting at 16 and a half points per game. He has never scored anywhere near that. No. He's like he's 5 or 30, so it's like 16. That is the perfect average. Yeah, it's like, of course he's 16 points per game. He will continue being 16 points per game.

Yeah, that's like a hit once, fail twice type of average, right? Because that's on the lower end. So 16 puts him at 18 at quarterback position. That's about a hit. He's, uh, so we got, it's kind of an every other guy. We had, we got four hits, three misses. As far as good games. What was last week, fantasy points?

20 point. Last week he was good. He was the, it was against the Bengals. So, that's certainly, yeah, so that certainly helped him, round eight. But he, Fields and the Jets looked much better. They're going into the by week, but then it's Cleveland. I would say if there's any quarterback, he's going to get destroyed. There's any quarterback that hasn't.

done hardly anything this year that, for fantasy purposes that I believe could have a strong second half, it would be Sam Darnold, currently sitting at the quarterback 20. He's looked really good. What about Kyler? Kyler, I hate. No, thank you. He plays Dallas this week, so he should be started, and I think I'll have a good fantasy. Would you start Kyler this week against Dallas or Bo Nicks this week? I would start, Bo. I don't care. I was against Houston on the road. I would still start, Bo. I think that one's a tough one, actually. It's tough for sure.

I just hate Kyler. I don't want to watch it. Right, but that's not the best analysis ever heard. No. No. Yeah. That's, sometimes it's emotional. Yeah.

Just for the Cardinals. 31 out of 32, I'm good. Okay. Running backs top. Running backs on the year. I think you know who's number one. Jonathan Taylor, who is putting up 25. and a half fantasy points a game dating back to 2007 that is the second highest per game average

uh compared to what was CMC 2019 mm-hmm jonathan taylor just because it's there's nothing more fun than this he is on pace for 1800 rushing yards 26 rushing touchdowns and another four through the air with 430 receiving yards he is carrying people yeah i mean there are in our chop league there's there's uh somebody who's had piles of injuries but they have Jonathan Taylor and they're alive. They're not chopped. He is the anti-curse. He's the anti-ring.

He carries your team. It would be hard to say, hey, this guy can keep up 26 touchdown a year average. But it doesn't feel like he can, like sometimes it feels like he should score more. You watch games he scores 30 plus fantasy points and you're like he should add more in that game. Yeah, but I mean, genuinely some of his best games like this last week against Tennessee,

he didn't play as much as he could have, played because they, you know, walloped him and they brought in the backups at the end of the game. He has three different times this year been the running back one on the week and another two times been in the top three. So dominant. This is every year, there are, every single year in fantasy, there is a player or two players that lap the field at their position. Sequan last year. Right, exactly. And Jamar Chase last year, lapped the field at the wide receiver position. This year, it looks like it's going to be Johnny Taylor. Four

points ahead of second place in a points per game. It's just wild. I'm going to put this to the test, though, with Mike right here. Christian McCaffrey is number two on this list. So, first of all, victory lap for Mike. 21.1 fantasy points per game. On pace for 455

opportunities. I don't know what happened last week to everybody on the 49ers. But like, I mean, you just said the lapping the field of John and Taylor, he is scoring significantly more fans points per game than Christian McCaffrey on a significantly better offense. You're going for a title this year. Would you trade Christian McCaffrey to the Jonathan Taylor manager for Jonathan Taylor? Yeah. I mean, we had our draft, what our redrafted a couple weeks ago. I took Taylor one. Yes, yes. Of course, my heart, and I want to be like, yeah,

I told you Christian McCaffer, but no, man, Jonathan Taylor, what the Colts have become, I think you could not, even the most diehard of Colts fan could not have, predicted or projected that the Colts would be one of the best offenses we've seen in modern NFL history. The Colts were legitimately, you just look at the odds. This is not a subjective opinion. You look at the odds of coaches that could be fired. Shane Steichen was on that list because of how upside down the management of the team was last year. Even this year going into training camp in the offseason, in the program, it's like who's the quarterback? And it felt so silly. It's like, oh, it's going to be Anthony Richardson. Remember how

much, it went back and forth this offseason. During like, preseason, it was like, oh, Anthony Richardson is in the lead. He's going to get the job. No, Daniel Jones is playing great at, you know, it went back and forth, and it just seemed a mess until games started and Jonathan Taylor and Daniel

Jones said, watch, check this out. It said that they made the right choice with Daniel Jones, by a lot. And so CMC's number two, Bejohn's number three, James Cook, number four, Josh Jacobs, number five. Jamir Gibbs. 18.1 a game, that's great.

I mean, he is less than a point away from being the fourth overall, and yet Gibbs feels a little bit like he didn't, he isn't quite delivering on the draft selection spot. Yeah, I mean, people were taking him as the running back two in some leagues. It is a little disappointing, and having, you know, Dan Campbell come out and say, we want to get David Montgomery to the ball more. It's tough, but he still has the complete nuclear. option of, you know, he's doing this with David Montgomery there.

Either one of those players ends up getting injured, missing time, then the other guy will, you know, be in that league winning category. Yeah, when you look at who was drafted at the tippy top of the draft, he's probably okay. I mean, Bijon, it was Bejohn, it was Bejohn, it was Barclay, and it was Gibbs, normally the three first ones off the board. Bejohn's sitting at three with 19.2, Gibbs at six with 18.1, and Sequin is sitting at 11 at 14.5.

So, Sequin was certainly the more damaging pick than Gibbs was. I was trying to go look at the opportunities. They said they wanted to get David Montgomery the ball more, and then they gave Gibbs the second most opportunities on the year. So maybe that's something you say to make David Montgomery feel better. And you're just like, yeah, dude, you got him. We said we were going to give you the opportunities.

You did it. You got him, David. Devon A. Chance sits at 7 at 17.2 fantasy points per game. he's averaging 20 opportunities a game last year it was 17 he has been just a he's been awesome an amazing player for fantasy teams me what our RV 17 at worst he has been great on a weekly basis he scares me he really does like when you are undersized and you get that much work it's very difficult to just stay healthy that's all that's the only fear i mean he he he looks great um is explosive the offenses scoring points

Um, but it's just like, you know, that was the fear with Bucky. The, the fear of Bucky Irving is when you're like a 200 pound back and you are like a bell cow. Bucky runs a little more injury prone than A. Chan does. I would, I would agree with that. He's, he's more than between the tackle. He tries to play really big, which he does. Yeah. It's very successfully for his size. Uh, but it's like I-vonne A-chan has started 32 consecutive games without injured. Yeah. I'm just saying I would rather have. I'd take him over your hands.

Like, Ollie Gordon, if A-chan could be a really efficient guy getting 14-15 touches a game, it feels like better than him being... For long-term? Yeah, exactly. 20 touches a game. Just stay healthy. I love A-chan. Javante Williams is number eight on the list.

Finally found a guy. To the top seven, that's while the order is, you know, a little bit mixed up. That's whatever. That happens every year. Javante sneaking in here. Pretty incredible season. What a bounce back for him to be, I mean,

he's averaging a rushing touchdown per game. And he is, um, that's pretty good. He is clearly their entire running game. The Jane Blue concerns are not. 77% of snaps, 72% of snaps, 80% of snaps, 77, 85, 72 and 69% of snaps. Like, that is incredible for a running back. He's their Rico Dowell.

Yeah, he really is. Bucky Irving, don't forget about him. RICO would have 10,000 yards on the Cowboys. Javante looks... Per game. Javante looks... I know, I know. Actually, I know. Good. I don't think any of us believe that it's going away for Javonty.

I'll give you this, Mike. I think RICO would have as much production as Javante if he was the starter. Okay. I'll take it. Yeah. Bucky Irving is number nine. Don't forget about him. He hasn't played since week four. He was averaging 15.6 a game. I say don't forget about him because I really hope. we can, we don't forget about him. I hope he comes back and he's healthy.

They need him. Bad. Bad. Yeah. The running game hasn't been the same. And honestly, Baker hasn't looked the same either. Yeah. It's been, and, I mean, four weeks, seems like they probably gambled and lost on the IR thing. Yeah, because they're supposed to get him back after the buy, hopefully. Yeah, but we, yeah, they're in the buy week right now. I would, I would think he'll be back, week 10?

DeAndre Swift is number 10 on the list He's on pace for 53 red zone rush attempts His previous career high was 37 They keep going to him They have worked Monongai And you look at the snap counts for Monongai I think it's two straight weeks above 50% Maybe that them

Let me double check If I can spell Monongai which I can't It's Manononon It was 45 46 So two straight 45% Yeah that's a lot of work compared to where he was at. So it's just working for them to rotate both guys in.

Swift has been really efficient there. Barkley and Scataboo. There was some encouraging, we should say this. Yes, yes. The reports right now are that like the Giants and everybody reporting it are expecting him to be back for the off-season training program. Yeah, four to six month recovery was what I just saw reported, which is that's an awesome timeline.

And if, you know, if that's what their expectation is, that gives you hope that because we don't know the details of ligament damage and, you know, we did get an update that. Yeah, there was. And it was not just a dislocated ankle. There was other. No, they did report on that. And it was, it was a lot. And again, being back for the off-season program, yeah, it's a fibula fracture and a deltoid ligament rupture. Yeah. How can that be four to six? Well, because it's not. And that's what I wanted to caveat. It's four to six, and they expect them back in the program. But, Medical experts that I trust that I've been reading, they're saying it's more like a 10-month situation to be really back to a full degree. But being able to be back in camp and start working towards getting back to your old self, look, that's all you want. We need this guy in the game of football. Yeah, we do. We thought it would be a head injury, you know?

No, I knew it wouldn't be a head injury. Yeah, that thing's impossible. That thing's titanium. It is made of, it's filled with cement. How do you guys feel about Kyron Williams, who's sitting at, number 13 overall, 14.3 fantasy points per game. It feels like, you know, Kyron feels like you're driving by the luxury car dealership. And then he's like the Ford Taurus of the running back room.

It does feel like that. Reliable. Always gets it done. But like nobody's like he's not got the flashy features that make people go trade for him. I think the issue is the highs have been high. but, I mean, you not Kyrin-like, at least, you know, the true breakout season, week two, week four, and then week seven, it was nine points or fewer. He's only on pace for four touchdowns. He's only scored twice.

No, that's on the ground. He does have three receiving touchdowns. Right, but, I mean, on the ground, that's what you used to get. And that's where it is more. No 100-yard games. It's more troublesome for Kyron for the future. if they're, I mean, Devante Adams, what was it the, like three, three goal line touchdowns for Devante just in one game. The fact that that is now a possibility, just it, it's not like, I mean,

Kyrin's a, I think a, where is he right now? What did you just say? He's that number 13. I think that's fine. You know, like that 13 to 10, like he'll still be solid, but last year he had eight rushing touchdowns by this time and he has two. Yeah, the dream of top five, I think, is not. He's a, He's a very good back. The Rams look like a good offense, but I see him as an RB2. And if you look ahead, now that we're halfway through the season and you say, okay, well, what's the playoff schedule? Does it open up for him or does it not? It's not good.

You've got the Detroit Lions who are very difficult to run on. So if you're talking about, you know, will he get rushing touchdowns, that's difficult. You have on the road against Seattle, which has been a good rushing defense, and then on the road against Atlanta, which so far has been a mostly good rushing defense. He is past his buy, so if you were to trade for him with a player who has not, I mean, you can, you get yourself an extra game. The next man up on the list, Amarian Hampton, in the games without nausea before he got hurt, RB6, RB5, and then got hurt and still ended up in the top 24 in week five, and now is out for a prolonged period of time. It's so disappointing. This is a player that was going to majorly impact fantasy football, and it's just another. one of these injuries that is, you know, taking a good quality player off the field that we don't get a watch play. He was averaging 17.6 opportunities a game. Judkins comes in at 15 right now.

I was going to say just the Kamani Vidal Sassoon. What were the, read me the Hampton opportunities? 17.6. So he, Vidal and his three starts, whatever you want to call them. He's at 16.7 attempts. I'm sorry. So he's at 20 opportunities a game. their head coach came out and said he's playing like a number one running back in averaging over 15 points a week in those in those three contests i mean it's and tennessee is this week man and i mean when is and then pittsburgh when is hampton even back yeah man the vidal pickup if you got him enjoy it judkins at 15 and then just outside the top 15 if you want to ask the question who could be a top 15 rest of season from this group henry gentie dowdell etienne breese hall

These are all guys outside the top 15 right now. You know, the one that jumps out to me, obviously, I think, you know, Gentie would be one that I think I feel comfortable about. He could. Gentie and Breece Hall are kind of the same to me in the fact that bad team, bad offense, don't want to watch them, but they're going to get a ton of work and it's going to work out a lot of the time. And they're talented players.

And Gentie catching a lot of passes. I would agree. Those two names are fine. I still, I mean, I said in the Thursday break down, I think Derek Henry is a monster rest of season. sure personally um about to start snowing yeah there was snow in vermont this this last week and uh weird yeah weird and then derrick henry was good uh go figure um other names you know i'm curious the trade deadlines coming up and that could change the landscape for a couple of running backs i

don't know if you know breese hall tony pollard if if a team makes a move to go get a guy that'll be interesting rest of season all right we'll take a break we'll talk wide receivers and tight ends All right, we're continuing our mid-season review. Let's go ahead and blitz the wide receivers here. Tide for number one in points per game. Puka, Nakua, and Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. Oh, man. Jackson, Smith, and Jigba, and Nakua at 18.6.

J.S.N. has been unbelievable. Like, we knew Puka was great. Mm-hmm. He's been hurt. Should be back soon. J.S.N, though. averaging 117 receiving yards a game 11 plus fantasy points in all seven games played

machine like Yeah he is his target share is Otherworldly if you have a 30% target share You're pretty much locked as a wide receiver one It's very difficult to not finish as a wide receiver one If you can be one of the elites at a 30% target share He's at 38% I mean that he's that when they throw the ball

It runs through JSN And you know the quest that people might have had this time last year is like, is he good enough? Yep. The answer is yeah. You can't cover him. No. Alman Rae St. Brown comes in at number three. Ho-hum. He just gets it done.

He's on pace for 148 targets, 121 receptions, 1317. I don't know. I don't know who I would like I might prefer Amman Rae of all fantasy wide receivers genuinely. Like, Jamar Chase will be way, you know, bigger games, more volatility. He'll have some down games too.

Puka gets injured. To me, Ammon Ra is like the most consistent every single week. I am so, it's just like plugged in and my confidence level in him just having a great game every week. I think he might be the highest of all wide receivers for me. Chase comes in at four. the targets have been out of control with Flacko. It was really bad with Jake Browning. And, you know, we're talking unusable territory.

Six fantasy points, four fantasy points, and then boom. 26, 20, 30, 15. And we talked about the insane target pace with Flacco. I mean, he'd be on pace for 357 targets the last two games. George Pickens comes in at number five, 15.8, fantasy. points per game. Certainly took advantage of the opportunity when C.D. Lamb went out. The last two games, he settled

more into probably, like, this is one player that if you say, hey, who's going to drop out of the top 10? It would easily be the pick-and-s pick for me. Because while he'll be good, he won't be great. I mean, the last two weeks, wide receiver 27, wide receiver 23, that's about,

you know, the 20 range is about where I'd have him. Yeah, those are great. His, you know, he's going to, his yardage has been fantastic, even with C.D. Lam back, 82 yards, those are good numbers. But when he was the wider receiver one, when he was the wide receiver two on the week, those were C.D. Lameless

games. C.D. Lambsless. C.D. Lameless. Garrett Wilson at 6. Devante Adams at 7, really close. That's how good Garrett is. He's dealing with that bull crap. It's like running rounds with a chain or a like a big old... He's got like a weighted vest on?

I was thinking around the ankle. He had like a cement block of the team dragging him down, but he gets it done. hopefully back soon as well tied for eighth we have three names addison abuka and odunzee the addison one sneaking in there yeah i mean we brought this up last week a little bit and he he has more points per game than justin jefferson his teammate also the best wide receiver in football yeah he does jordan addison yeah yeah 13.3 no the best wide receiver from football. Oh. Pitman's at number 11. Metcalf at 12, Drake London at 13, Jefferson at 14,

and C.D. Lamb at 15 in points per game. That's not fair. Because of his... Yeah, you're averaging a goose in there when he got injured in the beginning of a game. I'm going to see how many he really is averaging per game. You want Lamb to have his respect. I'm guessing it'll be about... Be about 15, 16. which would put him right at 4-5 range. So you let me know, Jay. It is 15.2. That would put him at number six.

Not good enough. Just ahead of Garrett Wilson. I mean, I think, you know, Matt Kaff, I think he's been a wild story because he feels not great, but still being a wide receiver one at this juncture. He's had three of the last four weeks he's finished inside the top 12. So maybe we don't complain. and maybe we just accept the touchdowns

that are coming our way. As long as those keep coming. How do you feel about Jefferson? Do you feel like you... Optimistic. You know the schedule's great. Yes. Which is great for Addison, too.

And I'm a J.J. McCarthy apologist of... We talked about him, I think, on the Dynasty show, but of just... We really... You haven't seen anything from J.J. McCarthy. The vibes are weird, though, aren't they? The vibes are weird in the fact that, like, you're right.

don't know why the team and like all the vibes aren't around that he's played he played week one three quarters were a disaster it was his first start ever and it's the opening weekend and then his fourth quarter is great he brings the the team back against the bears week two he gets hurt in the third quarter and he's playing on a bum ankle for that's all we've seen and that's it that's all we've seen of j jay mccarthy so there's not either i mean if you if you like McCarthy you're like hey, he's played one and a half healthy games in the NFL. If you didn't like McCarthy, look how bad that was. So I think we're still very much in limbo.

I'm hopeful just based off of Kevin O'Connell's past of being able to maximize these quarterback. Yeah, I would still rather have Justin Jefferson, even though he's the Water Theater 14 right now, I'd have him over most of the guys ahead of him. Gary Wilson? Yeah, I would rather have him. Devante Adams. Yep, yep. George Pickens, all those guys that are ahead of him.

I would still take Justin Jep's. So you've got him at like probably like four or five, yeah. CD Lamb or him? Cedie. Yeah, I would take CD too. All right. Well, who's the most likely to jump into the top 15 rest of the season from the group of, you know, I'm looking at these names. I don't really think any of them are in there, but maybe DeVonte Smith.

Oh, to drop? No, to jump in. DeMonte Smith is sitting at 20 right now. There's a lot of rumors around A.J. ground being shopped. I would put Teteroa McMillan there. Who's at 33? Yeah, he's, he's low, but you know, this is a very talented guy who's had so many great flashes. I feel like you are the biggest Tett McMillan fan in the world, because you bring him up constantly as like, you view him a lot higher than what he's doing so far.

Yes, I, yes, I view him much higher than what he's done, and I think at the end of the season he will be coming through. I've seen enough on film to know he can get it done. We have, history of even Bryce Young getting it done with Adam Thielen is a rookie. He's figuring it out on a mediocre offense, and you expect the second half of the year to be better than the first. Also, Rishi Rice. Yes, yes. I'll take him. What is he? Do you want Jefferson or Rice? I would take Rice. I don't, I mean, there's not many people. I mean, he's not in this list because only two games played, but Rushie Rice right now. Go offer that trade, Mike. Is, go off for that to uh jefferson for rice you won't do it see i dozer's alley i don't think they would do it they would

not trade rice for jefferson no because you have patrick mahomes who's bawling out rushy rice is a great name to bring up he's averaging 20.4 in his only two games super small sample but as a reminder number one when we talked about wide receivers was puka and jsn tied at 18.6 so uh yeah i mean rushy rice is currently the number one in points per game. And so, and then you would, so what's he average, Jay? You said 20.2, is that what I said? And then if you tacked that on his, the first three weeks of last year, he was averaging 17.6. So that's a five-game run of

just being not good, being elite. Tight-ins. Tucker crafts at number one. Trey McBride in number two. Dallas Goddert. at number three on pace for 16th spectacular rushing or receiving touchdowns. Jake Ferguson sitting at four. Tyler Warren

at five. You know, from that group, if we are redoing this at the end of the season, it's like Kraft could easily be there. McBride could easily be there. Warren could easily be there. I have my doubts that Goddard and Ferguson would be there. That's for sure.

I was on the opposite side. I believe Kelsey's going to have a pretty significant second half, compared to Jason's view of Kelsey. I still like Kelsey a lot. He's at six right now. Gadsden's at seven with the points per game. But over the last three games, when he's really been utilized in the snaps have been there, he's averaging 16.8, which would be 2.8 higher than number one. If you have to rate your belief in Gadsden rest of season, 100 is full maximum belief zero is I don't believe

what number I got my number are you at with Gadsden for the rest of the season I'm at 77 we're very close this is we didn't talk about it in the wide receivers but it's comical to me that wide receiver 17 wide receiver 18 and wide receiver 25

all in that exact same range as Keenan Allen Johnson and Ladd and Ladd McConkey so you are going to have Ladd could jump up you're going to have bad games from Gadsden but he He is established it. He's very good. He's very good.

So is lad. Yeah, very nice. Gratston? All those guys are, are, don't push it. Talented wide receivers on a good offense. You just can't have all four be consistent. Darren Waller is at number eight. Kincaid at nine, La Porta, 10, tied with pits there at 8.6.

You know, I looked at the pits like game log the other day. And I'm just like, yeah, all right. You know what I mean? Like, he's a player that you, if you started, he's not. not really murdering you, but he's never giving you anything special. Outside that group, Brock Bowers is the obvious name that's going to be there. I think Fanon could definitely be there. Both those guys should probably pass a handful of the other names we mentioned.

Yeah, and I'm also curious what happens with the Ravens' tight end between likely and Mark Andrews and whether they can become relevant when Lamar Jackson is playing. I agree. Let's talk some mailbag. Mailbag Presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. All right. If you have a question for the show, you can go to the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com.

Click that, submit a question button. Or dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Our first question here today comes from Randy. Says, I've been offered a trade to give up Jamar Chase. and I get J.S.N. J.S.N. has already had his buy week, and Chase is about to have his buy. Should I take this trade in week nine? Now, I'm going to bring something up.

Man. There was a point in the season where Jemar Chase had Jake Browning as his quarterback, and he had put up two or three horrific games. And the idea of trading him for Quge was brought up on the show. And at the time, Quge was the wide receiver three, I think. And it was like... Before he got hurt. Before he got hurt.

And we didn't see a path for Chase. to become good for the rest of the season with Browning. And so we were thinking Q's probably a good decision at the time. You look at this situation, Jason's on top of the world. Jamar Chase has Joe Flacco. But I still look at it and say, hey, Jamar Chase has more volatility and I have some fear that if Flacco's hurt, he becomes nothing. The odds of Flacco finishing the season with the current injury to the shoulder, like you said, Andy,

He gets tackled, you know, really hard. He's going to at some point in time. Is he getting through the next, you know, eight weeks without re-agravating that injury and having Browning time? I would be really, I'd be really surprised. So what is your answer? I mean, this is JSN for me. The bi-weeks, if both of them had the same bi-week, I would rather take JSN over Jamar Chase. We're going into week nine?

Yes. uh yes is that right yeah yeah so we're going into week nine so nine 10 11 12 13 14 and then playoffs right so when you're after the buy six more games so there's six games of jsn you get and you get five of chase and then it's so to me it's jason as well it but it doesn't mean it's an easy call yeah it's not an easy call it's jsn for me too it's the it's everything is flacco like if joe flacco like if joe flacko let's say he's good this weekend and then he just and he manages to not get hurt

if Flacco is there Jamar Chase is better than J.S.N. I think points per game but your more your risk factor is much higher of something happening to Joe Flacco than Sam Darnold. Would you trade? This is a question from

I don't know what platform it is. It's from Log. Is that Logan? No. Log. That's log. In North Tack Alacki? It's better than bad. It's good. Rolls down the stairs and over the chairs.

This is from the website. Would you trade away Also your neighbor's dog? Ameka Abuka for Ashen Genti. I mean, I think it is a I think it's a fair value. Mike said no. No, I would not. Sure. I mean, it's got to be in a vacuum. This is whenever you're talking about a running back for a wide receiver.

Please don't question Mike again. Obviously, this is a depth and a need situation. Is it fair? Is it fair? That's the question. Yeah, fair is fine. When trades like this happen, it's, you know, you have a lot of depth at running back and you don't have it at wide receiver or vice versa.

Yeah, I could easily see myself being a team that trades away a mecca-egbuka for Ashen-Gentie. I could easily see myself being a team that trades Ashen-and-Gentie away for a meca-agbuka. This is just neat faith. Emika-Begbibu. Thank you. Thank you. do you think that there are people that trade I think there are people that trade

to get the better end of the deal and there are people that trade and just want to make sure that they don't get taken Yeah Sometimes the questions we get We get so many trade questions And a lot of the times You just want validation that that is fair

That I'm not getting taken advantage of her That I'm not getting the raw end of the Because maybe you really want Ash and Genti Well this trade's fair if you really want Ashton Jente Our trade tool will help you It is in development They're getting closer and closer by the minute so if you are part of the Footclan at Footclan.com

then that tool will be able to answer those questions for you, from us, without us. Isaac in Miami, who would you rather have, who would you rather have rest of the season? Chase Brown or DeAndre Swift? Ooh, that's a... My first reaction is Swift. That was my first.

I am fearful. Like, I agree with Mike that I would want Joe Flacco. The Joe Flacco looks great, and this Bengals offense, with their weapons, they can be great with Joe Flacco, but it does feel like a house of cards. It feels very fragile because we are relying on an older guy to sustain a football season while he's currently injured and has no offensive line. In a tough division against tough divisional opponents. I see them very similarly in the fact that, like, P. Ryan's getting snaps for Cincinnati. You have Manangai getting snaps for Chicago. You have an offense that we believe in with Flacco. We have seen a lot of good stuff with Swift.

In three games, the three Joe Flacco games, Chase Brown is averaging 14.3 fantasy points. So, and we got almost 14 opportunities a game. And I think most importantly, he, where's the yards per carry? Yards per attempt is at seven. Well, like, you can, it's, it's crazy. Like, you can't always go box score hunt and, and, and, and see things easily. You can see where Joe Flacco joined the team.

After the buy week, which you guys have said, maybe they figured out what to do with Swift. He's averaging 19.6 fantasy points again. I think the answer is swift. And 6.7 an attempt. Mm-hmm. I think the answer is wild. Crazy. Yeah, I think they're very similar, but I, I, again, risk aversion a little bit.

which is a crazy thing to say with DeAndre Swift. Yeah. Tim in Sacramento says, Hey, guys, give me the argument to convince my league mates to change our IR rules. Currently, a player has to officially be on the IR to be able to be placed on the fantasy IR. Their argument is if it's not a team's IR,

then he can't be on yours. My argument is currently, that is dumb. It's strong. It's a good starting point. To say that's dumb? Mm-hmm. Because it is.

I mean, if a, the purpose of an IR spot, let's start there. is to give a roster the flexibility, if your league desires, to manage injury. And if you have to cut players or not have enough players on your bench, it's a choice, right? You can make that choice in your league. I think we all find that to be not as fun, not as enjoyable. If a player goes to out or soon doubtful or out, we think you should be able to go stash them in that spot.

If they become active in that spot, you are locked out of doing anything on your roster until you fix your roster and make it right. So. It's self-regulating. That's the crux is that it has to still be a platform-based automation. So, like, I know on Sleeper, you can check the box that says doubtful players can be allowed an IR. You can't just be like, because even if you've turned that feature on, you can't see a report that says, I don't think this player's playing this week, but he's not even moved

to doubtful and be like, I should be able to put him there. It can't just be a anytime you want. But yes, we tried, in our league of record, we tried to push that through mid-season. We don't really do that very often. It just, it's got to the point where, yeah, if they're doubtful, they almost never play. And the entire purpose of the IR is to give yourself that freedom when you lose a player. And you've lost them. Yeah, that's the thing is injuries.

Injuries of fantasy football are the, it's the worst. It's the worst. And it will happen to every single person who plays fantasy football. You will have someone that you love and someone that you're counting on get hurt. And if a bench is like five players, it's, to me, it's like a double punishment. Like, you don't get that guy and now you're hamstrung of, what are you going to do? You only have four bench spots now because you can't move that player to IR. So to me, it's just about trying to alleviate.

injuries the most that we can. Yeah, they already sucks so bad. They already sucks so bad. And just having grace for each other as fantasy football players. I'm not like, oh yeah, oh man. Do you see Andy got his guy's hurt? That sucks to be you. Yeah, we know it sucks.

It already sucks. Yeah, don't double punish people. Ryan in North Carolina, is it fair to accept the trade after a player in the trade gets injured? Is it fear? It's disgusting. You cannot do that. Not unless, obviously if both sides if you're fine to trade an injured player like away or trade

for them that's fine but is absolutely not okay if a trade offer was made and then a player gets injured and it was just sitting there and then you accept it oh no no I had that situation in our listener league

I had an offer where Jaden Daniels and Rushie Rice for Josh Allen and they was sitting there, I hadn't accepted it or declined it, and Jaden Daniels got injured. I would never have been like, ha ha, gotcha. Gotcha, sucker. That's pure Bush League. Yep, can't do it. All right. Also, that is a PSA. Avoid this. Don't let them hang. Do not let trade offers be sitting for players who are actively playing.

Yeah, pull them down on Sunday. We get tweets on this all the time of the, hey, this just got accepted, and this guy got hurt. And it was like, because you now have, because you didn't prevent it, you have created a terrible problem where someone's going to feel like they got hosed. Yep. No, it's completely true. All right, that was today's mailbag.

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