Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 2 Waivers & Mining for Gold, Streamers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/10

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

Waiver wire pickups for Week 2 on today’s fantasy football podcast! Find out which players should be added and dropped on fantasy rosters! Plus, QB Streamers, NFL News, and reactions to Monday Night Football! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for September 10th, 2024. (00:00) - Intro  (14:40) - NFL News (23:30) - Waiver Wire (26:30) - RB Waivers (41:00) - WR Waivers (56:10) - DST Waivers (57:35) - QB Streamer Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: Waiver Wire presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Visit youtube.com/fantasyfootballers News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://USAA.com/Insurance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway. Joined, as always, by the Deucers over there in Deucer's Alley. Deucing it up. That's what they're doing. And we are here with a waiver episode today. Very excited to talk waivers. There's a lot of names, Jason.

I heard you saying that this morning, that you were kind of... I think it's a deep waiver pickup. It's not an elite... I don't see a Puka. I don't see a Kyron from last year. Some sensational breakout superstar. But there's a lot of depth. There are a lot of running backs that. You look back at championships, and then you can usually trace something that happened to week one or week two waivers. And I don't know if you can know in week one whether there's a Puka there or not. I think when we picked up Puka last year in week one, it was optimism, but not any sort of expectation to what we got from Puka Nakua.

Like, maybe that is Jameson Williams this year. Maybe that is Xavier Worthy. We have a lot of season left in front of us. So we're going to break down our favorite waiver pickups at every position. We have waiver rankings on the website, thefantasyfootballers.com, so you can see them on there. And for the first time ever, we have customized waiver pickups for your team in your league as part of the ultimate dashboard, which is one of the foot clan member perks. You can learn about that at join the foot.com.

That is brand new for the in-season, uh, tools and resources this year. If you have a team in ESPN, Sleeper, or Yahoo, you can sync your team and your league, and it will give you a dynamic list of who's available based on our waiver rankings and who is available in your league. So it's custom because everything is contextual. A lot of our pickups, we're going to give you our rankings, but do you need a running back? Do you need a wide receiver?

Is tight end, is the Isaiah Likely sweepstakes going to be for you? These are all going to be questions we answer. Yeah, and when we talk about, you know, oh, picking up J.K. Dobbins, you might be like, well, he's not available in my league. Well, sync your league with that tool, and you can see all of our waiver rankings of who is actually available in your league. You can follow the show over on X at the FF Ballers.

Follow Jason at Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. And if you want to be a part of our Discord, Papa Josh over there running the Discord, you can go to ballersdiscord.com. Will that take you right there, Josh? It's ballersdiscord.gg, I believe. For real?

Yeah. Discord uses a GG. For good game? Yeah. By the way, ballersdiscord.com is what you can go to. I just verified that. That works fine. So good game, Josh.

Yep. Works great. All right. Let's get into the recap. We had a Monday night football game, the 49ers. they looked good without 49ers christian mccaffrey took on the new york jets wait what who oh man no no mccaffrey he he's super healthy and he played football last night right guys right i mean really that was that was, really, that was the NFL slash fantasy football slash week one mayhem to the nth degree.

I mean, to have a last-second report, like we should just cover that part of the news now in the context of this recap because it was brutal. It was as bad as it gets. Like in the leagues where i have mccaffrey i'd moved him into the flex as something we advise so that you have the ability to put a wide receiver in in an emergency i looked at those teams i always want to plan for the contingency the last thing you want to be doing is get caught without christian mccaffrey on monday night but when you

think about the real pivot options you had available to your roster, you would have been talking about Juwan Jennings. You would have been talking about Kyle Juszczyk. If you didn't draft Jordan Mason for that roster with Christian McCaffrey, which not everybody could do, you were in a real, real tough situation last night. The, you know, Xavier Gibson, zero Isaac Gerindo, zero. So I know a lot of people that were destroyed by the last minute news that Christian McCaffrey would be inactive, that Jordan Mason would get to start. This was a shocker.

And, uh, it, the only way that it wasn't a complete and utter surprise is that Mike and his League of Records team has Christian McCaffrey on the roster. Mike took a very wide stance and said, anyone free kicks. Anyone out there free kicks as he spread his legs. I see.

To be kicked in the cojones. What a brutal week for you. It's pulverized, guys. I said this yesterday. Read your lineup. We said we'd talk about league records. Pull it up. The guys that actually started?

No, just your whole team. Yeah, so while you pull up your lineup. Just so we know who to avoid? Just so that everyone can enjoy your pain. I'm sitting at the lunch table yesterday, and usually I would be tilted off the face of the planet because I came in a little shallow in my League of Record team. Right, right, right. And I lost Puka.

That's brutal. And I lost Njoku. And I'm sitting there happy as a clam because I'm not Mike. I mean, I had the Jordan Love, Christian Watson stack. That's toast. McCaffrey didn't play. Javante Williams is probably toast. Michael Pittman, 40% target share, but 31 yards.

Mark Andrews and Marvin Harrison Jr. combined for 3.3 points. Higgins is on my bench. He's also on the bench you lost Higgins you lost McCaffrey in a three keeper league between my three keepers and my first three picks I

scored about 11 points oh my goodness gracious what was your comment in our chat last night you were like you know I lost Puka but I spend all my day just being thankful I'm not Mike Wright. Yeah, I mean, that's how it feels right now. I mean, it's like this is not only am I in a place of week one, just ultimate tilt fest.

It's not like, hey, one thing went really wrong. Week two, we'll bounce back. Mike, my team is a disaster. It is an absolute disaster right now. We say don't panic in week one. But we will rise. But Mike should panic. Yeah, we say don't panic in week one,

but we don't think that that's going to happen to you. No, no. You should panic. That's like, not Tommy Boy. What is the, where he keeps falling down the mountain? Oh, that was Black Sheep. Black Sheep. Strong little roots. Black Sheep just keeps tumbling and he grabs a root and then he keeps going again.

Yeah, the root was Christian McCaffrey last night. And then he's like, no, man. Oh, also, I'm probably not playing next week. Enjoy that. Well. If you had Kittle and you had Ayuk, you were disappointed, too, because Ayuk saw limited participation. Juwan Jennings was the leading receiver.

Ayuk was only two for 28. Which, to be fair, I was going to say, he had a touchdown. I mean, he dropped a ball in the end zone. If you didn't watch, it was brutal. But, you know, the opportunity for him to have a good game was still there. So Jordan Mason was the story, 28 for 147 and a touchdown. He made the Jets look silly, as did all of the play calling by Kyle Shanahan. It was just – it was on par with what we saw from the Rams in terms of

at times in the game, they were just dissecting the defense so well. Obviously, they didn't win their game. But the Jets, I mean, what were your impressions of seeing Aaron Rodgers? I saw the chart today, the passing chart, and he did not target the right side of the field one time. Like, if you watch this game, it was Brees Hall to the left, it was Garrett Wilson to the left, and no one else was

targeted. Xavier Gibson was on the field in the slot. The majority of the entire game never saw a target. It was funny because when I turned the game on, I missed the first couple minutes because of life. And so I turned the game on and my first chance to see the Jets

was their first drive that was really nice, where they overcame a couple third and longs, and he was finding Garrett Wilson. And, I mean, Brees was running well. I was like, oh, my gosh. You know, I've been a doubter of the Jets' offense and of Aaron Rodgers bouncing back to who he used to be, and I was like, I was so happy and ready to take that L

because they looked so good that drive. And then they didn't look good another time the whole game. Now, some of that we've got to keep in mind. This Niners defense is awesome, and the Niners looked, on all three phases, they just looked perfect. The next three weeks for the Jets, I think they will win all three games. So whatever you want to say about how their offense looked, you're week one

with Rodgers and the 49ers just whooped them. Hey, here's the good news. Silver lining, week two, you still have Aaron Rodgers. I mean, that's a win. As a Jets fan. Yeah, no question. Brees Hall, 16 for 54 on a touchdown on the ground. That was

inefficient, but he got all the work. And then Brees caught five for 39 and a touchdown on the ground that was inefficient but he got all the work and then Brees caught five for 39 yeah he did and um that was the story of the game the 49ers just kind of locked in after the first quarter and made it really hard on the Jets Garrett I believe had four receptions in the first quarter and then finished with six. Yeah, yeah, he did. And Debo is really, really active, by the way. He was the secondary runner. You did not see any opportunities for Patrick Taylor Jr. or Isaac Garindo.

They had a couple of snaps, no opportunities. Debo is really the next man up at running back. And the news that we have right now, you're not going to like it. But Christian McCaffrey is not a guarantee for week two. He's probably even more of a likely going to be on the bench. It's just a matter of who you trust, Andy, because if you watch the press conference with Shanahan, and he was asked directly about the report that it is

unlikely Christian McCaffrey goes in week two and Shanahan says I'd like to know who you know who told you that it must be God because I didn't know he wasn't going to be able to play until today he's doubling down on I did not know until today I had to to. So there was this whole rigmarole. What happened is after the game, on the field, Jordan Mason you know, the star of the game. Dude, the guy is on the highest high that I'm sure he has ever experienced in his life.

What a moment for this man. For this human being. So he's on the field, he's being interviewed, he's happiest as he should be. His family's there. I mean, the man is, he is pure dopamine. Yeah, and so he was asked, like, when did you find out you were going to be starting? And he said, you know, he found out on Friday he'd be starting and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Whoops. Whoopsies. Because by the time he got to the press conference, this poor soul-sucked human being looked so sad and was like i shouldn't have said that or whatever he obviously got a a chewing out um because now i'm sure the niners are going to be investigated for um the injury reports or whatever you know you know and shanahan came out and basically clarified he said he didn't say that maybe some of the other coaches did it to pump him up and that there was you know he had told him that he knew that he would get a lot of work this week because mcafree they need to manage the injury long term right now and we're going to talk about it in waivers so i'll press pause but long

term we need to discuss the mcafree situation what he's going to be like to start this year managing reps and knowing what they have in Jordan Mason because if you can go out and put up a performance like that against the just defensive front you have somebody that is worthy of more than the backup role on your fantasy team I I agree with what you're saying logically I do not believe that that's going to happen when Christian McCaffrey comes back. We have seen this before. Elijah Mitchell had unbelievably great performances when Christian McCaffrey would go down.

And when Christian McCaffrey came back, it's just like, okay, you're gone now. This is the Christian McCaffrey show. In fact, I think we saw it here. They want that workhorse back. You brought up the other backups didn't even get a touch. They scored zero fantasy points. It's because they got their one guy and they game plan for him and it's like you get all the work.

And I agree with that in most situations, but the fact that McCaffrey is dealing with a lingering issue that he says some days feel good and some days feel bad, like doesn't seem like there's going to be a switch that you turn on McCaffrey that he's just fine for 28 carries because he wasn't fine to play in this game. He's probably not going to play next week. You think he's going to get a full workload when he's back in week one? I think that they will keep him out until they're ready to give him a full workload.

But, you know, we'll find out. And regardless, I mean, it's pointless to discuss because when he's back, you're ready to give him a full workload. But, you know, we'll find out. And regardless, I mean, it's pointless to discuss because when he's back, you're going to start him. And if he gets 18 instead of 28, he's going to be awesome. This is Christian McCaffrey. News and notes from around the league. Presented

by USAA Insurance. Well, Jason Pukunukua was placed on the injured reserve with a sprained PCL. He'll miss at least four weeks. We have six main leagues that we share together and

I have them in half of them. So, that hurts. That hurts deep. Yeah, you were not in a good place because So that hurts. That hurts deep. Yeah, you were not in a good place because of this news yesterday. Puka going to miss some time, at least four weeks. At least. And Matthew Betts, our injury expert, who has been releasing some really good recap videos on our X account.

These can linger for weeks, sometimes months, and you're going to be holding your breath when he's back out there that it doesn't happen again. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's worth noting that Puka has dealt with a lot of injuries in his life. Like, you know, obviously he only had one year in the NFL, and I think he played most of the season,

only missed very limited time last year. But he's injured this year, and he was injured a lot in college, and so his play style is rough and tumble. I just want everyone to know I don't have any puka. This one is not on me. Okay. This is my fault? I just wanted out there.

Yeah. I didn't drive puka anywhere, so this is not on me. Okay. This is my fault? I just wanted out there. Yeah. I didn't drive Boca anywhere, so this is not my fault. Okay. You talk to Jason. Okay. Okay. Malik Willis will start for the Packers. Let's go live to Deucer's Alley and get the reaction of the resident Packers fan.

How do you feel about Malik Willis being your starting quarterback there, Al? Not great, Bob. Okay. Yeah. Me neither. This is – what do you feel about Malik Willis being your starting quarterback there, Al? Not great, Bob. Okay. Yeah, me neither. This is – what do you do? What do you do if you are Jaden Reed's manager who just had the monster week and you counted on him? Are you playing him with your blindfold on?

I think you are most likely. He's a flex option this week. Like Mike brought up yesterday, he's the manufactured touch guy. He's going to get into rounds. He's going flex option this week. Like Mike brought up yesterday, he's the manufactured touch guy. He's going to get into rounds. He's going to get screens. Christian Watson, I wouldn't start him. I wouldn't start anyone downfield. Malik Willis is a terrible quarterback.

Mike, what do you have on Malik Willis? Kyle has just shared. So Malik Willis, let's see. I'm just pulling up. So we got three starts in 2022, a couple passes the next year, but he has a career grand total of zero passing touchdowns. It's not a lot. He has three interceptions,

so his interception to touchdown ratio is zero to three. Yeah, yeah, that. Yeah. That's, um, that's bad. Roman. That's called Owen too. For the Packers. Yeah.

Yeah. It does. It does that. Hand it off, hand it off to Josh Jacobs. I thought Jacobs looked good. So he will have, Jacobs will get all the volume and he may get a lot more.

Like if you look at the pass rush that was coming in the panic mode of Aaron Rogers last night, like maybe Jacobs catches a bunch of passes in this game. But I'm just real quick because we're going to talk waivers. If you have Watson, if you have Dobbs, I am trying to find an option to not play them. Jaden Reed, I'm okay because they'll figure out how to get him the ball. Roma Dunzey is now week to week with a mild MCL sprain,

which is the same type of injury that we're hearing about Jake Ferguson. Doomsday week to week, waiting on practice reports for Keenan Allen. So, you know, if DJ Moore is the only wide receiver out there and he gets the 93 passing yards from Caleb Williams, maybe that's okay. Yeah, if he's the only wide receiver, that would be great. I mean, we had debates early this offseason about whether DJ Moore getting a quarterback upgrade would be good or not because he was you know a top uh what was he like wide receiver six or something last season um but that was because he was the only guy there if he's the

only guy there I'll I'll definitely start him the other news we have uh apparently Brian D'Abel had to come out and say that Daniel Jones, their $140 million man, is going to start in week two against the Commanders. If Daniel Jones looks as bad as he did this last week against the Commanders, who just gave up four to Baker Mayfield, and their defense looked atrocious, I don't know what Giants fans can do. I don't know what you will –

Oh, you know exactly what they'll do. Root for that number one pick. See, I thought they might find a really tall bridge. Oh, man. That's, you know. It's dark. There are. This is, like, if you're in a deep league and you're in a, I mean, look,

a super flex league as well. Drew Locke should be on your radar. Daniel Jones, I believe even if Daniel Jones is terrible, he's going to play the next few games at worst. But he has the thing where they'll bench him to make sure he doesn't get hurt because if he gets hurt, a guarantee kicks in, just like we saw with you know last year with like Russell Wilson they the Broncos said no we're not going to be on the hook for even more

money we're pulling that ripcord right now and you're not playing so they did it with uh uh Derek Carr yeah so these these things happen Daniel Jones it's only one week but at the way he looked you can't expect that he will be finishing the season. Last year, they were defeated 40-0 in week one, the Giants. In week two, Daniel Jones was the quarterback one in fantasy. So I wanted to bring this up. I mean, he's not my official stream of the week, but I actually do think Daniel Jones was unwatchable.

He was so bad. There were about four quarterbacks this week Jones was unwatchable. He was so bad. There were about four quarterbacks this week that were unwatchable. But the commander's defense will make it a little bit easier. He is still a dual-threat quarterback who has weapons, and I think he'll end up with a decent fantasy week this week. Better than the negative four from this past week, you think? I guarantee it. It's an ironclad,

locked and loaded guarantee. Jason Moore, Daniel Jones guarantee. More than negative four fantasy points in week two. We have news that Raheem Mostert and Devon Achan did not practice. I'm listed. They're the Thursday game, so it's not a real practice.

It's the estimation that they would not have practiced, but it is enough that you better be paying attention. I am really worried about A-Tan. I don't know. I just got the – Just because of his fragility? Well, I mean, he got injured. You saw him limping off the field at the end of the game,

and then he's reported as having an ankle and wouldn't have practiced. So, yeah, I'm a little worried. He has an ankle? That's good. Honestly, if he has two ankles... You're not wrong. You just cut out the injury part. Yeah, sure. He's been reported. Y'all know what I mean. I just heard Al laughing

back there, I assume, at the fact that he had an ankle. Well, that's the point. He needs two. Right now he has an ankle. Okay,'re uh you're 40 chest justin fields is being prepared to start against denver russell wilson feels better today than over the weekend he was wearing he's wearing he was wearing shoulder pads on the sidelines we did we did we had the emergency yes oh thank goodness we got an update on that later that he was in fact the emergency guy because oh thank goodness i thought he was i thought he was

in not active and wearing shoulder pads which only russell wilson i would think that about i i genuinely believe if he was inactive he still he still would have had the eye black on just to support like go through the routine yeah you don't want to miss any moment to prepare and the brown If he was inactive, he still would have the eye black on just to support, like go through the routine. Yeah. You don't want to miss any moment to prepare. And the Browns signed Kadarius Tony. They got injured in the receiving game this week. They lost David Njoku.

They're working out tight ends. I don't believe we have the David Njoku report in the news, which we should. I thought it was high ankle. Well, there was a week to week, I believe, but he's going to be out for a while. And they are working out tight ends, and then they lost Judy to injury. So Kaderi's Tony coming in.

That was today's – yeah, David Njoku has an ankle. Oh, he does. He needs two. Yeah, that was today's News and notes presented by usaa insurance learn more at usaa.com insurance we're going to take a break and then it's waiver wire time all right it is time to jump into week one, The Waiver Wire. Welcome to The Waiver Wire, presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. All right, Jason, what was your tips and tricks item relevant to this week?

Well, if you listen to our top 10 tips and tricks episode, it was take dumps now, not later. And what that means is in week one, in week two of the waivers, you want to go hard in the paint. You, it's not just, you know, a lot of times you say, well, you get more weeks from the players. You know, you obviously, if you get a player in week one and they play the season, you get, you know, at least 12 more games of this player versus grabbing them in week 10. So that's, that makes sense. However, it's the average fantasy points per game of the players picked up in week one. They are higher than the rest of the season. So there will be some stars here. We're going to try to sift through the gold mine and find the nuggets.

But you want to go hard. You want to go hard in week one. You're mixing so many different gold analogies. Yeah, like the mine. I get what you're saying. The mine you're not doing a lot of sifting because that's in the river. You know what I mean? You don't sift in a mine? No, you use the pickaxe yeah you might there are nuggets in a mine you can

find them dude i didn't know that yeah they don't have any sifting is panning for i know i dude i thought they did that in the mine too so you bring the sifter in the mine yeah they got they got a whole bunch of equipment in the mine really yeah if you put the big rocks on the sifter, it's just going to rattle back and forth. Well, we've still got to get the stuff off the ground. Our job here is the furthest thing from being a gold miner that does exist. So I don't really blame you for crossing your gold analogies. I mean, forgive me for not being a gold expert. I thought you were metal.

Yeah. Yes, I am a metal expert. All right, let's take a look at the running back position. Last night's game is going to have a big impact on the way we sort out our rankings because Jordan Mason, you know, it's going to come down to maybe a difference of opinion here between Jason and myself in terms of

whether Jordan Mason will continue to be used. I look at the McCaffrey injury with a very concerned eye. You will obviously play an active Christian McCaffrey on your roster, but one of the things that we haven't got to see a lot of is a healthy player behind him in San Francisco. When we've had it for brief stretches, we have seen some Elijah Mitchell success, especially salting away games. Jordan Mason's performance combined with what I look at as an injury, a re-injury risk with McCaffrey makes me think Mason's ranking here in the fantasy waiver rankings a little bit higher because i think he could start next

week i think then it's a big question mark for the week after he could start again we don't know how long this is going to be for mcafree and then you combine that with maybe some flex appeal for a while so does that move him to your number one he is my number one pickup for um for the entire yeah for all the way for for For every position or just running backs? Because he's my number one running back waiver pickup as well. He's my number one overall. Oh, okay. He's my number one overall.

Now, I do think that there's context there. Like if you are – you know, obviously if you have McCaffrey, he's number one if he was out there without question. If you are desperate for help at wide receiver, I don't mind you floating somebody like you know jameson williams ahead of him i meant more of the question of are we he's ahead of dobbins are we unanimous that dobbins is the number two running back he is for me jay yeah he's my number two so that's all I want. Dobbins is there as well for me, either number one or number two.

So I'm saying, are you looking at this like, Jordan Mason is my number one running back no matter what, regardless. If I have McCaffrey, he's number one. If I don't have McCaffrey, he's still number one. Right now he is for me. Because it's the balance of, you could be right of, maybe he starts next week, maybe even a third one after that. But when McCaffrey comes back, Jordan Mason is the backup,

where J.K. Dobbins, while he was in a timeshare, he was by far the best running back and could be a season-long help to your team. I think there is context there. So balancing that. I am with Andy that with or without McCaffrey, Mason is my number one pickup. However, if you are one of those teams out there that needs a second running back, you know, you went hero RB. Let's say you went hero RB and you started with Christian McCaffrey as your hero and then late round you drafted Zemir White and Javante Williams.

And all of a sudden, it looks like you have nobody. I mean, that's basically your team, Mike. I don't have Zamir. No, I know. But you did. You do have nobody, though. Nobody. Then I would prioritize Dobbins over Mason because you need a full-time starter.

Otherwise, I would want the league-winning upside of Mason. And it's really the re-injury risk that is in Mason the way that he would win. The wild thing is Dobbins had a great week one. Dobbins got 10 carries in a positive game script. So if I think about can Jordan Mason end up with 10 carries, I actually think the answer

is yes. And so in that regard, that's why I put them a little closer. Dobbins is right there though. And if you think Dobbins can win that job, Dobbins is right there though and if you think Dobbin can win that job Dobbins can win that job and get more carries on a regular basis that would be your reason to bend that direction yeah yeah I mean I I do think he's going to lead the timeshare for a team that wants to run the ball like crazy they get Carolina next week so after that a competition that's going to be because San Francisco was number one in the league in that last year.

They passed the fewest amount of times. And then you know what the Chargers identity is going to be. So you have two teams that are going to run a bunch, which means this is great. If they're both on your waiver wire, that's great. If they're not, there are other options. You saw Ezekiel Elliott who is heavily rostered,

but he was the leader of the timeshare. He was. Got the touchdown. You saw Justice Hill. He had six catches, and then you had Jim Harbaugh come out and say, verbatim, like, flat out, like, we did not bring Henry here to get 30 carries. We brought him here to be a piece of a 7, 8, 9, 10-person offensive puzzle, and Justice Hill's a part of that. Yeah, Justice Hill is a low upside weekly

startable player i i think he will be involved in every game um but they're not going to be down as much as they were against kansas city six catches for 52 yards i don't i don't see that as happening against the las vegas raiders full PPR he's going to be better and he was from what I could tell the two minute back and the short like yeah that makes sense that was something yes kind of uh maybe tough to see for Derrick Henry I would I would rather have uh McLaughlin than Justice Hill similar archetype of player where they're more a little bit the passing down guy but i think i think i think mclaughlin could win the job and become the primary possible i think it's possible i don't you know jaleel mclaughlin of the denver broncos how does he fit into the picture with tank bigsby who went

12 for 73 and is only rostered in 11 of leagues obviously i love him and i always have yeah that's kind of one of your my guys you know born and raised with tank bigsby at my side um he was over 73 was wildly productive and he was used early early in the game 32 of snaps very impressive performance more efficient than etn etn got the end zone opportunity got into the end zone but should have got in twice mclaughlin or bigsby who uh i don't think so i agree with look it's these are low probability situations like julio mclaughlin taking over the the timeshare for the Broncos I think it's unlikely but it is possible Tank is not taking over for for Travis Etienne but he could he could close that margin even more well and I I see this as really a roster construction tiebreaker here

if you're looking for a high upside bench asset, then that's Tank Bigsby. Because an injury to ETN, Tank Bigsby has the body where he would be an amazing league-winning type of back. So if that's what you're looking for, I would go Bigsby over McLaughlin. If you're looking for someone to start, you need them, you know, like earlier the example of you just really need startable assets, then I would lean towards McLaughlin.

I have Bigsby higher. I don't think McLaughlin can take over the backfield. Estimate would be too involved. And we haven't gotten production from that backfield in a year. It's a bad offense. So I lean the Bigsby side, which is just wild. But let me ask you the other side of the Bigsby question real quick, which is the concern for ETN. If Bigsby is a top five pickup at running back in week one there has to be some collateral damage

there in your mind and would you do you believe this is a one-week wonder and if etn is cruising along in the hot hand situation doesn't lean bigsby's way he'll just have the majority of work or do you actually advise people to maybe look at a trading Travis Etienne because he did score the fantasy production was fine you could probably go do a like it like would you have Etienne or Connor you know do you go make that kind of a trade so it's Etienne or Camara there there's a lot of things up in the air that we don't have an answer to just yet he should have scored two touchdowns, but he fumbled on his way into the end zone, and then the next play was the 80-yard Tyreek Hill touchdown.

And after he fumbled, it appeared that ETN got some – kind of got the business from the team, and Tank then, I believe, out-snapped him. Out-snapped him. From that point – Or out-opportun him. From that point. Or out-opportunity. I can't remember what happened exactly.

But they definitely were sending a message to ETN. Same message they sent to Tank Bigsby after his fumbles last year. So I don't know if I would trade him for Connor. I would trade him for Kamara. Ooh. Wow. I'm going to stick with him. I think, look, I don't really like Travis Etienne,

but he will be the pass-catching running back over Tank, I think. And assuming he gets right back to being the goal line guy, then he still is a very valuable running back despite a timeshare closing in on him. Kamara's just going to be so good. It was Carolina. Oh, I I know I mean I was the efficiency was exceptional but I'm not sure it holds up yeah I mean this is obviously a team that I believe is going to lose the majority of their games not have not be blowing out their opponents but that's why I love Camara because it doesn't matter he's either you know

got an easy opponent and he's really efficient in the run game or he's got a hard opponent and he's getting six receptions. All right, looking at some of the lower tier options, all the running back waiver rankings on the website, thefantasyfootballers.com, Madison, Bucky Irving, Ty Chandler, Jalen Wright and Jeff Wilson. If there are injuries and a Thursday night game, you talk about the best situation for an inactive, a random inactive. It's Thursday.

It's not Monday, Christian. It's Thursday. And so if those two guys are banged up, you're looking at an instant start potential for Jeff Wilson or Jalen Wright. Yeah, and I actually think Bucky Irving needs to be in the conversation similar to all these other players. I mean, I would take Bucky Irving over Jaleel McLaughlin. I think he is a more talented running back where he's still, you know,

not necessarily the leader. I don't expect him to take over, but a Rashad White injury. Bucky looked great, man. I mean, he looked really, really good, and I was surprised at how involved he was. And it's not even taking anything away from White. White looked good in his own right, but I just think he's a talented back that has the situation of,

hey, you might be able to start this guy in your flex, and then should an injury happen, I mean, Bucky must be rostered. It was Washington, though, and the game was blown a blowout. So if I have Rashad White, I'm making him a huge priority. Okay. But I'm not as bullish as Jason. The name that I don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about him. Do you want me to clear this with legal?

Alexander Madison of the Las Vegas Raiders was like these. Did you say the receiving touchdown, dude? That was a good play. That was a great play. Yeah, he got his quota for the year. Like we're, Tank Bigsby, you know, all the opportunities. Tank Bigsby, 32% of the snaps. Bucky, 31%.

Chandler, 35%. Madison was 60% of the snaps. Bucky, 31. Chandler, 35. Madison was 60% of the snaps. They went full hot hand, which Coach Pierce came out after the game and said, this is what we're going to do. But on top of him, he being the hot hand for

getting a few carries here, I think he's the receiving back and they're going to play Baltimore this next week. I think that it will – I would project a negative game script where the guy who ran 24 routes compared to the guy that ran 10 routes, talking about Madison versus Amir White, he's going to be on the field more. I don't – does that turn into points?

That's why I said I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about him, but he was – of the running backs we're talking about, was on the field the most. That's why I said, I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about him, but he was of the running backs we're talking about was on the field the most. This is, this is what I mean. There's a really, really deep week for pickups at running back there because all of these players need to be rostered. They are all worthy of being rostered. Alexander Madison is the receiving back. And I agree with you, Mike, that's, that's, that's going to push the needle towards him over Zamir.

But he's really low in my personal rankings. Is it just like a, oh, crap, the Raider backfield is going to be destructive or is there value in that? I think it's more destructive. I don't think this is going to be a good offense that's going to be in a ton of leads. Now, their defense can help keep them in games because their defense is really good but also the hot hand approach um i look this is narrative i don't know you know whatever take it for what it is which is probably nonsense but alexander madison's wife went into labor right before that game oh he had a baby childbirth

narrative i'm just saying like like he was at the game and you know while his wife went into labor right before that game. Oh, he had a baby. Childbirth narrative. I'm just saying like he was at the game and, you know, while his wife was in labor having a baby and it's like, you know. What is that? That's a good thing? I'm saying that. Or a bad thing. A bad thing in the sense that I believe some of like, hey, let's make Madison the dude this game.

Let's give Madison the work. Like he's here missing his child's birth when it comes to Zemir White versus Madison. If all of a sudden next week Madison is... That's the type of coach that Pierce is. He did say it's probably nonsense.

He did say that. Yeah, that's true. Charbonnet. He's a stash. With Kenneth Walker's abdomen injury which right now they're taking day by day, Zach Charbonnet may be a play. Nice! He's had the lowest rush success rate of any running back with seven or more kids. If he's starting, he'll have a better rush rate.

Yeah, the fact that Kenneth Walker is currently dealing with an injury, that's totally fine. And currently on one of Mike's teams. Oh, no. He's not on the Kirst team. That's he won. Okay. Barely.

But I will – yeah, I mean, it's like dealing with Christian McCaffrey. Oh, he's got this calf. It's no big deal. He's going to be fine. And then all of a sudden, he's not playing. Kenneth Walker has never been hurt a day in his life. All right, listen, except for on Sunday. You can't pick players up without dropping players.

And there were, you know, everybody has their, you know, you just did your draft. You're probably attached to some of these guys. Are you dropping? You ready for it? Right. Are you dropping Javante? No, I don't think so so are you dropping dowdle if

you if you yeah if you need a spot sure for these guys jonathan brooks no chuba yeah willing to yeah i mean chuba it was too much miles yeah it was in a timeshare he's supposed to be the the dude while we wait for brooks gus edwards i i wouldn't drop him yet chase brown same i would i would be willing to drop gus brown for a lot of the names we just that was both of those guys combined yeah i said gus brown sorry chase brown i would not drop gus edwards okay all right we'll take a quick break and then we'll come back with some whiteouts i feel like this show might be uh might be really long there's so many names to talk about the tippy top of the wide receiver list to me is jameson williams and xavier worthy now both of those players, we fully acknowledge, are rostered in

a majority of leagues. Worthy almost exclusively is rostered. So this is mentioning it because just in case he isn't, you can go out and spend 30%, 35% of fab on him and just take the chance on Mahomes having this explosive downfield weapon. He profiles a lot like Rashid Shahid, like Jameson Williams. A lot of the names on the waiver wire right now profile the same. They are big play guys with massive speed. We need Mahomes to go down the field. He was one of the lowest taking shots down the field of the week. Even this past week?

Yes. Yeah. Well, Hollywood is going to be back soon, so that's something to keep in mind with Worthy is that the team, the way that they talk about Hollywood individually and the head coach and the quarterback tells me he's going to have a role, and that means that somebody's going to have a cost to it. It's not going to be Rashi Rice that hurts because of that.

It's not going to be Kelsey. It would be Worthy. Yeah, I think a lot of the back of the first, top of the second round NFL wide receivers, they are rostered in the majority of leagues. But if you have Keon Coleman out there who looked like he had the start, even Xavier Ligette, I know he's got Bryce Young, but he led the team in target share.

So it's like if those guys are out there, look, pick them up. So Jameson Williams is 78% rostered. He was in the discussion yesterday, nine targets. We talked about that game. If he's out there, he's a must-get. He's the highest fab share of all the players that we have so if he's out there we're saying 25 to 45 percent of your fab budget and go spend the waiver priority 100 you know go drop deandre hopkins for him go drop josh palmer for him yeah for sure do you go

drop jsn for him i would i would i would yeah 22% of leagues out there need to be having a mad dash for Jamison Williams. Tyler Lockett, 70% rostered because he was a late pick, but he went in every draft. Seven targets, six for 77. Those are the biggest, highest rostered targets, along with Khalil Shakir, who scored in Buffalo. You get to the lower names at wide receiver. It feels thinner than running back, but Rashid Shahid, five targets,

three for 73 and a touchdown. They only had to pass for half the game. If you're making excuses for Olave on the grounds that they didn't have to pass and he only had two targets, then this was a really good performance for Shahid. Jason, you said you bought in. Yeah, I think he does have a connection with Carr, and he's got the big play potential where if you throw him in a lineup, you can actually have him help win you a week.

So I don't mind picking up Rashid. I'm not going to spend on really almost any of these guys. The rest of the wide receivers, there are enough that I put them all in the same bucket. The Los Angeles Rams guys. DeMarcus Robinson, other than the tippy-top guys we listed, DeMarcus Robinson would be my priority add. We've already seen him be good for the Rams,

and now Puka is out for at least four weeks. If you had the Shahid Demarcus Robinson decision, I feel like they're so different player profile type. I would go Robinson in that. You would both go Robinson? Yeah, I would. Just because of volume? Yeah. Now, I mean, Shahid's an every-down player,

so it's not like you're... Like Demarcus Robinson stepping into... No, Demarcus Robinson ran the seventh most routes among all wide receivers. Yeah, he was out there every down anyways. Yeah, Robinson is not going to leave the field. It's just his opportunity to targets is now just competing with Puka. And Tyler Johnson, who will be their third wide receiver.

He had the bigger game, 5-79, is pretty impressive. Yeah, he is also – I would still go Robinson, but Tyler Johnson is – I think he's an add in 12 or larger leagues. Yeah, I would agree. I go Demarcus Robinson, then Shahid, then Tyler Johnson. Okay. Out of the next tier? Yeah. What about some other players that maybe –

Brandon Cooks, 4 for 40 in a touchdown. They barely had to throw. If he's out there, are you stashing him on the bench over somebody like Deontay Johnson? Or you just hang on to Deontay and hope that there are... It's hard to look at what Carolina did in Week 1 with a semblance of wanting anybody on that entire roster. How do you want Chuba? How do you want Deontay? How do you want Thielen?

How do you want even Legat? At least you're like, okay, they can hand him the ball. Well, I just hope, you know, he can break 12 tackles on the way to a touchdown. He's got the physical attributes that made him a first-rounder for a reason. Everyone else, so I did post that Bryce Young video, a minute and 30 seconds of so many unwatchable plays. These are balls that aren't remotely close to wide receivers. These are like, you don't know, you don't question the stat guy if he put down whether

that was catchable or not. You know what I mean? It's like, oh. It wasn't a close call. It was easy for the stat guy. He didn't need his glasses. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. A hundred percent.

I mean, they're just abysmal, impossibly bad throws. So, yeah, I don't know. I just want to dunk on Bryce. Twelve targets for Wandale Robinson. Does that matter to you, or are we just back in the same boat where Wandale shows up for a box score once in a while and then disappears? Full PPR leagues.

Washington. If you're in a full PPR league, I think Wandale and Dortch from the Cardinals are great assets to go out there and get you five-plus receptions almost every game. So Greg Dortch, he had eight targets. He was six for 47. He's not a full-time player but i think he is worth a potential stash i don't know if i'm going to play him yet against the rams i want to see what arizona does with their offense they are at home but like marv was

almost an exclusively downfield that's how he was used well yeah that's how he was used. Yeah, that's how he was not used. No, I know what you're saying. That's how he ran, but Kyler was not throwing the ball to that direction. He was throwing everything short. So that's Trey McBride area. That's Greg Dortch. Maybe that was a scheme against the Buffalo Bills, and then they're going to open it up.

But I think he's worth at least stashing. The Cardinals are favored at home against the Rams, by the way. What? Which makes sense to me. bills and then they're going to open it up but i think he's worth at least stashing the cardinals are favored at home against the rams by the way what which makes sense to me cardinals the cardinals almost beat buffalo on the road in week one and the rams just lost puka so i think that this is a oh the rams lost way more than puka if you look at their uh line, I mean, they lost one to the IR. One is week to week. Left guard, right? Yeah, I mean, and right guard.

I mean, they had a brutal. They're guardless. The fact that they had an overtime loss in just a battle against the Lions. Starting left tackle, backup left tackle, starting right tackle, starting left guard, starting wide receiver, starting cornerback. Yeah, there you go. Thanks for finding the list because I knew it was like that. Sorry, I wanted to find it because it's ridiculous,

and it also is indicative of Vegas sees this. They see those defensive matches, and the Rams lost. The Rams, that should be a fun game but it's gonna be Arizona at home and I think uh we'll find out what happens get Marvin Harrison the football yes please deep leagues uh the names I'll throw out for you will be Jalen Naylor of the Minnesota Vikings uh he played about half the stats but with Jordan Addison's injury, that's something that could be – some play time could open up for him. This one's gross, but I do think it's worth talking about. Devon Villay, am I saying that right?

I don't think it's that gross, man. It's gross because – Denver Broncos rookie wide receiver. Yes. Eight for 39. He's going to be a good friend to Bo Nix to start this year. It was eight targets. He caught all eight of them.

I'm saying the 39 yards is gross. The Denver Broncos offense looks gross. But he is a rookie who got eight targets. He's a rookie older than DK Metcalf. He's 26 years old. He is a rookie. He is very seasoned. Belay, belay, belay, belay.

Yeah, that's a delay getting to the league. He kept Troy Franklin off the field. That is probably discomforting. I refuse to pick up Valle solely and only because Troy Franklin should have that spot. The coaches disagree. You are going to be the biggest CFL Troy Franklin fan ever. Oh, man. He's going to dominate.

Keep your eyes on him. The story of the tight end position is obviously Isaiah Likely, and that is going to be if you need a tight end. We have that fab budget at 25% to 55%. Sorry. 55! He was 9 for 1, 11 and 1. There are those out there that would tell me I am a fool to believe in Mark Andrews

for one more moment of his career, and that likely is more athletic, explosive, and better in every regard, and that likely is worthy of all your fab to be the superstar that he is. I would not do that. They ran just an unbelievable amount of 12 personnel. I'm talking about the Baltimore Ravens against the Chiefs. A rate that would have finished way higher than last year's highest grouping of 12, which was the Atlanta Falcons.

I'm not saying don't go after Isaiah Likely. I'm more conservative about it. I'm not seeing the 9 for 111 in the score and rushing out saying, this is it. This is the guy of the week. Now, Jason, take dumps early. Does it apply to Isaiah Likely? It certainly does. However, I would not go too hard. I lost Njoku in our league of record. I already know I'm not getting Isaiah Likely because I'm not going to. Your bid is not going to be enough? No, I'll probably bid about 20.

And I think in every league. 21. And I think in every league someone's going to bid 50 on Likely. Give me the percentage chance it's worth 50. Percentage chance that he's worth 50, I would say 45%. Is he an every week start rest of the season regardless of our discussion here? Yes, I do think at the tight end position he will be a weekly top 12 play. So I think he is an every week start.

And obviously two people in every single league at the least, or at least two, need a tight end because they lost Njoku or they lost Ferguson, and those are usually started guys. And then almost everyone else in the league still kind of wants a tight end because their tight end crapped the bed. And one person has Andrews. Yeah. And there's no way that person isn't trying to roll the dice there.

Yeah, you know, so if you want likely, drop 50 plus fab on him. I think there is a chance it is worth that, but it seems really difficult to take the tight end position and waste all your fab on it when there are so many good running backs out there and i i am convinced that baltimore is going to be a frustrating fantasy situation it could be i think i think outside of lamar who always stands alone it's going to be frustrating i think zay flowers will have a week and then bateman will have a catch and then the likely and then andrews and then henry and then justice hill like, it is neutral game script passing rates of the Baltimore Ravens.

They're not good. They don't want to throw the ball that much. They were down a lot to the chiefs. And so I do think likely is very talented. I mean, Andy, you, you talked about this before the season,

like likely is too talented to stay off the field. He is. You, you look at the play he made, you know, to, to score that touchdown and beat like three defenders. And then the play he almost made where he is you you look at the play he made you know to to score that touchdown and beat like three defenders and then the play he almost made where he you know one toe it would have been a

two touchdown week yeah I mean he is a talented player but this is not a heavy passing team and it's you know you're going to have Andrew's weeks you're going to have Zay Flowers week so I don't know so then looking at Isaiah Likely and balancing it because Taysom Hill is out there about half of leagues it wasn't amazing it was 32 percent of the snaps but again that game script of of the Saints is like I don't know what you can really pull from that I love that the Saints went from 25th in the power rankings to 23rd because of their 47 to 10 win so if you want to know this was like on NFL.com or ESPN or something. It was like two-spot difference by winning 47 to 10. So you have Taysom out there and Colby Parkinson from the Rams,

who he ran the most routes of any tight end in the NFL. He had five targets, four for 47. I don't, in the terms of if you're looking at probability of Isaiah Likely versus Colby Parkinson, who can turn into a game-breaking tight end, it's Isaiah Likely. But with what you have to pay, with the risk of next week it comes out and Mark Andrews is 6 for 85 and Isaiah Likely caught three passes. I'm not spending a dime of fab on anybody but Likely or Hill.

Okay. Everybody else is incidental. Zero fab. If I get them, cool. Otherwise, I'll find another name that I kind of like. Even with the Puka injury. I'll spend a dollar fab on Colby Parkinson.

Are you holding Najoku and Ferguson if you don't have an IR spot? Ferguson, yes. Najoku, probably not. How many weeks do you think Njoku's going to miss? Because if they're working out tight ends, it sounds like it's more than one. His is an ankle sprain.

When I was looking for it, I couldn't find – all I was seeing was we don't know the severity yet of the ankle sprain. But ankle sprains are usually multiple weeks, and then there's a few weeks of re-acclimating where Ferguson could maybe play this week not that if Ferguson plays this week I'm probably still trying to get a different option but if he's already back this week then you'll you'll be back with Ferguson sooner than later I do think Juwan Johnson is going to be okay like I would pick up Juwan Johnson over a Colby Parkinson because they did not have to throw the football a bunch in this game.

Johnson ended the year really strong, scored in this game. That's me personally. I think Juwan Johnson is going to have a role because I don't think they have a lot of pass catchers. Yeah, Juwan Johnson, Colby Parkinson, Zach Ertz, these are all three guys that are

fine. You hope they get in the end zone, but they'll probably each finish with like four for 45, which is better than a goose. Defensively this week, the Chargers play Carolina. The Texans play the Bears in that anemic offense. That looks like a great pickup. Washington takes on the Giants. I don't know if I'd mess with it.

I don't think I'd mess with it. I don't think I would. Seattle takes on New England. And guess what? New England takes on Seattle. It's in New England. I actually think both are good starts. I think New England's defense is very, very

good. Would you go with one of those two, or would you play the Jaguars against the Cleveland Browns? I would play the Jaguars. I really like the Jaguars. Their pass rush is good, and if you want to look at who gives up sacks, Deshaun Watson loves getting sacked.

Yeah, I was going to say, inversely, the offense of the Cleveland Browns looked bad and has lost two pieces. So, those are some names. All of the defensive waiver wire rankings you can check out on the site, thefantasyfootballartist.com. We want to thank NFL Sunday

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restrictions apply. We do have some quarterbacks. NFL Sunday ticket for out-of-market games. Excludes digital-only games, device, and content restrictions. Apply. We do have some quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. I'll kick it off because mine's pretty quick and easy. It is Matthew Stafford who will be playing the Arizona Cardinals. This is what I am doing. I lost Jordan Love on Friday night, grabbed Stafford Saturday morning,

and he's going to be my replacement. So if you want to ride with me against my own team, then let's go. So Puka's injury didn't – No, the Cooper Cup is still there. It didn't turn you off of Stafford? No. It was far more exciting when I thought he had two superstars, but Cooper Cup and crew, it's enough. I think Stafford's a good play.

I'm going to go with Baker Mayfield. He was obviously on fire week one, but he gets to go play Detroit in Detroit, which we saw Stafford struggle fantasy-wise, but actually Stafford cut him up. He played very well against that defense. And look, Baker four touchdowns this last week, a 50-point over-under game indoors. Maybe he's just good.

Well, he definitely has some weapons that we can trust, and Rashad White in the passing game gives him, you know, cheap production in fantasy. I'll go with Justin Fields. He ran the ball 14 times. This is not an endorsement of the player. This is an endorsement of the fantasy scoring of rushing quarterbacks, 14 rushing attempts, pickings for big plays,

and a full week of preparing for this game. Don't start him if he's out, but if he gets the start, Justin Fields is a quick addition that can get you some fantasy points. Agreed. Alright. Tomorrow, we're

going to talk about some player takes from week one that we feel right about and sketchy about. Some things we thought in the offseason and where we're feeling good and where we're feeling nervous. And we'll do Hungry for More. We'll get into the Thursday night preview.

We'll get into some mailbag as well and then the matchups later in the week, including starts of the week. And we'll bring back Fantasy Face-Off. Oh, wait, we're saying it? You know, the demand from the listeners is what we you know we pay attention we know what you like and apparently you really really liked seeing one of us ridiculed at the end of the show on a weekly basis so fantasy face-off is going to come back it's fun it is fun and i i like putting those lineups together. People enjoyed it. We didn't have it for week one and we heard about it

and we want to bring you good content that you enjoy and so we are listening and we're going to bring it back and I think that's it. I think we did it. So if you want your customized waiver rankings with the ultimate dashboard, go to jointhefoot.com. Until tomorrow

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