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Week 4 Waiver Wire: MUST ADD Players, Injury Replacements & Streamers (09/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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1 hr 19 min
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Sep 29, 2026
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Tue, September 29, 2026
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Braelon AllenColston LovelandDarren WallerJaylen WrightKeaton MitchellKeenan AllenRome OdunzeZach CharbonnetAdonai MitchellAlvin KamaraAustin EkelerBaker MayfieldBreece HallCase Keenum
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Player insights
Adonai Mitchell
PositiveUsage42:30
Adonai Mitchell is a viable flex option if healthy, evidenced by his 12-target performance in week two.
Insight pageAlvin Kamara
NegativeBust12:27
Alvin Kamara is viewed negatively by the source, who notes he 'looks terrible' and struggles to break tackles, despite his potential for pass-catching volume in the Saints' offense.
Insight pageAustin Ekeler
NegativeDepth Chart58:56
The Commanders signed Austin Ekeler, though the source does not expect significant fantasy production, noting it may be a negative sign for other Commanders running backs.
Insight pageBaker Mayfield
NegativeInjury57:11
Baker Mayfield is expected to miss approximately three games due to a dislocated thumb.
Insight pageBraelon Allen
PositiveSleeper5:12
Braylon Allen is the top waiver wire add among running backs due to his potential for a featured role while Breece Hall is out. The source highlights his favorable upcoming schedule against Chicago and Cleveland, and notes that he is the most likely of the injury replacements to provide 11 PPR points per game.
Insight pagePositiveValue35:29
The source ranks Braylon Allen as the top waiver wire priority for the week, recommending a FAAB bid of 15-20% to secure him as a rosterable asset.
Insight pagePositiveValue65:04
The source prefers Braylon Allen over the current Packers running back options, suggesting he is a better stash candidate.
Insight pageBreece Hall
NegativeInjury8:21
Breece Hall is dealing with a week-to-week injury, and the source notes that his recent production has been poor, with the Jets' run game struggling over the last two weeks.
Insight pageCase Keenum
PositiveProjection63:19
The source expresses more confidence in Case Keenum than in Tyson Bagent as the Bears' quarterback, noting that Keenum's performance warrants keeping him as the starter.
Insight pageColston Loveland
NegativeBust59:47
Colston Loveland has been a disappointment over the last three weeks, and fantasy managers should no longer start him with confidence.
Insight pagePositiveUsage60:00
The source suggests putting Loveland on the back burner or cutting him in 10-team leagues, as his performance over three weeks has been disappointing and he is losing target share to other emerging options in the Bears' passing game.
Insight pageD'Andre Swift
PositiveUsage62:19
Swift has evolved into the primary runner for Chicago, seeing 70% of snaps and dominating goal-line work with four carries from the three-yard line or closer, compared to two for Mononga.
Insight pageDalton Schultz
NegativeUsage74:23
The source advises holding Schultz if not starting him, but notes they would not start him if Nico Collins is active. They would drop him for streaming options like Darren Waller.
Insight pageDarren Waller
PositiveUsage35:29
Darren Waller is a top-three waiver priority with a favorable matchup against Detroit. His usage and targets spiked after Jalen Coker left the game, and he is considered a viable start for the week.
Insight pagePositiveProjection47:42
Darren Waller is a top tight end waiver target, especially with the absence of Coker, and could be an amazing start against the Lions.
Insight pageJ.J. McCarthy
NegativeDepth Chart57:34
The Giants acquired J.J. McCarthy for a fifth-round pick, with speculation that he could eventually start if Jameis Winston continues to struggle.
Insight pageJacoby Brissett
PositiveProjection63:54
Jacoby Brissett is a top-tier streaming quarterback option for the week, coming off a strong performance with 52 pass attempts and three total touchdowns.
Insight pageJadarian Price
NegativeUsage28:32
Jadarian Price has struggled with fumbles, leading to a benching, and the source notes he is not the preferred goal-line option compared to Zach Charbonnet.
Insight pageJake Ferguson
PositiveUsage71:57
The source suggests dropping Jake Ferguson for streaming options like Darren Waller or Sadiq, noting that his 13% target share is insufficient despite his touchdown potential.
Insight pageJalen Coker
NegativeInjury36:56
Jalen Coker is dealing with a quad injury that previously sidelined him earlier in the season. The source expresses concern about his availability for the upcoming week.
Insight pageJaylen Wright
PositiveRole10:13
Jalen Wright is a priority add for the Dolphins backfield, though he is currently day-to-day with a foot injury. The source suggests he is the best long-term Dolphins running back to roster, noting his past performance when given opportunities.
Insight pagePositiveValue35:29
Jalen Wright is the second-ranked waiver priority. The source notes he was the clear backup to Devon Achane in training camp and fits the team's offensive scheme better than other options, though he may be available for a lower FAAB bid than Allen.
Insight pageJordan Addison
PositiveBreakout43:42
Jordan Addison is a target in shallow leagues, capable of stepping into a massive role as seen in his recent 9-target, 90-yard performance.
Insight pageKalif Raymond
PositiveBreakout41:49
Kalief Raymond has emerged as a primary target in the Bears offense, leading the team in receiving in two of three games and running 75% of routes. He is a strong waiver wire priority.
Insight pageKeaton Mitchell
PositiveSleeper15:34
Keaton Mitchell is highlighted as an efficient runner for the Chargers who could see increased work due to the team's need for explosive playmakers.
Insight pagePositiveSleeper40:30
Keaton Mitchell is a recommended waiver wire target in deeper leagues, currently rostered in only 30% of leagues.
Insight pageKeenan Allen
PositiveValue41:15
Keenan Allen is the top wide receiver waiver target, especially with a favorable matchup against Washington's poor secondary.
Insight pagePositiveValue71:23
The source would add Keenan Allen if they needed a starter for the current week, though they prefer Khalif Raymond for rest-of-season value.
Insight pageKendre Miller
NegativeDepth Chart12:27
Kendre Miller remains behind Alvin Kamara in the Saints' backfield rotation, and the source expresses little excitement about his fantasy prospects.
Insight pageKenyon Sadiq
PositiveBreakout35:34
Kenyon Sadiq is a high-priority tight end add with rest-of-season appeal. He has shown a 25% target per route run rate in two of three games and is compared to Colston Loveland's breakout trajectory.
Insight pageLuther Burden
PositiveUsage61:28
Burden is highlighted as a key target in the Bears' offense, particularly on quick throws (2.5 seconds or less), which aligns with the team's design to get the ball out of Case Keenum's hands quickly. The source believes his production will continue if Caleb Williams plays on time.
Insight pageMarcus Mariota
PositiveProjection63:41
Marcus Mariota is ranked as a top streaming quarterback if he is confirmed to start, particularly for his matchup against the Colts in London.
Insight pageMarShawn Lloyd
NegativeValue64:11
Lloyd is considered a drop candidate because he is struggling behind a poor offensive line and is part of a three-way committee in Green Bay.
Insight pageOllie Gordon
NegativeValue49:12
Ollie Gordon is viewed as a potential 'fool's gold' waiver add. While casual managers may bid 15-20% due to his role, the source suggests letting others spend the money as the Dolphins' offense remains inefficient.
Insight pageQuentin Johnston
NegativeProjection65:27
Johnston is viewed as a bench receiver for at least the next six weeks due to a difficult upcoming schedule.
Insight pageRome Odunze
NegativeBust41:41
Rome Odunze is currently ranked third among Bears receivers behind Burden and Raymond, and should not be started with confidence.
Insight pageNegativeProjection60:36
The source advises against starting Odunze with any confidence unless he faces a weak secondary or a defense that allows frequent red zone passing touchdowns, noting that other players are cutting into his potential.
Insight pageSaquon Barkley
PositiveUsage58:53
Saquon Barkley looked great and ran with efficiency (6.7 yards per carry), though his fantasy production was limited by a lack of passing game involvement.
Insight pageTravis Etienne
NegativeInjury6:59
Travis Etienne is dealing with a hamstring injury and is considered week-to-week. The source notes that his next two opponents have not allowed a touchdown to a running back yet.
Insight pageTyler Higbee
PositiveRole47:46
Tyler Higbee is a viable tight end target who could see significant route volume if Puka Nakua, Ferguson, and Parkinson remain sidelined.
Insight pageXavier Worthy
NegativeProjection65:20
Worthy is given a '10' on the drop-o-meter, as the source expresses disappointment in his lack of production against Miami.
Insight pageZach Charbonnet
PositiveRole30:27
Zach Charbonnet is identified as a player to watch, as the coaching staff trusts him in goal-line situations, which could lead to immediate relevance upon his return.
Insight pagePositiveValue58:42
Zach Charbonnet is highlighted as a waiver wire target, currently rostered in 54% of sleeper leagues.
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Episode Transcript
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2:19Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
2:22What the heck are we supposed to do on the waiver wire today?
2:26It is a tough question. I've been really struggling a little bit, so I'm looking forward to sitting down and chatting with
2:33my buddies, Dave and Jamie, to try to get things straight and help our fantasy managers.
2:38We had three major running back injuries, including a season ender, two H-hands are hurt, and two awesome fantasy analysts are here to help us out.
2:46Good morning, Jamie. Good morning. Good morning, Dave. I'd be more pleasant, but this is going to be tough.
2:52There's some exciting players that we're going to talk about picking up, but this is going to be a tricky waiver wire
2:59week and kind of a wing and a prayer.
3:02A lot to pick up, though. A lot of guys.
3:05Is there a must-add player? Like, oh my gosh, I cannot for the life of me allow this man to be on waivers anymore.
3:12Jamie? I'd say Braylon Allen. Dave? I don't know if he's a must-start because usually when you put players in that type of context, it's like...
3:20No, I didn't say must-start. I said must-add. Usually when it's a must-add, it's like, oh my God, this guy's going to
3:27be a stud the rest of the season. I agree that Braylon...
3:31I mean, I don't know if Jamie's saying that Braylon Allen is his number one guy.
3:36He's my number one guy, but we know that when Brees Hall comes back, he's going to go back to benches.
3:42So he's the top-add. I don't know if he's the oh my God, must-add guy of the week brought to you by Adam's glasses.
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3:53I think that the fact that he has Chicago this upcoming week is encouraging.
3:57And, right? Is that who they have? That's who they have.
4:01Yeah, and then Cleveland. Cleveland's allowing 4.7 yards per carry to running backs.
4:05I don't know if they're really that bad, but...
4:07Nigel Tootin, Bucky Irving, Chuba Hubbard, they all ran the ball pretty well against Cleveland.
4:12So when you compare them to, like, compare Braylon Allen to the Saints, you know, the Saints guys have terrible matchups.
4:19They're facing their next two opponents. I don't know how long Travis HN is going to be out.
4:24The next two opponents haven't given up a touchdown to a running back yet.
4:28Both of them are allowing 3.1 yards per carry to running backs.
4:32Both of those two opponents, that's Atlanta and Minnesota, they've faced Green Bay, and that's helped their rush averages against.
4:38But at least the Jets have a favorable schedule.
4:41But here's just the... We used to call these A's or fantasy tips, like, the most obvious thing in the world.
4:48But sometimes I'm guilty of this, right? I'm just like, I'm going to make some waiver claims, whatever.
4:53Look at your team, and obviously the Dolphin situation is different.
4:57But for the Jets and for the Saints, it's week-to-week issues for Travis HN and Brees Hall.
5:02Like, are you going to even need those guys?
5:05Does your roster look good enough where you don't have any bye weeks and right now you don't need that?
5:11That shit could influence at least how much you spend on those guys.
5:15So make sure you look at your team and set your roster, set your lineup for the next few weeks and see
5:22how badly you need that running back. Does it bother you at all that when Brees Hall...
5:27I think we have to go back to 2024.
5:302024. When you make this call, does it bother you at all that Brees Hall, when he missed week 14 of 2024, the carries were even?
5:38I know, different coaching staff. Carries were completely even.
5:4011 each for Isaiah Davis and Braylon Allen. Do you think this is just a different situation?
5:46I think it's a different situation, but you're going to probably see both guys get work.
5:51You know, Isaiah Davis hasn't touched the ball yet this season offensively.
5:54So I think that's why, for me at least, excuse me, for me at least, why I lean more toward Allen than the other two injury replacement situations.
6:03Because it feels like he's, at least on paper, got more of an opportunity to be in a featured role.
6:09So that could change for the Dolphins if Jalen Wright is out again.
6:13He's listed as day-to-day after missing week three with a foot injury.
6:17So if Wright does miss week four, if you want to go that route and say, okay, I'll take my chances for one week.
6:24Because listen, we don't know. You mentioned it. Brees Hall could be back in week five.
6:29You know, he's week to week. I would be surprised if that's the case, but he could be back in week five.
6:36Travis A. Chan could be back in week five as well, dealing with a hamstring injury.
6:41Again, I'd be surprised, but that's the case. At least, you know, with the Dolphins situation, the starter's not coming back.
6:47So what I think you're hopeful for if you're in the Ollie Gordon camp is Jalen Wright misses one more game.
6:54Gordon goes out in week four and has a good game, maybe a great game.
6:58I doubt it on either side, but has the type of performance like, okay, now you feel comfortable that the fab you
7:05spent on him, he's the guy for the Dolphins rest of season.
7:09Whether that changes or not, but at least you see it while Jalen Wright is out.
7:14For me, I'm going to go Allen in terms of running backs, like if I'm prioritizing him.
7:19Allen's the first one. He's the most – he's the one I spend the most fab on.
7:24I won't go crazy on it because Brees Hall's not out for the year.
7:29So maybe like around 25% would be the most depending on what you mean.
7:33Then I would actually go Jalen Wright second because I think long term he's the best Dolphins running back to get.
7:40Okay, Ollie Gordon would be third with the idea of maybe one of the two guys steps up, and then Kendra Miller would be fourth.
7:47Alvin Kamara is in a different tier just because of where his roster percentage is.
7:52Can we add him? Let's throw him. Yeah, so Kamara would be behind the Dolphins guys for me.
7:57All right, so Jamie goes Braylon Allen, Jalen Wright, Ollie Gordon, Alvin Kamara, Kendra Miller.
8:02Dave, how about you? This is just running backs, not a top three overall?
8:06Yeah, sure. Let's do the running backs first. The exact same top three.
8:10Allen one, Wright two, Gordon three. I'll take you back to week 18 last year, meaningless game for the Dolphins.
8:17HM was out. Wright had a narrow lead in terms of snaps played, touches over Ollie Gordon.
8:22They actually used three running backs, and I'm a little bit scared that Jarquez Hunter is going to end up being a
8:29thing for the Dolphins at some point. That'll make it annoying between these three.
8:33I'm encouraged that Jalen Wright was called day to day.
8:36I'm encouraged that he was able to practice two of the three days last week.
8:41His injury in San Francisco was a stinger. We can get over those injuries pretty quickly, but then they added foot to
8:48the injury report and he didn't practice on Friday.
8:50So I'm a little nervous about that. I think if you're trying to game your waivers based on what your league mates
8:57will do, I think the majority of people are either going to target Allen or Gordon first.
9:02And maybe the case could be made that Gordon should be second on the list for that reason and that reason only.
9:09And because you might be able to put in your first waiver claim for Allen, get him, and then maybe even get
9:16Jalen Wright with your second waiver claim. That might be the only reason why I think if we're doing it purely from
9:23a talent standpoint and who I think is going to be better when they're both healthy on the field for this pathetic Dolphins run game.
9:30Yeah, right. Would be better than Gordon. My top three are Allen, right?
9:34Gordon Keaton Mitchell is fourth for me. I think the Chargers need him.
9:38I think they need guys who are explosive in their offense.
9:42And he's been far and away the most efficient runner that they have, even though he's not playing a ton, he would
9:49be fourth for me ahead of any Saints running back.
9:52And then once you get past the Saints running back, yeah, I'm not excited about the Saints running back.
9:58That's a pass-heavy team anyway. Yeah, but Kamara is going to catch the pass.
10:02Kamara looks terrible. After you get past Jets running back, Dolphins running backs, Keaton Mitchell and the Saints running backs, it's so ugly.
10:09You're looking for like five PPR points from your running back, and that's just not good.
10:14This is the time to make a trade. I'm going to get on my soapbox now.
10:19That if you lost A-chan, it's time to look at your roster and figure out where your depth is and trade from
10:26your depth for a running back that can get you by for the next few weeks.
10:31This is going to the waiver wire. I don't know if it's going to help you any more than a Band-Aid would help you.
10:38But a trade might be able to help you for a much longer period of time.
10:43Yeah, I mean, I think with Kamara, obviously you say he looks bad.
10:47I mean, I can't really disagree, but I think he looks a lot better than Kendry Miller.
10:52He continues to play ahead of Kendry Miller. He is still fast.
10:56He just can't really break any tackles or do anything substantial.
10:59But also, you know, there should be some pass catching there for Kamara.
11:03We saw a whole season. We saw six games last year with both Kamara and Kendry Miller.
11:09We saw this. And Kamara had 83 carries and 22 catches.
11:12And Kendry Miller had 46 carries and five catches.
11:15Kamara was on pace for 235 carries and 62 catches.
11:18I'm not saying he's going to do that, but we already have some history of exactly this situation of Alvin Kamara and
11:25Kendry Miller being the two top running backs for the Saints with this coaching staff.
11:29Different quarterback for whatever that's worth. Now, Devon Achan, I said this on yesterday's show.
11:34Devon Achan, first two games, I think he was averaging about 11 PPR fantasy points per game without any touchdowns, which is disastrous for a second round pick.
11:43But if I could get that from any of the guys we're talking about here, I think I'd be pretty happy.
11:49Do you think we can get 11 PPR fantasy points per game from any of these guys, including Kamara?
11:55I think Braylon Allen can. You know, you're looking at the hope would be the workload, you know.
12:01And so the Jets offense was definitely more explosive in week three in a game that was back and forth with the Lions.
12:08It could be back and forth with the Bears.
12:10You know, the Bears, it's funny because we thought their defense was horrific in week one.
12:15And then they've played two very strong games the last two weeks.
12:19The weather, I'm sure, impacted what happened in week two, and it was Carson Wentz.
12:24But back-to-back strong games defensively for them. So just take that into account.
12:28And Braylon Allen, not the same type of player as Brie Saul, but I think 11 PPR points is within the range of possibilities.
12:35And then if there's one guy for the Dolphins, Dave referenced the week 18 game.
12:40You go back to the week 14 game last year for the Dolphins.
12:44Achan left early in that game. And Jalen Wright had 23 carries for 100 yards and a touchdown, you know.
12:50So with sharing touches with Ollie Gordon. So there is a little bit of a track record here where one guy is better than the other.
12:58And when he got the opportunities in a good matchup, took advantage of it.
13:02So I just don't know if you're going to get that from any of the shared backfields.
13:08Now, I say that not knowing what the Jets plan to do.
13:11You know, we could see Isaiah Davis in this secondary role.
13:15You know, be a factor or enough of a factor that it limits the ceiling for Braylon Allen.
13:20So it's just hard to say at this point because you're talking about three very poor rush offenses with the backups in there.
13:27I think if the starters in there, you know, Devon Achan gets you to the 11 point threshold because he's good.
13:34And rush offense, running back offense, I'll say. Braylon Allen takes the Jets offense to a different level because of who he is.
13:41You know, the Saints offense has not been good for Travis Achan.
13:45And I don't know if Alvin Kamara in his current state of his career and Kendra Miller, who he is, you know, elevates that.
13:52I don't think the Dolphins guys elevate that. I don't think Braylon Allen elevates that.
13:57So I think that's probably the threshold you're looking for, Adam, without touchdowns.
14:01I think also with these three running back situations, if you're going to pick up Braylon Allen, you probably don't have to
14:07worry about Isaiah Davis stealing his goal line work.
14:10No. You definitely have to worry about the catches.
14:13That's it. You do have to worry about that with Jalen Wright.
14:17I mean, I don't, you have to at least worry about it.
14:20We don't know. But like your best bet for goal line, for the goal line carries would probably be Braylon Allen for
14:27the Jets, Ollie Gordon for the Dolphins and or maybe like a split for the Dolphins and a split for the Saints.
14:34Well, if you're just looking at it, the Dolphins have one rushing touchdown.
14:38It was Gordon last week. The Saints, I think they have one rushing touchdown.
14:42It was Miller in week one. Yep. And the Jets have two.
14:46One was Hall in week one and one was Allen in week two.
14:50I know Allen had one in week two. So it's not like there's a good sample size here of them.
14:56Oh, they get down there and they're going to score a lot.
15:00You know, these teams have not just been scoring a lot on the ground.
15:04So, you know, I think you sort of alluded to this.
15:08If you don't need the one-to-one replacement, if you don't need, you know, to add depth to your backfield, like this is just situations to avoid.
15:16Like you don't need to go spend your fab on these guys.
15:19So I guess to go back to your original question, like is there a must-add guy?
15:24The only reason I would say is Braylon Allen just because like there's a history of this coach wanting to get this
15:31guy some involvement and touches and playing time. And now he gets the chance to do that.
15:36And so of the three offenses with their running back situations, I feel the most confident in the Jets, which is surprising to say.
15:44But that's the one that, you know, at least you look at and say, OK, their offensive line is relatively healthy.
15:50Their production has been there. And again, I just think that's more Brees Hall than anything else.
15:56But he has it, but they've been running like garbage the last two weeks, too.
16:00And they even talked about that. We got to get our run.
16:04The Jets have to get our run game better because Brees Hall week one was great against the Titans.
16:10The last two weeks, he's been horrible. And Aaron Glenn even addressed that in the press conference.
16:15So I think there's just an opportunity for him to establish himself.
16:19And maybe it's a problem for Brees Hall rest of season because, again, of what Aaron Glenn has previously said.
16:25So that's the reason I would prioritize him above the rest.
16:28One other thing you say that you're worried about which Dolphins running back will be at the goal line.
16:34You don't have to worry about it because they don't get to the goal line.
16:39Two snaps inside the five through three games this year.
16:42Can you name the team? There is only one team.
16:45The New England Patriots. Fewer than two snaps inside the five.
16:48The Patriots have four. They have twice as many as the Dolphins.
16:52Which team has the fewest? Oh, boy. They are winless.
16:55Who's winless? The Packers. No, they are. I'll bet you a buck that you won't.
17:00Oh, the Bucs. Oh, you got it. I owe you a dollar.
17:04Yeah. Bucs have one snap inside the five. The Raven Seahawks tied for first with 15.
17:08How many touchdowns does Jadarian Price have again? Oh, boy.
17:12Yes. And if you missed it yesterday, I apologize for my flub on Sunday night.
17:16I didn't realize that Jadarian Price was benched for fumbling.
17:19Okay. For a half. What's that? For a half.
17:22Yeah. He was back in the second half. So we're going to read.
17:26We got a lot more to talk about. We got to talk about Kenyon Sadiq and Keenan Allen facing Washington this week.
17:33And by the way, every quarterback to face Washington has scored 30 or more fantasy points so far in six points per pass in touchdown leagues.
17:41We'll talk about fab. This is going to be Daniel Jones.
17:44Yeah, I know. He's not playing well. But just to recap, you guys have Braylon Allen just for running backs because we
17:51haven't even talked about the other positions. You guys have Braylon Allen one, Jalen Wright two, Ollie Gordon three.
17:57Then Jamie would go Camara and then Kendrick Miller.
18:00Dave would go Keaton Mitchell and then Camara. I don't feel good about Camara.
18:04All right. But I don't feel good about Henry Miller.
18:07You feel good about a Chargers. Yeah, you're right.
18:10I do. I do feel good about a Chargers running back because that guy might end up getting more work because Amarian
18:17Hampton isn't getting the job done unless the job is run into a car crash.
18:21One out of every three plays. Also, I want to just throw out the name Zach Charbonnet.
18:27He is 69% rostered and Janarian Price has two fumbles so far and they have horrible goal linebacks in front of Zach Charbonnet.
18:34He could come back next week. I don't think he will, but it's on the top.
18:39How about that? They're tied for the most snaps inside the five and you know who's going to come back and go right into that role.
18:47Coaches trust Charbonnet in that role they did last year.
18:50Yeah. All right. That's kind of exciting. That's actually kind of exciting.
18:53I am excited. We'll be right back. I'm going to send Dave my Venmo and we'll be right back on Fantasy Football today.
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21:25Livemomentus.com, promo code FFT. FFT. So who are the top three overall priorities, Jamie, this week?
21:29For me, it would be Braylon Allen 1, Jalen Wright 2, and Darren Waller 3.
21:34Now, you could put Kenyon Sadiq in there if you want to just avoid the running backs and say, OK, I'm going
21:41to get the two potentially best tight ends that are on the market and maybe they're starters for the rest of season.
21:48I think for Waller, it's more of a one-week thing than Sadiq.
21:51But he does have two touchdowns on the season, should have had three.
21:55He had one taken away by a penalty in week one.
21:59But this matchup against Detroit is as dreamy as you could find.
22:03Every tight end that has played them, and that's multiple tight ends because the Saints had two guys go off in week one.
22:10But every tight end that has faced the Lions so far this season, including Kenyon Sadiq, really took advantage of this matchup.
22:16So hopefully Waller does, especially if Jalen Coker doesn't play in week four.
22:20We're up to five tight ends with at least 11 half PPR points against the Lions through three weeks.
22:26It's ridiculous. It's crazy. Dave, what's your – so for Jamie, it's Braylon Allen, Jalen Wright, Darren Waller.
22:32How about you? I've got Allen 1. I do have Sadiq 2, and I have Waller 3.
22:37So two tight ends in my top three is kind of crazy pills.
22:41But the reason why I have Sadiq there is because I think he can build on this.
22:46I did notice that he had this big game in the same game that Brees Hall got hurt and Adonai Mitchell was out.
22:53That's not going to be the case. Eventually, those guys will be back.
22:57But I do know that Frank Reich does have a track record.
23:01And Mason Taylor's out too. There's a track record with Frank Reich in tight ends.
23:06And what I'm hoping for is that Sadiq's route rate goes up a little bit.
23:10His opportunities stay up. This is a Jets offense that has proven that they can throw the ball as long as they're
23:17not up against the toughest of pass rushes. They'll be able to get some numbers.
23:22And Waller, to me, is a little bit more of a touchdown or bust tight end.
23:27Love the matchup for him, obviously. And I'm certainly going to say that he's a start this week.
23:32And without Jalen Coker there, yeah, there's going to be some opportunities for him to do more than just catch touchdowns.
23:39But I think Sadiq has a little bit more rest-of-season appeal.
23:42So it's Allen 1, Sadiq 2, and Waller 3.
23:45Obviously, if you're locked in at tight end and you've got McBride, Bowers, or you've got two good tight ends and you
23:52don't need to think about it, you'll skip over those tight ends and probably pivot to either stashing the running backs that
23:59we'll talk about or picking up a wide receiver or two because that position's pretty rich this week.
24:04Kenyon Sadiq has had a 25% target per route run rate or better in two of three games.
24:10And it reminds me a little bit of Colson Loveland, who had this really good target per route run rate but just wasn't running enough routes.
24:18And then when he finally started running enough routes late in the year, he was winning people their leagues.
24:24Kenyon Sadiq, if you didn't know that he was a tight end and you watched his tape, you're going, who's that wide receiver number 18 for the Jets?
24:32He is unbelievably talented. I think Isaiah Williams is number 18.
24:36Oh, 16. Sorry. We'll blame it on the eye.
24:38It's really hard to watch tape with a hot compress over one of your eyes.
24:43But no, Sadiq is so talented. And we knew that.
24:46Obviously, he's a freak at the combine. But to go see what he did.
24:51I mean, the touchdown catch was amazing. And the first catch he made was really impressive, too.
24:56So I can't think of a lot of leagues where I actually don't have a good tight end.
25:01I have a lot of Kittle. I have Kelsey, which I'm fine with.
25:05But if I had Pitts, if I had, I guess, Kraft.
25:09I don't know. I mean, I feel like he'll be better.
25:12I'm not dropping Kraft. I guess I could drop it.
25:15I want Sadiq. Even if I don't necessarily need him, I feel like he's got Loveland potential.
25:20There's no other way around it. Like good Loveland, by the way.
25:24If I had Loveland, I'm picking up Sadiq. I don't know.
25:28Like who are we dropping Kraft for Sadiq or Waller?
25:31Are we dropping Loveland? Are we dropping Pitts? Are we just trying to roster two guys, Jamie?
25:36I would prefer to roster two guys. But, you know, two of the ones that you mentioned, like Kraft, I would probably still hold on to.
25:44Because, you know, first game without Jaden Reed, he did get targets.
25:48And he just had a bad game against the Falcons.
25:51So I think there's opportunities there for him. Still working his way back from the ACL tear.
25:56For Pitts, again, I sort of look at it as a smaller sample size.
26:00Because one game with Michael Penix, as opposed to what we saw the first two games.
26:05So maybe there's still hope for Pitts. It's hard to, you know, say that with any confidence.
26:11But he would probably be somebody I'd want to keep and just roster two tight ends.
26:15And I still think I'd like to roster two tight ends.
26:19There were some signs of life for Colston Loveland last night.
26:22So hopefully there's still a strong finish moving forward when Caleb Williams is healthy.
26:27There's one other reason to want to roster two tight ends.
26:30And that is the position is scoring a ton of points this year.
26:34I believe it's still even after the Monday night game, 35 tight ends with at least double digit half PPR points through three weeks.
26:4135 instances of that happening. Last year through three weeks.
26:45What was it, Adam? 23 or 24? It wasn't anywhere close to 35.
26:49And in the two years prior, it was in the teens.
26:52Right. The types of coverages that defense is playing.
26:55They're trying to give up the big plays. And offenses are saying, okay, cool.
26:59We're going to throw it underneath. And we're going to get our athletic tight ends open.
27:04Mismatch guys. Anyway, look at what the Saints are doing.
27:07And the fact that Jawan Johnson's having a good season so far.
27:11And Noah Fant has had good games, two out of three.
27:14And they're using him in that short to mid-range area.
27:17Got it out. And not that Noah Fant is maybe you should add, but this is the type of thing that offenses are doing.
27:25They're copycatting each other. And they're pivoting to using these guys as weapons ahead of some of their mediocre wide receivers, which
27:31means that you could flex these guys. Right. There you go.
27:35So to Dave's point, just looking at this, Dalton Schultz, Tyler Warren, Isaiah Likely, Harold Fannin, Kenyon Sadiq are all averaging 12.9 PPR points or more.
27:43That's better than Rashi Rice, Mike Evans, Ladd McConkie, Luther Burden, DJ Moore, Mecca Abuka.
27:48Oh, my gosh. Well, you did pick some guys who left games with injuries.
27:52Well, I mean, it's still some impressive names that were drafted very high.
27:56We got a question. Should I drop Mark Andrews for Kenyon Sadiq?
28:00Yes. Yeah. Should I drop Algier for Keenan Allen?
28:02It's probably Braylon Allen. Oh, yeah. Braylon Allen. Yeah.
28:05But I would do it for either Allen? Not Marcus Allen.
28:09Keenan Allen's very relevant, too. Josh Allen. And just last question on Waller.
28:13Well, I would drop Tyler Adgeo for Josh Allen.
28:15Are you going to start Waller this week if Jalen Coker plays?
28:19Yes. You know, so just again, what Sadiq did, Dave referenced it.
28:23No Mason Taylor, no Adonai Mitchell. It was against the Lions.
28:26So, you know, there's a lot of reason to like him because he was a first-round talent.
28:31This isn't talking about, let's say, like Brenton Strange going off or Noah Fant going off against the Lions defense.
28:38So, it's still worth investing in Kenya Sadiq. But Waller, his playing time, his targets, everything spiked after Coker left the game last week.
28:45And I think that's something or an opportunity. At least you're going to continue to pick on the Lions or you should
28:52continue to pick on the Lions if you have the fantasy tight ends to do so.
28:57So, until at least one of, if not both, of Branch and the other safety.
29:01Kirby Joseph. Kirby Joseph. Dave's got his Andy Reid playbook there.
29:05His laminated schedule. It's my placemat so I don't spill on my desk.
29:09All right. It's also a schedule. Yeah, after this week they play Arizona.
29:13So, get ready for the Trey McBride. 10 target, 10 catch, 120 yard, two touchdowns.
29:17He may have 20. I'm on McBride Island. I'm the only one who likes him better than Brock Bowers going forward.
29:24I'll like him better than Bowers next week. Thank you.
29:27Let's talk about fab. Dave, how much fab are we spending on these guys?
29:31How desperate are you for a running back? Desperate.
29:34You know what? I am desperate. Let's assume. You lost Devon HN and you had no depth.
29:39You knucklehead you. I think you've got to look in the neighborhood of north of 15% for any of these running backs.
29:46I hate saying that for the Dolphins. I don't think you have to go that high for right.
29:52But you might have to go that high for Ollie Gordon because I think the majority of casual fantasy managers will see
29:58Ollie Gordon as, oh, he was just the main guy.
30:02And he could still be the main guy. And there's a rest of season opportunity for both Dolphins running backs.
30:08So they might put in some pricey bids for Ollie Gordon.
30:11They may do the same if they lost Brees Hall.
30:14But the poor fantasy manager that has HN and Brees Hall, they're definitely going to be north of 15%.
30:20So I would say the starting line for Braylon Allen has to be 15% if you're serious about rostering him.
30:26You should probably think about 20%. I don't really think it's going to get it done, personally, in most leagues.
30:32We'll see. I'll see all the fab reports for the FFT Open, for example.
30:37But, yeah, that's fine. It's not like this is going to be the last week where we have running backs on the waiver wire that are appealing.
30:45No, but you are going to see the 0-3, the 1-2 managers that are starting maybe to say, okay, this is desperation time.
30:52And if I don't spend my fab now to try and turn things around, what am I holding it for?
30:58Yeah. Okay, so 20-ish percent for Braylon Allen? I think you have to.
31:02It's not just we lost Brees Hall, and he's the only running back that's missing.
31:07We lost Brees Hall. We lost Devon HN. We lost Travis HN.
31:11We have injuries across the board at wide receiver that we don't know if those guys are going to play.
31:17These guys could be flex options for you. We're heading into bye week starting in week five.
31:22I know it's only two teams, but that's where the roster crunch has become even tougher.
31:27Dave referenced something earlier, which I think is smart, but at the same time, it's a lot more challenging right now is to try and make trades.
31:35You just lost a piece of your team in Devon HN.
31:39You're going to have to give up another significant piece to get depth.
31:43So what you're essentially doing is if you lost a superstar and trying to replace that superstar, you're probably selling off somebody
31:50that's very good on your roster to get multiple pieces, and it's got to be something significant.
31:55So it's so hard to do when you're trading from a position of weakness, and that's what you're doing if you just lost one of those players.
32:03And how much fab for Ali Gordon? Honestly, I would let somebody else go spend the money, but if you believe that
32:10he's going to be the guy, I think it's probably 15% to 20%.
32:14So to me, he's the fool's gold. How much fab for Jalen Wright?
32:18Wright, I think you could probably get it done for the same thing or less just because Dave nailed it.
32:24I don't think people are looking at the guy who did not play in week three, who plays on the Dolphins and
32:31says that's the one unless you're doing the research.
32:34You're listening to our show. You're reading the things that we're writing, and you're understanding that last year, again, different coach staff, different team entirely.
32:42Last year, anytime Devon HN missed, it was Jalen Wright.
32:45But if you go back to training camp, Jalen Wright was the number two running back on the depth chart.
32:51He fits what Devon HN does way more than Ali Gordon.
32:54And it's just a matter of we talked about this on the Fantasy Football Tech Express, Adam.
32:59Does this coaching staff want more of a thumper, or do they want more of just what Devon HN does?
33:06And if they want more of a physical presence to keep their offense moving, remember, they just had their best time in possession.
33:13They were more competitive against the Chiefs. It was their first home game.
33:17It was the Chiefs playing in the heat of South Florida, all those things.
33:21But it could easily be Gordon. It could be just this is the guy that will pound into defenses a little bit more.
33:28I'm trying to think of the right phrase. Because, you know, that's the bigger physical presence.
33:33And that might be something that's more appealing. It's just a matter of, like, if you're looking at it like, I would
33:40just prefer, like, can I sneak in getting one of the Dolphins running backs as opposed to overpaying for one of the Dolphins running backs?
33:48Because this team is bad. Devon HN was not doing well in this.
33:52Right. That's the thing. And these guys are not going to be better than HN.
33:56It's just hard to expect that. HN's best game was, like, 12 PPR points.
34:01And now two guys, maybe three, are going to split that?
34:04Yeah. But, right. I don't know. I mean, it's hopefully going to be better than Green Bay.
34:09But it could be Green Bay. And let's talk about...
34:12Let's go to the end. The Packers would kill for the Dolphins offensive line right now.
34:17That's true. That line's getting better, actually. Who are the Packers?
34:21They signed Mekhi Becton. Okay. News and notes. News and notes.
34:24We're going to keep an eye on Josh Allen, but we haven't heard anything.
34:28So he's probably fine. And Baker Mayfield expected to miss about three games with a dislocated thumb.
34:34That would be Green Bay, Dallas, and Pittsburgh. See if Bryce Young ends up on the injury report.
34:39They talked about it after the game. He's dealing with something, but he should be fine.
34:44And, you know, you could go back to him this week.
34:48I know he's disappointed, but he gets Detroit this week.
34:51Let's hope he gets Coker back. And the Giants acquired J.J.
34:54McCarthy for a fifth-round pick. And there's some thought that eventually he'll be the starting quarterback for the Giants if Jameis Winston continues to struggle.
35:02And the next two games are Arizona and at Washington.
35:05So it's time for Jameis Winston to put up or shut up a little bit here.
35:10Running back news. We got Devon H.N. out for the year.
35:13And Travis H.N. and Brees Hall. Let's call them week-to-week.
35:16Jadarian Price benched for fumbling. They said they believe in him, but he's already got two fumbles.
35:22So I mentioned Zach Charbonnet earlier on in the show.
35:25He's 69% rostered in CBS leagues. Let me just take a look at Charbonnet in sleeper.
35:30He is rostered in 54% of leagues. So that's a guy you could get.
35:34Let's see. The commander signed Austin Eckler. He's basically Rashad White.
35:37Rashad White did leave briefly with a shoulder injury.
35:40Dave, what do you make of this Eckler signing?
35:43I'm checking to see if White finished the game.
35:46He did. I thought he did. I thought we even maybe even mentioned that.
35:50But maybe there's more to it than that. Maybe they just want to have a little bit more running back depth overall.
35:57And here's somebody who's been there and knows kind of like at least the personnel, the teammates that he'll have there.
36:03I wouldn't expect big things from Eckler fantasy wise, but it could be a sad foreshadowing for one of the other commanders running backs.
36:11And it could be White. It's a couple of other running backs who got hurt.
36:15Tajay Spears and Bucky Irving. Spears came back in, but you know, sometimes you come back in with adrenaline and, you know, and there's that.
36:23So we'll see if Spears misses any. He'll probably miss practice.
36:26And then Bucky Irving. We just don't know. And they're not going to release an injury report until tomorrow.
36:32Mike Evans day to day. Who can Akua? They're hopeful that he can play this week at Philadelphia.
36:38Mike Evans gets Denver, by the way. That could be a dicey one for him.
36:42Justin Jefferson ankle injury. Seems like he got good news.
36:46He's day to day. We'll call him Xavier Hutchinson left with an injury.
36:50I didn't realize that if Nico Collins is out and Xavier Hutchinson is in, I look forward to talking about this on
36:56the starter set episode against the Cowboys. But for now, you can leave him alone.
37:01Sounds like Nico's going to play, though. Yeah, that's the hope.
37:04Jalen Coker, quad injury. He's apparently not in bad shape.
37:07Let's call him questionable for this week. Jalen Coker.
37:10He was really bummed about it after the game if you read the quotes from the locker room.
37:16That was the injury that kept him out at the start of the season.
37:20Exactly. Yeah, that's what makes me nervous about him playing this week.
37:24I would expect another option to be in your lineup than Coker.
37:28Anybody want to pick up Tyreek Hill? Kind of in the deepest of leagues.
37:32Okay. He's sweeted that it's about time to get off the couch and get to work.
37:37Yeah, just probably waiting for Kansas City to give him a contract.
37:41Okay. And Jalen McMillan re-injured his knee. Tough break for McMillan.
37:44And that's the wide receiver news. We'll talk about Tyler Higby in a bit at Philadelphia.
37:49He had a huge game against the Broncos. Terrence Ferguson, unlikely to play this week with the ankle injury.
37:55Colby Parkinson's also banged up. So, Tyler Higby is another tight end you can take a look at.
38:00And let's get to the top three at each position and start with quarterback.
38:05We haven't talked about any quarterbacks this week, Jamie.
38:07But the Drake May and Justin Herbert managers, maybe the Jalen Hurts managers.
38:11They've been struggling. And the Jalen Hurts and the Eagles get the Rams this week.
38:16They need quarterbacks. Who are the top three? So, if we were guaranteed to have Marcus Mariota start this week, Mariota would be my favorite quarterback.
38:24But Jaden Daniels is going to practice in London.
38:27And it sounds like there's an outside chance that he could play.
38:31So, I have him right. I have it right now.
38:34Now, Brissette one, Mariota two. In my rankings, though, I have Mariota one and Brissette two because it doesn't seem like, from
38:40a waiver perspective, you're going to get a long-term scenario of Mariota starting.
38:44At least Jaden Daniels is going to try and return sooner than expected.
38:48But not like Brissette is a bad fallback option or even the lead option coming off a game that we were expecting
38:55to get from Jacoby Brissette every game this season.
38:5852 pass attempts, three total touchdowns, two passing, one rushing.
39:01And so, I know the Giants' defense has played better than expected.
39:05But they just lost Burns. Their secondary, I don't think, is still very good.
39:09And they did do what they did against the Titans in bad weather.
39:13So, Brissette has an opportunity here to still be very successful.
39:17So, they're not far apart in the rankings. But if you just were to tell me right now that Jaden Daniels was
39:23completely outruled out and we knew that for sure, I would rather have the starting quarterback against the Colts versus the starting
39:30quarterback against the Giants, as bad as both teams may be.
39:34And then Geno Smith would be third, just with the hope that he's in a shootout against the Bears.
39:39Give the Bears credit. Their pass defense the last two games, much better than expected, much better than we saw in week one.
39:47That might have to do, though, with the offenses that they faced and the weather that they played in week two against Minnesota.
39:54But Geno Smith is coming off a very good game.
39:57Hopefully for him, he gets Adonai Mitchell back and there might be more on his plate because of the run game situation
40:04being what it is without Brees Alder. Are you going to start?
40:07Jacoby Brissette at the Giants. Marcus Mariota against the Colts in London.
40:11Geno Smith against the Bears over Jalen Hurts. No.
40:14Okay. Over? Over Herbert, yes. Over May, yes. Those are easy at this point.
40:18How about Kyler? Against the Dolphins. I would start Brissette and Mariota over Kyler.
40:22Okay. Obviously, if Justin Jefferson plays, that could change things.
40:25Dave, who are the top three running backs? We haven't talked about this yet.
40:30Allen, Wright, Gordon. And then the next three for me are Mitchell.
40:33And then choose your own Saints running back. Okay.
40:36We'll get to the deep league guys when you put on your old man voice.
40:41Yeah. Well, some of those guys are deep league guys.
40:44The Dolphins guys are deep league guys. That's true.
40:47And Miller. Kendra Miller is too. What's Keaton Mitchell's roster percentage?
40:5030%. So he's going to be out there in a bunch of leagues.
40:54Okay. Another reason to be interested in him is because he's there.
40:58I was going to take a break, but I feel like it's been cruel to the people who need a wide receiver this week.
41:05Jamie, who are the top three wide receivers? I don't know if it's spoken about briefly Keenan Allen, but that's about it.
41:12Who are the three receivers? Yeah, it's not great.
41:15Yeah. Keenan Allen would be the one to go get just the first game without Alec Pierce.
41:20He looked very good. And taking on Washington this week, we know that secondary has been bad.
41:25So Keenan Allen would be the potential starter across the board.
41:29Kalief Raymond now another strong game for him and look good in connection and connecting with, with Case Keenum.
41:35It feels as if like, if you're looking at, I wouldn't drop Romo Dunze yet, but if you're just ranking bears receivers
41:41at this point, rest of season, it's burden one, Raymond two, Dunze three, which is frustrating to say.
41:47And then Wondell Robinson, I know it was against the Giants and you know, you don't want to trust the Titans receiver,
41:54but this is kind of where this position's at.
41:57There's just not a lot of great options out there that I think you feel confident in.
42:02You can go with one of the Dolphins guys.
42:05If you recall when Caleb Douglas had his big game, I wrote this, I said this, I'll say it again.
42:11It's going to be a rotation of Dolphins receivers almost on a week to week basis.
42:16It's in the column and probably on our show.
42:18Matt Collins coming off a strong game, you know, mum field coming off a strong game.
42:23If there is no Jalen Coker, Bryson Tremaine's coming off a strong game.
42:27Like this isn't great for wide receiver this week.
42:30I kind of disagree. I think there's a lot of interesting wide receivers beyond the top three and one that you didn't
42:37name, or maybe you didn't, I didn't hear it was Adonai Mitchell.
42:41We don't know if he's going to play. But if he does play against the bears, I'm still not ready to say
42:48that this bears Pat, this bears secondary is great.
42:50But Adonai Mitchell still in his last game, 12 targets, six catches, 60 something yards can at least be in that flex conversation.
42:57And I think you said it best, Jamie, like if there's no Brees Hall, doesn't this mean maybe a little bit more
43:04throwing and a little bit more play calling overall for Geno to do what he does best.
43:09And what he loves to do is throw downfield sometimes not accurately, but enough to where his receivers can make a play.
43:16And we've continued to hear like during the preseason, lots of talk about Adonai Mitchell.
43:21And then into the season week two, we saw it.
43:24He didn't play in week three. Hopefully he's there in week four.
43:28Not my favorite wide receiver to get. If I had to rank him, it would be Keenan Allen, one, Kalief Raymond, two, Adonai Mitchell, three.
43:35And then maybe Tyreek Hill four, just for those deep leagues who are looking for someone who could be a spark.
43:42Maybe, you know, possibly. By the way, in a shallow league, take a look for Jordan Addison, who could step into a
43:49just a massive role like he did last week and their place facing the Dolphins.
43:53He could be really good. He's 78% roster on CBS, 75% on sleeper.
43:57But I don't know how much longer I can ignore Kalief Raymond.
44:01I mean, I would almost argue that he should be the number one waiver wire guy.
44:06He's led the Bears in receiving in two of three games.
44:09And those were the two like good weather games.
44:12He's obviously involved. He's on the field enough and plays.
44:15It runs like 75% of the routes. And it's kind of a shorter area safety valve.
44:20And that I thought. Yeah. I mean, I can say enough things about.
44:24I can't say enough things about Kalief Raymond right now.
44:27He's obviously got a big role. I know it's Kalief Raymond, but again, I can make the case.
44:33You should be the number one claim on waivers.
44:36Yeah. You're kind of talking me into it, but Keenan Allen does have the commanders this week.
44:41Yeah. So I think I'm going to like Allen more than Raymond this week.
44:45But not only are you noticing what Kalief Raymond's doing, two different quarterbacks for the Bears have noticed what Kalief Raymond is doing.
44:52And they're throwing to him, including the guy who can't stay in structure to save his life because he just holds the
44:59ball too long and runs all over the place.
45:02And he's still finding Kalief Raymond. That's Caleb Williams.
45:05Caleb Williams. Yeah. No, Case Keenum is not that guy who runs everywhere.
45:09He stayed on schedule. And that's why I think we got the games that we got from Burden and Raymond on Monday night.
45:16Would you pick up Raymond or Romeo Dobbs, Robert asks?
45:19Raymond. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's take a break and we'll get you some tight end names other than Darren Waller and Kenyon Sadiq.
45:26And we'll give you some DSTs as well. And we'll be right back on Fantasy Football today.
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47:08I just got a text from someone who quote tweeted my terrible advice I gave him regarding Kalief Raymond.
47:13He said, I need 14 points tomorrow night. Wicks, Loveland, or Raymond?
47:17And I said, yeesh, not Raymond. I think I'd go with Wicks.
47:21He quoted me and said, we all got to start doing the opposite of what you say now.
47:26Is there a friend of yours? Yeah. Yeah. Wow, that's a block of your number.
47:31He gave me an LOL, though. I think people realize that we're all just taking guesses.
47:36Very surprised at the way Case Keenum played. But tight ends, Jamie, the top two for you are Waller and Sadiq.
47:42And then you've got Tyler Higbee as your third tight end on waivers.
47:46Yeah, this might be the best position to target.
47:49And as we alluded to earlier, you can play tight ends at flex and still be okay and get, in some cases,
47:56great production better than a lot of other positions and players right now.
48:00So Waller without Coker taking on the Lions could be absolutely amazing.
48:04Sadiq coming off a game without Mitchell against the Lions looked amazing.
48:07And then Higbee is kind of just falling into what we thought the Ferguson role would be last week.
48:13If there is no Puka Nakua, if there is no Ferguson, if there is no Parkinson, it may be a long-term role
48:20for Higbee if Ferguson's ankle injury lingers. So just keep an eye on that.
48:24So I think all three of these guys are worth considering as starting options for fantasy managers in week four.
48:31By the way, I shouldn't say we're all just taking guesses.
48:34We put a lot of work into it, I promise.
48:37They're educated guesses. Yeah, exactly. Really, really educated guesses.
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49:00So the first place I would look, and it's probably better on some other sites, would be find the Ravens DST if
49:07they were dropped because a lot of people moved off of them.
49:10Playing the Cowboys, they're 69% rostered on our site, so you may find them in 10-team leagues and some shallower 12-team leagues.
49:17But if we're just talking about our usual percentage, 65% or less, I'm going to go with the Packers taking on the Bucs.
49:24That offensive line has been absolutely miserable. You now have a backup quarterback there.
49:29Bucky Irving may be banged up. So the Packers' defense has not lived up to the billing.
49:34This is an opportunity, though, for them to get right against what could be a very bad offense or against a bad
49:41offense that could be even worse in week number four.
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49:47And the Bills are 25% rostered on Yahoo, and they're facing the Patriots.
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50:10Stick in Green Bay with Trace Mack. The Bucs are among the leaders, and they are the leaders in most fantasy points allowed to opposing kickers.
50:18So hopefully we get some better production from the Packers' offense, but I think we'll get some field goal production from Trace Mack.
50:25Also, you've got a University of Florida kid going back to Tampa Bay, so maybe that's a fun spot for him.
50:31So, Jules. Kyro Santos' offense for the Bears looked much better than I anticipated against the Eagles, and they'll score some points.
50:38Drew Stevens could be in a high-scoring game against the Colts.
50:42And Daniel Carson, give him some credit with the way that he's performed as well as the way the Saints' offense has performed.
50:49There's lots of kickers, though, that you can find.
50:51Like, this was a tough one for me just looking at.
50:55Like, you asked me this last week, and I really was, like, thinking about the question, like, how do I go about finding this?
51:02You know, it starts with the roster percentage. And then, for me, it was this week, the same things I said last week, environment, offense, all those things.
51:11But also just looking at, like, who's – you have a good enough sample size.
51:16Like, who's been bad at allowing field goals and stuff like that?
51:19And so that's where Smack and Santos come into play.
51:22So, okay, time to get into the shallow league guys.
51:25And this is one of those weeks I'm not sure that there are that many of them that really jump out.
51:32You know, like we had Josh Downs, for example, last week, I think.
51:36And it was like, you've got to go get him.
51:39You mentioned Addison. That's the big one. Okay. Yeah, just is Addison going to be any good when Justin Jefferson comes back, which could be this week?
51:47I mean, he's had plenty of good moments in production when Justin Jefferson's been on the field.
51:53And so it's easy to say Jefferson left the game and this was Jordan Addison's, you know, shining moment of the season.
51:59Nine targets and he scored a touchdown, six catches for 90 yards.
52:03But it was also the first game for Kyler Murray.
52:06You know, so let's take that into account too, that there's, you know, hopefully something to build off from.
52:12I think you look at Kamara as one of the running backs of target.
52:16You mentioned Charbonnet as another one that has some long-term appeal.
52:20But, you know, Kamara is, you know, stepping into what could be the starting role for the Saints backfield for who knows how long.
52:27That's easy, you know, player to go out and go get.
52:31Trying to think of any quarterbacks. Tight end, there's two.
52:34They're a little bit more rostered, but the same two we had last week.
52:38It was Juwan Johnson and Jake Ferguson. Johnson's been awesome.
52:41I don't know why you're not starting him and considering him a top 10 tight end at this point.
52:47At least until Jordan Tyson returns. And Ferguson, you know, look, he's touched down our bus, but it's been a productive stretch
52:54of games for at least the last two. So there are some players that could help you there.
52:59And then just quarterbacks. Sam Darnold maybe? Darnold, yes, would be one.
53:03And I still think Kyler Murray, 77% rostered. He did not play great after the opening two drives of the game.
53:10But losing Jefferson, it's hard to say. It's been so disjointed for the Vikings.
53:14You know, you get Murray with a concussion. Bad weather week two.
53:18Jefferson gets hurt week three. Murray finally comes back.
53:20You know, so I'd like to see what this offense looks like in its entirety.
53:25And hopefully we get that in week four and beyond.
53:28Yeah, you mentioned Sam Darnold, Dave. And the Seahawks are 16th right now in pass rate.
53:33Or at least they were going into Monday night.
53:36And last year they were like 31st or something.
53:39So he was second in the NFL in yards per attempt.
53:42I think you're starting to see that there could be a lot of production just because JSN is so damn good.
53:48Yes. With these quarterbacks. But quarterback is really deep.
53:51So it's not like we're saying you've got to rush out and get him.
53:56There was a question about Josh Jacobs. And he's 78% rostered in Yahoo leagues.
54:00I think he's in the 90s in CBS leagues.
54:03But who's a better guy to go get right now if available?
54:06Josh Jacobs or Zach Charbonnet? Dave? Dave? I'm assuming Zach Charbonnet will be playing sooner than Josh Jacobs will.
54:12But if it's a six-game suspension for Jacobs, it might be a week later than Charbonnet or something like that.
54:18I know. But it's also still – we don't know if it's going to be six.
54:23It could be a lot longer than six. Yeah.
54:26Okay. There's more upside for Jacobs, though, if he – Yeah, yeah, yeah.
54:30Like if the news had already come out and it's definitely six and it's done, then I wouldn't have said Charbonnet.
54:37The one thing, though, like Charbonnet is 69% rostered.
54:39I'm guessing – and I could be wrong on this, but I'm guessing most of the leagues that have him rostered are leagues with IR spots.
54:47The leagues that don't have IR spots are the ones where it's tricky to carry him.
54:52Same thing with Jacobs. It's just you're dealing with carrying a dead spot for you that you can't play at all, so that's hard to do.
55:00Well, I mean, really, is this the advice we're giving Josh Jacobs, Zach Charbonnet?
55:05Dave, none of these guys are available in my league.
55:08Help me out with the deep leagues. I think you're in good shape at quarterback.
55:12We talked about Bursette, Geno, Mariota. They're all available in at least 75% of CBS sports leagues.
55:18Obviously, if you're looking for a quarterback in Superflex, it's Jalen Daniels, who gives you some rushing upside for Tampa.
55:24Should be the three-week quarterback there while Baker Mayfield nurses his injury.
55:28And he does have a tendency – I went back and looked – to hyper-target his receivers.
55:33And, man, we could use somebody like that. Not that Baker didn't do that.
55:37He did. But at least that'll continue on, and hopefully he can be accurate and move away from pressure a little bit better than Baker Mayfield.
55:45So, Daniels, there's some intriguing upside there. Jameis Winston also should be mentioned he's available in 84% of CBS leagues.
55:51These next two games should be games where he can air it out against favorable matchups.
55:56I am hoping that he can come through. I'm actually hoping Malik Nabors can come through in those games.
56:02We talked about the Dolphins running backs. They're available in over 90% of leagues.
56:07Keaton Mitchell's available in 70%. Kendra Miller over 90%.
56:09Isaiah Davis, if you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel in PPR, he's available in 99% of leagues.
56:15I don't know if I have it in me to say, yeah, go pick up Najee Harris or Raheem Sanders.
56:21I'm not there. But they're available in a ton of leagues.
56:25Wide receiver, Tyreek Hill rostered in 8%. I would expect that number to go up now that there's news that he thinks he's closer to signing.
56:33There's a video of him running on the beach.
56:36It doesn't look quite like – Sylvester Stallone and Apollo Creed?
56:39Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so he's trying to do his Rocky impersonation.
56:43Right. Ravishing Rick Rude did the exact same thing before his steel cage match with the Ultimate Warrior for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam.
56:50It did not work for Rick Rude, but it might work for Tyreek Hill, especially if he reunites with the Chiefs.
56:57I think that that would be kind of interesting.
56:59Would want to have that guy on my bench.
57:02Jamie talked about the Dolphins receivers. Chris Bell had some good moments last week.
57:06Malik Washington, he could be a benefactor of the running back situation in Miami because he's a short area target.
57:13He had 10 PPR points, had a couple of carries last week.
57:16Maybe he gets a boost, but he's just not exciting.
57:19There's a little bit more with both the other Dolphins receivers, with Pat Bryant in Denver, Ted Hurst in Tampa.
57:26Those guys are available in a ton of leagues too.
57:29And then let's just say Sadiq and Waller are already rostered in your leagues and you can't get your clappies on him.
57:35Tyler Higbee, 2% rostered. The world left him for dead, except for Sean McVay.
57:40And now if there's no Puka, no Terrence Ferguson, he should have run a hell of a ton of routes and maybe
57:47even finish as a top 12 tight end against Philly.
57:50And maybe no Colby Parkinson as well. Yes, I would expect that.
57:53And speaking of Philadelphia, let's go real quick here on Chicago and Philadelphia.
57:57Sorry to shortchange it here, but a long waiver wire show today.
58:01And I want to make sure we get to the other names.
58:05Jamie, do you have general concerns about the Philadelphia offense right now?
58:09They only had the ball for 23 minutes. Basically, they ran 47 plays.
58:13They actually averaged the same yards per play as Chicago.
58:16I think Chicago 0.1 better. But yeah, not a lot of plays.
58:19Do you have concerns about the Eagles offense in general?
58:22I think you have to after what they did against Tennessee the previous week and then looking at what they did last night.
58:30Now, that being said, if Jalen Hurts doesn't get knocked out inside the goal, inside the red zone, does he get the touchdown?
58:37Does he throw a better pass than Andy Dalton?
58:39Do we get a score there and we feel a little bit different just about how they look in general because somebody else got you production?
58:47So I think when it comes down to the main players, I thought Saquon Barkley looked great.
58:53You know, he just didn't have the great fantasy day.
58:56But the concern about the neck, don't love to see the lack of work in the passing game.
59:01But I thought he ran amazing. You know, at one point he was averaging 6.7 yards per carry.
59:07So, you know, that looked like the Saquon Barkley of old.
59:10Devontae Smith, tough matchup against Jalen Johnson. Amazing catch on the sideline.
59:14That was just fantastic. So, you know, you want to see a little bit more from him, but eight targets, six for 65.
59:21That's not a bad day. You know, give him a touchdown.
59:24It's a much better day. And it really is just Jalen Hurts.
59:28You know, so again, if he has the other score, which he may have gotten, then we're talking about an 18 to 20 plus day.
59:36Like you're still feeling pretty confident. Just don't love it that he's coming off this game going in to face the Rams next week.
59:43Okay. And then on the Bears side of the ball, Dave, what's your message for Roma Doonsay managers and Colson Loveland managers?
59:50Uh, I'm sorry. I apologize. I, I certainly was excited about Colson Loveland, less excited about Roma Doonsay.
59:56And I thought that they would have much better years, but I failed to consider Kalief Raymond.
60:01Yeah, you did. And, and how silly of me to ignore Kalief Raymond throughout his entire career until this very moment when
60:08he stepped into this short area target role. You know, we, we talked about, well, who's going to be the Amunra St.
60:15Brown of this Bears offense. And we kind of just defaulted to burden, even though he wasn't entirely used that way last year.
60:22It's Kalief Raymond. I think he wears the same number as St.
60:25Brown too, but he's, he's, he's small, but he's shifty.
60:28He's very fast. He's doing a lot more than just short area catches.
60:32He's finding ways to get open and running away from defenders.
60:36And I think he's going to continue to be a thing and it's going to cost us with Loveland and Odunze.
60:42I don't think you can start Odunze with any confidence unless it's just against a crappy, crappy secondary.
60:48Or a defense that just gives up loads of red zone passing touchdowns.
60:52And maybe it's the same exact thing for Loveland at this point.
60:56So fortunately here we are in a week. We've, we've given Loveland three weeks.
61:00I made excuses in week one because the film showed it week two, week three, it's much, much harder to do.
61:06At least there's tight ends that you can go and pivot to and say, okay, I can put Loveland on the back burner or in a tenting league.
61:15I can cut Loveland and I can go start Sadiq Waller, maybe Higby, probably Higby to be perfectly blunt.
61:21But the one thing, and I wrote about this late in the week, I added it to the tough decision story that
61:28you can read on CBS sports.com every week. It would only make sense for the bears to get the ball out fast from case kingdom's hands.
61:36And since the start of last season, Luther burden far and away had the highest target per route run rate on throws of two seconds or faster.
61:44And that played out. And you saw it on the first drive.
61:48You saw it throughout the entire game. I think like two thirds of the throws from case kingdom yesterday were 2.5 seconds or less.
61:55So getting the ball out fast, designing plays for burden.
61:58Okay. At least he's hitting or at least he hit this week.
62:02I think he can keep hitting. Caleb Williams just has to learn to just play on time.
62:07And if he does that, the numbers will be there for burden.
62:11And Raymond does have rest of season appeal. So those are the two guys from Chicago and their passing game that I feel best about moving forward.
62:19And Swift, I thought played way better than Mononga.
62:22I love that he had twice as many carries at 70% of the snaps, maybe a little bit less than that.
62:29So Swift is kind of evolved into being the primary runner for Chicago and not a guy splitting drive after drive.
62:35Or maybe they did split. I didn't get a good beat on it.
62:39Not really. I mean, and I didn't know this, Adam.
62:42Encouraging. Mononga had that great drive late and then he got pulled and Swift came in at the goal line.
62:48Then Keenum is the one that finished that drive with a touchdown.
62:52But Swift was the one in there. So clearly Swift, he was already a must start.
62:57I'm not telling anything. But might be nervous about having Mononga on the bench as anything more than a handcuff to Swift.
63:04I think there's one thing to keep in mind.
63:07It's probably not going to happen. But does Beijing get the job next week if he's fully?
63:12I think they do the exact same thing if he does.
63:15Maybe. Maybe. I feel more confident in Keenum than I do in Beijing.
63:19Interesting. Swift, by the way. Yeah. I mean, Keenum almost threw like three pick sixes in this game.
63:25He got a little lucky. By the end of the game, he was off.
63:292023. Beijing was. Yeah. Beijing was that way in 2023.
63:32That's 100% true. However, he didn't have Ben Johnson.
63:35He didn't have Romo Doonze and Luther Burden and Colston Loveland and all that.
63:39You're right. I mean, look, I'll take this performance.
63:42I would not bench case Keenum if I were the Bears.
63:45But anyway, Devontae Smith came up a yard short of a touchdown.
63:49DeAndre Swift came up about a yard short of a touchdown.
63:53He has played seven goal line snaps compared to two from Mononga this year.
63:57He's had all four of the running back carries from the three-yard line or closer.
64:02So right now it does look like a really positive development for DeAndre Swift.
64:06Okay. The drop-o meter, zero to ten. Mark Andrews.
64:09Eight. Sure. Ten in a non-PPR. Marshawn Lloyd. Eight.
64:11Yeah, probably around there. Because now you start thinking about, well, do I want a running back who's struggling behind a bad
64:18offensive line and splitting two ways in Green Bay?
64:21Or a running back who's going to split two or three ways in Miami, in New Orleans, with the Jets?
64:27Lloyd's spinning three ways, too. I know. I think at some point, was it you who said Chris Brooks is probably going
64:34to get a look at some point, Jamie? Because I said that after week one, I think Caleb Johnson is probably getting the bigger opportunity.
64:42He just looked the best of the three guys so far.
64:45I don't know if either one of them looks great.
64:48But I wonder if Brooks ends up getting at least some chances to run with the ball.
64:53Is Caleb Johnson in this discussion with Isaiah Davis and all these guys?
64:57Do you want the second two guys? I think if you're comparing any of the Packers running backs, I'd rather have Braylon
65:04Allen or I'd rather take a chance on a Dolphins guy and I'd rather take a chance on a Saints guy.
65:11Yeah. Kyle Pitts, drop a meter. Brooks is the one who's playing when they're passing and when they're trailing.
65:17Pitts is a five. Sure. Five's fine. Okay. Xavier Worthy.
65:20Ten. I was hoping that Worthy would have a much bigger game against Miami.
65:24Ten. Just say ten. I'll say ten. Quentin Johnston.
65:27No, I'm going to say nine. Shut up, Adam.
65:30Okay. Now you can say ten. Quentin Johnston. I'm not going to say ten.
65:34I'm going to say seven. Seattle, Denver, Kansas City by Rams, Houston.
65:38Have fun, Quentin Johnston. Bench receiver. For six more weeks.
65:41Denzel Boston. Zero. Three. Three. Would you drop him for Kenan?
65:44Would you drop Denzel Boston for Kenan Allen? If I needed to start one of the two, I would.
65:50Same thing with Khalif Raymond as well. Bench receiver.
65:53Casey Concepcion. I'd rather have Boston than Concepcion. Seven.
65:56Seven. Yeah, I get it. If you're in the position to stash Concepcion, he's playing more now.
66:01He had a season-high route run rate. He had nine targets.
66:04Production hasn't been there. Michael Pittman. I think Aaron Rodgers is ready to drop him.
66:09Yeah. Ken. Nine. Go look it up. If you know, you know, I guess.
66:13Drake May. Ten-team leagues. This is an eight. I think if it's a 12-team league, it's probably more of like a five.
66:20Ten-team league, he's a 50. And in a 12-team league, he's a 10.
66:24Don't you think we should give him at least some chance once A.J.
66:28Brown comes back? I don't disagree with that at all.
66:31But there's just so many quarterbacks available right now.
66:34And you can't start Drake May. He's going to take up a spot on your bench.
66:39So if you have the bench space to carry him, sure, carry him.
66:43But I think with bye weeks coming up and all these other players that are available, like here's three quarterbacks for you.
66:50Which two are you carrying? Jacoby Brissett, Tyler Shuck, Drake May.
66:53Oh, it's adios. It's adios Brissett, to be honest.
66:56I guess that's fair. It probably was the best example.
66:59But Shuck is my starter. Yeah. All right. Give me another one.
67:03I want to say May. It's not clear that Aaron Rodgers was cursing at Michael Pittman, but it seemed that way.
67:09Corlin Sutton. I don't think Rodgers curses at anybody.
67:12Corlin Sutton is like a seven or an eight.
67:15I don't know when I'd start him. And I kind of like Pat Bryant better.
67:19Corlin Sutton is eight. Yeah. Brian Thomas Jr. Ten.
67:22Yeah, I'll say nine. All right. Let's go back to the waiver wire.
67:26I think this is a Jacoby week, by the way, for the Jaguars.
67:30Okay. Well, he's available in some leagues as well.
67:33So Jacoby Brissett and Marcus Mariota are the top two priorities for Jamie Brissett.
67:37More long-term Mariota would be ranked ahead of Brissett this week if Jaden Daniels is out, but we don't know.
67:43And then there's Geno Smith, who's got Chicago on the road and he's playing pretty well, even though he's only had one good fantasy game.
67:51But what about Daniel Jones, Jamie? Washington has given up 30 or more fantasy points to Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott, and Sam Darnold.
67:58And none of them had a rushing touchdown. That's the other amazing thing.
68:02What about Daniel Jones this week? He's right behind those guys.
68:06You know, so if you can't get, you know, any of the top three, at least for me, I think Daniel Jones,
68:12you just take a chance with the matchup. So two of the three quarterbacks are clearly very good fantasy quarterbacks in Jalen
68:19Hurts and Dak Prescott and Sam Darnold, just with the way that the Seahawks are playing, plus the fact that he beat
68:26up this defense last week, I think, or last year, excuse me, on top of last week, that you could buy into
68:33just Sam Darnold having a great day and being a good fantasy quarterback.
68:37So Jones is the one that's hard to buy, but if you do like just chasing matchups, it's the best matchup you can find.
68:44And then do you see any long-term appeal for, like last week we talked about, you got to pick up Bryce Young and Tyler Shuck, right?
68:52Even if you don't need a quarterback, these guys have long-term appeal.
68:56Do you see it for anyone else? Brissette, Mariota, Geno Smith, Daniel Jones, Kirk Cousins, who's among the touchdown leaders in the NFL.
69:03Deshaun Watson is running pretty well right now. Penix, Rodgers, Jameis, blah, blah, blah, not them.
69:08But Dave, any long-term appeal? Any quarterbacks that are just guys to get?
69:12No. And the nice thing about it is there are so many quarterbacks that you can look at off the waiver wire
69:19each week and say, oh, there's a good matchup here.
69:22Maybe I can stream them. And then next week you'll make a switch and you'll go to a different quarterback.
69:28So Geno might be the only one just because even with Brees Hall on the field, it's not like the run game
69:35has been awesome for the Jets except when they played the Titans.
69:38But I'm not going to – I would say it for Brissette, but we know that their season could go sideways and
69:45when it does, it's going to be Carson Beck.
69:48Same thing with the Raiders. Either they keep winning and Cousins keeps going like he's doing, which would surprise me, and that
69:55would give them rest of season appeal. I just don't buy it.
69:59They're eventually going to turn to Mendoza. So I don't know if there's a quarterback here that I would look at.
70:05Yeah, I would say for Brissette. I think it's just – track record is pretty solid for what he did last year.
70:12There's two games so far this season. I think if he had gotten that second touchdown in week one when he threw
70:1937 times, you'd say, okay, here it is again.
70:21It's another 20-point game. That would be two of three.
70:25You know that they're going to be in these scenarios of most likely chasing points and playing some defenses that – I
70:31thought going into the week, San Francisco's defense was going to be tough.
70:35And then they lose Nick Bosa and San Francisco's defense, not tough.
70:39So there's going to be injuries that occur for this terrible schedule that we knew going into the season, and it's already happened one time.
70:47You're going to get probably a lot of 40-plus, 50-plus pass attempt games for Jacoby Brissette.
70:52I think he's worth – he's got some long-term appeal for sure.
70:55Listen, we thought – you're right, but this schedule was tough.
70:59Now look, it's the Giants without Brian Burns. It's the Lions without a secondary.
71:03The Rams in week six. Okay, that could be really tough.
71:07Denver in week seven. And then – Same thing.
71:09Yes. I'm a little nervous about how many games you get out of Brissette.
71:14Even with Bryce Young and Tyler Shuck, Shuck, you could say, okay, maybe a little bit safer.
71:19We just saw Bryce Young get pummeled against the Browns.
71:22So there's going to be bad games for these guys as the season unfolds.
71:26You just know what Brissette is. Volume, volume, volume.
71:29And that's going to lead to a lot of big fantasy games.
71:33Okay. Let's go to other running backs here. We've talked about the situations that you need to know about.
71:39There's also Mike Washington Jr. gets some carries and guys like that.
71:42There's Keaton Mitchell. Dave talked about him. But that's basically it.
71:46And then I brought up Caleb Johnson. You guys didn't seem too jazzed about him, although it did seem like Caleb Johnson
71:53was taking over a little bit toward the end of that game.
71:56And then we've got – let me just ask you about one more guy that we haven't talked about, Jamie.
72:02Emmanuel Wilson. Any interest there? No. Okay, great. And he's rostered in 53% of leagues already.
72:07Oh, sorry. I didn't realize I couldn't bring up a guy who's half-owned.
72:11No, no, no. I'm just saying. Like, all the typical 12-team leagues probably already have Emmanuel Wilson.
72:17He's going to get dropped in so many leagues because he picked up last week with the idea of Dadarian Price maybe missing because of the chest injury.
72:25He's rostered in almost as many leagues as TyJ Spears, a few more leagues than Chris Rodriguez.
72:31Okay. Are we talking about those guys? All right.
72:33All right. Let's go to the wide receivers. On the want-to roster-o-meter, Jordan Addison, 0-10.
72:3811. Trey Tucker? 7. 9. Don Savion Wicks? 7.
72:417. Jacoby Myers? 9. 7 this week, 5 overall.
72:44Okay. And why do you like Myers this week?
72:46Just the matchup against Cincinnati in the way that their secondary plays.
72:50And it should be a high-scoring game. All right.
72:53So then we've got Keenan Allen. Would you add Keenan Allen over – not over Addison, I assume, but would you add
73:00Keenan Allen over Tucker, Wicks, and Myers? If I need somebody for this week, yes.
73:04I don't know if I would do it over Tucker, but over Wicks and Myers, yes.
73:09Raymond? I think I'm sold on Raymond rest of season over Keenan Allen, too.
73:13For this week, I like Allen. Rest of season, I'll take Raymond.
73:17Yeah, I got to work on it. I just haven't heard it in a while.
73:22We're going to start seeing fantasy team names. Everybody loves Raymond, and Kalief Raymond is starting for somebody.
73:27Or the Colson Loveland manager is going to be everybody hates Raymond.
73:31You do have Malik Washington, who has eight or more targets in two of three games.
73:36I used to love Raymond. Everybody loves Raymond except Loveland.
73:39Used to love Raymond, then I love Lind less.
73:42There's something. ChatGPT could probably – I'll ask ChatGPT.
73:45Anyone else want to talk about? Mack Hollins, Kanata Mumfield, but we're expecting – well, no, we're not expecting.
73:51We're hopeful that Puka comes back this week, Bryson Tremaine, if Coker's out.
73:55He was interesting. He was interesting. Yeah, he had six targets on 48 pass attempts, so I don't know.
74:00But you know what? If Coker plays, he's pretty much useless.
74:04If Xavier Leggett comes back, he's useless. These are deep league options.
74:08These are guillotine league options. These are desperation plays.
74:10I'd rather have Bryant and Hurst, and they're out there in a ton of leagues.
74:15Yeah, I can't play Hurst this week, though, with Jalen Daniels against them.
74:19I kind of like Daniels. What else we got?
74:22Against Green Bay, too. Trey Harris had seven targets.
74:24Oh, I'll give you three names. These are IR stash guys, but James Conner, we talked about this on Sunday.
74:31If he's healthy, how do the Cardinals not trade him to a team that needs a running back?
74:36Why did they trade him when he was healthy?
74:39Because he wasn't really healthy for that long. He was banged up for a lot of the preseason.
74:45And then two receivers, Jordan Tyson, we talk about him every week.
74:48You could stash him on IR. Dijon Stribbling could be back soon.
74:52No, he's out 10 weeks. Is it 10 weeks?
74:55Yeah, he's out a while. You could still stash him on the IR.
74:59Okay. I'll throw out. Well, how about drop or hold Rashad Bateman?
75:02Drop. Drop in smaller leagues. I would obviously rather have Allen, Raymond, Mitchell.
75:07So, yeah, I guess he's a drop in 12-team leagues, too.
75:10All right. And then Dave mentioned, yeah, Adonai Mitchell.
75:13Tight ends. You got Jawan Johnson and Jake Ferguson in the shallow leagues.
75:17Would you just hang on to Jawan Johnson, or are you getting Darren Waller and Kenyon Sadiq?
75:22Jamie? Jawan Johnson. Okay. But I would drop Jake Ferguson for those guys in a heartbeat.
75:27Okay. Would you drop Jake Ferguson for Tyler Higbee?
75:30I think I would. I mean, at some point, we're just going to say this is who Jake Ferguson is, you know,
75:36as opposed to chasing and chasing and chasing and chasing, you know.
75:40So, he's on a great offense, and he scores touchdowns.
75:43Like, I don't know what the problem is. Because he's got a 13% target.
75:48Yeah, targets aren't there. But you can't do it.
75:50I mean, if he had scored week one, and he fell a yard short, and then he gets to two touchdowns in
75:57week two, and another touchdown in week three. Like.
76:00I mean, I guess you could have the Mark Andrews year from two years ago.
76:05So, he had 70 targets. Yeah. Or the Dallas Goddard year from last year.
76:09Yeah. I feel like Goddard had more targets than this.
76:12He was. But there's also the chance of, hey, CeeDee Lamb or George Pickens gets hurt, and Jake Ferguson is a monster.
76:19So. I mean, that's true. But there's also a chance.
76:22And there's a chance that Puka Nakua comes back, and we might not want Tyler Higbee at all.
76:27Well, that's part of it. We keep chasing this.
76:30Like, Sadiq looks awesome. First-round talent. Mitchell comes back.
76:33Not playing Detroit anymore, and he stinks. You know, Darren Waller gets maybe a one-week scenario of, you get the Lions and Cokers out, and then he stinks.
76:42Right. He stinks. And he stinks. And he stinks.
76:44And there's just Jake Ferguson scoring on five targets on a week-to-week base.
76:48Oh, five would be great. Brenton Strange gets the Bengals this week.
76:52Like, Friermuth wasn't great, but the Pittsburgh tight ends had six catches for 99 yards last week.
76:57Well, there was a bust with Darnell Washington rumbling for a big game.
77:01Well, that's... Roger's breaking that down on our post-game broadcast for CBS was pretty cool.
77:06Oh, I didn't see that. He goes, I threw a two-yard pass, and I turned my head and just watched the big fellow rumble.
77:13Yeah, I love Darnell Washington. I wish they'd throw to him more.
77:17Arande Gadsden, I guess, still has the same ability.
77:20Ten on the droppel meter. Noah Fant had a 35% route run rate.
77:24Right. So, if you drop Jake Ferguson and you want a tight end that can score a touchdown, Fant's done that.
77:30Two of three weeks just like Ferguson. I'm not dropping Jake Ferguson for Noah Fant.
77:35I'm not doing that either, but I don't feel really good starting either one of them.
77:40What are you doing about Dalton Schultz and Isaiah Likely?
77:43Holding. Holding if not starting. Schultz, I wouldn't start if Nico plays.
77:47Agreed. Right. So, then you could look to the waiver wire.
77:50Sometimes it might be hard. Well, I mean, if that's your only tight end, yes.
77:55Okay, no, let's say Dalton Schultz, your only tight end.
77:58You make a move for- I'm dropping it for Darren Waller in a heartbeat.
78:02Sadiq? Sadiq too. For Sadiq this week, yeah. Yeah, you're streaming at that point.
78:07And DSTs, the Packers, the Bills, the Browns, the Bears, Beats, Battlestar Galactica, the Kickers, Trace Mack, Cairo Santos, Drew Stevens, Daniel Carlson, Spencer Schrader.
78:14Well, I knew it was going to be a long one today.
78:18We needed it. We needed to talk it out.
78:21I feel better now. Thank you guys for your help.
78:24You said, what's your bid on Bray and Alan?
78:27You said you're going to tell us. Oh, it's pretty aggressive.
78:30I don't think I did say that. I don't think I want to tell you.
78:35No, the percentage. You said you're going to say the percentage of your remaining fab.
78:39Oh, 30-ish. Okay, there you go. But now I'm screwed.
78:42Thanks, Jamie. Thanks for ruining my whole season. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
78:46You didn't give an LOL at the end of that one, did you?
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