November 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Join Ryan Wormeli and Tera Roberts as they highlight 5 fantasy football moves you should be making ahead of the Week 11 action around the NFL!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, everybody, Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined
as I am every Monday by Tara Roberts, and we
are talking five moves to make before week eleven. Just
a handful of weeks here left in the fantasy regular season,
so we're going to try to give some advice to
make some moves to put you over the top into
that playoff push, maybe help get you a first round
(00:21):
buy if you're in such a position. Just a few
weeks left here. Like I said, so we're gonna, you know,
really really make that push here in the next month
and get into the playoffs. A quick reminder for everybody
that all of our weekly consensus rankings and tiers can
be found at fantasypros dot com slash rankings. And Tara,
you use this phrase when we were putting this show together.
You're going on a shopping spree today. There are more
(00:42):
buys in here than usually usually. We have a couple
of buys, a couple of cells, maybe a drop. This
is a by centric episode. Do you feel like it's
a buyer's market like the housing market can be sometimes,
or do you just happen to have a couple of
names extra that you really are feeling positive about right now.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I think it's you got a couple of guys
that we're feeling positive about.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We've got some superstars.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
On a downturn here that have negative perceptions. And as
I take a whole bunch of trade questions and stuff,
I start to see some names repeating and I'm like, huh,
that's very interesting. Okay, So yeah, we're it's a good
buymarket right now.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, let's start with one of those aforementioned superstars, because
you've got the of name on here who was a
top two pick in drafts that you are looking to buy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, by Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And you know, when it comes to Bijon, technically, is
there such a thing as a by loo?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
How can you buy low on a player like that?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But if there is a time where his value is
as low as it possibly can be, that time is
right now. I've noticed fantasy managers are extremely frustrated with
the lack of consistency, lack of volume. The increased usage
of Tyler Aljier this past game didn't help here. When
you look at Bijon Robinson, he's the type of player
that you expect to be giving you league winning production
(01:59):
every single week. If you were getting this type of
performance out of Breeze Hall, that'd be like, okay, no problem,
you would.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Have no complaints here.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But when it's Bijon Robinson you start to get red
flags raids.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Then people are getting frustrated here.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He's had fewer than fifteen Fantasy points in half PPR in.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The past four weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Here, it's not a major issue from my perspective, but
from a fantasy manager's perspective, again, it's very frustrating here,
and you would be.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Surprised how many people are willing to.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Part ways in order to trade and look for that
perceived shiny upside that some other running back has here.
Now some managers might be also looking ahead to the
playoff schedules and considering flipping Bijon, because at this point
you're looking at the playoff schedules and you might look
at it and say, oh wait a second, that looks
a little tough. You see the LA Rams and championship week,
that is not a team that you want to run against.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Week fifteen, A Tampa Bay who.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is, you know, not necessarily a terrible matchup, but they
are perceived as better against the run. So when you
put in that perspective of the you know, the potential
matchups that we have here, Yeah, there are people that
are potentially wanting to thinking that they're being sad and
flipping out and trying to pawn him off on somebody
else here. Bijon is somebody who, regardless of the playoff matchups,
(03:07):
he could have the worst playoff matchups in the world.
I still want Bejon Robinson, But that opens up a
little selling opportunity there, and it's a great opportunity for
us to buy here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What do you think is a reasonable offer to send
somebody for Bejeon if you're looking to trade for him,
Because obviously, like with a name like his, you're probably
not going to get too steep a discount, but you
also don't want to overpay in general. So like when
you sit down and say, oh, I want to go
trade for Bejon, who are some of the names that
come to mind, Like I want to package two players
(03:40):
like this, or I would do a one to one
swap that might surprise people for a guy like this. Again,
it's different for a lot of players Bjon, like you know,
top three rest of season and consentsus rankings surprising. No
one has been really good at times, even earlier this season.
It's just lately as stumbled. You know, he only has
topped one hundred rushing yards in a game twice this year,
(04:00):
but he gets so much work in the receiving game. Really,
it's a lack of touchdowns and Tyler las year, you know,
taking them from him that it is so frustrating and
feels like a limits of ceiling. But having settled that, like,
what is the type of name that you would throw
out to somebody that hey, it's not an insulting offer.
I don't want to overpay either. This seems like a
fair deal.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You know, honestly, very interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I feel like people feel very positively about Josh Jacobs,
and that's somebody who they perceive as being a safer
running back than Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So you could honestly do a one for one from that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Perspective with a guy like Josh Jacobs, because when you
look at Bijon, he's got that perceived competition of Tyler
out here. People don't see Emmanuel Wilson is that way.
He has no competition at the goal line. So while
he does have those same ups and downs that any
running back naturally has. The perception is just a lot
better on him.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Jacobs is RB seven on the season, Bijon's RB five,
so they've basically been right there, and like you said,
maybe maybe feels like a sturd of your floor for Jacobs,
even if we are not necessarily saying that's true, just
the perception wise, I could see people feeling that way.
Maybe add something really small to Jacobs even to get
it done. I'd be willing to do that, frankly for
somebody like Bijon. Let's go to your next player to
(05:08):
buy here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
My next player to buy here is Michael Pittman. We've
talked about Michael Pittman before. Is a buy low or
just buy in general? Multiple times this season, and again
this is a perception thing. Michael Pittman has had a
strong season Greman quite frankly, the strongest season he has
ever had, but for some reason, people just don't truly
see him as a true wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
One heading into this week, he was.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Literally the wide receiver ten on the season, and from
that perspective, most people don't actually see him operating at
that level. So when you throw in a week ten
performance where he faded into the background. And Alex Pearce,
which is one of those names that garners a lot
of attention there, and then you've got the people that
love Josh Downs, so there's and obviously Tyler Warren. There's
(05:52):
a lot of eye popping names in here that make
people feel jittery about Michael Pittman and his role in
the offense.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Here, Pierce had a fantastic day, there was no issue.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But at the end of the day, there's zero reason
to believe that Michael Pittman is just going to fade
away and disappear from this offense with the level of
performances that he has had in the amount of upside
and quite frankly, the touchdown equity that he has had
as well has been incredibly strong this season. When we're
looking at Alex Pearce, obviously he's been fantastic, But prior
(06:23):
to this, this is not a situation of like let's
say Atroy Franklin and Courtland Sutton, where they had been
running steadily pretty even for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
There.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You can look at that and say, hey, this is
a guy who is genuinely competing to be the wide receiver.
One of the offense and quite possibly has taken over
Courtland Sutton. Prior to this game, that was not the
case at all for Michael Pittman and Alex Pearce Pierce
had always been performing behind him here and occasionally there's
just these games where Pittman disappears because of you know,
there's a specific coverage maybe that Shane Steiken wants to avoid.
(06:53):
He's a very intelligent offensive mind, so there's times where
you can see him obviously positioning to increase weapons because
the matchup is better over here or over there. But
when it comes to Michael Pittman and the performances that
he has had, he has consistently been a top fifteen performer.
He's a true wide receiver one. And this is an
excellent time.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
To buy him, not just like coming off of this
poor performance, but you know, on the buy this week,
tough schedule coming up, you know at Casey home against Houston,
at Jacksonville at Seattle is the next month after the bye,
So a tough stretch. That's the case you make when
trying to trade for him, right, Like, if you're trying
to persuade Someboddy, say hey, like you know you need
help now I'm trying to, you know, trade for this
(07:34):
guy who's probably not gonna do much for you in
the future, at least that's the case you make. So
I think this is a good one. He's wide receiver
nineteen in the consensus rest of season rankings. Does that
feel too high, too low, or just right to you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's too low for me, and I get it because
there's a lot of guys that could present upside. Obviously,
when we're looking across the board, we've got a lot
of wide receivers that are underperforming. We'll perhaps talk about
more here, but I believe firmly that he should be
in the top fifteen rest of season.
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Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, let's talk about one of those underperforming wide receivers there,
Justin Jefferson. The days should have been better for Justin Jefferson.
It was a weird one. If the fantasy manager in
your league didn't watch the game, they look at his
performance and see four receptions on twelve targets, and they
would assume, logically, you would And it wasn't as if
jj McCarthy had a stellar game, right, but you would.
(09:00):
I assume that the lack of production for Jefferson was
one hundred percent on McCarthy and that he was just
a mess and poor Jefferson out there just can't get
an accurate ball. While again McCarthy wasn't perfect, a lot
of these issues, unfortunately that happened in this game were
specifically on Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He didn't look like his usual self.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
There was a weird lack of effort there was able
to drop touchdown pass. Perhaps it was just a bad
day because I don't feel like we've seen that out
of him consistently through this season here. And then when
you add on top of that, even if they did
notice that some of that was on Jefferson, you ultimately
have the perception of JJ McCarthy and him being a
young quarterbase, it's essentially, you know, essentially his rookie season here.
(09:39):
There's development that has to happen. He has to progress
as the season goes on here. So there's a lot
of understandable skepticism there. And when you look around, there's
a lot of competition.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Weapons in this offense as well. But when you look
at Justin Jefferson's production this season, a lot of it
has been mediocre, But you got to remember most of
that was actually not with JJ McCarthy. You can't pin
that on him. And then when you look ahead at
the rest of season schedule, that's where I really get
my interests peaked there. I can understand why someone would
be apprehensive with Justin Jefferson in the situation in JJ
(10:11):
McCarthy here, but we should continue to see visible improvement
from McCarthy, particularly in the upcoming matchups here, because the
Vikings have one of the best remaining strength of schedules
in the league. So if we can see this improvement
in JJ McCarthy, he's mobile, he can deal with different
types of defenses here, and obviously the volume is still
going to justin Jefferson. There's not a problem of JJ
(10:33):
McCarthy having extremely low volume and not being able to
get the targets too Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Jefferson just has to.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Be at a better place to be able to capitalize
on it him. But it's a good BILO opportunity for him.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, it's funny because like on the one hand, if
you look at his game log, it's like he's been
more of a floor player than a ceiling player this season.
He does not have twenty points in a game in
half PPR scoring this year, but he does have mostly
double digit scoring. So it's just again floor not ceiling.
But a that wasn't with JJ McCarthy the whole time,
which you know you could argue as a plus or
(11:05):
a minus for some people, but be that doesn't take
any consernation what the schedule looks like coming up, like
you said, like Washington Dallas at Giants Detroit, that's week
fourteen on he's just incredibly enticing. It was a really
weird game yesterday from him, Like the lack of effort
on you know, when Marlon Humphrey had the pick and
was like very slowly looking to almost wait for his
(11:26):
blocks to set up, there was no effort by Jefferson
to try and tackle him like it was. It was
a weird. It felt like a sleepy, like lack of
effort game. I'm not saying he wasn't trying. I would
never sit here and say an NFL player on an
NFL field wasn't trying, but that's how it looked compared
to what we think of him as It's like, you know,
it really is because he makes everything look easy all
the time, justin Jefferson, because he's so talented that when
(11:49):
it's not working, it almost looks like he's not trying us.
Right again, I know he is trying it. It was
just a weird looking game, you know watching that, So yeah,
I wouldn't like overreact to that. And JJ McCarthy like
he's inconsistent right now at this point in his career,
but he can still do very good things with the
ball in his hands. And if you're a receiver, like
obviously the better the quarterback is the better. But like,
(12:11):
you don't need consistency. You just need two or three
great balls in a game and you can score a
touchdown and have a break a big play and do
stuff like that. So yeah, I'm with you. Like, I
think Jefferson's actually a really a good bye. He's not
at wide receiver ten in rest of season rankings. That's
as attainable as he has been since the first month
of his career. Like, he is not a guy that
(12:31):
is ever available in trades, and he might be right now.
So I think that's a good shout here. You've got
another wide receiver here for your next buy.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, we're gonna buy one more. Hopefully people will go
with me on this one. We're gonna we're gonna buy
Quentin Johnston. Yeah, we're jumping back in here. Sunday's game
clarified a lot of things with the Chargers offense because
prior to this game, there was a very noticeable shift
in snaps for Keenan Allen to where he had become
extremely untrustworthy. He had been playing in weeks eight to nine,
(13:02):
less than forty percent of snaps. Now, this past week
we did get a little boost from him, more than
likely tied to them trying to get him that receptions
record for the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But despite that, he only saw five targets.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He's had five targets in each of the past three
games here, and we've also had a increase in snaps
for Trey Harris as well, So it seems they're making
a shift over there between those two, but Quentin Johnston
has remained the clear wide receiver too. It's very abundantly
clear that the offense from a past perspective is Lad McConkey,
(13:36):
the Rondez Gadsden and Quentin Johnston. But now you add
in the potential of the injury there. When you guys
watch this video, you might know the details of his
MRI there. But if there is any potential absence for
Rondez Gadsden, that only increases the upside for Quentin Johnston.
So you would want to get in there before he
has that game where he goes off, making him a
(13:57):
solid bi low option here, and.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The volume has been fine for him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know, we've seen a couple of situations where he
had a couple of drops, but overall he still looked
like that same high upside performer that we saw earlier
in the season.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's got the big play upside and he plays very
well off of Lad McConkey.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So if we can funnel this offense down to the
focus being on the two of them, that's a very
good situation for us.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So interestingly, Tara, while we were recording this, which is
only a short video so it's not a very wide
open window, we did get some news on Aronde. Gadsten
Schefter just tweeted a couple of minutes ago that his
MRI revealed a quad bruise that will have him per
a source day today. So good news for Gadsten relative
to what you think when you hear like, oh, knee
(14:44):
issue MRI. You know, this is better than it could
have been, of course for one of the breakout stars
of the year, but his breakout has coincided with you know,
less productive Quentin Johnson. So does that change your opinion
on Johnson at all?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Hearing that, No, not too much.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I think that would have definitely boosted the value as
a whole there. But even with him in the game, previously.
As long as we have that reduction of Keenan Allen
them being the top three there. We saw Justin Herbert
still pushing good volume even though we have the offensive
line injuries there, so that was a good sign. The
run game finally looked a bit more effective in this
matchup as well here. So if they're still going to
(15:20):
be pushing volume and we've got the top three there
and then we've got them trying to figure things out
with Keenan Allen and Trey Harris over there on the
side there, I think that's enough of a funnel to
where we feel okay.
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finally come to our only cell here, Tara wrap us up.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, it's Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That shouldn't be That's not the first time that I've
mentioned selling Alvin Kamara. I talked about it when Kendre
Miller went down with the injury. Now we've got one
tiny little window if you want to get out now,
if you don't want to deal with it, now is
the time here.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
This was a good game.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Twenty two carries, eighty three yards, three receptions. It was
the second although it wasn't fancy, it was not typical
Alvin Kamara. It was the least second highest yardage that
we'd seen from him and second highest fantasy output of
the season for him. It's been a while since we've
seen him with that level of carries operating as a
true back, the true lead back there.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So that was good to see here, But you cannot
trust this production to remain consistent there. Carolina is defense.
They definitely showed improvement earlier in the season. I think
that they may have fallen apart.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Whatever they were piecing together has seen him to kind
of come unhinged over here. Over the past recent weeks,
they've been struggling against the run. Kamara's performance probably says
less about him and more about the defense. The defense
that has allowed twenty points to twenty fantasy points to
James Cook the prior week, thirty Fantasy points to Sorry,
twenty fantasy points to Josh Jacobs the prior week, and
(17:03):
thirty fantasy points to James Cook the week before that.
They've been inconsistent and this was just the downturn here. Unfortunately,
we've got a bite week, so it does make it
a little bit difficult, but maybe that kind of narrows
it into who you're targeting. You're targeting somebody who is
not looking to utilize him now, thinking that they're stashing
Alvin Kamara for league winning upside. Once you know he's
done with this ankle injury and we get into the
(17:24):
fantasy playoffs, you can plug him into your lineup. You
can get typical Alvin Kamara back here.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And the same schedule does look good, so you can
make the argument there.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But at the end of the day, you cannot trust
this offense and Alvin Kamara. It's time to get out here.
We're still not going to get those goal line carries.
Taysom Hill unfortunately still exists from that aspect, so we're
purely depending on volume there from him.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I think you could look at the fantasy playoffs schedule
and in trying to sell him. Use that as part
of your pitch, like you just alluded to there coming
out of the bye you know, still as a game Miami,
the Jets, Tennessee. Jets and Tennessee are week sixteen and seventeen. Frankly,
like him having this week that he did, that's a
gift from the fantasy gods. Like to sell him, Like,
(18:07):
I mean, you were talking about him as a drop
a week ago, and I think, like deservedly so. I
did multiple shows last week with with people. Pat Fitzmoora
said the same thing. He's like, Kamara is a drop,
like this is It was a talking point a week ago.
So if you didn't drop him, and he has this
game that you know, over one hundred yards from scrimmage,
like you know, looking better than he certainly had pretty
(18:28):
much at any point this season, still doesn't get in
the end zone, Like I think you take that as
a gift and you say, let me get whatever I
can for him, and just take it and run and
thank the your lucky stars that he had a good game.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The by the immediate buy does throw it off a bit,
but but I'm with you here. I think sell him
for whatever you get and be darn happy about it.
We'll go ahead and wrap things up there, Tara, best
of luck to everybody here in week eleven, and if
you're listening to this before Monday Night football, best of
luck because there are a lot of fantasy players in
this game, so more so than most weeks. You know,
(19:03):
a lot of matchups are not decided yet, so best
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Hello, everybody, Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined
as I am every Monday by Tara Roberts, and we
are talking five moves to make before week eleven. Just
a handful of weeks here left in the fantasy regular season,
so we're going to try to give some advice to
make some moves to put you over the top into
that playoff push, maybe help get you a first round
(00:21):
buy if you're in such a position. Just a few
weeks left here. Like I said, so we're gonna, you know,
really really make that push here in the next month
and get into the playoffs. A quick reminder for everybody
that all of our weekly consensus rankings and tiers can
be found at fantasypros dot com slash rankings. And Tara,
you use this phrase when we were putting this show together.
You're going on a shopping spree today. There are more
(00:42):
buys in here than usually usually. We have a couple
of buys, a couple of cells, maybe a drop. This
is a by centric episode. Do you feel like it's
a buyer's market like the housing market can be sometimes,
or do you just happen to have a couple of
names extra that you really are feeling positive about right now.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I think it's you got a couple of guys
that we're feeling positive about.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We've got some superstars.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
On a downturn here that have negative perceptions. And as
I take a whole bunch of trade questions and stuff,
I start to see some names repeating and I'm like, huh,
that's very interesting. Okay, So yeah, we're it's a good
buymarket right now.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, let's start with one of those aforementioned superstars, because
you've got the of name on here who was a
top two pick in drafts that you are looking to buy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, by Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And you know, when it comes to Bijon, technically, is
there such a thing as a by loo?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
How can you buy low on a player like that?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
But if there is a time where his value is
as low as it possibly can be, that time is
right now. I've noticed fantasy managers are extremely frustrated with
the lack of consistency, lack of volume. The increased usage
of Tyler Aljier this past game didn't help here. When
you look at Bijon Robinson, he's the type of player
that you expect to be giving you league winning production
(01:59):
every single week. If you were getting this type of
performance out of Breeze Hall, that'd be like, okay, no problem,
you would.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Have no complaints here.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
But when it's Bijon Robinson you start to get red
flags raids.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Then people are getting frustrated here.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He's had fewer than fifteen Fantasy points in half PPR in.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The past four weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Here, it's not a major issue from my perspective, but
from a fantasy manager's perspective, again, it's very frustrating here,
and you would be.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Surprised how many people are willing to.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Part ways in order to trade and look for that
perceived shiny upside that some other running back has here.
Now some managers might be also looking ahead to the
playoff schedules and considering flipping Bijon, because at this point
you're looking at the playoff schedules and you might look
at it and say, oh wait a second, that looks
a little tough. You see the LA Rams and championship week,
that is not a team that you want to run against.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Week fifteen, A Tampa Bay who.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Is, you know, not necessarily a terrible matchup, but they
are perceived as better against the run. So when you
put in that perspective of the you know, the potential
matchups that we have here, Yeah, there are people that
are potentially wanting to thinking that they're being sad and
flipping out and trying to pawn him off on somebody
else here. Bijon is somebody who, regardless of the playoff matchups,
(03:07):
he could have the worst playoff matchups in the world.
I still want Bejon Robinson, But that opens up a
little selling opportunity there, and it's a great opportunity for
us to buy here.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What do you think is a reasonable offer to send
somebody for Bejeon if you're looking to trade for him,
Because obviously, like with a name like his, you're probably
not going to get too steep a discount, but you
also don't want to overpay in general. So like when
you sit down and say, oh, I want to go
trade for Bejon, who are some of the names that
come to mind, Like I want to package two players
(03:40):
like this, or I would do a one to one
swap that might surprise people for a guy like this. Again,
it's different for a lot of players Bjon, like you know,
top three rest of season and consentsus rankings surprising. No
one has been really good at times, even earlier this season.
It's just lately as stumbled. You know, he only has
topped one hundred rushing yards in a game twice this year,
(04:00):
but he gets so much work in the receiving game. Really,
it's a lack of touchdowns and Tyler las year, you know,
taking them from him that it is so frustrating and
feels like a limits of ceiling. But having settled that, like,
what is the type of name that you would throw
out to somebody that hey, it's not an insulting offer.
I don't want to overpay either. This seems like a
fair deal.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You know, honestly, very interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I feel like people feel very positively about Josh Jacobs,
and that's somebody who they perceive as being a safer
running back than Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So you could honestly do a one for one from that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Perspective with a guy like Josh Jacobs, because when you
look at Bijon, he's got that perceived competition of Tyler
out here. People don't see Emmanuel Wilson is that way.
He has no competition at the goal line. So while
he does have those same ups and downs that any
running back naturally has. The perception is just a lot
better on him.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Jacobs is RB seven on the season, Bijon's RB five,
so they've basically been right there, and like you said,
maybe maybe feels like a sturd of your floor for Jacobs,
even if we are not necessarily saying that's true, just
the perception wise, I could see people feeling that way.
Maybe add something really small to Jacobs even to get
it done. I'd be willing to do that, frankly for
somebody like Bijon. Let's go to your next player to
(05:08):
buy here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
My next player to buy here is Michael Pittman. We've
talked about Michael Pittman before. Is a buy low or
just buy in general? Multiple times this season, and again
this is a perception thing. Michael Pittman has had a
strong season Greman quite frankly, the strongest season he has
ever had, but for some reason, people just don't truly
see him as a true wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
One heading into this week, he was.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Literally the wide receiver ten on the season, and from
that perspective, most people don't actually see him operating at
that level. So when you throw in a week ten
performance where he faded into the background. And Alex Pearce,
which is one of those names that garners a lot
of attention there, and then you've got the people that
love Josh Downs, so there's and obviously Tyler Warren. There's
(05:52):
a lot of eye popping names in here that make
people feel jittery about Michael Pittman and his role in
the offense.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Here, Pierce had a fantastic day, there was no issue.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But at the end of the day, there's zero reason
to believe that Michael Pittman is just going to fade
away and disappear from this offense with the level of
performances that he has had in the amount of upside
and quite frankly, the touchdown equity that he has had
as well has been incredibly strong this season. When we're
looking at Alex Pearce, obviously he's been fantastic, But prior
(06:23):
to this, this is not a situation of like let's
say Atroy Franklin and Courtland Sutton, where they had been
running steadily pretty even for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
There.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You can look at that and say, hey, this is
a guy who is genuinely competing to be the wide receiver.
One of the offense and quite possibly has taken over
Courtland Sutton. Prior to this game, that was not the
case at all for Michael Pittman and Alex Pearce Pierce
had always been performing behind him here and occasionally there's
just these games where Pittman disappears because of you know,
there's a specific coverage maybe that Shane Steiken wants to avoid.
(06:53):
He's a very intelligent offensive mind, so there's times where
you can see him obviously positioning to increase weapons because
the matchup is better over here or over there. But
when it comes to Michael Pittman and the performances that
he has had, he has consistently been a top fifteen performer.
He's a true wide receiver one. And this is an
excellent time.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
To buy him, not just like coming off of this
poor performance, but you know, on the buy this week,
tough schedule coming up, you know at Casey home against Houston,
at Jacksonville at Seattle is the next month after the bye,
So a tough stretch. That's the case you make when
trying to trade for him, right, Like, if you're trying
to persuade Someboddy, say hey, like you know you need
help now I'm trying to, you know, trade for this
(07:34):
guy who's probably not gonna do much for you in
the future, at least that's the case you make. So
I think this is a good one. He's wide receiver
nineteen in the consensus rest of season rankings. Does that
feel too high, too low, or just right to you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It's too low for me, and I get it because
there's a lot of guys that could present upside. Obviously,
when we're looking across the board, we've got a lot
of wide receivers that are underperforming. We'll perhaps talk about
more here, but I believe firmly that he should be
in the top fifteen rest of season.
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Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, let's talk about one of those underperforming wide receivers there,
Justin Jefferson. The days should have been better for Justin Jefferson.
It was a weird one. If the fantasy manager in
your league didn't watch the game, they look at his
performance and see four receptions on twelve targets, and they
would assume, logically, you would And it wasn't as if
jj McCarthy had a stellar game, right, but you would.
(09:00):
I assume that the lack of production for Jefferson was
one hundred percent on McCarthy and that he was just
a mess and poor Jefferson out there just can't get
an accurate ball. While again McCarthy wasn't perfect, a lot
of these issues, unfortunately that happened in this game were
specifically on Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He didn't look like his usual self.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
There was a weird lack of effort there was able
to drop touchdown pass. Perhaps it was just a bad
day because I don't feel like we've seen that out
of him consistently through this season here. And then when
you add on top of that, even if they did
notice that some of that was on Jefferson, you ultimately
have the perception of JJ McCarthy and him being a
young quarterbase, it's essentially, you know, essentially his rookie season here.
(09:39):
There's development that has to happen. He has to progress
as the season goes on here. So there's a lot
of understandable skepticism there. And when you look around, there's
a lot of competition.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Weapons in this offense as well. But when you look
at Justin Jefferson's production this season, a lot of it
has been mediocre, But you got to remember most of
that was actually not with JJ McCarthy. You can't pin
that on him. And then when you look ahead at
the rest of season schedule, that's where I really get
my interests peaked there. I can understand why someone would
be apprehensive with Justin Jefferson in the situation in JJ
(10:11):
McCarthy here, but we should continue to see visible improvement
from McCarthy, particularly in the upcoming matchups here, because the
Vikings have one of the best remaining strength of schedules
in the league. So if we can see this improvement
in JJ McCarthy, he's mobile, he can deal with different
types of defenses here, and obviously the volume is still
going to justin Jefferson. There's not a problem of JJ
(10:33):
McCarthy having extremely low volume and not being able to
get the targets too Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Jefferson just has to.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Be at a better place to be able to capitalize
on it him. But it's a good BILO opportunity for him.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, it's funny because like on the one hand, if
you look at his game log, it's like he's been
more of a floor player than a ceiling player this season.
He does not have twenty points in a game in
half PPR scoring this year, but he does have mostly
double digit scoring. So it's just again floor not ceiling.
But a that wasn't with JJ McCarthy the whole time,
which you know you could argue as a plus or
(11:05):
a minus for some people, but be that doesn't take
any consernation what the schedule looks like coming up, like
you said, like Washington Dallas at Giants Detroit, that's week
fourteen on he's just incredibly enticing. It was a really
weird game yesterday from him, Like the lack of effort
on you know, when Marlon Humphrey had the pick and
was like very slowly looking to almost wait for his
(11:26):
blocks to set up, there was no effort by Jefferson
to try and tackle him like it was. It was
a weird. It felt like a sleepy, like lack of
effort game. I'm not saying he wasn't trying. I would
never sit here and say an NFL player on an
NFL field wasn't trying, but that's how it looked compared
to what we think of him as It's like, you know,
it really is because he makes everything look easy all
the time, justin Jefferson, because he's so talented that when
(11:49):
it's not working, it almost looks like he's not trying us.
Right again, I know he is trying it. It was
just a weird looking game, you know watching that, So yeah,
I wouldn't like overreact to that. And JJ McCarthy like
he's inconsistent right now at this point in his career,
but he can still do very good things with the
ball in his hands. And if you're a receiver, like
obviously the better the quarterback is the better. But like,
(12:11):
you don't need consistency. You just need two or three
great balls in a game and you can score a
touchdown and have a break a big play and do
stuff like that. So yeah, I'm with you. Like, I
think Jefferson's actually a really a good bye. He's not
at wide receiver ten in rest of season rankings. That's
as attainable as he has been since the first month
of his career. Like, he is not a guy that
(12:31):
is ever available in trades, and he might be right now.
So I think that's a good shout here. You've got
another wide receiver here for your next buy.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, we're gonna buy one more. Hopefully people will go
with me on this one. We're gonna we're gonna buy
Quentin Johnston. Yeah, we're jumping back in here. Sunday's game
clarified a lot of things with the Chargers offense because
prior to this game, there was a very noticeable shift
in snaps for Keenan Allen to where he had become
extremely untrustworthy. He had been playing in weeks eight to nine,
(13:02):
less than forty percent of snaps. Now, this past week
we did get a little boost from him, more than
likely tied to them trying to get him that receptions
record for the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But despite that, he only saw five targets.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
He's had five targets in each of the past three
games here, and we've also had a increase in snaps
for Trey Harris as well, So it seems they're making
a shift over there between those two, but Quentin Johnston
has remained the clear wide receiver too. It's very abundantly
clear that the offense from a past perspective is Lad McConkey,
(13:36):
the Rondez Gadsden and Quentin Johnston. But now you add
in the potential of the injury there. When you guys
watch this video, you might know the details of his
MRI there. But if there is any potential absence for
Rondez Gadsden, that only increases the upside for Quentin Johnston.
So you would want to get in there before he
has that game where he goes off, making him a
(13:57):
solid bi low option here, and.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The volume has been fine for him.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know, we've seen a couple of situations where he
had a couple of drops, but overall he still looked
like that same high upside performer that we saw earlier
in the season.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
He's got the big play upside and he plays very
well off of Lad McConkey.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So if we can funnel this offense down to the
focus being on the two of them, that's a very
good situation for us.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So interestingly, Tara, while we were recording this, which is
only a short video so it's not a very wide
open window, we did get some news on Aronde. Gadsten
Schefter just tweeted a couple of minutes ago that his
MRI revealed a quad bruise that will have him per
a source day today. So good news for Gadsten relative
to what you think when you hear like, oh, knee
(14:44):
issue MRI. You know, this is better than it could
have been, of course for one of the breakout stars
of the year, but his breakout has coincided with you know,
less productive Quentin Johnson. So does that change your opinion
on Johnson at all?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Hearing that, No, not too much.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I think that would have definitely boosted the value as
a whole there. But even with him in the game, previously.
As long as we have that reduction of Keenan Allen
them being the top three there. We saw Justin Herbert
still pushing good volume even though we have the offensive
line injuries there, so that was a good sign. The
run game finally looked a bit more effective in this
matchup as well here. So if they're still going to
(15:20):
be pushing volume and we've got the top three there
and then we've got them trying to figure things out
with Keenan Allen and Trey Harris over there on the
side there, I think that's enough of a funnel to
where we feel okay.
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finally come to our only cell here, Tara wrap us up.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, it's Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That shouldn't be That's not the first time that I've
mentioned selling Alvin Kamara. I talked about it when Kendre
Miller went down with the injury. Now we've got one
tiny little window if you want to get out now,
if you don't want to deal with it, now is
the time here.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
This was a good game.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Twenty two carries, eighty three yards, three receptions. It was
the second although it wasn't fancy, it was not typical
Alvin Kamara. It was the least second highest yardage that
we'd seen from him and second highest fantasy output of
the season for him. It's been a while since we've
seen him with that level of carries operating as a
true back, the true lead back there.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
So that was good to see here, But you cannot
trust this production to remain consistent there. Carolina is defense.
They definitely showed improvement earlier in the season. I think
that they may have fallen apart.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Whatever they were piecing together has seen him to kind
of come unhinged over here. Over the past recent weeks,
they've been struggling against the run. Kamara's performance probably says
less about him and more about the defense. The defense
that has allowed twenty points to twenty fantasy points to
James Cook the prior week, thirty Fantasy points to Sorry,
twenty fantasy points to Josh Jacobs the prior week, and
(17:03):
thirty fantasy points to James Cook the week before that.
They've been inconsistent and this was just the downturn here. Unfortunately,
we've got a bite week, so it does make it
a little bit difficult, but maybe that kind of narrows
it into who you're targeting. You're targeting somebody who is
not looking to utilize him now, thinking that they're stashing
Alvin Kamara for league winning upside. Once you know he's
done with this ankle injury and we get into the
(17:24):
fantasy playoffs, you can plug him into your lineup. You
can get typical Alvin Kamara back here.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
And the same schedule does look good, so you can
make the argument there.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But at the end of the day, you cannot trust
this offense and Alvin Kamara. It's time to get out here.
We're still not going to get those goal line carries.
Taysom Hill unfortunately still exists from that aspect, so we're
purely depending on volume there from him.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I think you could look at the fantasy playoffs schedule
and in trying to sell him. Use that as part
of your pitch, like you just alluded to there coming
out of the bye you know, still as a game Miami,
the Jets, Tennessee. Jets and Tennessee are week sixteen and seventeen. Frankly,
like him having this week that he did, that's a
gift from the fantasy gods. Like to sell him, Like,
(18:07):
I mean, you were talking about him as a drop
a week ago, and I think, like deservedly so. I
did multiple shows last week with with people. Pat Fitzmoora
said the same thing. He's like, Kamara is a drop,
like this is It was a talking point a week ago.
So if you didn't drop him, and he has this
game that you know, over one hundred yards from scrimmage,
like you know, looking better than he certainly had pretty
(18:28):
much at any point this season, still doesn't get in
the end zone, Like I think you take that as
a gift and you say, let me get whatever I
can for him, and just take it and run and
thank the your lucky stars that he had a good game.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
The by the immediate buy does throw it off a bit,
but but I'm with you here. I think sell him
for whatever you get and be darn happy about it.
We'll go ahead and wrap things up there, Tara, best
of luck to everybody here in week eleven, and if
you're listening to this before Monday Night football, best of
luck because there are a lot of fantasy players in
this game, so more so than most weeks. You know,
(19:03):
a lot of matchups are not decided yet, so best
looked everybody finishing up week ten and then into week
eleven and beyond. For Tara, I'm Ryan Warmley. Thanks for
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