5 Players To Stash Ahead of Week 12 (Ep. 1861)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fantasy football playoffs are inching closer and closer, and
holding onto every single edge matters now more than ever.
So today we are going to help you hold onto
the edge of beating your league mates to the waiver wire,
beating them to players who can add value to your
roster before they actually become valuable. I'm Lucas Swinzel here
with Fantasy Pros, bringing you my top five waiver wire

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stashes ahead of Week twelve and next week's waiver run
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on iOS and Android. Starting off our list this week
is Washington Commander's running back Chris Rodriguez Junior, who is
rostered in thirty one percent of leagues. Outside of being
our highest roster player of the week and going just
slightly above my thirty percent threshold. There are two big

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reasons why I want to start with Chris Rodriguez. First
and foremost, he's on by so it's definitely worth checking.
If someone in your league dropped him because of that,
their loss is going to end up being your game. Secondly,
Chris Rodriguez should be rostered in way more than thirty
one percent of leagues flat out. Last week, when I
brought up Chris Rodriguez, I had mentioned the remarks coach
speak Index had noted from Cliff Kingsbury. Excuse me, just

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a few weeks back. He had quoted, we 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. But when we have to take what's blocked
and then the big plays will come. Every time we
have asked him to step up, he has played at
a high level. Chris Rodriguez did exactly that against the
Miami Dolphins. He took fifteen carries for seventy nine yards,

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averaging five point two seven yards per carry in that outing.
Icing on the cake would have been if he had
scored a touchdown. Since he had scored in three of
his four previous matchups. But what we now know for
sure is that Chris Rodriguez is becoming the top option
in the Washington Commander's run game. Now, I am not
promising you bell cow Chris Rodriguez here right. He's getting

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essentially zero opportunity in the passing game. His loan reception
against Miami was his first reception of the season. But
looking at these other Washington Commanders running backs as well,
it's not exactly inspiring. Jacorey Krosky merrit. He did get
ten touches against Miami in Madrid, but that accumulated for
only thirty three total yards while averaging only two point

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eight yards per carry. Jermay mcnichol's got six touches. He
put together twenty nine yards, but again nothing all that inspiring.
That's going to take away from Chris Rodriguez. If we
are all reading the numbers correctly here and Washington continues
deploying their backfield in a similar fashion out of the
bye week, Sea rod should be rostered in again well
above thirty one percent of leagues, especially while giving you

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four finishes inside of the top thirty six running backs
in the last five weeks. If he maintains lead back
duties after the bye week here, he gets two juicy
matchups in the Fantasy playoffs as well, against the Giants
and Cowboys. The second player on our list this week
is Chicago Bears wide receiver Luther Burden, who is rostered
in only twenty percent of leagues. Look, y'all, we don't

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have that much longer until the Luther Burden breakout is here,
because there were a few big things that happen against
the Minnesota Vikings in Week eleven. Big thing number one
is that Luther Burden has now played at least forty
four percent of the snaps in back to back games. Now,
I understand that doesn't seem like a very high percentage,
but the bigger thing to note is that Alamide's a

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Chaias saw his snapshare dipped all the way down to
thirteen percent this last week. For context, he had logged
a single game lower than forty four percent of the
snaps this year. Burden has now won the slot job
over a Lambide's a Chaos, and as Nathan Yankee points
out over at PFF, Luther Burnon played in one hundred
percent of the Bears three wide receiver sets this last week.

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The other thing he notes is that the Bears ran
a season low twenty one plays in three wide receiver
sets against the Vikings, So we could see even more
of Luther Burden in the future weeks as that rate
returns more to normal as it's been on the season.
Big thing Number two is that Luther Burdon actually outproduced
DJ Moore in this game. Now, I don't want to
put a colossal amount of weight into it, but it

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should mean something that Burden drew five targets to DJ
Moore's three, and or to target on thirteen percent more
of his routes despite only playing eight less snaps than
DJ Moore in this game. I mentioned last week that
actually the long term vision here for the Chicago Bears
might be that Luther Burden takes over the d DJ
Moore role in this offense. And I'm not promising that

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to you rest of season, but Ben Johnson clearly realizes
Luther Burden is too talented to keep off the football
field at this point. So this is an opportunity you're
not going to be able to take advantage on much longer.
And do not wait until the next big game happens
for Luther Burden to add him because you need to
beat your league mates to the punch rest of season.
You already know Luther Burden has a ton of upside,

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so go get him added right now. Next up on
our list is Philadelphia Eagles running back Tank Bigsby, who
is rostered in fifteen percent of leagues. 'tis the season
of rostering handcuff running backs, because this is the time
of year where the wear and tear of the NFL
season starts to kick in and we see these backup
running backs and good offenses become relevant for stretches at

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a time. As of right now, Sakuon Barkley is in
good health, don't get me wrong, and he trails only
Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor, and James Cook and rush attempts
this year. The Eagles are also bottom five and neutral
pass rate, and are still running the ball at the
second highest rate in the league. I say all that
not to pitch you standalone value for Tank Bigsby, But

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if something weren't happen to Sakuon Barkley, it's going to
be Tank Bigsby taking over a majority of the rushing
attempts in this offense. Don't get me wrong, Will Shipley
would certainly be involved too. I am not saying Tank
Bigsby will get eighteen to twenty rush attempts per game,
but Bigsby has been Philadelphia's man most efficient runner in
their last four contests since he started becoming more involved.
He's averaging nine point one here. It's per carry in

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his last four contests. Again, let me reiterate, I am
not promising you standalone value with Tank Bigsby here, but
because we're talking about players to stash high value handcuff,
players like Brian Robinson, Tyler Algier, now even Emmanuel Wilson
this past week are all rostered in well over thirty
percent of leaks, so it's time to do the same
for Tanks Bigsby as well as the season starts to

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wind down. The fourth player on our list this week
is Miami Dolphins running back Ali Gordon, who is rostered
in fourteen percent of leagues. The Dolphins are also on
buy in Week twelve, but the bye weeks are often
the most lethal times to strike right because your league
mates think they can be sneaky, no one's paying attention
to the players on buy on the waiver wire, but
this is your time to strike on Aldi Gordon. We

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got a slight scare against Washington with two minutes left
right a chance, suffered a back injury, but thankfully he
was able to come back into the game with a
bye to rest, you know, let the bruises heal a bit.
He'll be fine for Week thirteen, obviously, but what if
he wasn't. What if he hadn't been able to return
at the end of the game with that back injury.

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I obviously never want to wish injury upon a player,
but it's not uncommon, unfortunately, to fear that with the
von Acham, which is why Alli Gordon needs to be
rostered as one of these high value handcuffed players. As
I always say, I am not in the business of
making empty promises to you all. But in games where
Alli Gordon has been given nine or more carries this year,
he's finished with at least nine point eight PPR Fantasy

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points and as the running back twenty seven or better
on the week. All three of those games they have
been boosted by touchdown as well. I'm not going to
hide that, obviously, but that's also Alli Gordon's game at
six foot one, two hundred and twenty seven pounds. The
schedule coming up from Miami running backs is relatively soft
as well. They get the Saints and the Jets right
out of the by and then they get the Bengals
and Bucks in week sixteen and seventeen as well. Again,

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I don't want to over promise standalone value here, Ollie
Gordon is one of the better stashes at running back
you can make this week. The last player on our
list this week is New York Jets wide receiver John Metchi,
the third who is rostered in only three percent of leagues.
At this point. I do fear it's becoming a trend
that I provide you all a grown inducing player of

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the week on a disgusting offense in the NFL. This
is really for all of you out there playing in
the deepest of leagues, because I want to make sure
there's at least one player for you all to consider.
As we are all aware the Jets places Garrett Wilson
on IR and I'll say maybe the scary part out
loud for Garrett Wilson managers, I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever
if they just decide to shut him down for the season.

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Not that a wide receiver one for the Jets not
named Garrett Wilson possesses a ton of value here. But
John Metchi logged the most snaps and ran the second
most routes of all Jets wide receivers against the Patriots
last week. He hauled in three of his targets, all
three of his targets for forty five yards. It even
gave you a touchdown on top of it. I wouldn't
be surprised at this week. Maybe we see John Metchi

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get a slight up ticket targets, putting him on the
waiver wire radar next week as like a deep desperation AD. Again,
if you're in a deep, deep league here and you
need a wide receiver AD, I really think you could
do worse than John Metchi as his role potentially increases
in the New York Jets offense. Already. Oh that is it.
That is all I've got for you today, my top

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five waiver wire stashes ahead of Week twelve and next
week's waiver run as well. Go sprint to the waiver
wire right now. Make sure none of these guys are
floating out there in your leagues. They're all rostered except
for Chris Rodriguez in thirty percent or less of leagues.
If you want to include Chris Rodriguez thirty one percent
or less of leagues. Before I sign off here, though,
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