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Browns & Steelers Lessons Learned

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13 min

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Oct 2, 2026

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Fri, October 2, 2026

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Aaron RodgersDarnell WashingtonDenzel BostonDK MetcalfHarold FanninJaylen WarrenJordan AddisonKyle PittsQuinshon JudkinsRoman Wilson

Player analysis

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Aaron Rodgers

NegativeProjection0:22

Aaron Rodgers is not a viable fantasy starter. He lacks rushing upside and does not generate enough passing volume to be consistently useful, making him a waiver-wire level quarterback regardless of the matchup.

Darnell Washington

NegativeDepth Chart7:17

Darnell Washington is part of a tight end committee that makes him unstartable for fantasy purposes, despite seeing red zone targets.

Denzel Boston

PositiveSleeper12:11

Denzel Boston is a rookie wide receiver who should be rostered; he has flashed big-play ability across three good games and recorded seven targets in his most recent appearance.

DK Metcalf

NegativeUsage3:22

DK Metcalf maintains a consistent 22-23% target share, mirroring his role from last season. Despite the volume, he remains a boom-bust option rather than a must-start, having scored 8, 6.5, and 12 fantasy points through the first three weeks. He is recommended as a start in deeper leagues, though he remains a boom-bust option for fantasy managers dealing with bye weeks.

Harold Fannin

NegativeProjection12:29

Harold Fannon is viewed as a low-end TE1, but his target volume is a concern due to increased competition from rookie wide receivers like Casey Conpion and Denzel Boston; fantasy managers should be wary of assuming he will reach last year's volume.

Jaylen Warren

PositiveUsage0:11

Jaylen Warren is a locked-in must-start when Rico Dowdle is absent, as evidenced by his 23 opportunities (17 carries, 6 targets) in this game. He was highly efficient, averaging 11 yards per reception and 5.5 yards per carry, though his role may shift back to a committee once Dowdle returns.

Jordan Addison

NegativeValue9:48

The host already owns a Jordan Addison card and plans to sell any duplicate pulled from the pack back to the platform immediately.

Kyle Pitts

NegativeValue12:06

The host is undecided on whether to keep or sell a high-value Blackora Kyle Pitts card if pulled, noting he already owns a regular version of the player's card.

Quinshon Judkins

PositiveUsage10:15

Despite horrific rushing efficiency (3.1 YPC), Quinshon Judkins is trending up in rankings due to an increased receiving role following Dylan Sampson's move to IR. He recorded a season-high six receptions for 43 yards. The host acknowledged fantasy managers who started Quinshon Judkins, indicating he was a successful start in the Flock League.

Roman Wilson

PositiveBreakout6:41

Roman Wilson is a potential riser in rankings, provided he recovers from his concussion. He has shown consistent usage with six targets in every game this season, and there is a possibility he could be ranked ahead of DK Metcalf if healthy.

Full transcript

Episode Transcript

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0:00This Browns Steelers game had an

0:02overunder of 37 and a half points. So,

0:04I'm going to be honest, I thought it was

0:06going to be disgusting. I didn't think

0:07we were going to have any bright moments

0:09here. It was a situation in which you

0:11played Jaylen Warren because he had

0:13guaranteed volume and then outside of

0:14that, I I thought it would be gross, but

0:16we had over 50 points scored in this

0:19game. So, there was actually some

0:22excitement starting with Aaron Rogers.

0:24Aaron Rogers looked good at points and

0:26Aaron Rogers looked horrible at points.

0:28Now, the only thing that matters with

0:30Rogers from a fantasy perspective is can

0:32he support the weapons because

0:35ultimately I'm not excited to ever put

0:38him in my starting lineup. He's never

0:40going to run the ball right and he's not

0:42going to get to enough passing volume to

0:43be consistently useful in fantasy. We've

0:46seen Rogers over the past few years now

0:48just be a consistent waiverwire

0:50quarterback that honestly isn't even

0:52intriguing even if he has a good matchup

0:53like against the Dallas Cowboys. Don't

0:55overthink this. Rogers for fantasy

0:57purposes doesn't matter. But um again,

1:00can he support the weapons? Now, Jaylen

1:03Warren was an absolute locked and loaded

1:06mustart player once you have no Rico

1:08Dattle in this game because he is going

1:10to see so much freaking volume. And we

1:13can see that it exactly played out that

1:15way. Warren 17 out of 19 potential

1:18carries. He also saw six targets out of

1:21the backfield as well. So he only scores

1:2315 and a half points, but he had 120

1:26yards and he had what? 23 opportunities.

1:30So 23 opportunities for Jaylen Ward in

1:32this game does just show that any game

1:35in which you have no Rico Dattle, Jaylen

1:38Ward is going to be an absolute auto

1:41start. Set it and forget it. He did look

1:44pretty damn good in this game as well. I

1:45mean, he averaged 11 yards per reception

1:48and 5 1/2 yards per carry. So Warren

1:51smashed next week if Datt's out. Once

1:53Dattle comes back, I'll be a little bit

1:56concerned that this does transition a

1:58little closer to being a running back by

2:00committee. Now going over and looking at

2:02what we had with DK Metaf. Metaf's an

2:06interesting instance here, right?

2:07Because he comes through and he actually

2:10ends up seeing a considerable amount of

2:13receiving volume. Um DK Medaf had nine

2:17targets in this offense. Now, nine

2:19targets is a ton, but Aaron Rogers also

2:22had 40 pass attempts. So, from a market

2:24share perspective, Mechaf had like 22%

2:28of this Pittsburgh Steelers target

2:29share. Let me pull up flockfantasy.com

2:32to see what it was last season. I want

2:33to say it was something very, very

2:35similar to this. So, I don't think this

2:37game really changed anything either for

2:39Mechaf. Obviously, some big plays looked

2:42really good, especially at the end. I

2:43mean, through the vast majority of the

2:44game, you didn't really think that you

2:46were getting much with him, but he

2:48definitely managed to turn it on. Um,

2:51but yeah, I'm sorry. Let me pull up what

2:53we had with flockfantasy.com

2:55for the DK Medaf historical target share

2:58when we've had Pittsburgh and Metaf

3:01together with Rogers. But as I do this,

3:04and dear God, hopefully this stream

3:05isn't going down because nothing's

3:07loading. Uh, please make sure you drop a

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3:16so for me, but please do so for the

3:18editors that work so damn hard on these

3:21videos. But looking at DK Mechaf on the

3:24site. So, Mechaf here going through and

3:27looking at his 2025 stat line. Yeah, he

3:31had 22.6%

3:33of this team's target share this past

3:35season. So, META has the same exact role

3:38this year so far as what he saw last

3:40year. The question is just how good can

3:43this Steelers offense be. Um, I don't

3:45want to rank Medaf as like some

3:47muststart name after this. Again,

3:49through the first three weeks, DK Metaf

3:51has scored eight fantasy points, 6 and a

3:53half fantasy points, 12 fantasy points.

3:55So, despite him looking really good, I'm

3:58not super interested in it still. Now

4:01going over to Roman Wilson. I do think

4:04that

4:06if it's not for the concussion that at

4:08least I think that was the injury that

4:10he suffered at the very end of the game.

4:11We are going to have to get an update on

4:12that. If Roman Wilson is good to go, I'm

4:15going to be honest, I'm going to move

4:17him ahead of DK Medaf in my ranks. Like

4:20if we go through and look at what we had

4:22had from him through the first three

4:23weeks, he had had six targets week one,

4:26six targets week two, six targets in

4:28week three. In this game, Roman Wilson

4:30comes out yet another performance with

4:33six targets. He looked pretty damn good

4:35at the same time. Now, I know some

4:37people look at Darnell Washington, that

4:39final drive when they get to the red

4:41zone, they're throwing to Darnell

4:42Washington over and over and over again.

4:44The reality is this is a tight end by

4:46committee with Washington with Pat Fryu.

4:48So, I'm not interested in any of the

4:50tight ends here, but DK Metaf would be

4:52the wide receiver that you would start

4:54if you're in a deeper league dealing

4:56with buys, but he's going to be a little

4:57more of a boom bust option. Michael

4:59Pitman Jr. at this point, it's over.

5:01It's cooked. I don't know if this was

5:03due to the injury that he had at the

5:05beginning of the season, but um going

5:07from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh, he has

5:10yet to be able to crack 10 fantasy

5:12points. I mean, hell, if we go through

5:14and look at the last time he scored 10

5:17fantasy points, it was week 14 last

5:20year. So, um, Pitman, it looks like it's

5:23GG's. If you're in a shallow format, he

5:25is definitely cutable. Now, going over

5:28to the Cleveland side of it, this is

5:30maybe the more interesting case that we

5:33need to look through because again,

5:34looking at the Pittsburgh ends, I mean,

5:37Pittsburgh's pretty simple. Warren's a

5:40mustart player when you have no doubt.

5:41DK Medaf's kind of interesting and

5:43that's it. Here for Cleveland, they have

5:46very exciting skill positional names.

5:49The question just comes down to like is

5:51Deshun Watson going to be good enough?

5:54And as the Browns sit at three and one

5:58as Deshun Watson just had a game with

6:00what almost 300 total yards. He had 280

6:04yards, 20 I'm sorry, 290, 268 passing,

6:08and 22 rushing. Watson may be good

6:12enough for these receivers.

6:15Quinn Sean Judkins comes through. He has

6:1753 rushing yards, 3.1 yards per carry.

6:20So, the efficiency is still horrific

6:22with Judkins. Whether you want to blame

6:24the ankle injuries coming off of,

6:26whether you want to blame the offensive

6:28line, whether you want to blame the

6:30coaching staff, it doesn't matter what

6:31you're blaming. The efficiency isn't

6:33good. But again, remember Dylan Samson

6:36went to the IR. So what you have here

6:39with Judkins is the increased role as a

6:42receiver which does make him much more

6:44exciting. Like Quinnshan Judkins this

6:46game does come away with the rushing

6:48touchdown, but more importantly, six

6:50receptions, 43 receiving yards. Let me

6:53go through and see. Have we ever had

6:55this for Judkins in his NFL career? Cuz

6:58um no. This is the most receptions Quinn

7:02Sean Judkins has ever had. This is a

7:04season high. So really encouraging to

7:07see this receiving usage and it was off

7:10of only 33 Deshun Watson pass attempts.

7:12So it's not like this is a game in which

7:14Watson threw the ball 50 times. So if

7:17Judkins is going to get used as a

7:18receiver like this and the Cleveland

7:20Browns are actually going to be a

7:22competitive football team, Quint Judkins

7:24is somebody that you can move up

7:26rankings. And then Casey Conpion gets

7:28eight targets here. Denzel Boston gets

7:31seven. Denzel Boston has the big play,

7:33right? So he comes away with the 13

7:36fantasy points in comparison to Casey

7:38Conception at 11 a half. But both these

7:41wide receivers need to be rostered in

7:43your league because they're rookies that

7:45have flashed early that we should expect

7:46to continue to get better as time goes

7:48on. And then Harold Fannon had five

7:50targets. One of them is a touchdown and

7:53another near the end of the game could

7:55have been a big play of Deshun Watson

7:56just threw the ball accurately like

7:59Harold Fannon was wide open. So yes, it

8:01could have been a bigger day for him. I

8:03still would view Harold Fannon as that

8:04like low-end tight end one. Um because

8:07last year he didn't have any wide

8:08receivers he had to compete with for

8:10targets. But this year you do end up um

8:14finding yourself in a tougher spot

8:18knowing that I mean you've had

8:21three I mean I want say yeah three good

8:24games from Denzel Boston.

8:27Not only have you he had three good

8:29games from Denzel Boston, but at the

8:31same time like Casey Conpion just had

8:34eight targets in comparison to Harold

8:35Fannon at five. So these are very good

8:37rookie wide receivers that I do think

8:40you should be

8:43a wary of assuming Fannon's going to get

8:45to the volume that he had last year. But

8:46Judkins is looking like somebody that if

8:48he's going to have those receiving

8:49volume, you definitely have to start him

8:50especially if this offense is good. But

8:53it is Thursday night and you know what

8:55that means? That means we get to go over

8:59to Arena Club. As you can see all the

9:01football cards behind me. I have been a

9:04menace with the football cards lately.

9:06We are going to go to Arena Club here.

9:09Look at the latest slab pack openings

9:12that we have. Um again, we've been doing

9:14this after every Thursday night game. We

9:17are going to be opening up an Emerald

9:19football pack here. Um in this it is a

9:23$500 pack. The Grail cards, highly

9:26unlikely if we hit them. They are worth

9:28a ridiculous amount, but I mean

9:30obviously it would be insane. Um the

9:32chase cards, I'm going to be honest. I

9:34absolutely love the Kabooms. So if I got

9:36the Jefferson Kaboom, I would go nuts.

9:38But here's the most likely stuff we're

9:40going to be pulling. This is the lineup.

9:41You can see there's a 1.96% chance we

9:44get any one of these cards. Some of them

9:46I have already purchased on my own if

9:48I'm gonna be completely honest. Like I

9:49have this Jordan Addison card. So, if we

9:52end up getting that, I am just going to

9:54honestly sell it right back to Arena

9:57Club because they'll offer 10% of

10:00whatever it is immediately

10:03um after we are done with it. But let's

10:05go ahead and let's get this first one

10:09in. Let me put in my address, place the

10:12order. We will pull this up here, open

10:15it up, see what we can get. Again, we

10:19got rinsed the last time we did this. We

10:22get a Burrow 2025 color blast. This is

10:24my first color blast. I actually think

10:26we have This is a $500 pack. 6005 value.

10:29I don't have a color blast. For me, I

10:31only really care about getting players

10:33that I have watched personally and that

10:37are fantasy options. So, I'm going to

10:39for sure keep that. But, let me go over

10:42and get the other one we are going to

10:45do. Um, actually that is really

10:47exciting. I want to say that is better

10:50than what we got last week for sure. Um,

10:53I was looking at buying a color blast

10:56for Jefferson earlier today. Um, again

10:59because I have Jefferson on my own

11:00fantasy team, but I am definitely not

11:02going to cry about getting a burrow one.

11:04But this is the same pack we just

11:07opened. Let's see if we can get the

11:10Jefferson Kaboom would be absolutely

11:11insane. But let me see.

11:15Rookie ticket. Dallas Turner

11:18autoed rookie ticket. I've never had a

11:20rookie ticket, but I will tell you one

11:22thing. This is immediately getting sold.

11:24Defensive players, I'm not trying to put

11:26in my collection. I know that I'm the

11:28most casual person ever, but as somebody

11:30who just plays fantasy football

11:32non-stop, yes, I am um cashing out on

11:37that immediately and maybe going to the

11:38marketplace and buying something I'm

11:41more interested in. But let's go over

11:43and this is the big one we are lucky

11:46enough we get to do if we got the 2022

11:49Patrick Mahomes Black Pandora downtown.

11:52I have a lot of downtowns. I don't have

11:54any Blackoras just because they are so

11:56damn expensive, but the Kabooms would be

11:59insane as well. Um, and there are

12:01actually a lot of Kabooms in the lineup

12:02one. So, I would absolutely love that.

12:05One thing I'd have to figure out is if

12:06we got like a Blackora Kyle Pitts where

12:09I've already bought a regular Kyle

12:11Pitts. I don't know if we would sell it

12:14back or if we would keep it. But let me

12:18go ahead and let's get this one. This is

12:21the big one. Please, for the love of

12:23God, come on. Come on. Okay. Hell yes.

12:29We get a Kaboom. We get a Jail and Herz.

12:31This is my second kaboom that I've

12:32gotten. This is literally perfect.

12:34That is incredible. I am so damn excited

12:37about that. Dogs going insane in the

12:39background. Um, shout out Arena Club.

12:42Super happy about that. I'm going to

12:43leave a link to Arena Club in the

12:45description as well as the comment

12:47section. If you sign up with promo code

12:49flock, you will get 20% off your first

12:53pack. And yeah, that should also be

12:55automatically applied if you go through

12:57those links. But much love, ladies and

12:59gentlemen. Appreciate you. Hope I was

13:01able to help you out in some way with

13:04this live stream tonight. Um, shout out

13:06to everybody who started Quinch on

13:07Judkins. I was rooting for Bush in the

13:09Flock League who had Judkins on his

13:11team, so I had to pull up in the Judkins

13:13jersey. But much love. I'll see you out

13:16in the live stream

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