0:00What's going on, man? Welcome back to
0:02the basement. I'm Ron and today we're
0:04going to talk through my must add
0:05waiverwire targets for week six of the
0:08fantasy football season. This is the
0:11thick of it. It's week six. It's not the
0:12sexiest waiverwire of all time, but we
0:15have by weeks, we have injuries, we have
0:16holes in our lineup we need to fill, we
0:18have stashes we need to put on our bench
0:20to turn and burn and get better as the
0:23season goes on. So, with that being
0:25said, we're going to break it all down.
0:26All of these players are under 50% owned
0:29in ESPN leagues. As always, if you
0:31enjoy, leave a like, subscribe if you're
0:32new. And our first must add player is
0:35probably not available in your league.
0:36As this always goes with these Waverwire
0:38videos, Woody Marks is available in 52%
0:41of ESPN leagues. And the way that we do
0:43this video, as always, we start with the
0:45priority ads. These are players that I
0:47would bid 10% or more of my fab budget
0:49on. Of course, Woody Marks, I would be
0:51very aggressive on if I needed running
0:53back help. I use this outline and this
0:55video to kind of gather my thoughts and
0:57figure out who I like, who I don't like
0:58on the Waverwire. And then as soon as I
1:00upload this video, I go over to the
1:01Patreon, patreon.com/rronstewart,
1:04and I write out my waiverwire fab
1:07article for week six, where I'll break
1:09down all the players in this video,
1:11maybe even some more players, and I will
1:12order them by most to least in terms of
1:16my recommended fab bid. Now, when it
1:19comes to Woody Marks, it's very simple.
1:21Montgomery goes down with an injury. It
1:22seems like it's going to be more
1:23short-term than long-term, but Woody
1:25Marks got 19 touches in this game this
1:27week. There is also a chance that even
1:30when Montgomery returns that we see
1:31Woody Marks in a featured role just as a
1:33player that's been a bit more efficient
1:35than Montgomery to this point,
1:36Montgomery has been a really, really
1:39rough go in terms of being an RB1 for
1:41this Texans offense. So Woody Marks very
1:43easily slots in as like a low-end RB2 in
1:47any game that Woody Marks mi or that
1:50David Montgomery misses. Now the real
1:52priority ad, the number one ad that is
1:54most likely available in your league.
1:56I'm kicking myself because we have been
1:58saying add this guy for weeks and then
2:00Michael Pitman comes back and Roman
2:01Wilson emerges and all of a sudden we're
2:03saying eh maybe you could drop Jeremy
2:04Bernard if you wanted to. But now it's
2:08go time. It's it's time to if he's on
2:11waiverss, be aggressive. when we talk
2:13about rookie upside and we talk about
2:16I'm not going to say German Bernard is
2:17going to be the next Aman Rosen Brown or
2:19Rashi Rice or
2:23rookie league winner X but we know that
2:26rookie wide receivers stack their
2:28production on the back half of the
2:29season and the upside to be the next
2:31whether that's uh Tank Dell Jaylen Wadd
2:35Rashi Rice Aman Rosen Brown Christian
2:37Watson Jaden Reed uh Debo Samuel is one
2:39of those guys across the board Jeremy
2:41Bernard has the upside to be that. Even
2:43a guy like Jaylen McMillan was a playoff
2:45league winner as a rookie. That could be
2:48the case for Jeremy Bernard because now
2:50he has a full runway opened up. You have
2:54Roman Wilson leaves this game. Michael
2:56Pitman is hurt and on IR. Jeremy Bernard
2:59is essentially the wide receiver too
3:00after DK Mechaf here. And when we look
3:02at the rookie receiver report, which of
3:04course we go over in the top 10 lessons
3:06learned video every Monday. Jeremy
3:08Bernard goes from 30% of the routes to
3:0944% to 94%. His per out numbers are
3:12okay. 18.1% targets per out run, 1.33
3:15yards per out run, but he had a really
3:18strong day. He had eight targets, six
3:19catches, 80 yards, 2.5 yards per out
3:22run. Three of his six catches were for
3:23first downs. He led all Steelers in
3:26targets and receptions. And I also think
3:28it's a huge feather in his cap that
3:30Aaron Rodgers likes him. It's very rare
3:32for Aaron Rodgers to trust a rookie, to
3:35like a rookie, to pretend a rookie even
3:37exists. And we have this from last
3:40October 9th. That was last Friday.
3:43So it was before the game. And then of
3:45course after this, he has his six catch
3:47for 80 yard outing. But this is from
3:50Nick Farab here kind of just talking
3:51through essentially Aaron Rogers gave an
3:53extensive quiz like essentially gave him
3:55a pop quiz uh to make sure that he knew
3:57what the assignments were, what the
3:58matchups were against the Colts this
4:00week and he passed it with flying
4:02colors. If you can somehow become an
4:05Aaron Rodgers guy as a rookie, there is
4:08a lot of upside here. Now, you might be
4:09saying, "Well, it's Aaron Rogers. It's a
4:10Steelers offense. Who cares?" Well, this
4:12is a team that is top 10 in pass
4:13attempts, one of the pass heaviest teams
4:15in the NFL. And that means there's going
4:17to be a lot of PPR points to go around
4:19for the wide receivers, the tight ends,
4:21the running backs, all of that and more.
4:23So, Jeremy Bernard becomes a guy that
4:25you can probably start this week in your
4:26flex spot and he has a lot of upside as
4:30a rookie. Then, we'll talk about our
4:32last priority ad here, Marshon Lloyd.
4:35Similar to Woody Marks, he's not
4:37available in your league, but he is
4:38available in 52% of ESPN leagues. He is.
4:41He's a guy that's like right on the
4:42border of 10% because we do know Josh
4:44Jacobs will be back eventually. They
4:45continue to rotate these backs between
4:47uh Chris Brooks and they even had
4:49another they had another running back in
4:52this game. Uh they just continue to
4:54filter uh through them, but Marshon
4:56Lloyd was the guy in this game. Now,
4:59it's like his first good game as a pro
5:02ever. So, we don't want to get too over
5:04our skis here. But, he is somebody that
5:07has to be added, has to be respected.
5:10And I'm looking through here to see what
5:11who these running backs were. Oh, is
5:13Pierre Strong. Pierre Strong actually
5:15ended up playing more snaps than Caleb
5:17Johnson in this one. Marshon Lloyd, his
5:19longest run is 10 yards, but he did pick
5:21up two touchdowns here. He did have a
5:24catch for six yards. It's not the
5:27sexiest pickup in the world, but if
5:29somebody did kind of like rage drop
5:30Marshon Lloyd where they were upset with
5:32him, they dropped him to the waiver
5:33wire. He's certainly a guy you can pick
5:35up and he is a fine RB3 type in the
5:38short term. Now, moving away from our
5:40priority ads, these are guys that I
5:41would just let roll through on waiverss,
5:42you pick him up for free, you put a
5:43little $5 bid on them, something along
5:45those lines. I will say a little bit of
5:46free game. Don't do like my biggest
5:49thing when it comes to bids, don't do
5:52zeros or fives on the end. like don't do
5:54a $15 bid. Don't do a $10 bid. Do 12. I
5:57also like to This is This is getting
5:59really weird, but I don't like to do
6:01double. So, I don't do 11. I don't do a
6:0322.
6:06I'm a bit I'm a bit of a maniac, but I
6:09say this to say that you don't want to
6:11be tying your bid. So, a lot of guys
6:12will hop on be like, "Oh, I'll do a $5
6:14bid. I'll do a $10 bid." If you're going
6:15to do a $5 bid or a $10 bid, make it a
6:17$6 bid or a $12 bid. That's just some
6:21free game for the people out there. Uh
6:23there's some game theory there. You just
6:25you want to, you know, make it a weird
6:27number so nobody else copies you. Uh
6:30then we have our running backs here that
6:34we might be bidding, you know, $2 on to
6:37beat out the guy who puts $1 down. Uh
6:39first we'll talk about the handcuff
6:40check. They're not available in your
6:42league, but Emtt Johnson, Kayn Black,
6:43Brian Robinson, all need to be rostered.
6:45Emma Johnson, if he was dropped over the
6:47Chiefs bye, pick him up. Now, the actual
6:49guys who might be available. Damen
6:51Pierce, if you need a oneweek fill in,
6:53there's a good chance that Saquon
6:54Barkley misses this week. Will Shipley
6:56is hurt. Tank Bsby is hurt. Damen Pierce
6:58had 16 opportunities in the game in
7:00London. Now, they are back in the United
7:03States versus Carolina. He should be a
7:06he'll be somewhere around like the RB30
7:07this week. If there's no Seaquan, then
7:09you have the Browns running backs. Quinn
7:10Sean Judkins is banged up. It would be
7:13all wheels up for Raheem Sanders, but he
7:14also picks up a hip injury. So, they're
7:16all over the place in this back field.
7:18Todd Mockin likes to have a receiving
7:19back and a main downto-down back. Raheem
7:24Sanders to me would be the fill-in for
7:25Judkins if Judkins can't go. But if
7:27Sanders can't go, then we kind of have
7:29everything in flux where you have Dylan
7:31Samson. I believe they also have Jal
7:32McLaclin on this roster as well who
7:35maybe like Jal McLaclin becomes uh more
7:37of the receiving back and then uh Dylan
7:39Samson becomes the all-purpose. But I I
7:41do think you want to roster the the
7:43Browns running backs just in case
7:45Judkins can't go. Then you have the
7:46Chargers running backs. This offense is
7:48terrible. The offensive line is
7:49terrible. Justin Herbert might be banged
7:50up, but
7:52touches and snaps are touches and snaps
7:54when it comes to running backs. Keenan
7:55Mitchell and Kamani Vidal are making
7:56this a real three-way split with Amari
7:58and Hampton. And then Vidal actually
8:00scores pretty much like the only
8:02explosive play this year from a Chargers
8:04running back with a 40-yard touchdown.
8:05Kamani Vidal would be the preferred
8:08option for me over K and Mitchell, but
8:10they're both worth rostering. And Kendry
8:12Miller has 10 carries, 30 yards, and a
8:14touchdown against the Vikings this week.
8:16He's a desperation RB option with ETN
8:18still out with Kamar still old and uh
8:21like picking up injuries every single
8:23week. Kendra Miller is a decent bet to
8:25get 10 to 12 touches in a given week.
8:27Then you have Tai Spears. He had a 35
8:29yard reception called back. Even still,
8:31he had a 25% target share and nine
8:33targets in this game. There has been
8:35talks about a potential Tony Per trade.
8:36I think TA Spears should be rostered
8:38everywhere. Then you have Naji Harris.
8:41Scataboo fumbles when you can't like not
8:44only did he fumble, but he fumbled in
8:46overtime in opponent territory. That's a
8:50big no no. Uh Naji Harris got the only
8:52carry inside the 10 yard line in this
8:54game and he continues to eat into that
8:55workload. I think Naji Harris is worth
8:57rostering. Then Tai Johnson from the
8:59Monday night game. James Cook st fumbled
9:01like twice. There's a stat out there
9:03that he's fumbled like nine times since
9:042025. Like by far the most in the NFL.
9:07I'm not saying that he's going to get
9:09obviously James Cook isn't going to get
9:11uh you know like Wall-E picked by Tai
9:14Johnson, but I think they're going to
9:15scale back his touches a little bit
9:16there. There was a lot of hope from me
9:19uh as well that James Cook could get a
9:21bigger receiving role, but when you
9:23cough up the rock twice like he did when
9:26it's extremely frustrating, we're going
9:28to be in a spot now where I think Tai
9:30Johnson, he now has two separate games
9:32since he returned. He he's been back in
9:34the lineup three straight weeks here.
9:36two of those weeks he has had four
9:38catches and 50 plus receiving yards. I
9:40think he's going to be the main
9:41receiving back. And when we're talking
9:42about a Bills offense that creates
9:43explosive plays and is going to be
9:45scoring a lot of touchdowns. I think Ty
9:46Johnson is not only going to retain this
9:48receiving role, but he might even chip
9:50away at some touches from James Cook
9:52late in this game. I know that it was
9:53overtime, so you can say maybe James
9:54Cook needed a breather. I'm not saying
9:56James Cook was necessarily in the
9:57doghouse, but they did give some touches
9:59to Ray Davis and some touches to Ty
10:00Johnson. I think Ty Johnson should be
10:03rostered. Jonah Coleman, if he was
10:04dropped in your league, Dobbins has been
10:07so bad. RJ Harvey has been so bad. Shawn
10:09Payeyton's back on the mic calling
10:11plays, could he show some favor to Jonah
10:14Coleman once he returns? Roshan Johnson
10:16is the short-term handcuff to DeAndre
10:18Swift until Kyle Manungai is back. And
10:20then I added Cory Ker as well. Trevian
10:22Henderson has a high ankle sprain. He's
10:24out for a few weeks. Cory Ker is going
10:26to be the shortterm handcuff to Raandre
10:28Stevenson, but that's really it. And
10:30we're talking about really deep leagues.
10:32Then we can talk about the wide
10:33receivers here. And we have them split
10:34up into two separate areas. We have our
10:37starts. These are guys you pick up and
10:38you throw in your flex spot if you're
10:39down bad or your stashes. These are guys
10:41you pick up, you stash on your bench,
10:42and you hope they pop over the long
10:45haul. We'll talk about our starts first.
10:46Dontavon Wix now has five plus targets
10:48in four straight games. He is a fine
10:50flex play in any game without Devonte
10:52Smith. It seems like Dvonte Smith won't
10:54be playing this week, but we'll see how
10:56that goes. Then we have Keenan Allen.
10:59gets hurt, misses a game, comes back,
11:01nine targets. His last two games he's
11:03played for the Colts, he's had nine
11:05targets. You know, he's the statline for
11:07Keen Keenan Allen at this point is like
11:09nine targets. I think you want I think
11:11he had like four catches for 43 yards.
11:13No, he had nine targets, five catches,
11:1445 yards. That's essentially what you're
11:15signing up for with Keenan Allen. He is
11:17a PPR floor play, but you can pick him
11:20up, throw him in your flex spot, and get
11:21like eight PPR points in a given week.
11:24Kendrick Bourne, uh, his role growing
11:26without Marvin Harrison Jr. was
11:28overstated, but he's still going to get
11:29some design touches and they're still
11:30going to want to feature him uh just
11:32because they're not going to want to
11:33really throw targets towards Jaylen
11:35Brooks or Reggie Virgil. But Kendrick
11:37Bourne had a 61% route share, which was
11:39actually a season low despite Marvin
11:40Harrison Jr. leaving. It's because they
11:42play a lot of two wide receiver sets.
11:44Kendrick Bourne can't play on the
11:45outside, so they opt for their
11:47sacrificial X in Jaylen Brooks, Reggie
11:49Virgil. they'd rather run with Trey
11:51McBride. And then they also have uh
11:53Elijah Higgins, their second tight end
11:54that they like that kind of eats away
11:56from the routes with Kendrick Bourne.
11:58Darius Cooper now has four touchdowns in
12:00four weeks. I'm skeptical of him being
12:03anything, but he is certainly a guy that
12:05has earned the desperation flex status.
12:08Brandon Cooks, I would be shocked if
12:11Brandon Cooks at any point is a real
12:12contributor at 33 years old, but he does
12:14score a touchdown here. Debo Samuel is
12:15banged up. He's worth mentioning. And
12:17then we have our stashes. If you could
12:19guarantee me CD Lamb doesn't play this
12:21week, he does get a long week after the
12:22Thursday night game. He did uh pick up a
12:24quad injury, I think he's going to be
12:26fine, but if you guaranteed me CD Lamb
12:28wouldn't play in this game, Ryan Fenoy
12:31would go up to my number one priority ad
12:33on the week. He's one of the few wide
12:35receiver handcuffs in the NFL where
12:37whenever CD Lamb or George Pickkins goes
12:39down, Fenoy would be an awesome top 30
12:41style wide receiver pickup. Antonio
12:43Williams had two first downs on three
12:45targets. Second straight week at 70%
12:48plus of the routes. He's a strong stash.
12:50It's just the issue is that there's so
12:52much in front of him between McLaren,
12:54Diggs, Okonquo. Uh you're seeing Trayon
12:56Burks and Diami Brown routes. Also Jayen
12:58Daniels hasn't thrown for over 200 plus
13:00yards in a game this season. Then Josh
13:02Cameron stash this guy. maybe not your
13:04if you're in like a 10-man or 12man
13:06league with like six person benches, you
13:08probably don't have to stash Josh
13:09Cameron, but I think he is worth
13:11stashing. If you if you got space for
13:13him, uh he has just been so awesome. If
13:15we pull up the rookie receiver report
13:17once more here, you can see Josh
13:19Cameron, he is the the wide receiver
13:22listed across the bottom. His per out
13:24numbers are ridiculous. 24% targets per
13:26out run, 2.85 yards per out run, 14.6%
13:30first downs per out run. It's on a small
13:32sample. He continues to run about a
13:33third of the routes, but if Brian Thomas
13:35was ever moved, Josh Cameron could
13:37become fully unlocked. He had four
13:38targets, three catches, 43 yards on just
13:4013 routes. He also had an opening
13:43kickoff return, touchdown called back
13:45due to a penalty. He's an explosive
13:47playmaker. He's a very fun player. Uh
13:49somebody in my comment said that he uh
13:50is kind of like Jawan Jennings, and I
13:52would agree uh in a good way. Then we
13:54have Cyrus Allen, Taekquon Thornton
13:57banged up, Rashi Rice banged up. I think
13:59he's a good stash to see if we can get a
14:00post by buy rookie bump here. And then
14:02we have Christian Kirk. He could get
14:04activated off of IR. I would be a little
14:06bit more optimistic on Christian Kirk
14:07over Brandon Cooks being a real
14:09contributor here with DVO Samuel banged
14:11up. But it is a desperation stash
14:14nonetheless. Then we can get to our
14:15tight ends here. And you could convince
14:17me if you're in a really tough league
14:18like a 14 teamer, you could definitely
14:20bump up Fri to a priority ad if you
14:22wanted to. With Michael Pitman out, with
14:24Roman Wilson out, Frymouth set season
14:27highs in route share, target share, and
14:29PPR points. And again, the Steelers are
14:31going to pass the ball a bunch. Fry
14:32Mouth is a solid pickup. Brettton
14:34Strange now has three straight weeks of
14:36five plus targets. He was awesome in the
14:38Cincinnati game, and he still is getting
14:40volume. Tyler Higgby, even with Kobe
14:42Parkinson back, had a decent five catch
14:44for 83 yard statline on Monday night.
14:46It's his third game in a row of 10 plus
14:48PPR points and six plus targets. Then
14:51you have Okonquo. He led Washington in
14:53targets this week. He outnapped every
14:55Washington skill position player besides
14:57Trayon Burks. He is an interesting
14:59pickup as well. And then we have our
15:01quarterback streamers for the week.
15:03Aaron Rodgers
15:05doesn't necessarily have like a great
15:06matchup on paper, but he finds himself
15:08as the QB 15 so far. He's just a fine
15:12weekly quarterback to option. He has
15:14he's going to be on the road verse Tampa
15:15Bay. They're not going to have It seems
15:16like they're not going to have Baker.
15:17We'll see if they do end up having
15:19Baker. Uh, but Tampa has been like a
15:21fine defense. And then Jameus Winston,
15:23there's always bench risk, right?
15:24There's always a risk that JJ McCarthy
15:26comes in. But, uh, with Jameus Winston,
15:29he just had 54 pass attempts. He gets a
15:31revenge game versus the Saints if you
15:33want to buy into that narrative. The
15:34Saints are going to push the pace
15:36assuming they have Tyler Shuck, which is
15:37honestly a big if at this point. But
15:39those are my two quarterback streamers
15:41for the week. That is my mustad
15:43waiverwire targets for week six of the
15:48fantasy football season. Again, uh, as
15:49soon as I post this video, I'm going to
15:51hop on the Patreon and get going on my
15:53Waverwire and Fab article. You can find
15:55that patreon.com/ronstewart
15:57in the description and the comment
15:59section below. But if not, or if you're
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