St. Nix

Find out if Bo Nix is a safe weekly starter for your fantasy team. Plus, the FFW crew breaks down every Week 8 NFL game with letter grades on every player.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now
along with the guys from U leagues dot com. Here's
your host, Paul.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome to a week eight edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
I am Paul Jarchian. Co host today Scott Fish and Thor.
Nice from you.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's been a while. Good to have you back. It
has all the way SAIDs week six. I only missed
one week, but it was with Matt, so I understand
that feeling like it took forever.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, and Colin mccockney obliterates everybody around him. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I missed you guys though. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nice to have you back. Yes, Oh and you are Oh.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
It was the first time in my eight years on
this show you've let me have my birthday weekend off.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I know, normally I work you on. We had a
lot to get two no bye weeks, so we gotta
cram in all the games, so we're gonna just roll
up our sleeves and get started. Of course, over the
course of the show, we will give you take a
chance to meet the three tough questions, premature speculation, but
we're gonna begin here. Scott Yes Skills take on the
Cincinnati Bengals in a game that should have a lot

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of fantasy factors in it.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, you would think so, you'd think so. These are
two offenses that have been pretty good lately. On the
Philadelphia side. The Bengals are allowing the most rushing attempts
and rushing yards to quarterbacks. I'm trying to figure out.
Let me look at the numbers to see if that's
something that would help Jalen Hurts. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
That makes sense for him averaging seven rushing attempts per

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game average or averaging ten per game minimum of seven
in every game, Jalen Hurts has multiple scores in all
but one game, and the Bengals are a top five
fantasy matchup for quarterbacks, allowing four multiple score days out
of seven and including a couple three hundred yard day.
So I do have an A grade on Jalen Hurts
his wide receivers AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith. I got

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an A grade on AJ Brown Cincinnati allowing the eighth
most fantasy points to the perimeter as well. Brown has
five plus catches in all three games. His yardage total
in his three fall games one hundred nineteen, one hundred
and sixteen, and eighty nine, so he scored in all
three of them. Scored in each one. Yeah, DeVonta Smith
with a B grade actually playing more snaps than Brown,

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but less stats. More inconsistent. But history has shown us
that when Dallas Goddard is out, which he is again
this week, his volume goes up. It didn't quite show
up last week, oh, in negative two yards exactly. But
I'm gonna blame a little bit of Barkley, them wanting
to get Bartley Barkley his numbers against his old team.
Maybe a little bit of game script that would led

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to less passing. I got the B grade over here
on DeVonta Smith. With Dallas Goddard out again, I don't
have grand Calcata starting. He put up a pretty poor game.
I thought, given what he did the week before with
Goddard out, maybe there'd be a chance. But no played
almost the entire game. Didn't do anything last week. On
the Cincinnati side, Joe Burrow Philly does boast a top

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three fantasy defense against quarterbacks, with the fifth fewest yards
and eight fewest scores. But let's take a deeper look
at those six games, the three of them with Jordan Love,
Kirk Cousins, and Baker Mayfield. Those guys averaged two hundred
and eighty two yards and two scores, even got extra
one on the ground. Deshaun Watson, Daniel Jones, and Derek
Carr averaged one hundred and thirty six yards and only

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scored once total.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Point being good quarterbacks have plenty of success, and Joe
Burrow might be the best of all of them, so
I do have an eight grade here on him.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I have A and B grades on Jamar Chase and
T Higgins. Jamar Chase's fantasy fantasy's wide receiver one with
six scores. In the last five games, the Eagles have
allowed eight wide receiver scores, but they've kept the yardage
fairly low. Part of that is due to Cleveland and
New York Giants matchups of the last couple weeks New
York Giants without neighbors obviously, prior to that, in their

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first four games, every wide receiver one scored. Three of
the wide receiver twos scored in those four games, so
scores might be likely here. T Higgins leads the NFL
and targets per game over the last four and more
targets than Chase in four straight. He's averaging six and
a half catches for seventy five yards with three scores
in those last four games. So good grades on both

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of those guys. Right now. On the running game, Chase
Brown's the only one. I'm sorry starting sorry Zach Moss
there charge seven to twelve touches last three weeks, but
he hasn't been able to top fifty two yards this season.
Chase Brown Over the last four games, Brown's averaging over
fifteen touches, has four scores. Three of the four games

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were inefficient, though Philly's d ranks third best against runners.
His volume pass catching plus propensity to score though, I'm
going to give him the seed, the volume seed, you know,
and hope he gets some pass game work in a score.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
That makes sense.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Four.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Let's go to Tennessee taking on Detroit. The Tennessee offense
is erect, their defense is pretty good, and I'll be
I'm interested to hear what you have to say about
the Lions. But back on the Tennessee side, anybody to
play here?

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh, it's grizzly you're certainly not going to play Mason Rudolph.
I think one guy that is playaball Tony Pollard. Give
him a see. Sixteen carries for sixty one yards last
week against Buffalo's bad run defense. Yeah, that was what
Taja Spears sideline. Spears is backish questionable return to practice
Friday with a hamstring. Because of the uncertainty there, I

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would keep Taj Spears on the bench, but I would
start Pollard. The matchup is much tougher in this game, though,
Lions are allowing the third fewest fantasy points to running
backs Kelvin Ridley. I struggle with this one. I did
give them a see though he returned to practice on
Friday had the foot injury. Wide receiver sixty nine fantasy
points per game. It's a tough scene, obviously, and even

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if you.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Give him all of DeAndre Hopkins catches, he'd move to
like wide receiver sixty three.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Now this might just be the optimistic part of me,
and this might be considered a logical leap, but I
hope they start using him in the offense as he
is intended to be used.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Now getting some of those.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Targets, certainly the targets will go up, but hopefully targets
that are more advantageous to Ridley's game. He's just been
used as a deep bult guy to this point. You're
wasting his route running. Not that they have the quarterback
play to hit him on the hands every play, but
obviously he becomes a clear wide receiver one with Hopkins
gone clear, clear clear, this is a decent matchup for him.
Detroit has allowed the eighth most receiving yards per game

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to perimeter wide receivers, so I did stick Ridley with
a see the rest of the guys in the Titans
bench grades.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Moving over to the Lions, Jared Goff give him a B.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
At least twenty two point eight fantasy points in three
straight games.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
This is a sneaky bad matchup, though.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
The Lions run the ball at the third highest rate
in the NFL, and when they're up, it goes up
even more.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
It's just run, run, run, run, run.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Detroit to double digit favorites in this game, and the
Titans have a good pass defense. We're still wondering if
Lagerius sneed will play, but a good pass defense nonetheless,
and will the pass volume be there for golf That's
why I had to downgrade him to a B. I
also gave a BA to David Montgomery RB thirteen and
Fantasy points per game. He's averaging sixteen touches for eighty
six total yards. Tennessee has the third highest stuff rate,

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though they have a pretty strong run defense, and that
defense has allowed only one running back to rush for
over sixty yards all season long, Jamiir Gibbs.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I give him an A.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
I obviously must start and along with aman Ras Saint Brown,
especially in this with Jamis and Williams suspended.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
On Montgomery and Gibbs. How do we feel about the
Sonic and Knuckles nickname David Montgomery calls them.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, I like that too.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm glad we're you know, we've moved past thunder Lightning. Yeah,
it's unique, it's different, it's video games.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I love it. I like it.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
I like it too.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Last one, which one Sonic and which ones? I assume
Sonic David Knuckless, OK, I got it.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
The couple of games where Jameis Williams is out. I
wonder if that will help Sam Laporta, a guy who
has not gotten as many targets this seasons. Why he's
only tight end twenty one in Fantasy points per game
and only participating in roughly two thirds of the routes
available for Detroit. But Laporta does ring number ten in
separation rate, So you wonder, now if he gets more

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targets with that Jamison Williams vacates, could he be more
viable for fantasy.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
I'll give Laporte a B A B this week.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I know Scott I are dying. We all took Laporte
in a lot of leagues.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, Laporta and Richardson might be my worst calls a year.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh that's it, Okay, okay, Let's move over to the
Green Bay Packers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Lot's going on here.
I've got a grades on the pack two parts of
the Packers passing game, Jordan Love Jaden Reid. In totality,
the Jaguars the worst pass defense in the league. They
give up the most passing touchdowns. They drank thirtieth and
passing yards their thirty second in imposer passer ratings. So

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for Reid, he runs almost entirely from the slot, he'll
face a defense that gave up a slot touchdown last
week to kJ Osborne the leak before two touchdowns to
Keenan Allen from the slot. So we like and read
this one. It's always hard to figure out who who
are the Green Bay wide receivers you can trust? I
trust Romeo Dobbs.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Here.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Dobbs is the most reliable target earner across the board
among all of them. He leads the team in routes run,
he is second in targets and targets per route, and
he'll match it most stopping against Ronald Darby, who ranks
his Pro Football Focuses cornerback ninety five. He's given up
three scores already, an opposer passer rating of one hundred
and thirty three B grade on Romeo Dobbs and a

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C grade on Dune Tavian Wicks and Christian Watson. They're
down at sea because they just get less targets, so
you get a massive variation in volume and output. But
if you're not going to start them against the Jaguars,
why are they on your roster?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Fair?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, this is it. This is the best matchup
you're gonna get all year. So Watson and Wix get
C grades in this one. Tucker Kraft comes in with
an A grade three good games in the last four weeks,
and with Luke Musgrave hurt, his routes run if basically doubled,
and as you can guess, the Jaguar are awful against
tight ends. They're getting rocked by basically tight ends in

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every week since Week three. Last week, the Patriots offense
generated twelve catches and one hundred and twenty four yards
to tight ends against the Jaguars. Two weeks ago, the
Jaguars gave up two touchdowns to Cole Kmet, so Tucker
Craft definitely in play. That only leaves us with Josh Jacobs.
Jaguars are a better run defense than a pass defense,

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but Jacobs is a likely beneficiary no matter what happens here.
Jaguars haven't allowed a runner at the top ninety one yards,
which is good. They shut down the Patriots last week,
but that doesn't mean a lot, and they've also faced
a lot of garbage runners. Two weeks ago, DeAndre Swift
rolled up one hundred nineteen total yards. Jacobs is probably
closer to that. I think he hits about one hundred
yards of this game, and I've got an eight.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Grade h well, he finally score.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yes, okay, color shot, Tank Bigsby moving to the Jacksonville side.
All right, so now you guys all though I feel
about Tank Bigsby. Yes, So now we got Travis ETN
coming in as a game time decision. Let me ask
you too, knowing Doug Peterson, if ETN is available, who starts?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think I think it's probably mostly Bigsby, But I
think ETN still gets the past game work somehow.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
I'm going to say ETN.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I don't trust Doug Peterson to get this right. I either,
but it's so obvious that Tank Bigsby is the better back.
Let me give you some bitta.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
I will say we Tank Bigsby has taken over and
ETN has not logged a full practice since this takeover,
so we have not seen a healthy ETN. But yes,
Bigsby's numbers are awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
They are, and let me tell you more about that. Yeah,
the Jaggars have won two games. In those two games,
Tank Bigsby one hundred one yards and one hundred eighteen
yards four touchdowns in those two games. Doug Peterson, you
think just like survival instinct, right, natural selection, survival the
fittest right, his jobs on the line, you would think

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he would go to Tank Bigsby no matter what. In
yards per rush, tank Bigsby ranks number two in the NFL.
Travis ETN twenty ninth avoided tackle rate, Tank Bigsby is
second in the NFL ETN is twenty seventh. In yards
after contact, Tank Bigsby is number one in the NFL
ETN is thirty fifth. I want to believe Tank Bigsby

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is going to get plenty of use in this game,
and he's got a B grade for me. Let's go
to if Travis Etn plays. You can start him at
a C grade level if he's active for this game.
But again, I'm basing that mostly on me, not trusting
Doug Peterson to get this thing right. Green Bay is
a middle of the pack round defense, but volume backs

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tend to do well. The four backs with more than
twenty two carries against green Bay have had monster games,
averaging one hundred and twenty five yards and one a
half touchdown. So if ETN doesn't go, I like Bigsby
a lot better. All right, let's go to the passing
game here, or I've got some starters for Jacksonville Lawrence.
This is an unpopular narrative, but over the last three weeks,
Lawrence has been good, completing seventy four percent of his

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passes two hundred and sixty six yards per game, two
to two and one score. Over the last three weeks,
Packers have improved their pass defense by benching Eric Stokes.
In the two stokeless games, green Bay has completely shut
down Kyler Murray and c J. Stroud. Those are two
pretty good passers better than Trevor Lawrence. So I can
only get you to a C grade here. Even with
his improved play, Brian Thomas gets a seed grade. He's

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Thomas has looked great and he's going to be a star.
I don't love this matchup. He's going to see a
lot of Jay R Alexander. The past two number one
receivers to face Green Bay have fared very poorly. Marvin
Harrison didn't catch a pass, and then last week Stefan
Diggs and Tank Dell combined for twenty three yards. C
grade on Brian Thomas. Christian Kirk is always a risky start,

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but I like this matchup enough for a C grade.
The Packers new slot coverage man is safety Javon Bullard.
Since the move move to the slot. Bullard has allowed
eight of nine passes in his coverage to be completed.
We'll try Christian Kirk at a sea level here. The
guy I really like seven Ingram. He's finally healthy and
a massive contributor for the Jaguars offense. In the past
two weeks, He's been targeted fifteen times. He's caught fifteen passes.

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The Jaguars have allowed a tight end touchdown or over
fifty yards or both to a tight end in four
of the last five games. Some kind of optimistic about
Evan Ingram continuing to play well, big part of this offense.
When we come back, take a chance on me nine
players not normally in your starting lineup. Find out who

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they are when we come back Fantasy Football Week. We

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will guarantee a smile with these take a chance on
me players, beginning with Scott Fishing. You take a chance
on me quarterback.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, But before I give you a player to take
a chance on, I'm gonna mention Saquon Barkley, who I
didn't in the last segment, who was an automatic a
one hundred and twenty seven yards a game of Bengals
defense allowing a rushing touchdown every game.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, and I thought I had just missed him because
you had said something like super fast, like automatic idea,
So I just thought I missed it. But now we've
clarified not that anybody was going to bench him.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah. Yeah, so my my take a chance on me, quarterback.
I'm going with to a tongue of Biloa. In his return,
he gets a Cardinals defense allowing multiple scores and or
three hundred yards in five of seven games, leading them
to be a top five easiest matchup for fantasy passers.
His first and only full game, he had three hundred
and thirty eight in a score. I expect a good

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game here from him.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
All right, thorn Eistrom, you'll take a chance I me quarterback.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
I can't believe I'm doing this.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Boys, I'm gonna advocate for Bonix for the first time
in my professional career.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wait, who's he playing.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
He's playing the Panthers.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Ah, this makes sense as good.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
A matchup as you can get. Now everybody knows.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
I don't think Bonix is an NFL caliber thrower, but
the rushing production is making him fantasy relevant. He's either
a clip sixty yards rushing or ran for a touchdown
in five games so far this season, and has multiple
passing touchdowns in two of his last three games. The Panthers,
of course, have a terrible defense both against the run
and the pass. Last week, Carolina allowed twenty fantasy points

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to Marcus Mariota. On the season, the Panthers have allowed
the fourth most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks. The
one thing I was wondering, will the Panthers score enough
for the Broncos to do anything on offense? But the
scrambling a boat next, He's gonna accrue the yards anyway.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Do you want two fun stats on that?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
No, Well, well it depends if involved in this matchup,
then Russian does not related. We're gonna talk more.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
We'll talk about later. We'll talk.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I've got a guy I did not think i'd be
picking at any point this season as might take a
chance on me, and that is justin Herbert against the
Saints normally a very tough start because the low passing
volume in this Jim Harbaugh offense, Los Angeles rinks twenty
ninth in pass attempts per game and air Bears average
game is a depressing one hundred and ninety seven yards
of one score. But the Saints normally pretty capacity defense

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just all banged up with injuries. Marshall Latimer is going
to try to play, but he's hurt. Paulson Adabo went
on injury reserve. Three of the past five opposing passers
have topped three hundred eleven yards or more against the Saints.
We'll try Justin Herbert here, by the way, get all
his receivers back and off. I don't know if they're
fully off the injury report, but they all came back
to practice on Friday, so that helps to Let's go

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to the running back position, Scott, who.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
You got, Yeah, I got Buffalo's Ray Davis. He goes
up against the Seahawks defense allowing five point two yards
per carry, second, most rushing yards allowed, first, most combo
yards allowed, and they're allowing over thirty touches per game
to running backs. After James Cook has done, there's gonna
be some meat on the bone left for him. And
he outtouched Ty Johnson last week seven to one. He's

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he's gonna be the guy that gets the extra work.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know what's a really objectively terrible barbecue sauce?

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Okay, sweet baby rays, Okay.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, I agree with that tag. Yeah, to catch up
of barbecue sauce. I just wanted to add that on
to the Ray Davis analysis.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's the correct tag.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I think it was important. Ye okay, all right, Thor
you're taking chance with me running.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Back going with a guy that I don't think has
a barbecue sauce named after him. But I'm gonna go
with b not yet anyway, maybe after this game Braylen
Allen against the Patriots.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Now, Braylan only.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Had three touches for six yards last week against Pittsburgh,
and he's played in less than twenty percent of the
Jets is now the past two weeks, so I would
understand trepidation here. However, the Steelers have one of the
best run defenses in the NFL. Well, the Patriots have
one of the worst. New England also has a funnel defense.
They're good against the pass, but rancid against the run.
In Week three against the same Patriots, Allen had eleven

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carries for fifty five yards and three catches for thirteen yards.
The Patriots have allowed an average of one hundred and
ninety five yards per week and seven total touchdowns to
running backs ever since then. The Jets are a touchdown
favorite in this game. The game script will be advantageous
for Allen and certainly the matchups as well.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, Todd Downey has largely ignored Braylan Allen to this point,
so we'll need to have a little reversal here. But
the game script could bring that up.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yes, yes, absolutely, I.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Like using the word rancid. Yeah, and the band. Let's
get the band back in there too.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Thory, you're gonna like this choiceyeh. Might take a chance
to be running back. Come Oni Videll. Yeah. Also against
the Saint than I gave you justin Herbert and I
don't know that Herbert and Videll. Videll can both have
big games. So man, I don't know what was his
first play? I play it was a thirty eight yards.
The Saints so bad against the run that backup runners

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are having good games and this one could be lopsided,
with Videll getting a lot of fourth quarter work against
the Saints. Last week against New Orleans, Denver's backup running
backs total sixty four yards. The week before that, both
Sean Tucker and Bucky Irving topped one hundred total yards
and scored. Both of them Tyler Ljeer had a seventy

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four total yard game against the Saints, So come on,
e Videll, why not let's give him a try. We've
been talking about him for six months.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah, from your lips to God's ears, sir, let's hope,
so at.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Least your ears, Scott. Let's go to your take a
chance with the receiver.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna get a little deeper here on a
passing offense you wouldn't expect. I'm going with Alec Pierce
against Houston. They allow the ninth most fantasy points to
the perimeter. They also allowed the highest average depth of
target to receivers. Alec Pierce, as you know, leads the
NFL and a dot average upth of targets and yards
per recap. Indianapolis throws at the throws the highest average

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up of target, as does Anthony Richardson, and they've allowed
five plays of over forty yards. Two of those were
actually Alec Pierce. So I like him this week.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
I had that huge week one, right, Yeah, all right,
let's go to your take a chance with the receiver.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
So I'm gonna go with Jalen McMillan against the Falcons.
Mike Evans is out multiple weeks course, and Chris Godwin
on IR, so McMillan probably becomes the wide receiver one
here and it's in the position he's most comfortable. I
believe he will take over the slot role. He has
been miscast as an outside receiver. You move him into this.
I talked about this all spring. He is a natural

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slot and I think he steps into Godwin's target heavy
slot role. McMillan got targeted eight times last week when
those guys went down, he only had three catches for
fifteen yards. But the Bucks tip their hand that he
will be heavily used going forward, and this is an
incredible matchup. The Falcons have been absolutely lit up by
slot receivers.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
All season long. I think it happened once more.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
You and I are gonna go ahead to head on this.
Later we'll find out wid wide receiver and I'm I'm
so stoked about this possibility. Cedric Tillman's the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yes. Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
He appears to be the primary beneficiary of Amari Cooper's trade.
He's running Cooper's routes. Last week he immediately garnered sixty
nine snaps. He ran eighty two percent of the routes,
and he saw eleven targets in his first game as
the starter, and with Winston at the helmet, it's going
to be bombs away for his physical receiver Cedric Tillman,
who can battle for deep contested catches in heavy coverage.

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Because Whenson doesn't care if there's heavy coverage, he'll throw
into it anyway.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Not exactly a burner, but six three, two fifteen, he'll
he'll go up and get.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Something exactly great.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Boss goes on.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now, the Ravens have cornerback Marlin Humphrey ruled out and
three other cornerbacks are listed as questionable in this game.
I'm really excited for this. I like this Oneed Tilden
has going to take a chance with me. Guy receiver,
Guy receiver, Guy receiver, guy receiver, Scott Indianapolis Colts taking
on the Houston Texans. You just told us about Alec

(23:04):
Pearce go to the quarterback position. Anthony Richardson has struggled
significant He has a passer, but he's not chipping in
running help either. What do you think this week against Houston?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah? Yeah, so he had two hundred and twelve and
two scores in Week one against the Texans, and they've
allowed a nine completed pass I know, and they've allowed
multiple scores in five of seven games. Texans have also
been hit on the ground by running quarterbacks Caleb Williams
at forty four yards, Josh Allen fifty four May thirty eight.
Richardson had fifty six and a score in Week one.

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I think there's room here for him to get to
his Z grade, even though the passing side of it
has not been good. Also, in his first two full games,
he only had five designed runs. In his last two
he's had sixteen. They're starting to actually go back to
using the way they should, agreed. I already mentioned Alec Pierce.
I'm gonna go to Josh Downs, who I have on
the bench. He has not reached six Fantasy points in

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a game with Anthony Richardson playing in full three for
twenty two.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Is his best this year or is that included last year?

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Includes last year?

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Did he put that into context? Six Fantasy points? Yeah,
that's he catches for thirty yards. He getting there.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
He disappears with Anthony Richardson and Alec Pearce comes up.
Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, over to the running game. Jonathan Taylor
on a per game basis, no running back sees more
inside the five work than Jonathan Taylor. Of course he's third,
but he did miss three games, so per game basis
is what I'm going with here. It's not an easy
spot as the Texans wearing top ten in yards per carry,

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rushing yards, scores, receiving yards, receiving scores, back but basically everything.
But when Taylor is healthy, and he is now he
averages nearly twenty touches for over one hundred yards, I'm
still gonna give him the B in a tough matchup.
Michael Pittman, I skipped over for a second, but he
he's off the injury report completely. But I think it's
kind of a workload thing that they're not having a

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practice as much since coming back after hurting his back.
He didn't go on IR, but he was three for
thirty five and one three for sixty three in the
other without a score, only five targets in each game.
I think it's gonna be a little bit better here
for him. I have a C grade on him because
he's just not quite getting the volume since he's hurt

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his back. I could see him having a B day
though over to the Houston side just.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Seems to wither and die with Richardson. I like him, he.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Does, but you're still getting five six, you're getting sixty yards,
you're getting touchdown looks. It's really tough to not start
Michael Pittman over to the Houston side.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
C J.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Stroud, I have an A grade on Last week was
definitely rough, but he had three hundred plus yards and
or multiple scores in three straight before that Packers game.
The Colts rank eighth easiest for fantasy quarterbacks, and that
rank would be even worse if it wasn't for three
games of Malik Willis, will Levis and the Miami duo.
Last week would probably be a bunch worse than even eight.

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Stefan Diggs gets the B grade. He's scored on four
of his five touches inside the five. He has five
plus catches in all but one game, so that's a
really nice PPR floor. And five different wide receivers have
scored against the Indianapolis Colts. Two more had one hundred
plus games against the Colts, so that's seven different receivers

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with very good games. Digs should get his here. A
C grade for Tank Dell last week. I know he
put up the goose egg, but he was still second
in targets, still saw a couple of red zone looks.
He just didn't He just didn't get the catches. But
the volume is there. On the running game. Joe Mixon
Colts are fifth worst in miss tackles week two. He

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got hurt on the first drive of the second half,
but he's had fifty yards at that point, so if
you count that, if you double that, that's one hundred.
Joe Mixon's other three fall games, his worst game is
one hundred and twenty four yards and he's scored in
all four three of them.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I think he's my number one or number two running Yeah,
I have an a grade on him for sure. For sure.
Thor if we wanted to sneak in Jets Patriots, yeah,
I think we could do that, like three minutes.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I could certainly try. I mean there's not a lot
to talk about, Yeah, mostly.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
In Jets Patriots, and you've already hit on at least
one take a chance on me play for sure.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, so certing with the Jets.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
Aaron Rodgers give him a be only quarterback twenty one
and fantasy points per game, right, now, but it should
be in for a big game here week three against
the same Patriots, Rodgers scored a season I twenty five
Fantasy points this time around. Of course, he has a
buddy Deavonte Adams running out there, and the only question
will the Pats score enough to keep the Jets throwing?
But I give Rodgers to saw Be Brees solid course

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is a must start. A Braylen Allen was my take
a chance on me. I gave both DeVante Adams and
Garrett Wilson bees in this We'll start with Adams ran
ninety percent of routes in his first game as a Jet.
He had a twenty three percent first read share. The
Patriots have allowed the tenth highest PPR point points per
target and thirteen more thirteenth most receiving ars per game

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to perimeter wide receivers. As for Garrett Wilson twenty seven
percent first read share in his first game with Davonte
Adams last week. Wilson got shadowed by Christian Gonzalez in
Week three. But the point I want to make is
that will almost assuredly not happen this time, at least
for Garrett Wilson and Gonzalz probably stays on the same side.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
So I'm a believer that Garrett Wilson death gets helped
by DeVante Adams for sure.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
I totally agree with that. Yeah, Rising tide lifts all boats.
You got it, Blizzard and Gronklin, We're keeping them on
the bench. We are also benchally got Drake May. Drake May.
He had the two good Fantasy games, but this is
a very, very tough matchup, especially with the Jets getting
Hassan Reddick back, So keeping May on the bench.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Ramandra Stevenson, I'm gonna give him a see. He gigged
a great matchup last week against Jacksonville.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Only seven carries for eighteen yards, two catches for seven yards,
played only half the snaps that they took offensively. The
Jets have a middle of the road run defense, but
Stevenson did struggle against it last time. Six carries for
twenty three yards end of fumble versus the Jets in
Week three, but I had to give him a seat.
I'm also given a seat to Pop Douglas returns from
illness this week. The passing environment has improved for the Patriots,

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of course, but this is a bad matchup, even versus
the Jets defense working through injuries in their secondary. Jets
allow the seventh fewest Fantasy points to opposing wide receivers.
You keep Boute and Polk on the bench. Hunter Henry
last One gave him a bee. He has two consecutive
top eight Fantasy tight end showings. He has been Drake
May's favorite target. I expect that to continue, and the

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Jets defense has struggled against tight ends.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
In recent weeks.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Patriots, I believe, have six injured offensive linemen. Who is
just killing everybody to play. Is so bad.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Pas On Reddick saw that and magically yeah magic back.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, funny how that works.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's that's a real limiting factor on this Patriots offense
and it causes a lot of hesitation.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Got to believe.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm still believing that, like romad Receievens is a good play.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Just definitely and maybe their best on offense at this point.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, well, you know, it's just nobody can be successful
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Fantasy Football Weekly. You can follow us on Twitter. I'm
at Paul Jarchie, and Scott is at Scott Fish twenty
four and Thor is thor Ku. You love it. You smile,
big smile every single time Ravens take on the Browns.
The highest scoring player in fantasy football is Lamar. The

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second highest player scoring player in fantasy football is Derrick Henry.
And they're on the same team. Unbelievable. And they're both
automatic a's. I'm not even gonna get into descriptions about
why they remain a's. You're gonna start them anyway, and
they're good starts here. How about Jake Flowers?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Which can I mention something that Derrick Henry and I
wish I could get this at exactly correct, but I
saw the top three running backs in the last like
four years or whatever. Is Derrick Henry? Then Nick Chubb,
then Derrick Henry's yards after contact.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Shut up. That's amazing, that's amazing.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Zay Flowers super hit and miss, but he generally fares
better when Derrick Henry isn't dominating. But unfortunately that's not
very often. The Browns run defense is good enough that
Henry shouldn't completely run away with the game. Flowers was
a huge dub last week, but over the prior two
weeks he had garnered twenty one target, sixteen receptions two
hundred and forty three yards. I've got a C grade

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on Zay Flowers in this matchup Mark Andrews so frustrating.
You know what's gonna happen. As soon as you pivot
back to Mark Andrews, He's gonna dud and dud hard.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
We call it the Kyle Pitts corollary.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh, I like it. That's exactly right. But he's posted
three straight good starts, including last week's two touchdown game.
But here's the thing. Still super dangerous because he's only
running fourteen routes per game over the last month, and
the Browns are very good tight end defense. They shut
down brock Bauers, Jake Ferguson zach Ertz. Only one tight

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end has scored against Cleveland. I've got a bench grade
on Mark Andrews's go over over to the brown side.
I'm gonna start with Nick Chubb. Great to see him
get so much use in his first game back last week,
But this gets thorny a few different ways. First, Dromford
has been ruled out, so he's not really a factor
in this, so let me just mention that he's out
of the picture here. But the Ravens are a fantastic

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run defense. Baltimore ranks number one in rushing yards allowed,
just fifty two per game. No back has top forty
six yards against the Ravens. They are getting beat up
through the air like for on Monday Night. But that's
not Nick Chubb's game. So I've just got the C
grade on Nick Chubb. That's all I can do. Cedric
Tillman was might take a chance at me. Wide receiver

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Jerry Juday originally had on the bench, but with Marlon
Humphrey out in three other cornerbacks questionable, I've moved him
up to a C grade. He saw season highs and
snap counts last week. With Amari Cooper out, so like,
if you're looking for like a mundane like five catches
for fifty yards, Jerry Duty could be your guy. David
and Joku comes in with a C grade. Unclear if

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Jameis Winston will favor in Djoku, but and Joku's had
twenty one targets the past two weeks, so you know
he remains a strong play. The Ravens are getting destroyed
by tight ends, including the one hundred yarder by Kate
Atten last week and Baltimore allowing the second most tight
end yards for a game. In fact, I'm moving in
Joco up to a B. Yeah, Jameis Winston unless he's changed,

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he's the ultimate yolo quarterback. We saw him two years
ago in three starts for the Saints before they yanked him,
he averaged twelve passing yards per attempt. To give you
an idea what that is. Only Anthony Richardson is averaging
twelve yards per attempt this season. Gunslinger gunslinger and does
not matter if guys are covered or not. He'll throw

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into triple coverage.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Doesn't care.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
For the past five opposing quarterbacks to face the face,
the Ravens have thrown multiple touchdowns against them this is
a bad pass defense, allowing the most passing yards three
hundred and eight per game. We haven't seen Winston in
two years, but you know, knocks the rust off here.
I think he's a really really interesting start, and I've
got a C grade on him here. You could convince

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me to make him a B grade. Probably should have
made him take a chance at me quarterback.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
One of my favorite quotes is your own Ford telling
reporters that Jamis Winston calls plays in the huddle like
he has a surprise to tell Yes.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I love that, Yeah, I love that. That's great. Let's
go to our next matchup, Scott, it's the Arizona Cardinals
taking the Miami doll Hang him the Dolphins. Yeah, Miami
defense is tricky. Good tell me it. Well they might paper, Yes, yes,
they played a lot of bad teams. What do you
think about the Cardinals?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, that was going to be part of my point.
They ranked best against fantasy quarterbacks, no multi score games,
only one passer over one hundred and sixty yards. They
haven't allowed a QB to score in over a month.
They did just give up fifty six yards on the
ground of Richardson, which might be helpful for Kyler Murray. Yeah,
I do have a small caveat on their high ranks.
Though they've only scored six touchdowns the Dolphins have in total,

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They've scored seventy points in six weeks. That's nineteen fewer
than any other team. They played, the Jags, Pat the Pats,
the Titans, a bunch bunch of really low win teams.
They've been held to twelve points, are fewer in all
the non tour games. Teams don't have to score on them,
they don't have to pass on them at all.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's part of it game.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
So between bad teams and not having to score on
the Dolphins, maybe their defense isn't that good, but the
numbers are good right now. So I have a C
grade on Kyler Murray. I think he can get out
over that. I'm not even going to go one of
the call of duty stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
No, what about Marvin Harrison, which has become extremely thorny.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
He's had like two good quarters all year exactly. I
have a C grade on him. I actually had a
bench grade on him most of the week, and I've decided,
you know, and I just got to throw a C
grade on him. He's getting six plus targets in most games,
all but one game. Miami does a lot of the
fewest Fantasy points wide receiver and all that. Mike Clay
of ESPN thinks that Ramsey may shadow him as he's

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shadowed the last two weeks. HiT's a tough matchup. Only
DK Metcalf got past sixty three yards and that was
due to that seventy one yard score. But Marvin Harrison
forty five percent of his targets have been uncatchable. He's
shown a little frustration out there. Maybe there's a little
squeaky wheel and it's got to be the only He's
just about all they can throw to outside of McBride

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and Connor. Trey McBride, I do have an A grade here.
Third toughest matchup for tight ends, but Trey has been
fairly consistent and the Dolphins have faced basically no tight ends.
Kincaid fans like Barner Fair, Mallory Granson like just nothing.
So we really don't know how great they're against tight ends.
McBride himself averaging five for fifty over seven targets a game,

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twenty five percent target share. Yeah, I got an a
grade there. James Connor is going to get an A grade.
He has forty missed tackles on the season. Wow, that's
fifteen last week, eleven more than anybody else, which is God.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Blessed Jane Connor. Connor for extending his career like this
and still being a viable good running back.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, averaging eighteen for eighty two is basically a coin
flip to score each week. Over one hundred total yards
and three the last four and Dolphins allow and a
whopping four point seven six yards per carry. I got
an A grade there. I think he can get it
done as well. Over on the Miami side, Tua was
my take a chance on me player. Tyreek Hill and
Jalen Waddle I have B grades on him both. I

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could give an A to Tyreek, but he's got this
foot issue that I'm worried. How much is he gonna play?
Will will he come out at times? He's the kind
of guy that likes to be a gamer, but he
will come to the sideline.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
So I am more skeptical on Tyreek just automatically being
the version we saw last year. The most people are
and it's frustrated that even with two out they couldn't
find ways to get the ball right, Yreek Hill right.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
I will note part of that B ranking for both
of them is Arizona ranks bottom ten in yards receptions
and scores allowed to wide receivers. Hill and Waddle both
went over one hundred yards and Hill scored in that
first two A game. And Arizona allows the fourth most
Fantasy points to the slot where Hill goes about thirty
five to forty percent of the time, and they do
have favorable matchups. Hill's gonna get Max Melton, who allows

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eighty three percent of passes to complete it in his coverage.
They have three cornerbacks with neck with injuries right now
who are questioned about coming in, and Waddle's going up
against Darling Thomas who's allowing one hundred and twenty nine
passerra in his coverage one hundred and twenty three last year.
So they have some good matchups, so B grades on
both of them. And in the run game, I have

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Devon ah Chan. Devon a Chan with an A grade
averages twenty six point eight PPR points when he gets
ten plus carries and a healthy TUA. I saw that
stat this week. I wish I could remember exactly where
I saw it, but he has more than five times
the targets and averages just under four catches per game
compared to most It, so I'm giving him the A grade. Also,

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he's got almost all the inside the five looks. Mostard
only has one.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
So which is bizarre what happened last year.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
I'm still giving most of the Sea because this is
a team that just like might take a chance on
me runner, a team that allows thirty running back touches
a week. Montgomery and Gibbs both were able to make
it work. Jacobs and Emmanuel Wilson were able to make
it work. Both be viable. So a C grade on most.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I'm with you on that. And a Chan's not a
workhorse back. I don't know how many different ways they
can prove it. Yep, Thor. Let's sneak in one more matchup,
Carolina taking on Denver should not take very long. Got
about four minutes here. Let's start on the Carolina side
where they're back to Bryce.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
Yeah, and of course you're keeping them on the bench.
I don't think I have enough to go into that,
especially in this matchup.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yontae Johnson out, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Cuba Hubbard, we're gonna give him a c RB sixteen
and fantasy points per game. He needed a touchdown against
the Commanders to salvage fantasy value last week.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
This is a bad.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
Matchup versus a very good defense. The Broncos allowed the
tenth fewest rushing yards per game. You mentioned Deontay Johnson
being out, which means that Xavier Lagette, Jalen Coker, and
Jonathan Mingo are your receiving corps this week. Of course,
Adam Thielan is also out from before last week against
the Commanders of the Non Johnson wide receivers, Lagett led

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the team with thirty well let the non Johnson receivers
with thirty six snaps. Cocher was second at twenty two.
Even though Jonathan Mingo started, he had only eleven snaps
in that game. Through four games and one hundred and
four snaps, Coker has the highest PFF grade of Panthers
wide receivers of all of them, including Deontay Johnson.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Howre you calling a breakout game for Coke right here?

Speaker 6 (41:00):
He's the one that I would sniff around because Patrick
Surtan is likely to erase Xavier Lagette from this game.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
And here's the other thing.

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Coker has played seventy three and a half percent of
his snaps in the slot so far. The Broncos pass
defense is awesome, of course, but Denver is one of
eleven NFL teams who have allowed forty five percent or
more of the fantasy point points per game to opposing
receivers to come to the slots as opposed to the boundary.
That's how you attack them. Jalen Cocher deployed out of

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the slot. I think he's gonna get some targets in this.
I'm gonna give Coker a see and I'm gonna say
keep Loaguett on the bench because of that, Bonix might
take a chance on me.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Quarterback.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
I'm giving Javonte Williams an a at least thirteen carries
for at least sixty yards and three of the past
four games one hundred and eleven total yards and two
touchdowns last Thursday against the Saints.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
This is a tremendous matchup.

Speaker 6 (41:48):
To keep the momentum going, the Panthers are allowing the
most fantasy points to opposing running backs Courtland Sutton. The
afore mentioned Cortland Sutton, I'm gonna give him a sea
was blanked in the box score last week it was
even worse than that at zero first read targets. Wow,
first read looks, I'm sorry, and zero targets. Bonus didn't
even look at him, and that's despite a seventy percent

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route share.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Why it was.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
Crazy, but this should be a bounce back spot. Carolina
has allowed the most PBR points per target and the
fourth most yards per game to perimitter wide receivers both
throw Courtland the ball, So we're gonna get We're gonna
give him a seat.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Troy Franklin, I'm gonna keep him on the bench.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
Last week he had the five catchup for fifty yards
twenty three percent target share. He is a flex option
in deeper leagues, but in standard leagues I would advise
keep him on the bench. This Panthers defense has given
up over thirty four points per game. How much does
Bonix air this thing out. We'll have to see on that,
but only in deeper leagues.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
When I start Franklin as a.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Flex, Yeah, we're gonna watch.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Yeah, how did you let me get through Miami without
mentioning Johnasmith?

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, I thought he just wasn't relevant.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Enough for you.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
I did have him on the Backshie cards have only
allowed two ten ends over thirty six yards, just one score,
and we only had one catch in the full two
a game earlier this year.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
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Speaker 3 (43:03):
We do.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
We only hope for good things for.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Johnasst week last week though.

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Our number two of Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Chargi and

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Scott Fish and Thorn Eistrom with you. This is a
game we call three tough questions. Play along, see if
you can go three.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
And oh tough question number one rest of season?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Will new Chiefs receiver DeAndre Hopkins finished most often in
fantasy scoring? Is a wide receiver, one wide receiver, two
flex or bench. We begin with Scott Fish.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah, yeah, this this one was a little bit tough
for me. I could. I don't see it being much
higher than flex, if at all, it might be bench.
I'm gonna go with flex, though he'll be flex worthy
of he'll finish his flexworthy a few times. His hands
are still there. He has twenty one targets, sixteen of
which were catchable, and he caught fifteen of the sixteen

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catchable balls, so his hands are still there. His yards
per route run still fairly decent, especially given the team.
I will say worthy is there. They tried the worthy
in the last couple of weeks. Didn't seem to work out.
Juju's coming back. No Gray has stepped up. There's and
when if we ever truly trusted wide receivers from Kansas City.

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I don't think he's going to enter what Ray Rice
was doing. But I think he's gonna end multiple weeks
with some good PPR scores.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
I'm glad I'm not the only one that is called
Rashid Rice Race.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
I was gonna say, you don't want to replicate him.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, I've done it. I know, I don't know why. Uh, Well,
the last name Rice, I mean there is that.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Rest of season.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Well.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
New Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins most often finished in
fantasy scoring as a wide receiver one, wide receiver two,
flex or bench.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
Jerry Rice, by the way, has a great cameo in
the Uber Eats commercial.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's tremendous.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
I just had to say I feel like a SAPP
for I thought about this question too long, and I'm
just gonna say in advance, I feel like a sapp
But I'm.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
Gonna say wide receiver two. Oh okay to say wide receiver.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
Two, and this I might be getting manipulated by Andy Reid,
so I will also say that as a caveat. But
Andy Reid did say that Hopkins is going to be
used in the quasi Rashi Rice role with some added
looks that MVS used to get downfield. You look at
what Rice would do in the first three games twenty
nine targets and those so almost ten per game only

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a five point two a dot mvs. You look at
his two seasons with Kansas City, he had a dots
of fifteen, a little over fifteen, and then almost eighteen.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Yards per target.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
So if Hopkins indeed get some of those balls chucked
up to him and he I mean, the ball scales
on Hopkins have always been insane, and they're also manufacturing
touches for him closer to the line, he might be washed.
But just from the volume, if Andy Reid is telling
the truth, I think he's going to be super fantasy
relevant going forward.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
DeAndre Hopkins, just yes or no for both of you.
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Yes, wide receivers, so tough for Twell of Fame. I'm
gonna go not yet, We'll see. It's such a tough
position to get. He could keep playing, right, it's such
a tough position.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Right now where he ranks. There are a couple of
receivers that have better stats than him that aren't in.
Irving Fryar shockingly, Henry Ellard not in.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
I mean, just look at how long it took Tim
Brown to get in.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Yeah, long time they didn't have to play with will Levis, though,
to be.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Fair, I know there is not every year. This is
what will Levis has done to him. Hopkins averaging two
catches for twenty eight yards in Tennessee per game. That's it.
He's wide receiver seventy five. Now we don't know is
DeAndre Hopkins cooked or is he just the victim of
terrible quarterbacking or both. We don't know. That's we'll find

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out now. Right now, it's year twelve. I don't see
Hopkins turning into a target magnet here. He has not
averaged more than four and a half receptions per game
in four years, so the volume's probably going to stay
pretty low now. He should be able, and Thorn made
this point. I totally agree. He's got that big frame.
He can box out defenders, he can bring down contested catches,

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he can. I think he turns into a touchdown dependent
wide receiver that you can play in the right matchups
as a flex option, but only as a flex option
and as a touchdown dependent receiver. Correct answer flex.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
Tough question number two.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Has Russell Wilson unlocked the Steelers offense?

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Or no?

Speaker 6 (48:21):
Bring back our King justin Fields, But no, I am
going to say no. I obviously appreciate what he did
after the slow start against the Jets in that blowout win,
but only completed fifty five point two percent of his passes,
and there could have been some some advantageous running after
the catch there as well.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
To have the stats, I'm gonna say, no, Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Scott is has Russell Wilson. I've lost My question. Is
Russell Wilson unlocked the Steelers offense?

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, he kind of took some of my points with
the fifty five percent completion and the yards after the
catch I had fifty five. You actually went to the
decimal point. You knew it better than I did. Just
the week before they beat the Raiders thirty two to thirteen,
and this week was thirty seven. Like it's they were
very similar. Fields was a top twelve fantasy quarterback three

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times that I don't think he unlocked it, but in
a one game sample size that looked good. And it
looks like they finally unlocked George Pickens to a degree.
So if that connection can keep going, maybe, but I
wouldn't say he's full on unlocked it yet.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
So I know it's a no. Yes, First, Russell Wilson's
arm looks noticeably weaker and slower than the previous versions
of that Russell Wilson arm, and I didn't like that.
George Pickens had to be a freaking superhero to bring
down all those contested catches. But the new the numbers

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are indisputable. His tight ends combined for eighty seven yards.
George Pickens and Van Jefferson posted season best numbers. Man,
When you can ring out fantasy points out of Van Jefferson,
you're doing something right now. Granted that was against a
Jets secondary that was missing four starter, so maybe that
was part of it. Now this week he's got the Giants.

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This is a much better, shockingly better defense pass efense,
and they're getting in tons of pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
So this is the real test for Russell Wilson. But
for the moment, we're gonna say no.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Tough question number three, This is a.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Question I did not think i'd be asking.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Is bow Knicks a top twelve fantasy quarterback for the
rest of the season. So basically, I'm saying, is he
an every week's starter the rest of the way? Bow Nicks?
We begin with Scott fish.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Now, can I bring up those two stats that I
wanted to cover live? First of all, answer your question
with a probably not unless you're going to depend a
ton on his running. He averages one hundred and seventy
eight passing yards a game. His rushing has kind of
been all over the map to He's got a bunch
of low rushing yard edge days that were saved by
touchdowns supplemented with a score he is. Here comes the

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two stats. He is second in the league and designed runs,
behind only Jaydon Daniels, and he is second all time
in rushing yards in his first seven games for a quarterback,
behind only Cam Newton. Newton, however, top forty five yards
rushing nine times in his rookie season and was quite
consistently rushing for decent amounts. This seems all over the

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map so far this year. We'll see if this trend
continues and he you know, keeps rushing more and more
and keeps scoring. But I'm gonna go with no. Top
twelve is a really high benchmark.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
That is a high benchmark. But he's that's about worry.
I know your love of bo Dicks, Well, just well,
now we fight.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Four is bow knicks a top twelve fantasy quarterback for
the rest of the year. We know you like him
this week against the Panthers. I don't care about that
rest of the year.

Speaker 6 (51:47):
I don't want to live in a world where Boneck
is a top to fantasy quarterback.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
I'm gonna say no.

Speaker 6 (51:54):
You know you think of like a standard league, would
he be startable every week? I do think he's an
I forgot I'd say this streamable based on Advantage's matchups.
But no, not not top twelve rest of the season.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Yeah, quarterback thirteen right now. Despite averaging less than one
touchdown pass per game, fourth and rushing yards Scott mentioned
second in designed runs, passing is getting better and here's why.
In the first month of games, Bonis average was averaging
four and a half yards per pass. That's it couldn't
get anything done on that. But over the past three

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weeks that he's improved it by fifty percent. He's up
to six point eight yards. That puts him into like
legitimate NFL passing territory when you're about seven yards per pass,
So you know he's up there with Kyler Murray and
Justin Herbert. So there's glimmers of hope emerging with Troy
Franklin Devon Vley. But the reality is rushing quarterbacks get

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it done in fantasy football. Lonix is going to be
a top twelve quarterback the rest of the work.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
We've talked. We've talked about this before in preseason about
how the rushing you hit a certain benchmark and you're
basically locked for top twelve.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
By the way, can I mention the Derrick Henry yards
yards after contact stat from last segment and the bone No,
I mean, I mean I can, But the bon Knicks
Cam Newton stat on this segment. Those both came from
the f F newsletter. I just wanted to give credit
where credit is due. I hate when people don't.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
I don't know what that is. Oh yeahs f F newsletter.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Yeah, it's a newsletter. But I can, I can clarify
that it was actually Derrick Henry and eighty five yards
most rushing yards since twenty eighteen Henry after contact with
over seven thousand at number two, and Nick Chubb at
number three with about sixty five hundred. It's insane, But yeah,
those came from the f F newsletters.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
It should be in the Hall of Fame. Saints take
on the Chargers. Now this broadly about the Saints. Five
offensive linemen are on IR and both guards are currently
listed as questionable. So you know the Broncos last weekend
Spencer Rattler running for his life on every snap, and
I'm afraid that's exactly what's going to happen here. Derek
Carr not expected to play. The only letter grade I've
got for you is Alvin Kamara, and just to see,

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in the first month of the season, Kamara's average finish
was running back six. Since then running back twenty one.
His rushing yards over the last three games twenty six,
forty and ten.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Yeah, that's bad.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
We've learned that Khmara's got a broken hand, which, weirdly,
they're still throwing to him and he can catch. How
do you catch on a broken hand?

Speaker 3 (54:22):
I don't know. I don't know a professional athlete.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
I guess, and maybe a lot of painkillers. He's caught
at least five passes in four straight games. And that's
the only reason you can flex Kamara here at all
is the presumption of about eight PPR points and up hopefully,
like I don't know, forty rushing yards maybe, but that's
it the rush. The Chargers run defense has been very good.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
Chris A.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Lobby is going to return here, but I hesitate to
start him with Spencer Rattler at the helm behind a
makeshift offensive line, And even if A Lobby gets a
lot of looks, I worry about an inefficient date. Marshall
Lattimore is expected to play in this game, and he'll
almost certainly shadow a Labbe. Last week against the Chargers,
no receiver topped twenty one yards. Chris A. Lobby's on

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the bench. Let's go to the LA side. I've got
a couple of starters for you. JK. Dobbins a grade.
Over the past five weeks, the Saints are allowing the
second most rushing yards one hundred and forty three per game.
Dobbins should get most of the one hundred and forty
three yards, and they're giving up a whopping six yards
per carry. The Saints run defense is totally up. Yeah,

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Justin Herbert was might take a chance on me. Quarterback
Lad mcconkee coming in with a C grade. He does
have hip injury, but expected to play. He's been the
only quasi reliable Charger receiver. He runs primarily from the
slot where he'll have a positive matchup against cornerback alanse
Alante Taylor, who gives up an eighty one percent catch
rate and gave him a touchdown in his coverage last

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week to Chris Godwin. That was just two weeks ago.
Chris Godwin C grade on Ladd McConkie scout.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Let's work in one more matchup.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
I think we have time buffalo bills taking out of
Seattle Seahawks. You already told you like Ray Davis. Yeah,
obviously that tells me you like James Cook.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I yeah, the same stuff. Five point two yards per Carrie,
second most rushing yards, first most combo yards. Just a
lot of touches to be had, and James Cook is
getting fifteen plus touches for seventy five plus yards per game,
scored in four of his last five. Yeah, he got
an A grade on James Cook over to the passing game.
Josh Allen, I'm giving a B grade to Seahawks. Pressure

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a lot their top three and knockdowns, hurries and pressures.
So that might lead to Alan to scramble a few
times and get you some get you a few rushing yards,
which is good. Goff Jones Perty and cousin spent the
last month averaging two hundred and fifty nine yards and
two scores on the Seahawks, so he should get some
in the air too. So I got a B grade there.
You could probably talk me into an A grade, but
I'm going to go with a B grade for now.

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In the passing game as well, Amari Cooper, I have
a B grade on in just nineteen snaps thirteen dropbacks,
he saw five targets a thirty eight percent target chair
on that very limited work week. But that four for
sixty six is likely to increase this week. Six different
wide receivers have scored on Seattle in the last four games,

(57:09):
and Reek Wooland but was it, Tarik, Like did that
switch it? I just said, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So now he's reaked.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Yeah, it's been Reek all season. And I was like, see,
I didn't notice fisher is all season. In Week three,
Dalton kincaid, I got a B grade on Seahawks allow
the sixth most receptions and fourth most yards two tight ends.
Henry just went and Henry went eight for one oh
nine against them, and over the last month, Laporta four
for fifty three. Theo Johnson five for forty eight, Kittle

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five for fifty eight, Pitch seven for sixty five. Basically,
everybody's post everybody's posting. Good game.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
God, do we need a big Dalton Kincaid game? Please?

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Yes, Yes. Over on the Seattle side, Gino Smith gets
a C grade. He's second in the league in air yards,
first in the league in passing yards two hundred and
eighty three per game. Three of the Bill's four worst
passing days came in the last three week three weeks
to Stroud, Rogers and Root, so they're trending down and
allowing a lot of passing yards. So C grade there
on Gino Smith. Not a lot of touchdowns though, so

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that's that's why the C grade in the passing game
as well. Tyler Lockett, it sounds like DK Metcalf is
not gonna go. He does sometimes play hurt mcl sprang,
but he went down to doubtful on Friday, so I
think he'll be out. So over to Tyler Lockett, who
I'm given the B grade to four plus catches forty
five plus yards in all but one game. He's the
consistently safe one. Last three games, wide receivers have five

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wide receivers have seventy five plus yards or a score
against the Bills, So I'm giving a C grade as
well to Jackson Smith in JIGBA, A few slot guys
like Greg Dorsch, Christian Kirk, and Stefan Diggs all had
pretty decent days against them. They're one of the league's
worst in yards per route run. He'll get Tarren Johnson, who's,
you know, one of the tougher spots, a twenty nine

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QB rating against but just a fifty percent completion rate.
So C grade is maybe he's forced to move around
in a void, him and his seven D eight targets
might bump up to double digits over in the run game.
Kenneth Walker averaging eighteen touches with nearly five of them
being Walker receptions.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
He's so good and if they're using him now in
the passing game, as you're just mentioning, yeah, Kenneth Walker is.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
The nearly five receptions a game on average, He's.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
The best league running back nobody talks about.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Yes, yeah, And the Bills allow the second most receptions
and yards through the air to back's fourth most combo yards,
So I have an A grade on him.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Yeah, As well, you should nothing at Jake Bobo and
I guess I don't play.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
I didn't. I wrote it down that if you wanted
a dart throw it could be Jake Bobo on the outside.
But I feel it's, you know, no buys this week,
so not you got options?

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Probably am I wrong to want Jake Bobo to be
traded to the Broncos so I could have a touchdown
pass that is Jake bo Bo Bo Nicks. Oh nice,
I like that?

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Ask you also in that Seattle offense, no fans who's
had two great games in a row could be at
Darth with gk Metcalf out. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
When we come back, Atlanta takes on Tampa Bay. This
is a very important game for both of these teams.
Kirk Cousins has played well the majority of the season,
and the Bucks secondary has been pretty shaky. We'll find
out where Kirk Cousins ranks when we come back to
Fantasy Football Beat. Welcome back Fantasy's Football Weekly. Another block

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of matchups for you in this Week eight with no buys, weird,
We're gonna be dealing with buyes at Week fourteen. But
ow we gate thor Atlanta takes on Tampa Bay. Very
important game for playoff positioning between these teams. Basically since one,
Kirk Cousins looked pretty darn good. This passing offense has
been good. Bucks pass defense.

Speaker 6 (01:01:04):
Yeah, you said it. Kirk Couzins will lead him off
with an a here. He did have the off day
against Seattle with with nine fantasy points, but this is
the perfect get right game week five against these same Bucks.
You guys will recall forty two point four fantasy points
for Kirk Cousins. That was the five hundred nine passing
yards in four touchdown games.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Bijon.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Of course, he's gonna be obvious start and an a
two hundred and forty eight yards from scrimmage over the
last two weeks for him starting to cook a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Tyler Ljier. I gave him a CE.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
He only played on twenty three percent of the snaps
last week, but that's gonna spike against the injury decimated
Bucks here and could be a sneaky flex start in
standard leagues. Great eljierfaces the Bucks defense. It's giving up
more than five yards per carry, so yeah, they get
that lead in the second half and he could he
could churn out numbers.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Drake London obvious a must start. Same for Kyle Pitts.

Speaker 6 (01:01:54):
I can't believe I'm saying that Kyle Pitts has eight
plus PPR points in five to seven games this year
and ten plus in four of seven, and then Darnell
Mooney giving him a bee. The last six weeks, Mooney's
fourteen point eight PPR average ranks in the top sixteen
of NFL receivers. Tampa has allowed the fifth most Fantasy
points to wide receivers. And last time Mooney played the

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Bucks in that game where everybody went ballistic, nine catches,
one hundred five yards and two touchup. But I couldn't
give everybody an A, so he's got.

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
To be a bee. Moving over to the Bucks, Baker Mayfield,
I give him a C.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
Leeds NFL the NFL with eighteen passing touchdowns and its
top six impasser rating en yards per attempt. The issue,
of course, is the injuries to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
That's really gonna hurt, so I had to downgrade him
to a C in this matchup because of that. Rashad White,
I give him a C. Bucky Irving is questionable didn't
practice on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Well we'll end up seeing on that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
If Irving is out, this committee gets cut to White
and Sean.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Tucker's But yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
But you know I either way, White is the receiving
guy there, and with Evans and Godwin both out, there
is going to be increased targets the two games.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
So there's only been two games so.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
Far this season where a shot White finishes a top
twenty eight Fantasy wide receiver. He had six catches for
seventy plus yards in both of those, so the targets
are going to be coming here.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
But it's a tough matchup.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
I will say the Falcons have been the best team
in the NFL against receiving running backs, so a PPR
he's a for sure mustart White because of that. But yeah,
standard league, standard scoring. I give him a sea. Jalen
McMillan was might take a chance on me. Receiver Trey Palmer,
I'm giving him a See he's never been targeted heavily,
but he does give you that home run utility. He

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could hit a dinger at any time, and they obviously
need to generate offense, so he's probably gonna get a
couple looks there. Atlanta has allowed the second highest PPR
points per target to perimeter wide receivers and nineteenth in
receiving yards per game allowed for the Falcons, so at
least it's an advantageous matchup Sterling Shepard.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
I'm keeping him on the bench.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
I know there's some optimism for him out there in
terms of being Baker Mayfield's college teammate and all the
injuries he could get on the field. I think Jalen McMillan, though,
is going to the slot, and if I'm right about that,
where do you play Sterling Shepherd. That's where it gets
really hairy for him. I just wouldn't mess with it.
And then Kate Atton giving him a B in this matchup.
Top five Fantasy tight end the past five weeks, had

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twenty six catches and is averaging eleven Fantasy points per
game during that span, more targets, of course coming with
Evans and God went out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
It's also a good matchup.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
Aten has been targeted four times more versus zone than
man coverage, four times more versus zone coverage then man coverage.
The Falcons run zone at the third highest rate in
the NFL this season. I don't know why I put
a B. I'm upgrading him to an A.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Kad talk to yourself right in. I did, Yeah, nicely done.
Kate on surging lately. A couple of Tyler L. Geerstats
for you. Yeah, please among players with his runners. With
his fifty six carries, Tyler L. Geer ranks third and
missed tackle rate and fifth in yards per carry. Dude,
it's just good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
He's good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
He's just good. And everybody's like, well, if like, if
you said anything good about Tyler lg Or, people think
you're saying something bad about Jon Robinson.

Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
They're both really good players and they're both being productive.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
Played with Pook and the cool in college too, always
U time.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Yeah, I played in Fantasy league with me, Yeah, played
with you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
And then left one experience of being in a league
with you, and he's out.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
We both left.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Let's go to the Chicago Bears taking on Washington Commanders.
That is my game. We begin on the Chicago side
with DeAndre Swift getting an A grade in this one.
Chicago's run blocking so much better and this is a
very positive matchup. Washington ranks twenty seventh in yards per carry,
they ranked twenty seventh and run defense success rate, and
they ranked twenty eighth in yards after contact. The way

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you beat Washington unlike per previous years, it's on the ground.
You just go run at him. DeAndre Swift, great play
this week A grade. Let's go to the receivers, Beginning
with dj Moop. He continues to dominate the wide receiver
looks for Chicago, averaging eight targets per game. He's the
only Bears receiver who's reliably finished as a wide receiver
two or flex level player pretty much every week. He

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runs the majority of his play from the left side
of the field. That puts him up against cornerback Ben
Saint Juic, who has allowed three scores already along with
the fourth most receiving yards of any player in the NFL.
So DJ Moore B grade. I've got a C grade
on Keenan Allen. Now, last time we saw Alan before
Chicago was by He had his first big game for Chicago.

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He scored twice, but his volume is just okay, five
targets per game. It gets enough to keep him startable
in a positive matchup. Washington slot corner is rookie cornerback
Mike Sandris. Still, he's allowed three scores, a seventy nine
percent completion rate, and an opposed passer rating of one
hundred and twenty two. So Keenan Allen comes into the

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C grade. I've got a bench grade in roll of Dunsa,
even though I think long term he's gonna be just fine.
But low volume a real problem here, averaging just three
catchuple targets per game. It's an okay matchup facing off
against Washington cornerback Noah iigbin Oghnay. I think I got
that right. He's Pro Football focuses cornerback eighty four. But

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igbinoga Away is much better this year, allowing per game
averages of three catches for just twenty two yards in
his coverage. I'm going with it. Hopefully his parents did too.
Cole Comet comes out of the Sea grade. Usage is
pretty low and he's a touchdown dependent player, but he's
on the field enough to keep him relevant. Fortunately, the
Commanders have given up three straight good not great games

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to tight ends, including touchdowns in two of the past three.
So we'll keep a C grade on cole Comet. And
then where does that leave us with Caleb Williams He's
made incremental improvements in just about every game this year,
and I've got BC and C grades on his receivers,
so certainly startable here. Washington secondary isn't the doormat of
past seasons, and no quarterback has topped one touchdown against

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Washington in a month, which is super weird. Three of
the past four quarterbacks did not top one hundred and
forty two passing yards.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Really really low, really really.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
I mean, what are we talking about here? An emerging
elite pass defense for Washington seems weird. Maybe let's go
to the Washington side. Love Brian Robinson in this game, Massive,
Massive game potentially incoming. The way to beat the Bears
is on the ground, where Chicago far more vulnerable than
against the pass, where they're elite. In the past month
of games, Chewba Hubbard, Kyron Williams, and Jonathan Taylor of

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all posted touchdowns at least ninety seven rushing yards. Love
Brian Robinson with an A grade in this one, and
staying with the running game, Austin Eckler comes in with
a C. You know, we'll see a run orientation for
Washington with or without Jayden Daniels. We'll talk about that
in a minute. Eckler's been a really nice PPR helper
except last week when they blew out the Panthers and
then basically he just rested. His three catches for forty

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yards per game gets you seven PPR points right away,
and all the rushings, gravy Bears run defense, middle of
the pack, and pretty much every meaningful metric, Austin Eckler
gets a sea grape. Now, if Jaydon Daniels goes, he's
a game time decision. Certainly start, but I worry that
the team will protect his ribs by not letting him run,

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and then if I just have to rely on Jade
and Daniels passing, this is a tough matchup against a
really good secondary the Bears. The Bears do have injuries
in their secondary. Slack cornerback Kyler Gordon just got put
on IR and starting safety Jaquan Brisker got put on IR.
So I'm hoping that we can get a B grade
out of Jalen Daniels one way or another. But he's

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got some flop to him here, some dud potential if
he does not run to protect the ribs that I
want you to be aware of. If he does go
in this one. If he doesn't go, I've got a
C grade on Marcus Mariota and a B grade on
Jaden Daniels. But let's talk through where this gets really thorny.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Oh Boys.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
Terry McLaurin, he's got a brutal matchup with the best
coverage cornerback in football outside of maybe Patrick certain and
that's Jalen Johnson. He will shadow in this spot because
there's nobody else worth shadowing. And look at what he's
done to a They're good number one receivers Deontay Johnson

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twenty three yards two weeks ago, two games ago, previous game,
Brian Thomas twenty seven yards on average. Jalen Johnson gives
up one and a half catches for eighteen yards in
his coverage. That's it. Now the Bears slot corners. I
mentioned Kyler Gordon's out, so maybe they move Terry McLaurin
into the slots to try to grid him of Jalen Johnson,

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and that could That's why I'm giving a SE grade
to Terry McLaurin, But otherwise this will be a bench
grade against Jalen Johnson. Zach Ertz comes in with a
c grade and Ertz could be helpful against the team
that just gave up eleven catches and a one hundred
yard game. The Jaguars tight ends. If mclaurin's neutralized, you know,
mariot Ar Daniels will need to find alternative receiving options
and that could be zach Ertz in this game. I

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think it's time to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Go to a break sure, straight, Yeah, let's do that.
Final block of matchups.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Coming up, including Cowboys and Niners. Lots of moving parts
with this Niners situation.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Will we speculate prematurely?

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Yeah, we will speculate prematurely. Oh, we are very excite.
In fact, the contentious version of premature school comic Thord
is a he and I are gonna go Mono Imano
when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, final segment

(01:11:37):
of Fantasy Football Weekly, we always start this one with
a trip to the Fantasy Football Weekly time Machine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Premature speculation.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Players you want to pick up now that other people
be trying to pick up next week, but they're already
on your team. Yes, Scott Fish, who you got?

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
I'm gonna go with Khalil Herbert, who has been talks
of trade rumors of the last couple of weeks. Maybe,
just maybe you can grab him, stash him and he
becomes the Dallas back before the trade deadline. That'd be
the place, right, Yes, but mostly I'm going to take
my mid year, mid fantasy regular season time to say,
go pick up backup running backs if they're out there.

(01:12:11):
The Jalen Rights, the Blake Corms, the Kamani Videls, the
Arodrick Estimates, the Tyler Goodson, Sean Tucker, Ray Davis, Braylan
all and Tyler Lgier, Warren Rashawn Johnson, any of those guys.
Pick them up. Injuries happen, things happen at the end
of the season. Every year, one or two of the
backups become very fantasy relevant at the end of the season.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Justice Hill would be Oh Justice.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Hill another one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Yes, he's pretty goood.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
Yeah, credit him.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
I thought he was very mundane with you first few
years in the league. Man, he's like, no dynamic to
that offense. All right, your premature speculation player for I
liked it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Fish did a former rock Chalker in Khalil Herbert finish
his career a Virginia Tech.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
But Sara at Kansas, I'm going with you would aybody
ever leave Kansas? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
Well, I suppose I came to back to Minnesota, but
I'm going with Ricky Piersow for respect. He's only owned
in five and a half percent of ESPN leagues. Oh yeah,
at least when I looked it up a day or
two ago. Brandon Ayuka Korus out for the season, Juwan
Jennings out with a hip injury, Deebo and George Kittle
both questionable. Pearsall needs to be rostered in all formats.

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Six foot, one hundred, ninety pounds, he was ninety ninth
percentile athlete coming out. I comped him to Adam Thielen.
The last three years. Pearsall was the wide receiver one
in college for Jayden Daniels at Arizona State, then for
Anthony Richardson and Graham Mertz at Florida. He swaps. You
can use them both in the slot or on the boundary.
Exceptional hands. He had an eighty six point eight PFF

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hands grade in twenty twenty three. This from my scouting
report over this spring at Vansfield. For route running and
coverage designs, he will modify his path to get into
open grass against zone and flick unpredictable and unsettling tempo
changes at defenders in man like a toddler in control
of your car's volume. Nub pier saw Mary's head deep
head and shoulder deeks with sudden cuts at the peak

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of his stem to Coke's false steps, deliberate footwork in
and out of breaks. On extended plays, He'll throw the
He'll throw the plane out the window and freelance himself open.
I really really like Ricky Piersow. He has the opportunity.
Now I expect him to put up numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
It's come to this. The healthy forty nine er receiver
is the gunshot victim. Yeah, crazy, crazy turn of all right,
so this are you and I are going to different thought.
Tampa Bay slot receiver last year, Chris Godwin. They foolishly
moved him outside where it's productivity. Wait wait, wait, moved
him back inside this year and Godwin went through the roof.

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The guy who played the slot last year four hundred
and twelve snaps, Trey Palmer. Now they got all these
moving parts with Evans and Godwin, but going out in
the same game. I don't know that they automatically move
McMillan even though his college he ran the slought a
lot and ran effectively there. But I don't know if
they want to change like all three receivers, and what
they do could be they just asked Trey Palmer to

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walk into the Chris Godwin rolled because that's what he
did last year with all the snaps that he got.
So I'm throwing a little speculative love at Trey Palmer
to see if he hits the slot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
You don't think he would.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
I think we'll find out. Yeah, but we both want
the slot reces. Yes we do in the Tampa.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
If you need it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
All right, let's go to the final set of games
Sunday Night football, Dallas taking San Francisco Scott.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Yeah. So Jamie Eisenberg mentioned this this week, how dak's
worst game after a bye and and this is a
no small sam this like eight years is twenty two
fantasy points. He averages twenty eight in the last three
is at like twenty eight, thirty four thirty. He comes
out of the by just blazing firing. It is a
tough matchup, though, against the forty nine Ers defense, who's

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only allowed one QB to throw for multiple scores. That
was of course, Sam Darnold only one passer over two
hundred and seventy yards. It was Gino Smith and it
took fifty two attempts. But Deak Prescott is way up
on that list in attempts and passing yards. He they
throw a lot because they don't have a run game,
so I'm gonna give him a C grade. He might
even end up it with a B if this becomes

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it becomes a little bit of a shootout, but C
grade for him. In the past game, Ceedee Lamb with
the A grade, and Jalen Tolbert is going to get
the C grade. San Francisco allows the third highest percentage
of Fantasy points to the slot. It's where teams kind
of attack them. The tenth most fantasy points to the slot.
Ceedee Lamb. That's where he's gonna live double digit Fantasy
points weekly. I don't really need to go for him much.

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He's just good. Jalen Tolbert. The run game is not
gonna do much here, so they'll need the pass game,
and Tolbert is the two second on the team. Basically
every category technically gets the toughest matchup in Javarius Ward,
but Jalen Tolbert moves around thirty thirty one to thirty
nine percent all over the field. He's gonna be able
to avoid him and get to his four for fifty

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average at minimum. Jake Ferguson, I got a B grade on.
He averaged six for seventy one yards in three games
prior to last week's dud. And he's going against a
team that ranks top five in multiple categories. But over
the last three weeks they've let up four for sixty six,
six for sixty three, and six for fifty three against

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the tight ends leading tight end. So I do have
a B grade here for him. I have Daudo on
the bench. Really really, his only good game was the
twenty two touch day. I don't think that's in for
him here.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
So over to the San Francisco side, Brock Perty, I
got the B grade on Cowboys have the third highest
pressure rate, but Perty throws a ton. He's got this.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
No Lawrence and no Bicah Parsons, no Micah Parsings, exactly
pure rate was built on these.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
I was just getting there, yep. Pretty second highest in
average depth of target behind only Richardson, second in pass yards,
second in yards per attempt air yards, They throw a lot,
and the Cowboys have allowed multiple scores in four of
the last five, and those quarterbacks had twenty seven or
fewer attempts. They didn't even need a lot of volume
to be able to do it. So b grade for perty.

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If Debo goes Deebo's dealing with that pneumonia. It sounded
like he might be to go, but he is questionable
in a game tight decision. If he goes, Dallas allows
the fourth fewest Fantasy points to the slot, which could
mostly affect him or Piersoll if Debo doesn't go, but
without Brandon Ayuk on the field, he gets about forty
percent of the target share and air yards. That could

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be a lot of volume there for Debo, and the
target leader against the Cowboys has scored or hit one
hundred plus yards in five of six games. Ricky piersall
Thorpe pretty much took every one of my talking points,
but I will note after Ayuk left he had three
for twenty one on four targets. He even got the
two point conversion attempt, and he led the forty nine

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ers in routes run. George Kittle also questionable with that
foot injury, but this is a great spot for him.
If he goes, I will still give him the A.
They've allowed three tight the Cowboys have allowed three tight
end scores in the last two weeks. Kittle leads on
the all tight ends and targets inside the twenty, inside
the ten, inside the five, red zone, target, red zone scores,
all of it. So a grade there, and Jordan Mason

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is getting a grade.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
I love him.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Yeah, he's he's been giving their but the rock nine
times inside the five, which is good for fourth most.
But he's only scored twice. That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
No, because he's some touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
He sees forty of eight man boxes. He's just that's
what it is. But a lot of backs have done really,
really well against Dallas, Montgomery, Henry Kamara all had multiple
scores and backs with major volume like Mason does in
the two in his two full healthy games where they won. Uh,
he got twenty six and twenty eight touches. That kind

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of volume A grade, Thord.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Let's go to the Monday Nighter Giants taking on the
Steelers Molakue neighbors. Will they quiet game last week? Do
you see a bounce back coming here against the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Yeah, for and the targets right, So for me, Neighbors
is in the must art territory.

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
You know, he gets a weekly a for me. Daniel
Daniel Jones, I'll give him a seed.

Speaker 6 (01:19:58):
The past two weeks he only has three four yards,
zero touchdowns, thirtieth in yards per attempt and fantasy points
per dropback. Pittsburgh has allowed the eleventh fewest passing touchdowns
and seventh lowest passer rating. Not the best matchup, but
some of the other quarterbacks around the league not the
best this week, so I did give Jones a C.
Singletary and Tracy, I don't know. I toss this to

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you guys if you disagree with me, I'm keeping both
of them on the bench this week. Yeah, you know,
you had the split usage against the Eagles last week
to kill both their fantasy values. They only had fifty
three total yards combined. Now the Giants played the third
ranked Steelers run defense. Pittsburgh allows the seventh fewest fantasy
points to opposing running backs. So yeah, it's just hard

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to trust either of them, so I'm keeping them on
the bench. Also, Darius Slayton bench, He's going to be
a race by Dante Jackson here and Jan Dale will
give him a C wide receiver eighteen and PPR, but
only as two weeks as a top thirty Fantasy wide receiver.
Bad matchup to project Robinson's volume to turn into anything. Here,
the Steelers have allowed the third fewest adjusted yards per

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attempt to opposing slot receivers. Moving over to those Steelers,
Russell Wilson gave him a blow start slow start last week,
but would you go a see okay, okay, Yeah, I
won be slow start last week, but ended up having
that really good debut the return against the Jets debut
in Pittsburgh, two hundred and sixty four passing years, two touchdowns,

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had the rushing touchdown as well, twenty nine fantasy points.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
Obviously a very good matchup.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
The Giants have allowed the ninth most fantasy points to
opposing quarterbacks this season.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
I'm a little worried the Giants pass rush is just
gonna new They're gonna just wreak havoc at the line
of scrimmage. Yeah, that's the that's the part that worries me.

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
Could good for sure nausea. I gave him a b
RB twenty five and Fantasy points per game. He gets
the red zone work sixty one percent of snap of
the snaps inside the twenty yard line.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
A solid matchup for him as well.

Speaker 6 (01:21:51):
Giants have allowed the eighth most rushing yards per game
and have the second highest misstackle rate in the NFL,
so we could see some broken tackles and getting the
second level for Nase. I gave Jalen Warren a see
finally appears to be one hundred percent off his ribs
injury Week seven against the Jets, he had twelve carries
for forty four yards and two catches for fifteen yards.

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Warren is worth using as a flex this week. I
believe that Giants have allowed six running backs to score
thirteen PPR points. George Pickens I gave him a be
wide receiver thirty four and fantasy points per game. He's
a target hound of Chorus thirty five plus percent first
read share. And here is an interesting thing about this matchup.
His target share spikes to almost thirty three percent against

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single high. The Giants have the sixth highest single high
rate in the entire NFL. Oh wow, very advantageous matchup
for George Pickens and then Pat Fryarmouth I gave him
a C. He only has one top ten tight end
showing this year, and this isn't the best matchup for him.
The Giants have allowed the seventh fewest fantasy points to
opposing tight ends.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
And the last game that we haven't gotten to you
Chiefs taking on the Raiders, Kareem Hunts just turned into.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
Like obvious ace Yes, huge belco.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
Yeah, twenty seven and twenty two.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
Care Remember Carson Steele, Look, I must see this coming.
I heard someone say that on a show. Remember Carson Steel.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
I know right, Look, I I'm shocked by this turn
of events for Kareem Hunt A grade. Let's go to
the passing game. Patrick Mahomes B grade, which are starting
to feel generous, these B grades they keep giving Patrick Mahomes.
He's playing well, but it's just not translating into fantasy
points because he's not throwing downfield. Mahomes ranks twenty seventh

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in completions of more than twenty yards. He used to
kill the Raiders in the old days, but they've held
him in check last year and they've been much improved
as a pass defense this year. The last four quarterbacks
to face Vegas have averaged one hundred and seventy yards
and less than one touchdown per game can only get
you to a B grade on Mahomes, and if it
were anybody else, I'd probably be giving a C grade.

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Travis Kelcey is going to maintain a B barely hasn't.
The Raiders haven't played any great tight ends, but they've
been terrific against the position. No tight end is top
thirty two yards since Week two. They've only allowed one
tight end touchdown all year. But Kelsey's on the field
almost every snap of the game, and he's only one
game removed from back to back tight end top ten

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tight end efforts, So gonna be optimistic that he bounces
back here be grade on him. Then I've got C
grades on Justin Watson, me Cole Hartman, and Xavier Worthy
because Juju Smith, schuster Is and Sky Moore have both
been ruled out of this game. Watson was already on
the field a lot, averaging a seventy one percent route
raid over the past three weeks. He's a sneaky DFS

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play here Harden and seeing the field a lot less,
but he gets more targets and he's a bigger threat
after the catch and Xavier Worthy exactly is feared. He
is all or nothing downfield bomb guy, and that's it.
Over the past month he has done. He has been
a hit or missplayer, and the Raiders have been a
much improved pass defense. They've allowed just one wide receiver

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score in a month and no wide receivers top seventy
two yards. So C grades Watson, Hardman, Worthy, DeAndre Hopkins.
I'm gonna I think he only gets about fifteen routes
in this game, so he is on the bench for
me in this one. Let's go to the Las Vegas side.
I've only got one starting grade and that's Brock Bowers.
The Chiefs are the worst tight end defense in the league,

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including allowing George Kittle ninety two yards last week. They're
giving up the most yards and the most receptions to
the position. Bowers has eight, nine and ten receptions the
last three weeks. Since the DeVante Adams hamstring injury, Bowers
getting even more usage. He is an A grade in
this one, and everybody else is on the bench in

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a very tough matchup. Gardner Minshew is your starting quarterback.
Obviously you're not going to start him. Alexander Madison has
taken over the running bad lead running back role from Zamirwait.
Completely confirmed last week when Zumir White was healthy and
had four carries in the game. The Kansas City run
defense is awesome and only on volume alone can you
consider Alexander Madison here. Kansas City ranks number one in

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Fantasy points allowed to runners, They're third in yards per carry,
fifth in yards after contact, and don't runners top fifty
three yards against Kansas City. Alexander Madison is firmly on
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