September 15, 2025 • 14 mins
Join Joe Pisapia and Jake Ciely for their top six fantasy football waiver wire pickups ahead of NFL Week 3!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy
Football Podcast as me Joey P Joe Pisapia, and it's
time to look ahead to the waiver wire for Week
three in the NFL. There were, oh, I don't know,
one or two major injuries potentially in Week two. Certainly
a lot to digest, but luckily we've got the athletics
Jake Sealy here to help us real quick. Get the
(00:21):
names you need on your waiver wire onto your team. Jake.
Always good to see you, my friend. And of course
I guess we've got to start here with the Green
Bay Packers because Jaden Reid is going to be out
for a few weeks with the collarbone issue. Matthew Golden
still a rookie working his way. It looks like it
might be time to once again take a look at
Romeo Dobbs, who was rostered in twenty three percent of leagues.
(00:43):
Let's start there, and also give me your expectations for
Matthew Golden's potential upside, because I feel like he's an
interesting by low. I know it's the waiver wire video,
don't tell anybody we might talk a little trade two.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I think that's a really good point as well.
So we'll talk Golden in a second. But Romeo dobbson
actually surprise they still under thirty percent because it was
on a lot of waiver columns, including my own last week,
because the first week he was running as the one
or the one and the two with Red and then
the fact with Matthew Golden was like, okay, well, no
matter what happens, whatever shakes out, Dobbs is still going
to be the two read. It's still going to be
(01:16):
the eleven slot wide receiver. He's going to be out
there for three wide and he's not going to be
the main one too. It's still very productive on a
per touch basis. But the one and two one answer
was clear Dobbs, and now we have the elimination of
read on top of it, so I think it just
makes it even clear, like Dobbs is still going to
be frustrating. He wasn't even out there for eighty percent
of the routes. There's still going to be games where
(01:37):
he leaves you alone. But it's a wide receiver four
and it's somebody that you can go pick up for
free and possibly put in your line up. I had
him in one of my lineups last week for those
ten points and wasn't amazing, but it was valuable. And
I'm really glad you brought up Matthew Golden because I
know a lot of people might have not watched the
entire game or watching only parts of it or whatever
it might be. But I know you saw the same thing.
Matthew Golden was this far one way and this far
(02:00):
the other way from having over one hundred yards and
a touchdown from being overthrown and underthrown. So I think
the chances that Golden sees it uptick is interesting because
he did rotate with Wis, but he's still on the
field a lot more than Wis.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, to me, Golden also a rookies, so he gotta
be more patient with those guys. But look, right now,
the supply is there of target volume, so look to
buy low because the first two week performances haven't been great,
so people might lose patience early on. All right, let's
talk about another receiver here. Let's talk about Troy Franklin
of the Denver Broncos. Franklin so far this year has
seen fifteen targets and he's caught twelve of them already.
(02:36):
He had a touchdown on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
He is Rosster percentage again very low, under ten percent
over on Sleeper eight percent, so he's widely available, basically
a free square. How aggressive should people be on Troy
Franklin in week three?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm going as aggressives if I am for Dobbs, honestly,
and it comes down to the fact that, oh, by
the way, who is the leading route runner and they
can target getter. In week two it wasn't Cortland s
And no, I don't think he's coming for Courtland Sutton's job.
But I don't know if you heard that these guys were,
you know, teammates in college, the Troy Franklin boy Nick Bonicks.
I think they roomed together and bunk together, and get
lunched together and breakfast together, and took their dogs on
(03:12):
walks and.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Long walks on the beach together. It's it's beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But like the connections really there, the hard boys solving
the crypt seats their cript sheets or seat sheets or
seats whatever. I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The interesting thing here is that we were trying to
figure out who the two was and now Mims is
completely droppable. I know he caught the touchdown, but that
was two targets, two receptions, a touchdown. He was only
out there for fifty percent. Like week one came out
and Franklin is barely ahead of Mims. It's like, all right,
let's give it another week. He is clearly, by far
way ahead of Mims. He is the one and the
two with Sutton. I think Sutton's a good byelog because
(03:50):
I know people are probably panicking. But Troy Franklin, that
connections there with the one year of being a rookie
like baitically took a back seat to everybody, and deservedly so.
Some time to develop, and it's hitting, and it's hitting
probably quicker than I expected, but I would be as
aggressive if Dobbs is already rostered. Franklin's gonna get probably
mid teens to close to twenty percent of my budget.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
All right, let's switch gears from wide receivers to a
running back here, Blake Koram and discuss him of the
Los Angeles rams. He saw five carries for forty four yards,
had a touchdown. Let's talk about his value potentially going
forward to what this Rams backfield is going to look.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like yeah, and this isn't like somebody that I necessarily
think will fall into the Benson time share where you
might get RB three value in the right week. I'm
not going that far just yet. But running backs thin,
we haven't had very many injuries. It just won so far.
Really that hurt us and it wasn't even the lead
running back. And as just the fact that if something
happens to Karen Williams, it is one hundred percent clear
(04:45):
that Korum's the backup plan, not Darko's hunter. And that's why,
because we know how valuable the running back for the
Rams will be. If anything were to happen, it might
be a Tyler Algier situation like this we just saw yesterday.
Maybe he gets a few touches some weeks and he's like, hey,
you got the touchdown or got you five Fantasy points
and non you know, six or seven and a half
point PPR. And there'll be weeks like that if if
(05:06):
Kiren stays healthy. But the upside is there, and you know,
I know he got the touchdown when they already had
a big lead, but a lot of the starters were
still in the field too. It wasn't like it was
complete mop up duty, like Kyroen actually came back in
the game after that. So, like I said, I'm not
worried about Kien Williams. I actually think this would be
a bi low situation if people are panicking of this usage.
But the usage is why I'm going after Korum and
(05:27):
the fact that we now know this is one of
the if we did a ranking show, you and I
have like top five handcuffs, Blake Korm would probably be
top five and possibly pushing top three.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And look at thirteen percent roster too, especially in those
fourteen team leagues or anything deeper, like he should be
rostered by now. If he's not, so go get him
in the fact that it's only fourteen percent tells you
like he's still floating out there even in some deeper leagues.
And to Jake's point, you know, not every situation where
a running back goes down does it turn over to
somebody capable. Sometimes it goes to the committee. Quorum would
clearly be the guy quote unquote. Sure he would split
(05:58):
some carries here and there, but he would be the guy.
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the action today with Chalkboard. All right, Celi, let's get
into the action with some more of these guys we've
got on our list. Let's talk about quarterback zero percent
roster zero. You don't see that very often, Jake Browning.
He's going to be playing for months now. Unless the
Bengals go out there and make a trade. I don't
know where they would make a trade for a quarterback
or who that would be. You want to bring back
Andy Dalton for good old time's sake. I don't think so, right,
(07:02):
So it's gonna be Jake Browning, who Look, they won
the game, right, He had some moments in that game,
but he's a backup for a reason. So let's talk
about this in these super flex contexts that it's based in, right,
because that's what we're talking about. So if you're the
Joe Burrow manager, what do you do here? Like, do
you have to empty the tank here for Jake Browning
to stay afloat? Use for a friend named Joe Pizapia.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I will say, you said super flex and he is
now retired. But I will say not so fast, my friend,
because I actually think there's one quarterback viability with him.
I went back and looked because I'm like, I remember
he was pretty damn good, and I check this out.
You wanted this game log, by the way, when he
took over as a starter for two years ago. And
it's not like this is a different Bengals team. I
know some of it, but I mean I'm talking about
(07:45):
the offensive weapons in coast. Yeah. Yeah, So first start
he ever had to face was Pittsburgh. He was QB
eighteen with fifteen points after that against Jacksonville thirty for
QB four, Indy twenty nine for QB four, Minnesota twenty
five for QB eight, Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, by the way,
twenty for a rebound kind of performance only QB twenty one.
(08:07):
The full slate of teams were out there at Kansas
City twenty four for QB eight and at or No
home to Cleveland twenty four for QB nine. The only
two games where he wasn't the top ten quarterback was
Pittsburgh and in Pittsburgh. And I'm not saying go crazy
for Joe Burrow in one quarterback league, but if I
lost Joe Burrow, Jake Jake brown Sorry, if I lost
Joe Burrow in a one quarterback league, let alone with
(08:29):
super flex and the waiver wires are like these cam
Wards and C. J. Strouds and those are the worlds. Well,
I'm just gonna shoot for Jake Browning because I'm trying
to replicate what I lost in Joe Burrow and you're
just not going to do that with what most is
out there right now. I'm expecting on most waiver wires,
like Matthew Stafford, he's not going to do it for you.
So I'm going to go aggressive in one quarterback. You know,
(08:49):
I'm not going to blow my entire budget, but i'd
probably go like twenty twenty five percent super flex dropping
the bag. Like if you have zero dollar bids, I'm
probably going one hundred percent Joe because you cannot risk
I'm not getting Jake Browning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm sorry, I understand. I wish I had more free
agent budget left. I took a took a heavy fly
earlier year and running back that I thought might work
out and it did not. But you know what, like
if you look at it too, it's not like the
Bengals don't have the weapons around him, you know, Jamar
chast Higgins, Chase Brown. I wish I had a better
offensive line. So does Joe Burrow right about now. But
(09:22):
it's just sad. Like the Joe Burrow injury just makes
me sad. So I don't want to talk about it anymore.
Let's talk about like aomanor one of our favorite things.
We've been talking about this guy forever. I talked about
him in draft season, I talked about him in Dynasty
draft season. I talked about him even in Week one
with you before things kicked off here on the waiver wire,
we said, stash this guy and aomanor at twenty eight
(09:44):
percent rostered. Clearly, people really still are not paying attention.
So what do we have to do to get him
on people's rosters? How do we sell people at this point?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So when I have my waiverclumn over the athletic that
I started using emojis a few years ago because at
some point, like there's nothing left to say, so I
just made the like the little huffy face emoji because
it's like I told you so, I don't know what
else to say to convince you to pick this person up.
We're not quite there yet. I understand why the hesitancy
has been there on au Manor. But let's loop in
one more and you included his roster. Perciage to Cedric
(10:14):
Tillman is still available in forty six percent of leagues.
Like Cedric Tillman's getting the full blow huffy emoji, Like,
I don't know what else to tell you, And no,
I don't expect a rebound touchdown to happen every single week. No,
but he's running as the one and the week one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Usage was very good too.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, he got a little lucky in Week two. Okay, cool,
but ao man Or. We all knew Week one was
gonna be a disaster against the Denver secondary exactly against
the Rams, a still pretty good defense for us. I
will say this targets in a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I was gonna go one step further Joe to say, like, okay,
I will pick up both. If you haven't yet, please
pick up both. I like Tilman more than au Manor
for the long term. However, not so fast, my friend.
For the second time in the show.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Week three, Cleveland gets Green Bay, Tennessee gets Indianapolis. I
think I'm gonna be ranking au Manor ahead of Tilman
at least for one week, just based on those matchups.
That's how much I think of Ilu Maner's potential. Is
that I don't think their gap is much bigger. I
would take Tuman for the year, but there's close enough
that in this week, with those two matchups, I'm rather
(11:11):
taking au Manor. I guess Indianapolis all right.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
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or drop to your rosters. And of course we usually
talk about five guys. We kind of just lamented about
a six, but you know, hey, we're the gift that
(11:36):
keeps on giving here on the show. So let's talk
about Chris Rodriguez too, a guy who's rostered in about, oh,
I don't know, nine percent of leagues as well. Right now.
Chris Rodriguez obviously was in active the last two games
because there were too many cooks in the kitchen with
that commander's backfield. So with Austin Eckler now done for
the year, Chris Rodriguez gets an opportunity again. What does
that role look like and what does the fab big
(11:57):
look like? For Rodriguez?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The fab BID's probably like two or three bucks, like
nine percentage. Like, I'm just gonna take a chance because
we've already seen two weeks. And yes, we all expect
krossky Merritt to start to get more of the workload,
but what if it's only ten or twenty percent. Well,
if this is a full blown committee and all that
talk about the goal line opportunities and the short yardage
actually goes to Chris Rodriguez now that he's active, I'll
bring in the Jacksonville Jaguars because once you cleared out
(12:21):
one option, that being Tank Bigsby. Look at Tuton's usage yesterday,
like his Tuton's juicers in week one, it was very low.
They get one of the equations out of there and
it bumps up, and I know that this is somebody
who's been inactive. But the point being is like Tuton
was barely used in week one, So I just say
take the chance because if Chris Ryder late, Let's put
it this way, we'll kind of play forecasting in two
(12:43):
week four. If Chris Rodriguez first game active, gets ten carries,
McNichol stays in his little I get a couple passing
downs and pass catching opportunities, and Krossky Merritt stays the same,
and those ten opportunities tune into fifty yards. But the
touchdown and it's not Krosskey Merritt at the goal line.
Chris Rodriguez is going to go for twenty thirty percent
on week five. So that's why I say our week
(13:04):
four yeah, heading into week four, So that's why I say,
go take a flyer on him now while he's super cheap,
just in case.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Or you could be a dope like me who dropped
him Thursday night because I wanted some extra tight end
insurance because I had Rock Valley. Yeah, but Jay, I know, Jake,
but I'm still mad about it. I feel like everything
that I touched on the waiver wire is how.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Dare you not see Austin Eckler blowing his achilles?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I can't. But at the same time, it's frustrating because
you're like, hey, this was a smart late round draft
pick or stash or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Hey, do you want to I'll give you one and
make you feel better. I stashed Troy Franklin in a
ton of leagues, and this past week in one of
the leagues that I had zero running backs left on
my bench because I just lost Austin Eckler. I dropped
Troy Franklin for Roshawn Johnson because Manangai got zero use
in week one. I'm like, hey, just a case, you
never know what if Roshaw's I wish I could have
Troy Franklin back right now, because now I'm gonna have
(13:53):
to go spend twenty five to get him back.
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Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy
Football Podcast as me Joey P Joe Pisapia, and it's
time to look ahead to the waiver wire for Week
three in the NFL. There were, oh, I don't know,
one or two major injuries potentially in Week two. Certainly
a lot to digest, but luckily we've got the athletics
Jake Sealy here to help us real quick. Get the
(00:21):
names you need on your waiver wire onto your team. Jake.
Always good to see you, my friend. And of course
I guess we've got to start here with the Green
Bay Packers because Jaden Reid is going to be out
for a few weeks with the collarbone issue. Matthew Golden
still a rookie working his way. It looks like it
might be time to once again take a look at
Romeo Dobbs, who was rostered in twenty three percent of leagues.
(00:43):
Let's start there, and also give me your expectations for
Matthew Golden's potential upside, because I feel like he's an
interesting by low. I know it's the waiver wire video,
don't tell anybody we might talk a little trade two.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I think that's a really good point as well.
So we'll talk Golden in a second. But Romeo dobbson
actually surprise they still under thirty percent because it was
on a lot of waiver columns, including my own last week,
because the first week he was running as the one
or the one and the two with Red and then
the fact with Matthew Golden was like, okay, well, no
matter what happens, whatever shakes out, Dobbs is still going
to be the two read. It's still going to be
(01:16):
the eleven slot wide receiver. He's going to be out
there for three wide and he's not going to be
the main one too. It's still very productive on a
per touch basis. But the one and two one answer
was clear Dobbs, and now we have the elimination of
read on top of it, so I think it just
makes it even clear, like Dobbs is still going to
be frustrating. He wasn't even out there for eighty percent
of the routes. There's still going to be games where
(01:37):
he leaves you alone. But it's a wide receiver four
and it's somebody that you can go pick up for
free and possibly put in your line up. I had
him in one of my lineups last week for those
ten points and wasn't amazing, but it was valuable. And
I'm really glad you brought up Matthew Golden because I
know a lot of people might have not watched the
entire game or watching only parts of it or whatever
it might be. But I know you saw the same thing.
Matthew Golden was this far one way and this far
(02:00):
the other way from having over one hundred yards and
a touchdown from being overthrown and underthrown. So I think
the chances that Golden sees it uptick is interesting because
he did rotate with Wis, but he's still on the
field a lot more than Wis.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, to me, Golden also a rookies, so he gotta
be more patient with those guys. But look, right now,
the supply is there of target volume, so look to
buy low because the first two week performances haven't been great,
so people might lose patience early on. All right, let's
talk about another receiver here. Let's talk about Troy Franklin
of the Denver Broncos. Franklin so far this year has
seen fifteen targets and he's caught twelve of them already.
(02:36):
He had a touchdown on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
He is Rosster percentage again very low, under ten percent
over on Sleeper eight percent, so he's widely available, basically
a free square. How aggressive should people be on Troy
Franklin in week three?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm going as aggressives if I am for Dobbs, honestly,
and it comes down to the fact that, oh, by
the way, who is the leading route runner and they
can target getter. In week two it wasn't Cortland s
And no, I don't think he's coming for Courtland Sutton's job.
But I don't know if you heard that these guys were,
you know, teammates in college, the Troy Franklin boy Nick Bonicks.
I think they roomed together and bunk together, and get
lunched together and breakfast together, and took their dogs on
(03:12):
walks and.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Long walks on the beach together. It's it's beautiful things.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But like the connections really there, the hard boys solving
the crypt seats their cript sheets or seat sheets or
seats whatever. I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I know.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The interesting thing here is that we were trying to
figure out who the two was and now Mims is
completely droppable. I know he caught the touchdown, but that
was two targets, two receptions, a touchdown. He was only
out there for fifty percent. Like week one came out
and Franklin is barely ahead of Mims. It's like, all right,
let's give it another week. He is clearly, by far
way ahead of Mims. He is the one and the
two with Sutton. I think Sutton's a good byelog because
(03:50):
I know people are probably panicking. But Troy Franklin, that
connections there with the one year of being a rookie
like baitically took a back seat to everybody, and deservedly so.
Some time to develop, and it's hitting, and it's hitting
probably quicker than I expected, but I would be as
aggressive if Dobbs is already rostered. Franklin's gonna get probably
mid teens to close to twenty percent of my budget.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
All right, let's switch gears from wide receivers to a
running back here, Blake Koram and discuss him of the
Los Angeles rams. He saw five carries for forty four yards,
had a touchdown. Let's talk about his value potentially going
forward to what this Rams backfield is going to look.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like yeah, and this isn't like somebody that I necessarily
think will fall into the Benson time share where you
might get RB three value in the right week. I'm
not going that far just yet. But running backs thin,
we haven't had very many injuries. It just won so far.
Really that hurt us and it wasn't even the lead
running back. And as just the fact that if something
happens to Karen Williams, it is one hundred percent clear
(04:45):
that Korum's the backup plan, not Darko's hunter. And that's why,
because we know how valuable the running back for the
Rams will be. If anything were to happen, it might
be a Tyler Algier situation like this we just saw yesterday.
Maybe he gets a few touches some weeks and he's like, hey,
you got the touchdown or got you five Fantasy points
and non you know, six or seven and a half
point PPR. And there'll be weeks like that if if
(05:06):
Kiren stays healthy. But the upside is there, and you know,
I know he got the touchdown when they already had
a big lead, but a lot of the starters were
still in the field too. It wasn't like it was
complete mop up duty, like Kyroen actually came back in
the game after that. So, like I said, I'm not
worried about Kien Williams. I actually think this would be
a bi low situation if people are panicking of this usage.
But the usage is why I'm going after Korum and
(05:27):
the fact that we now know this is one of
the if we did a ranking show, you and I
have like top five handcuffs, Blake Korm would probably be
top five and possibly pushing top three.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And look at thirteen percent roster too, especially in those
fourteen team leagues or anything deeper, like he should be
rostered by now. If he's not, so go get him
in the fact that it's only fourteen percent tells you
like he's still floating out there even in some deeper leagues.
And to Jake's point, you know, not every situation where
a running back goes down does it turn over to
somebody capable. Sometimes it goes to the committee. Quorum would
clearly be the guy quote unquote. Sure he would split
(05:58):
some carries here and there, but he would be the guy.
And he looked very capable on Sunday, So that is
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the action today with Chalkboard. All right, Celi, let's get
into the action with some more of these guys we've
got on our list. Let's talk about quarterback zero percent
roster zero. You don't see that very often, Jake Browning.
He's going to be playing for months now. Unless the
Bengals go out there and make a trade. I don't
know where they would make a trade for a quarterback
or who that would be. You want to bring back
Andy Dalton for good old time's sake. I don't think so, right,
(07:02):
So it's gonna be Jake Browning, who Look, they won
the game, right, He had some moments in that game,
but he's a backup for a reason. So let's talk
about this in these super flex contexts that it's based in, right,
because that's what we're talking about. So if you're the
Joe Burrow manager, what do you do here? Like, do
you have to empty the tank here for Jake Browning
to stay afloat? Use for a friend named Joe Pizapia.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I will say, you said super flex and he is
now retired. But I will say not so fast, my friend,
because I actually think there's one quarterback viability with him.
I went back and looked because I'm like, I remember
he was pretty damn good, and I check this out.
You wanted this game log, by the way, when he
took over as a starter for two years ago. And
it's not like this is a different Bengals team. I
know some of it, but I mean I'm talking about
(07:45):
the offensive weapons in coast. Yeah. Yeah, So first start
he ever had to face was Pittsburgh. He was QB
eighteen with fifteen points after that against Jacksonville thirty for
QB four, Indy twenty nine for QB four, Minnesota twenty
five for QB eight, Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, by the way,
twenty for a rebound kind of performance only QB twenty one.
(08:07):
The full slate of teams were out there at Kansas
City twenty four for QB eight and at or No
home to Cleveland twenty four for QB nine. The only
two games where he wasn't the top ten quarterback was
Pittsburgh and in Pittsburgh. And I'm not saying go crazy
for Joe Burrow in one quarterback league, but if I
lost Joe Burrow, Jake Jake brown Sorry, if I lost
Joe Burrow in a one quarterback league, let alone with
(08:29):
super flex and the waiver wires are like these cam
Wards and C. J. Strouds and those are the worlds. Well,
I'm just gonna shoot for Jake Browning because I'm trying
to replicate what I lost in Joe Burrow and you're
just not going to do that with what most is
out there right now. I'm expecting on most waiver wires,
like Matthew Stafford, he's not going to do it for you.
So I'm going to go aggressive in one quarterback. You know,
(08:49):
I'm not going to blow my entire budget, but i'd
probably go like twenty twenty five percent super flex dropping
the bag. Like if you have zero dollar bids, I'm
probably going one hundred percent Joe because you cannot risk
I'm not getting Jake Browning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm sorry, I understand. I wish I had more free
agent budget left. I took a took a heavy fly
earlier year and running back that I thought might work
out and it did not. But you know what, like
if you look at it too, it's not like the
Bengals don't have the weapons around him, you know, Jamar
chast Higgins, Chase Brown. I wish I had a better
offensive line. So does Joe Burrow right about now. But
(09:22):
it's just sad. Like the Joe Burrow injury just makes
me sad. So I don't want to talk about it anymore.
Let's talk about like aomanor one of our favorite things.
We've been talking about this guy forever. I talked about
him in draft season, I talked about him in Dynasty
draft season. I talked about him even in Week one
with you before things kicked off here on the waiver wire,
we said, stash this guy and aomanor at twenty eight
(09:44):
percent rostered. Clearly, people really still are not paying attention.
So what do we have to do to get him
on people's rosters? How do we sell people at this point?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So when I have my waiverclumn over the athletic that
I started using emojis a few years ago because at
some point, like there's nothing left to say, so I
just made the like the little huffy face emoji because
it's like I told you so, I don't know what
else to say to convince you to pick this person up.
We're not quite there yet. I understand why the hesitancy
has been there on au Manor. But let's loop in
one more and you included his roster. Perciage to Cedric
(10:14):
Tillman is still available in forty six percent of leagues.
Like Cedric Tillman's getting the full blow huffy emoji, Like,
I don't know what else to tell you, And no,
I don't expect a rebound touchdown to happen every single week. No,
but he's running as the one and the week one.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Usage was very good too.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, he got a little lucky in Week two. Okay, cool,
but ao man Or. We all knew Week one was
gonna be a disaster against the Denver secondary exactly against
the Rams, a still pretty good defense for us. I
will say this targets in a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I was gonna go one step further Joe to say, like, okay,
I will pick up both. If you haven't yet, please
pick up both. I like Tilman more than au Manor
for the long term. However, not so fast, my friend.
For the second time in the show.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Week three, Cleveland gets Green Bay, Tennessee gets Indianapolis. I
think I'm gonna be ranking au Manor ahead of Tilman
at least for one week, just based on those matchups.
That's how much I think of Ilu Maner's potential. Is
that I don't think their gap is much bigger. I
would take Tuman for the year, but there's close enough
that in this week, with those two matchups, I'm rather
(11:11):
taking au Manor. I guess Indianapolis all right.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And if you don't think that iom man Or is
a smart ad, well, I got news for you. He is.
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or drop to your rosters. And of course we usually
talk about five guys. We kind of just lamented about
a six, but you know, hey, we're the gift that
(11:36):
keeps on giving here on the show. So let's talk
about Chris Rodriguez too, a guy who's rostered in about, oh,
I don't know, nine percent of leagues as well. Right now.
Chris Rodriguez obviously was in active the last two games
because there were too many cooks in the kitchen with
that commander's backfield. So with Austin Eckler now done for
the year, Chris Rodriguez gets an opportunity again. What does
that role look like and what does the fab big
(11:57):
look like? For Rodriguez?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The fab BID's probably like two or three bucks, like
nine percentage. Like, I'm just gonna take a chance because
we've already seen two weeks. And yes, we all expect
krossky Merritt to start to get more of the workload,
but what if it's only ten or twenty percent. Well,
if this is a full blown committee and all that
talk about the goal line opportunities and the short yardage
actually goes to Chris Rodriguez now that he's active, I'll
bring in the Jacksonville Jaguars because once you cleared out
(12:21):
one option, that being Tank Bigsby. Look at Tuton's usage yesterday,
like his Tuton's juicers in week one, it was very low.
They get one of the equations out of there and
it bumps up, and I know that this is somebody
who's been inactive. But the point being is like Tuton
was barely used in week one, So I just say
take the chance because if Chris Ryder late, Let's put
it this way, we'll kind of play forecasting in two
(12:43):
week four. If Chris Rodriguez first game active, gets ten carries,
McNichol stays in his little I get a couple passing
downs and pass catching opportunities, and Krossky Merritt stays the same,
and those ten opportunities tune into fifty yards. But the
touchdown and it's not Krosskey Merritt at the goal line.
Chris Rodriguez is going to go for twenty thirty percent
on week five. So that's why I say our week
(13:04):
four yeah, heading into week four, So that's why I say,
go take a flyer on him now while he's super cheap,
just in case.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Or you could be a dope like me who dropped
him Thursday night because I wanted some extra tight end
insurance because I had Rock Valley. Yeah, but Jay, I know, Jake,
but I'm still mad about it. I feel like everything
that I touched on the waiver wire is how.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Dare you not see Austin Eckler blowing his achilles?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I can't. But at the same time, it's frustrating because
you're like, hey, this was a smart late round draft
pick or stash or whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Hey, do you want to I'll give you one and
make you feel better. I stashed Troy Franklin in a
ton of leagues, and this past week in one of
the leagues that I had zero running backs left on
my bench because I just lost Austin Eckler. I dropped
Troy Franklin for Roshawn Johnson because Manangai got zero use
in week one. I'm like, hey, just a case, you
never know what if Roshaw's I wish I could have
Troy Franklin back right now, because now I'm gonna have
(13:53):
to go spend twenty five to get him back.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
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