Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 4 Waivers & Streamers + Ring of Honor Ceremony - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/24

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

Waiver Wire pickups for Week 4 on today’s fantasy football podcast! Which disappointing players should be dropped? Find out which waiver adds can help fantasy football managers get a win in Week 4! Plus, NFL News, and reactions to the Monday Night Football doubleheader! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for September 24th, 2024. (00:00) - Intro  (5:30) - Monday Night Recap (20:25) - NFL News (25:50) - Waiver Wire (26:40) - RB Waivers (34:35) - WR Waivers (45:20) - TE Waivers (49:40) - DST Waivers (53:12) - QB Waivers 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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Oh! Okay. Welcome in. That was like Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Oh. An A for effort. Yeah. I knew today would be.

I don't know. Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it's not going to go well. And then I have to decide, am I going to try it? My voice is just going through something. Yeah. There comes a stage in every man's life where your voice starts changing. Really?

And you know, you're gonna find some cool things happening to your body. Is it a second puberty? Is that what that is? It's actually well reversed. Yeah, you don't get hair in strange places. You lose it in strange places. Yes, reverse it. Yeah, you don't get hair in strange places. You lose it in strange places.

Yes, you do. Uh-oh. All right. Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers. Andy, Mike, and Jason with you. Tuesday, September 24th, Waiver Day. Lots of names to talk about, get you ready for your waiver pickups, how much fab you should drop drop whether you burn that waiver spot

and whether some of the free agents that put up big numbers are going to keep doing it or whether they're landmines yeah i mean you you necessarily are taking a risk because every waiver day is generally the result of either injury or a singular performance by a player that moves him from should be on the waiver wire to should be on a roster. And so you're taking a chance. Or in the case of Jawan Jennings, should be on the waiver wire, is the number one wide receiver in the National Football League. Yeah, I mean, better performance by Jawan Jennings than the career of Debo

and the career of Brandon Ayoub. Yeah, he's clearly their wide receiver one now. I don't know. Aiyuk looked like about a wide receiver four in that game. Yeah. He's still got targets here. Is that good or is that bad? It's always good when you actually get targets.

He had 10. He had 10 targets. Now is it good? That's sensational. Also, Brock Purdy was playing out of his mind. Brock Purdy looked great in that game when targeting Jawan Jennings. It's a weird

one. I mean, I don't know. You could blame it on a lack of camp. You could blame it on human nature. The bag gets deposited. A lack of camp? You could blame it on human nature? The bag? Oh. The bag gets deposited? Don't blame it on that one.

Don't blame it. That one is too long term. That's what we call the gala day. I fully blame it on the no camp. Did he stay at a gala day express? Is this the problem? He stayed at a gala day express. Yes. Better do Inn Express, yes.

Better do something soon, Brandon. But the targets would be the Amari Cooper argument of the last two weeks where Amari Cooper's numbers were there target-wise. He wasn't connecting. He had some drops, just like Brandon Ayuk. This isn't where I'm like, hey, he got 33% of the targets. That's an insane number. And then, like, if you look at the Colts, like, hey, Pittman got so much of the targets here, but it was only, like, a few passes. It was 33% of the targets and 10 targets.

I do think it's going to turn around. Tomorrow we're having a trade-for-trade-away show. Very excited for that. So maybe his name will come up. Maybe. Could be in either category. I don't know. Uh, we would like to remind you, especially today that if you head over to join the foot.com and you sign up to support the podcast, not only do you get an extra episode of the show every week and a ton of premium tools and resources, but you get access to the new ultimate dashboard, which is a lineup

optimizer. I, uh, I had a night last night. I dropped my son off at practice pickleball practice. They're, they're doing that now, huh? And, uh, there's an outback in the parking lot. And this is where I watched the Monday night football games now. And so, you know, I'm over there and I put the word out on the Twitter. I the twitter i was like what do you think about the dashboard so far and a lot of people were saying their favorite thing about using the ultimate dashboard is managing multiple leagues it gives you the kind of express lane to waiver pickups that are individualized to each league spot start options and then your lineup gets optimized based on our projections every week yeah i, I heard a lot of spot starts in their league for Jawan Jennings.

They used that tool, and it said, hey, you should maybe pick this guy up off of waivers and start him, and they did, and it worked out pretty well. Yeah, I'm in too many leagues, so I was a believer in Jennings, and I picked him up in pretty much all of the leagues. But then I had to stare down those start set decisions in all of them. And I played them in about half and I sat him in about half. And had I not sat him,

those would have been all wins. So that, that was a hard, a hard thing to go through. But let's talk about, um, let's talk about Monday night football. I enjoyed the heck out of both games happening at the same time.

Well, you were at the outback yeah so you had both games on hashtag not a sponsor seems like it all of a sudden hey who doesn't love a blooming onion but i was i was sitting there and i wanted the input i wanted the double input when a commercial break was going on like yeah and the i had the phone and it worked fine. Both games were on. Now, one game was over in about 15 seconds. And I'm not sure that Josh Allen couldn't have thrown for nine touchdowns in this game. Because he was unbelievable. I mean, he threw for four first-half touchdowns.

He did whatever he wanted to do. That was the phrase I was going to say. Just whatever he wanted. He dropped back, and he goes, who do I want to give a touchdown to on this? Right. And then he made that happen. He divvied him out. He sure did. I mean, it was an incredible performance.

You get a touchdown. Should have had two. Ray Davis, you get a touchdown. Wait, Ray Davis got one too? Khalil Shakir, you get a touchdown. Dalton Kincaid, you get a touchdown. Ty Johnson, you get a touchdown. Keon Coleman, you get a touchdown. And Keon Coleman get a touchdown. Keon Coleman, you get a touchdown.

And Keon Coleman had one catch. He was benched in the first quarter. Apparently for some disciplinary actions. Yeah, if you wondered like me right when that game started, I was like, wait, where's Keon Coleman? Because I thought this would be a good matchup for him. A heavy man defense. And then he's not

in the game. And then the next drive, he's not in the game. It's like, what happened? Why is it he apparently showed up late and got the bench? And then Daniel Jones played pretty bad for the Jaguars. Did you see the play where he spun out of nothing? Have you got to see that play yet? I have seen it. There was a little hint of pressure.

Well, yeah, pressure and spinning need to be kind of connected. You can't just spin all the time by accident. Okay. Someone hit the button. Yeah. It happens. Trevor Lawrence looked awful. Travis Etienne did the best he could do under the circumstances.

11 for 68 is great. It was pretty. Wow. It was a very clear not time share in this. That was the one takeaway. It was like ETN, 11 carries, Tank Bigsby had two. This was not Bigsby actually did have a couple

other runs that got called back on penalty. So they don't count, but they were like, they were both really good runs. He looked good, but I'm just saying the split and who was on the field, who was given the opportunity was predominantly Etienne. So do you feel confident in that? He was just coming back from an injury.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, right now I still think it's Etienne as the clear leader of the timeshare. Yeah, and he's a good player. Etienne is not – this is not a Rashad White situation where, you know, the underlying metrics for Travis Etienne are that he is, you know is not a good between-the-tackles runner and can't get it done. So to me, his role is safe. It's just a matter of how complimentary will Biggs be.

On the other side, James Cook, Mike's my guy, continues to dominate. And then if you had to start a wideout or a pass catcher, let's put it that way for Buffalo the rest of the season. Congratulations, you did it. It just feels likeil shakir is the lock in that regard which is kind of the way that you know it looked to begin this season but it was nice to see dalton kinkade redeem the tight end position slightly well and then slightly i mean he had to have been like the tight end three on the week or something yeah he's definitely top five he had a touchdown the I'll go look yeah I mean he's probably with Kincaid this is two weeks in a row where

to start the game he was an incredibly important piece of this offense he was down the field he was used in screen games it was like okay let's go this is Dalton Kincaid and then game's over one quarter in game's over the bills are too. The Bills are too good right now. They are too good right now. Their defense is too good right now. I do think Kincaid is someone we should be not worried about. That first week performance, you were really, really, really worried. The next game, he was super involved and then out of hand.

This game, super involved and then out of hand. Can we get a full game? Can we get a full game where Buffalo has to pass regularly at a normal, neutral game script? We got on the road against Baltimore, on the road against Houston. Okay. Those are encouraging. And on the road against the Jets.

Let's go. So we got three road games here. All right. The other game, Monday Night Football game number two, featured another my guy, Jaden Daniels, who went 21 for 23, a 91% completion percentage. Talking to you, Anthony Richardson. Near perfection. 54-2.

Another one on the ground looked in complete command of the commanders, and it was awesome. He was so calm, cool, and collected in the pocket. You never worried. Every time it was fourth and short, so calm, cool, and collected in the pocket. You never worried. Every time it was fourth and short, you're like, with his legs, the rollout and the option of, hey, let's just leak Terry McLaurin on that side of the line, and I'll run on this side of the line, and you defender, you pick which way you want me to pick up the first.

It was really well executed game plan. Their offense looked unstoppable and if you look at the metrics around the NFL their offense is like the number one offense. Did you see the tweet from Jordan Schultz? I did not. This is the first time in the Super Bowl era

ever that a team has gone two consecutive games with no turnovers and no punts. No turnovers, no punts. No turnovers, no punts. Yeah, their offense is – For Cliff Kingsbury. Do you have the hate blockers? I mean –

I don't have them on me. You don't have those glasses. Al Borland, can you throw those on? Oh, crap. Oh, he threw them at you. I heard throw. It was too late, man. I guess I'm the Cliff Kingsbury –

Doppelganger. There he is. Congratulations, Cliff Kingsbury doppelganger. There he is. Let's just put these on while we talk about Cliff and that offense. But there was a big injury, Austin Eckler. Who was looking awesome. He looked so good. Dude, there was a play. I don't know if you remember exactly what I'm talking about, where it was a lateral cut.

Was it one of my play calls? Yeah, thank you, Cliff. Yeah, great call. But, thank you, Cliff. Great call. But, I mean, he looked like he teleported. His sideways movement was so twitchy. It was like, hey, Austin. As a kick returner. As a kick returner.

I mean, he's looking incredible. He had a huge one last week that was called back. And then a huge one this week. So, great idea, idea cliff in putting him in on special teams austin eckler is awesome excellent what i do with my backup running backs but also congratulations on the wild call that i look i'm i'm more of aggressive in my tendencies and i still would not have made this call but i mean it worked the you know yep the the pass at the end of the game to just completely seal the game deep to

Terry McLaurin in the end zone. One-on-one, baby. I mean. When he's in one-on-one, I tell Jaden, chuck it. And Jaden, I mean. You did this week, so we appreciate that. You know, the balls are just incredible. They're crisp.

They're accurate. They are. Look. They are, aren't they? They're everything you want balls to be. Okay? So just keep digging. You'll get out eventually.

Listen, the sad part of the end of that story for Eckler is that he was concussed in this game. And I believe he stayed. He didn't fly right away. He didn't fly right away. So Eckler is in trouble, Terry McLaurin 4 for 100 and a touchdown you have to

breathe as a fantasy football manager in general I can remember going back and there was this year where we called Matt Forte a bust on this show and Matt Forte came out and he scored and he looked great for two three weeks and so we were under fire but then the entire rest of

the season was a completely different story for Matt Forte and so you have to breathe anyway in fantasy three weeks is a short period of time with a wide you know a divergence of high variance opponents right your your defenses that you face we think you underperform but then that defense really is good and we think you overperform but then that you know what i mean and then when the rookie is part of the picture on top of the of the three weeks it's even different like jane daniels oh they're never going to throw downfield really his? His whole career is defined by two games? He did this game. Four for 100 to Terry McLaurin.

So, you know, you're going to figure out what you're capable of doing. You're going to protect your rookie quarterbacks early. You're going to put them into positions to take chances later on. And that was also a really, really good back-and-forth game. Now, on the other side, the Bengals right now are 0-3. Crazy. The Bungles are back, baby. The Bungles are back.

And listen, here's the headline. They're going to play Carolina next week. They've lost to New England, okay? New England's projected win total was what? Four and a half, I think. Okay, they've lost to the Commanders. Their projected win total. Maybe five and a half. Maybe five and a half. Carolina,. Okay, they've lost to the Commanders. They're projecting win total. Maybe five and a half.

Maybe five and a half. Carolina, in Carolina, Andy Dalton, this is not a guaranteed win of any kind. And then they have to play Baltimore. So if they don't beat Carolina next week, they could be sitting 0-5. Their defense is really, really struggling. The Bengals have, you know, look know look i mean i don't want to take anything away from washington what jayden daniels did and what the game plan you called cliff uh thank you it was great but the bangles are struggling they've got some injuries back

there and they are not putting up strong fights and and yes this was a good fantasy day for joe burrow who's the start of the week 324 and three We just talked about the fact we hadn't had a 303 other than Andy Dalton. We got it with Joe Burrow. They lost the ballgame. Jamar Chase, 6-for-1, 18-2. This is what you should do against the Commanders. And so he did it, which was nice to see. And then Yoshi Voss got a touchdown.

Tee Higgins did nothing. It's 3-for-39. He had an end zone target that Burrow burrow screwed up higgins it should have been an easy touchdown their red zone they're oh my god was an issue zone yeah the red zone offense is oh it's atrocious this they have no idea what to do in the red zone is where they miss joe mixon they really really do i mean joe mixon was very important in the red zone last year for them and and every time i see them give it to Zach Moss, it's like he was okay. He had a touchdown.

I mean, he had a good fantasy game. It was the start of the week. Great. But he did not look great. And he's just not Joe Mixon. I have a different opinion. I thought Zach Moss looked fine. I had several times where he took off running. I was like, oh, man, they gave Chase Brown another carry?

Chase Brown was great. Yeah, Chase Brown. Chase Brown is fast. But I'm saying there was a couple runs to me where I didn't think it was Zach Moss. I thought it was Brown. I think it was Brown. No. I mean, I have a I disagree with that. I think Zach

Moss has played well. I think that the play calling has been the problem. Play calling has been a real problem. In the red zone and they lost their right tackle. Yeah, Trent Brown. So, Patel attended tear. So, he will be out for a year. That's not going to help the running game.

No. Or the protection of Joe Burrow. Andy, while you're saying no, take the breath. I would also, with Washington, it's very exciting. But the last two games was the Giants and the Bengals. Now they go on the road against Arizona. They play in Cleveland, Baltimore. So the next three are they're more difficult on the

defensive side of the ball I don't think Arizona is any more difficult than the Giants on the defensive side of the ball Giants have a pretty good pass rush yeah Arizona has been they're in the upper echelon through three games in terms of I think schedule adjusted or points given up but I agree

no pass rush it should be a fun game in Arizona. That's going to be one you want pieces of. All right. Actually, sorry, real quick. I hate to cut in. I know we got a full show, but Mike, that project that you had us work on that you said to move to top priority.

Yes. We got that done for you. Oh, yes. Excellent. Oh, guys. So did you watch the Sunday night football game? Atlanta? Yeah.

Kansas City. Yeah. So halftime. This is not good. At halftime, I was so inspired by what took place at halftime. Let's go. Oh, you're talking about when Arthur Blank? After a bold self-nomination, the Fantasy Footballers Ring of Honor

is proud to induct the Fantasy Hitman, Mike Wright. I did it. I did it, everybody. The first ever Fantasy Footballers Ring of Honor member. Wow. Oh, my God. I have so many people to thank. I mean, I don't know how much time I have here.

As much as you need. It's your show. So, deuces, thank you. Andy, Jason, thank you for lifting me up to this place where I could finally achieve my dream of getting into the ring of honor by myself. Incredible. You inducted yourself. So you're the only one.

Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll probably shut it down after this. But thank you guys, your support. The fans, I could not have got here without everyone really helping. It was a team effort to get me into my ring of honor. Wow. Thank you, everyone.

Can we give them a round of applause? The people, everyone. Can we give him a round of applause? The people love it. Can we give him a round of applause? Unbelievable. Wow. You were inspired by Arthur Blank himself. Has that happened before? Has an owner put himself in the ring of honor while still alive and owning the team?

That's the thing. When you're dead, let somebody else do it when you're dead. I think Papa Bidwell is in our ring of honor for the Cardinals. Yeah, because he died. Yeah, this is like, aw. Mike thought, I mean, formerly Mike probably thought he had to die.

I did. I didn't know I could do this. And then you were inspired by Arthur Blank. Yeah. Wow, Mike. There's no rules when it comes to celebrating yourself. This is good to know. We should start a podcast award company.

Oh, that's a great idea. Wow. Thank you, Arthur. Thank you for taking the time. Mike really was taken back by that ceremony. I will say this. When I heard that Arthur Blank was being inducted into their ring of honor, the first second I heard about it, all I thought was, what?

What? The first second I heard about it, all I thought was, what? What? And the owner is inducting himself into the Ring of Honor? Did he hand himself some sort of award? And I tweeted out about it. And people from Atlanta were quick to, they're like, hey, Blank has done a lot of good stuff here. I'm like, that's all fine and well. But the optics are, you put yourself in your own ring of honor it's very i mean it's not fun no it's not funny at all actually it's very serious business me and me and arthur oh yeah ring of

honor guys super legit all right let's talk news news and notes from around the league presented by usaa insurance now that i think about it there might be another inductee pretty from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Now that I think about it, there might be another inductee pretty soon. Yeah, one or two. Yeah, there might be one or two more. Incredible. We'll have to really think about who to put in there. I mean,

he had to have just been sitting there looking at his ring of honor going, why am I not in here? I own the team. He's just jealous of these players where's my name wow all right uh Sean McVay told reporters Cooper Cup's gonna miss another week at least uh it's probably gonna be more than that but week four no Cooper Cup Najee Harris yesterday on the show I talked about him having an opportunity they They've got offensive line issues, and then right after the show, we found out he had his arm in a sling.

Now, per Jordan Schultz, Najee's expected to be fine and likely to be ready for the game. Yeah, I mean, if you watch the end of the game, he was fine. He didn't get injured on his last run. He was there at the very end. So it's good to hear. I think we can be confident with Najee. All right. Sam Laporte, a day-to-day with a sprained ankle?

It was a low sprained ankle, we found out. Yeah. What was all this median or right side? I don't know. What was all this ovary talk? That was only you. Well, still, it was wrong. It had nothing to do with his uterus at all.

That's a way to be accountable. Yeah. Christian McCaffrey is seeing a specialist in Germany for his Achilles. And I had to laugh when Mike shared that he might be put in a DOS boot. Yeah. Very nice tweet. Deuces Alley is enjoying today's episode of the show. I mean, how do you think I got in the ring of honor, guys?

Oh, it was the DOS boot. It's killer tweets like that. So I have seen some information from medical professionals out there. I checked in with Betts, our medical guy, to see if he agreed with it. And he did, for the most part, it was Jeff Mueller who put out a really thorough thread about it. You can go check it out. But essentially what they're saying is he will probably be out. Betts, his best guess about timeline, because after you get the treatment treatment you really have to let it heal let it recover uh so bets is guessing week 10 right now which is after they have a week nine by so

again these are we we don't know for sure but this is the yeah and the reason he's going to germany is because he can basically get a higher dose than he could get here. Yeah, they're top of the line over there. Yesterday we talked about if you're the Jordan Mason manager, like maybe going out and trying to really trade for Christian McCaffrey to secure that spot, feels like you don't want to give up that much now. No, lower your price. It's going to be a while. Brock Purdy has back soreness day to day.

And then a reminder from Matthew Batts, who, by the way, you get an Injury Blitz podcast, an extra episode of that as well, as a member of JoinTheFoot.com. So every week, Matthew Batts jumps on, talks about the injuries, talks about the prognosis for these players with what we call a medical education. Something we... He doesn't even have to use AI. He's not a lot of uterus talk um

but he wanted to point out that there are some ir players eligible to return to practice soon not guaranteed to return eligible to return clyde edwards a lair who could play a factor in the backfield in kansas city so and remind clyde ed Edwards-Alaire, this was a mental health thing. He's been dealing with some PTSD from events in his past, so he was shut down for the first four weeks. Tirico did talk about that the Chiefs' expectation as of right now is as soon as week five to have him back. All right.

Kendra Miller eligible to return from the hamstring after week four he's to the dog is he ricky pierce all would be eligible dj chart jonathan brooks would be eligible to return in week five from the pup i think it's gonna still be a little bit yeah same with hawkinson uh he would be eligible but they're targeting a week seven return according to jeremy fowler hawkinson will be a hard one to figure out what to do right away. But look at your other options right now. I mean, I was going to say you start. I am starting. I'm starting Hawkinson in his first week. Yeah, probably. Probably. I mean, if I've got Kincaid and he's looking good or if I've got McBride, whatever but more than likely the team that has picked up

Hawkinson to wait for him or drafted him as a second guy they don't they don't have a great option so when he's back maybe he's averaging five yards of reception but if he's getting five or six receptions a game great he's the tight end one just funny to think that this team that looks so good right now Addisonison should return this week, and then Hawkinson will return at some point. So the wheels are going to fall off. Right. Yeah, pumpkin town.

That was today's News & Notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We'll take a break and then hit the waiver wire. All righty. Let's jump in. Welcome to the Waiver Wire, presented by NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. All right. If you want a fully custom Waiver Wire rankings for your league,

jump into the Ultimate Dashboard. You can do that at jointhefoot.com. We will be, we have more names in that waiver list than we'll talk about on the show. We try to keep the names that we talk about on the show to, you know, 50% or less roster percentage. We don't want to talk about names

that are probably rostered in the majority of leagues. So that doesn't mean that they're not available in yours because if it's an 85% roster there's 15% of leagues that he's not rostered but today I want to start at the running back position I kind of wanted to share where I'm at with a couple of names and then get out of the way and let you guys talk about where you're at at the tippy top of our list right now, under 50% rostered, but really close to that number. Braylon Allen and Bucky Irving,

both I think are great pickups. Braylon Allen's the backup running back in New York, a rookie. Bucky Irving, a rookie in Tampa Bay. Both have looked awesome on limited opportunities. I have Bucky Irving ranked higher than Braylon Allen. Both should be picked up. If both were out there, I'd put bids on both of them.

The only reason I have Bucky Irving higher is because I think the disparity between Brees Hall and how foundational his role is and the difference between that and what Rashad White can do between the tackles, dealing with the groin injury, and the fact Bucky Irving could catch passes and earned more targets. I went back. I watched every snap fact Bucky Irving could catch passes and earned more targets. I went back. I watched every snap of Bucky Irving, every opportunity from week one, two, and three.

I think Braylon Allen is a better football player than Bucky Irving, but I think that Bucky Irving has a lot of juice. He's looked really good, and it's been a progression. He's looked better each game and certainly looks more shot out of a cannon than Rashad White does right now.

So I have him slightly higher. Yeah, when I looked at these two guys, I just went back and forth. I'm like, man, which one would I really pick up first? And the similarities are crazy, right? They were both, you know, they both fell in drafts a little bit further than some of the NFL draft time hype was about both of these players. They're both backups and 32% of snaps for each player last week. Three targets,

three receptions, 13 yards and 14 yards for these guys last week. They both were about 10 carries and both really efficient on their carries. The truth is, Bucky Irving has more opportunity to steal the role, and if you want someone who you think you need a flex play, I am more confident in Bucky Irving. But if this is a stash type of player, where you're just wanting someone that is talented, who maybe could, you know, really come into their own, then I think I'm on the Braylon Allen side, because should an injury happen to either of these players, or let's just say both, and by both, I mean Rashad White and Brees Hall, if both those players go down, Braylon Allen has the body type to, I think, really truly break fantasy. I don't know that

they would give Bucky Irving the entirety of the work. He's a smaller back. He's still very, very good. And so I kind of go back and forth. Right now in my rankings, I do have Irving, like you, Andy, one spot ahead of Braylon Allen. But I think it's really just a matter of what you're looking for. Both should be picked up. And in the most competitive leagues, I was shocked to see that like on Sleeper right now, they are still available in more than 50% of leagues because I thought these guys should be rostered in 80%, 90%. I have Braylon Allen ahead. Just watching him go from two opportunities to 11 to 14.

He's not – I agree with everything you guys are saying. He won't overtake Brees Hall, but there is a chance that this is what they want the offense to be where an RB2 is actually part of what's going on. So those are the two big names. There are some other kind of stashed, keep in the back of your mind, like Emmanuel Wilson is the backup for Josh Jacobs, and he was the backup to the tune of 12 for 50, including a long touchdown pass as well, played 41% of snaps, and this was impressive to see.

And then Justice Hill is going to get a lot of work in Baltimore as well. When you need an emergency situation, those two players right now look like if you threw them in, you might get lucky. Emmanuel Wilson has looked really good on a per-touch basis to me as well. This is the Green Bay system that while the first two weeks we saw Josh Jacobs just getting everything, we know that LeFleur wants to run more of a committee approach, and they did this last week. It's a tough matchup coming up, but he's not that far behind

Braylon Allen and Bucky Irving as far as opportunity. The difference is there will be a time where Marshawn Lloyd comes back off the IR, and so then that makes Emmanuel Wilson's future a little bit more murky. But he should definitely be rostered. Did you guys watch Jacksonville play football last night? Unfortunately. Yeah, well, if Joe Mixon were to miss this next week, Cam Akers will get another opportunity. And

Akers did not struggle in terms of like, okay, they went and they ran their game plan and then Akers couldn't execute it. It was like, we just didn't have the opportunity to hand the ball off because we were turning it over to Minnesota and then down by a million. He only had nine carries. He did catch a touchdown pass.

So Cam Akers as a spot start candidate, probably really cheap, probably really ignored on your waiver wire. Yeah, he's – I mean, we don't have an update yet for Joe Mixon on this week, so that would be a speculative ad. The two guys I want to highlight for – these aren't players that you're probably picking up and putting right into your lineup, but it's a watching how things are trending. Rico Dowdle is available in half of leagues,

and he's the lead guy now. Zeke is being phased out. Again, it's not a lot of work yet, 8 for 32, but 5 targets, 8 for 32 on the ground, 5 targets where it's ramping up for Rico at the moment. And I don't know if we'll ever get to the point where they just fully go, okay, Rico, you're going to be the guy for the game. We're going to give you, you know, 60% of the snaps. But if they do, then he will be very valuable because he's already the pass-catching guy, and if they give him the goal-in work as well and the Cowboys figure things out, he could have a ton of value.

And then Roshon Johnson for the Chicago Bears. DeAndre Swift has been horse doo-doo. It's been really, really bad, and Roshon has quickly, in the three weeks, went from a healthy scratch in week one, believe he was active week two but didn't get on the field, and then to 37% of the snaps and 13 opportunities. They're searching for something. They are, and that's the point.

I don't know that you could play Roshan. The matchup against the Rams, that's okay, but it's more of a put him on the bench and see what happens with the opportunities. Do they start moving the dial even more of Swift versus Roshon? We also know that Jalen Warren is getting NMRIs, so Cordero Patterson could be a cursory out, especially with some rumors around this injury to Najee.

And with the matchup against Indianapolis. Would you drop Javante? Oh, man. Wow. I'm going to give you the drop candidate names that we're hearing. Goodness. I still would not drop Javante. Oh, man. Wow. I still – I'm going to give you the drop candidate names that we're hearing. Goodness. I still would not drop Javante. I think we're probably one more week,

but if he gets splashed by the bidet one more week, it's a big problem. And then you have – an odd estimate is a week six return, potential return. I think that the time is running out for Javante. DeAndre Swift. No. I'm not dropping him yet. I'm still going to hold on to him as well. Zemir White.

Zemir White I am far more willing to drop. Like for Allen and Bucky, would you drop? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If there's a good name out there, then I would take Zemir because he only played 22% of snaps this last week. The Gus Bus and Jalen Warren. Gus I'm going to hold on to. Gus I'm going to hold on to. Warren I'm going to hold on to.

Man, it's so difficult with the injury. And we talked about Clyde Edwards-Alaire real quick, but deeper leagues, maybe you just have one spot and you're like, I'm not going to spend anything right now. He's worth an ad right now because he will be the hot ad next week. So you can get out in front of it. You guys want to talk wideouts? Please, yeah.

Juwan Jennings is going to top the list. He's going to top the fab bids this week, no question about it. Is that because of the 11 for 175 and three touchdowns? It's mostly correlated to his statistical output, yeah. We don't know the health of George Kittle. we don't know the health of George Kittle. We don't know the health of Debo either. So how are you guys playing Juwan, not knowing any of those things? Because if those two guys come back, Juwan is still a fine pickup,

but, I mean, are you going to burn a top priority? Are you going to invest heavy? With those guys healthy, he was 5 for 64 in week one. He'll still be involved, and that's also part of the the the lack of production for Brandon where if he ramps up which he should then that would theoretically remove Juwan from the offense when everyone's ready to go yeah I the way that I'm moving forward right now is I believe that they will both miss another week. George Kittle was a late week hamstring, missed the game, was ruled out a little bit early. So I don't expect Kittle back.

And I think both these players are going to miss one more game. So if I'm looking at my waiver wire, Juwan Jennings is like, I'm getting him. I'm going to start him this week. That's how I'm approaching it. Would you pick up Quentin Johnston after the one touchdown but only two catches? He is. Or would you pick up Darnell Mooney if you had the choice who eight targets, eight for 66, two straight good weeks.

I love Mooney. I think I might pick up Mooney over Jawan Jennings just because it could be more rest of season. I mean, seven targets last week, had 88 yards and a touchdown, eight targets this next week, 66 yards. He's very involved, and I think he's a good player. He's proven over the course of years he is a serviceable wide receiver, too, for his team, and they need someone. Cuge, meanwhile, plays Kansas City this week, probably with no Herbert or possibly with no Justin Herbert, and it's Kansas City they will remove.

They've been removing number one wide receivers. If you score, you're happy. If you don't score in Los Angeles, you have a miserable day. So Cuge, after the terrible matchup with Kansas City, then it's the bye week. Can't start in there. Then it's on the road against Denver, which I would assume he will get the Sertan experience from Denver.

So this is three weeks that you're probably not trying to play him. This will be a deeper league. You're adding him, hoping in a month that things are okay. Over the last two games played for Darnell Mooney, his 17-game pace would be 93 catches for 1,300 yards and eight touchdowns. Yeah, baby. So he's been playing well, which

Mike in the offseason went back and watched a bunch of Darnell Mooney last year to see was this a Fields? Was this a Mooney? What was it? Concluded heavily that it was Fields. Yes. So nice to see Mooney performing. And he becomes, you know,

Kirk Cousins is going to have favorite options in this offense. And right now Mooney's looking like that. Jalen Aylor, he got back into the end zone, but he only had 3-4-31. He is losing his spot to Jordan Addison returning this week. So I think I would let somebody else chase Jalen Naylor because I don't want a third wide receiver option in Minnesota. You think Addison is back this week? That's the report that I had read. Oh, okay. I hadn't seen that. Normal timeline,

if you miss a game, you miss three with the high ankle, I was thinking you might have one week left of jaylen nailer he's he's looked all right but yeah if addison's back then i'm out the coach uh reported they were hopeful of his week four status uh so kevin o'connell said he's optimistic he will be available to play sunday in green bay that's what the report was as of yesterday um i i think you know a guy that i want to look at and really a team i want to look at is the packers getting jordan love back romeo dobbs is available in in a lot of leagues uh don tavian wicks has kind of started encroaching on christian watson's

numbers we don't know exactly what to make of what this offense we've seen the last two weeks is but i do think when jordan love is back this office is going to really be a you know definitely a top 10 offense and so if there are pieces of a top 10 offense sitting on waivers because they're not ready yet I would try to scoop those up now I've never been as as much of a Dobbs fantasy believer as much as I think he helps teams, but I understand taking the shot. I mean, when would you feel confident starting a Dobbs or a Wicks? Is it just a week-to-week miracle play?

No, Dobbs I would be confident playing for what he is, which is like a low-end flex option as soon as Love is back. Dobbs is clearly the snap leader. He's on the field. He's got the opportunities to score. He's, he's the snap leader. He's on the field. He's got the opportunities to score. He's looked at around the end zone. I don't see him as a

some superstar. Like Dontavian Wicks, I think his ceiling is higher than Dobbs. But Dobbs, I'm much more confident in like, you can put him out there most weeks and be okay when you've got Jordan Love back. Green Bay has Minnesota this week, but then we get the Rams, Cardinals, Houston, Jacksonville,

and Detroit. So either way, even if it's a tough defense, it should be a higher scoring game against those teams because they're going to have good offenses, and then they'll beat up on Jacksonville. Well, you just said what the schedule is, a trade for Jordan Love. Could be. Try to go get him right now because a lot of quarterbacks are disappointing. Are you chasing either of the one-week wonders, Trey Tucker or Calvin Austin,

who had big games? Four for 95 and one for Austin. Trey Tucker. Seven for 96 and one for Trey Tucker. Trey Tucker would be the – I'd prefer him over Calvin Austin. It's not going hard in the paint after him, but he's in his second year. He had all of the hype.

He's a round three wide receiver in his second year. He had all the hype of the offseason. So I think that he's okay to put on the bench and see what happens. What about drop candidates? Michael Pittman. Dude. Oh,man. Dude. Oh, man.

Yeah. Serious. Michael, it's not you. I don't blame you at all. This is an Anthony Richardson problem. I don't think I would drop Michael Pittman, but if you're considering dropping Michael Pittman, I would very much look to package trade him. He has a big name, draft capital, target share, all those things. And I totally understand. I'm not starting Michael Pittman. I just feel like he, you know, he's one of those guys that I think you can get more from

than just what, like, like the names that we're talking about Darnell Mooney I really like Darnell Mooney would I like Darnell Mooney more than than Pittman if I was making a start this week I would certainly start Mooney over Pittman but like I don't I don't think that the the gap there is enough to just pump them straight to the waivers versus trying to get something for them oh hate blockers them. I'm putting the glasses back on because what I have to say is it's not going to go well and I need protection.

If you're in a dynasty league, would you rather have Jaden Daniels or Anthony Richardson? Jaden Daniels. At this point. No question to me. Yeah. One of them looks like an incredibly competent quarterback right away in his career.

The other looks like a— That's not knee-jerk. You know, Anthony Richardson's physical tools and abilities are probably superior in every way to Jaden Daniels. It's not a knee-jerk because this is a conversation we've had the whole offseason. I mean, you brought up— I don't feel like—preseason, it would have been Anthony Richardson by a mile. Yes.

By a mile. And we're three games in. That's why I'm asking. Well, you say by a mile, but we talked about the draft value, the overprice on Anthony Richardson. He had done nothing from last year to move from being a 10th-round pick to a 5th-round pick in fantasy. He had two good games, two bad games, got injured.

Versus Jaden Daniels, who has all the same resources. It's a different style. He's not as big bodied. You don't think he's going to get the tush push, but he could have 750 rushing yards just as easy, if not easier, than Anthony Richardson. So I don't think it's really knee jerk. It's what we've seen on the field so far in three games from jayden daniels is that he's going to be like we're i think you're confident he's going to be an nfl quarterback barring injury for you know the next several years anthony richardson what we've seen so far this year is like we got some work to do we we got the tools we've seen some flashes. We got some work to do. Yeah, I think it's, again, Richardson is essentially a rookie. Hasn't played a ton of football.

He has, his traits are amazing. I don't know if the traits will ever pan out. I liked Richardson for fantasy football. I thought he would be much better than he's doing this year, especially just in terms of running the ball. But I hated the prospect. I'm not one of those. I'm not someone who says, I see all the traits,

so I draft a guy in the top five. Accuracy is difficult. Not everybody's Josh Allen. Yeah, accuracy is very difficult to fix in the NFL. But we've seen a couple big ones. When it hits, you get Josh Allen. Or Lamar. One of the best quarterbacks in the league.

Josh Allen right now this year is the best quarterback in the league. Would you drop Keenan Allen right now? No, I'm going to hold on. I'm very concerned about it. Speaking of schedules rams carolina jacksonville bi-week washington arizona so if things are gonna go well for

the bears it would be over the next four games if i don't have an ir slot and i've got to take up a roster spot and i need it i I would be willing to drop Keenan Allen. I don't, I'm, he wasn't really good before the injury and you worry that the injury might hamper him the rest of season. Caleb Williams hasn't looked good. I think when he is back, when Keenan Allen is back, it's going to be one of those things where I don't want to start DJ more Roma Dunzay or Keenan Allen. So I I'm So I'm fine just getting out of the mess. All right, we're going to take a break. We're going to come back with some tight ends.

All right, apparently we have to start a tight end. Yeah, yeah. So who are you going to pick up and chase the last week's numbers? Chase the dragon. The dragon that I would want to chase the most would be Cole Kmet. Kind of feels like his career arc is doing this periodically to show up on her show and then disappearing. For sure.

I mean. A little Hunter Henry-esque. When you look at the tight end position and you look at who can have big performances, they are big, strong, physical dominators. They paid him a lot of money. We've seen several big performances from him. So we know he's got the physical tools and capabilities. While Keenan Allen is not on the field that we have seen an actual shift and a

reason to believe that Cole Komet might be more involved this is a system that you know wants to use the tight end but they've been using Gerald Everett and now week one it was like Gerald Everett all preseason it was Gerald Everett over Cole Komet week one it was the same thing and you're going okay Cole Komet's dead and then the second week comes in and you see a massive shift towards Cole Komet. And he's good. You know, he gets five targets, four receptions. And then this last week, they basically said, okay, Gerald Everett, the experiment is done. At least that's what it looks like.

Snap-wise, route-wise, that's what happened. If that sticks, if Gerald Everett is basically not a part of this passing offense, and Keenan Allen is gone, I think Cole Komet, there's reasons to be excited. I mean, he had 10 for 97 in a touchdown. It's hard to do that. It's Keenan Allen related for me right now. Like, Cole Komet could be a Band-Aid for you at the tight end position. It's possible.

Again, just rattled off the schedule. It's very positive for Chicago and maybe figuring something out and get Caleb Williams, get him really going. But once Keenan is back, I guess that's if Keenan is back, then I think with the three wide receivers, Cole Komet will be relegated back to the waiver wire. Other names? The other names are, is it Conklin?

I mean, he was five for 93. That was nice. It was a very surprising game. He is a full-time player, 92% of the snaps. I think that someone like Conklin, though, can easily just be five for 24 or just something really low. Or one for six. Or one for six.

Like week one and one for ten, like week two. I don't think I'm going to play in that fire, especially as Mike Williams is getting healthier. Mike Kosicki would be the guy for me. He does steam, still involved, still had five targets. He steams? He steams still. He steams still.

I'm not excited about any of these guys. You could talk about Zach Ertz, who was so clutch, so important to the commander's offense, such a big role. Late when it mattered, all these deep shots, five targets, five receptions, and then you look and it's like, wait, he only had 38 yards? I feel like he was really important to this dude. Did you catch the play? They really highlighted it where Jane Danieliels did not find my man the senator yeah the senator was out there for

a humongous play and jayden did not let it rip they brought him in for him like he was the design on that play because he's not he's not playing a ton of snaps not running a lot of routes man if they if he if he let that ball go i've been exciting yeah he would have playing a ton of snaps, not running a lot of routes. Man, if he let that ball go. That would have been exciting. Yeah, he would have had a 50, 60-yard touchdown. I like Conklin a little bit more than the argument that you made against him. I know Mike Williams is probably not going to be a high-volume player there, and I just think that if Rodgers finds something that works,

he may go back to it. Rodgers looked real good. Conklin's in every snap tight end. So that helps. I will say this. Usually when it comes to picking your tight end, matchup is more important than, you know, the talent. The tight ends on the waivers aren't, you know,

you're not being like, well, Kelsey's so strong. The Denver Broncos, at least last year, adjusted for schedule. They were 28th against tight ends, so that is a good matchup if you want to go the Conklin route. You dropping Mark Andrews? People want to know. No, no, no. Defensive starts this week. I love Tennessee against Miami and whoever they decide to start at the quarterback position.

Makes sense. I like Houston against Trevor Lawrence's ever-spinning pirouette of sacks. That makes sense, too. I like the Raiders and Max Crosby having 20 sacks against Deshaun Watson this week. Can I be honest? I probably am not. I'm so

upset about what happened with Las Vegas last week that I am terrified to roll them back up there because they give up 36 points to Andy Dalton, did nothing to sack the quarterback. I completely... And Crosby's hurt, for what it's worth. Wait, he is?

Yeah, he did play. He was questionable. He did play, but he's battling injury is what I'm saying. Oh, okay, gotcha. Well, all I know is every single time that Deshaun Watson drops back to pass, he is inundated by a pass rush. Way more, like If you look back

at week two, the protection for Bryce Young was the best in the league. Number one. They were protecting him. That's the line that Crosby had to go up against versus... They're the worst defense in fantasy football.

The Raiders are dead last. They're the worst start. Impressive. I can believe that. I'm just focused on Sacks against Deshaun Watson, who leads the league right now in Sacks taken. I mean, last week we watched every single drop back. Some of it was his fault he held onto the ball too long.

Some of it was the offensive line's fault. But regardless, and I think they lost more starters on the line. So it's playing with fire. It's a bad defense if you want to call them a bad defense. They were great last year, but, man, Watson just looks like he's willing to take the other team's defense and make them good. The Saints against Atlanta seems like a great start. Atlanta has not put up a lot of points,

and the Saints I think are the number one defense right now in terms of fantasy points produced. They're very high if they're not number one. I also think the Rams-Bears game is going to be great for both defenses. You've got a really banged-up Rams offensive line, and they figured it out. They did some different things against the San Francisco 49ers this last week, but the Bears are a good defense.

The Bears are going to be at home, and there's still a banged-up offensive line. Conversely, the Rams' defense against Caleb Williams, who has taken a ton of sacks as well and has some inaccurate passes so far to start the season, I think you could put either one in your lineup. All right, that'll do it for the Waver Wire. We are going to get into our streaming quarterbacks in a moment. We want to thank NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.

Watch every game every Sunday when you bundle NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube TV. Sign up today at youtube.com slash fantasy footballers, local and national games on YouTube TV. NFL Sunday Ticket for out-of-market games. Excludes digital-only games. Device and content restrictions apply breaking news it's time to go home adam are you there i'm here i'm fading oh adam feeling yeah i'm so happy you got that touchdown last week at your age so proud of you

hey buddy we're gonna put you on the ir, we're going to put you on the IR for a couple of weeks. Yeah. The hamstring, the hamstring starting to be like an old rubber band and so I get it. We, it hurts. We'll rub some oil on that. Give you a month off. But uh, the breaking news is Adam Thielen, uh, being placed on the IR. I'll be back. Alright, let's talk quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. Well, even without Adam Thielen. I won't be there. Even without Adam Thielen. I'm going Andy Dalton at home against Cincinnati

as my streamer this week. Playing his old team. What a world. A team that just, they couldn't even come close to stopping Jaden Daniels last week. A team that just, they couldn't even come close to stopping Jaden Daniels last week. Deontay Johnson, a new opportunity for Xavier Leggett. Chuba Hubbard looked great in the running and the passing game. You know, this is great.

This is Dave Canales finally getting to execute an offense that gave you confidence in him as an offensive coordinator and head coach. And we haven't got to see any vintage Dave Canales until this last week who quickly came out and said Andy Dalton's our quarterback. He gives us the best chance to win. Cincinnati's defense, I put it in quotes, 26th in points per game allowed, 29th in pressures, and they're at home.

I mean, like Andy Dalton's at home against Cincinnati. I'm going to go Geno Smith on the road against Detroit. Geno has looked pretty darn good. He's completing 75% of his passes, second highest in the NFL. He's becoming more comfortable with the Ryan Grubbs system. You've got the big week two game from JSN at least in the pocket for that slot-wide receiver against this Detroit matchup that should work out. You cannot run.

You cannot run on Detroit. Zach Charbonnet cannot run on anybody. So I think they're going to throw the ball a lot. They're going to need to keep up. And honestly, he's been pretty good. I think Geno's looked really well this year. Looked really – yeah, that's right. Like he's playing well?

Looked like he's playing well. Are you talking about like his health? Yeah, that would be like – He also looks so healthy um but you know this this last week had a down week but that was against miami's backups where you know the they held miami to three points that's not one where you're going to need to throw against detroit you're going to need to throw he was the quarterback seven week one the quarterback five week two i think you can definitely start gino i like gino a lot i like dalton a lot. And I will throw out Justin

Fields again because he's still not being rostered. Again, I'm presuming that he will be the starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers here in week four because they're 3-0. And Justin Fields is managing the games extremely

well. He is completing 73% of his passes. And this was actually a good passing game this past week for him against the Chargers, 245 yards. He had the passing touchdown. It's because he leaned on superstar Calvin Austin. Well, part of that is that Van Jefferson got injured, which I think is good for Justin Fields. He's a good blocker.

He's like one of those route runners that's not going to get targets, not going to do anything in the actual counting stats. Calvin Austin could take one to the house. I doubt we'll see Roman Wilson soon. Some of the things... Healthy and active. Well, yeah. Mike Tomlin was asked, like, what do you have to do to get his helmet?

Because I think Roman Wilson is a very good player. I'm very excited to see him on the field. I think it'll be good for Justin Fields when he gets on the field. But Tomlin is an awesome coach. He's just about winning, and he basically said, he said he's just got to keep working. It's hard to get on a moving train, and we're moving. Like, he wasn't there for camp,

so he's going to still probably take a couple weeks. But Fields is playing against the Colts, and the Colts defense giving it the second most yards allowed per game. We still haven't seen the – while we're seeing good game manager Justin Fields, we haven't seen the performance where he goes out and he rushes for 70 yards and a touchdown, but he's serviceable if you're trying to stream. I like that. All right, tomorrow I said we're going to talk trades.

We're going to talk trade away, trade four, any updates to the news, and a whole lot more. And then Thursday, Friday, back into the matchups, the starts of the week, the Wheel of Shame. Hee hee hee. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not me.

Oh, it's me. You know when you're playing on DraftKings and they give you a little like a fire emoji? Or the ice. Yeah, you've never seen ice. Like what's in my lineup. The catastrophe that was week three, I've had all of it. You had all of the bad players.

This is like the day after tomorrow, the movie, that promo? Yes, oh yeah, it was a flash freeze. Okay. Very nice. And don't forget to check out the WaiverWire tool. It is a great, great resource that will sync with your leagues so you can connect them and see who is on your waivers and see it even shows what teams have the guys that are rostered

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