5 Players To Stash Ahead of Week 3 (Ep. 1722)

Join Lucas Wencl as he highlights 5 players you should be picking up and stashing ahead of Week 3 around the NFL!

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Woody Marks - 0:02:10

Kyle Monangi - 0:03:34

Jalen Coker - 0:05:03

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we are going to make you a better fantasy
football manager by keeping you two to three steps ahead
of your league mates on the waiver wire. I'm Lucas
Wentzel here with Fantasy Pros, bringing you my top five
Weaver Wire statches ahead of Week three and ahead of
next week's waiver run as well. Before we dive on
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Starting off our list this week is Los Angeles Rams
running back Blake Koram, who's rostered in twenty two percent
of leagues. It was Blake Cooram who scored on a
one yard rush against the Titans last week, marking the
first touchdown of his young career. Last year, anything inside
of the five yard line exclude lusively went to Kyron Williams,
so it was curious to see Blake Korum earn a

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goal to go opportunity instead of the back. Sean McVay
has fed twenty six rushing touchdowns too over the last
two seasons. Another item worth noting is that Blake Korum
saw his snaps increase from ten to eighteen this week,
and we heard Sean McVay this offseason talk about how
he wants to be more committed to utilizing multiple running backs,
similar to what Liam Cohen did with Tampa Bay last season.

(01:26):
Maybe we're starting to see that come true. With Kyen
starting off the season relatively inefficient, averaging only three point
eight yards per carry on thirty five tots. Korum, on
the other hand, broke off two runs of fifteen yards
against Titans, and now he has the same amount of
ten plus yard runs as Kyen Williams does this year,
despite having twenty nine less rush attempts. I'm not telling

(01:48):
you that Blake Korum is going to steal this backfield
from Kyron Williams, but many this offseason we're worried about
this exact scenario. If Kyen struggles to create explosives for
this offense again, there's a very real chance Sean McVay
starts to look elsewhere. So on the chance that is
starting to come true, let's get Korum stashed on your
bench as the top option behind Kiren Williams. The second

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player on this list is rookie running back Woody Marx
of the Houston Texans, who's rostered in seventeen percent of leagues.
In Week one, it was Daria Goombawalle playing second fiddle
to Nick Chubb, But against the Buccaneers in Week two,
we started to see the rookie out of USC get
more involved. Nick Chubb still dominated the rush attempts, getting
twelve totes to marxist three, but the rookie made sure

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to leave his mark in the receiving game, hauling in
a short pass from CJ. Stroud with the pocket collapsing
and took it for thirty seven yards. That was Woody
Marx's forte in college. Despite coming out of USC, Marx
holds the record for most receptions and receiving yards by
a running back at Mississippi State. During his time there,
he collected one, two d and twenty five receiving yards

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on two hundred and sixteen receptions. So you have to
imagine this Texans team is going to get Woody Marx
more involved as the early season on full. Nick Chubb
has looked fine to start the season, but it seems
highly unlikely that Texans are going to ride a twenty
nine year old running back that's collected two major knee
injuries on the same knee, might I add throughout his career.

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The last thing to consider here is that the Texans
potentially have more invested in Woody Marks. Sure, they only
took him with a fourth round pick in this year's
NFL Draft, but they also traded a twenty twenty six
third round pick to trade up and select him one
hundred and sixteenth. Overall, all that's going to take is
one standout game from Winny Marks before your league mates
realize they need to have him on their roster. So

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let's beat them to the breakout and stash him at
the end of your bench. Now. The third player to
stash this week is another rookie running back, Kyle Manunguy
of the Chicago Bears, who's rostered in thirteen percent of leagues.
In Week one, Ben Johnson deviated from his typical running
back strategy, giving DeAndre Swift all of the running back
rush attempts with Kyle Manungay's only opportunity being an eleven

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yard reception that resulted in only a seventeen point six
percent success rate on running back runs, and Ben Johnson
immediately knew he needed to change things up after the game,
saying quote, I need to call more runs. I need
to call more so we can get him being Kyle
manung Guy in the game a little bit more. Well.
Ben Johnson's usage and workload meter rose on the Coach

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Speak Index after Week two because Kyle Manunguy was indeed
more involved. His splits weren't all that far off from
DeAndre Swift in their blowout loss to the Lions, playing
twenty eight snaps to DeAndre Swift's thirty nine, running only
one less route than Swift and collecting nine opportunities to
Swift fourteen. Now, it was DeAndre Swift who found the
end zone from thirty yards out, but he did have

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a costly fumble laid in the first quarter, which shift
a majority of the momentum to the Lions, who never
looked back. Maybe more importantly, though, for Kyle Manunguy, these
splits are typically what we're used to seeing from a
Ben Johnson offense. If he continues to get eight to
twelve opportunities per game, the touchdowns will come, and once
they do, that's when your league mates will start noticing.
So again, let's read the tea leaves and stay two

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to three steps ahead of your league if you have
an open eyur spot in your league. One of my
favorite stashes right now is wide receiver Jalen Coker of
the Carolina Panthers, who's rostered in only twelve percent of leagues.
This Carolina Panthers passing attack and needs us spark badly
because tenroll McMillan can only do so much. Xavierly Get
really isn't contributing anything. Matter of fact, he became the

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second player in NFL history to finish a game with
less than zero receiving yards on eight plus targets. Sure,
Hunter Renfro did catch seven of nine targets and holding
two scores against the Cardinals, but in my mind, he's
running on borrow time. It was Jalen Coker who was
supposed to be playing from the slot for the Panthers
this year before landing on ir with a quad strain.

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Last season, Coker ran eight crazy impressive two point sixty
five yards per up from the slot on the twenty
targets he earned that was seventh best in the league,
behind a handful of guys like Pokinakua, Brian Thomas Junior,
and Terry McLaurin. For a team contrast, Xavier Leget drew
sixty four tots from the slot last year, but still
managed to collect one hundred and thirty five yards less

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than Coker did. The Panthers know the explosiveness they have
in their twenty three year old undrafted free agent out
to pull the cross as reception Perception charted out. Cooker
had a seventy plus percent success rate against press, man
coverage and zone coverage in his rookie season, while also
running the second most yards per out of the twenty
twenty four draft class against man coverage. Look, if you

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haven't picked up on it by now, I firmly believe
Coker is worth stashing two to three weeks before his return,
because once we're knocking on the door, people will realize
he's a player worth rostering, and it'll be too late
by then. The last player on our list this week
is Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Diamy Brown, who's rostered in
eleven percent of leagues. Look, Diami Brown just needs to

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be rostered in more leagues. Flat out playing and simple.
Brown currently leads all Jaguars in receiving yards, only has
one less perception than Travis Hunter, who leads a team
with nine, and he at least has a touchdown on
his resume. Unlike Brian Thomas Junior, who seems to have
a major case of the yips right now. With the
Jaguars also still figuring out the correct balance in which

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to deploy Travis Hunter, Diami Brown has been the wide receiver,
playing alongside Brian Thomas Junior in two wide receiver sets.
He played fifteen more snaps on offense than Travis Hunter
in Week two, and Brown has run a route on
eighty four point seven percent of Trevor Lawrence's dropbacks this year. Now,
I also completely understand Hunter needed to be utilized on
defense after Jaguars corner Jerry and Jones left in the

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first quarter with an injury, but the formula for Travis
Hunter has been to play him on both sides of
the ball in roles where he doesn't need to be
out on the field for every snap of the game.
That's what's allowing room for Diami Brown to play this
suit a wide receiver two role in the Jaguars passing attack,
even though talent and volume wise it should be Travis Hunter.
You're not going to draw a date with the Cincinnati

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Bengals every week, who are Taylor made to be in shootouts.
But Liam Cohen handpicked Diami Brown in free agency this
offseason to play this perimeter role for the Jaguars passing attack.
Should this oftense start to turn its wheels under Trevor Lawrence,
we could be looking at the Ami Brown as a
flex play more often than we actually realize. And there
you have it, my top five waiver wire stashes ahead

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of Week three. Go sprint to your waiver wire like
right now and make sure these guys are available in
your league and put them at the end of your bench.
They're all rostered in less than thirty percent of league,
so there's a very good chance they're still available in yours.
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