Week 6 Reactions, Takeaways & Injury Analysis: The Rise of Rhamondre Stevenson (Ep. 974)

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Did you survive a tough Week six? Let's talk to
the prosy. Hello, everybody, Welcome into another episode of the

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Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I am Ryan warmly, as I
am joined every Sunday night, I am joined this week
by Andrew Ericson and doctor Depacchona Ericson. How did we
six treat you? Oh? It was a blast. I got
to watch my Patriots roughout the Cleveland Browns, got to
see Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase just absolutely go off

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in New Orleans, perfect homecoming. So I had a great time.
Guys like Naji Harris, Alan Robinson, Kyle Pitts all finally
getting into the end zone. Did you start any of
those guys? Ericson? All right, started Kyle Pitts because that's
the among those guys, I was the only guy I
was drafting, so I did stark Outpits though happy about
the touchdown. That's totally fair. Deeppac, How is your Week
six so far? So good man? It's the games. I've

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lived up to the hype. Yeah, it's been a fun
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dot com slash Fantasy Pros. Deepod. Let's jump right into
the injuries here. I want to start with the quarterback
Kenny Pickett of the Steelers left the game with concussion
was eventually ruled out for the rest of the game.

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What sort of timeline are we looking at here. Yeah,
so with the concussion protocol of course having changes the
last couple of weeks, we don't really have a lot
of data on the news, but it seems like players
may be coming back slightly slower. Usually this is right
around seven days, so he has a chance to play
next week, but I would kind of lean based on

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the current trend after the changes towards the following week
when Kenny Pickert returns. Ericson, we've already seen the Steeler's
offense with Mitch Drubisky at the helm. How would you
adjust your ranks if Pickett is going to miss time?
I think that I would probably increase the rankings of
Deonte Johnson and even a guy like Chase Claypool, and
then lower my ranking of George Pickens. You know, George
Pickens was really starting to see like a breakout like

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happened because Pickett was under center. Mitche Drubisky targeted him
one time in this game, so you got lower expectations
for Pickins and it's more of a mess now with
Claypool and Deontae Johnson probably seeing more targets from Trubisky.
Deepak Cameron Brait left to this scary looking head injury
in that Bucks game. Is there any word that we've
heard so far? I mean, it looked particularly serious, but

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he was like moving his extremities and things like that.
Gave the classic thumbs up as he was being carted
off the field. Yeah, all was good to see that,
especially movement in the extremities. That's the big concern when
you have a neck injury. And sounds like probably a
severe sprain of some ligaments, but no nerve issue as
far as we can tell. So still a multi week
g app since expected here, But good news on the whole.

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Concerning the video ericson, are you starting kadat and in
Tampa Bay when brightness this time? Yeah? I think that
Kadon is going to be a viable option. I mean,
he had more targets than Camera Bray did in this
game and obviously left the game with an injury. But
even when Brad was out there healthy, I mean him
and Bray just don't have a good connection. And that
one game that Oughton got to play like you saw
and be very productive and make use of the targets

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that he was getting in the playing time. So obviously
we're wishing the best for Cameron Brad, but Kataton might
take this job and run away with it. At this point,
Randall Cobb carted to the locker room, obviously long time
target of Aaron Rodgers. Deepak what's the word here? Yeah,
it sounds like probably a high ankle sprain based on
his initial reaction. Sounded to look severe and those average

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four to six weeks for wide receivers, but even mild
one and we'll know after an MRI. I'm probably tomorrow.
Even mild ones take two to three weeks, so either
way of planning for a multi week app Since here
another receiver who had an ankle issue was Hollywood Brown,
I know you were tweeting out that it might be
a high ankle sprain as well, so similar thoughts on him, Yeah,
very similar it again, it looked very much like a

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high ankle sprain. He could sort of luck out. We'll
know with an MRI. But again thinking multi week based
on what we know so far. Ericson when you look
ahead to next week. Obviously the return of DeAndre Hopkins
is on the horizon. But now the Cardinals, they're finally
supposed to have their full allotment of receivers and they
might be losing Hollywood Brown for a couple of weeks.
I mean, what are they supposed to do here? And

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the Cardinals offense, it literally sucks. It's just so bad
to watch. I played Kyler Murray DFS and I've done
that multiple times, and every time I hate myself for
doing it. I just keep I love pain and misery
of playing Kyler Murray. They play on Thursday night, So
there's no way, I mean, if this is a high
ankle spring at all, Like, there's no way Marcus Browns
is gonna be ready by Thursday. So they're gonna need Hopkins.
And if you you stashed Hopkins this whole time, like

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this is your time, like to finally playing, because now
you're taking a massive guy out of the line up,
and I think it bolts well for run now more
to continue to see high targets. He at ten targets today.
The Cardinals offense sucks. Say what you really mean next time?
Ericson Jks Dobbins didn't get much run in the second
half of that Ravens loss. After the game, there wasn't
really an announcement during the broadcast during the game. After

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the game, John Harbaugh said that his knee tightened up
during the game. I know that they're also very hesitant.
They don't like playing on that MetLife turf because the
Ravens have already lost multiple players for the season playing
on that turf. So I wasn't sure if they were
just being overly cautious or if there was an injury concern. Deepak,
what do you make of the update here on Dobbins. Yeah,
the most common issue after a knee surgery like that

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would be a hamstring tightening up, and that's kind of
what we saw with Chris Godwin a few weeks back.
But the more concerning possibility would be if they're swelling
in the knee, because that means something inside is wrong
and they're gonna have to get an MRI and reevaluate.
So hopefully we get a little more insight, But as
of right now, those are kind of the two main
options I'd be thinking about. Erkson will move to the
Ravens backfield without Dobbins later in the show, So for now,

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I'll go to Dion Jackson of the Colts. He had
a quad injury that he left the game for. Has
looked good and produced for fantasy managers in the absence
of Taylor Deepac. What did you see with the squad injury? Yeah,
most quad issues take about one to two weeks for
running backs to come back from. They do also have
during that time about a fifteen percent performance dip. The
key with the Colts is that Taylor and Hines are

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both expected to come back next week, so they may
take it extra slow with Jackson. Then, lastly, see Quon Barkley.
He left the game with a shoulder injury on his
right shoulder. He came down really hard, his arm was
like basically looked like he wasn't able to use it, honestly,
But then he came back into the game a few
plays later he ended up scoring a touchdown, so clearly
he was still able to produce through that injury. Deepak,

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from what you saw, is that something that would concern
you long term, even though he did return to the game.
It's very slight concern just for the fact that he
had a shoulder injury last week too, but he, as
you said, he returned to the game, and if it's
more than a spring, he wouldn't have been able to
really do that. One other injury, I just want to
mention Jalen Waddle. There was a tweet going around from
somebody covering the Dolphins that he looked like he heard

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his shoulder. I didn't see any other follow up to that,
so I'm not sure if there's anything there. I just
want to mention in case there's anything there. He's doctor
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Ericson's favorite part of the show, his top headlines of
the day. What's your first one? Oh, here we go
my top headline. So we got Joe Burrow and Jamar
Chase making it look easy in the big easy because
these Bengals, man, they just this was the game. Like
I was telling people to buy alow on Jamar Chase,
like it's time to get him. I traded Jonathan Taylor
to get Jamar Chase, and I felt bad because just

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before Jonathan Taylor was ruled out of his game, and
I felt bad for the other managers that I traded
him too, but I was like, no, what, I don't
really care because I got to r Chase his cartoon
touchdown and so I'm happy. And yeah, you know the Bengals,
you know where I would figure the stuff out and
who knows, Like it's a depleted Saints team, they were
to get it done. Yeah, what was your concern level
with Jamar Chase going into this game because he hadn't

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really produced him like a month. Yeah, but this was
going back to last year where you looked at Jamar
Chase like he had a stretch of games, like four
or five games where he didn't do a lot, Like
that's just part of his volatile nature as a boom
bust guy. Like his even how good he was last year,
there were games where he hit like less than ten
yards and then the next week he had two hundred
and fifty. So like that, you just had to kind

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of keep that in mind when you were drafting. It
was why I like Jeff say more, it's about the
Cup more in like standard redraft formats, because those are
I'd rather have the consistency more week tweek versus the
boom bus like thirty points thirty points five. Like, yes,
at the end of the day, it's gonna Chase will
be a top five receiver, but the way that you
got there is gonna look way different than how you
got there with Jefferson or a Cooper Cup. A lot

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of the talker on the Bengal struggles has been focused
on Chase, but Joe Burrow hasn't been much of a
fantasy contributor either, at least compared to what expectations were
after his crazy run to end last season. Was this
maybe the sign of things to come where he can
vault into that maybe second tier quarterbacks and fantasy again. Well,
they started to throw the ball more like that was
a big Like Joe Mixon has been getting like twenty

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plus touches in every single game, and in this game
he did not, Like he had eight carries in this game,
so they were definitely coming back down. It was like
Mixon wasn't being in efficient either, like he was actually
more efficient. Maybe they're trying to figure out, like, hey,
if we just keep running this guy into the defensive line,
that's not really giving us the best chance to create
offensive production. Let's give the ball to Joe Burrow. And
I think this offensive line was gonna gel. You know,

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it's a new offensive line, new pieces, and I think
that as they kind of play more together, they were
going to eventually kind of keep Burrow upright. All right, excent,
I'm going to clear the deck for you, give you
some space to operate. Talk to me about Romandre Stevenson's
Ramondre's world, and we're lucky to bear witness to it.
Romandre Stevenson, Dude, this is what I've been telling everybody

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about like the entire draft season, and like this is
what was going to happen. Like I knew this was
going to happen. He is just so freaking good that
he was going to enable Damian Harrison get injured so
that he would take over this Backfield's that's the way
that this was intended to play out. And I mean,
Stevenson just absolutely smashed like two rushing He could had

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more touchdowns, Like he got stuff at the goal line
multiple times. He dropped a pass that could have potentially
turned into another touchdown. So the fact that he put
up what he did, you know, with the two rushing
touchdowns with literally almost one hundred yards from scrimmage, seventy
six rushing cards on the ground, nineteen carry. He had
twenty five total opportunities, a six percent opportunity share, twenty
four touches. Like no other running back touched the ball

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for the Patriots till like the end of the third quarter,
and they're like, all right, let's give kick Kevin Harrison,
like Pierre Strong, Like who is this year? I've never
seen this guy in my life. So, I mean, Romandre
is like three down back. They love giving him the
ball and they play the Bears on Monday night. I'm
gonna be at that game and I'm going to be

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shouting my brains out for Romandre Stevenson. Can't wait. Yeah,
I was gonna ask about the matchup, not necessarily for
next week, but just going forward in games that Damien
Harris isn't playing, because obviously, going into this one, everybody
talked about the fact that Cleveland has a very poor
run defense, and Stevenson was pretty much a consensus top
five guy in our expert rankings going into this week,
so it wasn't really a surprise that he smashed. Do

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you think he can do this in matchups? Maybe not
against the Bears, but in matchups that aren't quite as favorable.
I still think so because he has a three Downance
Gill set. So if he's not scoring touch too sounds
he's catching passes out of the backfield and he's explosive.
So if the Patriots aren't necessarily you know, putting up
thirty points against these horrible defenses with you know, backup quarterbacks,
he can still make plays on his own, like the

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Saquon Barkley type of player where Okay, your team isn't
giving you read zone opportunities, so you catch the ball,
you break a couple of tackles, and you rip off
an eight oar touchdown, like you make your own scoring opportunities.
So so I see Ramondre in that light because he
has the type of ability talk to me about your
wide receiver headline this week, Oh my wide receiver headline.
You can't spell Michael Pittman without alpha because because people

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were starting to lose faith. Even I'll admit it to
a little bit, it was like, oh, goad, like Matt Ryan.
He doesn't look too great, but you know, as bad
as Matt Ryan has like been in like real life.
You kind of look at like the box score with
some of his fantasy like his fantasy numbers and they're
they've actually been good because I actually in one league
where I have to start Matt Ryan, and every time
I'm like, why am I doing this to myself? And

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he's actually like put up decent numbers like every single week.
Even if you watch the games, you're like, wow, this
is not looking good. I mean, they threw the ball
so much in this game. This is something that we
haven't seen before from the coltson Obviously, the running back
injuries probably played a role in it, but Matt Ryan
is still showing that, hey, I can still sling the ball.
Michael Pibin is commanding targets at a super high rate.

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I mean he had sixteen targets in this game, just
a massive number. And this is what we're hoping from him,
that he would take a step forward and be a
number one wide receiver. I think that he has and
he's shown that even with Matt Ryan's up and down play,
that he's an ampul wide receiver. Yeah. Matt Ryan's kind
of funny because I'm comparing him to the last Colts quarterback.
But it's similar to Carson Wentz last year, when when

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you watch the game, you would think Wow, he is terrible,
but there would be plenty of games where he was
still produced for a fantasy even earlier this season. He's
done that in Washington where he has just these ugly
stat lines, but then they end up actually getting fancy
quences because there's a lot of yards attached to it.
He's starting for a touchdowns in addition to the interceptions
things like that. So we're seeing that from Matt Ryan
a bit too, although he also of course is prone
to some duds as well. And then you're tight end

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headline Mike Kiseco mode. That's that's the headline. He's come
back from the grave, or at least in this particular game,
where I mean the entire Dolphins. I mean I could
have talked about Terry Kill as my wide receiver headline
as well, who had another massive game. I just I
did not see this coming from what they had their quarterbacks,
going from Skylar Thompson to start the game to Teddy Bridgewater,

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Like why wasn't he starting in the first play? Like,
I just like very confusing way that the Dolphins are
kind of shifting around. Luckily, we're gonna at two back
next week, so then hopefully we can just kind of like,
all right, this is the quarterback. Who's the Dolphins quarterback,
and we can just expect this to happen with these
types of playmakers. I think it should be noted that
so Mikeasecki caught two touchdowns and that's obviously gonna put
you at the top of any tight end leader. Boy

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also had sixty nine receiving yards. So I think that
with Giseki, it shouldn't go unnoticed that Durham Smythe did
not play in this game, so he's in one of
the other tight ends. And the thing with Gasecki is
it's never been like about like ability. Like we know
he's a talented guy's a super athletic tight end. You know,
he's basically a glor flight slot receiver that they used
in the past. But his role this year has been

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so horrible for fantasy. But in this particular case, I'm
interested to see, like what the snaps actually turned out
to and what the routes look like, because he's too
talented to like keep as a blocker like Mike McDaniel. Yeah,
he's been praised for how he's using guys, but like,
let's add a third weapon to this offense. You have
Terry Ko, you have Jay the Wild. Those guys are
getting peppered. Let's get Gasecki a little bit involved too,

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because we're not gonna get Chase Edmonds involved, Like we
know that's not gonna happen. So I'd like to see
either Gasecki, like maybe they trade him to a team
that needs a tight end, they're going to use him more.
But I thought it was encouraging to see a big
game from him. Two things. One, now that I've seen
your headline, I kind of wish his name was Mike
Gasico instead of think that's just better. And to a question,
how likely are you to start him at tight end

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in the next couple of weeks, it depends. It really depends,
Like I have to see what the routes look like
for him. Um, that's really how I view a lot
about the tight end position. Just really it's really usage
for me because I don't want to just chase the
two touchdowns because it's like dude, Mohiley kock too touchdowns.
You chase him and then he does nothing the next week.
And in the fact that Durham Smite did miss the game,
I think that matters a lot like that shouldn't be

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overlooked when you take out a tight end and this
tight end pops off. I don't think that's a coincidence.
You also now have to a coming back and to
it was not targeting Kiseki when he was playing earlier
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of the slate. Here ericson game number one, forty nine
Ers at Falcons. The big takeaway from me Brandon Ayuk
breakout game. He started slow last season and then came
on late. Now, part of that was because he was
kind about of shape. He was in the doghouse. I
don't know if that was necessarily the case this year.
He started slow once again, but today was a really
nice game. Eight catches, eighty three yards, two touchdowns, team high,

(17:09):
eleven targets. Yeah, I think that this is probably still
a sell high scenario for me with Brandon Aik just
looking at Yeah, he had eleven targets. George Kittle had
ten targets. Dio Samuel had right around that amount as well,
so he wasn't really separating himself as the main target leader.
And this is a game where Jimmy g through forty
one passes, Like this is not the game skirt that
the forty nine ers want to ever have because they lost, Like,

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this is not what they want. The thoughts defense was
creating turnovers, creating havoc, so that's not something that necessarily
benefits it just it's really the touchdowns. And this is
just a you know, overarching thought process with fantasies like
you gotta sell high on touchdowns because those are the
most flukey from week to week. You know, Taysom Hill
scored four touchdowns last week. Where did he do this week? Nothing?
And people are gonna be mad that, well, you told

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me he started Taysom Hill over call Pitts. It's like, yeah, well,
what do you want me to do? So, yeah, George
Kittle also had eight for eighty three, no touchdowns to
your point, Jeff Wilson game script and not in his favor,
seven rushes for twenty five yards. And then the Falcons
pass catchers. I mean Kyle Pitts you just mentioned him.
He caught a touchdown, which was really exciting. We all

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had our fun on Twitter making jokes. But he only
had three targets nineteen yards. I mean, this wasn't the
like Kyle Pitts return breakout game. No, it wasn't. And
it just it goes back to the Falcons, Like the
Falcons just have a really effective run game, and that's
what they want to do, Like they want to run
the football. It makes sense they have a mobile quarterback.
They have a quarterback that the more that Mariota draws
drops back the throw like, the less likely that good

(18:36):
things are going to happen. So and that kind of
plays into why Drake London has struggled over the last
couple of weeks. It's this offensive scenario. I don't want
to compare it to the Bears because it's not as bad,
but it is very similar to the Bears, where these
receivers are just not reliable week to week because of
the run heavy nature of They want it regardless of
how the game script is like, they want to run
the ball when, especially when they have a lead. Three

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catches forty yards for London. What is your panic meter
on him? Yeah, I'm definitely concerned because we saw at
the beginning of the year he was very, very productive.
He's getting by on low volume, high target chair in
the offense, but kind of like I mentioned before, it's
like the Bears offense a little bit where you're not
going to get it. I wouldn't want to cell drac
One because I think that the talent is there, but

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he's not someone you can rely on starting week to
week for these two teams. Next week, the Falcons go
to Cincinnati and the forty nine Ers are going to
host the Chiefs. Next game up Jets at Packers. Breecee
Hawk continues to look just awesome. Twenty rush. He is
one hundred and sixteen yards and its touchdown. Where is
he rest of the season in your running back rankings
and how high do you think he can cli? He

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can climb even beyond where he is now there's not.
I don't think there's like a handful of running backs
I can listen. I'd rather have his haul than for
the rest of the season because not only he has
like this juicy playoff schedule that I know we're looking
far ahead, but that matters, Like and right now, he's
what has he been. He's an RB one, Like that's
all he's been in fantasy. And it's not because of
the usage, because he's just he's is good. Like he's

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just a good running back. And right now he's the
only one of the Jets that you can trust in
your lineups because like I didn't even know, like Elijah
More zero targets. I didn't even I didn't realize that.
I was like, oh wait, zero target. I just saw
like everyone was horrible basically, and I was like, well,
that's what happens when your quarterback only completes ten passes.
Like everyone's gonna be horrible. So yeah, right now, the
offense has totally shifted its identity. It's gone from this

(20:23):
Joe Flackle it's drop back fifty times a game to
Breeese Hall is the offense. He's the engine. We're gonna
play defense and we're gonna feed Breeze Hall so right now,
like you can't. Honestly, these Jets wide receivers like gotta
drop Elijah More. I don't know why I picked them.
Corey Davis and Garrett Wilson looked good. I'd like to
keep him stashed to see if something changes. But if
you gotta, you can't play him now. You can't play
him in this offense. Yeah, Corey Davis just to mention

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to catches fifty two yards. It's the second straight week
he has led the Jets wide receivers in yardage. So
to whatever degree they are throwing the ball, Zach Wilson
is looking his way for big plays. I guess he
has zero targets for Elijah More. I got more in
every league. I was so excited for him. Him as
one of my favorite mid round breakouts this year and
just a big fat looking at the Packers, They also,

(21:06):
I mean, flat out stink a lot of the players
in Fantasy, at least they did today and have for
a couple of weeks. Aj dal In ten for forty
one on the ground, Aaron Jones nine for nineteen. Robert
Tonyan was a favorite target of Rogers in previous years
had that injury, he went ten for ninety today. Is
he somebody that moves the needle for you at tight end?
I think so I got to look at again referring

(21:27):
back to you know, what was his route participation, Like
that's really important to me looking to see how how
fame he's running. I would assume that's probably pretty good
considering how many targets he got in this game. So
it's been it's been trending like not great the last
couple of weeks. But obviously he's coming back from an
injury from last year, so I was hoping that his
usage would increase, So I anticipate to be pleased with

(21:48):
what he had here. So yeah, Robert Tony and if
he's getting that seventy percent route participation, I think they'm
definitely gonna be on board, especially like chasing these targets here,
Um Blizard and Dobbs are just kind of splitting the
work behind as the number one wide receiver. Just Lazard
is just Lazard has that the red zone job. Like
he has the red zone role. He keeps catching touchdowns.
That's not gonna change, Like Rogers is gonna keep throwing
touchdowns because like Honestly, these Packers running backs like massive disappointment,

(22:12):
both of them, Like they've been both colossal like busts honestly,
like Aaron Jones and everyone's like Aaron Jones is gonna
lead the Packers and receiving and receptions like dude, he doesn't.
He even he barely can out target AJ Dhillon on
a week to week basis. Like Aaron Jones has been
um like he had that one big game against the
Bears and he's parasically done nothing. And A J. Dillon.
I keep breaking us at RB two because I'm like

(22:33):
positive game script. They had the Jets, they had the
Giants last week, they had the Patriots two weeks. Go'm
like positive game script like this will be perfect for
A J. Dillon and then nothing. It's getting frustrating with
these with these Packers running backs. Yeah, ECR had both
guys his top twenty five running backs away into the
year and you could combine their stats today and they
still't even get a hundred yards in a touchdown. So yeah,
not very good. Packers had to Washington next week to

(22:55):
face the Commanders. Jets will be in Denver, Vikings at
Dolphins Hirey Kill despite the you know, sort of limited
status with the injury. Twelve four hundred and seventy seven
yards fifteen targets, Jalen Wattles six four hundred and twenty
nine on ten targets. Is this the best wide receiver
duo in football right now? I think so? Yeah. I
mean the fact that they did this with like like

(23:17):
broken Teddy Bridgewater Skylar Thompson with like blood is coming
out of his thumb, I mean, I got this isn't
I'm taking an L on this. I was low on
the Dolphins receivers this week because I didn't think they'd
be able to get it done with the backup quarterbacks,
especially with Skylar tom I mean, I did think it
was gonna be Skylar Thompson the whole time under center.
Like in my own defense, but I guess, like Teddy
Bridgewater being active, I should have seen that as a
red flag and being yeah, you know, Teddy Bridge, I

(23:39):
might takeover and he's the distributor, which is kind of
what happened here where the Viking give up a lot
of completions. So it was a good matchup. So they
did have a chance to thrive, and they obviously did
because they're they're super talented with their bomb hands. But yeah,
I'm gonna say that day I probably are at the
top duo. Raheem most At fourteen carries just forty nine yards,
but I wanted to bring him up because nobody else

(23:59):
in the Dolphins backfield had more than two carries or
three yards, so this appears to be firmly his backfield, right, Yeah,
but I think it's still like scenario like sell High,
like Raheem Mostert is glass, like he's man out of glass.
And I know that they hate Chase Edmonds and they're
never gonna give him the ball. It's just something funny
like Miles Gasket becomes inactive before this game, We're like, okay,
like maybe Chase Edmonds like get more carries. And they

(24:22):
gave like a carry to some former safety like before
they gave it to Chase Edmonds who had one carry again,
So yeah, Chase Edmonds is like this really like he's
still handcuff because I don't believe Moser will stay healthy
the entire season, but if you gotta drop Chase Edmonds,
you just gotta do it. It was a very twenty
twenty stat line for the Vikings. Receivers Justin Jefferson one

(24:45):
hundred and seventy yards and I'm feeling only thirty six,
but he got the touchdown, so that was disappointing for
Jefferson managers. Dalvin Cook thirteen to seventy seven with a
touchdown only twenty four yards in the ground outside of
his one, you know, fifty three yard breakaway, So just
something to note there. And then Earth's I did get
in the end zone. Debro was really high on him
this week. He only had four catches for seven yards,

(25:05):
so the end zone, you know, getting a catch there
health but not much beyond that. The Vikings are on
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Game number four Patriots at Browns. We already talked about
Romander Stevenson. He was the big fantasy takeaway. I want
to ask you, as the Pats guy like Bailey Zappy,
is there any sort of fantasy viability here or at
the very least he can be a viable starter to

(26:29):
help keep the Pats like skill position guys, you know
contributing during the weeks that Matt Jones is out. What
do you make of Zappy? Because I did not expect
him to be remotely good. No. I mean, but when
you look at his college production, I mean, the guy
through for like six thousand yards and sixty sixty touchdowns,
So it's like there's got to be and I get
it was at Western Kentucky, so you gotta take it
with a grain of salt. But at the same time,

(26:50):
if you throw over sixty touchdowns like in any capacity,
like that's good. Like clearly he knows how to do
something right when it comes to playing football. So yeah,
I think he's had really easy matchups. I mean, he's
had the Browns, he's had the Lions, like two teams
that they pagriots have been able to basically do whatever
they wanted to on the ground, making it really easy.
You know, the defense is trying to stop the run,

(27:11):
so he has more time to throw. Like. But but
he has looked good and I think that if you
are in a two quarterback league, I think that he's
still someone that's viable. I'm still not so sure that
he's someone you want to start because there the pages
are not trying to Yeah, let's have bail these appy
like RiPP this defense to shreds, like they want to
run the football regardless of who's under center, so I
fils think it's Ramondre Stevenson. I wouldn't buy into this

(27:34):
too much, but be happy that you can feel better
about your Patriots pass catchers and weapons, like I feel
better about Romandra because they have a competent quarterback. And
I'm just so glad that I shouldn't say glad, but
the fact that Zappy's gotten this opportunity because of the
Brian Hoyer injury, Like I did not want them to
play Brian horror because I'm like, I know what this is, Like,
let's use this rookie like he had showed talent, like

(27:55):
even in the preseason. So I'm happy that he's doing well.
I'm not necessarily happy that people wold now think that
he's gonna win a job over Mac Jones and who knows,
weird stuff that can happen. But it's the lines and
the Browns like defenses that are just been horrible. Yeah,
on the other side of this, and Nick Chubb bottled
up twelve or fifty six packs are one of the
better run defenses in football. Cream hunt for for twelve actually,

(28:16):
before we move on this game, Taekwon Thornton two total
touchdowns for New England. Is he worth being maybe not
the number one waiver priority, but a guy that you
go after if you need wide receiver help. I think so.
I mean they're trying to get him more involved. Kendrick Born,
we didn't mention him when we talking about injuries, but
he actually left this game with an injury, which kind
of opened up more opportunities. Nelson Agler didn't playing this game,
so it is a little bit crowded. They gotta either
move on from one of these guys or someone needs

(28:38):
to get like put on ir for techlo thor to
take over a full time role. But they're trying to
find ways to get into the ball, like he gives
them an element of speed that they don't have on offense.
And I can I just guaranteed. Jakobe mars Is like,
you're rookie, you already have two touchdowns, Like, do you
know how long I've been in this league to even
sniff one touchdown? Next week, the Patriots host the Bears

(28:59):
on Monday Night Football, as you mentioned, and the Browns
will travel to Baltimore to face the Ravens. Let me
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(29:19):
to Bengals at Saints. Obviously we talked about it already.
The return of Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow to the
site of their national championship victory at LSU Tee Higgins
really disappointed fantasy managers in week five. He did get
ten targets here in week six, just six or forty
seven here? Did you see anything that makes you concerned

(29:39):
more long term? Or dude is happy to at least
se him getting some targets again. Yeah, I mean I'm
happy that he was getting targeted. I'm happy that. I mean,
you don't get ten targets if he's playing on a
bummed ankle and he's still getting ten targets, like that's good.
And look, we saw this with Gave Davis. You know
when he had that ankle injury, like he kind of
disappeared for a couple of weeks and he came back
and had that massive game. So the fact that Higgins

(30:00):
is still out there getting targets. I think that you're
happy that you have him, and he's honestly probably like
a by Low type of guy for me, if people
are concerned after obviously goosing last week because he got hurt,
and then this week not insane production, but the targets
were there. Joe Mixon finally doesn't get the volume he's
been getting all year eight for forty five. He does
catch a touchdown, though, so saves his fantasy day. We

(30:22):
already talked about this a little too, Taysom Hill really
crashing back to earth here after nobody expected him to
score four touchdowns again. Well, I don't know the way
that people talked about him and about where they were
ranking him, it seemed like that was going to happen again. Well,
you know, if that's true. You are the guy who
very famously on our Friday show predicted week one that
Courtland Sutton was going to catch three touchdowns. So if
anybody would have been predicting a follow up to a

(30:44):
four touchdown game, I know be you. He instead had
five carries for thirty nine yards, no catches, two for
four passing for sixteen yards, So did absolutely nothing. Are
you when looking forward with him, going to be starting
him because of the upside like next week or just
to let you know, they're at the Cardinals on Thursday
night football, So will you be starting him in that

(31:05):
game because of the upside or will you be avoiding
because it's just so volatile? So the thing with him,
it's gonna be funny because you're gonna get like the
tout's talking about how bad the Cardinals are against tight ends,
and it's like, well, Sammill doesn't play like tight end,
Like he doesn't run routes. So I'm going to get
like this, like I mean, he's going to be someone

(31:26):
that if you don't feel if there's no a compelling
reason to start another tight end, like that's where I
feel like, Okay, Taysom Hill's my guy here. But if
I have a tight end that it's good route participation
that is on a good offense, you know the matchup
is good, Like I'm gonna start in him over Tasomil.
But if it's hey, Taysom Hill or insert tight end
like super fringe guy, I'm just gonna go with Tasomil,
Like because clearly the upside is there with him and

(31:48):
as long as these receivers are still hurt. Like That's
kind of the other thing with this is Taysom Hill's
role isn't going to It's I don't think he's gonna
get better if Michael Thomas comes back and Alvin comes back, Like,
I don't really see that happening. It would work the
other way around, which is why people were higher on
him this week. I think because of all the injuries
the Saints had. I'm at the receiver position. Alvin Kamara
nineteen for ninety nine on the ground, six for twenty

(32:10):
five through the air. The Bengals are hosting at Lanta
next week, and like we said, the Saints are going
to play on Thursday Night football in Arizona, Jags at Colts.
We already talked about Michael Pittman and Matt Ryan and
Dion Jackson a little Paris Campbell. I mean seven for
fifty seven and a touchdown eleven targets. Alec Pierce three
for forty nine did have the long touchdown seven targets

(32:30):
for him. Is it worth starting either of these guys
if you have a need with by weeks and injuries
or was this sort of a spike game just because
they got in the end zone. I think it's a
spike game. I think Pierce is the one that you
still want. I mean, he has been on the upward
trajectory of the last couple of weeks. Paris Campbell, I
know you mentioned the eleven targets, like you can't look
at that at face value. Matt Ryan threw the ball
fifty eight times, like like that matters. So when you

(32:53):
look at his target Chare, it's still under twenty percent,
Like didn't even crack the twenty percent. Nineteen percent is
not that great. And I want to see where al
Pierce fell into terms of routes if it was the
same or more than Paris Campbell. So I'm interested to
see what that looks like. But Alic Pierce, this has
been a couple of weeks that he's put together a
couple of nice outings, and hear a really nice he
had the game winning touchdown from Matt Rhyme is a nice, nice,

(33:14):
nice grap that he had. So I still I'm gonna
lean towards alb Pierce here, mean, Paris Camps, this is
the first game Paris Camps like dot targets like like
He has been out there the entire time this whole season,
and this is the first time he's gotten targets. That
took Matt Ryan throwing the ball at fifty eight times
to finally get it there fifty eight times. I just
feel bad for the guy. He's so old. How did
his arm not fall off? It's just that's tough for him.

(33:37):
Travis etn ten of eighty six rushing, two for twenty
two through the air. James Robinson third straight game with
no touchdown and also under sixty yards rushing. He was
like one of the most fun stories in all of
football for the first few weeks the season. Has the
clock struck midnight on the Cinderella story of his return
from the Achilles Or is this just a down couple

(33:58):
of weeks? What do you think? He just he's so
dependent on the Jaguars playing winning football like he needs
because he's not seeing the same type of role where
he's getting every down. He's playing every snap like he's
done in traditional years when the team sucked even worse.
I would say, and he was an RV one. I
mean I was watching red zone and James Robinson never
came out on the screen because every every time it

(34:19):
flipped to it, it it was like Travis ET had big play.
Travis ET and big play because that's who their explosive
playmaker is. It's Travis ET. And this week I had
them ranked back to back of my rankings, and I
think I've seen enough where I'm ready to rank ETN
over James Robinson. Like this, the carry splits are being dead.
Even ETNS had the advantage in the passing game. ETN
plays on the two minutes drill like and ETN got

(34:40):
carries in the red zone this week. I don't know
exactly all the red zone usage, but I know I
saw et AND get stuff to the goal line and
get opportunities near the goal line. So if you can
still try to trade off James Robinson even for ETN
straight up, I think that's gonna be the move, you know,
try to get ahead of it now before James Robinson
kind of bottoms out. So Robinson I mentioned, third straight
game under six yards, no touchdown. Christian Kirk second straight

(35:02):
game under thirty yards. He did have a touchdown in
this one. I would assume panic meter would be higher
for James Robinson that it would be for Kirk. For
you yeah, yeah, I think that Kirk is silf is
still okay. He's still seeing a decent target share in
the offense. I know Marvin Jones didn't playing this game,
and that gave a bump to guys like Zay Jones
and Evan Ingram, So I still think Kirk's fine. Jaguars

(35:26):
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lost in New York Kenyan Drake blow up game here
ten for one hundred and nineteen and a touchdown on
the ground, and he looked legitimately good. This wasn't just
one long carry that sort of you know, change the
way you see his fantasy day. He did have a

(36:55):
thirty yard touchdown, but pretty much every carry he was
ripping off chunk yardage. It was really impressive because JK. Dobbins,
even prior to leaving the game when his knee tightened up,
just didn't look like he had much juice Justice Hill.
We've talked about he didn't play in this game. He's
looked like he's had more juice than JK. Dobbins this year. Now,
Kenyan Drake looked like one of the best running backs
in this Ravens offense. What do you make of this backfield?

(37:17):
Does everyone just look like they have more juice? Because
because JK Dobbins doesn't have any juice, that's maybe the
more directly of putting it. No, I love JK Dobbs,
don't want to hear it. You guys come back from
an injury. It's fine, I guess with me for Kenyan
dre So the only thing I have. The issue I
have with this Ravens backfield is they're not giving them
any type of like every single week, I totally the

(37:38):
opportunities for running backs and each team and every week
the Ravens come out like fifteen or like seventeen, and
that's what it was this week. It was seventeen opportunities overall,
so combining targets and carries for the running backs, and
I mean you see teams hit thirty like thirty five,
like they're just not featuring any running back. So, yes,
it is good that we saw Drake effective here, you

(38:00):
can rush for over one hundred yards. I just don't
see that necessarily happening again because it Healing had ten carries,
Like that's just hard to do on such lettle of all,
I mean, and to rely on the exposive plays like
we talked about, like Justice Hill looking good in week
one or in again he played alongside JK. Dobbins and
then people are like, oh, let me pick him up
and play him next week, and then he doesn't get
any volume, like they're not featuring anyone particular running back now,

(38:24):
because I know even Mike Davis played in this game too,
So it's Kenyan Drake even guaranteed to get fifteen carries
next week. If JK dobbinssiness time, probably not. So that's
kind of why I'm concerned. Like Kenyan Drake, I know,
he's probably been dropped to a lot of waiver wires
just because we've been trying to figure out this Ravens backfield.
He's someone that I would probably be like, yeah, someone
else can probably take him. I mean, he's been a
healthy scratch in some games. Earli, Yeah, exactly. Well, you

(38:47):
mentioned the fact that their running backs don't get a
ton of you know, looks. It's because they rushed the
ball with Lamar Jackson a lot. Of course he get
seventy seven yards in the ground, but this was his
third straight game where he really did not look very
sharp as a passer. And I want how much do you
you think this might correlate with Rashad Bateman being out
because he missed the large part of the second half
of the Bills game, which was also in a heavy
rainstorm and wins and then Sunday Night football and no Bateman.

(39:09):
Now today, no Bateman, and the offense hasn't scored. They've
scored twenty points, nineteen and twenty points in the last
three games coinciding with Bateman's injury. Do you think that
this is more Lamar just is kind of not looks
very good or do you think this is the offense
can't really function without Rashad Bateman healthy. No. I think
that the Bateman take makes a lot of sense, Like
he's a perimeter threat that matter. And when Bateman was

(39:32):
out there, you know, he wasn't getting a ton of volume,
but he would continue to generate explosive plays down the
field like he was super efficient in terms of yards
per route run and every time that Lamar tried to
target him like it was for massive games. So he
was threatening the defense a little bit more, opening things
up a little bit more underneath from Mark Andrews and
letting these other, you know, astillary receivers like Devin Duverne.
He's like a nice player, but like he's not someone

(39:53):
that like defense is like, oh man, like we gotta
worry about Devin Duverne, so oh no, like what are
we gonna do? And DeMarcus Robinson is a glorified blocker
like that. Dude is not a legitimate wide receiver. So
the fact that he's getting targets is not that's not
going to help generate offensive production. In my opinion, Yeah,
as a Ravens fan, if DNA is our wide receiver three,
I'm really happy. If he's the guy who has to

(40:14):
be wide receiver one, not the first target because of
Mark Andrews, but wide receiver one on the perimeter, I'm
not happy Mark Andrews just to mention him. I mean,
obviously he's in a tier with mares baby doing Mandrews
things so good. Seven four hundred and six and a
touchdown to high eleven targets. Like there's he and Kelsey
are one an, one B in whatever order you choose,
probably Kelsey ahead of him, but they're just so clearly

(40:36):
the best of the best of the position. And then
just a note with this Ravens defense going forward, because
they have been getting shredded this whole year. They really
have looked better the last couple of weeks, and particularly
they did bottle up se Quan today. Now he did
finish with eighty three yards in a touchdown. He had
zero carries that went for over eight yards today and
this is a guy who's known for being explosive and
getting chunky yardage and that's how he gets his totals

(40:57):
through the day. So twenty two for eighty three in
a touchdown was actually a really pretty consistently good day
for the Ravens defense. Just something to note. And then
Wandale Robinson back from injury three for thirty seven and
a touchdown as well. Like I said, the Ravens will
host the Browns next week and the Giants will head
to Jacksonville Bucks at Steelers Chase Claypool. I think has
been dropped in a lot of leagues. He's been a
frustration for a lot of fantasy managers this year seven

(41:20):
for ninety six in a touchdown. Yeah, he and he
was easily Mitchell Drubisky's favorite target. Like he had five
so hit seven targets. I believe that you said he
had so five of them came with Trubisky in the game,
Like that was the guy that Trubisky was dropped back.
Where's Chase clay I don't know, just just because Chase
claypools the biggest wide receiver that they have, and he's like, oh,
I'm target to the big guy over there. That's the

(41:42):
guy he was going towards. So yeah, I mean, if
Trubisky starts next week, I think Claypool would definitely get
a bump in my rankings. I think it's just gonna
be probably more spread out. You know, Deontay Johnson had
a thirty percent target chair with Mitchell Trubisky. He was
down here twenty percent with Kenny Pickett. And unfortunately this
sucks for George Pickens, like because George Pickens was annoying
and or he was being annoyed about having Tripisky's quarterback,

(42:02):
wasn't getting enough getting enough looks, And that's probably gonna
be the case here again with Trippisky most likely starting
next week. Yeah, we talked about the skill guys for Pittsburgh,
so just looking at Tampa, Chris Godwin six for ninety five,
team high, twelve targets. That was double what anybody else
got on the team. So Brady was looking his way
a lot. And then I just wanted to quickly ask you,
Leonard Fournette is not a guy that we mentioned a

(42:24):
lot on this show, or really any of the shows
that we do during the week. Twenty one of sixty
three on the ground, no touchdown, six for thirty one
and a touchdown through the air, and I just wanted
to ask, like, should we be appreciating him more and
talking about him more because he's basically been exactly what
we expected him to be going into the season. Yeah.
I mean, he was a top five running back last
year before his injury. At the end of the season,

(42:45):
he was leading all running backs in receptions, and it's
pretty much what we're getting from him now because yeah,
he didn't get down the ground, Okay, he catches a touchdown,
he gets peppered with targets from Brady because that's what
Brady operates as so as long as he stays healthy,
it's really hard to you know, look at Leonard Fournette
and pick a lot of running backs over him. The
concern is just stuffing the health like because we've seen

(43:06):
this before with him when he breaks under at the
end of the year. They feel they definitely like Rashad
White because Rashard White still like plays, but it's not
enough where Leonard Fourne is still getting his while Rashardo
White kind of sprinkles in, you know, gets seven to
eight touches every single week. Just it's another thing reminder,
like do not drop Rashod White, Like, I know he's
not doing anything. You can't start him while Fornet's healthy,
but you cannot drop him even during their bye week

(43:27):
because he has so much upside if Fournette goes down.
Week seven, the Bucks are at the Panthers and Steelers
again are at Miami on Sunday Night Football. Just three
games in the late afternoon Slate Cardinals at Seahawks. Kenneth
Walker this I know you and Bibro had a lot of,
you know, fun debates in the offseason aboutriesall versus Nneth Walker.
Both of them looks awesome today twenty one carries ninety

(43:48):
seven yards in the ground and a touchdown and just
like looked good. But based on the eye test, he
looked like just a really fun, talented running back, right. Yeah, No,
he was a major tackle breaker at the college level,
definitely a Nick Chubb esque player, where, yeah, maybe he's
not dazzling as much in the passing game, but the
dude is just stupid efficient on the ground and that
will always kind of make him somewhat underrated in fantasy.

(44:10):
So I think Keneth Mark kind of fits the bill here.
And it was a weird game too, because you know,
we expected, we expected more fireworks overall, and it was
really turned to a game where the Cardinals couldn't get
out of their own way. And Seattle like was like, oh,
we don't need to really throw. We can just kind
of like play ball control and just just give it
to Kenneth Walker. And that's what they did here because
the Cardinals were just couldn't get out of their own way. Man,
this offense is just it's just dysfunctional. Yeah. Walker did

(44:33):
have three targets in this game, which compared to how
he was used at Michigan State. Basically was like Christian McCaffrey. Well,
they do use him in pretty unique ways, like they
will do like the shovel pass things for him. They'll
do like he split out wide and they'll give him
a target. So they are designing ways. It's not like
him running out of the backfield and Gino's like, all,
let me find him, because I don't think that that
this offense really does that a lot um Neo dj Dallas,

(44:55):
you know, just talking about like Kenneth Walker's workload dj
Jalas said just two carries and zero targets. It's so
it's so clear that Walker is like, hey, Bell, cow,
would you put him like RB one rest of season?
Not RB one overall, but as in RB one rest
of season. This is the type of usage we look for, right, Yeah, yeah,
I think so. And it's not you know, I was
obviously I'd be hesitant to do this in the beginning

(45:16):
of the season. You know, even shod Penny wilsn't there
because oh, well, how good is the Seattle It's going
to be in Seattle? Yeah, you know, wasn't we expected
more from them in this matchup against a really bad
Cardinals defense. But there's still a functional offense, and I
would say they're average. I think that's fair. It's a
fair statement. But they they've shown that they can play
above average when they're playing worst defenses. So yeah, I

(45:37):
mean I think that it's it's hard to take him
probably outside of the top twelve. You know, I'm gonna
be ripping off like top to this guy's top twelve,
this guy's top twelve. So well, we'll see how it
all shakes out in my rest of season rankings. But
he definitely has the pedigree and the profile of this
is one of the top twelve fantasy running back looks
like really quickly, no explanation, Just give me a number.
If Hollywood Brown is out next week, DeAndre Hopkins will

(45:58):
be wide receiver. What for you? He will be wide
receiver nineteen? Okay, so solidly in that wide receiver two range.
Seahawks at the Chargers next week. Cardinals again hosts the
Saints on Thursday. Panthers at Rams, And we talked about
DJ Moore every week. Three catches seven yards. It's like

(46:19):
literally painful to read it. Three catches seven yards on
seven targets, not touchy and of course along of five
yards would be um, what are you talking about Robbie Anderson. Well, nobody,
nobody rostered Robbie Anderson anyways, at least Robie Anderson is gone,
like the even roster Robbie Anderson anymore, at least they

(46:40):
won't after today. But Dj Moore should fantasy managers legit?
I feel like I asked us every week where it's like, okay,
we're obviously at this point now not starting him anymore.
Just should he just officially be dropped in redraft leagues.
It's tough because it's a waste. It feels like it's
a waste of a roster spot right again, I mean
he's probably of the like you know we talk about

(47:01):
guys you should just like straight up drop. He's probably
the toughest guy to do it because he still has
a really good role on his offense and he's still
he's like the clear number. It's not a thing where
it's like, oh, where the targets go, Like when they
throw the ball, it's going to Dj Moore, Like he
still has seven targets in this game, so it's not
like he being phased out. And again, the quarterback plays
obviously horrible. It really depends on who four. But I

(47:22):
also know at the end of the day that you know,
if DJ Moore is on the waiver wire, I don't
think people are like, oh man, I gotta get TJ. More. So, yeah,
I gotta drop like I'm doing the clip as Joe
and De Ro like to say. So yeah. I mean,
I think he's fine. He's not someone that I think, yeah,
maybe he has some more productive games out of the stretch,
because I think he will because he's been a wide

(47:43):
receiver two every single year of his career, so I
think that things will just regress naturally, so he'll bounce
back at some point. But I don't think you're gonna
drop GJ. More. He's gonna turn into a league winner
and you're gonna face him your FANAS Championship a lose
because you dropped him. Like, that's not gonna happen. So
if you have to drop him for bye weeks or
you'd like someone that's kind on the ascend, I got
no problem with him. I mean, you say seven targets,

(48:04):
but like, who really cares when those targets are coming
yards from the Panthers quarterback room. Christian McCaffrey, of course,
remains incredible. Obviously, I think we'd like to see him traded,
but it doesn't even really matter if he is. He's
going to continue to be awesome whenever he's healthy. Thirteen
carries sixty nine yards and then seven catches eighty nine yards,

(48:25):
and then the Rams side, you know, Darryl Henderson with
Cam Acres. I guess not like obviously he didn't play
in this game, probably not playing in La Ever. Again,
Henderson had twelve carries forty three yards and a touchdown
a lot of different players in the Rams, eight different guys. Yeah,
it was so bizarre. Officially had a carry for the Rams,
So I guess this is a replaced Acres by committee.

(48:46):
I don't entirely know what to make of that. Cooper
Cup seven for eighty yards and then Alan Robinson is
this signs of life? We're just sort of a fluke
year where he had five catches sixty three yards and
a touchdown, which again compared to the first five weeks
of his season, is like we're doing fireworks over here.
Yeah right, No, it's like this guy's having a massive game.
You're like, dude, you have like sixty yards and he

(49:08):
got a touchdown, Like, let's you're compared to the rest
of the season. He should have been your headline, right yeah,
right when you're when you're just measuring the gap in
production from Alan Robinson, it's like whoa, Like this is huge?
Uh yeah, two words, tell high, like just like I mean,
if he's not already on your wave wire, Like you know,
I dropped down Robinson for Jacobi Myers this week, Like

(49:28):
you know, I don't care Alan Robins had a beggar
game whatever. Um, you know, this Rams offense is still
define I mean they they played the Panthers like this,
Like we talked about dysfunctional offenses and like systems, like
the Panthers are at the bottom of the league, Like
the Rams had to play well in this game, and
this is what we got. Like this is like the
boom game for Alan Robinson. Which it's fine, it's good.

(49:49):
You know, if you drafted in best Ball, you're happy
with it. And but no, I'm trying to move off
of him. Yeah you say sell high. I think it's
more like sell for literally anything that's not zero, Like
you will just take what you can get, whatever anybody's
willing to offer. I think you happily sprint to accept
the trade. And then lastly the game of the day
going into the day at least Bills at Chiefs. Josh

(50:12):
Allen pulled it out in the end and everybody made
all the same comments, too much time for Patrick Mahomes
and then he threw the interception. So even though it
was really low scoring game early ended up being a
fun one. There were so much hype going into this game.
There's so many Fantasy relevant players here. What was the
guy that sort of stood out to you in this one? Well,
Gabe Davis getting done again with little to no targets,

(50:32):
because that's just man. He loves playing the Chiefs getting
it's the Chiefs. Um So yeah. Gave Davis continues to
just be that Boomer bus wide receiver too that I
think that you just gotta play every week and you
just take the lumps. He's bad games, you just get
over it and you move on because he has good
games like this. Gives continues to do his thing. Devin.
I think Devin Singletary just it's still sound like he's

(50:52):
just one of these underrated Bell cow backs that you know.
Zach Moss was inactive for this game. I thought that
was kind of interesting. M James Cook played, but you
would be able to tell that by the box score
because he had two carries for eight yards and that's it.
In Devin Singletary seventeen carries eighty five yards, four catches
for twenty two yards. I mean, dude had twenty touches. Again,
like this is we're just seeing what we saw at
the end of last year with Devin Singletary, and yet

(51:14):
like he wasn't a top twenty running back this week
in DCR and I thought that was I was how
much higher on Devin Singletary because I was like, why
is this guy like not ranked high? Like what are
we missing here? Like, so Singletary, I actually traded for
him in one of my leagues as part of the
Jamar Chase Jonathan Taylor moved because I was like, I
liked Singletary, I think just being undervalued by the market.

(51:34):
So I was happy to kind of see that from
the bill side of thing. And then on Kansas City,
I mean, juju, this is like the fact that he
scored his touchdown and he still doesn't have any red
zone targets, Like it's it's like such an issue with
him that yeah, eventually he was going to score and
go over a hundred yards because we talked about this
on the show where he was seeing like eight targets

(51:55):
in every you know, every so often. And it's funny
that the game that he actually has his production, he
only has five targets, Like it's ironic that he probably
produces like off of the big round, like it was
a broken tackle. He looked good after the catch, which
he really hasn't done traditionally. Travis Kelsey obviously doing his thing.
So you're just gonna flip flop with receivers what and yes,

(52:15):
did nothing in this game, so where last week MBAs
did do something. So anytime that you can sell off
one of these chiefs receivers off to their big game,
especially because Juju had a lot of believers early on
in the season, I think that he's probably gonna be
so high for me really quickly. I love how casually
you were, Like Stefine Diggs continues to do his thing.
He had ten catches for one hundred and forty eight
yards in a touchdown. I mean like basically, yeah, another

(52:37):
day at the office. Is it really is? I love
the guy obviously former Turp and the last player I
just want to ask about is Clyde Edwards Elaire Bien
one of the hot button guys this season because he's
had a lot of touchdowns didn't have one today, but
he hasn't been efficient. He hasn't really gotten a ton
of volume nine for thirty three on the ground today.
I don't think he had even a target in the game,

(52:58):
so nothing through the air. What he to me, He's
just one of the toughest guys to actually sort of
rank rest of season and decide what you want to
do with because it's not even like you can really
sell him high coming off the last two games. No,
he can't because we all told you know, this was
like the consensus, like everyone you gotta sell high to
cover to Lara, and then it became himself popular that
nobody would nobody could trade him because it was so

(53:20):
obvious to do. Um. Yeah, it's frustrating. I don't really know.
I mean, ever two, I think he's like an RB three,
like he still has to sharn equity because Chiefs are
gonna still score points. So and if you look back
two weeks ago that you know he had two. He
basically got to tackle at the one yard line twice,
so he could have scored last week. He just didn't

(53:40):
score this week. But he's just touched down her bus.
Like I guess I would probably view him like a
similar ilk to like Ezekiel Elliott, but probably a little
bit higher because he's a younger guy, Like he doesn't
have as much you know, clout or negative clout around
him like Zeke does, and he plays on a better offense.
So I think that he's in the back end RB
two RB three year territory. And I mean, if you're
desperate for a running back and you can get him

(54:00):
dirt cheap, then like roll the dice, like you can
probably get him for nothing because he still plays and
and we've seen him put up good games, Like he
has good games. He's just not getting a lot of volume.
So if it's become so suppressed his price, I mean,
if you could, I mean Al Robinson or Clidos rest season,
like give me the running back. Like, So that's the
way I would try to strategize it. Boy, what a
fun trade to end the show on. Thank you everybody

(54:23):
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