0:00Normally I put out the week 10 waiver wire, week 11 waiver wire super early Tuesday morning, but I had to wait until after the NFL
0:09trade deadline just cuz I knew there were going to be some crazy deals, some crazy news that we had to talk about.
0:14And honestly, it does impact exactly how I am viewing the strategy on waivers this week.
0:21Now I will be honest though, I already had my waiver wire run and I went crazy.
0:26I'm just going to let y'all know what I did immediately. We have a bunch of waiver names to talk through, but the
0:31first guy I want to look at is going to be Corey Kiner. Now this is the running back for the New England Patriots that
0:39is slated to be the starting running back for this upcoming week.
0:44Now the big thing that matters will be obviously the availability and the health of Rhamondre Stevenson and Trevon, because with Corey Kiner, he is
0:55not more down to than either one of those RBs. If Rhamondre's healthy, he's going to be the lead back. If you have Trevon
1:04Henderson healthy, he will be the lead back.
1:06But what we had come out yesterday regarding Rhamondre Stevenson was in general good news. Rhamondre Stevenson is expected to miss the next few weeks
1:16because of plantar tendon issue in the back of his knee. No surgery, just rest and rehab for Rhamondre.
1:24Adam Schefter said Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson is dealing with the knee tendon issue that is not expected to require surgery, but could sideline
1:32him for a short period of time.
1:34Here's the big thing that we have to be looking at in terms of fantasy football in week 10.
1:41It's week 10, right?
1:45If we are starting our playoffs, which everybody here watching this should start their playoffs in week 15,
1:54we have weeks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 until the playoffs start. We got five weeks left.
2:03If Rhamondre is going to miss two, three games and Corey Kiner is going to be a starting running back for two, three
2:11weeks for a good New England Patriots offense, this is a starting running back for half of the remaining regular season fantasy
2:19games.
2:20So what I decided to do is I decided to go aggressive after Corey Kiner. It probably was a mistake. I'll be
2:27completely honest. I put about $200 fab on him, which is about 20% of a fab budget. Let me go ahead and pull up what
2:36the exact results were in the flock league cuz I know other people bid on him, but it wasn't anything close to
2:44what I did. Like I put over $200 again, over 20% of my fab to get him because I'm viewing him as a starting running
2:50back for the New England Patriots. Then there were 1 2 3 4 5 6 other teams that bid on him.
2:58Um Nathan only bid $38. Zach only bid 28. Zufa only bid 23. Thomas only bid 12. Corey only bid seven. Sal only bid
3:08two. So maybe I am too excited about Corey Kiner and the starting running back here for the New England Patriots.
3:17But the other interesting thing that we have to look at is the latest report that we have from Trevon Henderson.
3:24Based on what I have heard from everybody that I talked to in the industry, based on what I have heard from the YouTube live chat, is it sounds
3:33like Trevon's out for the year. We have no idea what the update is going to be with Trevon that we get this week, but
3:40right now he's talking about prioritizing his long-term health and well-being.
3:45So I would expect that Corey Kiner is a starting running back that you could play against the Detroit Lions this week
3:53and you possibly get one to two extra games with him after the bye as well.
3:58But nothing more than that, but again, two to three weeks as a starting running back at this point. When you're in week
4:0410, that's half the remaining regular season games for fantasy purposes.
4:10Now, going over to Treylon, I will say if he was dropped in your league, he should be rostered as well, just in case
4:18we get some positive news that comes out today, tomorrow, the next day. Because realistically, if Treylon comes back in, he will be the guy over Corey Kiner and
4:29he will be the player that you want to jam in and he has a higher ceiling. I would just expect we don't get Treylon
4:34Henderson back anytime soon.
4:37Now, I'll go through and look at a couple other players that I think are interesting waiver shouts. I personally picked up Audric Estime this past
4:47weekend before the Cleveland Browns game. Um I was going up against a team that was playing Alvin Kamara. I didn't want them to go pick up Estime, play
4:56Estime instead of Kamara. I I just was mainly blocking. I wasn't planning on playing Estime this past week. I also have Travis Etienne on my own fantasy
5:04team, but in terms of Estime's viability, this will probably be a player that gets sent right back to the waiver wire if we get
5:13word that Travis Etienne is at practice on Wednesday and they are opening up his 21-day window.
5:19I don't want to overreact and tell people you got to start Estime, you got to pick him up. Again, I am stashing him
5:26on my bench. We haven't really heard any positive news about Travis Etienne, so just in case. But kind of best case
5:32scenario, this is a committee running back where Kamara is going to be getting the majority of the work as a receiver.
5:37So it's not like he is super exciting regardless. I personally again am rostering Corey Kiner and Audric Estime on my team. I would value Corey Kiner
5:46higher than I would Audric Estime. The next player that I picked up this past week that I think is interesting for
5:53y'all to look at as well will be Brandon Aiyuk. So I was hoping that Aiyuk would have been dropped by the Niners. I know
6:02that we had some random NFL rumor accounts coming out saying that Brandon and Brandon Aiyuk was going to be cut by
6:094:00 p.m. Eastern today. Well, it is 4:30 Eastern and Brandon Aiyuk still has not been cut. But he did pass his
6:18physical Monday and was officially reinstated.
6:22Now, what is most likely going to happen here is the Niners get a two-week exemption for Brandon Aiyuk.
6:30I would guess that Brandon Aiyuk will be on the Niners roster for the next two weeks and then they're going to cut him
6:39at the very end of that period.
6:44So, my guess here is that Aiyuk is a deep bench stash that I'm going to hold on to the bottom end of my bench and I
6:53think it's worth it for you to probably do the same.
6:56That is most likely not going to turn out to be anything, but that is always most likely when we're looking at some
7:03of these waiver wire names, right? 90% of waiver wire pickups are going to be zeros. You're just trying to find the
7:10one in 20 that turns out to be a real difference-making player.
7:15So, I would say that if Aiyuk finds himself in the Los Angeles Rams offense with the injuries to Puka Nacua and Davante
7:25Adams, he has the upside to make a difference. At one point before he went certifiably insane,
7:35he was a good NFL wide receiver.
7:40So, I would pick him up off the waiver wire in your league. Again, I did that this past weekend. I think it's worth
7:45rostering him over the next two weeks just in case we see something exciting happen.
7:50Now, the obviously better pickups than all three of those players that I just mentioned. Those are the three guys that I picked up and I have them on my own
8:00team.
8:01First, the best pickup out of this group, if you can get them, is going to be Josh Downs.
8:07Josh Downs was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs.
8:12The package was a fourth and a fifth round pick for Josh Downs and a seventh round pick. So this is decent composi um
8:20compensation that the Kansas City Chiefs are giving up for Downs, making it seem like Downs is going to be used.
8:28Especially you have the injury as well to Xavier Worthy. Xavier Worthy is labeled as day-to-day right now. I think Downs
8:38comes in. He's a better version of Worthy. I am viewing him primarily as a flex Worthy play with upside. A very low
8:46floor. He is now in year four of his NFL career. He's never made a difference for fantasy football. The only thing that
8:53he's ever done is get talked about in a lot of fantasy football YouTube videos, but he's never been good for fantasy
9:00purposes, but he's also never played with Patrick Mahomes. In my mind, he is most likely the fourth weapon in this offense behind Rice, behind Walker,
9:09behind Kelsey. So he's most likely at best just going to be a flex, but definitely worth definitely worth the roster spot if he's on the waiver wire.
9:20And I would go way harder after him than those players we previously discussed. I would say the same thing with Keenan
9:26Allen here. So Keenan Allen, I would prefer Josh Downs between the two of them, but he gets dealt to possibly the
9:34best spot imaginable where Keenan is going over to the San Francisco 49ers.
9:40If you look at this Niners roster, they just I think either cut or put Christian Kirk on the injured reserve. Christian
9:45Kirk's a literal zero. Mike Evans, we still have no idea when he's coming back. We have no idea when Stribling's coming back. Ricky Pearsall is obviously
9:52out for the year, and Deebo Samuel's at practice this week, but we don't know if he's going to play.
9:57This is a team that needs playmakers more than you could ever imagine. Keenan Allen is a vet that's going to be able
10:04to come in quickly, get adjusted, make a difference as a possession wide receiver. I think this makes Keenan Allen more likely than not flexible
10:13until we get some of these other veteran wide receivers like Mike Evans back into this offense. So again, I would say Keenan Allen, Josh
10:21Downs, and Jordan Addison, these are the three best pickups of the week if somehow they are out there on your waiver wire. Like here if you're looking
10:30at Addison, he's rostered in most leagues, 73% of ESPN, 73% of Yahoo, 64% of Sleeper. But if you're in a shallower
10:38like 10-team format, while Addison's been horrific so far this season, he's the wide receiver 68 in fantasy points per game, the addition of Kirk Cousins
10:48into this offense is going to make Addison all of a sudden viable. This offense is about to be a hell of a lot
10:55better with the passing volume. Um I'm going to assume Jefferson and T.J.
10:58Hockenson are already both rostered in your leagues, but if Addison's on the waiver wire, if the Addison owner got frustrated, I would scoop.
11:07And then going over to Tank Dell, Tank Dell is actually the name that went for the second most amount of fab in the
11:14Flock League this week. Again, I wasted a bunch on Corey Kiener. Zach went out there and went aggressive after Tank Dell. Dell, probably one of the best
11:24storylines in the entire NFL, right?
11:27This is a wide receiver that back um in his rookie season, he looked good during stretches of games. He made a difference
11:35for fantasy purposes. Then 2024, he was overall underwhelming. Like 2024 Tank Dell was um what? The wide receiver 53 in fantasy
11:47points per game.
11:49He sees a season-ending, almost career-ending injury, misses the rest of the 2024 season. Then
11:58he misses all of 2025, gets placed on the injured reserve at the start of 2026, and this past week against the Los
12:06Angeles Chargers, he has the big play receiving touchdown plus he does end up drawing like nine targets. Now, my thing with Dell and why I don't think you
12:16should go crazy for him, again, by far and away the best pickups if they got dropped were Josh Downs, Keenan Allen,
12:21Jordan Addison. Those are the guys you want.
12:23Um, Tank Dell is at best wide receiver two here in Houston and I don't even know if that is going to be the case. Like Xavier
12:32Hutchinson and Marvin Harrison, I still think can push for targets. I think this offense is very much going to be spread
12:38out. I don't know if you're going to get consistency from Tank Dell, but he's most likely going to be picked up in
12:43every single one of your leagues this week and he is somebody that you should look at.
12:47Now, let me go over and let's look at some of the best defensive streamers that we have um for your weeks this week. The big thing
12:58that I always do for defensive streamers is we want to look at matchups, right? I mean, I think that is very very clear. I
13:06like looking at market numbers to identify which teams are the biggest favorites, which offenses are supposed to score the fewest amount of points.
13:15And right now, if we go over and pull that up Okay, let me get this. I'm sorry. Give me one second. Again, typically these
13:24are videos that come out on Tuesday morning, but I didn't want to make a video and then all of a sudden be
13:29irrelevant with the NFL trade deadline, so I had to wait until after the trade deadline. Let's look up implied team totals
13:37week 10 NFL.
13:39Okay, so the best matchups for your DSTs this week.
13:47If the Los Angeles Rams defense got dropped, you are going to want to pick up the Rams DST. Right now, the Arizona
13:56Cardinals are going to have Carson Beck under center.
13:59They have no Marvin Harrison anymore.
14:02They have no Michael Wilson anymore.
14:05They have no Jacoby Brissett. They have no Gardner Minshew. They're on their third string quarterback, their third string wide receiver, and possibly their
14:13third string running back, too.
14:16So, Arizona was bad beforehand.
14:18Arizona's going to be really bad after.
14:21Like, again, especially if you look at how good Miles Garrett just looked for this Rams offense. The Rams are 8 and
14:281/2 point favorites here. You just absolutely have to jam them.
14:32The next defense that is worth looking at is going to be the Baltimore Ravens.
14:37The Ravens are 5 and 1/2 point favorites against the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers were a very, very easy matchup to play against your DST last
14:48week. That's what I did. I played the Houston Texans against the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers are allowing the most points to any opposing DST in the
14:57league right now. And if we go over and just look at what we have with current markets, it's actually crazy to see how
15:04people are just completely giving up on Los Angeles. Like, right now if we pull up the PolyMarket app, you'll see that
15:10the Ravens had a 57% chance of beating the Chargers before the Chargers collapsed against the Houston Texans.
15:19But now it looks like the Chargers have completely given up on the season. The Chargers have fallen down to only a 33%
15:25chance of winning this game. And again, right now if you look at like the over under of Los Angeles Chargers points
15:31scored, it's currently sitting at 16 and 1/2. Going to be one of the worst offense in the league clearly. The Ravens will be a great defensive
15:37streamer. Obviously, if you want to check out any of those markets, you can find the link to PolyMarket US in the
15:42description, comment section, live chat.
15:44If you sign up with promo code flock, get $25 added to your account after you deposit your first 10.
15:49Then the Houston Texans are yet again another great defense this week. They're 4 and 1/2 point favorites over the Cleveland Browns. Deshaun Watson, I
15:56believe going into last week he was leading the NFL in sacks taken. And Texans coming off a game where they just
16:02had like seven sacks. They're big favorites. Jacksonville's going to be like the best DST outside of the Minnesota Vikings rest of season. They
16:09have just good matchup after good matchup after good matchup. I'm going to assume very similar to what you have with the Houston Texans defense already
16:17being rostered in your league. The Jags defense should be rostered as well. They are 10 and a half point favorites against the Tennessee Titans.
16:24The Green Bay Packers maybe a little bit less of an interesting play now that you have Kirk Cousins going over to
16:30Minnesota. And the Indianapolis Colts are actually favored against the Miami Dolphins, who just put Malik Willis on the injured reserve. So
16:41you could look at the Indianapolis Colts defense, as crazy as that sounds.
16:45Obviously, Seattle's a play every week.
16:48You can look at the Giants who play against Jayden Daniels on Thursday night. And then the Kansas City Chiefs who are three and a half point favorites
16:54over the Atlanta Falcons as well.
16:57Now, looking at our best quarterback matchups, if you needed to stream a QB, we're going to go over and we are going
17:03to look at the strength of schedule tool on flockfantasy.com. Let's look at quarterback. Let's look at schedule adjusted. Let's sort this just by week
17:1310. The best quarterback matchup you're going to have for week 10 is going to be New England with Drake May playing
17:20against the Detroit Lions.
17:22I need this badly. Drake May come through for us. Please help me win my sixth game straight in the flock league.
17:28Move to seven and three. But obviously, you're not able to stream Drake May. A Matthew Stafford's going to have the second best matchup you can find going
17:35up against the Arizona Cardinals who on average allow an extra five points per game to opposing quarterbacks compared to their baseline. But Stafford's going
17:43to be a very difficult start because obviously he's missing both Devonte Adams as well as Puka Nacua. The New York Giants with J.
17:52J. McCarthy can be an interesting streamer on Thursday night going up against the Commanders. The Commanders allow an extra four points per game to
18:00opposing quarterbacks. We already know that Brock Purdy's being started in your league. Great matchup at Dallas. The Seattle quarterback room, we're not
18:07playing an injured Drew Lock. You can look at Aaron Rogers as a streamer if you need one going to play against the
18:13Cincinnati Bengals who allow an average of an extra 2.6 fantasy points per game.
18:18And then Jayden Daniels good matchup playing against the New York Giants as well.
18:23So, and Easty Baby says, Mason, what about Demario Douglas? Demario Douglas is a very solid waiver wire pickup as well. We talked about him last week, but
18:32if you go over and pull up the situation that you have right now for the New England Patriots. Again, this is going
18:38to be a team that has no Rhamondre Stevenson this week, no Trevon Henderson this week, no AJ Brown this week, no
18:44Romeo Dobbs this week, and injured Hunter Henry. So, the targets are very easily going to come to Douglas. He had nine targets this past week, over 100
18:54receiving yards, back-to-back games with 15 fantasy points. A phenomenal match up playing against the Detroit Lions. So, if you need a one-week start, Demario
19:02Douglas very easily can be that guy for you. I will say after the week 11 bye though, you may be getting a lot of
19:08these players back. I think it's more likely we see AJ Brown back after the week 11 bye in comparison to Rhamondre
19:15Stevenson or Trevon. So, if I had to go through the order of priorities, I would put Demario Douglas behind Corey Kiner.
19:22I would rather have Kiner over Douglas.
19:26But I think that should be it. Let me know if you all have any questions in the chat. Um, Jeepsee says, Christian
19:33Watson or Justin Jefferson rest of season? I have them in the same tier after the Kirk Cousins trade. Maybe I'm a little bit biased because again, I've
19:41had so many weeks in fantasy this year that it looked like I was going to lose.
19:46And Christian Watson just literally won me the week straight up. So, I would still have Jefferson ahead of them, but I'm sorry, Watson ahead of them, but it
19:54is close.
19:56The best best Colts wide receiver now, it probably doesn't matter. Maybe it's Laquon Treadwell.
20:02But frankly, they're down their top three wide receivers. They're down their best offensive linemen. The Indianapolis Colts, the only players that you start
20:10are going to be Jonathan Taylor and Tyler Warren.
20:13In terms of a tight end pickup, I don't exactly have one this week. If Pat Freiermuth was dropped in your league,
20:19you could look at Pat Freiermuth knowing that um they are coming out of the bye week, should be fully healthy. And
20:25again, there's a good reason he was dropped if he was on bye.
20:29Um.
20:32Did I already talk about the Kendre Miller trade? I did not see Miller get traded. I know Kendre Miller um was cut
20:38from the New Orleans Saints.
20:43Where is Kendre Miller going?
20:47Oh, the Cowboys are signing former Saints running back Kendre Miller. So Tyler Goodson was out for a couple weeks for
20:57Dallas. So Kendre Miller going to Dallas is just going to give them a backup running back. They needed one desperately. Again, if you were really
21:05excited about Tyler Goodson, maybe you look at Kendre Miller, but he's kind of filling in that role. I don't think it
21:10matters for Javonte.
21:12But yeah, I I wouldn't pick up Kendre Miller either. Again, if you were rostering Tyler Goodson, your league's that deep.
21:18If you want to cut Tyler Goodson and pick up Kendre Miller, go for it.
21:23But I think that's all we're going to have for the stream here.
21:30Um I will be live tonight obviously answering a bunch of fantasy questions, but I needed to make sure we get y'all
21:37got y'all that waiver wire video.
21:39Um and again, I apologize for not putting it out this morning. I just didn't want to put something out before the NFL trade deadline, and then all of
21:45a sudden I was hurting y'all more than I was helping y'all. So wanted to wait till after the trade deadline. Next week
21:51the um waiver wire video will come out early in the morning.
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