0:00So, I had to add a name to this list
0:01just due to the Monday Night Football
0:03injuries. But before we get to that
0:05deeper ad, let's talk about some ads for
0:07shallower formats. Now, I understand,
0:09yeah, in your league there's a good shot
0:11that Jonah Coleman is rostered. I know
0:13he's been rostered in my league, player
0:15that went to the IR, came back in week
0:17seven, but it is worth talking about
0:19what just happened because Jonah Coleman
0:21somehows only rostered in 24% of ESPN
0:24leagues, 35% of Yahoo, and 38% of
0:27Sleeper. So Jonah Coleman comes in his
0:31first game back from his IR stint, plays
0:3449% of snaps against the Arizona
0:37Cardinals. If we compare this over to
0:39the other running backs in his
0:40backfield, such as JK Dobbins as an
0:43example, Dobbins fell from 52% of the
0:47snaps in week six down to 23% of the
0:50snaps this past week. And if we look
0:52over at RJ Harvey, RJ Harvey fell from
0:5640% of the snaps in week six down to 26%
1:00of the snaps in week seven. So Jonah
1:02Coleman absolutely dominates both
1:05Dobbins and Harvey for the volume in
1:07this backfield with his snaps and with
1:10the opportunities as well because
1:12Dobbins only has six total touches. RJ
1:15Harvey has only five total touches and
1:18Joda Coleman sees a total of 11. And on
1:21top of this, after that Broncos game,
1:23Shawn Payeyton said that they need to
1:26get the ball to Jonah Coleman more. He
1:29needs more work, more opportunities,
1:31more touches. So that tells me, hey,
1:34this rookie running back is probably
1:36going to go up to 60 70% of the snaps in
1:40this back field by the time we get to
1:42the end of the season. I don't expect
1:44that to happen in week eight. I'll be
1:46honest, while Jonah Coleman is now my
1:48highest ranked Denver Broncos running
1:50back, I don't know if he's a mustart
1:52player this next week, a mustart player
1:54in two weeks, it's going to take a
1:55little bit of time for him to ramp up
1:57and a little bit of time for you to be
1:58able to actually trust him. But the late
2:01season upsides there. And also on top of
2:04that, if the injuries are serious to
2:07Tyron Tracy and Cam Scataboo, there's an
2:10outside chance you end up getting a
2:11trade where JK Dobbins is going to the
2:14New York Giants or maybe JK Dobbins is
2:17going to the Minnesota Vikings. Now,
2:19let's go over to the other very obvious
2:22ad. If you are playing in a shallow
2:25format like a 10 team league, this will
2:27be Mai Lemon. Now, Mai Lemon just had a
2:30career game against the Dallas Cowboys,
2:33week seven, Monday Night Football. So,
2:35all your league mates saw it. He had
2:37eight targets, seven receptions, 67
2:40receiving yards, and a receiving
2:42touchdown. A lot of the balls that got
2:44thrown in his direction were hospital
2:46balls. He was able to hold on to the
2:48majority of them as well, which was very
2:50impressive. Now, this is a great rookie
2:53prospect. Very similar to Jonah Coleman,
2:55but Mai Limits maybe even better. Mai
2:57Limmon was drafted in round one of the
3:00NFL draft coming out of USC. This was
3:03viewed as the poor man's puka nua,
3:06right? A lot of people were actually
3:07suggesting that Mai Lemon was going to
3:09go earlier in the NFL draft and where he
3:11eventually went to the Eagles, I want to
3:13say around pick 20. Now, the holdup with
3:17Mai Lemon in terms of projecting him out
3:20in the long run is going to be Devont
3:22Smith. Obviously, Devonte Smith will be
3:24the wide receiver one when he is healthy
3:26and when he is playing here. But if we
3:29go over and look at the comments made by
3:31Nick Serriani, the quote he gave when he
3:35was asked on potentially shutting down
3:37Devont Smith for the rest of the season,
3:40knowing this is a lost year for Philly
3:42and Devont Smith has reinjured this
3:44hamstring a couple times now. The quote
3:46is, "We'll see where that goes. He works
3:49extremely hard. sometimes the process
3:51doesn't always produce the results that
3:53you want. Well, it doesn't say he is
3:56going to be shut down for the season. He
3:59doesn't dismiss the idea entirely. So,
4:01there is a non 0% chance that we have an
4:04extended period of absence for Devont
4:06Smith. And with that being the case, Mai
4:09Lemon may turn into being a flex play
4:12even in a very bad offense. Now, let's
4:14move over to a couple other guys that
4:17are going to be available in deeper
4:19leagues because Mai Limit and Jonah
4:21Coleman are only available in about half
4:23the leagues out there. I want to look at
4:24the Washington Commanders players,
4:27specifically Antonio Williams and Chig
4:30as well. Now with Antonio, this is a
4:33rookie wide receiver that I wasn't too
4:35intrigued with in weeks four, five, or
4:37six, even though you obviously had
4:40Stefon Diggs and Terry McLaren banged up
4:42during this point. Typically with these
4:44rookie wide receivers, what I always
4:46wait for is I always want to wait for
4:48the breakout if they don't have the
4:50round one NFL draft capital like Mai
4:52Lemon and then I'm willing to buy in and
4:54then I am willing to trust them. But
4:56Antonio Williams, you may not have the
4:59ability to wait because Terry McLaren
5:02out for the season is now going to be
5:04pushing him into being an every down
5:07player effectively rest of season.
5:09Because naturally, you would assume, oh,
5:11okay, no, Terry McLaren. What's that
5:13going to mean? That Stefon Diggs is
5:15going to come through and Stefon Diggs
5:17is going to average 11 targets per game.
5:20And not necessarily for a couple
5:22different reasons. first is that's just
5:24not really the type of player that
5:26Stefon Diggs is. Right? If we go back
5:28and look at what he did in New England
5:31last season, keep in mind with the New
5:33England Patriots, they had no wide
5:34receivers not named Stefon Diggs, he
5:37averaged 57% of the snaps per game for
5:40the New England Patriots. So far this
5:42season for the Washington Commanders,
5:44Stefon Diggs is right there averaging
5:4760% of the snaps per game. So Stefon
5:50Diggs isn't an every down player at this
5:52point of his NFL career. He's 33 years
5:54old. A little more limited than what he
5:57was back when he was 27, 28, 29. And the
6:00prime of his career in a top five wide
6:02receiver in the league, right? That's no
6:04longer Stefon Dicks. And this coaching
6:06staff specifically said to not expect
6:09Stefon Diggs in his role to expand that
6:11much. and they called out Antonio
6:14Williams by name saying that they are
6:16going to be expecting more from him
6:18going into the future. Chig is also
6:20worth a shout here as well because again
6:23we're not expecting Antonio Williams to
6:25be able to soak up everything that Terry
6:27McLaren was going to get. So with Chig,
6:29this is a tight end that really has
6:31never done anything in his NFL career,
6:33but now he's going to get an opportunity
6:35to do so. over the past two weeks, he's
6:37had a total of 13 targets. And the snaps
6:41have taken a jump up wherever the past
6:43two weeks, he has played 70 plus% of the
6:45snaps. Now, again, these are a little
6:47bit of deeper options. I definitely
6:49would not take them over the studs like
6:51Jonah Coleman or um Mai Lemon. Now,
6:54moving over to some interesting stashes
6:57at running back. There will be three
6:59running backs that are worth mentioning.
7:02The first guy I'm gonna be trying to
7:03pick up off my own waiverwire. I swear
7:06to God if the editors in my league are
7:09watching this video right now and they
7:11try to snipe me on him, I'm going to be
7:12pissed. I am going to put in a bid for
7:14Seth McGawan. So obviously there's been
7:17a lot of smoke around the Jonathan
7:19Taylor trade. Nothing matters more at
7:21this point for me personally than if JT
7:24is getting dealt because he is on my own
7:26fantasy team. But one very interesting
7:29note is not only that the Colts fire
7:31their Ganola manager, not only that the
7:34Colts at this point, I mean lose to the
7:37Minnesota Vikings and fall to two and
7:40five, but on top of this, we actually
7:42saw an uptick with the Seth McGawan
7:45usage and a downtrend with Jonathan
7:48Taylor this past week as well, maybe
7:50indicating that yeah, they could be
7:52planning on moving on. Like Seth McGowan
7:55plays 34% of the snaps this past week,
7:58which is the most that he has seen all
8:00season, which as a rookie running back,
8:02that's the most that he's had in his
8:04entire NFL career. And Jonathan Taylor
8:06plays only 71% of the snaps. And if we
8:09go back and look at all of 2025, as well
8:13as all of 2026, removing week 18, a
8:16meaningless game at the end of last
8:18season, this was tied for Jonathan
8:20Taylor's lowest snap rate of his NFL
8:23career. So Seth McGawan is actually a
8:25player now at this point that you have
8:27to assume that he is live to be a
8:30starting running back for the
8:31Indianapolis Colts given the possibility
8:34of a Jonathan Taylor trade in the signs
8:36really being there. Now I will mention
8:39two things. One, the profile Seth
8:41McGawan, he's most likely not the most
8:43talented running back in the league,
8:44right? This is somebody that was drafted
8:46in the seventh round of the NFL draft. I
8:48pick like 250. that type of profile. I
8:51always treat it as you're probably bad
8:54until you prove otherwise. But he does
8:57have the traits that you would want to
8:59see from an RB. This is a running back
9:01that so far at the NFL, he has been able
9:04to be used as a receiver, right? I mean,
9:06so far this season, this man's had 32
9:09carries and five targets. So, it looks
9:11like he's getting used a little bit more
9:13as a receiving back here, just slightly.
9:16If we go back to his time at college, he
9:18had about 9.7%
9:20of his team's target share at Kentucky.
9:22So, I think Seth McGawan is a capable
9:24receiving running back. He's a decent
9:26athlete. He ran a 449 40 yard dash. So,
9:29maybe he can break off big runs. And
9:32most importantly, he weighs 223 lbs. So,
9:35he has the size to handle a three- down
9:37workload as well. So, I think Seth
9:38McGawan could be a usable player. Like
9:41imagine Olly Gordon slightly less
9:44talented but a little bit of a better
9:46receiver if Jonathan Taylor does end up
9:49getting traded. Now last thing I'll
9:50mention is there is a possibility and
9:52there have been rumors that if JT is
9:55getting traded to a team the Colts are
9:57getting another running back in return.
9:58So if say Jonathan Taylor ended up
10:01somehow someway, not saying it's going
10:02to happen but getting traded to say the
10:05Denver Broncos, maybe JK Dobbins is
10:08coming on the way back. Now, moving over
10:10to another running back stash, I have to
10:13mention Elijah Mitchell. And honestly, I
10:16may put in a bid for Elijah Mitchell in
10:18my league. Now, the very interesting
10:21setup that you had with the Eagles
10:23running backs are so you obviously had
10:26Tank Bsby hit the IR. He is going to be
10:29out until at least week nine. You had
10:32Will Shipley hit the IR. Will Shipley is
10:35going to be out until at least week 11.
10:39Saquin Barkley had a hamstring injury.
10:42Now he is dealing with a back injury and
10:44based on how Saquon looked on Monday
10:46Night Football, I would not be surprised
10:49at all if they decide to rest Saquon
10:52Barkley through their bye-week. I mean,
10:54every single time the man had a rush,
10:56he's standing on the sidelines. He's
10:58grimacing in pain. He does not look
11:00well. And then also Damen Pierce does
11:04leave the game as well, goes straight to
11:06the locker room with an injury that we
11:08do not have an official status of just
11:11yet. So I um am very much interested to
11:15see what ends up coming out of this. But
11:18as it stands, Elijah Mitchell is the
11:20last viable running back that is on this
11:23team. I mean, this team even cut Jaden
11:25Blue before this game. Now, if we go
11:27through and look at Elijah Mitchell's
11:29profile, again, we're not looking at the
11:32most talented running back in the NFL. I
11:35mean, this is a running back that I
11:36didn't even know he was on the
11:38Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, he was in
11:40San Francisco forever and in Kansas City
11:42in 2025 and didn't do anything. And if
11:45we go through and look at Mitchell,
11:47while in 2021, he had 200 carries, since
11:512021, he hasn't had a season with more
11:54than 83 opportunities. Elijah Mitchell's
11:5628 years old and this dude has played a
11:59total of what 28 games in his NFL
12:02career. So,
12:06not a great talent. He did get used as a
12:08receiver at the very end of this game.
12:10It's not like he was a great receiving
12:12running back even when he was getting
12:14opportunities in San Francisco back in
12:162021. And this offensive line, while
12:20they're a little bit better than what
12:21they were, it's still a bad offense.
12:23It's still a bad offensive line. So,
12:25Elijah Mitchell is going to have a cap
12:27ceiling, but he legit may be a starting
12:30running back if you're desperate with
12:31one this upcoming week with the buys.
12:33Now, our other stash for the long run. I
12:36will bring up Devin Singleary for deep
12:39deep leagues if you needed a running
12:40back stash. And that's because both
12:42Tyrone Tracy as well as Cam Scaboo get
12:46banged up this week for the New York
12:47Giants. Don't have official updates on
12:49them just yet, but with both those
12:51running backs injured and Naji Harris
12:53cut as well, there's a nonzero% chance
12:56that Devin Singleary is going to be the
12:58guy in New York in week nine. Now, the
13:02reason why you shouldn't run out there
13:04with excitement to pick up Deon
13:05Singleary is the New York Giants are
13:07going to be dealing with a week eight
13:09buy. So, you're going to be holding him
13:10on your roster, not really getting any
13:12injury updates about Scat or about Tracy
13:16until what, uh, nine days from now. And
13:20then you may have a useless piece. You
13:22may have a running back three on his
13:24team. That's his name's Devin Singleary.
13:26So, only for super deep leagues would
13:28you look at Singleary. Now, the wide
13:30receiver stashes are maybe a little bit
13:32more appealing when it comes to upside.
13:34We are going to have two names. We're
13:36going to have Caleb Douglas and we are
13:38going to have Travis Hunter. So with
13:41Caleb Douglas, he has the massive game
13:44his first week back here for the Miami
13:46Dolphins. Back week one, Douglas looked
13:49pretty damn good. He has these seven
13:51targets, five receptions, 94 receiving
13:54yards. Then he ends up injuring his
13:56ankle. He misses three consecutive
13:58weeks, the week six buy, and then he's
14:01back week seven and he drops 21 fantasy
14:04points. Now, he does so with multiple
14:06receiving touchdowns, obviously big
14:08plays. Do I expect this to be the case
14:10going into the future? Probably not. But
14:13for a rookie wide receiver to flash this
14:15kind of talent, even if he's in a
14:16garbage offense, the depth chart's wide
14:18open. He's probably worth the roster
14:20spot. I would put him behind Malik
14:22Washington still, but you can look at
14:24him. Definitely not as exciting as Omar
14:27Cooper or Jeremy Bernard were um because
14:30again, those players were just better
14:31prospects. The other name that is
14:34interesting to look at will be two of
14:36them. One, if Brian Thomas is on your
14:39waiverwire, and two, if Travis Hunter on
14:41is on your waiverwire as well, very
14:44similar to the Seth McGawan shout, I
14:47think both of these players should
14:49probably be rostered, just in the
14:51instance we end up getting a Brian
14:53Thomas Jr. trait. Now, in the case of
14:55who I would rank over who, I would
14:57prefer Brian Thomas over Hunter because
15:00while Brian Thomas getting traded
15:02definitely means Travis Hunter is going
15:03to be playing more offensive snaps, he's
15:05still going to be at best third in the
15:08pecking order. He's going to be behind
15:10Jacobe Meyers. He's going to be behind
15:12obviously Parker Washington. So, kind of
15:15at best you'd be looking at the wide
15:16receiver three for the Jacksonville
15:18Jaguars. But in deeper formats, there's
15:20a world in which Brian Thomas Jr. gets
15:22traded and then one of Jacobe or maybe
15:26Parker Washington get injured and then
15:28all of a sudden Travis Hunter who has
15:30proven that he is an incredible
15:32incredible talent does get a
15:35considerable amount of usage but again
15:36those are just bench stashes. Don't
15:38expect them to be startable anytime
15:40soon. The guys that you should be most
15:42excited about by far will be Jonah
15:44Coleman and Mai Lemon. And then going
15:47over to the streaming DSTs, I will say
15:50probably the best defense in the league
15:52this week will be the Steelers.
15:54Obviously, the Steelers defense has been
15:56good for a decent amount of matchups so
15:59far. Like they look pretty damn good
16:01against the New Orleans Saints in Paris.
16:04And if we're looking at what we have
16:05with the setup this week, they get to
16:07play against the Cleveland Browns. And
16:09early market indications are that the
16:11Browns project to score the fewest
16:13amount of points in the league. Then the
16:16New England Patriots actually may be my
16:18favorite defense pickup because we know
16:20with Drake May that they are going to
16:23just absolutely stomp on the bad teams.
16:25The Drake May motto is beat down the bad
16:29teams and then struggle against the good
16:31teams. Right now, if we pull up what we
16:34have on the Poly Market app for this
16:36Patriots Dolphins matchup, Patriots have
16:38a 76% chance of winning. The Patriots
16:42are seven and a half point favorites and
16:44the Dolphins uh currently only project
16:46to score about 17 and a half 18 and a
16:49half points. Now obviously you want to
16:51check out any of those markets, you can
16:52find a link to Poly Market US in the
16:55description as well as the comment
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16:58You'll get $25 added to your account
17:00after you deposit your first 10. Then
17:02the Cincinnati Bengals are going to be
17:04an interesting defense going up against
17:06the Tennessee Titans. Very similar to
17:08the New England Patriots, right? The
17:09Cincinnati Bengals are absolutely
17:11massive, massive favorites and that is
17:13going to be something that you are
17:14looking for with every one of these
17:16matchups. And then you have the
17:18Washington Commanders if you are
17:20incredibly desperate going up against
17:21the Philadelphia Eagles. If the Eagles
17:23have no Devonte Smith, no Saquon
17:25Barkley, no Jaylen Herz, that is
17:27compelling. And then we have the Rams
17:29getting to go up against the Chargers.
17:31We have the Jaguars getting to play
17:33against the Colts. The Jags maybe were
17:36dropped in your league because keep in
17:38mind obviously they had a by-week this
17:40past week and then the Chiefs are going
17:41to be playing the Denver Broncos, but
17:43I'd imagine they are rostered in your
17:44format just like the Steelers are. I
17:46think that's all I got for you. I really
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