Dive into Week 16’s hottest waiver wire pickups and find out which players can boost your fantasy team through the end of the season! Join Joe Pisapia, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Derek Brown as they break down top picks, such as Jerome Ford, Sincere McCormick, Jalen McMillan, and many more! Get strategic insights on who to target based on upcoming schedules. This episode is packed with must-know tips for navigating injuries and maximizing your fantasy potential for this week, and for the rest of the season as well. Make sure you tune in to get ahead in your league!
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Intro - 0:00:00
Top RB Adds - 0:04:36
Jerome Ford - 0:04:38
Sincere McCormick - 0:06:02
DraftKings Sportsbook - 0:07:23
Top WR Adds - 0:08:30
Romeo Doubs - 0:08:36
Jalen McMillan - 0:09:42
Top QB Adds - 0:10:44
Mac Jones - 0:11:05
Aaron Rodgers - 0:12:08
Top TE Adds - 0:13:33
Stone Smartt - 0:13:39
Brenton Strange - 0:14:34
Top DST Adds - 0:16:11
ATL DST - 0:16:20
GB DST - 0:18:16
Top Kicker Adds - 0:20:14
Cade York - 0:20:18
Chase McLaughlin - 0:20:58
Top Overall Waiver Wire Adds - 0:22:05
My Playbook - 0:23:28
Outro - 0:24:00
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Football Podcast. It is me Joey p Joe, Pi Zapia
and with me for Week sixteen on the Waiver Wire,
Round two of the playoffs. My best buds Deebro, Derek Brown,
the King of Bros. And my Patty Cakes, who just
had another year round the Sun. Everybody wish him a
happy birthday in the chat. If you have missed the
Fitsy birthday, We're gonna do a whole birthday month for you, Fitzie.
(00:21):
It's gonna be fantastic. But hopefully, I mean, you know,
some of you still got playoff teams alive. We're recording
this Monday morning, Monday night, not one but two NFL
games really making us sweat out the first round of
the playoffs. I don't care for it. NFL stop doing
this to me. I already have no hair on my head.
So we still have some games yet to be decided.
(00:42):
But regardless, hopefully all of you out there listening, watching
on the YouTube are looking ahead to Round two in
the playoffs and looking for more players or we're gonna
help you add them. Because there was a ton of injuries,
a ton of football to dissect and reflect upon, including
a decision that I just don't understand and I just
want to talk about it with all of you because
there's a less than ten percent chance of getting an
(01:04):
onside kickback. So Dan Campbell's basically telling you in that
Lions Bills game, Pat, I like my chances of getting
an onside kickback more than stopping Josh out on the
Buffalo Bills. That's what he's telling me. What do you
think I.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Thought it was an imprudent decision, Joe. I would rather
take my chances with stopping the Bills, and you know,
stop the Bills and you get reasonable field position. If
you don't get that onside kick, even if you do
stop the Bills, then they're going to punt and bury
you inside your own twenty yard line. And it's just, yeah,
I thought it was a suboptimal decision.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes, that was a very politically correct answer. That was
really good. I'm sure a lot of Lions fans have
a lot less politically correct answers about it, Debro. Dan
Campbell is like the double edged sword. He's the reason
they're great, and he's also the reason why in these
big games they continue to fall short, and I just
feel like these games get in his head. We saw
it in the last year in the playoffs against San
Francis Go, we're seeing it again. I just don't understand
(02:03):
where is heads at.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I just think we need a better balance
of aggression versus rationality. And I'm not saying like I'm
all for go go for the fourth downs, like make
everything like four downs and make the defense have to
stop you in four downs.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Like some of the calls, I think like we're borderline
like reckless in the sense of okay, kicking an on
side kick with that much time left and you're only
down by a score and a field goal, and what
we saw the week before that going for it inside
of you know, that close to your own goal line.
That's where I'm like, look, I love Dan Campbell. I'm
(02:44):
all for the aggression, but there's there's sometimes where it's
just like.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You, honestly do you do it? Like do you think
Dan Campbell forgot that you have to announce it's an
on side kick now because of the change of the
kick off role. I think there's a little bit of
chance that he was like, oh wait, yeah, it's different. Now,
I'm just saying there's a small chance that they got
up there, got to line at the decision and he went, oh, right,
they know it's coming. If it'd been a surprise on
ziche Cake like it was, you know, two thousand and four,
(03:11):
maybe I feel different about it. But look, I mean,
it's splitting hairs. It was just a crazy thing in
the great game that was really fun to watch. You know,
whenever you have almost one hundred points in offense, I'm entertained.
But man, I agree with like eighty five percent of it. Man,
it's the problem. It's like when you get to this,
like the all onside kick stuff. It's like this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's a similar thing as like, Okay, it's third and one.
Should we run a quarterback sneak or run it up
the gut? Or should we toss a bomb down the field. Okay,
let's go for the hailm Arey.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't know. Well, look, hopefully our decision making
process will be Joe, Joe, can I help everybody make
sure you? Oh, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Gonna make a quick fantasy comparison with Dan Campbell. Like
Dan Campbell is please, Dan Campbell's the guy who's got
a really good roster and wants to get overly cute
with lineup decisions and feel like he's really man his team.
And so he benches AJ Brown because he's worried about
a matchup with Joey Porter Junior and decides to start
(04:08):
Mari Cooper instead, thinking I need upside. And you know,
Joey told a few people to keep rolling with AJ
Brown in our live stream yesterday, and you keep rolling
with aj Patty.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We got so many AJB questions, so many AJB questions
in the discord.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dude. Look we were all over yesterday and it was
live in the chat yesterday too. But look, hopefully we'll
make better decisions here than Dan Campbell will make late
in games. All right, let's start with the streamer running
backs of the week. And there's an opening now in
the world of Cleveland because poor Nick Chubb is terrible
broken foot, so he's done. So that means Jerome Ford
(04:47):
next man up, good matchup against Cincinnati Bengals to that defense.
So let's talk about a de bro Jerome Ford. Your
expectations for him in week sixteen, where you think you
might have him ranked. I know it's a little early
for that, But is he RB two? Is he flex? Like,
what's your confidence level?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
He's a low end RB two and some of the
I guess, like where he falls in that range kind
of depends on who do we get for quarterback and
what do we get out of quarterback in Cleveland. I mean,
Jamis that is not so great. Jamis things this last
week and so maybe it's dtr under center, but we
all know that the matchup is good. Jerome Ford has
been an efficient running back when he's gotten opportunities. I mean,
(05:21):
we saw this last week, terrible matchup, nine touches and
he got one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Four total yards.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So yeah, Ford is the guy that, like I really
wanted to highlight in this section because it's not only
just the Cincinnati Bengals. Like I know that, you know,
the last week of the NFL regular season, he gets
the Ravens. But a lot of people aren't playing that
in the fantasy playoffs. But the next two matchups Cincinnati
and Miami both really good ones for Ford.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, they certainly are. And look, drum Ford's showing you
the ability to catch a football before he's shown you
he's comfortable in the offense. He's not a new guy.
He's he's not fresh and new, and you don't know
what to get out of drum Ford. You know what
it looks like when Ford's been the guy. So it's
just a matter of how much work load he gets.
And certainly the opportunity looks like it could be a
good one for a streaming purpose. In week sixteen, FITZI,
let's talk about a guy that you know, we've been
(06:04):
talking about for a couple of weeks now stashing And
really the numbers didn't climb as much as I think
they normally would have. Maybe it's just the time of year,
a lot of people who are eliminated not putting in
waiver wire claims, or maybe people just not familiar with
Sincere McCormick. Now, we'll see what happens in this evening game,
but as of right now, looking ahead in theory, Sincere
McCormack against Jacksonville also looks like a running back that
(06:25):
is worth at least grabbing onto for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, so obviously how he fares against the Falcons tonight
is going to affect the amount of fat money that
people are bidding with whatever they've got left in the tank.
But what we really like is the remaining schedule for
week sixteen. In week seventeen, he gets the Jaguars and
the Saints, two of the best matchups you can have
for running back. So what's interesting is that Alexander Madison
(06:50):
is expected back in week fifteen for this game against
the Falcons. But Antonio Pierce had said has said he
is going to roll with sincere McCormick like they are
auditioning him for a greater role in twenty twenty five.
So seems like he's a pretty good bet for fifteen
plus touches. Let's see what he does with them. But
if we get encouraging results, I think people are really
(07:12):
gonna want to spend up to take advantage of these
Jaguars and Saints matchups down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
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Speaker 1 (08:31):
Let's talk about a wide receiver and FITZI your Green
Bay Packers really stuck it to me last night. I'm
not happy about this at all. And Romeo Dobbs is
back again, folks, the cycle of Romeo Dobbs, this season
of getting picked up and dropped and picked up and dropped.
But here we go looking ahead to next week. You
want to pick them up again against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Why because the matchup is decent. Dubbs has like sort
of a minimal level of involvement, Like you can't fully
trust anyone in this Green Bay passing game right now, Joe.
Because the Packers really like to run the ball. They
have become one of the run heavier teams in the league,
and they are sorting out targets between Jaden Reid, Christian Watson,
(09:09):
Romeo Dobbs, Tucker Crafts, cameo appearances by Dontavian Wicks, and
the occasional Malie Heath or Bow Melton. So it's not
a big pie to go around. But Dobbs does seem
like the one receiver who's fairly consistently involved. Jaden Reid
and Christian Watson will have these inexplicable disappearances. Sometimes Dobbs
(09:32):
seems like he gets his five or six targets at least,
no matter what, he's in a good offense, and the
matchup looks pretty good against the Saints this coming week.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Another matchup on paper that might look pretty good as
one for a Tampa Bay wide receiver that I was
very high on coming into the year and it just
didn't happen. Godwin it Evans just kind of took off.
And again, you know, I've been talking about it for
weeks and weeks. Baker Mayfield is my MVP. I don't
know if there's one guy that's gone out there and
done more with less this year and just take this
team by the haunches and going through. He's the intercontinental
(10:04):
heavyweight MVP. That's what he is. He's the worker title guy.
He's that dude who deserves a lot more credit. And
Jalen McMillan, now all of a sudden, might be a
guy worth looking at. And I still like this player
of long term in Dynasty. I like a lot of
the buzz he got in training camp and here we
are now in week sixteen, Debro you think he might
be relevant?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I do, and I think it's time for us to
stop and give the guy a respect. I mean, over
the last two weeks he's gotten a twenty three percent
target chare, he's averaging sixty seven receiving yards, and he's
scored freaking three times.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So yeah, he's a viable flex player this week and
the matchups moving forward Dallas, Carolina, New Orleans are is
anybody worried about any of those secondaries?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Nobody should be. All right, let's talk about a quarterback here,
because super flex leagues are gonna have to be look
at because mahomes iffy with the ankle. Then you also
have got Geno Smith. It's just it's kind of brutal
out there. Superflex has been tough this year. It's been
pretty late. A lot of guys gropping up on the
waiver wire, believe it or not, not always good options,
(11:04):
but there is an option against the Raiders next week.
You are in on debro Let's talk about mac Jones.
What you saw yesterday. I mean, obviously BTJ had a
big day, so clearly, Pat, you were talking on the
live stream yesterday with me on Sunday about you know,
I think BTJ is gonna be fine. Just keep leaving
him in your lineups, and you know, I know you
told a lot of people to keep them in. Certainly
was a good return. So can we roll that over
(11:24):
for yet another week here with mac Jones?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We can, And I understand people are gonna hear the
name mac Jones and they're saying, oh, really, are we
at that point with all the quarterback injuries and what
we've seen, And the bigger part of this is they're
playing the Raiders. Their past defense can't stop anybody Mac
Jones and to put a little bit of respect on
the name entering Monday Night Football, Mac Jones QB.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Eight for Week fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So that's just I just got to keep it real
with people, like I understand it's hold your nose kind
of gross, but the matchup is great and I think
he could be AQB one again for US in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Against the terrifying Jets defense. No less too, speaking of
the Jets. Last week, there was somebody on the show
that recommended Aaron Rodgers and it was this guy over here,
pet fitz Morris, And it worked out. Deante Adams had
himself a day. He ate lots of yarders there for
Aaron Rodgers put up a thirty burger there. In most
formats So are we gonna roll the dice two weeks
(12:22):
in a row here, Pat.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, if you're one of these Patrick Mahomes,
Gino Smith or maybe Jamis Winston stakeholders. We don't know
if Winston is gonna be starting in week sixteen. There
is appeal with Rodgers. He's had two really nice games
in a row. He and DeVante Adams are now clicking
like they were at their peak in Green Bay. And
he's got Garret Wilson who maybe gets a squeaky wheel
(12:45):
game after apparently being upset that Aaron Rodgers didn't throw
a fade that Garrett Wilson wanted him to throw. So
weaponry is not a problem. And maybe in a matchup
against the Rams this week. I know the Rams passing
game was not going full boar last week in that
kind of rainy game against the forty nine ers on
Thursday night, But maybe this turns out to be a
(13:05):
little bit of a shootout. Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers
hearkening back to their NFC North ays together and hooking
up for a high scoring affair. I do think there's
upside for Rogers. I'm probably gonna have him ranked as
like a mid range QB two this week.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I love hearkening back to things. I think you like
a good mark in there, de bro I do. I
do likes a good hearken, especially when it's cold inside.
I like a good hearken. Yeah, if anybody's fixing a hearken,
it's Derek Brown. Let's get to the tight ends here. Uh,
let's go with you here, Fitzie, let's start off here.
Let's do something smart at tight end. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm pretty intrigued by what we've seen from stones Smart Joe,
Like he looks really like quick and athletic and rangy
to me, like he shows pretty good catch radius. He
seems faster than the average tight end, Like he is
a pretty pure pass catching tight end. And if we'll
Disley misses Week sixteen, in case you haven't noticed, the
(14:04):
Chargers can't run the ball anymore. Like their running game
is just completely broken. So I think they're going to
have to throw maybe a little more than Greg Roman
and Jim Harbaugh would like. And maybe stone Smart could
be part of that down the stretch. I think he's
got some intriguing streaming potential for Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
How much does Jim Harball want Ashton genty in the
draft this year. What's somebody to run the football all
day long? All right? From a smart tight in selection
to a strange one. Derek Brown take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I just for everybody they're watching this on the YouTube,
Joe grinning ear to ear with these illustrious transitions, just
has to get Week sixteen that you did.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You were like, if you don't enjoy what you do,
what's the point of doing it? Having a good time. Here,
it's week sixteen, We're in the playoffs. Let's go, come on,
do five thousand shows this year. You know we're coming
to an end here, We're gonna a little bit of a
break maybe, so plowing through this is how I amuse
myself on that. Hey man, look, we gotta talk about
other person.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We got to talk about stranger things right now, and
I'm gonna talk about Brenton Strange.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I didn't think we'd be sitting here a week sixteen
talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Brenton Strange as the tight ends stream intersure, But here
we are, and they get the Raiders just talking about
Mac Jones. Good passing matchup for Mac Jones Strange last week,
I mean, doing his best Evan Ingram impersonation twenty six
percent targets here eleven receptions and seventy three receiving guards.
Now he gets raiders who have allowed the third most
(15:33):
receiving yards per game and fantasy points per game to
tight ends. Yeah, he's gonna be flirting with tight end
one value this week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's not surprising either that Strange was good with Mac Jones,
because you know, when you're the number two quarterback, you're
working with the number twos. We've seen this plenty of time,
so keep that in mind too. If you're gonna see
like Carson Wentz maybe play next week, Maybe somebody else
might get a little bit more involved. It's just something
to keep in mind. Maybe more of a DFS thing,
but when it comes to the injuries, we've had a
(16:02):
tight end at this point. If that Strange Jones connection
is a thing, and it looked like it was at
least yesterday in a good matchup, maybe in week sixteen,
it's something to pay attention to. Debro Let's talk about
a streaming defense for Week sixteen. Everyone's trying to eke
out every single point they possibly can. What defense do
you think can help folks out in this round two,
we're going down to the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And I'm not telling you got to feel great about it,
but you just start every freaking defense against the Giants.
I don't care who's playing quarterback. I don't care if
it's Tommy d Drew Locke or a day Ball is
going to be under center this week because we don't know,
but we're we're streaming the Atlanta Falcons against the Giants, all.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right, streaming. Well, that mean the Giants, certainly, well, they're
a thing. They're a football team. They are they exist.
It's bad. You know, it's frustrating too, because I had
I'm not a Giants fan by any stretch of the means,
but I had expectations that day Ball was actually a
good hire and it seemed like, you know, things were
going in the right direction, and it just seems like
that one big decision that they had to make, they
(17:01):
muffed it and they just haven't been able to get
back on track since. And everything's just literally fallen apart.
And that's unfortunate because that's the coaching and that's the
leadership of getting the guys prepared, and they just haven't
been Who's going to be prepared in week sixteen on
the defensive side for you.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
FITZI wait, Joe, can we backtrack to this theory you
have about backup quarterbacks and backup receivers, because it sounded
like you brought up Carson Wentz. It sounded like you're
saying we should maybe pick up sky Moore for an
incoming Again.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Keeper has already picked umup. I'm sure in three yeah, yah,
got a roster nowhere now, No, But I mean, what
we've seen that before, FITZI, like, we how many times
have we seen like there's a secondary wide receiver on
a team like the Chiefs, probably less of a thing,
but on a team like Jacksonville where there's injuries and openings,
you know, it was kind of that thing also too,
where you know the New Orleans Saints quarterbacks, all right, well,
(17:49):
Rattler Hayner, Who's who have they been practicing with? There's
no wide receivers out there for this team. Maybe somebody
pops off and has a good game. You can't take
a lot of risk of this time in the season, though,
but with range, it seems like one that you might
be able to scout.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Team chemistry is real, Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It is real, amazing, and scout team talent is real too,
So remember that because sometimes it lets you down. That's
why they're on the second team in the first place.
FITZI stick with your Homer picks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, we've we've got a We've got a team, an
indoor team from the Deep South coming up to Northeastern
Wisconsin for a football game next Monday night. Temperatures should
be somewhere in the twenties I would expect for that one.
And we don't know who's gonna be quarterbacking the Saints.
Maybe Derek Carr comes back from his concussion and his
hand injury, but really, what's the point of doing that.
(18:39):
And if we don't get Derek Carr, I think we're
going to get Spence Spencer Rattler, who came in in
relief of Jake Hayner, who the Saints clearly were not
too enamored with after his early game showing on Sunday.
So yeah, I mean Spencer Rattler. We saw the Packers
get their pass rush dialed up against the Seahawks Onday night,
(19:00):
and Rattler in his three starts plus his relief appearance
on Sunday, he has fumbled three times, thrown two interceptions,
and taken fourteen sacks. So this is a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's the one they want to see again, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Exactly, and he is the preferred backup option here. So
things look pretty good for the Packers defense this week.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Deepro, we're you getting like a doctor evil vibe from
FITZI just now when he was like, it's going to
be very cold in Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I was waiting for a hair little cat to just
jump on his lap.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He's like, you know it was actually no, it wasn't
even Doctor Reeve. It was more like it was more
the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He's like, Oh,
I'm afraid Green Bay will be quite cold when you
get there. I feel like that's kind of the vibe
he's he's still in a high from last night. You
can tell Fitzy just he hasn't slept the wing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
He was watching all that.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He kept watching all the same house sacks. One think
about his day.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He saw the Lions lose in the afternoon, then at
night he saw his Packers win. He's looking around, He's like, oh,
maybe you know the Viking's good lose today. Next thing,
you know, all of a sudden. Those Packers are right
there and think of it like that's that's a spicy
All right, Let's get to the kicker, because we have to.
Who's the kicker?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Cade York for the Bengals, repped by your sweatshirt, Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's right, and uh yeah, I mean were good that
one year, Yes, Cad York.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I believe his career field goal percentage on like thirty
seven career tries, it is only like seventy three percent.
So I'm not vouching for the caliber of the kicker.
I'm vouching for an offense that has averaged thirty four
points a game over its last six games. The Bengals
are just on fire offensively, and that is going to
have residual benefits for whoever's kicking field goals and extra points.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, So there you go, another kicker added to
the list. Go ahead, their debro. Give us the kicker
for Week sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Chase McLaughlin. Baby, he's at least sixteen Fantasy points sixteen
in two of his last four games.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So you talked about loving Baker, Gotta love the kicker too. Hey, man,
Baker's been the real deal. I'm I'm happy that he
figured it out. Yeah, he's a fun player. He's got
a lot of energy. I know he had a lot
maybe too much swag. Maybe he needed to get humbled
a little bit. Whatever it was, he's figured it out
now and it's been great. And Tampa does play in
a soft division. But regardless, man, he has been a
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great job leading this team. This is gonna be back
to back QB one years for him fantasy wise. I mean,
what a value he was in super flex leagues and
he's played so good. Man.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
If the Bucks had a like an actually good defense
and they were a ten or eleven team, I think
he honestly would be in the MVP conversation and he should.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We Look, they can fix that. It's so offseason, right,
like if you have the quarterback, you can fix everything else.
You know, got to keep the OC, keep the OCU.
But look, I mean this is a different OC this
year though, too. I mean, look, that's lost canals last
year and then you know this year, new OC. A
lot of people were question sing like, is it gonna
fall apart? Louyd Gino did it didn't. In fact, it
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might have even gone better in some aspects of the game.
Let's talk about the top five list for those of
you who are running waivers this week. In Week sixteen,
Round two of the playoffs, FITZI give us your top
five that you feel good about rostering this week.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, I've got Sincere McCormick number one over Jerome Ford.
Pretty close call. I think you could flip those if
you wanted to. But I really like Sincere McCormick's Week
sixteen week seventeen schedule. Number three, Kendre Miller. We saw
Alvin Kamara leave with a groin injury, and so maybe
it's a full dose of Kendre Miller in Week sixteen
against the Packers. You know, not a favorable matchup, but
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if he's getting twenty plus touches and the Saints are
trying to hide their quarterback, he could have some value.
We'll go with Romeo Dobbs at number four and number five,
ty J.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Spears.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
You've got Tony Pollard dealing with an ankle issue, and
Spears looked really good as a pass catcher yesterday against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, Debro, your top five for Week.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Sixteen pretty much in concert with FITZI here just a
few small wrinkles, but since here McCormick number one, Jerome
Ford number two, Kendre Miller number three. For all the
reasons that FITSI outlined, I mean just volume alone of
Kamara Missus, he's on that RB two, RB three, CUSP,
Jalen McMillan number four, and Tajy Spears coming in at
number five.
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Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Football Podcast. It is me Joey p Joe, Pi Zapia
and with me for Week sixteen on the Waiver Wire,
Round two of the playoffs. My best buds Deebro, Derek Brown,
the King of Bros. And my Patty Cakes, who just
had another year round the Sun. Everybody wish him a
happy birthday in the chat. If you have missed the
Fitsy birthday, We're gonna do a whole birthday month for you, Fitzie.
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It's gonna be fantastic. But hopefully, I mean, you know,
some of you still got playoff teams alive. We're recording
this Monday morning, Monday night, not one but two NFL
games really making us sweat out the first round of
the playoffs. I don't care for it. NFL stop doing
this to me. I already have no hair on my head.
So we still have some games yet to be decided.
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But regardless, hopefully all of you out there listening, watching
on the YouTube are looking ahead to Round two in
the playoffs and looking for more players or we're gonna
help you add them. Because there was a ton of injuries,
a ton of football to dissect and reflect upon, including
a decision that I just don't understand and I just
want to talk about it with all of you because
there's a less than ten percent chance of getting an
(01:04):
onside kickback. So Dan Campbell's basically telling you in that
Lions Bills game, Pat, I like my chances of getting
an onside kickback more than stopping Josh out on the
Buffalo Bills. That's what he's telling me. What do you
think I.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Thought it was an imprudent decision, Joe. I would rather
take my chances with stopping the Bills, and you know,
stop the Bills and you get reasonable field position. If
you don't get that onside kick, even if you do
stop the Bills, then they're going to punt and bury
you inside your own twenty yard line. And it's just, yeah,
I thought it was a suboptimal decision.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes, that was a very politically correct answer. That was
really good. I'm sure a lot of Lions fans have
a lot less politically correct answers about it, Debro. Dan
Campbell is like the double edged sword. He's the reason
they're great, and he's also the reason why in these
big games they continue to fall short, and I just
feel like these games get in his head. We saw
it in the last year in the playoffs against San
Francis Go, we're seeing it again. I just don't understand
(02:03):
where is heads at.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I just think we need a better balance
of aggression versus rationality. And I'm not saying like I'm
all for go go for the fourth downs, like make
everything like four downs and make the defense have to
stop you in four downs.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Like some of the calls, I think like we're borderline
like reckless in the sense of okay, kicking an on
side kick with that much time left and you're only
down by a score and a field goal, and what
we saw the week before that going for it inside
of you know, that close to your own goal line.
That's where I'm like, look, I love Dan Campbell. I'm
(02:44):
all for the aggression, but there's there's sometimes where it's
just like.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You, honestly do you do it? Like do you think
Dan Campbell forgot that you have to announce it's an
on side kick now because of the change of the
kick off role. I think there's a little bit of
chance that he was like, oh wait, yeah, it's different. Now,
I'm just saying there's a small chance that they got
up there, got to line at the decision and he went, oh, right,
they know it's coming. If it'd been a surprise on
ziche Cake like it was, you know, two thousand and four,
(03:11):
maybe I feel different about it. But look, I mean,
it's splitting hairs. It was just a crazy thing in
the great game that was really fun to watch. You know,
whenever you have almost one hundred points in offense, I'm entertained.
But man, I agree with like eighty five percent of it. Man,
it's the problem. It's like when you get to this,
like the all onside kick stuff. It's like this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's a similar thing as like, Okay, it's third and one.
Should we run a quarterback sneak or run it up
the gut? Or should we toss a bomb down the field. Okay,
let's go for the hailm Arey.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, I don't know. Well, look, hopefully our decision making
process will be Joe, Joe, can I help everybody make
sure you? Oh, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Gonna make a quick fantasy comparison with Dan Campbell. Like
Dan Campbell is please, Dan Campbell's the guy who's got
a really good roster and wants to get overly cute
with lineup decisions and feel like he's really man his team.
And so he benches AJ Brown because he's worried about
a matchup with Joey Porter Junior and decides to start
(04:08):
Mari Cooper instead, thinking I need upside. And you know,
Joey told a few people to keep rolling with AJ
Brown in our live stream yesterday, and you keep rolling
with aj Patty.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
We got so many AJB questions, so many AJB questions
in the discord.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Dude. Look we were all over yesterday and it was
live in the chat yesterday too. But look, hopefully we'll
make better decisions here than Dan Campbell will make late
in games. All right, let's start with the streamer running
backs of the week. And there's an opening now in
the world of Cleveland because poor Nick Chubb is terrible
broken foot, so he's done. So that means Jerome Ford
(04:47):
next man up, good matchup against Cincinnati Bengals to that defense.
So let's talk about a de bro Jerome Ford. Your
expectations for him in week sixteen, where you think you
might have him ranked. I know it's a little early
for that, But is he RB two? Is he flex? Like,
what's your confidence level?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
He's a low end RB two and some of the
I guess, like where he falls in that range kind
of depends on who do we get for quarterback and
what do we get out of quarterback in Cleveland. I mean,
Jamis that is not so great. Jamis things this last
week and so maybe it's dtr under center, but we
all know that the matchup is good. Jerome Ford has
been an efficient running back when he's gotten opportunities. I mean,
(05:21):
we saw this last week, terrible matchup, nine touches and
he got one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Four total yards.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So yeah, Ford is the guy that, like I really
wanted to highlight in this section because it's not only
just the Cincinnati Bengals. Like I know that, you know,
the last week of the NFL regular season, he gets
the Ravens. But a lot of people aren't playing that
in the fantasy playoffs. But the next two matchups Cincinnati
and Miami both really good ones for Ford.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, they certainly are. And look, drum Ford's showing you
the ability to catch a football before he's shown you
he's comfortable in the offense. He's not a new guy.
He's he's not fresh and new, and you don't know
what to get out of drum Ford. You know what
it looks like when Ford's been the guy. So it's
just a matter of how much work load he gets.
And certainly the opportunity looks like it could be a
good one for a streaming purpose. In week sixteen, FITZI,
let's talk about a guy that you know, we've been
(06:04):
talking about for a couple of weeks now stashing And
really the numbers didn't climb as much as I think
they normally would have. Maybe it's just the time of year,
a lot of people who are eliminated not putting in
waiver wire claims, or maybe people just not familiar with
Sincere McCormick. Now, we'll see what happens in this evening game,
but as of right now, looking ahead in theory, Sincere
McCormack against Jacksonville also looks like a running back that
(06:25):
is worth at least grabbing onto for a week.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, so obviously how he fares against the Falcons tonight
is going to affect the amount of fat money that
people are bidding with whatever they've got left in the tank.
But what we really like is the remaining schedule for
week sixteen. In week seventeen, he gets the Jaguars and
the Saints, two of the best matchups you can have
for running back. So what's interesting is that Alexander Madison
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is expected back in week fifteen for this game against
the Falcons. But Antonio Pierce had said has said he
is going to roll with sincere McCormick like they are
auditioning him for a greater role in twenty twenty five.
So seems like he's a pretty good bet for fifteen
plus touches. Let's see what he does with them. But
if we get encouraging results, I think people are really
(07:12):
gonna want to spend up to take advantage of these
Jaguars and Saints matchups down the stretch.
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Speaker 1 (08:31):
Let's talk about a wide receiver and FITZI your Green
Bay Packers really stuck it to me last night. I'm
not happy about this at all. And Romeo Dobbs is
back again, folks, the cycle of Romeo Dobbs, this season
of getting picked up and dropped and picked up and dropped.
But here we go looking ahead to next week. You
want to pick them up again against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Why because the matchup is decent. Dubbs has like sort
of a minimal level of involvement, Like you can't fully
trust anyone in this Green Bay passing game right now, Joe.
Because the Packers really like to run the ball. They
have become one of the run heavier teams in the league,
and they are sorting out targets between Jaden Reid, Christian Watson,
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Romeo Dobbs, Tucker Crafts, cameo appearances by Dontavian Wicks, and
the occasional Malie Heath or Bow Melton. So it's not
a big pie to go around. But Dobbs does seem
like the one receiver who's fairly consistently involved. Jaden Reid
and Christian Watson will have these inexplicable disappearances. Sometimes Dobbs
(09:32):
seems like he gets his five or six targets at least,
no matter what, he's in a good offense, and the
matchup looks pretty good against the Saints this coming week.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Another matchup on paper that might look pretty good as
one for a Tampa Bay wide receiver that I was
very high on coming into the year and it just
didn't happen. Godwin it Evans just kind of took off.
And again, you know, I've been talking about it for
weeks and weeks. Baker Mayfield is my MVP. I don't
know if there's one guy that's gone out there and
done more with less this year and just take this
team by the haunches and going through. He's the intercontinental
(10:04):
heavyweight MVP. That's what he is. He's the worker title guy.
He's that dude who deserves a lot more credit. And
Jalen McMillan, now all of a sudden, might be a
guy worth looking at. And I still like this player
of long term in Dynasty. I like a lot of
the buzz he got in training camp and here we
are now in week sixteen, Debro you think he might
be relevant?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I do, and I think it's time for us to
stop and give the guy a respect. I mean, over
the last two weeks he's gotten a twenty three percent
target chare, he's averaging sixty seven receiving yards, and he's
scored freaking three times.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
So yeah, he's a viable flex player this week and
the matchups moving forward Dallas, Carolina, New Orleans are is
anybody worried about any of those secondaries?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Nobody should be. All right, let's talk about a quarterback here,
because super flex leagues are gonna have to be look
at because mahomes iffy with the ankle. Then you also
have got Geno Smith. It's just it's kind of brutal
out there. Superflex has been tough this year. It's been
pretty late. A lot of guys gropping up on the
waiver wire, believe it or not, not always good options,
(11:04):
but there is an option against the Raiders next week.
You are in on debro Let's talk about mac Jones.
What you saw yesterday. I mean, obviously BTJ had a
big day, so clearly, Pat, you were talking on the
live stream yesterday with me on Sunday about you know,
I think BTJ is gonna be fine. Just keep leaving
him in your lineups, and you know, I know you
told a lot of people to keep them in. Certainly
was a good return. So can we roll that over
(11:24):
for yet another week here with mac Jones?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We can, And I understand people are gonna hear the
name mac Jones and they're saying, oh, really, are we
at that point with all the quarterback injuries and what
we've seen, And the bigger part of this is they're
playing the Raiders. Their past defense can't stop anybody Mac
Jones and to put a little bit of respect on
the name entering Monday Night Football, Mac Jones QB.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Eight for Week fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So that's just I just got to keep it real
with people, like I understand it's hold your nose kind
of gross, but the matchup is great and I think
he could be AQB one again for US in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Against the terrifying Jets defense. No less too, speaking of
the Jets. Last week, there was somebody on the show
that recommended Aaron Rodgers and it was this guy over here,
pet fitz Morris, And it worked out. Deante Adams had
himself a day. He ate lots of yarders there for
Aaron Rodgers put up a thirty burger there. In most
formats So are we gonna roll the dice two weeks
(12:22):
in a row here, Pat.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, if you're one of these Patrick Mahomes,
Gino Smith or maybe Jamis Winston stakeholders. We don't know
if Winston is gonna be starting in week sixteen. There
is appeal with Rodgers. He's had two really nice games
in a row. He and DeVante Adams are now clicking
like they were at their peak in Green Bay. And
he's got Garret Wilson who maybe gets a squeaky wheel
(12:45):
game after apparently being upset that Aaron Rodgers didn't throw
a fade that Garrett Wilson wanted him to throw. So
weaponry is not a problem. And maybe in a matchup
against the Rams this week. I know the Rams passing
game was not going full boar last week in that
kind of rainy game against the forty nine ers on
Thursday night, But maybe this turns out to be a
(13:05):
little bit of a shootout. Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers
hearkening back to their NFC North ays together and hooking
up for a high scoring affair. I do think there's
upside for Rogers. I'm probably gonna have him ranked as
like a mid range QB two this week.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I love hearkening back to things. I think you like
a good mark in there, de bro I do. I
do likes a good hearken, especially when it's cold inside.
I like a good hearken. Yeah, if anybody's fixing a hearken,
it's Derek Brown. Let's get to the tight ends here. Uh,
let's go with you here, Fitzie, let's start off here.
Let's do something smart at tight end. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm pretty intrigued by what we've seen from stones Smart Joe,
Like he looks really like quick and athletic and rangy
to me, like he shows pretty good catch radius. He
seems faster than the average tight end, Like he is
a pretty pure pass catching tight end. And if we'll
Disley misses Week sixteen, in case you haven't noticed, the
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Chargers can't run the ball anymore. Like their running game
is just completely broken. So I think they're going to
have to throw maybe a little more than Greg Roman
and Jim Harbaugh would like. And maybe stone Smart could
be part of that down the stretch. I think he's
got some intriguing streaming potential for Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
How much does Jim Harball want Ashton genty in the
draft this year. What's somebody to run the football all
day long? All right? From a smart tight in selection
to a strange one. Derek Brown take it away.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I just for everybody they're watching this on the YouTube,
Joe grinning ear to ear with these illustrious transitions, just
has to get Week sixteen that you did.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You were like, if you don't enjoy what you do,
what's the point of doing it? Having a good time. Here,
it's week sixteen, We're in the playoffs. Let's go, come on,
do five thousand shows this year. You know we're coming
to an end here, We're gonna a little bit of a
break maybe, so plowing through this is how I amuse
myself on that. Hey man, look, we gotta talk about
other person.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We got to talk about stranger things right now, and
I'm gonna talk about Brenton Strange.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I didn't think we'd be sitting here a week sixteen
talking about.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Brenton Strange as the tight ends stream intersure, But here
we are, and they get the Raiders just talking about
Mac Jones. Good passing matchup for Mac Jones Strange last week,
I mean, doing his best Evan Ingram impersonation twenty six
percent targets here eleven receptions and seventy three receiving guards.
Now he gets raiders who have allowed the third most
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receiving yards per game and fantasy points per game to
tight ends. Yeah, he's gonna be flirting with tight end
one value this week.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's not surprising either that Strange was good with Mac Jones,
because you know, when you're the number two quarterback, you're
working with the number twos. We've seen this plenty of time,
so keep that in mind too. If you're gonna see
like Carson Wentz maybe play next week, Maybe somebody else
might get a little bit more involved. It's just something
to keep in mind. Maybe more of a DFS thing,
but when it comes to the injuries, we've had a
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tight end at this point. If that Strange Jones connection
is a thing, and it looked like it was at
least yesterday in a good matchup, maybe in week sixteen,
it's something to pay attention to. Debro Let's talk about
a streaming defense for Week sixteen. Everyone's trying to eke
out every single point they possibly can. What defense do
you think can help folks out in this round two,
we're going down to the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And I'm not telling you got to feel great about it,
but you just start every freaking defense against the Giants.
I don't care who's playing quarterback. I don't care if
it's Tommy d Drew Locke or a day Ball is
going to be under center this week because we don't know,
but we're we're streaming the Atlanta Falcons against the Giants, all.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right, streaming. Well, that mean the Giants, certainly, well, they're
a thing. They're a football team. They are they exist.
It's bad. You know, it's frustrating too, because I had
I'm not a Giants fan by any stretch of the means,
but I had expectations that day Ball was actually a
good hire and it seemed like, you know, things were
going in the right direction, and it just seems like
that one big decision that they had to make, they
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muffed it and they just haven't been able to get
back on track since. And everything's just literally fallen apart.
And that's unfortunate because that's the coaching and that's the
leadership of getting the guys prepared, and they just haven't
been Who's going to be prepared in week sixteen on
the defensive side for you.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
FITZI wait, Joe, can we backtrack to this theory you
have about backup quarterbacks and backup receivers, because it sounded
like you brought up Carson Wentz. It sounded like you're
saying we should maybe pick up sky Moore for an
incoming Again.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Keeper has already picked umup. I'm sure in three yeah, yah,
got a roster nowhere now, No, But I mean, what
we've seen that before, FITZI, like, we how many times
have we seen like there's a secondary wide receiver on
a team like the Chiefs, probably less of a thing,
but on a team like Jacksonville where there's injuries and openings,
you know, it was kind of that thing also too,
where you know the New Orleans Saints quarterbacks, all right, well,
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Rattler Hayner, Who's who have they been practicing with? There's
no wide receivers out there for this team. Maybe somebody
pops off and has a good game. You can't take
a lot of risk of this time in the season, though,
but with range, it seems like one that you might
be able to scout.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Team chemistry is real, Joe.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It is real, amazing, and scout team talent is real too,
So remember that because sometimes it lets you down. That's
why they're on the second team in the first place.
FITZI stick with your Homer picks.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, we've we've got a We've got a team, an
indoor team from the Deep South coming up to Northeastern
Wisconsin for a football game next Monday night. Temperatures should
be somewhere in the twenties I would expect for that one.
And we don't know who's gonna be quarterbacking the Saints.
Maybe Derek Carr comes back from his concussion and his
hand injury, but really, what's the point of doing that.
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And if we don't get Derek Carr, I think we're
going to get Spence Spencer Rattler, who came in in
relief of Jake Hayner, who the Saints clearly were not
too enamored with after his early game showing on Sunday.
So yeah, I mean Spencer Rattler. We saw the Packers
get their pass rush dialed up against the Seahawks Onday night,
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and Rattler in his three starts plus his relief appearance
on Sunday, he has fumbled three times, thrown two interceptions,
and taken fourteen sacks. So this is a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's the one they want to see again, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Exactly, and he is the preferred backup option here. So
things look pretty good for the Packers defense this week.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Deepro, we're you getting like a doctor evil vibe from
FITZI just now when he was like, it's going to
be very cold in Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I was waiting for a hair little cat to just
jump on his lap.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
He's like, you know it was actually no, it wasn't
even Doctor Reeve. It was more like it was more
the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He's like, Oh,
I'm afraid Green Bay will be quite cold when you
get there. I feel like that's kind of the vibe
he's he's still in a high from last night. You
can tell Fitzy just he hasn't slept the wing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
He was watching all that.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He kept watching all the same house sacks. One think
about his day.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
He saw the Lions lose in the afternoon, then at
night he saw his Packers win. He's looking around, He's like, oh,
maybe you know the Viking's good lose today. Next thing,
you know, all of a sudden. Those Packers are right
there and think of it like that's that's a spicy
All right, Let's get to the kicker, because we have to.
Who's the kicker?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Cade York for the Bengals, repped by your sweatshirt, Joe.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That's right, and uh yeah, I mean were good that
one year, Yes, Cad York.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I believe his career field goal percentage on like thirty
seven career tries, it is only like seventy three percent.
So I'm not vouching for the caliber of the kicker.
I'm vouching for an offense that has averaged thirty four
points a game over its last six games. The Bengals
are just on fire offensively, and that is going to
have residual benefits for whoever's kicking field goals and extra points.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, So there you go, another kicker added to
the list. Go ahead, their debro. Give us the kicker
for Week sixteen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Chase McLaughlin. Baby, he's at least sixteen Fantasy points sixteen
in two of his last four games.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So you talked about loving Baker, Gotta love the kicker too. Hey, man,
Baker's been the real deal. I'm I'm happy that he
figured it out. Yeah, he's a fun player. He's got
a lot of energy. I know he had a lot
maybe too much swag. Maybe he needed to get humbled
a little bit. Whatever it was, he's figured it out
now and it's been great. And Tampa does play in
a soft division. But regardless, man, he has been a
(21:25):
great job leading this team. This is gonna be back
to back QB one years for him fantasy wise. I mean,
what a value he was in super flex leagues and
he's played so good. Man.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
If the Bucks had a like an actually good defense
and they were a ten or eleven team, I think
he honestly would be in the MVP conversation and he should.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We Look, they can fix that. It's so offseason, right,
like if you have the quarterback, you can fix everything else.
You know, got to keep the OC, keep the OCU.
But look, I mean this is a different OC this
year though, too. I mean, look, that's lost canals last
year and then you know this year, new OC. A
lot of people were question sing like, is it gonna
fall apart? Louyd Gino did it didn't. In fact, it
(22:02):
might have even gone better in some aspects of the game.
Let's talk about the top five list for those of
you who are running waivers this week. In Week sixteen,
Round two of the playoffs, FITZI give us your top
five that you feel good about rostering this week.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, I've got Sincere McCormick number one over Jerome Ford.
Pretty close call. I think you could flip those if
you wanted to. But I really like Sincere McCormick's Week
sixteen week seventeen schedule. Number three, Kendre Miller. We saw
Alvin Kamara leave with a groin injury, and so maybe
it's a full dose of Kendre Miller in Week sixteen
against the Packers. You know, not a favorable matchup, but
(22:38):
if he's getting twenty plus touches and the Saints are
trying to hide their quarterback, he could have some value.
We'll go with Romeo Dobbs at number four and number five,
ty J.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Spears.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
You've got Tony Pollard dealing with an ankle issue, and
Spears looked really good as a pass catcher yesterday against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, Debro, your top five for Week.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Sixteen pretty much in concert with FITZI here just a
few small wrinkles, but since here McCormick number one, Jerome
Ford number two, Kendre Miller number three. For all the
reasons that FITSI outlined, I mean just volume alone of
Kamara Missus, he's on that RB two, RB three, CUSP,
Jalen McMillan number four, and Tajy Spears coming in at
number five.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
All right, So that's your Waiver Wire for the week.
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