0:00Week eight waiverwire ads. I'm Theo Ginger right here at Roto Wire dropping this week's top additions on the waiverwire. We had a really strong week
0:09last week. Omar Cooper Jr. was the number one recommended waiverwire ad in my article over at Rotoire. We talked him up right here on this show. A lot of
0:18people were worried that it could have been sort of a oneweek sample size.
0:21Adani Mitchell was going to ruin things.
0:23We stayed the course. We backed Omar Cooper Jr. number one waiverwire ad and he crushes yet again. We're looking to run it back this week in week eight. And
0:31you got 52 days. 52 days until the start of the fantasy football playoffs. Week 15 is 52 days away from the time I'm
0:40recording this. Doesn't feel like that long. It's going to fly by. And you know, like in life, this time of year
0:46when you get all the holidays and all that kind of stuff, things fly by. NFL season flies by. We are already into the
0:54tail end of October and we're looking to get things right heading into November when we're in must-win territory in fantasy football. Let's go ahead and
1:03start off right at the top with the quarterback position. This is a good week for quarterbacks and we're sort of in cleanup mode. We're going to
1:10downgrade Aaron Rogers a little bit. I know a lot of you picked him up sort of looking at at his production. He's taken
1:17a sort of a step back the last two weeks. Pittsburgh looks a little bit more conservative. Underwhelming performances against Tampa Bay.
1:24Underwhelming performance against a really generous New Orleans Saints team.
1:28So Rogers is fine if he's a quarterback, too. You know, it's not necessarily like cutum territory, but we're not looking at impactful performances from him, but
1:37we do have a couple of quarterbacks that are trending up at the right time. And let's talk about Malik Willis because
1:43Malik Willis was a player that a lot of content creators and a lot of fantasy managers were adding during the summer
1:51looking at his high rushing upside and were completely underwhelmed by how the start of the season went for him. And it
1:59felt like uh you know a death blow when we got to that Minnesota game in week four and Willis was just horrendous,
2:05terrible the week before against Kansas City. But a funny thing happened with this offense. This offense has started to get better and it's the
2:13unpredictability I think where a lot of it was going through Devon Achan and rightfully so early in the year but defenses knew kind of what to expect.
2:22The last two weeks have been signal that this offense and this coaching staff has made some adjustments and the team is
2:28starting to play well. Ali Gordon who we had as number one waiverwire ad multiple weeks ago. Uh he continues to run pure
2:36and he's arguably the best waiverwire addition of the year. Some of you picked up Brilland Allen on the waiverwire.
2:42Bruce Hall will return there. Ali Gordon looks like he's got a clear run out for the rest of the season. But at the
2:47running back position, uh Gordon looks good. And this run game in general in Miami is is doing well. And that's the
2:54appeal with Malik Willis. Malik Willis gets the win over the Jets, goes 14 of 21 as a passer, connects with Caleb
3:03Douglas on two touchdown passes. But the appeal for Willis is the rushing ability. Eight carries for 37 yards and a touchdown. In week five, he had eight
3:13carries for 74 yards and a touchdown. So back-toback high-end rushing performances for Malik Willis. He's going to be on the streaming radar. And
3:23you might say, "Hey, I'm not ready to use him." But let's take a look at this schedule. Week eight, New England
3:27Patriots. Tough one. Tough game for them. But then you've got this run out where it's Detroit, Indianapolis, the
3:37Buffalo Bills, and then another game against the Jets defense that he just fried. Add Malik Willis for upside as your quarterback, too. And potential
3:46spike weeks might occur over this next month. The trajectory is good for Malik Willis.
3:53Now, a quarterback for us to add and stash this week is JJ McCarthy. I'm optimistic about McCarthy uh heading into the Giants bye. The vibes are good
4:02with this team, and this is a huge opportunity for McCarthy. He has the mobility. They can see the rushing touchdown to Jameus Winston. That was a
4:09little bit tilting, but McCarthy has shown a willingness to pass downfield at a very high rate. He's taking shots and
4:18he he has this really kind of decent upside in this offense because of the presence of Malik Neighbors. I'm very interested to see what happens with JJ
4:28McCarthy coming out of the by-week in New York. Again, more of a quarterback, too, but one to monitor. Now, if you're
4:35looking for streaming options, Gino Smith is an interesting one this week.
4:40Gino lost to the Dolphins, but he had a his second three touchdown pass performance of the season. Finished with 287 passing yards, three passing
4:49touchdowns in New York's loss to Miami.
4:52Like, I get it. It's a loss, but Gino looks good. You got Omar Cooper Jr.
4:57emerging rapidly. And you have Garrett Wilson, who's been slow the last two weeks, but we know they're going to get things together with Garrett Wilson.
5:05He's too good a player. uh this whole idea that Garrett Wilson's going to kind of stay down, uh I'm not buying into it.
5:11I think that there's a chance that you see uh Garrett Wilson sort of turn things around this week. And when you
5:19look at the Jets, it's a team that might get Breece Hall back soon. And that's another potential uh another potential pass catcher out of the back backfield.
5:29So take a look for Gino Smith if you need a quarterback this week. Now, a quarterback to just add in general, and
5:36I probably should have led off the quarterbacks with him, is quick. Who has the most touchdown passes in the NFL right now? It's Kirk Cousins. Kirk
5:44Cousins also has the third most passing yards in the NFL. Unbelievable. Finished Sunday's game with 295 passing yards and two touchdowns. The week before, he had
5:55313 passing yards and two touchdowns.
5:58Both games were losses, but it's not Kirk Cousins's fault. The offense is showing up in Vegas enough that they should be more competitive. The defense
6:06is struggling, but Kirk Cousins is playing very well. This is sort of turned back the clock mode for Cousins.
6:12It also speaks incredible volumes to just how high a level a play caller Clint Kubak is. But Kirk Cousins looks
6:22like he's going to have another QB1 finish. I'm recording this before Monday Night Football, but Kirk Cousins will comfortably have a QB1 finish. He is
6:32currently the QB8 on the week.
6:36And when we look back to week six, Cousins also delivered, giving you another QB1 performance. He was QB9 last week. So, giving you low-end QB per one
6:47performances over the last two weeks for Kirk Cousins. He is connecting very well as a passer. He's also benefiting from the Vegas run game. Really struggling.
6:57Ashton Genty struggling as a runner, but excelling as a receiver. This sort of trends well for Cousins. And in terms of
7:04consistency, Kirk Cousins has at least two passing touchdowns in all but one game. The only game where he only had one passing touchdown was week five
7:14against the Patriots. So, it feels weird, but you want to add Kirk Cousins this week. Make sure he's not available in competitive formats. Another
7:23quarterback you can use as a streamer this week, and this is a player that hasn't been doing it this year, but
7:28Jacobe Brassette goes up against the Dallas Cowboys. I'm recording this before Monday Night Football, but we anticipate Dallas will be generous
7:37tonight against uh Philly, even with backups in there. Uh Dallas defense is just not it. And Jacobe Brassette has a chance for a decent game in week eight.
7:46Now, one thing we want to remind everyone is the NFL by weeks where you want to try to stay a week ahead in
7:54terms of NFL buys and we want to try to not make moves the week of the buy. So, when we look at the the by-weeks for
8:03week eight, it's it's a pretty cut and dry here. It's not quite as catastrophic as the past few weeks. You lose Malik
8:13Neighbors uh you you from Giants. You lose Isaiah likely who had a really poor per performance this past week.
8:20Obviously Chris Ave not available to you from New Orleans. Jordan Tyson should be available coming out of the by-week potentially. Houston, we want to see how
8:29things get sort of fixed with Nico Collins. A poor performance from him this past week. Houston really kind of needs the by-week to sort of get things
8:38together after that loss to New York. And then the team that is kind of most San Francisco 49ers managers, Christian McCaffrey managers,
8:48George KD managers, Mike Evans managers all get the week off. But this is a team that needs a by-week. Like if you have
8:54Christian McCaffrey, you don't have to worry about the potential thigh uh injury. He has a week to get fresh. If you have Brock Pury, he's going to get
9:02pass catchers back. If you have Mike Evans, he's going to be another week closer to playing. And if you have George KD, well, it kind of stinks not
9:08to have George KD this week, but the 49ers need one. Then we look at week nine, you've only got two teams on by.
9:14You've got Pittsburgh and Tennessee. So, we're going to get a little bit of a breather when we get to week nine. Uh
9:19week eight, we have four teams on buy.
9:21And then we have we start getting into some craziness where week 10, you have four teams on buy. And then week 11 is
9:28the tilting one, six teams on buy. So, the general rule, try to stay a week ahead, especially with like positions that you know are dried up in your
9:36league. I don't know your league. I don't know the availability of players, but I know I don't want to go up against
9:41it like week 11 competing with all these managers with teams on a by-week. I try to I try to be a week ahead. It's easier
9:47said than done, but we want to try to do the best we can to be a week ahead so we're not competing on the same by-week
9:54for like flex options. So, be aggressive when you can and try to be a week ahead.
9:58Be very organized this time of year. And again, 52 days left at the time I'm recording this until the start of the
10:05fantasy playoffs. Some leagues you don't have like NFC, FFPC, you're done doing waivers. There are no waiverss in the fantasy playoffs. So, you got 522 more
10:14days of this. And if you're in reddraft leagues, it gets easier. A lot of leagues sort of uh like a Yahoo or sleep
10:21or a home league. A lot of leagues will completely shut down non-playoff teams from participating in waiverss and you're only going up against a few
10:29managers. So, it gets easier. So, 50 more days of putting the work in and then you're kind of in in the stretch
10:36run trying to win that money, win that championship, and hopefully we're competing for a lot of championships this year. Hopefully, you're off to a
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11:12Uh, talking about the running back position, we went over the quarterbacks.
11:15Let's talk running backs.
11:17Not a massive week for running backs that can really help us. Shallow league managers, make sure Kalin Black is not a
11:26is not available. Add him this week. Uh this is we saw him have a rushing touchdown. Also had a fumble, but Kalin
11:31Black fantasy friendly profile. If CMC were ever to miss time for most of you, he's already rostered though. He's been rostered and he was getting drafted in
11:40week 11. There's also Jonah Coleman. I double check to see and of all of my FFPC leagues, Jonah Coleman's not available in one. All of my NFC leagues,
11:49he's not available in any of them, but he might be available in your league.
11:52Uh, finished Sunday's game with 54 rushing yards and two catches. Jonah Coleman feels like a guy who could take over this backfield. Now, some players
12:00that might be available. I recorded with Dr. Deepuck Chona. We are dropping a huge injury update right here on the podcast feed and on the YouTube feed.
12:10Make sure you're hitting that subscribe button. get notifications on YouTube as well as your podcast anywhere you get them, Rotoire Podcast. But he talked
12:17about Jeremiah Love. He does not anticipate Jeremiah Love being back against the Dallas Cowboys. That makes Bam Knight an interesting player. Bam
12:26Knight had another game where he outperformed Tyler Algier by a clear margin. He should have had a touchdown catch, dropped. hit it would have made
12:35his stat line look a lot better, but he's averaged like 5.9 and six yards per carry over his last two games played.
12:42Complete night and day versus Alier who doesn't look explosive at all. So, if Jeremiah Love misses, then you're going to get Bam Knight in a one- week against
12:52the Dallas Cowboys in an appealing use him at RB2, use him in your flex spot type type role. Uh Bam Knight looks good
13:00and it's inevitable. Every year I sort of talk about him. I never plan on it.
13:04He's completely off my radar in the preseason. So, I guess maybe in the preseason we need to do a short like
13:11where is Bam Knight and do a short show like in August and say this is where Bam Knight is just so we can monitor him for
13:17those three weeks of re of of fantasy relevance that he's going to have at some point during the season. But Bam
13:23Knight 11.8 points this past week against Denver. The or excuse me 11.8 8 points against the Rams and then 9.3 against Denver. Has a cushy matchup this
13:34week against Dallas. And then we don't want to use him of course against the Seattle Seahawks in week nine and we
13:40would anticipate Jeremiah Love potentially being back for that one anyway. So add Bam Knight if you need somebody for this week. Another player
13:48you should make sure is not available anywhere and we covered him the last two weeks, but Dylan Samson I picked up a
13:54good amount of in a couple of my leagues and I'm glad that I did that. Cleveland had a season high in rushing yards this
14:02week and it was Quinn Sean Judkins that led the way. Um, and he had a two touchdown performance. Judkins had a
14:09huge 23-point game. But Dylan Samson was also very very effective and looks like he's got a strong role in this game. You
14:18in this on this team, Judkins was completely a non-factor in the passing game. He conceded those targets out of the backfield to Samson. Samson had
14:28three catches for 32 yards. And I think this is signal. I think he's going to get this sort of uh pass volume on a
14:34weekly basis. He also had six carries for 45 yards. Quinnshaw Judkins is a warrior. He played through injuries and he looked good against Tennessee, but we
14:44know Judkins is dealing with some knocks. If he misses time, Samson would be a very valuable player and I think he'd be a top 18 running back on a
14:52weekly basis because, and this is if Judkins were to miss time because Samson can catch the ball and he's got explosiveness. Um, and the way that the
15:00team runs this offense, I think Samson would go from being like a three-target player to maybe like five or six in
15:07weeks that Judkins misses. They'd have to adjust offensively. So, Samson is a priority ad this week. Also, another priority ad because we want to stash
15:17Seth McGawan wherever we can. This Jonathan Taylor trade rumor, it feels like there's some legs to this thing.
15:23And I usually want to dismiss this.
15:25Anybody who's covered my content over the last couple years, I I I cover the trade deadline um pretty hard. Like we
15:33usually do a show the day of the trade I'll do that this year where we do a live show day of the trade deadline.
15:38It's a lot of fun, but we end up not covering a lot because there's not too many trades made in the NFL, but it
15:44feels like there's legs with this thing.
15:46Indianapolis loses another game.
15:49Seth McGawan plays a season high in snaps. Jonathan Taylor plays a season low in snaps. Now, Taylor continues to produce because he's an absolute
15:57monster. And I think the franchise loves Jonathan Taylor. He's been with Indianapolis his entire career. He's been a star and they gave him a contract
16:06extension, but the team is struggling mightily. The team continues to lose games. Uh, and things are heading south.
16:14And this coming week, they have a road game at Jacksonville. That's a hard one for Indianapolis the way they're playing. So Taylor gets his 18 carries
16:23for 95 yards, catches two balls for 15, he gets a touchdown. He's a beast. But Seth McGawan gets 11 carries for 46
16:31yards, and he also catches a pass. If Jonathan Taylor were moved, then Seth McGawan would have a full-time role.
16:39Now, his role would obviously be worth far less than Taylor, but you're talking about McGawan would have 15 to 20 touches on a weekly basis. DJ Giddens is
16:48inactive. DJ Giddens is not doing a thing. So, Giddens was their draft pick in uh 2025. McGawan's way ahead of him.
16:56So, Seth McGawan should be rostered in case Jonathan Taylor is traded. And even if he's not traded, McGawan is still the
17:03next man in uh direct handcuff to uh to Taylor and would see kind of a similar workload if Taylor were to miss time.
17:11Same thing, same uh scenario. Tony Pard had a massive week this past week and he had massive volume the game before. Tai
17:20Spears missed the game. He's banged up.
17:22But if Tony Pard moved from Tennessee, Tai Tai would have a ton of value. And then of course if Pard were to miss
17:29time, Spears would also have some value.
17:31So he's injured hurt now, but would have some value. Uh Jonathan Brooks is going to be off the IR. Uh Chuba Hubard has
17:37run pure uh and had an awesome year overall. But Jonathan Brooks, I think we can, you know, again, a number of us,
17:44including myself, we'll take some L's from the preseason, uh, enthusiasm with Brooks versus Hubard, but Brooks, we can look at as a, uh, a high upside handcuff
17:54moving forward. Also, Carolina is going to have to pass a little bit more. Uh, we know that they are dealing with uh,
18:01offensive line injuries. It it's it's just it was a really poor performance and it gets kind of it gets kind of like
18:09amplified by all these injuries that they've had on the offensive line where you have now Monroe Freeling who good prospect first round pick. He's going to
18:19start. We don't know how he'll hold up as a starter but we know that that uh Taylor Motton broke his fibula. So he's
18:27I mean broken fibula you're done. So you you're you're having some issues on the O line in Carolina. Will this downgrade
18:34the run game and sort of make them pass a little bit more? Maybe it opens up a window for Brooks, the pass catcher, to
18:40sort of get ramped up when he comes back. We'll see. Continuing to look at running backs. I mean, know your league.
18:46Know your handcuff running backs. I don't know who's available in your league, but one thing is for sure. I if you have been following this show,
18:55handcuffed running backs have been hitting this year. We've sort of had a a runout where there was no handcuffed running backs for a couple years making
19:02too many impacts. But just look up and down the board. We talk about Ali Gordon who was the handcuff in Miami over
19:09Jaylen Wright. Uh ends up performing at a very high level. Looks like a running back two rest of the season. Emanuel
19:15Wilson had 18 points against Kansas City. Uh, Zack Charbanet will be back soon, but Emanuel Wilson, if you added him early in the year, Emanuel Wilson
19:24now has 20 plus touches in four out of his last six games. That's crazy volume.
19:30So, Emanuel Wilson performed for you, Ali Gordon performed for you, and then you uh clearly clearly had Brilan Allen, who's been awesome two out of the last
19:40three games, all coming off of the waiver wire, all making significant impacts for us in fantasy. So, we want to continue to roster handcuff running
19:49backs. One other player to just doublech checkck your waiver wire for and see if he was cut. In leagues with an IR spot,
19:56guys like this are never cut. And in most leagues, people will do their best to hold on to somebody. But by weeks,
20:02player fantasy managers, one of the biggest issues with fantasy managers, even smart ones, is they don't pay attention to by-weeks and they got they
20:10get up against it and they end up having to cut somebody valuable. So, double check your wire. Make sure Kyle Manangi
20:17is not available. He would be a no-brainer ad. I didn't even cover him in the Waverwire article, but make sure he's available. Not available. Add him.
20:24He should be back soon. We know how effective he can be in Chicago. Um, and then just double check your wire. See
20:30these valuable like forlike handcuffs this time of year when the wide receivers and tight ends of notes that emerge. A lot of times the best
20:40waiverwire additions this time of year are the lottery pick handcuff running backs. Running backs start to break down, especially running backs handling
20:49really highle volume. We want like forlike replacements and it's always a plus when running backs can catch the football. Uh, another player to make
20:59sure is not available. Well, like you know, again, we could go through all the handcuffs here, but I think you know
21:04your league better. We'll continue to talk about him, but two players for like very deep league managers, Devin Singleary and Shawn Tucker. Um Devin
21:14Singleary because of the chaos in the New York backfield where Tyrone Tracy is probably going to miss some time. Tracy had three touchdowns in his last two
21:24games played, exited the game early this past week, and it opened up this window for Cam Scaboo to excel and sort of have
21:32like uh Cam Scataboo just made up with Harbaugh. Like they they they made up uh they're were back into liking Cam
21:38Scataboo again. I think the Giants begrudgingly maybe are back into Cam Scataboo. Who knows? But Devin Singleary scored the game-winning touchdown. Now
21:47you have Tyrone Tracy. You have Tyrone Tracy uh who's now banged up. Will miss a little bit of time. And then Cam
21:55Scataboo complained about something in his hamstring that we saw at the end of the game when they used Singleary and Scataboo like went down and kind of slid
22:02down. So Singleary should be added in like deep formats just to see what happens coming out of the Giants Spy week. Um he could be an interesting one.
22:11Veteran, we've used him in years past.
22:14Maybe you get a 2 or 3 week window where he's usable or it just turns into nothing but he's going to be cheap. Then
22:19you got Shawn Tucker. Tucker had seven carries for 52 yards and a touchdown.
22:24Kenneth Gainwell also had 88 rushing yards. But Shawn Tucker, if you're looking for like a like a like a just a
22:30lotto ticket, Bucky Irving's role is crazy crazy high volume. So Bucky Irving is taking on this crazy high volume role. Um, and Bucky did well. Bucky had
22:40a huge game, but I think there's a scenario where Bucky could break down if this role continues. Now, the Bucks offense could look way different. We
22:47didn't even talk about Baker Mayfield earlier, but he returned. He just didn't really do anything. He's got a glove on his hand. They leaned into the run game.
22:54But those those kind of names for like deep deep leagues, if you're looking for like your 20th guy on your bench in like
23:00an FFPC or NFC type league, um, and just sort of hold Singleary through the by-week, sort of see what happens in
23:07Tampa Bay for another week. Those are the kind of names I'm looking at. But, you know, in your league, uh, the
23:13availability of handcuff running backs, certainly higher level ones than the ones I mentioned, but I think those two guys will be available. Another player
23:21just to kind of mention each and every week, um, when you look at the Detroit Lions, Sion Vaky doesn't get any work,
23:29but he's clearly the next man in. Um, Isaiah Pacheco continues to be on the injured reserve. So if Gibbs were to and
23:36we had that crazy play at the end of the game where Gibbs like was heading into the end zone and then slid down and
23:42looked like he hurt himself on a slide cuz he's naturally good at scoring touchdowns, not naturally good at sliding, I guess, but that scared the
23:49hell out of me as a Gibbs manager. So it's like signal Sion Vaky should be uh should be rostered. We saw Josh Jacobs
23:57return. It's sort of a split here.
23:59Marshon Lloyd ran ahead of Pierre Strong. So, I guess Marshon Lloyd was probably cut in a bunch of places. He's probably the next man in in Green Bay.
24:06But, you go down the list, you know your league. Valuable handcuff running backs are lottery tickets this time of year.
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24:29check it out. Let's talk about the wide receiver position. Number of players to talk about this week. A ton of them.
24:35Shallow leagues. Double check for these names. If you're playing leagues in Narnia or Middleear or Wakanda or any fictional land or some ESPN league
24:45that's asleep at the wheel, Omar Cooper might be available. I mean, I'll go check. My sons are in leagues with their
24:50friends this year. Maybe. And I even checked before I recorded the show to see if the uh fourth graders were asleep
24:57at the wheel. No, the fourth graders have Omar Cooper Jr. rostered. So, the fourth graders have him. I'm guessing most leagues do, too. Um, but Omar
25:05Cooper Jr., double check. He looks awesome. I'm glad we recommended him number one last week. We're not always going to run perfectly pure, but we're
25:13going to have a lot more right than we have wrong here at Rotoire. Each and every week we do it in the Waverwire.
25:18Uh, and if you're following my content for multiple years, my hit rate's pretty good doing this thing. Uh, so continue to follow us here. Again, check out the
25:24article over at rotowire.com. We go way deeper on that one. Another player to to make sure is not available, Jordan Tyson. Saints should have Jordan Tyson
25:36back sooner than later. I think he'll make a big impact. Keenan Allen, strong role for the Colts. And then the player
25:43to double check. That's actually and and a big shout out to someone who I know is listening to this show who um I earlier
25:51in the year I I talked to somebody and it was um someone who is very active in the Rotoire community and talked to me a
26:00little bit about Antonio Williams versus Trey Tucker earlier in the year. I gave them a Trey Tucker recom uh cut and keep
26:07Antonio Williams bad advice from me.
26:10Trey Tucker is now looking like New Orleans Rasheed Shahed. So, if you want to find a parallel, Clint Kubak when he
26:17was the offensive coordinator in New Orleans had this awesome role for Rasheed Shahed. Um, and we're kind of seeing Trey Tucker in that role where
26:26you get these spike weeks and you've had backto-back spike weeks for Trey Tucker.
26:30I checked again, he's not available in any FFPC league I'm in, Dynasty or Reddraft. Um, so I imagine he's going to
26:36be rostered in most most places after the 26.7 point week six against Buffalo.
26:41But if some people were looking at that as sort of an abnormality and not something that could repeat itself, five catches for 97 yards and two touchdowns
26:49in week six had seven targets. And then this past week against the Rams, here's the big number, 12 targets for Trey
26:57Tucker. He gets five catches for 103 yards and a touchdown. So, if I gave you bad advice earlier in the year, um, Trey
27:05Tucker, you you should have kept him. I was wrong on that one. I will own the L.
27:09Um, but if make sure he's not available in your league. And then Keenan Allen, he's in a strong role. Now, players that
27:14are going to be available in a lot of leagues. Caleb Douglas returns from injury, has an awesome game on a very
27:21low volume uh, day for for Miami. Now, Malik Willis, 21 pass attempts and he completes like 14 of them and three of
27:30them go to Caleb Douglas. Excuse me, two of them go to Caleb Douglas. Uh, both of them lead to touchdowns. For me, if I'm
27:37coaching the Dolphins and I see that three targets led to two touchdowns, I am going to find more targets for Caleb
27:43Douglas. And we know with Caleb Douglas, this is not his first good game of the year. Caleb Douglas was a popular
27:49waverwire ad after week one when he had five catches for 94 yards and seven targets. I think that seven target game
27:57in week one that signal for what we should expect from Caleb Douglas moving forward. I think he is the most explosive pass catcher on Miami and I
28:05think he's going to have a real role. So look for those three targets to go up.
28:09Now, he won't have two touchdown catches every week, but we have a 70 yard game and a 94 yard game in two out of his
28:17three games as a pro. So, Caleb Douglas is a very good waiverwire ad this week if he's available in your league. Now,
28:24we're take keeping an eye on Antonio Williams, seeing if he is available.
28:28Now, rookies keep popping and popping.
28:30and Antonio Williams. I was saying the Trey Tucker thing earlier, but we do have a window for Antonio Williams to come out of Washington's bye-week with
28:38some rational coaching. Antonio Williams is going to have a much larger role coming out of the by-week. Terry McLaren done for the season. And Stefan Diggs is
28:46one of the oldest starting wide receivers in the NFL. He's dealt with some injuries this year. So, Antonio Williams, the third round pick out of
28:53Clemson, should have a strong role moving forward if there is rational coaching. Now, there's also a chance that it's Trayon Burks, and Trayon Burks
29:01might see a post bi-week bump, but Antonio Williams would be my bet.
29:05Antonio Williams is going to be rostered in most leagues that are deep and competitive, but Trayon Burks is going to be available out there. I think he's
29:13worth a speculative addition just to see where he's at.
29:17Postby-eek Washington, not sure what things are going to look like. I mean, it's a team that needs to get things together. Dan Quinn is very much up
29:25against it right now in terms of keeping his job. Needs wins and Jaden Daniels, this guy has not been winning games. So,
29:32Washington looking to come out of the by-week. Uh, they're going to have an opportunity though cuz the Washington Commanders, they have a couple of games
29:39that on paper look winnable for them.
29:41So, we look at Washington's schedule.
29:44You have the Philadelphia Eagles in week eight. I mean, the games at home, they're coming out of their by-week.
29:52That game looks like a big win for them.
29:54And then you look down the line, week 12 and week 13 at Arizona, at Tennessee, winnable road games, chances for Antonio
30:03Williams to put up some decent numbers there and chances for Jaden Daniels and Dan Quinn to get some wins. Uh, continuing to look at the wide receiver
30:11position, how about a spec speculative ad on Travis Hunter? Uh, you know, the targets per route run guys are losing
30:20their minds over week six where Travis Hunter only had a a few routes run and he was basically targeted on almost all
30:29of them. Four catches for 59 yards and a touchdown on minimal snaps and could have a larger role coming out of the
30:37by-week. There there's so many outs for Travis Hunter here. he could have a larger role coming out of the by-week because the coaching staff could say
30:44he's just good and we have to find ways to include him offensively more. Then you have there's the chance that Brian
30:52Thomas could get traded. I mean, of any player in fantasy, Brian Thomas and the the Jacksonville Jaguars, they need a divorce, an amicable divorce where
31:01Jacksonville pockets a draft pick and Brian Thomas gets a new lease on life.
31:06He does not fit in this Liam Cohen offense. and we think that Brian Thomas could end up being an impactful player
31:12for another team. Let's dreamcast it.
31:14Let's think what could be an offense that Brian Thomas Jr. would look really good at. I mean, I think the dream
31:21scenario is San Francisco because all those guys are old and you know, but that probably doesn't happen. But what about a reunion with Jaden Daniels in
31:29Washington? You could see that one. You could just see that one. The LSU connection. I mean, we could galaxy brain our way to finding five or six
31:36spots where we get excited for Brian Thomas. What about the LA Rams? Canata Mumfield, not it. Um, I wasted a lot of
31:43your time on Canata Mumfield. Not a good indication of his usage this past week.
31:48Um, a guy we can leave on the wire this week if you didn't pick him up last week, but you can galaxy brain your way
31:54to a few destinations of notes for BTJ.
31:58guy needs a change of of scenery. But if he gets moved, maybe that creates a window for Travis Hunter to get used
32:04more on offense. You have other like crazy scenarios like what if there's an injury in Jacksonville to a wide receiver like a Meyers or god forbid a
32:12Parker Washington? Then you'd have to use Travis Hunter. So we know Travis Hunter can play. He's available in a ton of leagues. He's just coming off of a
32:20big game. There was a by-week and bi-weeks teams tinker. Smart coaches make little shuffles and all that kind of stuff. We think Liam Cohen is smart.
32:28This is a team that we are betting on this year. We love Trevor Lawrence. He's playing really well, so we want his pass
32:34catchers. Go grab Travis Hunter. And if you have to cut him, it's not going to cost you a lot. This is not like some
32:4010% bid fab guy. You probably get him for like 2%. He's probably like a 2.5enter um for fantasy managers this week if you
32:47really really want him. So Travis Hunter, I think, should be added post by week to see where this thing goes.
32:54Another player for us to monitor is Pat Bryant. Pat Bryant should be healthy soon. And now you have Jaylen Wadd injured. Jaylen Wadd, we don't know
33:03what's going on here. They're calling it a chest injury. This offense looks broken. Bryant will have an opportunity down the stretch. I believe Bo Knicks
33:11signs a life yesterday against Arizona at least, but Jaylen Wadd, what a disaster of a pick he has been, and now
33:17he's hurt. Uh, looking at Jacobe Lane, make sure he is not available anywhere because things are going to get better with Jacobe Lane when Lamar Jackson
33:27returns. I believe he is going to have a strong second half of the season. Uh, quiet game yesterday, but five targets.
33:33And I think that's that's sort of the signal for us. Five targets in back-to-back weeks, minimal production.
33:40He had four catches for 40 yards in week six, three catches for 25 yards in week seven. But Jacobe Lane should get
33:47rostered. I think he's going to profile as the number two target in Baltimore for the rest of the season. His big
33:52breakout week could come against Buffalo in week eight, especially if we see Lamar Jackson back on the field.
34:00Continuing to look at a couple of other options at the wide receiver position, Malachi Fields has a growing role in the
34:07Giants offense. The usage could be sporadic, but he also could end up with a couple of long touchdowns in this role
34:14where JJ McCarthy is pushing the ball downfield. Malachi Fields had his best game as a pro this past week, an 83 yard
34:23performance on four catches, season high in yards, season high in catches, and this is one week after a season high in
34:31targets. So, week six, he did nothing.
34:34But we dive deep into the box scores here at Rotoire and he had eight targets against the Saints in week six. So
34:40Malachi Fields, another one of these rookie wide receivers, is ascending in his role. 12.3 points this past week.
34:48Comes out of the by-week at Philly, but then he gets the Washington Commanders.
34:52That secondary is super soft. That could be a Malachi Fields week. That could be a Malachi Fields DFS week. We we'll keep
34:59an eye on Malachi Fields, but you can roster him for cheap because he's on buy. Jordan Watkins just thrown it out
35:05there. He had six targets. I I think this is going to be a non-factor, but we are anticipating a return from Mike Evans, Debo Samuel,
35:14Demarcus Robinson, Dejon Stribbling, uh Christian Kirk we've talked about in past weeks because he's going to be uh out there. We'll see sort of if he can
35:23ramp up post bye-week. The the bottom line is we don't know what this wide receiver room is going to look like when
35:28the 49ers return from buy in week nine, but we do know Jordan Watkins had six targets. He had a touchdown catch
35:35overturned. Um I don't think this will become a thing, but we want to we could potentially monitor him. Dejon Stribbling, double check your waiver
35:43wire if you're in leagues with no IR spot. He's closer to returning at this point in the year. We know sort of a
35:50week 11, week 10, if you have an IR spot, he's a good player to continue holding just to see if he can get
35:56healthy. Second round pick, first pick in the second round, Dejon Stribbling.
36:00Then you have the two Philadelphia Eagles, and I'm recording this uh I'm recording this on a Monday before Monday Night Football. So, didn't see Philly
36:07Dallas, but Mai Lemon and uh we want to take a look for Mai Lemon. I I think that the role could grow and it could
36:16get like and again there's a lot of like misinformation and sort of insinuation going on with Devonte Smith and sort of
36:24what he's going to be doing the rest of the year, but we know Dantavian Wixs is out. We know Smith is out for Monday
36:30Night Football this week. So, it creates these big opportunities for Mai Lemon and then Darius Cooper. So, Mai Lemon, the first round pick, you would think
36:39that they try to ramp him up over the second half of the season. and it would just make sense. But then you've got
36:43Darius Cooper who had three touchdown catches combined in weeks four and week five, had a 71 yard against Jacksonville in their near win for Philly. Um he's
36:53interesting cuz when Smith's out, Cooper uh has had opportunities. So Mai Lemon, Darius Cooper, let's pay attention to what they do on Monday night, but these
37:02guys might have bigger opportunities over the next few weeks, especially Lemon. Lemon's got to get things going here. Looking at the tight end position,
37:11number of names, we want to prioritize Chika Conquo. Chika Conquo should have gotten picked up last week. I had him in
37:18the top 10 waiverwire ads. Now, we want to prioritize him. He's had 11 catches for 129 yards over his last two games
37:25played. He's shown a connection with Jaden Daniels. We know Daniels has favored the tight end position in years past. So, we want to add Chica Conquo
37:35where available. I think he can be a low-end tight end one rest of the season. Um, and I think he could be the
37:41number two target to Diggs. If it's not Antonio Williams, it's going to be a Conquo is my bet. Uh, Rashad White's
37:46also going to get a lot of usage. Mason Taylor, tight end two overall this week heading into Monday Night Football. Five
37:52catches, 62 yards, two touchdowns. So, National Tight end day, Mason Taylor ends up getting this massive performance. Uh, he outtargeted Kenyan
38:00Sadi six to1. Mason Taylor has six targets in back-to-back games. If you play in tight end premium, make sure you add Mason Taylor. And if you're in
38:10non-tightend premium PPR, he still looks like a player who could have a valuable role. Now, Breece Hall coming back, Adani Mitchell, and then we have the two
38:18wide receivers. Gino's playing well, though. We talked about him earlier. So, Mason Taylor, we want to ride this hot hand. See if these past two games are
38:26signal and he could end up being a thing over the second half of the year. Let's remember this is Jason Taylor's son.
38:32We'll add the NFL pedigree, but we'll also add he was a second round pick in 2025 who got completely written off
38:38because of the Kenyon Sadi pick. I guess I I probably wrote him off a little bit.
38:42I know a lot of you did because Sadi was the incredible athlete they use a first round pick on. Sadique can do some
38:49things athletically that Taylor cannot do. But Mason Taylor was still a second round pick. Played at LSU, high pedigree guy. Um and now he's in this strong
38:58role. So, we're looking at Mason Taylor as a guy to kind of ride the hot hand.
39:03Now, Greg Doulich, speaking of riding the hot hand, you know, it's sort of a it's sort of a down waiverwire week when
39:10I'm talking about so many Dolphins, but I got to talk about Greg Doulich. Five catches, 86 yards. It's his third game
39:17with four at least four catches in his last four games play. So, three out of four he's had four catches or more. Um,
39:23two five catch games in the mix. And this was a season high for him in terms of yardage. Doulsich is in a full-time
39:30role and he can catch the football and we said this Miami offense is improving.
39:35So Doulich should be rostered in all tight end premium formats. Colby Parkinson, Davis, one thing we learned is first of all it was a Blake Corum
39:45Kairen Williams game. So the the game flow was a little bit different like both those running backs were awesome.
39:51But we do know that there was kind of incredible usage for the tight ends and only one catch and two targets for all
40:00Rams wide receivers combined besides Pukuna. So Kobby Parkinson should get rostered. This is his second consecutive week where he's outperformed Tyler
40:11Higgby. And he's had two solid games in a row. He had 14 points against Arizona and caught a touchdown in week six. Then
40:18it had five catches for 48 yards in week seven. Um so 9.8 and 14.1 PPR points over the last two weeks played. Dr.
40:27Deepak Chona does not think Terren Ferguson is anywhere close to returning and playing at a very high level with that high ankle sprain recovery. So you
40:37got Kobby Parkinson potentially as I mean it's history repeating itself because we saw this last year. Parkinson had eight touchdown catches last year.
40:46Now he's in this kind of valuable role in LA this year. Um Parkinson again, eight touchdown catches last year. A lot
40:53of them were backloaded. So Parkinson has a valuable role on the Rams right now. He's outperformed Higgby in back-to-back weeks. We know how
41:01effective Higgby was without Parkinson, but now that Parkinson's back, Parkinson's the one putting up the numbers, and those touchdowns to Allen
41:08could have gone to Parkinson. So I think Parkinson needs to be a priority ad for FFPC managers. And if you're in a
41:14regular PPR format, he's a consideration. He's a locked in tight end, too. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up getting ranked this
41:22week, but he's an interesting interesting player. Looking at these uh LA Rams, there's some games coming up that we anticipate will be fantasy
41:32friendly. The Chargers this week, um out of the by-week, but the Chargers have been a disaster. But then you've got the
41:39Commanders and you got the Cardinals in weeks nine and week 10 on the road.
41:43Those could be Kobby Parkinson touchdown weeks. So, we want to add him and sort of get ahead of things. Uh, another
41:50tight end for uh, tight end premium managers. Really, it's only a tight end premium uh, manager recommendation. Not even a recommendation, but if you're
41:58like, we want to keep an eye on what's going on in Pittsburgh. Another back-to-back down weeks for Frymouth and back-to-back decent weeks for Darnell
42:06Washington. Darnell Washington touchdown catches in back-to-back weeks. Frithouth we know is dealing with a calf injury. I wonder if it's going to slow him down in
42:15hobbleum. You'd have to be kind of down bad to use Darnell Washington. He's literally touchdown or bust, but he had six targets in week six and a touchdown
42:24and one target this week, but he gets another touchdown. So, guy has three touchdowns in four games played. So, maybe he's this year's version of Kobby
42:32Parkinson. Probably not, but worth noting. Now, a player to add though that has juice and upside is Eli Raridan. Eli Rarin is very good. The problem is
42:43Hunter Henry is a big role in the offense. Um, and if but if you want a speculative role could grow over the
42:50second half of the year type ad, then Eli Raridan is an interesting one. um highlevel prospect, highlevel athlete
43:00and there's a chance with AJ Brown being sort of slow out the gate and Romeo Dobs being banged up on the IR Deario Douglas
43:08and Eftton Chisum kind of guys that are we saw sort of what the downside looked like for both of those guys this past
43:15week. There's a chance that New England leans more and more into the tight ends.
43:19So, there's a chance that Elijah Raren, um, Eli Raridan, excuse me, his, uh, his role increases. Like, we look at Raran,
43:27athletically gifted, and he had a touchdown catch this past week. He had five catches for 57 yards in week one.
43:35Had a touchdown in week, excuse me, five catches for 57 yards in week five, had the touchdown in week one. Maybe this
43:42role is growing. He goes up against the Miami Dolphins this week. Dolphins just gave up two touchdown grabs to Mason Taylor. So, we'll keep an eye on this
43:51one. Miami also got annihilated by Omar Cooper Jr. So, the secondary we know in Miami is very, very generous. Then you
43:58have week 10 against the Detroit Lions in Detroit. We know that's a game that we think Drake May is going to put up
44:04some numbers. So, I think Eli Raridan is a speculative ad, but one with juice and one just coming off a strong uh game. I
44:12think we covered a lot of names today.
44:14We covered a lot, but if you want even more, go check out my Waverwire column over on RotoWire. Some of the best
44:20highstakes players in the entire world are using this Waverwire article each and every week. Um, I know cuz I talked to a lot of them. There's some guys who
44:28have won overall contests that look at this this Waverwire article because we go deep. We're trying to be a week ahead. We're trying to save you fab so
44:37you don't have to blow it all. We want to get ahead of the market on it, guys.
44:40And I think we've done a good job this year. So, we're going to continue trying to get through it. Again, the time I'm
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