Jake Ciely’s Top Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Targets For Week 11 (Ep. 1831)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. This is the Fantasy
Football Podcast. It is me Joey b Joe Pi's Appea
with me as always every Monday morning, Jake Seeley of
the Athletic taking a look ahead to the guys to stash,
and we're also going to talk about some of the
players who changed their helmets over the last week too.
I want to get Jake's take on a few of
these wide receivers that moved into different spots. So Jake,

(00:21):
real quick, let's hit up from those guys up at
the top, and then we'll talk about some of the
stashes for Week eleven in the NFL, I want to
talk first about Jacoby Myers obviously getting moved to the
Jacksonville Jaguars. Now, at some point we'll get Travis Hunter back.
We'll see at some point we ever get a fully
healthy and integrated BTJ Parker Washington certainly was a busy guy.
So how do you see the fantasy value of Jacoby

(00:43):
Meyers rest of season in the situation he is with
Jacksonville with the potentially crowded wide receiver room down the
stretch of the season.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I actually do. This is a good bi low opportunity,
especially if everybody's going to panic about what just happened
in this first game. It's his first game with the Jaguars,
and this is heading into the home where they said, Lad,
you saw the same thing in there your own vacation.
Is what would they tell him his biggest power was
his superpower was catching the ball. I don't know if
you saw that your on vacation, but that just tells
you that they want them out there.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, you know, honestly, Jake, for a wide receiver, it's
a pretty good superpower. I'm catching the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
The difference between Quentin Johnson before his weakness is kryptonite
was not catching the ball until what he is now.
So there's your perfect testament right there. But yes, Jacoby
Myers should be able to play outside and inside. I
think that Parker Washington, if you grabbed them last week,
is a decent sell high depending on your league. He
only had four targets, but they had the two touchdowns,
one of them being the special teams. Because I think
if everybody's healthy, the pecking order should be Brian Thomas,

(01:39):
Jacoby Myers, then Parker Washington. So I think that Jacoby
Myers is a decent bi Low for the people that
might be like, ooh, he might even been dropped like that,
he wasn't anything in the first game.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Well, I love Parker Washington as a streamer this past week,
and you know, talking about all the TV on Sunday
morning because they said, look, he's the guy that's fully
integrated into the playbook, and he's the guy that clearly
is going to have a lot of opportunities early on.
You have to be haiti with these guys who just
got traded to a team. They don't know the playbook,
they have no timing with the quarterback. And that brings
us to the next guy on the list to talk about,
which is Rashid Shaheed, who is now with the Seattle Seahawks.

(02:09):
So this was a bold move here by the Seahawks.
I like it. Look Seattle clearly is a playoff contender.
We know that. So what's Shaheed's fantasy value moving on
from New Orleans?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I actually love him more as by Low than the
Jacoby Meyer situation, because that is somebody who is familiar
with the playbook but still didn't see a lot a
lot of those Cooper Cup but also the Seahawks jumped
out to a four touchdown lead before you even blinked,
so all of a sudden, they don't even need to
throw the ball that much. I think we were sitting
at Darnold was nine for eleven for most of the
first half, just because they need to throw anymore because

(02:40):
they're already dominating that game. But I actually had Shied
as a wide receiver three going into this because he
knew the playbook and because we didn't have time to
adjust for a four o'clock game. But there was the
uncertain y of whether Cooper Cup was even going to
play because he missed last week and then he was
still not one hundred percent. I still think this now
potentially pushes Cooper Cup to the number three role, which
is what we were thinking that could happen with Tory Horton,
and now you have she he'd come in. I think

(03:01):
he's a wide receiver three, and with the way that
Sam Darnold's playing super efficient, so there's always the downside
that if he isn't completing ninety percent of his passes,
that's potentially a little bit less of a good game.
But I think Shehat is going to be probably as
soon as next week out there as somebody you can
play as a wide receiver three in a lot of leagues.
I think a lot of It wasn't so much so
that it was his first game, as it was just
the Seahawks didn't need to throw the ball.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
No, they certainly did not. They got up early in
that one. Also, just before we get to the guys
who want to add too real quick, we don't want
to chase like the mac hollins performance. I don't think
it'll be warm T shirts. Kyle Williams, my teacher got Hey, look,
I'm very proud of my New England Patriots. It was
a tremendous showing by them on the road. They are
the Road Warriors this year, Jake Sealy. They really are.

(03:43):
But again from a fantasy standpoint, and Okayshaw Boody was
out for that game too. Look, you don't chase these
kind of performances. But I mean to that one point,
because Booty was out, do you think people will end
up throwing fab on these guys and they become irrelevant
and obviously in the week.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, so you did appreciate my wrestling night, I know,
but it was tag teams around that same time. I
was just just the only thing, my bald head, I
think we're you know, then we'll do that at Flex
next year in New York.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I will be drafting remote. Actually, no more reasons even
show up, I think now.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
But take a picture the chase him, right, yeah, so,
and that's the thing is the reason to bring this up.
It's not even so mc collins because people know mac collins,
but the excitement for Kyle Williams as you know as
the rookie at the beginning of the season. Oh, he
might be the number two big play threat, you know,
very tantalizing prospect. And they have the Jets who have
nothing left on defense. So you know, credit to them

(04:41):
for showing up in week ten after everybody left them
for dead. But on Thursday Night football, maybe Kayshawn Booty
has held out one more week just because it's Thursday night,
and they give them that extra time. And then, okay,
if you want to chase Kyle Williams for the big play,
but you just said it too. It's him and maccollins.
They're both the potential wide receiver force for that big
play upside. But if Booty's back, then forget about it
because it's Booty and Stephan Diggs and then a little

(05:03):
bit of Hunter Henry. So I wouldn't chase them. And
like I said, we might not know and you might
have to sprinkle some fab on either one just in
case you need a wide receiver. But I wouldn't expect
anything more than maybe one more game, because Booty should
be back, if not this week, by.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Next All right, let's get to the guys that we
do want to add in. The first one going to talk
about is Tes Johnson. If he's still flowing out there.
I mean he should not be, first of all, no,
but if he is even in a shot, even a
ten team league, you got to have this guy. Two
touchdowns for him, four catches forty two and now I
understand some of the garbage time work here at the end,
but regardless, Tes Johnson has big playability. You know, if
you're going to roster a guy like Jamison Williams on

(05:36):
your roster, Ted Johnson is the same kind of upside
and frankly, I feel like Tes Johnson's been a little
bit more reliable over the last six weeks, necessarily not
that Jamo hasn't had a couple of good games in there.
But look, the scenario that they are in right now
with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is they, you know, are
going to be continuing to push the ball downfield. Bucky
Irving's health still in question. Tes Johnson is a is

(05:56):
a I think an integral piece at this point to
this offense, and I feel like starting to grow a
nice rapport with Baker Mayfield and confidence level two in
big spots and not to me is what sticks out
about him. So this is more like a public service announcement.
Tes Johnson should not still be available on waiver wires.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Correct, No, he was under thirty three percent on Yahoo.
So I checked on Sleeper. He's still barely over fifty
percent on Sleeper, which it just seems like maybe because
of the buye, maybe because people are worried about Chris
Godwin coming back, but that similarly goes to the other
team that we're just talking about was shi'd and pushing
Cooper Cup. If an ever Chris Godwin comes back this season,

(06:30):
he's not going to be the number two at this point,
Tes Johnson, you and I talked a few weeks ago,
and you remember I drew to comparison to like Kadarius
Tony and Tank Dell, and that's pretty much if you
what did I say to you at that time? I said,
if you said Tank Dell on the Buccaneers, people would
be going nuts. And I don't know why people aren't
more excited for him.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
That was now three weeks ago. By the way, I
think we had this conversation about tes and I can't
believe he's still around fifty on sleeper. It's nuts.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Three straight games with over five targets, three straight games
with over four receptions, three straight games with over forty yards,
and he's scoring touchdowns. And I know the yards aren't
near one hundred, but if you're looking, actually, if you
go back four straight games over forty yards, he's a
touchdown maker for Baker Mayfield. And that's really what it
comes down to. So he has Tedes Johnson rectify that
if he's still somehow out there.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
All right, let's get to number two on our list here,
Darius Slayton of the New York Giants. Now. Slayton on
Sunday had four receptions for eighty nine yards. He also
got some time with Russell Wilson, which is something that
no Giants fan wanted to see. And that's the big
question mark you're going into this coming week in Week eleven,
is Jackson Dart left with a concussion, So what does
that mean for Darius Slayton's value if we end up

(07:34):
getting Russell Wilson under center again.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I don't worry too much about the Russell Wilson situation
as it was that it looks like Darius Slayton's avoided
injury because he came back in late for the game.
Not a great matchup this week anyway, because he's got
Green Bay, but he has been the number two. He
has been the big play threat and has been doing
it actually a little bit better than Wandel Robinson of late.
But the good news after the Packers, yes they have
the Week fourteen bye, but they have Lions, Patriots, Commanders, Vikings, Raiders.

(08:00):
Most of those teams you can pass on unless he
gets number one coverage from your Patriots and Christian Gonzales,
which I don't see happening, but maybe you never know,
but especially Washington, Minnesota and the Raiders to finish things out.
It's one of the better schedules for pass catching options.
So Dart should be back by then anyway. This is
more of a wide receiver forour especially at this point
of this season, we're not really finding any wide receiver
twos outside maybe Tas Johnson. But this is just a

(08:21):
kind of a depth piece that you could potentially use
in the playoffs for the matchups, all right.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Next up is Jayden Higgins. So another quarterback situation with
the Texans. It's a little bit flux right now. Davis
Mills tremendous comeback here thirty six, twenty nine. They end
up beating the Jaguars in Houston, and it was a
big day for Nico Collins, but a big day also
for Jayden Higgins, a rookie that I think a lot
of us in this business had high expectations for at
some point to be a contributor. So five or forty

(08:47):
two in a touchdown? Was this the beginning of Jaden
Higgins showing that he could be a contributor?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Or?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Is this something that we wash away because eventually a CJ.
Stroud hasn't shown us that he even knows where Jayden
Higgins is.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I know you thought that that we're wishing for Nicki
Mills to stay out there at quarterback to help Jayden
and Higgins But the real appeal here is it's the Texans.
The Texans finally moved to the two rookies that being
Higgins and Noel is actually the biggest snap count combined
they've both had in this same game, with a healthy
Christian Kirk on top of it. So maybe it's finally
changing for Jayden and Higgins. Maybe this is one of

(09:18):
those rookies that wasn't incomplete until the second half of
the season. And if Higgins is out, there is a
one to two with Nico Collins, whether it's Mills or
back to CJ. Stroud. He's somebody that could be a
wide receiver four, maybe even a wives receiver three. Now
I'm not saying go out there and start him next week,
but at that point of what we were hoping for,
because he's basically been dropped in all the leagues because
we never even saw anything from him, is that the

(09:39):
hope going forward is that he's turning into the wide
receiver two for the team that we hoped he could be.
So this is pretty much a pickup and stash as
it is pretty much the next two options after him
as well.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Now Rashid Shaheed moving on from New Orleans opened up
some possibilities here for some of the guys. So Devon
vele you think is one of those players. Now, he
always saw a couple of targets in this game, but
again heaps some cheap this week. So why do you
think Vley in deeper leagues is somebody to keep an
eye on because.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
He immediately went out there in his first game with
no Shiheed and saw almost the same amount of work, workload, opportunities,
snap count and all that type of stuff as Chris
a Lobby. This is somebody they traded a fourth rounder for,
like the biggest thing from the Broncos. So like, it's
not that they got Vley for a seventh rounder. It's
just like, oh, stash him on the roster. But Brandon
Cooks was the only person he had to get passed,
and it looks like he's already passed him. And I'm

(10:25):
not saying that Shook is going to carry a WHI
there's two wide receivers to top thirty value for the
rest of the season. But again we're talking about stashes
and viallely with you're gonna have few more buys. We
have two this week, and we have another four team
by coming up, and then I mentioned Week fourteen is
the most miserable one in a lot of big teams
on a buy in week fourteen, So Viley is going
to be the number two. He basically steps into what
Shihed was doing, which is a wide receiver for with

(10:47):
some weekly upside that you're gonna play the matchups with.
I know I just said matchups twice in a row,
but that's what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
That's what we're doing. We're talking about matchups here, all right.
Last guy, we're gonna talk about Luther Burden of the
Chicago Bears. Obviously DJ more non factor in the game
this past weekend, but Luthor Burden another one of these
rookies that we talk about here that we thought some
point might get integrated to this offense. So we did
see him work a little bit here again. Exciting game
there for Caleb Williams and company. So what are your

(11:14):
thoughts going forward on Luther Burden? Is it finally worth
spending a little fab on him as dashing him or
is this just another one of those situations that you
just can't invest in quite yet.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Now this is one where you can obviously the Week
three game against Dallas was the one that we cautioned
everybody not to get too excited about because y receivers
two tight ends. But what really is non factor for
More is also the injury. Like we don't know. Again
we're as of we recording this, we don't know. But
if DJ Moore were to be out this week against

(11:43):
the Vikings, Luthor Burden immediately stepping into the number two
is the excitement that we said to pause on. And
that Luther Burden is essentially a handcuff wide receiver. Is
that if anything happens to a done Day or DJ
Moore in this case, that he can immediately step in.
And you saw that in the second half that he
really filled then and saw some flashes. It was an
amazing game, but it's one that Minnesota not the best matchup.

(12:05):
But let's just say it's an extended as of today.
Let's just if if it's a departure and missing games
for DJ Morris. What I meant to say, Steelers. After that,
everybody and their brother throws on the Steelers and then
Eagles Packers. Brown's not the best over that, But your
short term Djmore misses one or two games, Luther Burden
will be a wide receiver three or four.

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