0:00So, because I am in so many fantasy football leagues, obviously many of them have a waiverwire that is going to run
0:05before the beginning of the season that actually has good players on it. That's what we're going to do. We're going to
0:09go from the top of the list to the bottom of the list of waiverwire options in a variety of fantasy football
0:14leagues. Obviously, these are some guys who are owned in a ton of leagues, beginning with, of course, Marshon Lloyd, who if you drafted your team in
0:21June or July or maybe even the first weekend of August, was not drafted in your league. If Marshon Lloyd is available, even though Josh Jacobs court
0:28day did get moved up a good degree, I would still say Marshon Lloyd, you probably need to spend a minimum of 50%
0:35of your free agent acquisition budget on him. I expect him to get every chance to be the starting running back for the
0:41Green Bay Packers at the beginning of the season. I also expect that he is going to play pretty well. You know, I
0:45was talking about this on the live stream channel with Nez the other day.
0:49Why is it not possible that Marshon Lloyd is just the better running back in that back field? Last time we saw Josh
0:54Jacobs, he was struggling mightily with a PCL injury. The team lets Emanuel Wilson go. He is now on the Seattle Seahawks. I I think basically every
1:02fantasy football team I have, I would like to try and add Marshon Lloyd. I have him ranked as a top 90 player over
1:08on flockfantasy.com. You can sign up over there using code Davis. And I think that he just is a clear clear target for
1:14me in all formats. Actually wonder in Dynasty if he maybe is worth trying to trade for. someone maybe thinks they're selling high on Marshon Lloyd, but
1:22you're actually buying at an appropriate price. So, he would be the top overall S tier waiverwire ad for the preseason.
1:29Then we have Deon Stribbling, who, you know, I've taken Dean Stribbling in the seventh round of a $2,000 fantasy football draft. So, I understand that
1:36this probably feels insane, but also I did my very first home league draft back before the preseason started in August.
1:43And guess what? Deshan Stribbling did not get drafted in that draft. He was a free agent acquisition. I also play in
1:49some of these high stakes leagues over on the FFPC where slow draft started in those leagues in June or July.
1:55Obviously, if you're watching this, you're probably a serious fantasy football player. Stribbling was probably drafted in your league, but dribbling would be my number two overall
2:04waiverwire edition. He also to me would be a 40 to 50% guy. Obviously, if you're very strong at wide receiver, you should
2:10probably feel a little bit differently about that. Starting running backs like Marshon Lloyd almost never come up on the waiver wire. So, he is the priority
2:17over dribbling. I do feel very good about dribbling though, and I think we're going to get a ton of information about him and his role in that first
2:25international game uh that is being played in Australia. Next up, we have Mike Washington Jr. from the Las Vegas Raiders. Sounds like there's a chance
2:32that he is the week one starting running back for the Las Vegas Raiders. I know that in the Flock League, the bids on
2:38Mike Washington Jr. were very contentious. They were also very high. I would not quite go to 50% on him because it sounds like there's a chance that
2:47Ashton Genty does end up playing in week one. Even if Genty doesn't play in week one, it's not like it is a dream spot.
2:54Although it is, I guess it is about as good of a spot as the Raiders are going to get against the Miami Dolphins. That
2:58is a very strong game for the Raiders.
3:01It's one of the few games that they have a chance to win this season. Though Kurt Cousins will be starting and not Mr.
3:06Clint Kubak or rather Fernando Mendoza.
3:10I would probably go 33 to 40% on Mike Washington Jr. I don't think he is a jam. I actually did really like Mike
3:17Washington Jr. as a prospect much more than some of the other nerds out there did on him. I just like big, strong,
3:24fast guys who run very well in a straight line. I feel like that's maybe even a little bit undervalued in the
3:29scouting community. Like we talk about acceleration and we talk about burst and the ability to cut and all those things are very important, but you know what
3:37else is important? big strong guys breaking tackles and running very fast in a straight line. Jacobe Lane, who is now like an 11th or 12th round pick.
3:46There are beat riders around the Baltimore Ravens who have said that Jacobe Lane is having the greatest off season they've ever seen a Ravens wide
3:53receiver have. There's a chance that Rashad Baitman ends up getting suspended at some point this year. We definitely do want to be buying on the Declan Doyle
4:00Baltimore Ravens offense. I think we're going to see Lamar Jackson and the Ravens appeal to heights they have never gone before in the passing game. Oh
4:08well, that's actually probably not fair because Lamar is, you know, a multi-time MVP, a guy with one of the most absurd
4:14passing seasons in terms of efficiency that we have ever seen. But Lane has clearly clearly been better than Serat and I think is probably going to be
4:23their outside starting wide receiver in week one. the the difference between Jacobe Lane and what you would find with most teams is the Ravens are going to be
4:30very comfortable being a negative PRE team. They're going to be very comfortable playing relatively slow in terms of total number of plays in a
4:37given game because they are going to be so runheavy. And they're also going to be very comfortable playing out of weird
4:42packages. You know, 21 packages, 12 packages, 13, 31. Like they're going to have a bunch of weird offensive stuff because of the absolute, you know, just
4:51just alien level skill from their quarterback. They do things very differently. This is not a spread 11, you know, run mesh every single style
5:00play offense. And the the deal with Jacobe Lane and the reason why I prefer dribbling over him is Lane I actually
5:07did kind of like as a prospect. I think his ability to go up and get contested catches. I expect him to be one of the
5:12better contested catches rookies that we've seen in a long time. He's just going to be kind of hard to start. I
5:18mean, that just really is the deal. I I would be stunned if he has like even like a 60 catch season. And I think that
5:24maybe even seems above what he can do.
5:26So, it's going to be all touchdown volatility. And that's just kind of a tough guy to start in fantasy football cuz there are going to be weeks where
5:34the dude just gets like three points.
5:35You know, that's just the reality of the situation. Then we have EMTT Johnson who is the clear handcuff number two running
5:41back for the Kansas City Chiefs. So, Lloyd Stribbling, Mike Washington, Jacobe Lane, and Emtt Johnson are the S tier ads. I would go up to 30 to 33% for
5:50Emtt Johnson. I again did really like him as a prospect. The prospect modeling that I do over on the Dynasty mod, the
5:56Dynasty Matic channel with the slap model does actually have EMTT Johnson as the second best running back in the class. That was before I applied the
6:04draft capital. Obviously, once you get draft capital in there, I mean, Jarian Price and Caitlin Black ended up coming ahead of him. But before putting that
6:12stuff in, my modeling really really liked him because of how good and efficient he was as a receiver. for his receiving yards per team pass attempt
6:19was at like an elite level on real reception volume when he was at Nebraska. Sounds like he has clearly won the passing down job for the Kansas City
6:27Chiefs. Andy Reid said that was like the big question with him coming into camp and allowed them to just straight up
6:32wave Amari D Marcato, which I think is a pretty underrated move. You actually could talk me into just taking Emtt Johnson straight up over Mike Washington
6:40Jr. just based off the strength of the offense that they are in. But these would be the list of guys that I would
6:45spend, you know, 30% or more of my free agent acquisition budget on in a 12 team PPR league. Next up, we have Caleb
6:53Johnson. This is a little bit of an interesting one. Some of you guys are going to disagree with me on this one,
6:58but until the Josh Jacobs stuff is resolved. Caleb Johnson absolutely has to be owned. We're going to get a ton of
7:04information in week one. Who is active?
7:07Is it Caleb Johnson as a reserve rusher or is it Pierre Strong because he is the practice squad running back for the
7:13Packers right now and he is a career specialteamer? I'm betting on Caleb Johnson. I really like Caleb Johnson as a prospect at Iowa. He had more yards
7:22from scrimmage than the team had passing yards. He had over over 50% of the team's entire yards. He had over 60% of
7:29the team's total points. I I think he is built to be a workhorse. I don't know if Marshon Lloyd is built to be a
7:35workhorse. I think Lloyd is going to be much better and more efficient per touch, but I don't know if you can give
7:40Marshon Lloyd 20 touches in a game. I feel very very confident you can give Caleb Johnson 20 touches. He is probably
7:46going to be my most added waiverwire guy. Certainly one of the guys I've been drafting the most over the last week of
7:51the season. The Jacobs trial stuff obviously makes it feel a little bit different because if Jacobs only misses two games, four games, six games, eight
7:59games that increases the chances that they don't have to go to a reserve back that Lloyd doesn't get injured, that Lloyd is able to fully hold up under the
8:06workload. But Caleb Johnson, a very important guy. He's like a 10 to 15% free agent acquisition budget guy for me. Then we have Malik Davis, who just
8:15very simple, he is the handcuffed running back behind Javvante Williams.
8:18He needs to be owned in all 12 team PPR leagues or half PPR or standard. Uh Javvante Williams obviously has been
8:25healthy for the most recent two seasons, but before that his availability was a little bit more spotted. The Dallas Cowboys are going to be a top five
8:32offense in the NFL. They have a very good offensive line. They're a team that tends to generate points for their running backs instead of needing the
8:38running backs to generate points for themselves, which is very important because Malik Davis is not very good.
8:43He's just the most bang average creative player. get in there. Cog in the machine style running back. He has been on the
8:50Cowboys since 2022. Has never really made an impact at all. In fact, actually two years ago, the the year Rico Da was
8:57a breakout. I sadly made a ton of my bets on Malik Davis. So, turned out to be wrong on that one. So, maybe don't
9:03listen to me about Malik Davis, but he would be another 15 to 20% guy. If you have a weak running back team, you for
9:08sure need to add Malik Davis. Next up, we have Naji Harris, who is It's very funny. He's in his Charger jersey here
9:14in the head shot that I pulled. But Naji Harris is the second running back. He is ahead of Tyrone Tracy for the New York
9:21Giants. There is certainly a chance that he ends up playing passing downs over Cam Scataboo. I think the Giants with Greg Roman, Brian Callahan, John
9:28Harbaugh, Matt Naggie. It's not going to be a very efficient offense. It's not going to be a very creative offense.
9:33They are going to be running the ball between the tackles a ton. Naji Harris, we don't like him as fantasy football
9:38nerds. We don't think he's efficient. We don't think he can score fantasy points over expectation because he can't. But Naji is a big dude who's actually more
9:46productive than you would think in the passing game. That's actually kind of always been his calling card. He's he's kind of like a fullback honestly. N like
9:52think of Naji Harris like John Allstat or Mike Allstart rather. And then you start to think well maybe I do actually
10:00want this guy in fantasy but I have Naji as a clear has to be owned in 12 team PPR leagues which is not a sentence I
10:06ever thought I would be saying in 2026.
10:08Keenan Allen did get the DUI, but after signing a one-year, $8 million deal with the Indianapolis Colts, I did I talked
10:14about Keenan Allen in the zero wide receiver video a couple days ago.
10:18There's nothing you or I can do about it. This dude is just going to average about 12 fantasy points per game for the
10:23first six weeks of the season. Once he gets, you know, I mean, this guy's old.
10:26We saw it last year. His his efficiency, his statistics really trailed off in the back half of the season. But while he's
10:32healthy, while he's feeling good, Keenan Allen is going to be a guy who is like probably a starter in fantasy football.
10:38Like literally probably a top 36 wide receiver. Would not surprise me if he has a negative impact on Josh DS and
10:44certainly is going to have a negative impact on Alec Pierce, who is not a targets per route run all-star. Keenan Allen, I mean, we are not that far, it's
10:52actually insane. We are only two and a half years removed from Keenan Allen averaging over 19 fantasy points per game for the Chargers. like it. It's
11:00insane how recently he was that good in fantasy football. Then we have Debo Samuel. You might be questioning, Davis, why do you have dribbling so much higher
11:09than Debo? I mean, Debo might be the running back, too, to open this season.
11:12Uh Debo again has been 100% drafted since he signed for the 49ers. But again, you know, I'm in a ton of these
11:18leagues that drafted early or maybe even 10 team leagues. But I think we are also going to get a lot of information about
11:24Debo relatively early in the season.
11:26Like what role is he going to have in that Australia game? If he has six catches and three rushes in that
11:32Australia game, I'm going to feel super super bullish about him. If he has, you know, 62% route participation, gets one kind of endound carry, is not featured
11:41in red zone packages, I'll feel a little bit worse. Stebo averaged 11 and a half points per game last year. But that was
11:47for a pretty putrid commanders team that had Marcus Mariota playing in half their games. He's now back with Kyle Shanahan, the guy who completely unlocked his
11:55ability to perform earlier on in his career. I mean, who can forget the crazy 16 touchdown Debo Samuel season. He is a
12:02guy that I feel is very attractive for fantasy football, but I think the range of outcomes is so wide for him where the
12:08range of outcomes for Keenan, the bands are much tighter. And I think the upside for the S tier guys in dribbling and
12:14lane is just better than what Debo can offer at this stage in his career. That is the A tier. Caleb Johnson, Malik
12:19Davis, Naji Harris, Keenan Allen, Debo Samuel. Next up we have Seth McGawan who honestly is pretty similar to Malik Davis. He would be in the B tier. He's
12:27more like a 5 to 10% guy. There's no real difference between Seth McGawan or Malik Davis or just these various other
12:35running back twos. I guess the the the deal with EMTT Johnson, the reason why I have Emtt Johnson so high is that I
12:40think he can carve out a smidgen a small amount of standalone value in fantasy football. I did not think McGawan was a
12:47very good prospect. Um actually he and Mike Washington Jr. shared a backfield one year. McGawan is also 24 years old.
12:55So it's not like I don't think there is a ton to see from him. The only thing I can offer you with the McGawan is that
13:00he has clearly beaten out DJ Giddens to be the running back too. And we know the Indianapolis Colts is just a very, very
13:06functional offense for running backs.
13:08Then we have Chris Bell. This one will also be controversial because some of you guys probably love Chris Bell. There was a chance that Chris Bell would have
13:15been a firstround pick in the NFL draft.
13:18But just let me show you guys the Miami Dolphins projections from my guy Mike Clay, and you tell me how bad you really
13:24want to own a receiver from this offense. 527 dropbacks from the quarterbacks. No one on the team is projected for more than 70 targets. My
13:32guy Mike Clay has him for 55 targets, 34 receptions, 449 yards, and two touchdowns. I know, look, I know we all
13:39love rookie wide receivers. I actually liked Chris Bell's prospect profile coming out of Louisville, but he is recovering from an ACL injury, so he
13:47will have, you know, he's got to get his confidence back. He's got to be feeling better about himself. If there is a
13:53breakout between Malik Washington, Caleb Douglas, Jaylen Tolbert, Chris Bell, it is probably going to be Chris Bell, but to me, he seems much more like a roster
14:02clogger where what would have to happen for you to confidently start Chris Bell?
14:06Like, think in your mind, how down bad would you have to be to start Chris Bell? Or how up good would Chris Bell
14:12have to be? And I just don't know like, can this dude earn 12 targets in a game?
14:17Can this dude earn nine targets in a game? Will a Dolphins wide receiver have eight catches in a game all season long?
14:22Like you might straight up just take no on that bet right now, which makes me think that it almost doesn't matter how
14:28good Chris Bell was as a prospect. He's just a little bit overvalued by fantasy managers. Then we have Kalin Black who
14:34it seems is going to be the running back too on the San Francisco 49ers when they open the season. Jordan James also came
14:40back from his injury and it's possible that Grant Con and the other 49ers beat Riders have just been wrong about who
14:46the running back two for the 49ers is.
14:48Also, the running back too might just be Debo Samuel, you know, in terms of standalone value. The 49ers backfield, one of the most valuable ones in fantasy
14:55football. We've had so many names be startable in fantasy football inside of these Shanahan offenses. It is just a perfect scheme. That zone blocking
15:03scheme with how good of a play color Shanahan is, just absolutely spits fantasy points. The thing I would be concerned about with both Kalin Black
15:10and Jordan James is the most valuable thing in the 49ers, the receiving work.
15:15And both Kalin Black and Jordan James were not great receiving prospects coming out of college. And we've seen this with Jordan Mason before where even
15:23if you are in a good role in that back field, you're not Christian McAffrey.
15:27Jordan Mason did not add fantasy points per game coming from receiving when he was starting there. So I I don't want to
15:33go crazy on Kalin Black. Like all of McGawan, Bell and Black would be sub 10% free agent acquisition budget guys for
15:40me. That's the B tier. the Ctier, we have Cyrus Allen, we have Eric All the tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals,
15:46and we have Jordan James. Cyrus Allen, I could see just leaving him out there in the waiver wire in that opening game
15:52against Denver. I don't think in week one we are going to be treated to too much of Cyrus Allen. I think the team is
15:57actually probably going to feature Rashi Rice pretty heavily. It sounds like Josh Simmons is not going to play in that week one game. So, the Chief's starting
16:04left tackle is going to be out. I think the sort of routes that Cyrus Allen runs, I think his potential role is what
16:09happens in the course of the season with Rashi and Worthy, does one of them play significantly worse than the other? Does
16:15one of them get injured or does one of them just get phased out of the offense?
16:18Frankly, if you were betting on one of them getting phased out of the offense right now, it probably would be Rice
16:23just based on the training camp clips, but I don't think that's going to happen. I was waiting for Cyrus Allen to
16:27basically show enough to beat out Taekquin Thornton in the offense because the way the Andy Reid offense works is all three wide receiver positions are
16:35fairly different. The Taekquin role is he's he's coming into that Justin Watson uh Marquez Valdez Scantling Sammy Watkins role that has existed for a long
16:45time and Cyrus is not that type of player. So I don't see Allen playing too much over Thornton. You could spend 5%
16:52on him. I I maybe am not buying as much as I was a month ago.
16:55Sounds like Eric All has a chance to just be the starting tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals ahead of Micahi in
17:02terms of being kind of that why move flanker tight end. However, we do know the way the Bengals do things under Zack
17:08Taylor is they basically have three tight ends and all three tight ends play a different position. I don't think Eric All is going to take over Drew Samples
17:14job and so that just limits the amount of routes that he can run. Jordan James sitting here in the C tier. There's a
17:20chance that the reporting has been wrong and that Jordan James is the running back too behind Christian McAffrey and not Kalin Black. We'll see on that one.
17:28Next up, we have Jacob Sailors. Just wanted to point him out. First off, this guy was basically the Christian McAffrey of the UFFL. Dan Campbell said the team,
17:35the Detroit Lions, feels good about having him as the running back too behind Jir Gibbs. That probably means there is no running back too behind Jir
17:42Gibbs. But we've known that Isaiah Pacheco, I mean, at least if you watch this channel, uh you've known that Isaiah Pacheco is undraftable all
17:49offseason long. I would rather have Sailors than Pacheco. And there's a chance that, you know, the way that the Lions schedule breaks out, there is a
17:56chance that Jacob Sailor is startable because they do start uh they do start against the Saints, which is uh against the Saints at home, which is a pretty
18:04good spot. You obviously would not want to use any of these backup players, you know, against the Buffalo Bills. But then they go Jets, Lions, Cardinals. The
18:14Lions are going to be favored by over a touchdown in all of those games. There might be some reserve mop up duty work
18:18there for Jacob Sailor. He's maybe a little bit more of a 14 team league guy or at least a waiverwire watch list guy,
18:24but I am intrigued to see what he can do because he was very, very good in spring football. I mean, I he's one of those
18:31guys I expect to make the jump from the UFFL to the NFL. Uh Jaylen Wright is the running back too for the Miami Dolphins.
18:38Were there to be anything that happened to Devin Achan? Jaylen Wright would certainly be I mean would he be a fantasy football starter? I was about to
18:46say he would be a fantasy football starter, but this dude and the cheek like the the Dolphins might just be such
18:51cheeks that he would not be. Uh and then we have Eli Raren. I want you guys to to really take a peek. I want you to look
18:57very closely at Eli Rarden in, you know, any kind of tight end premium league, any kind of deeper format, because I
19:04think he might run about 55% of the routes week one for the Patriots. But the the big questions here are if you
19:09were in a league that drafted early, should you really kind of spend it all on Lloyd, Stribbling, Washington, Lane, and Emma Johnson. And I would basically
19:18say, Lloyd, if you were in a deeper format, these FIFC main events, I think you're spending a minimum of 60% on him.
19:24I think a minimum of 50% on dribbling. I would probably do a protection bid for Mike Washington Jr., you know, a 33% bid
19:32on Mike Washington Jr., same for Jacobe Lane. EMTT Johnson would be the one I would be really trying to sneak through
19:38in those formats. You know, maybe 25%, 30%, 35% of your budget, but Emma Johnson, I think, is the crown jewel there. Uh, if you guys want more fantasy
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