Week 6 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings: Best Pickups, FAAB Bids & Players to Drop (Ep. 2257)
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54 min
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Oct 12, 2026
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Mon, October 12, 2026
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David MontgomeryWoody MarksAaron RodgersAdonai MitchellAlvin KamaraDarius CooperDarren WallerDK MetcalfEmmett JohnsonJaleel McLaughlinJordyn TysonKendrick BourneKirk CousinsPat Freiermuth
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Aaron Rodgers
PositiveProjection46:02
Aaron Rodgers is a top QB streamer for Week 6, having thrown three touchdown passes in three consecutive games and averaging 275 passing yards over that stretch.
Insight pageAdonai Mitchell
PositiveSleeper48:26
Adonai Mitchell is a high-priority waiver add at 21% ownership; he is the clear number two receiver and is expected to return from a finger injury.
Insight pageAlvin Kamara
NegativeUsage13:54
Alvin Kamara is dealing with a back issue, but it is not expected to impact his availability. He remains the primary back for the Saints, though he is part of a messy committee with Kendrick Miller and CJ Donaldson.
Insight pageDarius Cooper
NegativeBust34:54
The source labels Darius Cooper as 'fool's gold,' noting that his snap share and production will likely plummet once Devante Smith returns to the lineup.
Insight pageDarren Waller
PositiveUsage44:46
Darren Waller is a recommended tight end streamer; 84.6% of his receptions have gone for first downs or touchdowns, and he is well-positioned to exploit the middle of the field against the Eagles.
Insight pageDavid Montgomery
NegativeInjury2:09
David Montgomery suffered a groin injury and is expected to miss multiple weeks, including a Week 8 bye. The source notes that Montgomery has been inefficient compared to Woody Marks, and there is concern he could return to a timeshare role upon recovery.
Insight pageNegativeValue40:06
David Montgomery is a potential cut candidate in leagues without an IR spot, especially in 10-team formats, due to his current injury status and lack of production.
Insight pageDK Metcalf
NegativeUsage20:37
The source expresses frustration with DK Metcalf's volatility and lack of high-ceiling production, noting he often provides low reception totals and few big games. While the source debates whether he is a cut candidate in 10-team leagues, the consensus is that he remains a volatile asset rather than a reliable weekly starter.
Insight pageEmmett Johnson
NegativeDepth Chart50:32
Emmett Johnson is a valuable handcuff running back stash with no standalone value, but he is a recommended hold for managers of Kenneth Walker.
Insight pageJaleel McLaughlin
PositiveBreakout20:43
Jaleel McLaughlin is a player to monitor closely due to injuries in the Browns' backfield. With Quinchan Judkins in a walking boot and Raheem Sanders dealing with a hip injury, McLaughlin could emerge as the lead back. He is noted for his efficiency and pass-catching ability.
Insight pageJordyn Tyson
PositiveSleeper24:24
Jordan Tyson is a high-upside stash candidate who could return as early as Week 9. Despite recurring soft-tissue injury concerns, his talent as a top-10 draft pick makes him a priority add in shallow leagues where he is available. The source suggests a FAAB bid of 6-12% to secure him before his return.
Insight pageKendrick Bourne
PositiveUsage28:57
Kendrick Bourne is a recommended pickup following the trade of Marvin Harrison Jr., which elevates Bourne to the clear WR2 role for the Cardinals. He has seen significant target volume (8 targets in his last game) and is a plug-and-play option despite some upcoming tough matchups. Recommended FAAB is 3-6%.
Insight pageKirk Cousins
PositiveProjection44:10
Kirk Cousins is a recommended QB streamer for Week 6 against the Bills, currently ranking as QB11 in fantasy points per game despite a recent one-touchdown performance.
Insight pagePat Freiermuth
NegativeUsage46:17
Pat Friermuth is a touchdown-dependent tight end streamer who has yet to record a 50-yard receiving game this season but has managed four touchdowns.
Insight pageRJ Harvey
PositiveRole40:40
RJ Harvey is a keep, having recorded 20 catches in his first three games, and remains a high-upside stash who is one injury away from significant volume.
Insight pageRoman Wilson
PositiveInjury31:55
Roman Wilson is expected to miss multiple weeks after dislocating his finger, removing him from consideration as a waiver target.
Insight pageRomeo Doubs
NegativeBust42:31
Romeo Dobbs is an easy cut candidate, as he is viewed as a replacement-level receiver who has been overpriced since draft season and lacks a clear path to consistent production.
Insight pageRyan Flournoy
PositiveSleeper35:34
Ryan Flournoy is a recommended target if CeeDee Lamb misses time due to his quad injury. Flournoy is the WR2 in the Dallas offense and has shown big-play ability.
Insight pageWoody Marks
PositiveUsage1:44
Woody Marks is the top waiver priority due to David Montgomery's groin injury, which is expected to keep him out for multiple weeks. Marks is expected to handle the vast majority of carries and contribute in the passing game. Jake Seeley notes that Marks has looked better than Montgomery this season, citing improved metrics in EPA rushes, long touches, and first downs per attempt. He is considered a 'buy high' target for running back-needy teams, with a potential for sustained RB2 value even after Montgomery returns.
Insight pagePositiveValue47:51
Woody Marks is a top waiver wire priority for Week 6, with recommended FAAB bids up to 20%.
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Episode Transcript
0:00This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Over 50% rostered for this running back who is going to take over a gig
0:06for at least a couple weeks with a major injury.
0:09There's some wide receivers that are coming off of injury here soon that we might want to target.
0:14There's some other just big performances that are going to be attractive to your FAB and your waiver wire claims, but how attractive and who is out there?
0:22That's what we're going to be covering on the Week 6 Waivers.
0:25I'm Chris Welsh. I'm back. We've got the great and powerful Pat Fitzmorris and the Athletics.
0:30One and only Jake Seeley. Thank goodness. Both of you fine gentlemen.
0:33It's great to see. Yeah, thank goodness. It's good to see you guys both again and it's good to see your take
0:40on what is kind of a squirrely waiver week.
0:42Per always, there's always like some decent wide receivers.
0:45What's going to look good out of it? But the running back situation is unique as we always do tackling the top name here.
0:51This is probably the highest roster percentage of a player we've talked about in previous weeks and we've kind of had battles.
0:58Now battles between players. One reason we don't have a battle here was Jake is so anti one of these players, but
1:04the top dog to talk about for this one is Woody Marks.
1:07Now, Woody Marks at a 53% roster percentage on Yahoo just scratches the line, just puts his foot and puts it right
1:14over the line of like where we would usually talk about because any deep leaguers are going to go, not in my league.
1:20But there's plenty of 10 teams. And you know what?
1:23There just still might be some floating out there because the Texans job hadn't exactly been the most exciting outside of week one.
1:29But Dave Montgomery suffers a groin injury, expected to miss multiple weeks.
1:33They've got a week eight by. So that gives a little bit of a runway.
1:37So Fitzy, let's talk about your take on Woody Marks here.
1:40Again, we are towing the line of roster percentage here, but he looks like he's kind of the clear cover boy for waivers for week six.
1:48He is. And we're back to where we were late last season with the Texans and Woody Marks having the backfield to
1:54himself, but he's actually played a little better. It seems this year than last year.
1:58And maybe the Texans offensive line is if not quite where it wants to be at, at least on the come up.
2:04So he's kind of this backfield to himself. He not only is going to get a vast majority of the carries while
2:10David Montgomery is out, he is a pass catching running back.
2:14So that's going to help his value a little bit.
2:16And the only thing is that talking about the availability, he's more likely to be available in these shallow leagues where people are less apt to need him.
2:2410 teamers leagues where it's just kind of easier to fill those starting spots in the leagues where people most need him
2:31at those deep 12 teamers for those 14 teamers where the depth is going to be stretched by a 14 by week.
2:37He's probably not available. Mr. Jake Seeley, Woody Marks 53% roster percentage Jags is going to be the week six matchup.
2:43There's a bi-week in week eight. Like what's the level of attractiveness that Woody Marks holds if available out there?
2:48Cause you know, there's some people out there that were probably like, you know what?
2:53I'm just this Texans thing and just kind of vaulted him out there.
2:56And there are going to be people battling in waivers, but how aggressive should battlers be?
3:01And what do you think even based on the matchups coming up?
3:04Yeah. So I think that's the point where I was going to go with it too.
3:09It's not just the fact that he is out there, blow your number one spot, spend your fab, do what you got to do.
3:15I would consider this for the people that are like, not in my league.
3:19Well then here, this is for you in your league.
3:22I would consider him a buy high, mostly because talked about it for the past few weeks.
3:27I think he's looked better than David Montgomery. And now that's relative to this team.
3:31But if you look at a lot of his numbers, the yards per touch isn't as good as last year, but part of that is the offensive line.
3:39And like, he's doing the best he can. Fitz brought up the fact that he's been better in the passing game.
3:45But also, if you just look at it, you take like EPA rushes of over 10 plus yards, touches over 20 plus
3:51yards, touchdowns and first downs per attempt. Like all these things, like he's better than last year to back up what I'm saying, like what I've seen.
3:59And I think that if you watch the games and you said you didn't know these two players, you would say that guy looks like the better player.
4:07That's the better running back. So I would consider him a buy high.
4:11I'm not saying like go crazy to go get him in trades and everything like that.
4:15But if somebody's going to say, oh, you know what?
4:18I don't really – as what Fitz was saying is like, yeah, maybe I had depth.
4:23Maybe I'm in a shallow league and I still had him and I just don't need him.
4:27But you can go buy for like low end RB2 value.
4:30We have the week eight buyer for them. You're going to get the next two weeks with that workload that we used
4:37to have him as an RB2 last year when he was super inefficient.
4:40And then what if he comes out of the buy and he keeps the lead and David Montgomery ends up being a
4:47timeshare as in the short yard, maybe steal some goal line opportunities, which will be frustrating.
4:51But what if it ends up being a 60-40 split out of the buy and Montgomery is in the back half of
4:57it and you still have an RB2 going forward?
5:00So that's why I think if you're running back needy, I think you can quote buy high.
5:05And like I said, if he is available, this is one where I'd actually be more aggressive than we were last week.
5:11And you know what? I love that you pointed that out because I think that's the big determining factor is like, what
5:17if the share looks even bigger coming off of the buy?
5:20We're just expecting that David Montgomery come. But David Montgomery has been more inefficient than he has efficient on this team.
5:26It's one week where he's been rosterable. And Woody Marks has looked a lot better.
5:30It's Jags in week seven, Giants in week. I'm sorry, Jags in week six, Giants in week seven.
5:36That's great. Then the buy. Yeah, yeah. Terrible is then great.
5:39So it looks really good for Woody Marks. Fitzy, what's your take on the percentages of spending here?
5:44Because I'm not sure if your excitement level was quite at Jake's because Jake is like burn number one, burn high fab.
5:50You know, that probably means for people is like he's actually not one of those guys you probably have to go like
5:5630, 40 percent, but you could probably go 20, 25 percent.
5:59But Fitzy, what's your take on fab percentage and waiver claim to Woody Marks?
6:03I agree with that. If you're desperate at running back, I'd be willing to pay up to like 25 or 30 percent
6:09just because there are so few suitable alternatives to him this week.
6:13Whilst you use the word squirrely to describe waivers this week, that was a brilliant euphemism for dog excrement or whatever you
6:19might otherwise use to describe waivers in week six.
6:22Yeah, a more appropriate family friendly, family friendly version of it.
6:25Well, we can talk about that. That's definitely in the realm of possibility of what other running backs could be floating out there.
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7:10All right. So what are the running backs look like?
7:13So going into this week, by the way, is just an update as we always want to do.
7:18We do have some bye weeks. We've got a heavy set of bye weeks.
7:22We've got Cincinnati, Detroit, Miami, and Minnesota. So you're going to be without running back perspective, Chase Brown.
7:27You're going to be about Jameer Gibbs, which is the big one.
7:30Aaron Jones, if you care about Ollie Gordon. You know, so you've got some big shoes to fill for waivers this week.
7:36Unfortunately, you don't have big shoes outside of Woody Marks.
7:39They're a little bit smaller. Woody Marks coming off of his 15 carry, 62 yard output, four for 23.
7:45Really the best overall output of any of these guys.
7:47But here's some running backs I'll throw out at you.
7:50The one that I thought about, and actually I'm going to stop at this guy for a second and then we'll kind
7:56of go through these other names because I think they all belong in the same range.
8:01I thought there might be the possibility of putting Kendrick Miller up against Woody Marks.
8:05He was 11 for 30, got the touchdown, kind of speculated with HN out that, you know, Miller, Kamara wasn't an all Kamara output.
8:12Uh, he's around 12, 12.8% roster percentage, Kendrick Miller 11 for 30 with a score.
8:16Fitzy any excitement, anything for Kendrick Miller? Again, this is definitely the squirrely group here, but Kendrick Miller does seem like someone that could potentially fill some shoes.
8:24Well, what say you? It's hard to get excited because the Saints offensive line has been really bad since they lost, uh,
8:30Kelvin Banks, their stud tackle to a high ankle sprain, I believe.
8:34And they've got Alvin Kamara in there and Alvin Kamara has been dealing with this back issue, but it's not so debilitating
8:40that there are concerns about his availability. So he's going to be playing.
8:44We only saw Kendrick Miller get 14 snaps on Sunday.
8:47Now he did get carries on a high percentage of them.
8:50He had 10 carries in his 14 snaps, but just not have much happening on the ground for the Saints right now.
8:56And my percentages are off. It's even less, not even 12.8%.
8:59It's 7%. So I'm going to go read, check all my roster percentages here, but they're all messed up.
9:04But this is the one, Jake, where you were like, uh, no.
9:08Well, let's just say this. You were like, no on Kendrick Miller.
9:11This is about, I think the other like real name outside of Woody Marks.
9:15It looks like, you know, there's some goal line equity.
9:18There's some, there's some type of equity. It's not exciting, but you really weren't excited about Kendrick.
9:23No, it's Woody Marks. I don't want anybody else.
9:25It's a bunch of steaming pile of whatever squirrely word that was the euphemism for us.
9:30Yeah. It's a, but squirrel, you know what? Excrement.
9:32Now it really comes down to like the only other name we haven't mentioned it yet.
9:37I would actually be honest, Damian Pierce, just because he's going to get offset by bell cow volume potentially.
9:42If Barkley isn't back and Shipley is out. And even that's like, no, because the biggest thing about Kendrick Miller, zero touches
9:48in the fourth quarter, zero, they, they, they're snaps even on top of it.
9:52Not just touches snaps. Like they, once they were down, they went to the Alvin Kamara, CJ Donaldson split backfield.
9:58So if we're doing a full blown committee and this mess of a backfield with what Fitz brought up is just, I
10:04know they get the giants, but you're basically saying, are the saints in it?
10:08Cool. Kendrick Miller might be an RB three. Are the saints out of it?
10:12Cool. Alvin Kamara might be as RB three. And then CJ Donaldson is just going to be hanging around just in the background somewhere.
10:19So like, no, this is what the Packers were before this, before they went down to two.
10:24So maybe if we got down to two, maybe if Kamara gets hurt again or Miller gets hurt or CJ, like I
10:30can't believe we're saying that CJ Donaldson needs to be out of the equation, but he's getting touched.
10:35He's the only one that got touches like consistently through the game.
10:39He got touches with Kendrick Miller when they were close.
10:41And then Kamara had like, I think like one or two.
10:44And then Kamara got the touches in the snaps in the fourth quarter and CJ Donaldson was still sprinkled in the third quarter.
10:51So I want nothing to do with him. I want nothing to do with all the rest.
10:56I know Badal, but I mean, the chargers are just this it's Los Angeles saints, same thing.
11:01And their offensive line is even worse. So you can go down the list.
11:05I know you want to throw out some of the other names, but the only one I would have mild, mild, mild interest in.
11:11And then again, that's kind of in a situation like I was last week.
11:15I'm not saying that I'm just bringing up the examples.
11:18I had Woody Marks, Braylon Allen, and somebody else is my RB two is because Kenneth Walker is on a buy.
11:24So if you're in that kind of situation, you have to be like, okay, I just need a body to throw for Damian Pierce.
11:31That would be the only one I'd have interest in.
11:34So Kendrick Miller, again, 11 for 30 with a touchdown.
11:37Damian Pierce, as you mentioned, only 2% on. He went 11, but only for 14.
11:41Gross. Potential workload there. The Kamani Vidal situation, it's going to show it's in a manifest in another way and hear in
11:47a tiny bit, but he's 2% on. He was 8 for 57 in a score.
11:51It's all gross. Tajay Spears is actually the funniest one because he literally had zero yards rushing, but he had nine catches
11:57and it was like for like 20 something yards, which is it's absolutely the line of scleries across the board.
12:0323 yards. Corey Kiner, six for 52. We're going to throw out Jaleel McLaughlin, Pierce Strong.
12:08Those are a few names here. Fitzie, I'd be curious, what are the names of interest here and what are the, let's talk about Fab for a second.
12:16Then we'll go back to Jake here. Throw Kendrick Miller back in here as far as like what you would do for
12:22Fab, but are there a couple of names on this RB ad list that if you are in desperation world, you would
12:28potentially put a buck or two on and what does it look like?
12:32I don't think I'm going to double digits on any player in Fab this week.
12:36Like if I were really desperate in a 14 or 16 team league, I don't want to go more than like $8 for Kendrick Miller.
12:43The one guy I think we should maybe keep an eye on this week early as far as the injury news goes,
12:49Jaleel McLaughlin for the Browns because Quinchan Judkins was in a walking boot reportedly after the Browns Jets game on Sunday and
12:55Raheem Sanders, Rocket Sanders went out with a hip injury in that game and they already had Dylan Sampson on IR with, I believe, a knee injury.
13:03So it's possible Jaleel McLaughlin is top of the heap for the Browns in week six.
13:08And this is a guy who I think was the college all-time rushing leader coming out of Youngstown State with more than 8,000 yards when he came out.
13:16Averaged 4.9 yards per carry his first three seasons in the league, had 55 catches over his first two seasons in Denver.
13:22Guy can actually play a little and there's a chance he's the number one back in Cleveland.
13:27It's silly. Same thing on any of these names.
13:29I know you said, you said your interest was so little.
13:32I would just be curious at the money. That's the only thing you didn't say on fab of like, who is it?
13:38The guy you were saying Damien Pierce with any potential workload that could be floating out there.
13:43What is that money? Single digits. Like it'd be like $4 and I missed them.
13:48No problem. Honestly, that was the one other name I was saving because I knew you're going to bring up all the rest of the names.
13:55Kiner's interesting if Henderson's missing significant time just because, okay, you're one more injury away from, probably they signed somebody off their practice squad or off the street.
14:03But a little burst in his game could be a 50-50 split on the Patriots offense.
14:07It'd be a desperation RB3 for deeper people out there.
14:10But the other name I was going to bring up is what Fitz just said about McLaughlin.
14:15If we knew, like let's put this right now, right now today, there's no Barkley, there's no Shipley, there is no Judkins, there is no Raheem Sanders.
14:23I would go higher on McLaughlin. I would go seven or eight.
14:26I would rather have McLaughlin even going against, I mean, the Ravens versus going against the Jaguars.
14:31You don't want to start against the Jaguars. So I would go in that situation there to go back to the Woody
14:37Marks situation is that like the ranks could be close for that.
14:40That's why I bring up the Jaguars. But I think McLaughlin would be interesting in that situation.
14:45The weird thing was like the Judkins was that there's no news about it.
14:49And then the boot. And I've seen some, like it happened earlier this year.
14:53I forget who the player was, but it could be as something as simple, got stepped on and cut his foot and
14:59they just don't want to make sure something happens walking out of the stadium.
15:03I know exactly what you're talking about. Like he left the stadium with the boot.
15:08And then it was like the very next day they were like, it was just to protect his foot on the way out of the stadium.
15:15I feel like it was a wide receiver. God, it's going to kill me now.
15:19Someone in the comments is going to get it, but I know.
15:23But anyway, so like hopefully that's the case. But if not, yeah, I agree with Fitz on McLaughlin.
15:28All right. It's yucky and it's gross. Running backs.
15:30It's Woody Marks. It's maybe small sprinkles of Kendrick Miller, Damian Pierce and everything else.
15:34Wait, wait, wait. Sorry to jump back in. Well, I should do it like for everybody that hates when I do that.
15:41But how weird is that that the top waiver pickup for two weeks in a row is getting to face Jacksonville?
15:47I just thought about that. That's why I was just bringing it up.
15:50Oh, that is weird actually. Get the Jaguars. Who's playing the Jaguars next week?
15:54Yeah. Yeah. Actually, look, I think I actually have it up here.
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16:00You're done. Oh, boy. Is that who it is?
16:03Yeah, they get the Colts. I think they're on a bye.
16:06It's not great that all these hot waiver pickups suddenly going against one of the best run defenses in the NFL.
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17:47One thing you do know is there's not going to be any running backs.
17:51So running backs, pretty eh. Wide receivers looks a little bit different, and we've got some more names that are floating out there.
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18:34Let's go look at the wide receivers. Now, this is where we have got some differences.
18:39I didn't even really ask you guys because we'd had a consensus that the top name was Woody Marks on running backs.
18:45The top name on wide receivers, it's not the same.
18:48So Jake, why don't you kick us off here?
18:51Who is your top wide receiver ad? And then after we get your big wide receivers, we'll go through kind of a list of some others.
18:58But who tops the list for you? For me, it flashed a little bit earlier this season.
19:03It's a rookie playing with a quarterback who inherently hates rookies.
19:06But I'm going for Jeremy Bernard. It really comes down to there's nobody left standing next to DK Metcalf.
19:11We had Michael Pittman, who was a drop candidate and then got hurt.
19:15And then on top of it, we had Roman Wilson, which looked like he was going to be exciting.
19:20We talked about him last week. And the concern was that Fitz brought up at the time was that he wasn't even
19:26getting past Bernard in snap counts, but he was getting used.
19:30And then he dislocates the finger. And they said it's going to be multiple weeks for that.
19:34So we weren't sure last night whether or not that meant missed time.
19:38And it was going to be like Adonai Mitchell situation.
19:41He does miss time. And I think Mitchell needs to be brought up as well, by the way.
19:46But I would go for Bernard. He's the number two Aaron Rodgers.
19:49Thank you, Mike McCarthy. You turned back the clock for Aaron Rodgers.
19:53Not to prime, but at least five years ago, Aaron Rodgers.
19:56And he continues to produce every single week. And you saw what Bernard can do.
20:00And the thing that I like about what he does is I think he fits better alongside DK Metcalf than Pittman does,
20:06which is what Roman Wilson was doing, which is why I like Bernard.
20:10So I think the opportunity here is here. It's here.
20:13It's here for him to start producing this week as a wide receiver three.
20:17Yeah, I had. I mean, I was big Roman Wilson.
20:20I kept trying to put Roman Wilson on the sheet weeks and weeks ago.
20:24We couldn't get him on. But now all these guys are.
20:27We had him last week. You were gone. Yeah, I wasn't here for it.
20:31Yeah, that's when it was all exciting. But the interesting thing is I didn't put him on the next segment we'll do.
20:37But there's a part of me that wanted to be like, do we need to start actively, especially for like 10-man leagues
20:43in the cut or keep of DK Metcalf? Like DK is just empty.
20:47It just it's you know, it's like, oh, you might have that one game.
20:51I know the week before it was like a big game, but you just get like those low in receptions.
20:56There's no yard. There's just never big games. I'm ever playing DK Metcalf unders.
21:00I know it's a bit dramatic because no one wants to.
21:04But like in 10 team leagues, it feels like that.
21:06It's just funny that we would have it or maybe I'm the only one that's having the consideration of cutting him.
21:12And then we're actively kind of excited about Bernard.
21:15But it seems to be the other wide receivers, the non-DK role that plays up a little bit.
21:20Fitzy, what's your take on Bernard? You gave a face to when I said the DK, so you clearly don't want to
21:26cut DK and still put him out there. So let's start there.
21:30Yeah, I think DK is just volatile. And maybe Jeremy Bernard will be less volatile than DK.
21:34But this is pretty interesting that the Pittsburgh passing game is one we maybe do want to buy into now.
21:40Because yeah, last year, Aaron Rodgers' average depth of throw was six yards.
21:44This year he's up to 8.7. Who would have imagined the Aaron Rodgers-Mike McCarthy reunion in Pittsburgh would be going this well?
21:50But three straight games with three touchdown passes for Aaron Rodgers.
21:53And he's averaged 275 passing yards a game over that stretch.
21:56Bernard has this kind of well-rounded skill set. He's good after the catch, reliable hands.
22:00And just he was like regarded as a team leader at Alabama and just seems like a guy who does things the right way.
22:07And you kind of have to be that guy if you want to play with Aaron Rodgers as a rookie and see the ball.
22:14Uh, let's talk fab for a second. Waiver claim.
22:17Jake, let's go back to you. What's your fab look like and how high up on waivers?
22:21What type of claim would you use on him?
22:24I don't think I would burn the number one unless you're like 14 team league and you need wide receivers.
22:30We are hitting the buys. I mean, we hit two last week and we have four this week.
22:35And there's some significant names running back too, which we didn't really kind of talk about.
22:39But there's significant names on buy this week and it's not going to stop for a while as everybody knows.
22:45So if you need wide receivers, I mean, like last week, we almost lost chase on top of everything where I was
22:51looking at one guy in my, just bringing up like home league where he's that down to potentially starting.
22:56Like, uh, I forget who it was. I think he was going to throw in Darius Cooper, which would have worked out for him.
23:03But like, if you're that deep, I can see that's the point I want to bring up is like, I can see
23:09having to burn the number one, just because waivers are pick thin at this point.
23:14Um, if you're in your typical 12 team league and you still have rolling waivers, I'd probably like, yeah, if I have
23:20the three or four, I'll take a shot on it.
23:23And I'd probably go somewhere between five and 10, depending on how desperate I am.
23:27I think these, you could push 10. You could actually, if you're going to go back to the thin, I think you could push up into the teens.
23:35I'm a believer. Dollars or percent? Percent. Okay. All right.
23:38It just, cause you know, 10, $10 at this point could actually look more like 20% in some leagues, which may, you may have to end up going.
23:46I mean, again, if you're needy. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
23:48I mean, flex leagues. I'm 14 team league, 20%.
23:51Honestly. Yeah. I don't know if you've been looking Jake, but there's someone on this, uh, that has been killing the flex leagues lately.
23:58Oh, you're asking Fitz. I'll look. Go ahead. I am.
24:00I am killing it right now. Uh, Fitzy, what would you, uh, your level of excitement on Bernard?
24:05What would you burn? And, uh, what would the fab look like?
24:09$48, maybe more if you're really desperate at wide receiver.
24:12Okay. All right. What your guy, let's talk about yours.
24:15You're taking a different angle on the wide receiver this week.
24:18And I think this is going to be on a lot of people's minds.
24:22So Bernard was not your top wide receiver ad Fitzy.
24:24It was who he's totally a, not in my league bro kind of guy, but it's Jordan Tyson who is suddenly for
24:31the first time all season available in more than half of Yahoo leagues, only 49% rostered.
24:35So it's the shallower leagues where he's going to be available, but this is a guy you could make a case for being valuable in shallow leagues.
24:43The eighth overall pick of the draft and a guy who was really drawing rave reviews in training camp before he injured
24:49his hamstring in a joint practice, uh, between the saints and the Jaguars in mid August, went on IR has been there ever since.
24:56And now they're talking about, there was a report from Adam Schefter of ESPN last week that he could return Jordan Tyson
25:02as early as week seven, but since the saints have a week eight by it's more likely to be a week nine
25:08return for Tyson, a guy I think would be worth stashing because the saints are throwing it around quite a bit.
25:14They like to play at a fast offensive pace under Kellen Moore and just the talent level.
25:19We're talking about it with the top 10 draft pick.
25:22Is it, but you feel compelled. You got to do it now.
25:25Like this is when you need to, you need to get in on weeks.
25:29So you need to get, what is it? Like four weeks in front of Tyson.
25:33If he's floating out there right now. I mean, there might be some leagues where it's not recognized that he's available and
25:40maybe you could get by with a buck or two, but I think if you really want to make an earnest attempt
25:46to actually get him, you're going to need to go somewhere from like six to 12.
25:50Sealy, if you were faced with Bernard or Tyson, both on waivers right now, is it still Bernard over him?
25:56And what would you put on Tyson? I would still go Bernard.
25:59You still have Tyson where they floated out potentially week seven, maybe, which sounded doubtful now two weeks ago, and then they have the weekend by.
26:07So why are they going to bring it back before week eight?
26:10And then on top of it, it has nothing to do with the talent.
26:14Like I am a Jordan Tyson believer. Let's make that clear.
26:17It has to do with the recurrent injuries and the fact that Valey plays good enough that they don't have to slam him in there.
26:24I think that the problem comes down to like a Casey Concepcion or Makai Lemon or just anything like that, where it's like, hey, you know what?
26:32We can bring him in along slowly. He should take the number two.
26:36He's much better talent. Like the talents, again, not a question.
26:39He's better than Valey. He should be one and two with Chris Alave.
26:42It's just how quickly does that happen? So they come out of the bye.
26:46They get the Browns. Carolina looks like a great matchup.
26:49Chicago's great matchup. Cincinnati, particularly like, I mean, you have a real Green Bay, Carolina, Tampa.
26:54But like the rest of the schedule is like, please like go, by the way, get some Saints.
26:59If you want to buy some on Saints at Chris Alave coming off that game, Tyler Shook coming off that game.
27:05The rest of the schedule maybe has two or three landmines for the rest of the season for the Saints.
27:10So by the way, buy that passing game. But all that being said, I would still take Bernard because I get the production now.
27:17I don't have to wait three weeks. I don't have to potentially longer.
27:21Like we're assuming, but this is again, the soft tissue, soft tissue, soft tissue.
27:25And it's the same injury, same injury, same injury.
27:27And now it's two different legs, but this is one of the legs that he only has two.
27:33And once you have a third injury, it's probably happened until the repeat.
27:36So that's why. And, but I agree with Fitz that if he is out there and you don't need a Bernard, like he shouldn't be sitting on waivers.
27:44The profiles are really different. I think you could make the case that you get a higher upside with Tyson just because
27:50of the level of prospect he was. But the immediate availability of Jeremy Bernard is going to make him more valuable to some people than Tyson would be.
27:58By the way, did you approve of my flex standing?
28:01My flex league standing? Well, I mean, you're going to be in like tied for third.
28:06You're just having a smash week. I've been having smash.
28:08Well, you said pretty good. You say like smash.
28:11You say smash. And I was like, I was expecting you to be like eight.
28:15I think I'm undefeated. I think the top three are undefeated.
28:18No big deal. No. What league are you looking at?
28:21I think I was. No. One loss maybe? No.
28:24One loss. Just making stuff over. Making up fab bids.
28:27Making up record standings. No, I was making up percentages, not fab bids.
28:30But no, I need to look. But my phone is a camera.
28:34All right. Now I regret even reading. This is what happens when Welsh goes watch too much baseball for a week.
28:40This is what happens. Yeah. Well, I was in L.A.
28:42Actually, I was cruising around L.A. All right. Let's talk about some wide receivers.
28:46Some other wide receivers, though. Bernard, by the way, six for 89 targets.
28:50That's what that looked like. That was the Roman Wilson line before.
28:53Rashad Bateman still floating out there. Five for 62 this week.
28:57Kendrick Bourne. This is one I thought was nice and sneaky, too, because his roster percentage is super, super low.
29:02And Marvin Harrison is getting shipped out of town.
29:05Two percent. He was five for 70 on eight targets.
29:08Pop Douglas with his two percent roster percentage was four for 65.
29:11He had the two scores. It was Darius Cooper, two for 71 in a score.
29:15And then we had a nice little addition from Fitzy here.
29:18No, I think it was Sealy of Christian Kirk.
29:21Christian Kirk is going to be coming off of the IR here shortly.
29:25So those are, I think, are some of the most intriguing names out here.
29:29Fitzy, why don't we go to you? Give me a couple names that you have interest in putting some waiver claims on out of this list.
29:36Maybe there's a name I didn't mention, but I think those are kind of the top dogs here.
29:41Kendrick Bourne is the big one. Yes. Just, yeah, with the Marvin Harrison junior trade, now Kendrick Bourne is the clear number
29:47two receiver for the Cardinals, number three in the target pecking order behind Trey McBride and Michael Wilson.
29:52And then we saw him have five catches, 70 yards, eight targets Sunday for the Cardinals in their loss to the Lions.
29:59And I thought that passing volume was going to come way down for the Cardinals this year after drafting a running back top five.
30:05Well, so far going into week five, Jacoby Brissett had averaged 38 pass attempts a game.
30:10And I did not look to see how many through yesterday.
30:1347. So now he's like at 40 attempts a game.
30:16Yeah. I mean, the passing volume is great. And Kendrick Bourne is going to be a big part of that.
30:21This wasn't his first good game. He had eight catches for 75 yards back in week one against the Chargers.
30:27I think Kendrick Bourne is kind of a plug and play pickup right now.
30:31You could start him kind of a tough matchup against the Rams in week six and then Denver in week seven.
30:37Maybe they get Patrick Sertan by then. Or did Sertan go on IR?
30:41Maybe Sertan can't come back. But tough matchups. But given the pass volume for the Cardinals and Bourne's prominent place in the
30:47pass catching pecking order, I think he's a really good pickup.
30:50Yeah. And I think those pesky non-wavered leagues in Yahoo push it up to around 6%, but still under 10% rostered kind of across the board.
30:57Sealy, same thing. Is there a guy or two that really tickles your fancy besides Bernard that you would be trying to put some fab on?
31:05Be Bourne. I'm not as excited as Fitz is, mostly because I don't expect them.
31:09And I knew the 47 numbers because I was going to say I don't expect them to throw 47 times the game
31:15and, you know, Quentin Tarantino catching two touchdowns. Thank you very much.
31:19But one side note, let me throw to you guys just because I'm here locally and they're starting this process, which means it's coming soon with the trade.
31:27There's a couple of local reporters out here that are already saying, and by the way, after the Marvin Harrison trade, the
31:33Cardinals are not currently looking at changing the quarterback.
31:35What that means is it's going to be Carson Beck time in a couple of weeks because this trade signaling that this
31:42team is moving off of those pieces. So just throwing that out, if it's long term, if it means anything to anybody,
31:48I'm not sure that they'd be comfortable throwing 47 times with Carson Beck, but we might be a few weeks away from them making that major change.
31:55Just wanted to throw that as an addition. I don't know if they do.
31:59They have a week 14 by so maybe it's not like they do it before the bye.
32:04They get Washington at home and Philly at home those two weeks right beforehand.
32:08But that the schedule right before that was what I was going to bring up, which is why I'm not like, again, I agree.
32:15Kendrick Bourne would be next to the list of the guys we're talking about ahead of, I added Christian Kirk and I
32:21was going to bring up his name, but at Rams, Denver at home at Dallas is nice.
32:26But then at Seattle Rams again at Kansas city, like looking at that schedule, the only game I feel good right now
32:32talking about starting them in is the Cowboys game.
32:35And like, that's just really what it comes down to is not, it's not the fact like some of those offenses, offenses
32:41can't force the factor is that also there's a good enough defenses that I don't know percent throws 40 times in those games, like even by necessity.
32:49So that's all I'm saying. It's just like, I think Kendrick Bourne is not going to be anything more than a wire receiver for, for me.
32:56But again, they're like, you can't thumb your nose up at that in every single league out there.
33:01So he would be next. And then Christian Kirk, like just, we said it for years when healthy, he's productive.
33:07And I only put added them to the thing is because Christian Kirk, uh, we saw Brandon cooks get too tired.
33:13Like they called the back, the one on a penalty and they're like, you know what?
33:17We're going to run the exact same play and get the touchdown anyway.
33:21And they did to Brandon freaking cooks in 2026.
33:23But really what it comes down to is Debo Samuel's heading for an MRI today on that leg, which MRI with soft tissue usually means some bad news.
33:31Uh, maybe we're surprised by it. And then if Debo Samuel is only missing one week, he kind of throw that out
33:38the window because Kirk is potentially, so they said on, I think it was October 2nd where he said he was about two weeks away.
33:45That would be, we're coming up on the two weeks for this weekend coming up.
33:49Does that mean he actually plays? Does it means he comes back to practice this week?
33:53Who knows? But all that being said is like deeper leagues, Christian Kirk, if Debo's out and he's actually on the field
34:00as the number two to Mike Evans. I mean, technically he's the four behind Kittle Evans and Christian McCaffrey, but it's Brock Purdy in this offense.
34:07So Christian Kirk and deeper leagues. Uh, fab Fitzy on Kendrick, on both of you guys.
34:11Oh, sorry. I thought you were asking me. Sorry.
34:14Yeah. Well, no, for both of you guys, what did we do?
34:17Fab, what was your fab number on Bourne? And we'll stop there.
34:21We recommended three to six in the waiver article.
34:23Okay. I'm in the same window as that. And then on Kirk, is that just, is that like a $0 bid or a dollar bid for you ceiling?
34:31I throw like a dollar or two at 14 team league.
34:34You might have to go three or four, depending on if people are waking up and paying attention to the fact that
34:41he's about to return in the injuries to that team.
34:43Is there anybody else on this list that did anything for anything?
34:47We don't have to go into crazy analysis, but Bateman, Pop Douglas, Darius Cooper.
34:51Can I make three really quick points about the wide receivers?
34:54Absolutely. Yes. All right. So with the Eagles, I think Darius Cooper is fool's gold.
34:58As soon as Dontavian Wicks, or excuse me, as soon as Devante Smith comes back, Cooper is going to get his snaps cut to next to nothing.
35:06Dontavian Wicks is the better ad, I think, on waivers.
35:09And he's available in most Yahoo leagues because he's going to continue to be a full-time guy.
35:13I think Pop Douglas is fool's gold for the Patriots.
35:16I would rather have Efton Chisholm, who ran more routes and played more snaps than Douglas.
35:21But Douglas had the big plays. Chisholm quietly five for 57 last week after the big touchdown against the Bills in week four.
35:27And last point I'm going to make, we should probably at least monitor the status of CeeDee Lamb's quad injury because if
35:34there's any chance he misses week six, Ryan Flournoy, almost 100 yards last week, big play guy.
35:38And in the Dallas offense is the number two receiver.
35:41That would be a guy you'd probably want to start.
35:44Sneaky. Sneaky. I do like the Flournoy. Don't pronounce the R.
35:47Flournoy, by the way. Oh, I'm going to say Flournoy.
35:50No, no, no. I just like, yeah. It's Flournoy.
35:52Yeah, it's Flournoy. You don't pronounce the R, which is the weirdest thing ever to look at that name and be like Flournoy.
35:59But anyway, yeah, Jeremy Bernard. It's Jeremy, by the way.
36:02It sounds like every time I say it, it sounds like the same Jeremy in my head.
36:07Jeremy Bernard, Teslaw, Flournoy, all those guys have been in like what, like my next man up kind of like handcuff wide receivers.
36:13So I'm really glad that Fitz brought up Flournoy and that fact that if CeeDee Lamb is out, like I had somebody
36:19start Flournoy against me in a desperation spot. I was so ticked off.
36:23I was like, really? Like why? Why couldn't my Trey Harris hit like that?
36:27You jerk. But like, I completely agree on the fool's gold throw.
36:30Kyle Williams into that fool's gold too. He was a great desperation play this week.
36:35But AJ Brown, it sounds like he could actually come back this week.
36:38The two others that I would throw out through super, super deep leagues.
36:42If Jordan Addison's not back and TJ Hawkinson is out.
36:45I know Gavin Bartholomew did something in that game, but Juwan Jennings would be the kind of like the Kyle Williams next week where like, hey, you're desperate.
36:53You need to hope for a touchdown. And then I actually think it's a really big bounce back scenario for Harold Fannin given the weather.
37:00But Casey Concepcion probably missing some time. Super deep leagues if you need a desperation.
37:04Isaiah Bond has talent and that's, you know, he kind of filled the role 100%.
37:08It was like, hey, Concepcion goes out. It's Isaiah Bond.
37:11I know that catch that he should have had is everybody's going to be like, this is why he's frustrating.
37:17But that's why he's Isaiah Bond. And that's why super deeper leagues.
37:20Like I said, I actually think this is a bounce back spot for Fannin.
37:24But those are deeper, deeper ones to bring up just for people out there in like the 14 team leagues.
37:30All right. Let's jump into some quick hitters here.
37:32Our first quick hitter is keep or cut. I put together a few players I want to get your guys' take on.
37:39And I think the biggest one, I mentioned it earlier, Omerian Hampton.
37:42I know now you don't want to consider any of these big guys.
37:46I said DK Metcalf and you guys looked at me like, you know, like I slap someone you love.
37:51But Omerian Hampton, 14 for 33. This week it was Vidal.
37:54Last week it was Mitchell. The snap counts don't look.
37:57Nothing looks good. At what point? Maybe put yourself in the 12 man if you need to.
38:02But keep or cut Fitzy Omerian Hampton. Here's my conspiracy theory and why I do not want to cut Omerian Hampton just yet.
38:08I think McDaniel could get fired as early as this week.
38:11In which case, I don't know where Jim Harbaugh goes except other to kind of go back to caveman ball.
38:17The sort of offense he won a national championship with at Michigan.
38:20In which case you would figure Omerian Hampton would be prominently involved.
38:24Sealy, keep or cut Omerian Hampton. My problem is I don't care because the offensive line is so trash and he doesn't fit the offense.
38:31And maybe they do go. But that's the big thing.
38:34I'm like Fitz is really like we've talked about this before.
38:37But like this is what it is. It's like Hampton is actually not a great fit for the Mike McDaniel offense.
38:43I didn't rank him low. I'm not saying like ha ha.
38:46I told people that. This is like I should have ranked him lower.
38:50But I thought Mike McDaniel could do enough with this offense.
38:53That would offset the despairing. Like Hampton's between the tackles.
38:56Hampton's not in the space in his own concept.
38:58And that's really what's killing him so far. But the offensive line is killing him on top of the fact that like they're down three guys again.
39:06You saw how miserable it was in that game.
39:08But I agree with Fitz for one thing is that you could at least throw him in a trade.
39:14Somebody is still going to see a Marion Hampton.
39:16And I mean he's only a piece to add on at this point.
39:20He's not going to drive the trade for you.
39:22But if you drop him, he's immediately getting picked up.
39:25By half the league is going to pick him up.
39:28Just because they can. Well, no. Because they could also stash him on the best of things.
39:33Why you could get some trade value from him.
39:35Like throw him in as a two for one type of deal.
39:39Is because somebody's going to be like it's the Drake May from three weeks ago.
39:43Where we sat here and we're like go pick him up, go pick him up, go pick him up for everybody that dropped him.
39:50Because you're getting him for free. And now you can just throw him on the bench and not have to worry about it.
39:56Jake, a Marion Hampton for Woody Marks. Who says no?
39:59Wow. I mean that's the point. That's at the point is where we're at now.
40:03If you have Hampton, go get Marks. There you go.
40:06There you go. All right. Keeper cut. David Montgomery speaking of.
40:09You guys kind of alluded to this. Obviously there's an injury floating out there.
40:13He's been kind of a nothing burger. IRs allow you to stash or whatever.
40:17But from an overall generic standpoint, Jake, keep or cut David Montgomery?
40:2110 team and no IR. He gone. 12 team no IR.
40:24You can make a case he's gone. No IR is the real thing.
40:27Like no IR. You can make a case in 12.
40:3010 teams. See ya. Fitzy, same thing. Dude, Jake said it perfectly.
40:34Okay. Just duplicate that answer. So potentially cut. And then another running back.
40:37Sean Payton took over the offense. Things are going to change.
40:40Things are going to be off. It's going to be RJ Harvey, right?
40:44It wasn't three for seven on the play calling.
40:47It was JK Dobbins. So Fitzy, keep or cut?
40:49RJ Harvey. I'm keeping. He had 20 catches in his first three games.
40:53Jake. I mean, he's also one injury away from being volume.
40:56It's always a one away. Wide receivers. I'm going to probably continuously just keep putting them on here.
41:01Speaking of that offense, Sean Payton takes over. It's going to go all the way to Jalen Waddell, right?
41:07And two for 19 for Jalen Waddell. The misery continues.
41:09Jake, keep or cut Jalen Waddell. I'm going to use the quote that I always do from Happy Gilmore.
41:15There's a problem. You're not any good. And I'm talking about Bo Nix.
41:18Like you can't fix Bo Nix. Like I do think that something's going to change.
41:23You saw it. You saw Sean Payton's fingers on that game because you saw what happened with JK Dobbins.
41:28So like I do think things are going to get better.
41:31Guess what though? So at home against Seattle this week.
41:34So I don't know. It's getting better this week.
41:37But you can't drop Jalen Waddell. You cannot. I still think I brought it up on this very show and said that
41:43if teams want to focus on him, they will take him away because he's Jalen Waddell.
41:47But that's not a bad thing. There will be better days.
41:50That's you can't move on from Jalen Waddell. Just plug him on your bench and understand sucker's life.
41:55But I would actually go buy low because I don't invest in him anywhere.
41:59I would go buy low on Jalen Waddell right now.
42:02Fitzy, keep or cut Jalen Waddell? Keep. Keep. Okay.
42:05I mean, I think it's fun to do these because I think these are the questions we see in the live streams at this point.
42:12The frustration. These are the big frustration plays. You might get us on the next one.
42:16Yeah. Well, the last one I was going to say, I think it's a little bit easier.
42:21I wanted to pick names that I think people are going to ask whether we think it's obvious to hold or not.
42:27The last one, though, I think it's a little bit easier.
42:31Romeo Dobbs. Romeo Dobbs drops a one for 16.
42:33A.J. Brown is coming back. So, I mean, the offense is rolling again.
42:37Maybe A.J. Brown fixes and helps and create some separation or something for him.
42:41But it's been bad. So, Jake, keep or cut Romeo Dobbs?
42:44You can cut him. Mostly because it's not that A.J.
42:47Brown, I think, really fixes him. I think it's kind of what Fitz brought up earlier.
42:51It's just like Chisholm. Like, we have multiple pieces being involved.
42:54I think it's A.J. Brown and then a buy committee, including the tight ends.
42:58Fitz, do you agree? Yeah. Dobbs has been overpriced since draft season.
43:02Okay. So, Dobbs. He hates him because of the Packers.
43:04Yeah. Kick the. No, I mean, he's fine, but he's just your replacement level NFL wide receiver.
43:09Yeah. Yeah. It's tough to even get out there on bi-week performances.
43:13Like, I'd rather put Bernard out there right now than Romeo Dobbs.
43:16So, that's why I think he's kind of an easy cut.
43:19All right. Some keeper cuts. You guys can let us know who else do you think are those hard decisions.
43:25And you can give us some suggestions in the comments below.
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43:56That's fantasypros.com slash plan. All right. Top streamers for the week.
43:59Jake, why don't you start us off here since there'll be no kicker and our boy Fitzy will pick up that.
44:05But top quarterback, top tight end, and top defense that you are picking up going into week six.
44:10Yeah. I'm going to go with the quarterback. That's QB 11 and fancy points per game, which is just shocking beyond like
44:17no people would have said you're crazy. And also, by the way, he's QB 11 coming off a one touchdown game.
44:23And that's Kirk Cousins going against the bills. So everybody's attacking the bills.
44:26It helped everybody get right except for Justin Herbert, but it got Drake May right.
44:31And he gets the bills next week. And again, two, three touchdowns in every game until last week.
44:36And that blow up against the Patriots, which he still had 14 points in.
44:40Like, it's just crazy that Kirk Cousins is being productive.
44:42So I'm going for him. Going for Waller at tight end.
44:46Tight end streamers are becoming super thin at this point because a lot of the decent ones are now well over 60%.
44:52But one thing for touchdowns or first downs per reception, the league leader, shocker, Mike Evans.
44:56You know who's number two? Darren Waller. So I mean, I know it's a small sample because he doesn't have the volume
45:02that everybody else has, but 84.6% of his receptions have been first downs or touchdowns.
45:07Like, that's insane. By the way, Mike Evans is 87.5 to give you an eye there.
45:11And then the Carolina Panthers come out of their bye for a matchup with the Eagles, which I know have sometimes stifled
45:17tight ends, but it's been kind of more like the tight ends they face.
45:21That's still an area of the slot that tight ends the middle of the field where Darren Waller can do damage is something they're still susceptible to.
45:29And then defense coming out of their bye with what might be like the biggest smack in the face that any could possibly have is that guess what?
45:37The Chargers get to face the Chiefs on the road coming out of the Chiefs bye.
45:42Oh my God. Chiefs might be my number one defense this week.
45:45I can't believe nobody was like looking ahead and like holding on to them for like coming out of that bye.
45:51I think the Chargers have committed 13 turnovers in five games, which is insane.
45:55Such a disaster. All right, Fitzy, what are you looking at for your top quarterback tight end in defense and kicker streamers for the week?
46:02Yeah. Aaron Rodgers is the top streamer. We've talked about how he's thrown three touchdown passes in three straight games.
46:08Average 275 passing yards over that stretch and gets the pass funnel Buccaneers defense this week.
46:12Stick with the Steelers for streaming tight end. Really bad week for streaming tight ends, by the way.
46:17So we're just going to go with the touchdown dependent.
46:20Pat Friermuth has not had a 50 yard receiving game this season, but he does have four TD passes.
46:25Maybe he gets another one against the box. Chiefs are far and away the best streaming defense, but look, the Saints defense
46:32has been really bad, but it is generally not bad policy to stream a defense against Jameis Winston, who takes a lot
46:38of sacks and throws a lot of interceptions. And the Giants are playing the Saints this week.
46:43And then a kicker, Chris Boswell, another Steeler. Buccaneers, I believe, are allowing 15 points a game to kickers this year.
46:49I don't know if that is really kind of a sticky stat or whatever, but Boswell's always getting opportunities to kick field goals for the Steelers.
46:56And then Harrison Butker, stream him against the Chargers.
46:58The Chiefs are averaging just under 30 points a game.
47:01Chargers are giving up over 25 points a game.
47:04All right. In our top five. Oh, yeah, go ahead.
47:07Fitz. Yeah. Chargers 13 turnovers. They're leading the league.
47:09The next closest Patriots and Saints at 11 each.
47:12Do you guys want to guess who the only team with one is?
47:15Just real quick before we move on. By the way, Chargers defense is also, or Chargers have allowed the defense facing them
47:22to score double digits in all but one game, by the way.
47:25I feel like it should be someone fun. They're cute.
47:28It is. Yeah. It's a fun offense. It's like the Lions?
47:31Yep. One turnover. Oh. Look at, surprisingly, Commander's only two.
47:34How about that? But anyway, continue. Oh, wow. All right.
47:37Top five. This is your top five boards for the week.
47:40These are the big white waiver priorities. You can kind of piece it together.
47:44Fitzy, why don't you give us what your top five on waivers is looking like this week?
47:49I'm going to go with Woody Marks, number one.
47:51Jordan Tyson, number two. Jeremy Bernard, number three. Kendry Miller and Kendrick Bourne kind of tied four or five.
47:56I'll go Miller four, Bourne five. And if we just revisit the waiver money-wise, it was like up to 20% on Marks
48:03and then Bourne, you go down to around what, like four bucks?
48:06Is that like the general spending range? Does that sound right?
48:09Or do you want to correct that? I'd go up to six for Bourne.
48:13Okay. So pretty aggressive there. Zeely, your top five waiver board this week.
48:17Yeah. Number one is Marks, as we talked about.
48:19Number two is a name we just, I kind of threw in there earlier and we just kind of never really went
48:26into, but Adonai Mitchell is down to 21%. Like at some point coming back from the finger, like it's been three weeks
48:32now and Kenyon Sadiq just got a concussion, which is why you didn't see him pop off in that box score.
48:38And you saw a little bit of Mason Taylor, but no Sadiq.
48:41And he was, Mitchell's the clear number two. Like I'm kind of really, I have him too, hoping that he's back this week.
48:48That's really what it comes down to. But if he is, he would rank higher than even Bernard.
48:53So that's really what it comes down to at my number three.
48:56And then I don't even want to go to four and five, but it's Damian Pearson.
49:01I'd take a flyer on Corey Kiner over the most of the rest.
49:04I could see go like, it's like number five was I saw Fitz having Bourne.
49:09I'd be fine with that. Tyson is obvious. I kind of didn't throw Tyson in there because the conversation we had earlier,
49:15he would have been my number two. If you're looking for the long-term Bernard would be my number two.
49:20So you can kind of see where I'm going there.
49:23I just gave like seven different lists by the way.
49:26Yeah, you did. I do like that both of your number twos are both these like banged up wide receivers that, you
49:32know, you guys are kind of sneaking in value, but I think that's great.
49:36But I think you guys have both kind of said, well, I mean, maybe you a little bit more that you said,
49:42like, it's like Bernard Mitchell, Tyson, Marks, like that's the range.
49:45That's where you're going to put the more aggressive waiver claims and money.
49:49Fitz is a little bit more spanned out on the money.
49:52Maybe there's not much of a separator, but there's some interesting names.
49:56Unfortunately, they're just not running backs. And that's, I know what people are trying to battle for, but there's some good takes
50:02as far as where you guys might be able to go.
50:05And even in the trade market here, or kind of tackle some of these with again, mentioning that as I did at
50:11the top of the show, you've got some bi-weeks, you've got some big bi-weeks of Cincinnati, Miami, Minnesota.
50:16I mentioned that earlier, but you got Aaron Jones is out Gibbs and Chase Brown.
50:20I'm sorry. I completely forgot to bring this up earlier.
50:23I was surprised. I was going to have made a note.
50:26I was like, Hey, ask Fitz why he didn't say it.
50:30And you didn't. Emmett Johnson coming off the buy.
50:32That's been your boy the entire season. I just figured you'd bring him up at some point.
50:37That's like, I actually made a note to say, is Fitz going to say anything about Emmett Johnson coming off the buy?
50:43No, I mean, we list him as a running back stash and one of the most valuable handcuff running backs you can have out there.
50:50So, I mean, just no standalone value, but. No, don't forget he's out there.
50:54I was certain you were going to bring him up.
50:57That's why. I mean, generally I don't like handcuffing my running backs until Thanksgiving, but if I had Kenneth Walker, I would
51:03probably make an exception for Emmett Johnson. All right, friends.
51:06Don't forget about our weekly waiver wire live stream.
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51:28Thank you guys for hanging out with us for the Athletic Zone, Jake Seeley and Pat Fitz Morris.
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