0:00Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to the School of Scott podcast. I'm your host today, Scott Barrett. We're going to be talking about some players I like,
0:08some players I think you might want to bet on this week. You might want to play in DFS players if you have them in your
0:15on your roster. I think you think you might want to start them this week.
0:22>> Are you serious?
0:24>> What?
0:26That's awesome. This is so sick.
0:34But first, first order of business. We have some news to get to. Kenneth Walker, one of the top three most valuable running backs, most valuable
0:42players, most valuable assets in fantasy football, is dealing with a tight groin.
0:46He sat out of practice on Friday, tweaked it, quote unquote. I talked to Jeff Mueller about this. It seems like a
0:53legitimate question mark whether or not he plays. So, what does that mean for you? means you need to pick up Emma
0:58Johnson ASAP. And I know what you're thinking. I know what you're saying.
1:02EMTT Johnson. I drafted Emma Johnson in round 14 and he's been on my bench this entire time. Not my league, pal. Let me
1:11tell you something. Emma Johnson is rostered in only 40% of Yahoo Fantasy Leagues. Not in your league. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the other
1:1860% out there. He's not rostered. That's insane. That's crazy. EMTT Johnson, if Kenneth Walker is out this week, is going to have a 16 to 17 point
1:27projection. We're going to basically give him all of the work that Kenneth Walker's been getting the top five most valuable roles in fantasy. And we're
1:36going to give that to Emtt Johnson.
1:37We're just not going to give him five yards per carry like we give Kenneth Walker every week. And so, yeah, 16.5
1:43fantasy points in our projections. If you play DFS, he is a lock button. The field always underreacts to news like this. You just hit the lock button, play
1:53him on every single lineup. Don't overthink it in a reddraft league. Yeah.
1:56And guess what? If Kenneth Walker's fine, this is an injury that can get tweaked again. Uh, now it makes him more
2:02risky moving forward. And Emma Johnson offers league winning potential. Emtt Johnson, you know, Kenneth Walker, we love Kenneth Walker, but that's the
2:09whole thing with Kenneth Walker, right?
2:10Is he's one of the most injuryprone running backs in football. You've owned him this entire time, and it's been awesome, but you've been holding your
2:17breath every single week. So Emtt Johnson, yeah, one of the most valuable handcuffs in fantasy. And dude, he's been good this year. This is kind of
2:24crazy. He leads all running backs in yards after contact per attempt. It's a small sample for sure, but uh 100 percentile yards after contact per
2:33attempt. 100th percentile yards per route run. Let's see where he ranks by.
2:37This is I mean this is stupid. This is really dumb because it's such a small sample, but it's you know, it's kind of
2:43cool. It's also kind of cool, dude. He's he ranks third in yards per route run uh behind only JSN who I I think should win
2:52MVP and Exodia Mike Evans. Dude, he's he's balling out. And yeah, it's Listen, we're still not going to project five yards per carry. We're going to project
2:59like below average yards per and guess what? The role is that good. Probably gets all the work. Make sure he's rostered. Play him in DFS if depending
3:07on Kenneth Walker's status. All right, let's talk about games we like. Let's talk about teams we like. And I want to
3:14start off with this. Carolina, New Orleans. I think this game goes over.
3:18Maybe you think that's a little too generous for New Orleans. Maybe you like the Panthers. You like kind of all these
3:24advantages they've got. I don't know. I maybe maybe to me I just see 48.5. I think it should be 50.5. 50 51. And I
3:32really like it for DFS. I think it's underrated for DFS. Yeah. You have two of the top five offenses by plays per
3:39game. These games tend to go over. If you're playing in DFS, I like Tyler Shuck. I don't like Bryce Young quite as
3:46much. Why? Because the matchup is way too good for Chuba Hubard. The Saints are giving up a league high 19.6 rushing
3:52fantasy points per game to opposing running backs, yards per carry, their bottom six. They've given up big games to the Steelers, the Giants, Tyrone
4:00Tracy, really. Aaron Jones, really Brian Robinson, really. We're talking about DFS upside. I like it for I will say it's also a really good matchup for T
4:10McMillan. I mean, Jaylen Coker, too, but definitely a little more favorable for the Saints pass because look, they're they're kind of they went super pass
4:18heavy, the Panthers, and they've been kind of hiding Bryce Young a little bit these last few weeks. So, I thought this
4:23was a crazy stat I had in Tyler Shook.
4:25So, I've been saying on this show, you just filter out the Vikings. It's like not fair to face the Vikings. Their
4:31their defense is too good. No one's going to be effective against them. It skews everything a little bit too much.
4:36So, we we throw them out of our sample for all players. All players. Let's let's be fair here. You throw it out.
4:42Tyler Shuck jumps to first in XFP per game. Even by fantasy cuz we know he's not the best quarterback in the world.
4:47Even by fantasy points per game, he's fourth. He's top five. He's above Drake May. So, I like that. We're looking at
4:53Chris Olive. I I've been kind of saying the same thing. So, we're going to look at all wide receivers over their last
5:00say 11 games. This guy checks in. Look at that. He's third in yards per game.
5:04He's behind only Puka Nakua and JSN. XFP per game, third fantasy points per game, fourth behind now Jamar Chase. See how
5:13this goes. Yeah, 85 yards in eight of 11 games. Eight of 10 if you exclude Minnesota, which guys, you got to you
5:20got to exclude Minnesota. 80% hit rate.
5:23Nine plus targets in nine of 10 for excluding Minnesota. So yeah, this is going to be one of my one of my stacks.
5:31Do we play him with Jordan Tyson? Is it too early to play him with Jordan Tyson?
5:34What was the route share? It's 36%.
5:37That's not great. Look at that. Bryce lands 44%. Let's just knock that down to zero. Let's get him up to 80%. Because I
5:44mean, the target per route run is there.
5:46The targets were there. Look, he ran way fewer routes than Devon Veil. Had the same number of targets, was the number
5:52two most targeted receiver. So, yeah. I mean, I feel good about the lobby stack, double stack. He could probably get creative. It'd be really stupid to to
5:59lean on the run in this game. Audrey Estim, are you kidding me? This guy's been on four different teams this year.
6:04Sign him off the couch. Let's not do that. Listen, if you watch the Brett and Scott show, you know we both like Deario
6:12Douglas. Dude, he's kind of nice. Look at this. 91st percentile separation score. Are you kidding me? Let's see what he's done these last few weeks.
6:20Look at that. 65 yards, two touchdowns, 86 yards, one touchdown, flop, whatever.
6:2576 yards, touchdown. 102 yards. And the crazy thing, the volume wasn't even there. He's just going, he's just hyper efficient. But here's the thing. Week
6:34nine, he finally saw wide receiver one target line. Before that, he wasn't even really a full-time player. Not really.
6:4048% 55%. And once he started giving him the full-time role, Romeo Dobs is hurt.
6:45AJ Brown, even if he plays, is not fully healthy. Since week five, he's 12 in yards per game. Look at that. Fantasy
6:53points per game. 12. Not bad. Five F over his last five games. Not bad. So, you see this here, he runs 80% of his
7:01routes from the slot. Well, let's check the matchup, folks. And will you look at that? Lions fifth most yards per game to
7:08slot wide receivers. Fourth most fantasy points per game to slot wide receivers.
7:12It's a great matchup. I could go more in depth. Lions getting destroyed deep.
7:16Yeah, you know what? Screw it. Let's check that out. You guys don't believe me? All right, I'll prove you guys wrong. The Detroit Lions defense is
7:23giving up the second most yards per game on deep passes. Their efficiency on deep passes is bottom 12. Deario Douglas, he's a slot wide receiver. You typically
7:35don't see a lot of. So, this is kind of crazy. Dear Douglas, top 10 in deep receiving yards. To make it even
7:42crazier, do you guys know this? You could do this in the data suite. You can just invent your own stats. You don't
7:47ever have to use Excel. I never use Excel anymore. I screwed it up.
7:51Whatever. It's close enough. Yeah, just about 50% of his yards come on deep passes. Kind of crazy for a slot wide
7:56receiver. You don't really see that a lot anymore. Anyway, I really like him.
7:59Brett likes him. He's a good play. Next one. Zack Charbanet. It you guys, if you guys know me, you know how much it pains
8:07me to tell you I like Zack Charbanet.
8:10Probably my single least favorite player in all of football for what he did to us last year. Never forgive. Never forget.
8:16It was not cool. It was stupid and it was it was awful. And I deserve some sort of compensation for that. Uh Zack
8:22Charmin, my lawyers will be in touch.
8:25Okay. All right. But look at this.
8:26Second game back from ACL surgery. 56% snap share 16 of 25 carries let in let in routes 12 of 21 backfield routes two
8:36of six targets listen if you read the everything report the best article reddraft fantasy football article in the space it's paywalled but it's the best
8:44and so it should be paywalled but Grim Barfield Ryan Heath write that and Ryan wrote the Zack Charban section he was
8:51like this is this has sickened me this has shocked me to my core a first round pick engineering price you have Zach
8:57Charbet started trending towards Bellcow status off of a ACL surgery. Listen, I hate the guy. Um, and I don't want to
9:04play him, but he has the match up. He has the match up that we've talked about a few times. You see it here on the
9:09screen. The Raiders rank dead last in yards per carry allowed, second worst in explosive run rate, uh, dead last in success rate, dead last in stuff rate,
9:19dead last in rushing yards over expectation per carry, dead last in yards per before contact per attempt, dead last in hit rate, dead last and
9:27dead last and dead last and dead last and dead last and maybe they're historically bad. It's my guess. Let's test this out, folks. Since 2021, that's
9:36fantasy points data history. how awful they are. Let's do rushing yards. Yeah.
9:41Bottom five all time. Not all time, but all time in R. What about yards before contact? Cuz that's really my favorite.
9:49Worst ever. Boom. Worst ever and still 11% worse than the next closest defense.
9:55So, Zack Charbanet overs. Gh. It is what it is. Next one up, my guy Z Flowers.
10:01You know, I had to do it to them.
10:02Listen, I'm not even going to go into the matchup. Matchup doesn't matter.
10:06It's just this guy is so good. He's so good of I was a I was a disbeliever. He turned me into a believer and he's he's
10:12the man, dude. He's he's freaking awesome. And so look at it. Look at look at this. Joey Faniano, you're trying to
10:18talk to me about has no business being in the NFL. But with Tyler Huntley, 85 yards per game. With Lamar Jackson, 88
10:24yards per game. That's not even a fair assessment because, you know, he was in and out of games so much with injuries,
10:30both of them. But you have a 4.29 yards per route run with Lamar, 2.44 with Tyler Huntley, 0.4 4-3 with Joey
10:38Feniano. What does that tell you? It's a nonviable offense, a nonfunctional passing game. You get Jacobe Brassette in there, how many really good fantasy
10:46weeks were there for Trey McBride, for Michael Wilson. He's going to understand the assignment. The assignment is very simple. You get the ball to Z Flowers.
10:53Good things happen. Overs, ladders, yolo, young money, Z Flowers. That's the inseason Exodia. I'm not giving up hope.
11:00The other Exodia, we got to talk about him, folks. My guy Parker Washington. They're saying, "Scott Barrett, you're washed. You can't
11:08do it anymore. You used to be good. What happened? You used to win me leagues and now now all your picks suck." Well, I'm
11:14looking at all wide receivers by yards per route run. And what do I see? I see Mike Evans wide receiver, too, behind
11:20only JSN. Guys, we're running back with injury luck. He just needs to get healthy. I know, I know there was injury
11:26risk coming into it, but listen, he'll be back for the playoffs. He'll score a bunch of touchdowns. Watch out. say Flowers in season Exodia fourth in yards
11:33per Luther Burden ninth in yards per route 65% route share you know it could be better it's really not awful but this
11:40is the most surprising Parker Washington 2.52 yards per route run that's top 12 ahead of Alman Rossi Brown ahead of Chris Alav ahead of Jamar Chase it's not
11:49the route share he's a 79% route share that's with uh the Jaguars maybe pulling starters in the fourth quarters a couple
11:55times 79% route share he's top 12 in yards per route run he's top 12 in fantasy points per route run. The
12:02problem is this offense. Well, it's not this offense. The problem is the opposition. The opposition is not showing up. And so you see it here on
12:09the screen. The Panthers are running 44 44 dropbacks per game. The Jaguars dead last 31 drop backs per game. They're basically playing three quarters per
12:21game to every other team's four. Like it's embarrassing. And so the problem is you see it on the screen here. Jaguars
12:27are 10 and a half point favorites. This game could be over after the first quarter. Here's your glimmer of hope.
12:32Still a really good matchup on paper.
12:34Tennessee is giving up the most fantasy points per game to opposing wide receivers. That's a lot of blowouts and they're still getting killed. T.
12:42Higgins, Jamar Chase just last week, 70 fantasy points combined. KC Concepts goes off. The corpse of Keenan Allen goes off. Three different Texans
12:52receivers hit double digits. Zay Flowers, the most receiving fantasy points per game allowed to wide receiver. Okay, that's good. This where
12:59it really matters. Do you see this? The Titans are a top 12 pass. If you just start from week four, you know, factor
13:06in the Jeffrey Simmons trade, they're the number two pass funnel in football.
13:09It makes sense. You don't have Jeff Jeff Simmons, you know, tracking down your quarterback. You can you could air it out. So, that's my hope. That's my dream
13:16is that even though this game is going to be over after the first quarter, they're going to still lean pass heavy,
13:21lean aggressive. This is the Parker Washington 200yard game. Please, please, please. I need it. I need it. I'm down so bad. Please, please. He's so good.
13:32Let's make it happen. Sign the contract on Saturday and let's get him 200 yards.
13:38Overs, ladders. I believe it's coming.
13:41Next up, we got Hunter Henry up against the Lions. And this one's easy. It's just too easy. Look at this. 25.1
13:48fantasy points per game allowed to tight ends. Yikes. Look at all these guys going off against them. Nine different tight ends to hit 13 fantasy points
13:55against them in eight games played. You want to know where this ranks historically? This is the worst defense ever against tight ends at least in
14:02fantasy points data history. Next closest still four fantasy points per game behind them. It's a great spot for Hunter Henry. Should be healthier this
14:11week. We have the game of the week. I think it's Sunday Night Football. I mean, do I think this is going to be the
14:16game that scores the most points? No.
14:18I'm just arbitrarily selecting it as the game of the week because I I just found some interesting angles. Sunday Night Football, my former boss, Chris Chris
14:26Collinssworth, how's it going, Chris, really nice guy. I like him a lot, honestly. There's no sarcasm there.
14:32Really, really humble guy who was really really uh nice the one time I met him. I also like him. I think he's a good like
14:38announcer. I think he's he's like fun to me. I I like Chris Collinsworth. He's calling the the game. And so maybe we
14:44should hook him up with a Fantasy Points data subscription. and uh cuz I found some interesting angles he might want to
14:49know about. This is a perfect schematic matchup for Jaylen Warren. So the Bengals, their run defense, they're worst in the league against man gap
14:57concept runs. Against zone runs, they're fifth best. That's kind of crazy. And Jaylen Warren, he's the best running back in football on man gap concept
15:05runs. Runs it about 50% of the time.
15:08It's a really good schematic. I usually don't care about this for running backs, but in this instance, I think this is
15:13kind of big. So, like on paper, you look at the Bengals and you're like, h, it's like a pretty good matchup. And so,
15:19again, we're going back to the pro thing. You've seen the Steelers shift more runheavy in recent weeks. It's really smart of them to do that because,
15:27dude, Jaylen Warren is playing out of his damn mind. So, I I think they lean runheavy again this week. I think that's
15:32smart. I think that's what they should be doing. I think it's a good schematic matchup. Dang stat number two, Cincinnati has a 12 personnel advantage.
15:41So, this chart is courtesy from SF Data Niners. SF Data 9 ERS. Dude, he's been killing it using Fantasy Points data,
15:51cooking up these dank charts. Shout out to him. It's not just 49er stuff. Very minimal 49er stuff. Actually, it's just kind of his handle, but really good uh
16:00data guy. And so, he posted this and I was like, damn. Damn. Look at look at the Bengals all the way up there.
16:06They're playing the second most 12 personnel and they're the second most efficient offense from 12 personnel.
16:13Okay. Okay. Well, how did the Steelers do against 12 personnel and they're hilariously awful? This is one of the best defenses in football, but against
16:2112 personnel, they're bottom 10. They're eighth worst. Against any other personnel grouping, they're third best.
16:28Does that mean this is going to be a big game for Mike Jasiki? No, I don't think it means that at all. I just think, you
16:34know, on paper, tough matchup, but the Bengals match up really well. It's like UFC styles make fights, right? We're gonna see it sat Josh Hoken against
16:43Sirill Gone. I'm very excited for it. Uh Josh Hokit was uh a great running back actually or good enough to make a NFL
16:51practice squad, but he's also a great wrestler. Wrestled Bo Nickel in college, and that's serial G's weakness. So maybe that gives him the leg up. And it's like
17:00that. It's like that. It's the Bengals are great for 12 personnel. Steelers are weak against it and maybe that's their edge. We just talk about Joe Burrow. Joe
17:07Burrow is playing it out of his damn mind. My goodness. Okay. Okay. Okay.
17:12Okay. Let's just see how out of his damn mind. Week nine, four touchdowns, three passing, one rushing. Week eight, six touchdowns, five passing, one
17:21rushing. Week seven, four touchdowns, all passing. Week five, four touchdowns, all passing. The dude's averaging 4.5 touchdowns per game over his last four.
17:30I don't think we've seen that since like Broncos Pton Manning. I'd have to check.
17:34I probably should have checked Maya Kulpa. But uh I'm just, you know, screw it. We're not going to check it. We're
17:39don't fact check me. We're just going to say that that is what it is. Most since Denver Broncos Peyton Manning. I feel
17:45good about that. Shot in the dark. And then dank stat number three. This is weird. This is something we got to ask
17:51Brad about. Steelers play zone 83% of the time. It's a top six rate. Jamar Chase better against zone. And this has
17:58been true for three straight years. He's been at least 60% better against zone than man. And over that entire span, so
18:04since 2024, he's top five against zone.
18:07So wide receiver 57 against man. Kind of crazy. 1.59 yours for really. That's all you're going to do for us, Jamar Chase.
18:16Really? And so I just like these angles.
18:18Uh and I know people like betting these island games. So it was easy to make it game of the week. What are you going to
18:24do? Want to just throw out a little same game parlay. You want to do Jaylen Warren overs, Jamar Chase overs, Joe
18:31Burrow overs? I'll allow it. I like it.
18:33And so now we've reached everyone's favorite part of the episode, the YOLO Young Money Parlay. That's right, folks.
18:42I'm going to be dishing out a parlay.
18:44It's not a safety parlay. We're being a little aggressive here. We're going to bet $10 to win 300, but don't you worry.
18:50I feel good about all four of these legs hitting for us. The first I'm stealing from my guy Nick Football Insights on Twitter. Elite analyst. I So
19:00like Ryan Heath is the is the best in the game. Ryan Heath, shout out the golden boy. He's the best. And he's the
19:07best because he he knows it all. He knows he's analyzed it from every angle.
19:12He knows the right way to do it. He's become a master. He knows how when to break the rules and he's fairly
19:18innovative. I place a premium on that. I like the guys who go out on a ledge, say things you're not hearing anywhere else,
19:24and then are right. And so Nick is really good at that. He writes an article for us. I don't think there's a
19:29pay wall on it actually. Coverage shells. Uh I know a lot of the best I dude I I I'm the CEO. I track page
19:36views. Doesn't get a ton of page views.
19:38Uh but it's so good. And like the people who read it, DFS players who've won millions of dollars swear by it. They
19:44think it's a great article. I think it's a great article. So anyway, uh, dude, he I'll just read his article or we'll talk
19:51in DMs and he has good angles and this one was Blake Cashman's out for the Vikings. That's a big it's a big loss
19:57for the Vikings. Since the start of last season, the Vikings defense is worse without him. Okay, obviously, but when he's off the field, what do you see down
20:05here? You see see a real surge in targets to the tight end position.
20:10Target share to tight ends jumps from 23% to 35%. running backs see a jump 16% to 22%. You could look at it this way,
20:18too. By in line, your your target share doubles. That's really interesting. All right. 35% target share to tight ends.
20:25Where would that So, we're dealing with a small sample here. That would be the most of any defense. We're talking about
20:31picking on the the Lions or always picking on the Bengals. Vikings without Cman would be highest. And so, like I said, I'm stealing this one from Nick
20:41and it's going to be Tucker Craft overs.
20:44Tuckercraft overs. We have a four four and a half reception line which like honestly like seems fair if you just look back. So, he float last week only
20:54one catch and then before that six four five six four. So, he's really right around there. The odds on this are good.
21:02It's plus 135. So, it's a little bit favorable to us. And overs are more fun.
21:06me like overs. You see the route share jump, you know, they that was the big quote was, you know, from Tucker Craft
21:12himself was like once we hit the halfway point, they're going to slap me on the ass and say, "All right, you're full
21:18good. Go. You're you're good to go now.
21:20We're going to heavily target you."
21:22Yeah. And I think it makes sense to do that in this matchup. Blake Cashman being out tilts everything more towards his favor. The next one, Tank Dell over
21:3133.5 receiving yards. I mean, he's played two games. He's been over that in two games. The first game he only ran
21:39four routes and he went over that. He went over that. He had 43 yards. Last week, 105 yards. He's technically averaging 74 yards per game with a low
21:48of 43. We have a 33 and a half over.
21:51Obviously, it doesn't work like that.
21:53You can get kind of spooked here seeing that 53% route share. Uh I'm kind of more of a glass half full guy. Nine
22:01targets and only 53% of the routes. 24% target share. The round share has to come up, right? Look how how great he's
22:08playing. So, round share should come up.
22:10Marvin Harrison Jr. sucks. That was a bad trade. Own it. Don't try and get him on the Xavier Hutchinson sucks. Don't We
22:16don't need to do that. Let's get Tang Dell the ball. A guy who whenever he was healthy was freaking awesome. I don't
22:22know what's going on with Nico Collins.
22:23This is embarrassing. Uh 26% target share drops to 18% to 12% to 18% to 11%.
22:30I think he's hurt. I think he's hurt.
22:32Why? because that's what makes the most sense. And so, yeah, Tangell 24% target share. That was more than Nico Collins has had in Okay, only two games this
22:40year. Yeah. Next one is Trey Tucker.
22:43Over 26 and a half receiving yards. So, he was over that in week one. Way over it week two. Three, four, five, six,
22:51seven, nine. So, he's over that in eight and nine games. Over 26 and a half receiving yards. That's the line.
22:57Listen, I know we think like I was making the argument. I'm like Kirk Cousins is perfect for Trey Tucker because he's his new Darnell Mooney. He
23:05loves that that deep deep threat, undersized deep threat. But I mean, I think this is an overcorrection down to the rookie. Fernando Mendoza, dude.
23:12Brett love Fernando Mendoza. And you know, I'm a big Clint Kubak guy. You see it here on the screen. Look at that. The
23:18Clint Kubak effect. All these guys had their career years with Clint Kubak.
23:23He's done a remarkable job. So, we're going to throw Trey Tucker into the parlay. We got three legs down. One more
23:30to go. What is it? It's Deario Douglas.
23:32Anytime touchdown scorer, I think he gets he catches a deep ball. Waltzes into the end zone. That's your four legs. Tucker Craft over receptions.
23:41Tanked out over receiving yards. Trey Tucker over receiving yards. Deari Douglas anytime touchdown scorer. That's
23:49plus 2868 on FanDuel. You bet $10. You win 300. We'll say it's a half a unit.
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