Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Week 7 Waivers & Streamers, Game Breakers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/14

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

Fantasy Football show for Oct 14, 2025. Waiver Wire pickups for Week 7! Find out which players to target in your fantasy football leagues, and which players are droppable. Plus, QB streamers, injury updates, and a recap of the Monday Night Football doubleheader. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.(00:00) Intro(03:10) Monday Night Recap(12:10) News & Notes(18:15) Waiver Wire(19:45) RB Waivers(27:55) WR Waivers(35:40) TE Waivers(39:15) DST Waivers(41:25) QB Streamers Connect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The fantasy footballer's studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Tuesday, October 14th, the fantasy footballers podcast. Jason Randall Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, back with you. I feel like I'm in trouble. That's the full name, get over here. You're grounded. You're grounded, Jason.

Wow. welcome in one and all. I feel a little exposed. Because of the full name. His Social Security Now there is 6-2-8. We've got the first digit right. It should be very easy to do. To deduce from there.

Welcome in. We've got a waiver episode today. So we'll get into some of the names you need to pick up. A lot of players are hurting right now. got leagues with puka and a buca that are especially hurting and taking a duca on you yeah it's not you know i felt invincible in those leagues and and you just blink and you suddenly you're like i have no one to pay it is a great reminder for all of the leagues you're in where you look across the pond and you see that team that is in europe you see that that team that is in first place and

they just look unbeatable you're like i'm not going to be able to compete this year those teams can have a bad week and lose a player or two and all of a sudden they're not in the running well and it's also a um it's a time to show your medal in a sense like for that team that was dominating with those two players you're now in a position where you're like do i oh no do i need to make a move like how long is puka going to be out how long is a egg buca going to be out and no one knows and no one knows and so it's like do you need to go make a change can you withstand the weeks without C.D. Lamb, right? And so there's a lot of question marks and a lot of waiver pickups and we'll talk about them all today. I want to remind you to check out join

thefoot.com. We have our exclusive waiver wire tools over there, spot start tool, lineup optimizer, building out some trade tools that we hope to launch in the next month. And the ultimate dashboard, yeah, you can you can use that for every league, auto import your team, optimize the line up every week and it's getting more important as the weeks go on. So you also get an extra episode of the show. If you support us at join the foot.com, check that out. Monday night football. Falcons over

the bills, bears over the commanders. Those were some pretty good games. I thought it was some good football. The Falcons game was pretty shocking the way they jumped out to a lead and then just kind of kept going and you...

They didn't score again except for the field goal. The second half, the second half when they were up by 14 and then the bills score at that point you knew they were going to lose it did feel like it was i thought they were going to lose when the drake london end of the half touchdown didn't count and that was 21 7 and it stayed that way and then they came out and scored in the first possession i thought that was the point where the borgon was boots on the ground yeah kyle was at the game and he said thousand percent thought they were going to lose yeah you felt like you needed that touchdown but obviously he also said it was at least

least 60% Bill's fans in Atlanta. What's going on down there, Atlanta? I'm also fairly certain that, Shirton? Shirton. I'm fairly shirton. I'm pretty certain that they only needed like two offensive players and

everyone else could have sat down. I mean, Drake London 10 for 158 and a touchdown and then one that he almost scored. And then Bejohn was, every time you see Bejohn run the football, you're like, I got, I got to start fanning myself. It's like Arthur Smith thought you. I thought you should take him off the field. Like, what are you, like, really, really, you should examine that person's head.

And that's not disrespectful to Tyler Alger, who had a 21-yard touchdown run in this game. It's just the differential is so massive. Like, Bejohn is the best change direction player in the game, an amazing receiver, a breakaway touchdown candidate, longest touchdown of the year yesterday, 81 yards. How do you? The backup to Bayesian. Barry Sanders might have been very good at football. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. You don't take Barry Sanders. Like, Bejon is a game breaker every time he touches the ball. Your offense is, if you have him on your roster, your offense is guaranteed worse every time he's not on the field. Yeah, it's wild. And I understand needing a breather or theater there, whatever. But it's like the split last year, the fantasy community being irate about it. You know, there's all these things we want to see happen. Trayvion Henderson. We want to see that happen.

We might be wrong about some of those, right, compared to the team, which, by the way, funny comment on that situation that we can talk about in a minute. But this situation was just like all the fans of people are right. You know what I mean? Like, you've got to have them out there. He was awesome. Also, Drake London. Wide receiver usage. Let me check here. Drake London. No, there was no one else. Zero. The only wide receiver to catch a pass yesterday was Drake London. Yeah, Kyle Pitts didn't even do anything, really.

It was three catches for Kyle Pitts, six for Bejohn. He had the one where he kind of just fell down. 10 for. So he did do that. 10 for Drake London. Yeah. Kyle Pitts, not a dog? No, no, he's not a dog. You don't have to be a dog to be good, but he's not a dog.

Yeah, I mean, the receiving work, the receiving game is, it's Drake London, but it's also Bejohn. Bejohn's on pace for 1150. receiving yards, which is great for a wide receiver. And I would say we also, you've got to take the Atlanta Falcons defense serious. Yes, it's great. When your players are going up against Atlanta, that has to factor into your decision-making. Yeah, this was a wild game. The great Josh Allen.

Terrible day. Yeah, in a four-point scoring format, he was at 15 points. He did not get to 200 yards. he did throw two interceptions. Well, and you're starting to finally look at that receiver room and go, okay. Especially when Palmer got her. Yeah, Palmer hip-drop tackle, by the way. And the hip-drop is happening and they just make sure they don't call the flag on it ever.

Well, but, you know, taunting. We got that under control. Do you stare at that guy? Yeah. Do you look him down? Think about the kids. No Dalton Kincaid. Yeah, no Dalton Kincaid.

Palmer was, I think Dalton Kincaid was a big deal for this team. He seems like they're kind of primary receiving option so far this season. They could have used Keem on Coleman. They really should. Keem on Coleman. Sir, can we check what's an Andy's cup? What is going? Oh, man.

Probably needs more coffee. Apparently. Less vodka. I see clear liquid. That's all I know. I can't smell it from here, but a cup full of clear liquid. Come on, Coleman. Come on Coleman.

Yeah, no, okay, there we go. full cut at this point. Cut some Coleman. Yeah, you probably don't need him there. You just can't rely on him. There are a million players that could catch a touchdown every week. He is just a player that could catch a touchdown at this point. It sucks. I thought that we'd see a lot better than that. And, you know, at the beginning of the season, it really... Almoreland sending me a breathalyzer test on Amazon. It really seemed like, you know, after that week one, well, when you play against Baltimore Ravens and you're down and you're needing to score 40 points, Kion and Coleman one's going to be great, but the bills have a good defense, and they've got a good run game,

and so you just don't need them all the time. Well, you know, they really needed them in this game. They were down. They needed a score. He didn't step up. Yeah. And then James Cook was pretty good on the ground, but didn't score. Yeah. And didn't catch any passes, I don't think. So, yeah, not the best day. And then, I mean, I think both of these games are upsets because commanders were at home. They seemed like they had control of this game. And then they committed the fumble. I mean, they committed multiple turnovers. I mean, you had... Three turnovers to none. You're going to lose that game. Yeah, and

they did. Even to the Bears, who try to find ways to lose games sometimes. So it was 25, 24, credit to them. DeAndre Swift was insane. I mean, we've been talking about it for weeks. I'd be like, do you play DeAndre Swift? Yeah, I guess. And he was awesome

in this game and look to, at least to my eyeballs, I was like, they're doing different things. It's not just D'Andre Swift going up the middle. It was like a lot of really wide pitches to the outside. You're like, oh, hey, look, uses speed. The guy who doesn't have vision, just let him be fast and get to the edge.

He's always been athletic. And it worked really, really well. And get him the ball in the receiving game. He was incredible. There were, you know, this offensive line is just so much better for Chicago. Like the sacks, like Caleb took three. Okay, you can live with that. Not leading the league in sacks.

changes the way he makes decisions. So the Russian game was amazing. The passing game sucked. The Roma Dunes, it was two for 32 in this game. But that's because Luther Burden had four receptions. Swift had two. DJ Moore had three. Rome had two.

Zakias had two. Loveland had two. You're saying it sucked for fantasy. Yes. I thought Kayla played pretty well and I didn't really have any problems with it. It was a rainy game as well. also, you know, but I don't want them to spread the ball around. Don't go to the open guy.

Force it to your stars, okay? Yeah, and look at Drake London. There was a, what happened with DJ Moore? Because he was in. I don't know. He was in D.C. and stayed in D.C. And there was also a note that in a hospital. He left in an ambulance.

There was a report. I saw Underdog tweeted it out. Precautionary medical attention after leaving the game in an ambulance. He played 94% of the snaps. And well, he had the, there was a hit, whereas it looked like he hurt his leg, but I don't understand why he would go to a hospital overnight for that.

That's usually like some sort of internal injury. So huge credit to the Bears, big victory. They're now three and two, above 500. Jaden Daniels had a good fantasy day with three touchdowns through the interception. Here's the double-edged J-CM, Bill Kroski situation. I have no jokes.

No one else really got any. any work. 17 carries. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. 17 for 61, had the fumble. Chris Rodriguez deleted. No carries.

Jeremy McNichols had two. So it was all JCM. So that part was good. But the production, you're supposed to be able to run on Chicago. He didn't. At home.

Debo, who played through a heel injury, awful. Four for 15. It was a heel for your fantasy team. Yeah. And then, I mean, Chris Moore, three catches in the touchdown. Zach Ertz,

six for 43 in the touchdown. McCaffrey had a Touchdown? Yeah, and so it's been without Terry McLaren. That was that was a... The play you're saying? The Luke McCaffrey design. Oh, because there's no one around it? Yeah, they fooled the bears on that one. So you were pretty disappointed in

everybody unless you played Zach Earts or Jaden Daniels, I think. All right, let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league presented by progressive insurance. Well, the Titans fired Brian Callahan, which if you've ever seen Brian Callahan in a press conference was probably

sweet relief for that man. Yeah. It has been misery. And the only thing... He's off to the Bahamas. Yeah, I take a break, brother. And I don't think he was a good coach for that. No, he was in over his head.

I actually think, you know, you went through Will Levis. Cam Ward is playing worse than Will Levis. You're supposed to be the offensive mastermind. Didn't really do any quarterback whispering there. Lots of problems that were outside of your control. but man if you're going to do this just do it before the season and get the guy like a stable new head coach

i think they thought that this was the right guy for the quarterback that the quarterback was the issue last year and they found out it wasn't and they knew he was not that dude there was a quote going around and and i i i can't verify a hundred percent its authenticity it was like a reddit post what are we doing here no start what are we doing it really i it really i it really it really really did seem like it was true. It is better to have loved and lost. No, but it was, it was the ownership talking about, basically, I'm not going to lose to Mike

with this head coach next week. And they play the Patriots where Mike Vrable just left. And they, I think they were done with Callahan and they're like. But they are going to lose. But not with Callahan. Oh, okay. Just worse. Yeah, maybe. Maybe.

The last four number one picks have had their head coaches fired during the rookie campaigns. It's a good reminder that just having a new quarterback does not fix all that ills you and got you the number one pick to begin with. It's almost like the team drafting with the 101 is Pat. You saw who the interim head coach is for the Tennessee Titans. Is McCoy, right? Mike

McCoy. Oh, gosh. Good luck. Okay. I will say, look, there's a big post-firing bump usually for the interim coach. Since 2020, the teams are 10 and 4. versus the spread. Yeah. DJ Moore, we talked about that injury. Pete Carroll says it might be best for the long haul to keep Brock Bowers out.

Yeah, and they've got a week eight by. So I do not expect. I mean, if the head coach is saying this and then you get two weeks for one week missed, I can't imagine he plays. Injuries, you can't control them, but definitely 100% the first three tight ends off the board this year were bad picks. I mean, McBride looks great. He's been okay this year. But relative to the cost of what you spent on him, I don't think.

think he was worth that is all I'm saying yeah maybe he I mean he was the titan one this week he's been uh in three of six weeks so you have titan five six and then he's actually two is what I'm seeing but in a in a very anecdotal yet funny uh turn of events it feels like in our chopped league whoever has Brock Powers oh yeah oh yeah so Brock Bowers has been that team's been chopped three times yeah he is the ring where you pick up Brock Bowers and then go seven days And he's going to be sitting up there and he's like... And someone's going to bid hard on him. Yeah. Not me. Not me.

That's crazy. Don't. Yeah, Brock Bowers... Don't do it. Well, I mean, just... He's going to go for $2. Brock Bowers and Kittles injuries. And then you just had to spend such a high pick on McBride as all my point is. Speaking of Kittle. Shanahan's hoping to get Kittle back at practice this week. He could return to play this week, but it'll be soon. They need him. They do. Garrett Wilson's going to miss a couple weeks with an MRI showing an hyper-extended knee. So Garrett Wilson, Ibuka, Puka, all dealing with injuries. We'll get more updates. We don't have more updates yet.

The Garrett Wilson one is, I mean, it's double devastation because it's like I would have been very happy to just to go right back to Justin Fields next week with a healthy Garrett Wilson. But if he is not out there, I don't think it's going to save you. I don't think I will do that. save you from that possible mistake. Wasn't it, who do they play since? No, Carolina. Yeah, like the matchup is fine, but who do they throw the ball to? Josh Reynolds and Mason Taylor. Rico Dowdell, when asked, Dave Canales was asked about whether he'd earned the right to be the starter. He said, we'll see.

Yeah, which is, I mean, to me that. You have to say it when you have a guy like Chuba who you gave all that money to. Oh, no, that's not what you have to say. Oh, you think you just go You could come out and say James Connor is our starter It doesn't matter if Trey Benson played well That's what you can say

Chuba Hubbard is our starter Moving forward You would never come out and say We'll see as good for doubtle Yeah, I'm still of the mindset Our guy, me and Jason's guy Rico Dought dude Rico!

Yeah, woo, Rico bros I'm still of the mindset that Rico and Chuba will split Like it'll be 50-50 That's my big worry I think the hope at this point has to be that RICO just takes over the role. Yeah, for if you're looking at fantasy purposes, it's, it's difficult. He's still worth rostering and possibly flustering.

It's difficult because RICO is the big bruising back that, I mean, they even said it on the, the broadcast, be like, this is the type of running back that over the course of the game wears you out and you get to the fourth quarter and you're just like, oh, go ahead, man, I can't get hit again. So if you go into the split with him, it might not be as effective. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm getting at. That was News and Note, sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at

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Texans and Vikings coming back from the buy. Bills and Ravens, trying to get healthy. They'll get the bye week at a time they both really need it. The bill's defense in shambles. And so many injured players And the Ravens hoping they were only in shambles like the Bill's defense. Yeah. I mean the Ravens defense is beat up. Lamar Jackson should be back. We will have a humongous week eight by situation. So it's worth mentioning, keep that in view.

Yeah. If you are, if you avoided major injury and you're just like, I don't need anybody on the way of where. You're wrong because next week the Cardinals, Jags, Lions, Raiders, Rams and Seahawks and week eight are all going to be out. And so, plan ahead. Yeah, even if you don't pay fab. Even if it is simple as looking at next week's defensive matchups and just saying, oh, okay, I'm going to lose. There will be so much competition on the waiver wire next week because everyone's going to need people.

Just grab them a week early. Yeah, and even if you don't grab them, like, compete for them immediately, check who was dropped and look on Sunday morning. You can make your plans for next week on Sunday morning too. But let's start at the running back position. Get that hair, silky smooth. Kamani Vidal Sass soon is certainly the leader in the clubhouse here. Silky smooth. So

it was an impressive 18 for 124. We got word. I don't know if we talked about it on the show yet that Amarine Hampton is likely to be gone longer than the four weeks. But that's an official report that that injury is more significant. And so there's some runway here.

The amount of rumored trade interest that the chargers have had, and it was more leading into this week than, you know, maybe what they saw from Vidal Sassoon was good enough to say, hey, maybe we're okay here and we don't need to trade for someone, but they were rumored for a bunch of different people, Camara or Breece Hall or whoever, and I think when you hear the report that Omarian, his injury is longer than four weeks mixed with that, with those rumors, it's like, oh, this maybe, maybe it takes Omarian, you know, a big chunk of the season before he comes back. Did you see the Breece Hall? Yeah.

He said free 20. Free 20. Brise Hall is a... Social media. We are so back. It's interesting because I... If you're the Jets, it makes no sense to keep him. Like, even if you trade him, like, they say their value is probably a fifth round...

And that's why they won't trade him. Oh, that's true. Like, it made no sense to fake a punt and then not run a play. I mean, what? You think I'm drunk. Peyton talking about that play was incredible. It was like, it's Manning? No, did Sean Payton,

talk about the fake pawn. Oh, okay. He's like, he's like, my wife knew that that was going to happen. Oh, okay. The fake punt is like, Breece Hall's on, why is Breece Hall on the field? Why is the full offensive line on the field? But then they got it. Yeah, I know they got it. And then they don't run the play. Yeah. They don't run a play. They let the clock run out. That team is broken. Yeah. But back to running. They should, they should just get whatever. Well, you would get a fifth. Yeah. So that's what the market value rumor is. Does Brees Hall sign a big enough contract at the end of the year to work for your compensatory picks? That's the equation.

That's actually a really valid thought. He could sign and be like worth a third in your formula. The Vidal fab spin, based on what we're talking about, there is, I mean, there's a chance they trade for somebody. Certainly, Vidal was barely on the roster bubble playing well now. They probably feel much better, but I feel like I'm 25 to 35%. It was a great week, but we've seen this before where, you know, you have a backup come and look great. And then it turns out that it's, you know, Woody Marks.

Yeah, exactly. Woody Marks, even Bill Kroski, who still got the workload, but just was more disappointing. I don't feel like Vidal is some guaranteed solution for the next five or six weeks. He's a possible solution for the next five or six weeks. I agree with that that if Vidal will get the first shot, you have to give it to him after 18 for 124. But they could just, it could be hot hand. Like the report of it being Haskins, being the featured guy,

it was wrong because it was Vidal like right away getting the opportunities. But if Haskins comes out and gets the hot hand, I think he will get the work. I don't think they're really committed to one guy or the other. What's the next name on your list outside of the, big pickup of Vidal. It's not great, but it

is Bam Knight from Arizona. Andy, you mentioned on the show, you're like, you thought Bam got hurt, but it was Demarcata who got hurt for the Arizona Cardinals. We don't currently have an update on that injury, but if it's Michael Carter and Bam Knight,

it's at least consolidated. Who's the starter? I don't know. But if it's those two guys, they'll just split the work. And Bam Knight now has scored. in back-to-back weeks. The matchup is not great. It's Green Bay and then a buy week. The snap count for Michael Carter went from 58 to 44.

Yeah, if you are needing a start, the only guys out there that I think you could pick up off of waivers and start Bam Knight and maybe Sean Tucker, who got a little bit more work as the backup this last week, got the touchdown. They're playing Detroit. Yeah, I mean, neither one's a great matchup. I guess Green Bay is probably an easier to run on.

team than Detroit. Both are tough. Taji Spears was five for 31 and four targets, four for 19. I mean, Tony Pollard. I actually think he's a pretty good app. Tony Pollard's workload went down. The team is in shambles. They have Mike McCoy now as their head coach. This was the, you remember he was the RB 5, 12, and 13 to end last year? Oh yeah. Yeah, when he did the exact same thing. He started the year hurt, scrambled for snaps, and then all of a sudden, obviously the injury to Pollard. But he is, he would have juice if, if Pollard went down and he could be a flex emergency play right now. Yeah, I think so. There's also the reminders that, you know, like March on Lloyd, if you're the Josh Jacobs manager in particular, he's eligible to return week six. He looked

good in the preseason, back up for Green Bay. It would be worth a glance. And then Aaron Jones is coming back potentially week eight for the Vikings. Do you, Do you guys make anything of... And Jaden Blue. Yeah, oh, yeah. Jaden Blue should be stashed. The Pittsburgh Steelers, like Jalen Warren was in his first week back. But he, you know, it was, he pretty much split with Kenneth Gainwell, who had six for 22.

He also had six targets. Do you feel like that was just the one week that Warren is ramping back up to his workload? Probably to the point where like... Or, but I mean, Gainwell had that huge game. so is it the Steelers feel more comfortable playing both guys now? I think they feel completely comfortable. I just think that if this was the acclamation game, even if Warren snaps go up just a little bit,

this is not enough work to make you excited about Kenneth Gainwell. Yeah, for sure. I mean, this is Warren's team. And honestly, it could go the other direction, too. I know Caleb Johnson's done nothing, but he had the same amount of workload that Kenny Gainwell had that. Yeah, it was really all three of them were playing. I think this was just...

Caleb was playing, huh? Yeah, he was. So I think this is, I mean, Jalen Warren's team, and he is so doggone good. He's a dog. That play where he chips Miles Garrett, like, pushes him almost off of his feet, and then circles back around as Garrett gets after Aaron Rogers and they're scrambling. And then he becomes the outlet and catches the ball for a first time. It's just awesome. Mike, did you catch the comment?

from Mike Tomlin about Joe Flacco? I don't think I did. So Jason and I watched this clip of Mike Tomlin in a press conference and it was one of those clips where I was like, this has to be AI. You know, because you're just like, you know, people do the press conference clips

and they change the lips and I'm like, I'm like, Mike Tomlin doesn't say a lot. I'm like, there's just no way. He was like, he was very, very vocal about how ridiculous he found it that Cincinnati, or rather Cleveland, would trade a guy they thought would be

their number one starter to a division rival in the middle of the season. Yeah, he's like their GM must be a lot smarter than me. Is he doing the thing where we get big mad? Oh, he got. Our friends when they're like, you traded in fantasy football, you traded to my opponent.

That's exactly what he's doing. I was so mad at Andy when he traded Bam and Debo this last week and it was like, what are he doing? Helping this guy to be better. To my division opponent? Yeah. And they play this week, right? I think that's, is that the Steelers play the Bengals?

Yeah, Steelers' Bengals. So now it's like they were going to play a weakness, and now there's less weaker quarterback there. Yeah. You guys want to turn the page to wide receiver? Yeah. Not too much. Well, look, Kendrick Bourne keeps getting it done.

Five for 142, 100 plus yard games back to back, 50% rostered. Also seeing more involvement from Josh Downs in the Indianapolis offense. are six or 42 got into the end zone finally and then you have the kind of take advantage of an opportunity situations in Tampa Bay and the Rams and then the Kashan booty resurgence so those are some of the top names in situations but I'd love to break those two injury situations down yeah the other name I would throw out there just into that same tier talking about all those guys the opportunities for a weekly start is Jordan Whittington for the Rams they've got a lot of injuries with Puka, 2-2 Atwell is, he missed the game last week with the hamstring

injury. I think he's going to be good to go. Maybe he's back, but we did see him step up in the past, and we know that Matthew Stafford, you know, will crown someone. Yeah, so that's your answer for the Puka situation then, is Whittington? Mike, what about the situation in Tampa Bay where, you know, Tess Johnson had the big touchdown catch. Cameron Johnson had a big touchdown catch. Stirling

Shepard is normally going to be more of a possession type of guy, but he's had opportunities and I've been bummed to play him. Yeah, I understand that he's not going to be, none of these players are other than, I mean, Kendrick Bourne feels like he's

you can play him until you know, like Pierce Hall and George Kittle and everybody's back. I of the Tampa Bay guys, I lean towards Sterling Shepard. They are hopeful that Mike Evans will practice this week and I feel like if Mike Evans is back then it will be Evans Sterling Shepard and then Tess Johnson will get like slot snaps and those those types of things. Is Kayshan Booty a mirage in the desert where as soon as you get

close enough to him? It's the Keon Coleman of week one of I mean he's done it a few times. Yeah week well week one he had the eight targets six for 103 and then this week is he caught all five of his targets and had deep shots. It was a it's a 21% target share. That's his highest of the season. That's not would you play him this week against Tennessee. Jason's looking like a guy who would. I don't think I would. I've been rostering Booty most of the year. Would you play Tess Johnson?

I would. I would you play Booty over Tudy. I would play Taz. Tess to me is like when we're talking about the wide receiver core for the Buccaneers, the two Johnson and, you know, guys there, Tess and Cameron, that's who I'm interested in. They are younger, they've got juice. The Sterling Shepard, he might have more targets, but I don't think for fantasy value,

it's going to be very worthwhile. I'm going to take the shot on MVP Baker Mayfield doing something special down the field. And so I would order them, Tess Johnson, Cameron Johnson, Sterling Shepard personally. All right. Other names to throw onto the wrong. roster for spot-start situations. Romeo Dobbs against Arizona would be something you could look at.

Always. Romeo Dobbs always a spot-start. He's always able to be spot-started because he's always on the waiver wire. Luther Burden had the four targets, four-fifty-one. Luther Burden needs to be paid attention to. Especially with DJ Moore. If DJ Moore is hurt and it was after the bye week and both Burden and Loveland were getting more opportunities. Now it's not necessarily enough of a route share that you're really excited, but Luther Burden is, I mean, he led the team in receptions. Chicago with Zakias, man. Just get burden on the field. Zichias is just, he's like Kendrick Bourne. He's one of those dudes where if he plays, he's just always kind of like, yeah, he, quarterback's like him. He's not bad. But he's in the

way of other people. Yeah, it's just Luther Burden is, I think Luther Burden is a special player. And once he is fully acclimated, he's going to be good. One reminder, like, Jaden Reed's eligible to return in week. Like Jayne Reed? Yes, Jaydade of the Packer. He's eligible, but he's not going to be back. He had the foot surgery, too. He did.

He had that and the collarbone injury, but that is his eligibility date. Tailman's Week 10. Christian Watson's designated to return right now, and so is Jalen Coker. Yeah, Christian Watson, the buzz on him was positive for him to be back sooner than later, which... Well, they opened his window last week. Probably just makes things more... So it either has to be this week or next week. Better for Jordan Love.

Yes. Yeah, I agree. And then I brought up talking about Jordan Whittington. who I think is a fine play if Tutu is gone. If Tutu is back, in his own right, Tutu, we've seen some big games from him. So, you know, you've still got Devante Adams there, which I think is good for the other player here,

the secondary guy to go and have space and room to do some work. I forgot the drop candidates at the running back, so I'll give you those with the wide receivers, but like people want to drop Joe Mixen who they need the IR spot, which I get it. I have leagues where my I are spot is too full. That's fine. RJ Harvey, they want to drop RJ Harvey.

I wouldn't do it either. It's, um, he's a tough player right now. Because you can't play him. Right. Yes. So, I agree with that. And then you're going into Super Buy next week. These guys will become even more of an issue next week.

Like if you go another week of four points for Harvey, four points for Henderson, four points for these guys that you're holding and stashing and hoping for, they will become a big issue next week with the injuries. mixed with the bye weeks. I have leagues like that this week where I'm like, I'm going to cut Aaron Jones in a league. Wow. I don't have a choice. I've got the, the IR spots are filled up with, you know, it's going to be filled up with

the Buka and Puka. Right. I have biweek players and then I've got other injuries. It's like, what do I do? I mean, he's not helping me now. I don't know what else I can do. You've got to start a player. Yeah.

Yeah. So, and then cut candidates, Joanne Jennings, Keon Coleman, Jacobi Myers. I would not cut Juan. Like, once he's... Says he's playing with five broken ribs and a bunch of other injuries. Oh, yeah, he did say that. I don't know if those were Mac Jones style. Yeah, he's been around Mac Jones too long.

Mac Jones would be like, I'm playing with seven broken ribs. But Keon Coleman and Jacob Myers, I think you can say goodbye. Dude, Jacob is just such a disappointment. Like, what is... What happened? I mean, week one, it looked good, but they are clearly moving on. I mean, Jack Bash getting snaps over Dante Thornton, and then really it comes down to a horrible quarterback.

Yeah, Gino just is... Gino is the problem. So also, Calvin Ridley and Taekwon Thornton are dropped candidates. Ridley's hurt and hasn't been productive. I do think you could cut him. I don't know if, like, waiting for him to come back is the best thing for your team. Yeah, he's an okay to cut, and Thornton is, unfortunately.

Unfortunately, thank you for your service. Rishie Rice will be back. And Thornton will have huge plays here or there, but you... Just like Justin Watson used to. Yep. And that'll be all he's worth, right? And just go ahead and take him out of my lineup here. Let's go ahead and put in Superstar.

Is this the Dino Squad? Let's go Isaiah Bond. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that team's so good. Tight ends. Harold Fanner Jr. set up to, I think, do tons of work over the rest of the season.

Nijoku was hurt. Phantom was already a PPR guy. I don't feel like he's getting enough attention, or maybe you guys aren't as excited as I am. No, I am very much. I think he's going to. I am every bit as excited. I think rest of season is a stretch for me because Nijoku and him are really truly, the

tight end position is being used so much in Cleveland. It's delicious, but they are splitting it. and so it's like I don't it's not enough it's it's not satiating um if nijoku is more protein if nijoku all food analogies please missing any game harold fanning is an absolute must start in every single one of those i mean you can start him with nojoku but i do think if if nijoku you know misses a week or two comes back and you know rest of season harold fanning it'll be a little bit I agree with all of those things. He could be making the takeover, though, too. The concern for me would be how much they actually threw the ball last week in 10 targets

is awesome. But Dylan Gabriel threw the ball 52 times. They will be playing the Miami Dolphins. I expect a big bounce back for Quinn Sean Judkins. I do, but it is important to know that Dylan Gabriel is not throwing the ball downfield at all. I'm saying I agree, but 10 targets seems like probably we won't see that again. Yeah, I like Fanon. There are some options this week at tight-in. Kate Otton, you know, there's players to take advantage of other injuries. Kate Otton is really, like if I had to flex,

Tess Johnson or Shepard or Cameron Johnson or Otten, I would flex Otton. Yeah, that would be the pick of the four. I do agree with that. And then Mason Taylor, I throw last week out for everybody. They threw the ball for 43 total passing yards. He's the number one. He's the number one. target like mason taylor is their actual number one so um good luck i mean yeah and you mentioned it

it's carolina like and then cincinnati like you talk about 10 target potential like i think that's actually in the realm of possibilities mason taylor is my he's my number one tight end pickup i have to whisper it number one tight end pickup yeah you don't like the um the fact that people might think you're a cat lover yeah i that's why i whispered it uh huh that's why Jason just said it but you do have other other potential names to mention if you get another week of

Michael Mayer in Las Vegas that's a spot start situation without Bowers and don't don't miss what Arande Gadsden is doing in Los Angeles especially if Quentin Johnston remains injured well

Keenan Allen has slowed down Quentin Johnston was out and this is not a you know some veteran just taking advantage of a random opportunity this is a talented rookie tight end who ended up seven for 68 so you could do worse for sure yep and there's a chance tyler higby gets some work done yeah with the injury about the rams with the injury to puka as well and taysam hill can always get a touch oh chasem hill uh people want to drop john

johnson mike yep i with with tasum and then uh what is foster morose back is that right Yeah, taste them in. Yeah, so it's too diluted, unfortunately. His snaps dropped from, he'd been in the 90s. He'd dropped down to 71% and his target shares. Yeah, we'd love the utilization. And then that is now gone. Top five defenses to pick up?

The Browns. Yeah, of readily available ones, the Cleveland Browns is my top. I mean, the Browns are a great defense and Tua can make mistakes and exit the game. made mistakes. Or it is too are going to, after his little tirade at the press conference, is he going to get a water boy treatment

where the, the offensive lines just like, hey, let him through. Let him through. I don't think so. Probably not. No, I know. They won't do that. But it's a great play. Yeah. Cleveland, Washington plays Dallas. I don't want that. It's

the pickups this week are difficult because of the roster percentage. The Seahawks have been pretty good. um the patriots are mostly rostered but anytime you're playing against tennessee and uh mike you talked about a couple weeks ago pick them up for this stretch run of of a number of games um yeah i would say those are the main pickups i couldn't i yeah yeah i'm sorry i accidentally mentioned the commander's name well they're in dallas that is a horrific matchup situation there is just there the roster percentages are very difficult now yeah and obviously

pittsburgh if they're out there they play cincinnati it's a great start as well And you can see all of the rankings, including all of the defenses. And, yeah, Falcons, the Falcons playing a beat-up San Francisco team, then Miami, then New England, the way they're rushing the pastor, that's worth it. I would also throw the Jaguars out there. The Jaguars defense has been really, really good for fantasy this season. They are getting a ton of sacks, and without Puka, they play the Rams. So they might be able to cause some mayhem.

If the international games continue to be hot fart fest on offense, then the Jags might be all right. That was this week's WaverWire presented by Walmart. Who knew you could get what you need in as fast as an hour? Get free delivery on your first express delivery order with the code express. Valid for first express delivery order, $50 minimum subject to availability restrictions apply. Taking a break. And then it's quarterback time. Full stream ahead

All right I'm going to let you guys go first because I like your picks more Mine is the lowest on the totem pole But I'm going to I want to mention it Yeah I know I like it So Jason why don't you go ahead And share your streaming quarterback option

For week number, what is it? Seven week seven I'm going to go with Sam Darnold Who has he's just looked really good I can't believe he's only 50% roster. He has been a top 12 quarterback in three of his last four games. Here's a cool staff from Dane Bruegler. Most completions of 20 plus yards in the NFL since the start of the 2024 season.

You have Baker Mayfield at 82. But ahead of him in number one, Sam Darnold, 86. Seattle's averaging 28 points per game. They're tied with Indy number one in yards per play. JSN is legit. So Sam Donald, I know that the Houston, Texas, have a very good defense. But the organization of the Seahawks

look like they are being well run. The Cube's system is working. J.S.N. and Donald are in sync. So what we're saying is Dynasty, the long game. Bryce Young, his next team? Because you're saying when Sam Donald on the Baker-Mayfield, they had to go power up in Carolina. They are the exception.

see all the other players ever in history. I will say for Dynasty, I brought this up last week on the Dynasty show since we were just talking about Sam Darnold. I think he is a very good buy candidate because he's still viewed as this short-term solution and he's 30 years old. He's going to be their quarterback for their. He will. He absolutely disagrees. No, I don't agree with that. He will be their starting quarterback for the next three years.

Why isn't he the Minnesota starting quarterback? right because they went 14 and two yep or three or whatever because they had drafted j jay mccarthy is jay mccarthy is the only reason that darnald was yeah and who did they draft in seattle are you talking about jalen milrow they drafted a play if they believe in jailin milro they took him in the first no they didn't take him in the second right i'm just saying this idea oh no he wasn't a second listen to me listen to me the idea that sam darnold having a good regular season secures him for long term is insanity. All you need is a bad playoff game from Sam Darnold for them to be done.

I'm not kidding. That's what they will do with a player like that. If he goes out and throws four picks in a postseason game that he has for this team, there's no guarantee that he's a long-term solution. I don't think that your contention is incorrect. That could be an angle that works out with Sam Darnold, but we literally just saw this template. If you go 14 and 2 and you play that well for that team, it wasn't just the record,

they played that well for that team and they didn't give him a long-term contract, because they were ready to move on and he didn't play good in the playoffs. That was what it was. I agree that he didn't play well in the playoffs and they were willing to move on, but you can't discount the fact that they, I mean, they drafted a guy at number 10. They had their future. Yeah.

Like the 10th pick in the draft was the quarterback behind him. I get it. But if he plays good in the playoffs, he's their quarterback this year. That's what would have happened with Minnesota. There's no way they move on from him. None. I think both of those things can be true. So, I mean, I just think Donald, it sucks because he's,

been amazing in the regular season the past couple years. It's just a fickle sport and a fickle situation. We went into the season thinking Melroke could be the starter next year. I guess that's what you just... Once upon a time, we went into the season thinking Kyle Trask was going to be the starter over Baker-Mafel. Well, no, we, but...

You did. Well, we, as in plenty of 50% of people. Okay. 50% for Trask? Yeah, I don't think so. Maybe. Maybe. What are you you talking? You don't remember how it was? It was. It It was, we don't, at that time, what's cops to ask up to these days? Oh, I, Walmart. Yeah. Is he working there?

Yeah, I, I, uh, you know, six weeks into the year. It, it, I don't mind going out and buying him if you believe in it. He's been an excellent quarterback and he's got an excellent, I mean, look, when you give him Justin Jefferson, he's amazing. J.S.N is on that level. Jason's performance on the outside and on deep plays, you just talked about all the deep throws for Darnold. Is his completion percentage on deep passes is outrageous. just right now. Oh, my, streamer, back to what we were doing. Look, hold on,

hold on, because you can't do this with good conscience. Steel underpants. It's Aaron Rogers. Against Cincinnati, Cincinnati is 29th in yards per play allowed. Rogers has been

capable, and if D.K. Metcalf can continue his streak of touchdowns, which we're at four straight games. If we can just get to two of them. If we get to two touchdowns with the Rogers against the Cincinnati Bengals, which seems very possible, the 252, then you're going to be in a decent spot. So I think that he is playable.

It's pretty gross. Well, the other side of that, it was my dart throw that I think might work out in the exact same capacity as Joe Flacco. I just think in particular, this is a team that struggles against the quarterback position that give up a ton of fantasy points. So the third worst in the league, he's going to have to throw the ball a million times,

and he has the best wide receiver in football. So you kind of end up in a situation where I feel like two touchdowns is really reasonable this week for Joe Flacco and a ton of passing attempts. The running game is going to be struggling, I think. Chase Brown struggled all year long. And so I think desperation beneath those other candidates, it's Joe Flacco is actually a potential start. And obviously if, you know, if Jackson Darts

out there somehow, you know, that's a great pickup because of the rushing. Yeah, for long term. But it's Denver. Against Denver is scary. I know he got it done against Philly, but I don't blame people for trying, but I would be a little nervous about it. Yeah, I would be as well. I mean, you look at the week prior against the New Orleans Saints. Yeah. He still ran for. 55 yards But he was, you know, the quarterback 16 at 15 fantasy points. It's not a guarantee in the Broncos defense.

You would play awesome. Rogers over Jackson Dart this week? Because if I had, I'd play Darnold over him of our group of three streamers, but the other two I'd play Jackson Dart over. Yeah, man. The rushing upside. Jackson Dart has that, that, you know,

Rogers, he has to get that second touchdown. Has to. Right. because he's not going to run. So I'd probably play Dart. Who's better rest of the season? Jackson Dart, fantasy-wise, or Bo-Nix fantasy-wise? Because Bo-Nix, Justin Fields, are the top two drop candidates at quarterback.

I still think it'll be Bo-Nix. Both of these guys are more in the streaming candidates. Both are running. Dart will run more, but the weapons that Dart has to throw the ball to, they're just not as good. I think that Cortland Sutton and the Hodgepodge. So you would take Bo Nix? I would take Bo Nix. Mike, what would you do?

If you can make that trade in our league right now, would you trade Bo Nix for Jackson Dard? I would have to, that's going to be a schedule thing, which I don't have it in front of me. Right now I lean Bo Nix, but that one, it is a, it's a fair and tough question. We've got tons of mailbag tomorrow, the Thursday night preview backup options. It should be a very, very good show. Thursday starts of the week, matchup previews, and we also have the footcast that afternoon for Join the foot.com supporters. And then on Friday, the matchup previews will continue.

We got Fancy Faceoff. My very deserved wheel of shame is on the way. And I need it. Like the people that whip themselves in the back. I need that. The flagellation, what is that? Yeah, that's too frightening of a word for me. Sounds farty, though.

Yeah. But that's flatulation. Yeah. No, I need to pay some penance for how bad. Yeah, I know, I just, I had that after my. Russ. Oh, yeah, you're like, just bring it on. I don't care. Yeah, the wheel of embraced shame is what we call it. So that'll do it. Didn't think flagellation would come up, but it did. Sometimes you got to use the word of the calendar.

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