5 Players To Stash Ahead of Week 11 (Ep. 1845)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we inch closer to the fantasy football playoffs, you're
going to need to find more and more competitive edges
over your league mates. One of those edges that you
can be taking advantage of is making sure you're staying
sharp on the waiver wire, rostering players before they break
out or before they provide someone else's fantasy football roster
some value. So today we're gonna help you accomplish exactly that.
I'm Lucas Wentzel here with Fantasy Pros, bringing you my

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top five waiver wire stashes ahead of Week eleven and
next week's waiver run as well. Before we dive on
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Kicking off our list this week is Los Angeles Rams
running back Blake Korum, who is rostered in twenty one
percent of leagues. Krum was on my list last week,
and I'm still surprised that even after a third consecutive

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game of twelve plus carries, his roster percentage has only
increased by four percent. He now has nine more carries
in his last three games than he did through the
first six weeks of the season. Kyen Williams rush attempt
share is also down to fifty percent in the rams
last three contests, compared to sixty five percent during the
first six games this year. I mentioned last week that

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a big part of this might be game script, that
the Rams have been playing with sizable enough leads you
don't need to feed Kyron Williams as much. But the
other thing I mentioned is that Sean mcvain might finally
be embracing a philosophy change to his running back room.
The Rams last week started rotating Kyron Williams and Blake
Korum by drive, and that trend continued against San Francisco

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in Week ten. Kyen Williams finished the game with fourteen carries.
Blake Korum had thirteen himself. I will note amidst that,
though that we have yet to see Korum score a touchdown.
Kyrien's drives they've been being sustained longer. Thus he has
seventy one some of the team's carries inside of the
five yard line in their last three games. But if
Kyrin Williams misses any time with an injury, we have

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the answer right in front of us as to who
the next man up is going to be. This Rams
offense is blazing, blazing hot right now, and there is
zero reason whatsoever that Blake Korum should be rostered in
less than fifty percent of leaks, let alone thirty percent
of leagues, given the volume he's currently getting in the
contingent upside he possesses rest of season. The second player

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on our list is Washington Commander's running back Chris Rodriguez,
who is rostered in twenty percent of leagues. Reports were
leaking all of last week that Chris Rodriguez was going
to get a bump in usage after being named a
team captain for last week's game against the Lions. We
didn't get to see the full fruit of those reports.
Rodriguez had left early with a shoulder injury. Yet, as

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Adam aser Over at CBS pointed out, Chris Rodriguez played
seventeen first half snaps, and no other Commander's running back
played more than six. Now, that didn't turn into much,
only six carry for sixteen yards. He did score on
the ground, but it's also probably worth noting that Chris
Rodriguez has now scored in three of his last four games.

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Cameron wolf Over at NFL dot Com has been tracking
the Commanders over in Madrid for their game coming up
against the Dolphins. He reported that Chris Rodriguez opened with
a full practice this week and he'll be good to
go and quote unquote have a key role. What that
key role means is unclear, but this is where I'll
also looping coach speak index and the remarks he noted
from Cliff Kingsbury last week. Cliff Kingsbury quote said we

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have to take what's blocked. I thought that was one
thing that Chris Rodriguez did a really nice job of
when he came in. We have to take what's blocked
and then the big plays will come. Every time we
have asked him to step up, he's played at a
high level. Now, I'm not in the business of making
empty promises to you all, but reading all the tea
leaves here se rod should be rostered in much more

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than twenty percent of leagues if he's going to function
as Washington's lead back for the foreseeable future, if he
can capitalize against Miami defense this week and maintain lead
back duties after the team's Week twelve by he gets
two juicy matchups in the fantasy playoffs against the Giants
and Cowboys, so in my mind, he's definitely worth stashing.
Next up on our list is Chicago Bears wide receiver
Luther Burden, who is rostered in eighteen percent of leagues.

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Burden is a frequent flyer on this list because we
continue to get glimpses of his potential in Ben Johnson's offense.
Last week, he logged a season high in both snapshare
and routes while catching three passes for fifty one yards. Now,
that increase in snaps likely came at the cost of
Dj Moore exiting against the Giants with a shoulder injury,
and as of this recording, it's unclear whether or not

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he's going to suit up against the Vikings this week.
But the other positive thing to note for Luther Burden
is that allam of days a Kas finally finally saw
a dip in snaps. He logged a season low fifty
seven percent snap share and only finished with one catch
on four targets for a pathetic five yards. It never
made sense to me at all why Ben Johnson wanted

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to keep throwing a lomb As out on the football
field instead of the guy he spent an early second
round pick on in the NFL Draft this year. But
the time might be right now for the Luther Burdon breakout.
Let's say DJ Moore does sit in Week eleven. Luther
Burden is an easy plug and play into the DJ
Moore role for the Bears. He might actually be the
long term DJ Moore solution and replacement for this team.

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But even if DJ Moore does play, I wouldn't be
surprised if Luther Burden and Alamide's a Kay is actually
flip snap shares this week and it's Luther Burden playing
sixty percent of the snaps and then Alamide's a Kay
is only playing fifty. What we know for sure, though,
is that Luther Burden is too talented to keep off
the field much longer. Right, and if we get another
positive outing against Minnesota or Pittsburgh in the next two weeks,

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his roster ship percentage is only going to keep skyrocketing
back half of the season. These are the kind of
guys I want to stash rookie breakout upside and Luther
burn And possesses a ton of it. The fourth player
on our list this week is Las Vegas Raiders wide
receiver Tyler Lockett, who is rostered in eleven percent of leagues.
I know, I know, Devon Vailey got all sorts of

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groans last week, and now you're groaning about the thirty
three year old wide receiver who was already released by
the Tennessee Titans this year. I completely get it. I
don't know what goes on in the mind of Chip
Kelly though, that Michael Mayer and Tyler Lockett need to
be involved instead of Deontay Thornton or Jack Besh, their
young rookies. But this is the first time we've seen
some tom foolery usage from chip Kelly this year, so

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I'm also willing to bet it's not going to be
the last. And when I say questionable tom foolery, right,
I really mean that Tyler Lockett is playing ahead of
young rookies in what looks to be a lost season
now at two and seven. I am not talking about
Tyler Lockett playing in the slot, because that's what happened.
Tyler Lockett took over in the slot for Jacoby Myers,
which makes one hundred percent sense right. That's where he's

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lined up for basically his entire career. His pre existing
connection with Gino Smith earned him five catches on six
targets for forty one yards on Thursday Night Football. Somehow
good for the wide receiver thirty five and PPR four
mats last week? Is their risk that Tyler Lockett could
get phased out for the likes of Jack Besh down
the stretch. Sure, I suppose that could be true, but

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I'm not even sure if the Raiders know entirely what
they want to do with Jack Besh, considering they had
him playing the X receiver in this offense back in
Week nine, and Besh is much more suitable for a
power slot role and has a lot more experience playing
as such. Here's the thing, though, in deeper fourteen plus
man leagues or twelve man to three wide receiver leagues,
the wide receiver thirty five is likely worthy of hitting

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your lineup in some capacity. There may not be colossal
upside here, But if the Raiders are going to remain
top seven and pass right over expectation like they have
over the last month, Tyler Lockett is a rosterble piece
at the end of your bench. The last player on
our list this week is Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Brenton Strange,
who was rostered in twenty percent of leagues. Strange has

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been on IR since Week six, but as of this recording,
he's logged a limited practice Ahead of Week eleven. He
still needs to be activated from IR in order to play,
but clearly we're nearing his return to action. Strange wasn't
posting these min melting numbers to start the year, but
he was getting good volume, which sometimes is all you
can ask for at the tight end position in fantasy football.
In his last two games in weeks three and four,

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Strange drew seven targets in both games and averaged just
shy of eleven fantasy points per game in those contests.
To start the year, Strange was honestly really the only
pass catcher in this Jaguars offense that seemed to have
reliable hands. He got twenty one of twenty four passes
to start the year. So you're getting a really nice
boost in PPR formats as well. If Strange is going
to catch almost anything that's thrown his way. I don't

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want to promise you the world with Breton Strange, but
he does get the Jets in Indianapolis twice in weeks
fourteenth through seventeen, who are both top twelve in schedule
adjusted Fantasy points allowed to the position this year. Sometimes
it's just enough to have Steady Eddie at tight end,
and with all the injuries to the Jaguars receivers and
who knows if those will keep piling up, Strange could
be a perfectly fine option week in and week out

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to close out the season. Alrighty, all that is it.
That is all I've got for you today. My top
five waiver wire stash is ahead of week eleven. Go
sprint your waiver wire right now, just to make sure
none of these guys are out there floating in your lead.
They could provide you a nice boost at the end
of the season here as we near the Fantasy playoffs.
But before we finally sign off, remember we've got a

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