The San Francisco Treat!

Now with San Francisco, is Christian McCaffrey fantasy football's most valuable running back? Should you trade for him? Should you trade him away? Plus, with quarterback scoring waaaay down this year, we answer three tough questions for a surprisingly tricky position.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Now from dante leagues dot com. Here's your host, Paul.

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It's Fantasy Football Weekly, a San Francisco edition. Would you
call it a San Francisco Treats? I think I would do,
as a matter of fact, And that might even be
the title of the show this week. Those are the
voices of Matt Harrison and Scott Fish respectively. It is
the title of this show, the San Francisco treat This
is one of the biggest in season trades with Fantasy

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ramifications in memory. This is this is gigantic, potentially putting
Christian McCaffrey into a position to be the highest scoring
Fantasy player from this point forward. At if it's any
indication he went to the place where running backs go
to get injured. And that makes me a little nervous.

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The injury thing is gonna be interesting for me because
like it wasn't injured playing on crass and grass in college,
wasn't injured the first three years in Carolina playing on grass.
They switched the turf injured multiple years in a row.
He goes back to grass, but that might get injured
all the time. There's so I don't know. Maybe there's
a curse. So if you already, if you own Christian McCaffrey,

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you can name your price right now, right, I mean,
you know, I think the buzz and the optimism right
and it it seems to me eight times out of ten,
had you made the deal when the buzz was at
its fervor to come out on the better side, what
would it take to get you to trade away Christian

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McCaffrey right now? What kind of deal are you looking for?
Jonathan Taylor plus another you know is there. I'm just
not doing not doing it. I'm just not doing it.
I think he has the chance to be potentially RB
one coming for the through the end of the season.
I want that on my roster. I feel like Kyle
Shanahan is the type of guy that can scheme plays

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to make his best players really really good. And he's
showing they don't pass their running backs a lot. But
that's gonna change. Cam Newton never threw to running backs
until they got Christie McCaffrey, So that's gonna change. Kyl
Shanahan has a way of making his best players effective,
and he's got a brand new toy. I want that
for the ride. So I I show up and I
care for you. The second the highest scoring running back

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today probably say, and I'm gonna throw in an elite
wide receiver, Jamaar Chase. You're still you're doing that? Yeah,
I mean, no one's offering that. But how about this?
How about this? I mean there's there's always a price
for Mark Andrews being that the tight end position. Those

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two guys are like different, a whole other level ahead
of the next wider next tight end, Like zach Ertz
is like the number three tight end right now, but
it takes two zach Ertz to get to Mark Andrews
right now. So like if the Travis Kelsey owners, like,
I'll take McCaffrey off your hands for Kelsey, I think
I do it. See I'm not. Yeah, you know, I

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I think I think if you own Christian McCaffrey, I'd
find out what's out there, you know, I think I'd
find out. I'd find out what be blown away because
somebody might do that. So you're gonna you're gonna get
an overpay. We already know that it's just will somebody overpay.
Do you think this is a public message board thing
in your league or do you reach out privately in
d m s to several owners and go, no, I

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want to compete against each other, so I want to.
I hit it. I do it across my I do
it on the message board I hit the eleven other
owners in my league with hey, Christian McCaffrey is available,
best offers. I'm listening. Sure, why not? And if you
drafted Christian McCaffrey, he hasn't, you know, fired all that
well this year, so you're probably in a bad spot
right now anyway, and you probably need to get two

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players for Christian MC for you to maybe bolster your chance.
I think I think you can do it, you know,
and maybe get somebody who's already had had a bye week.
DAMMI Damian Pierce is involved in this deal. Derrick Henry,
Derrick Henry is involved straight up, But honestly, yes, I would,
honestly I would. All right, let's talk more about what's

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coming up. Over the course of the show. We're gonna
break down all the games as we always do. Uh,
and that will begin with Bucks and Panthers in just
a minute. But we also will answer three tough questions,
will take a chance on nine players, and we'll have
premature speculation featuring that guy right there. We love and all.
We got some big names coming up. I'm premature speculation.

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I'm very excited about. Let's begin with the Bucks taking
on the Panthers. Scott. So we've been talked talked a
lot about the San Francisco side of this deal. This
leaves the Panthers in a really spot. Obviously, you know
they're not playing for this year. The presumed starter for
the Panthers is going to be down to four A
man running back. Yeah, yeah, So I've had the Panthers

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a few times this season, and I'm usually it's usually
been start Christian McCaffrey maybe and bench everybody else early
in the season, maybe Dgmore. Now it's just bench everybody,
just bench the whole Panthers. I put in our little
show Slack earlier this week. Is any Panther going to
get a starting grade for the rest of the season.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure that even happens. Any Panther.

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There may not be even a C grade for any
Panthers have to be a heck of a matchup, and
this isn't a good one, Dallas is. It's it's a
pretty tough d on. The Bucks are pretty tough, pretty
tough d on both on both fronts. They're only allowing
ninety four yards in a score on average in the
run game, and that's probably gonna get split between Cuba

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and Dante. Another thing I saw this week, guess how
many times how many plays the Panthers have run inside
the five this year? You love your inside the five
nine times? Oh, I can only hope two geez two
plays inside the five in six weeks. So even if
one is a bulldozer at the goal, you're not a

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guy that they're all on the bench. Let's go over
to the Buck side. Can't just say they're all in
you're starting line up? Pretty much? That is that how
it works. Uh. Brady hasn't been lights out, but he's
getting a C grade here. Um uh. This is one
where the Bucks should get ahead. So he might not
have like a B level grade in him, but there
are ten point five favorites. Brady might get enough on

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the way to that lead. He's averaging um in wins.
He's averaging about two yards in a score. Sadly, that's
that's uh not very good. But the Panthers are allowing
about two fifty yards and just short shy of two
scores per game. I think he'll be a little closer
to that this week. That's probably C level. He might
lean into B level. The fact that they'll be leading

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leads me to leave him around the sea. I have
a B grade on both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin
as I feel like late in the game in the
second half, they're gonna leave on the run here and uh,
but they'll get up there against the eighth worst d
against Fantasy wide receivers, allowing seven players to hit eighty
yards and or a score in the last four weeks alone.

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So the one and the two are getting work done
against this Carolina Panthers team. And Evans and Godwin get
over six of the target share, so they're getting there.
Is Godwin has six catches in three straight, sixty plus
yards in three straight. He's really really safe. Mike Evans
gets you most of his touchdowns. It should be noted
that Mike Evans goes will be going against um Dante Jackson,

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who is considered a shutdown corner, but he let Chris
Alave go for a hundred plus and two scores just
a couple of weeks ago. And the last time Evans
faced him, Evans went for six and eighty nine and
two scores. Alright, So and what is it about six
five and five tents? So what have we got a
seven inch difference there too? That helps ye, that will
help Kate ont And I thought about making this guy

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might take a chance on me player. I have a
C grade on him. Just a couple of weeks ago,
when Cameron Brad missed the week, he played of slaps
snaps and he he ran more routes than any other
tight end in the NFL that week. He was really
out there. He has three red zone targets in the
five quarters he's played without Cameron Brad in the game.
He went two for twenty three last week when Brad

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went out, he uh he had a seven targets, six catch,
forty three yard day in the whole game that Bright
was out. It seems like Brady actually trust him and
they actually want him running routes. Um, so I have
him with a C grade. I think he gets it
done here. If you're in a pinch in a bye week,
then this is a perfect guy, perfect perfect guy. And

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and Brad might be out for a little bit. We
don't know that neck injury scary, so uh, Leonard Fournett,
I have an A grade on you. I told you
that the Casey game for for the Casey game for
four net and his three carries was simply game script.
As me from a few weeks ago, I was I
was very mad that that was That was all game script,
only three carries. Since then, he's had a twenty four

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touch and a twenty seven touch game. He actually caught
at least five passes in four straight games. The volume
of the past game work, the likely game script of
being ahead against the Panthers team six worth worst against
the run, that gives a lot, gives up seven running
back touchdowns over the course of these six games, and
nearly a hundred fifty Comboy yards per game. Sign me up.

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I don't see anyway he doesn't get an A grade here.
I have him ranked as the top six running back.
I do have Rashod White on the bench. However, this
is a close one though. If the but if you
do believe the Bucks are going to blow demoralized Carolina team.
That might be some fourth quarter you know me. I
like Rashade White. He was a preseason sleeper. I had

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him on a premature speculation before. I think I might
have even taken take on him. New is in his
six for five catch fifty yard week anyway. Uh, he
could get some late game work. But he's only gained
seven to eight touches, and last week he only had
two touches. It's a three touches. It's a little scary
for me to, you know, throw him out there with

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how little the volume he is getting. It seems like
Lenny's getting up into that high twenties and touches. All right,
Let's go to the Jets taking on the Broncos Matt
On the Jets side, Bruce Hall has turned into a
freaking beast, and he's just in my mind almost in
every week a great here is it Briest mode? How
about that? Oh I'd like it. That's out there, that's

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out there, that's how I like. Oh man, I just
came up with that in my brain and it is
out there. But let's just give you credit for it,
all right. I have not heard that before, but I
love it now. The Broncos are good defense, but I
still love Briefe Hall here. Yeah, I'm giving him. I'm
giving him an a Here has at least twenty opportunities
in each of the last three games, clearly leading the

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backfield over Michael Carter, who's now just the change of
pace back. I will give Carter a playable see here, though,
is the Broncos are kind of a strange defense against
the run. They're allowing four points six yards per carry,
which is the tenth worst in the league. They're also
allowing the fourth most receptions per game, and both Carter
and Breece are pretty good at catching the ball out
of the backfield. But they haven't really allowed a big

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day to the running back because they don't allow many scores.
Only three touchdowns allowed to the running backs on the season,
all on the ground, zero through the air, zero through
the sea. God no no no aqua touchdowns. Zach Wilson,
Garrett Wilson, Corey Davis, and the disgruntled the Eli Jahmore
are all on the bench. More has essentially been given

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a week off to cool down. He'll be inactive this
week since Geno Smith through for one and two scores
in Week one. The Broncos are allowing passing yards per
game and have only allowed one passing touchdown. It's five weeks.
Is fantastic. Yeah, it's pretty good. They've also allowed the
third fewest wide receiver yards. It's definitely a running back

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game against Denver. On the Denver side, the Jets are
literally the middle of the pack eist defense in every
category against every position by Jet standards. That's awesome. Good job, Jets.
You're up the middle of the perfect. So if you'd
normally start a Bronco here, you're still going to start them.

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And if you normally wouldn't, you wouldn't. Russ Wilson probably
a C start in super flex leagues where you have
to start two quarterbacks with Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Matthew
Stafford and Kirk Cousins all on by this week, Wilson
would have to be startable in those situations. In single quarterbacks,
I think you can leave him on the bench. He
now has a hamstring injury that has him limited in
practice to go along with the shoulder, and there was

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talk that Brett Rippon might start. Don't He's got Wolverine blood.
So there we go. But Rogers managed to forty six
and a score last week against the Jets, and that
sounds about right for us this week. Uh, Courtland Sutton
and Jerry Judy. I'll give them both C grades, but
I don't feel great about it. Uh. Sutton was shut
down by the Chargers last week, only three targets and
two catches for fourteen yards. But he has seen double

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digit targets and three of the prior or. Jerry Judy
has fifty three or fifty four yards in each of
the last three games. Uh, they like him for fifty
three and a half this week. You know, if they
gave half yards he'd probably hit that mark, like perfectly.
The Jets have actually allowed the seventh fewest yards and
receptions to wide receivers, but the tenth most touchdowns. So

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low yards and a chance at a score is what
you're looking at here. You can't expect more for the
averages for these guys. Greg Dulcitch is a name to watch.
The rookie played his first game last week and caught
a thirty nine yard touchdown past when he was left
wide open. Let's see if they ramp up the routes.
And then finally the running backs. Nathaniel Hackett had some
sort of sit down heart to heart how wow with

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Melvin Gordon and they because he was upset about the usage.
After the summit meeting, they said, Melvin will be more involved,
but have they touched base with Mike Boone or come
to Jesus with Latavius Murray. My guest, the Broncos will
leverage their synergies correctly and all three will be involved,
which means none of them are start worthy and are
all on your bench. I don't want any part of that.
I hope you on that. Fantasy Football Weekly Returns and Moments,

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including nine players upon whom you can take a chance
in a tricky bye week. It's the bike Acalypse edition
of Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back, Fantasy Football Weekly. Take

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a chance on me. This is a segment in which
we unveil nine players upon whom you can take a chance.
It's a brutal bye week. We haven't even talked about
this yet. Bill's Rams, Vikings Eagles. These are some of
the elite offenses in the NFL. You're grambling for players,
and we're here to help. Beginning at the quarterback position,
Scott Fish. Yeah, I'm going a little deeper this week
with a little uh well, maybe it's not that deep,

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but Davis Mills versus the Raiders last week was a
terrible spot for Davis, But this week he gets a
bottom five pass defense who has allowed multiple touchdowns to
all five quarterbacks they faced two, sixty, six, to three,
and twenty yards and each of those as well. Mills
has really been in the two to two score range,
but this upcoming game is easily his easiest easiest matchup

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so far. All right, next quarterback, take a chance on me, Matt.
I've got Marcus Mariota, who's currently a top twelve quarterback
in most formats. He's really doing it with his feet.
Three games of over fifty rushing yards, three games with
a rushing score. He hasn't top two or twenty nine
passing yards all season, and he's facing a Bengals defense
that's seen one running quarterback this year. That was Lamar Jackson.

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He was able to scamper for fifty eight yards and
then I dug into a deeper Here's the quarterbacks the
Bengals have faced this year. Mitch True, Bisky, Cooper, rush,
Joe Flacco, Teddy Bridgewater for more than half a game,
and Andy Dalton. All five of those are back up quarterbacks.
So I think it's a little smoke in mirrors about
how good this Bengals defenses. And let's see if Marcus

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Mariota can put up some numbers and they may have
to actually finally pass, because only the Bears are are
passing less than the Falcons are, but they're probably at
a deficit against a good Bengals offense, and maybe they've
got to pass a little bit more, which would be helpful.
Matt Ryan quietly is second in the NFL and passing
yards Berg came behind only Josh Allen. Matt Ryan. His

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two best games of the year are both positive harbingers
for this week's matchup with Tennessee. Last week, Ryan exploded
for a most four hundred yards and three scores. That
was just last week, and his other really good performance
was against the same team he's playing this week, Tennessee
three fifty yards and two touchdowns. Titans have allowed multiple
passing touchdowns in every game and over three hundred passing

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yards in fourth straight. I love Matt Ryan this week.
Great opportunity. Let's go to the running back position. Scott, Yeah,
I have a guy here that you're probably not gonna
find on waivers. But you probably also haven't started him
most of the time because he just hasn't had good
games or matchups. But that's Tony Pollard. Lawrence Jackson mentioned
of NBC Sports mention that his bi weekly huge run

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is the reason that that people think he might be good,
but he hasn't been good so far. Pollard wasn't the
most efficient last week, but again saw thirteen touches for
the third time in a row and has at least
eight touches in every game. This week, he gets a
Detroit Lions team allowing five point five yards per carry,
second most rushing yards per game, most rushing touchdowns per

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game to running backs, and they're gonna and it's gonna
probably be a decently high scoring game. That eight to
thirteen touches at those clips should be pretty good for
Tony Pollard here, all right, you'll take a chance for
me running back Matt a little gross. I got Sony Walkman.
Michelle Ashua Kelly was a non participant with a knee
injury and Wednesday and Thursday's practice, so Sony Michelle is

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the clear number two to Austin Ekeler in the Chargers backfield.
Michelle did tally eight carries and three receptions last week
against Denver, while Austin Ekeler saw thirty opportunities in that game.
But they can't use Ekeler like that. They have to
give him some time off. This week, the Chargers face
the Seattle defense that is allowing the most combo running
back yards in the league. Had a hundred and fifty

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eight per game, plus four point six yards per carry
an eight point one yards per reception. Michelle is gonna
get ten touches at the minimum, so that's like forty
to sixty yards pretty easy here if it helps. Forty
yards never comes easy to Sony Walkman, but the opportunity, sure,
we'll be there. Josh Kelly is going to be out now,
so yeah, might take a chance to be running back

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is Kenyan Drake. He'll be your lead runner with j K.
Dobbins ruled out and probably expected to miss more than
a month. Michael on I R, and honestly, I think
from a fantasy perspective, we hope he does go on
I R so we can stash him. Uh Drake will
are the load like he did last week. He ripped
off last week Kenyan Drake to thirty yard runs and
a twenty yard run. That's not the Kenyan Drake we know.

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The Browns defense is allowing the fifth most rushing yards,
the second highest yards per carry five and a half,
and the most touchdowns per game to opposing running backs.
It's a premost spot for Kenyan Drake. Let's go to
the receivers and Scott Fish. I am doing a tight
end for my receiver this week, and it's gonna be
Daniel Bellinger, who I keep talking about because I want

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to make him happen. I feel like then you're you're
to speaking into exist. Yes, it feels like I've been
talking about him a lot. Uh. Last week he had
he played percent of the snaps each week. His snaps
has increased. Last week, he led the team in targets,
leads the Giants and wide receiver tight end red zone opportunities,

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scored in back to back and scored in three out
of the last five. Also has a rushing touchdown that
you can throw on there. This season gets a Jags
d who has allowed an average of about five for
fifty five to tight ends over the last three weeks.
I can see that for Daniel Bellinger this week that
would be all right. We take that this is the type.
These five weeks are very tricky for tight ends. That's

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why I did It's a position. I like that your receiver, Matt.
I've got Hayden Hurst in a revenge game. Uh might
be a little extra revenge for this one, seeing is
how he was a pretty good tight end for Atlanta
in his first year there. Then they drafted Kyle Pitts
and like just cast him aside like an old, moldy
bag of tangerines. Can I coin a term here? It's
not only a revenge game, it's a twist the knife game.

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We're going hard for better or worse. He's really angry.
He has a mental health foundation to uh so. Hurst
is facing his former defense that doesn't know how to
cover the tight end position at all. They've allowed the
second most receptions and the third most yards to tight
ends this year and they have not faced anyone like
Travis Kelsey or Mark Andrews. Hurst will go for at

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least seven in the yards and a score this week.
Mark it down. Jacoby Myers, Nobody nobody has ever excited
about starting a member of the Patriots passing attack. I know,
I'm not was back when Terry Glenn was plane. Oh yeah,
those are those are the good old days when Randy
Moss the coach. Jacoby Myers runs two thirds of his

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place from the slot where he's gonna face Bears rookie
cornerback Kyler Gordon. What's notable about him? He's allowed the
most yards in coverage and the second most yards after
the catch from the slot. That is rare. You have
to be a special kind of bad to do that. Uh. Myers, meanwhile,
has been shockingly consistent. He stopped fifty five yards in

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every game he stopped nine yards and two of the
last three. Let's tepe Bailey's appy keeps starting because there's
a little there's a little something there. I don't think
it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen either.
I think they're gonna I'm miss I think mistakenly go
back to Mac Jones. Nevertheless, Jacoby Myers and either spot
a fine play this week. Let's get back to our matchups.

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Brown's taking on the Ravens will start on the Brown side.
Nick Chubb is always in a grade, but let me
note that Baltimore is a good run defense. Over the
past month, Joe Mixon, s Kwon Barkley, Devin Singletary, ra
mondre Stevenson have all failed to top seventy eight yards
and that brings us to Creem Hunt, who goes on
the bench. It's been a disappointing season for Hunt. I

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had expected that he would be better here. He hasn't
topped fifty eight rushing yards all year. He hasn't topped
twenty four receiving yards all year, and the worst party
is running it four point two yards per carry behind
the same offensive line that is powering Nick Chubb to
six yards per carry. Let me heed the guy who
asked for a trade in the trade and they should
have done it. He's he's just like slowing down just

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to spite them. Kareem Hunt is touchdown dependent at this
point for fantasy owners and the Ravens improved defense. There's
only a lot of one running back score since Week three,
so Kareem Hunt is on the bench. Let's go to
the passing game here. My highest graded receiver for Cleveland
is their tight end David and Joe Coku. He's got
fifty five or more receiving yards and each of the
last four games he's running routes on eight of Cleveland's

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passing plays. That is what Travis Kelsey runs. To give
you a sense of how often that is. Baltimore has
allowed touchdowns too tight ends and back to back games.
B grade on even and Joeku. C grade on Amari Cooper.
He's been a boomer bust player all year long, career
long right about that. Actually, I lean on the bus

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side and that's why only the C grade here. Baltimore
secondary has improved a lot since a horrible start of
the season when everybody was hurt. Over the past three weeks,
Baltimore ranks ninth best and yards allowed wide receivers. They've
stymied stuff on Diggs in Jamaar. Chase Cooper lines up
primarily on the right side of the field. He'll face
veteran cornerback Marcus Peters, who gives up forty seven yards

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per game and has not given up a score since
Week one. So just the C grade on a Marii Cooper.
Let's go over to the Baltimore side. Mark Andrews is
a big question Mark did not practice Wednesday, didn't practice Thursday,
came in with a limb it did practice on Friday,
and told reporters he feels good. That doesn't necessarily mean anything.
You want to watch this closely. If he plays, you

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have to start him because he's Mark Andrews. If he
does not play, your pivot could very well be to
his backup rookie Isaiah Likely, who are very excited about
based on some of the dazzling preseason where that we
saw from Isaiah Likely. So you could pick up Likely now,
wait till Sunday morning, and then make the change if
you need to. If Andrews is in fact held out
of this game, the rest of the passing game is

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a little more mundane here. For Lamar Jackson, We're gonna
watch his hip injury, which could limit his mobility. He
will play in this game. Jackson throwing exactly one touchdown
in three straight games. But he gets Rashad Bateman back
hopefully that helps. He's topped the meager milestone of just
two eighteen yards one time all year. That's it for
Lamar Jackson. I mean, all the people that get worried

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about Lamar Jackson's passing. It's kind of unfolding that way
right now. Again, this is not uncommon for him. Cleveland's
played the softest set of opposing quarterbacks I think in
the league. Although you made a very good case for
um who's facing Cincinnati? Was it Cincinnati? I think that
has played the softest that it might be Cincinnati. Yet
they still right the middle of the pack in most
defensive metrics, including twenty and past coverage by Pro Football

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Focus B grade on Lamar Jackson, Hopefully he'll be able
to run you two a little bit more than the
arm is provided. I mentioned Rochad Baten's back last year
is only one yard game as a rookie came against
these same Cleveland Browns, and as I mentioned before, the
ground Browns have played a very soft set of opponents.
But there's still bottom ten in past defense by yards
and Pro Football Focus grade. We're gonna monitor the concussion

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status of Cleveland cornerback Denzel Ward when he's out. That
is a sizeable loss there, and Bateman should face a
combination of Greedy Williams who allowed to score and backup
duty last week, and rookie Martin Emerson, who gave up
eighty one yards last week, so some good opportunities for
Bateman and a B grade on him. And as I
mentioned last earlier in this segment, Kenyan Drake might take

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a chance on me running back, Scott, can you work
in Lions Cowboys in three minutes or less? Let's try it. Okay,
turbo time. I don't know if it's turbot time, but
let's start on the passing game on the Lions side.
Jared Goff I have on the bench. He's had a
couple of really good games early in the season, but
this is not a plus matchup. Those were really good matchups.

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For five of the six quarterbacks to face the Cowboys
were held under ten yards passing. Only one quarterback had
multipule touchdowns and that was Jalen Hurts, which you probably
expected from him. Uh Alman Ross Brown, I have a
B grade. You could talk me into an A grade.
But this past defense for the Cowboys have only allowed
four wide receiver scores um and those were but those

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were in the last two weeks. They did say this
week they're gonna get all the targets he can handle,
which really, really it sounds tantalizing. And you know what
when they say that they can do it because they've
they have target He was averaging eight catches for eighty
five yards and to score pre injury. You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna give him an an
A honest a minus. That's that's the grade here, t J. Hockenson,

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I'm giving How did you get that by? I don't know,
t J. Hockenson. I've given a C grade to I
will say, the best tight end game that the Cowboys
have allowed his forty six yards and they haven't allowed
a tight end touchdown. But Craig Reynolds is probably not
gonna go. DJ Tark is probably not gonna go. Yeah,
DJ Chark is not good. They basically are not going

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to have anyone but Sat Brown and Hockinson in that
receiving game. So I've bumped him up to a C
grade even though even though it's a really terrible matchup.
He's only had one good game this season. But they're
gonna probably need him here. Uh. In the running game,
DeAndre Swift, I have a B grade on It seems
like he's gonna go at this point. How is he
still not healthy? I know, I know it's rough. He's

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been limited, but he wants to play. He's pushing to play.
Gotta be and they need wins. They need wins if
they like, they really want to win. So B grade
on Swift c great on Williams, who gets all the
goal line work. It should be noted DeAndre Swift was
averaging eight point six yards per carry pre injury. I
don't know if he I don't think he can do that.
That's not sustainable. But this is a dallastye that has

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only allowed a few respectable games to running backs, and
it took fifteen plus touches to get there. But the
blueprint is a guy like say Kwon Barkley, who had
you know, about a dozen carries for eight plus yards
and then four forty five on the ground in the air.
That's what Swift can get you. On the other side,
I have a bree B grade on Dak Prescott. The
lines of allowed three hundred plus total yards and or

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multiple scores to everyone whose last name is not Zappy,
mostly due to the high score and shootouts that they
get in. I can kind of expect that here as
the second highest game total on the week. So I
have a B grade on Prescott in his return I
have a B grade on Ceedee Lamb. He's likely gonna
get the Occuda treatment. But DK meck the first three

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weeks that was great. DK metcalf blew up against him
and said he's getting help over the top. Last Jacobe
Myers didn't care about it and he went off for
for over a hundred yards on the score and he
got PF graded Okuda as his worst grade in his career.
Let's last week. Yeah, well it's it's only been about
a dozen games total. Michael Gallup I got a C

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grade on he gets a good matchup here in what
might be a high scoring game. His best game so
far is four, but the secondary options are averaging fifteen
fifty nine yards and four to five catches. I think
that's fair for Gallup here. Tony Pollard was my take
a chance on me player. Oh I forgot Dalton Schultz,
who's coming back. He practice in full all week. He

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was a huge target getter last year. In Week one
with Dak he had nine targets seven for sixty two.
That's B level stuff, if not a if he can
get in the end zone. Uh. Zekiel Elliott A grade
this week he gets Detroit Lions team. I didn't think
it would happen this year. A Detroit Lions team allowing
almost five point five yards per second, most rushing yards

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per game, most rushing touchdowns per game. I mentioned in
to take a chance on me segment. Dallas is seven
point favorites. They're likely going to run the ball a
lot late in the game, and he gets all the
goal line work, almost everything inside the five. So I
expect to score. If not too, I agree, well, dust
them off, Dust them off. You said a lot of
mean things about Zeke. This is this chance to prove

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us wrong, the very favorable matchup when we come back
cold steak on the Titans. Jonathan Taylor expected to be
back for this game. Obviously you're gonna start him, but
what do you expect to get? Find out? When we
returned Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul

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played each other once before. What do you think we're
gonna get out of Jonathan Taylor on the Colt side, Man,

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his languishing owners could really use a signature game here,
they could, right. Uh, he's not on the injury report.
Nihim Hinz still is, but was listed as a full
participant in practice on Thursday. Oh, by the way, Dion
Jackson has a bit of a quad injury, so he
popped up on the injury reports. So what do you do?
I mean, you start Taylor with a B grade and
you bench the rest Why a B grade? The Titans

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are allowing the third fewest combo yards per game to
the running back position, and only one at only one
fourteen on average, and they've allowed only one total touchdown
to a running back ball season. Matt Ryan was charges
take a chance on me pass her and I gave
him an A grade before you even throw that in there,

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the second in the league in passing, behind only Josh Allen.
Michael Pittman also gets an A grade. Alec Pierce gets
a B grade in this one. Look what Alec Pierce
is turning into. He's good right now. The Titans are
allowing two D seven wide receiver yards per game and
I've already given up eight touchdowns to the position through
five games. This might be the last chance before this

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Sunday to acquire some Colts wide receivers on the cheap.
The schedules absolutely cake coming up getting Matt Ryan, Alec Pierce,
Michael Pittman, I think this is the time you want
to do it. Um. If you listen to the show
three weeks ago, we mentioned Alec Pierce with I have

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a feeling that you're going to mention one of the
tight ends for the Colts and premature speculation. I might
disagree with you on this. I think that I think
the tight end position is an absolute mess there and
you should completely stay away from it. Last week, Moli Cox,
Kylan Grandson, and Gilanni Woods had thirty one and thirty
one snaps. It's almost like it's third grade football, and

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Frank Reich is doing equal playing time for everybody and
a juice box when they come off the field. There's
only two instances this year where a Colts tight end
has had more than four targets per game. I just won't.
I won't play any Colts. That's my deal. On the
Tennessee side, Derrick Henry is an a grade back to
one hundred yard outings. Prior to the Week six by

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he scored in four straight and over his last five
games against the Colts, he's averaging one two rushing yards. Uh.
Some will be forced to start Ryan Tannehill in this
bye week bonanza. It's okay, you can do that. I'll
give him a sea here. He managed three touchdown passes
and both starts against the Colts last year. The Colts
have allowed about two hundred twenty yards per game through

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the air and one point three passing scores. That's about
in line with what Tannehill averages. But the angle would
be the rushing scores is the Colts allowed two rushing
scores last week to Trevor Lawrence and Tannehill is one
to keep the ball and run in for a score.
Robert Woods is the only Titans receiver you could consider starting,
and he gets just a C grade here. He's the

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only Titans wide receiver to score this year. He's the
only one who's top seventy yards this year, and he's
topped seventy yards or scored in three straight games. So
there's that Robert Woods. Only guy. I'm I'd hoped for
a little more out of Robert Woods so far. Yeah,
it's been pedestrian to this stage of the season. Packers
take on the Commanders. Packers doesn't get well. Spot for

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this Packers offense. If they can't do it here, it's
major panic time. Let's start with Aaron Rodgers, who has
throwing little shoten freud to hear from the Minnesota booth. No, no,
we want, we want good things for Aaron Rodgers and
his owners will Well, let's talk it through. He's throwing
exactly two touchdowns in four of the past five games.
That's not bad. Um hasn't been blank since the opener,
and Washington is allowed the second most passing touchdowns. Touchdowns

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are coming in this game. Rogers offensive line, by the way,
really oddly shaky so far, the Commanders still have some
talent upfront to pressure opposing quarterbacks. Washington ranks ninth in
pass rush by Pro Football Focus. So I don't think
it's gonna be an easy game for Aaron Rodgers, but
I do expect at least the two touchdowns he's been scoring,
and that brings us to his receivers. Alan Lazard gets

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an A grade in this game. The Washing defense allowing
the third most touchdowns per game to opposing whiteouts and
also giving up the highest average depth of target almost
ten yards her target, and the seventh most air yards
per game, the six most yards per game to opposing receivers.
All of these trends very favorable to Alan Lazard. He'll

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see a lot of the outside cornerbacks. That's Kendall Fuller
and Ben st Juice. Fuller is allowed the second most
receiving yards in the league. St Juice is moving from
his normal position in the slot to the outside. Both
are favorable for Alan Lazard. How about Romeo Dubbs his
most favorable matchup as an entire career. Already told you
about Kendall Fuller Ben st Juice. He gets all those

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same matchups on the outside here. No Christian Watson who's
out this week. He's gonna get a lot of snaps.
He's blossoming into an every down player and he's coming
off career highs and targets and routes run Romeo Dubbs.
Dobbs sitting on nine nine potential. Yeah not, let's call
it nine catches in this game, nine time. And lastly,

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from the receiving game, Robert Tounnan C grade a season
high in targets, receptions, and yards last week against the Jets.
Randall Cobbs out, so I think he gets a few
more looks across the middle of the field. But I'll
mention the Commanders have been very good against the tight
end position, and I'm only giving him a C grade
because of the bye week. And lastly, this Aaron Jones
A J. Dillon. Things got to end. Jones is averaging

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six yards per carry and A J. Dillon getting four
yards per carry, leads the team and rushes. It's a
disgrace for an offense that has been struggling. They've got
to give their best player the ball and that's Aaron Jones.
Hopefully correction coming here. The Commanders started the years of
dominant run defense, but the past two weeks they've surrendered

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one d twenty two rushing yards and a touchdown per
game to opposing running backs. For A j. Dillon out
by the way, B grade on Aaron Jones, hopefully in
a grade if they get this thing started out for
Dylan hasn't scored since Week one. He's averaging two yards
per carry, fewer than Aaron Jones has already mentioned. And
over the last two weeks, the Commanders have surrendered at

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least sixty seven rushing yards of three different running backs.
Maybe Dylan gets in that range, but that's it. And
here's the other thing. It's killing me. Dylan's gotten all
the carries inside the five. Why because he's big. That's it,
all right. Last thing, Washington on the Washington side, just
a couple of guys to talk about. And I've only
got two c grades here. Brian Robinson seven h seven

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running backs of top seventy total yards against Green Bay
as they allow the fourth most rushing yards on five
point three yards per carry. What's more, in the past
three weeks, they've given up four rushing touchdowns and they've
seen the six most carries over that time. Frame. Robinson's
getting has gotten every carry inside the five since he's
been active, and I like him to score a touchdown
in this game. And that's why I've got a C

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grade on Brian Robinson. The only other player you can
potentially start is Terry McLaurin. Terry mcclauren with Taylor Heineke
under center, McLaurin posted one of his best games of
his season against the Packers last year. He went to
seven for twelve with a d twenty two yards and
a touchdown in this meeting last year. Heineke's arm is
considerably weaker than wentz is, which will limit mclaurin's downfield

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abilities here, but hopefully he can get a little something
done with some short receiving work. And I don't know
it's he could see him cobbling together like six catches
for fifty sixty yards. Terry the Cobbler. Cobbler, I think
cobblers traditionally our shoemakers, right, yes, correct, I think that
makes sense. Everybody else is on the bench for reasons.

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I don't even think we need to get into with Gibson, mckissic, Dotson,
Logan Thomas has been ruled out I'll mention this about
Gibson declining snap counts every week of the season, down
to fifteen snaps last week, so he's dead to us.
All right, Now, you gotta figure out if you can
do Giants and Jags in three minutes, and this time
you have no wiggle room? Is that a yes or no? Yes?
But it also looks like we have about five minutes

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I think so, all right, Yeah, I got a little
time er here alright. Anyway, Daniel Jones, I barely have
a C grade on, probably because Hurts and Cousins and
Allen and Stafford are on by, and he's getting six
rush attempts per game, and the Jags are a team
who forced pressure on the quarterback nearly a third of
the time. He might have to on a on a
third of dropbacks, so he might have to run a

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few more times here. Uh. It was a good defense,
top ten defense up until last week, where when he
got towards the Jags got torched by Matt Ryan. So
I think there might be two hundred plus yards and
maybe some rushing to get you to a C grade
out of Daniel Jones. However, his wide receivers are all
either injured or super ineffective. So they're all on the bench.

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In the last three games, only one wide receiver his
top three catches. That was Slayton and it was book
ended on either side by a one catch game, so
there's no trust there. Daniel Bellinger was might take a
chance on me player. Uh, guy keep mentioning him. Uh,
se Quon Barkley, Art Vark. I'm giving him the art
Vark here fantasy. Ardvark, I thought was my thing. Dion

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Jackson last week, Deon Jackson against this Jags defense caught
ten passes on his way to a twenty eight point
PPR day. Incomes si Quon Barkley, averaging over twenty three
touches per game with fewer competitions for targets than Dion
Jackson had last week. Ard Vark for se kwon Bark

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Matt and I think you can then take Brian's fantasy.
Can this because because Brian got mad when I used
the Fonzie one. He's not here. We're we're in open show.
We like to swap a little alright, alright, Uh, Trevor
Lawrence is on the bench. He's averaging about two thirty

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two yards and just over just under a two scores
per game, but the Giants have allowed the fourth fewest
passing yards, fourth fewest completions, only seven passing touchdowns in
six games. Is just isn't a good spot for him
or most of his passing game. I have a grade
of C on Christian Kirk. The first three first four
weeks were really hot. Six plus catches, six sixty plus

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yards in every game, including three scores. Last three not
so much, but one was game script. One was kind
of a hurricane. Um, the wide receiver one is averaging
five for sixty nine against the against the Giants, so
I think he gets that here, Um Marvin Jones, A
Jones and apparently a guy named Tim Jones who is
a wide receiver for the Jacks who scored three Jones

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is they're all on the bench, They've all been pretty effective. Yeah,
fin google Tim Jones. I'm sure he'll pop right up.
I'm sure there will only be one of them too.
I'm sure yea Evan Ingram in the revenge game against
the Giants. I gotta be grade. The Giants have not
been tested except for him against Mark Andrews, but this
year tight ends so bad. Nobody's been tested, really if

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you think about it, Giants are seeding five and five
point eight catches two tight ends weekly. Evan Ingram has
thirty two of the jacks forty targets. He gets everything
for the tight end work, so I have a B
grade on him. In the running game, Travis C t N,
I got a B grade on James Robinson, I have
a C grade on I'm kind of iffy on that,
but it's a it's a good It's as good as

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the Giants past. He is. The have been allowing five
point four eight yards per carry ten point eight yards
per reception to backs where E t n makes them work.
He gets a few catches a game. Uh et N
has seen increased snaps and touches over Robinson for four
straight weeks. He's going to get the be over the
C grade for Robinson here. Yeah, totally. Robinson's fading unfortunate. Yeah,

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it's even that I gave some thoughts to Snoop Connor
as a pick up in deep leagues in case this
Robinson thing goes totally off the rails, and because he
has not looked good and they may have to find
somebody else. The secondary back against the Giants has been
getting like sixty nine yards seventy five like they're having
legit games. That's the only reason I game the scene nice.

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It is a massively down year for the position. Let's
talk through some of the trickiest quarterbacks in the league,
Tough Chusan number one. Well. Dak Prescott finished the year
as a top five, top ten, top fifteen or worse
fantasy quarterback. Scott, I'm going to top fifteen. I think

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the top five or so will be very difficult to
crack with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert, Jalen hurds
uh Patrick Mahomes, those types that are probably gonna, you know,
stay in that range for the rest of the year.
Dak Prescott was a top three quarterback for a few
years when he was running six touchdowns a year in.
He was QP seven last year, but he doesn't get

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those rushing yards rushing as much anymore. UM. I just
feel with the tenth toughest schedule left for the Dallas Cowboys,
I feel like top ten or top five is gonna
be really tough. He might get to top ten, but
it's I'm putting fifteen, Okay, Matt rest of season will
Dak Prescott finished the year is the top five, top ten,

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top fifteen, or worse fantasy quarterback. Last year, Doc average
seventy eight passing yards and two point three passing scores
per game the year before three seventy one and one
point eight in nineteen three oh six and one point eight.
If he just maintains those passing stats and we don't
include the running at all right now, on a points
per game basis, he's quarterback number five, ahead of Joe Burrow.

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So it was a six to eight week thumb injury,
sat for six weeks. It's not an injury that's likely
to recur. I will say missing Amari Cooper might hurt
him a bit enough to knock some rustoff. But he's
still top ten fantasy quarterback. Yeah. I couldn't quite get
to ten. I was counting up the guys that the quarterbacks.
You think Carson Wentz will stay in the top ten
for sure, no doubt about it. Absolutely, there's I ended

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up at eleven. There were eleven players I refused them
with the DOC like, okay, that puts doc at twelve.
The Dallas remaining strength of schedules exactly middle of the
pack per Rhoda wire Um, and I just a little
bit of worried. The hand injury on a quarterback is
like a leg injury on a running back and hand
and it's just throwing hand, and I'm like, yeah, jeez,
and we don't know what's kind of who needs thumb?

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Super weird? Uh? Is Michael Gallup and Noah Brown? Are they?
Can they power really power somebody to a top ten
passing off? All right? I couldn't quite do it correct
answer Top fifteen tough question number two? Will to A
tonguo Via Looa finished the year as a top five,
top ten, top fifteen or worse fantasy quarterback? Matt I

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think the thing we got to think about first is
can we guarantee that Toa does not get another concussion
this year? That's what it boils down to. Concussions are
likely to recur and with increased severity. And to A
had exactly one good game this year. The four hundred
sixty nine yards and six touchdowns against Baltimore was an
awesome game. But didn't Mike White do the same thing
last year? Outside of that, He's only topped two hundred

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seventy yards once in his last twelve games. To me,
the most likely outcome is that to Have finishes somewhere
in the late teens or early twenties. So I think
he's worse than the top fifteen Scott is to Tongo Violoa.
Going to finish the year from this point forward, Top five,
Top ten, top fifteen, or worst fantasy quarterback. I do
feel like going out of that Buffalo game and coming

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back in having a hundred eighties six yards on eighteen attempts,
it's pretty good. You know, who knows who knows what
it could have possibly been. Um. I had a buddy
say that on a podcast earlier this week, and I'm like, man,
that is a really good point I have In this
top ten I mentioned the guy top five six seven,
I just I just don't see many people getting past.

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But Miami is second in the NFL in passing yards
this year. If you combine all of the guys, you know,
so if they keep up that and two is the
main benefit, the main thrower of that for the rest
of the season. Um, well over, I think six to
ten range is pretty pretty possible. They do have a

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fairly I have them ranked as the fifth toughest remaining schedule.
I didn't use the wire, so I don't know what
yours says, but it's the tougher schedule. But I think
given what he's shown, his ceiling could be and the
weapons he has. We're looking at what the Miami team
as a whole has done. I have him just just
cracking the top ten even without two up. So in

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the games two has missed. This Miami offense was so
potent with backups. They've had passing game and a four
hundred yard passed that second BAP team And you know,
Matt gave you some stats. Go on the way back
to last year. The difference is Mike mc daniels legit
this and this offense has got Tyreek killed. This is
a totally different offense. Miami is throwing at the fourth

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highest rate and that volume is indispensable for fantasy use.
And the Miami defense is pretty bad. There's gonna be
a lot of shootouts. Game script is gonna be favoring
the passing game. And okay, he can't too, can't break
into the territory of Hurts and Alan and Jackson in
those duel rushing passing threats. But his upside with the

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combination volume plus Hill and Waddle is comfortably inside the
top ten. Tough question number three, it's Matthew Stafford's by.
You've got Matthew Stafford on your team, you need you
need to pick somebody else up. You're just dropping Stafford
to make that pick up Scott. I already did it
in the league. We're in together charge and nobody's picked

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him up. Right. Uh yeah, I'm absolutely doing it. He
has it by this week, then he has uh San
Francisco that he's got Tampa Bay Um. His playoff schedule
is the number one most difficult playoff schedule at the
as currently stands versus the week's fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen
against number one and number two, So I don't see

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any point to have him. I actually think I'll take
a chance on the quarterbacks, not necessarily this week, but
if you add them together each week, they're outperforming Stafford.
So far on the year, he's droppable. Okay, uh Man,
Is Matthew Stafford drop drop a bull for whoever you
need to pick up and start this week and a
super flex or two quarterback league, the answer is no.
But in a single quarterback league, I think you can.

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He's currently the twenty seven ranked quarterback and Fantasy points
per game. That's behind Daniel Jones, Jacobi Bursette, Russell Wilson,
Jimmy Garoppolo, Mac Jones, Marcus Mariota, Andy Dalton, Jamis Winston,
Joe Flacco, and those guys are all on the waiver
wire right right, so uh in single quarterback leagues, almost
all those players they're pick up a bull. And Stafford

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has eight interceptions to six touchdown passes, so he probably
should be too. The offensive line is a massive problem,
and the loss of their left tackle Joe note Boom
is a lethal blow. That line is not going to
get much better over the course of the season. Right now,
the Rams have one starter on their offensive line healthy
at this moment, getting no help from the running game,
and no wide receiver two has emerged at all for
the Rams. It's not really Stafford's fault. This is a

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case of everything around him has become a disaster scenario.
And you can find to the point you both made,
you can find somebody else who's gonna give you whatever,
Matthew Stafford's gonna give you the rest of the way.
Everything went right last year, everything went wrong this year.
Falcons taking on the Bengals, matt and you already told
us that there's at least one Falcon player that you

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like a lot. Talk to me about the rest of
the Yeah, that was Marcus Mariotta, who's might take a
chance on me quarterback? Got a couple starting grades. Drake
London just a C grade though. It seems like Colin
mccockney should really do the Drake London matchups. Maybe we
could see if he's available again sometime soon. Uh. Since
Week two he had twelve We're sorry. In Week two
he had twelve targets, eight catches, eighty six yards in

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a touchdown. Then defenses started keying off on London. In
the four games since then, he's averaging six targets, three catches,
thirty six and a half yards per game and only
has one touchdown in four games. And he faces a
very competent Bengals secondary this year. I'm not sure I
like his chances all that much. So just to see.
Kyle Pitts was on everyone's bench last week and he

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finally scored his first NFL touchdown in America on American soil.
He was mostly on everybody's bench. Yeah, first t d
in the United States of America in the NFL for
Kyle Pitts last week. Uh, his second touchdown in twenty
two career games. So you know what's gonna happen? Everybody
who drafted Pits finally benched him last week, and now

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all those people are gonna put Pitts back in the
starting lineup and he won't score for the rest of
the year. For sure, he's done. You heard me highlight
Hayden Hurst and might take a chance on me matchup.
I have him graded higher than Pitts. Who gets to
see here? Um, let's go on to the Falcons running game,
where it's split pretty evenly between Caleb Huntley and Tyler
l Geer, who had sixteen and fifteen carries last week.

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They finished with fifty nine and fifty one scoreless yards.
It doesn't even matter which one had. What this is.
If this was one running back, he's startable. Since it's
two there on the bench, Scott, Is Tyler l Gere
starting himself this week? I think not. Boy, don't wait
for an answer, just keep going and all answer. Over

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on the angles side, Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, te Higgins
all easy A grades. Higgins was healthy enough to garner
ten targets last week, so I have no fear there.
Chase was limited this week with a hip injury, but
that might be more general soreness than anything. The Falcons
have allowed the most passing yards in the league at
two per game, and the most receptions to wide receivers
at fifteen per contest. They just placed starting corner Casey

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Hayward on I R for that reason. Tyler Boyd is
getting a starting grade two, but it's only a Sea
Boy runs from the slot where he'll face the toughest
corner Atlanta has in Isaiah Oliver, but that's not saying much.
Hayden Hurst, he gets a B grade and was might
take a chance on me tight end. And then Joe
Mixon he's the last guy here. He gets a B grade.
The numbers haven't been eye popping for mixing this season.

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He's been kind of league average, but he's still seeing
about twenty two opportunities per game, So uh, that's pretty good.
Nick Chubb and Leonard four Nett each went over a
hundred and twenty total yards and scored against the Falcons
in the last three weeks. So I feel like this
would be an a if Mixon just looked better, but
he just hasn't looked good recently. Yeah, just not passing

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the eye test. You don't see the usual, um, I
don't know, expressiveness Yeah, do you feel like this this
is this is the time maybe in dynasty to sell
Joe Mixon. Yeah, could be the beginning of I like
that call. By the way, Tyler Elder is starting himself,
but it's over Antonio Gibson. I think that does problem.

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How about Antonio Gibson? Is he starting himself? Have any
way to know that? We don't? Unfortunately, all right, when
we come back, Chiefs taking on the forty niners. Christian McCaffrey,
What are you going to do? Do you put him
in the lineup if he's active? What can you expect
from Christian McCaffrey when you go If he's let's find

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out if he's playing himself. He landed in San Francisco
on Fridays, two days enough time to am in some
some plays. We'll see. We'll talk about Christian McCaffrey when
we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy

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Football Weekly. Paul Churchy and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
with you back to some matchups. Chiefs take on the
forty nine. This is It was already a fascinating game,
and now it's become even more so with the addition
of Christian McCaffrey. We'll talk about him in just a minute,
but let's start on the chief side, which you really
want to to watch is the defense. Cornerback Emmanuel Molesley

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just one on injured reserve chart, Various Ward, cornerback left
last week's game of the groin injury. Safety Jimmy Ward
just had hand surgery. Meanwhile, the defensive line is dealing
with injuries to Javon Kinlaw, Eric Armstead, and Nick Posa.
That's half the defense. It is there in a tough
spot for San Francisco. You'll want to track the status
of those guys to get a sense of whether or

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not the players you might not otherwise play are playable
this week. Obviously, Mahomes and Kelsey are automatic starts that
goes without saying their automatic eight grades almost every week,
including this one. This would have been a different story,
potentially if those guys are all healthy, because the defense
was awesome before they all got hurt. But the fringe guys,
let's talk about Juju Smith. Schuster finally paid off his

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loyalists last week. This was the last time I've given
him a starting grade and it finally paid off. He listens, Yes,
he does listen, and I motivated him. Injuries in the
nine Ers secondary should be able to help his cause here.
Second year slat cornerback Domadore Lenore. No, No, that's a
made up name. I think so. I was a catch

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rate and a passer rating of over one over his
last three games, and in those three games, the leading
receiver against the Niners have all been slot receivers. That's
Judo Smith Schuster. I used to play asteroids on a
Domadore Lenoris, remember those absolutely three bit Domadore Lemore uh
C grade jud Smith Schuster. Clyde Edwards a layer uh.

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The last two weeks exemplify the downside in Clyde Edwards
a layer. Nine carries in both games, fifteen rushing yards,
thirty five rushing yards, and he doesn't chip in much
through the air, just two and a half receptions twenty
three yards per game over the season. That's itt Ers
allowing the third fewest total yards per game to opposing
running backs and the second lowest yards per carry. If

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most of those guys are out in a bye week,
I'm gonna give Clyde Edwards lacy. If most of those
injured players are back, then on the Niners defense, and
I you just you can't start them. Unfortunately, Sell I
would say this for two weeks, sell high on. This
is the third straight sell hi on Clyde Edwards everyway,
it's only going the wrong direction. Get out while you can.

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All right, let's go to the San Francisco side. I'm
gonna start with Deebo. Samuel has an obvious A grade.
But then let's go to Brandon Ayuk. I'm not just
chasing last week's box score. This is another strong opportunity
for Ayouk. Kansas City allowing the fifth most receptions, the
seventh most yards, and the most touchdowns per game to
opposing receivers. The Chiefs allow the second most yards after

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the catch, and they've missed the fourth most tackles per game.
So you put all that together with Ayu's playmaking abilities
and he could have another big game, just like last week.
Brandon Aiyuk be grade George Kittle was not a coincidence
that we finally got the big game from George Kittle
last week with his team trailing throughout the game against

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Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Forty Niners probably trailing throughout
much of this game. So I like the game script
for Kittle in this one repeat coming the the opposing
tight ends averaging five catches nearly fifty yards per game
against the Chiefs. They've also allowed the third most touchdowns
to the position. So a B grade for George Kittle.

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And if I like Deebo Samuel with an A, and
I like A with a B and Kittle with a B,
I gotta like Jimmy Garoppolo logs in with a B
grade here. The Chiefs have allowed the most passing touchdowns,
They've given up multiple scores in every game. And the
Chief's terrific run defense, so we'll talk about in a minute,
is funneling opposition to the past. They're seeing the most
pass attempts per game, forty one per game, and they're

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seeing the highest opponent passing play percentage. Sixty of plays
run against the Chiefs are through the air. So Jimmy
Garoppolo shockingly safe pivot in this a tricky bye week
B grade. Jimmy Garoppolo now the running backs for the
San Francisco forty Niners, beginning with Jeff Wilson, who's now

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on the bench. I just mentioned teams don't run on
the Chiefs to begin with, and then when they do,
they're getting smoked. A brutal matchup for Jeff Wilson. The
Chiefs have allowed the second fewest rushing yards per game
and the second fewest rushing attempts and Chris Jones. Their
defensive tackle is profoo ball focuses top ranked interior defensive lineman.

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Your only hope for Jeff Wilson is a kerry inside
the three yard line and touchdown plunge. That is it,
and that brings us to Christian McCaffrey roster, meaning he's
three in your cart? Got it all right? So you

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can't run on on the Chiefs. They're great run defense.
Here's where Christian McCaffrey and I expect, by the way,
eight to ten touches for Christian McCaffrey in you know,
designed plays that they've set up for him that end
up in resulting in the ball in his hand. Where
he's going to be held full is through the air.
If you're in a PPR league C grade on Christian McCaffrey.

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The Chiefs have surrendered over ten targets per game two
running backs and that and they've given up the most
receptions and the most receiving yards to running backs. Obviously,
Christian McCaffrey an elite pass catching running back. I think
he clocks in here with a good five ish receptions
and he could turn that into something special. Fifty yards

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and a receiving touch show. So we're gonna go c
grade in the first game for Christian McAffrey. And plus,
it's Christie McCaffrey. He's on your team. You can really
get a bench Christian McCaffrey. He can't, can you? But
I can't on tenne touches. I can't give him more
than a secret. I am a little bit fearful that
just in the short time frame window, every time McCaffrey's

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on the field, the defenses are just gonna go, oh,
they're gonna hand to him, or they're gonna pass to
him this time. So we're just gonna double up McCaffrey
every time he go teams thought that every time he
touched the ball with CAROLINEX. You no other threats to me.
Now you have to defend Deebo, Samuel and Brandon I
who can George Kittle. It's gonna open up things in
a big way. Question McCaffrey. All right, let's go to

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our next matchup, which is not quite as exciting. What
except for those of us who pray at the altar
of Damien Piers, talk to me about Texans Raiders, Scott Well,
I can start with Davis Wills, who was gonna take
a chance on me? Player? But we'll get to the
passing game in just a minute, because I want to
start with some Damian Pierce porn for charge. Oh God,

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this is gonna be good. Last week against the Jaguars,
Damian Pierce forced seven team miss tackles, according to p
F p F that is the most miss tackles PF
has credited a player in a single game, not this
season ever, history of Pro Football focus more broken tackles
in one game for Damian was like six or seven?

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He was there were that play was unbelievable. What what
is that for yourself? Don't know? That sounded like paths
flight off. It sounded like a lot of things. Um
all that said, I actually only have a B grade
here as this Raiders d lets it up in the

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air and not really on the ground. Of their running backs,
it took Derrick Henry twenty five touches to be the
only back to top seventy five combo yards against them.
They're actually a pretty stout run their top five in
rushing yards allowed, rushing touchdowns allowed, yards per carry it
just three point nine per touch per carry. It's tough
spot for Pierce, but he's a beast, lots of talent.

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I'm gonna give him a B grade on talented volume
in the passing game. I have C grades on both
Nico Collins and Brandon Cooks. Davis Mills obviously I like
him this week, so I like his receivers. UH. Cooks
has been banged up and and practice has been limited
with achilles and sorry Collins banged up with limited practices,

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but then at the end of the week finally practicing
in full and back off the UH the injury reports.
I trust him, trust Cooks. UH. Cooks was good in
the opener, UH but but there but hasn't been as
good lately. UH. Nico cons has actually led the team
in targets and UH targets over the last three games.

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Excuse me, sorry, UH Cook's has four plus catches in
all but one game, fifty plus yards in three games.
Nico is averaging over sixty yards per game since that opener,
So it's pretty much sea level floor turning into a
contributor here. Yeah, yeah, sea level floors there. He's been
more productive than than Brandon Cooks has since the opener. Uh.

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I'm not doing anything with the tight ends. I thought
that it was a great spot for a possible tight end.
Then I realized that Travis Kelsey scored four touchdowns against
the Raiders, and and that's why they actually drop about
a dozen spots in the rankings. When Uh, Derek Carr
on the other side, I have a B grade on
I actually started the week with an A grade on Car.
Then I moved him to a B grade learning that

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Darren Waller was out. Now it looks like to renfro
might not play as well. He might be a grade. Yeah,
he might be a sea grade by the end of
the end of me talking right here. Uh, Derek Carr
has multiple scores in four the last five. The lone
one he didn't was against the number two past defense
in the NFL. Uh. Texans aren't far off that ranking eleventh,
having allowed it allowed only four passing touchdowns in the

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last five games. That's pretty good. Uh. Their rank is
buoyed a bit by playing fields and Wilson, who are
statistically two of the worst eying quarterbacks in the NFL.
UH those two combined for three twenty five yards. The
other three quarterbacks they faced averaged three twenty six yards.
I think Derek Carr is closer to that. Plus it's

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an avenge game he's playing. The Texans game kind of
ruined his brother there. They did ruin him. Remember the
years he would he would absorb like seventy five sacks. Yes,
it was ridiculous. I have a feeling Justin Field's son
is going to have some games against the Bears. Listen,
listen to Derek Carr stats again, avenging his brother two

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five yards and three scores, two yards and three scores,
two and sixty three yards in one score. But he
added fifty eight on the ground, So that helps you.
I have a B grade on Car four. Now, Davante
Adams is an otto A. He's not an art vark
because he might be the only guy out there and
they might have four players covering him on any given play.

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It's a stingy Houston pasty that has allowed just one
wide receiver touchdown and UH only four wide receivers over
forty yards. Those are like Mike Williams, Michael Pittman, Corland
Sun and guys who went for one. Davante Adams could
have that in him. If Renfro goes, I still have
him on the bench. Number two wide receivers against the
Texans are only averaging two catches for thirty one yards.

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It sounds like he might rent for himself. Only has
one game over twenty five yards, which I was surprised
to find out this and it hasn't. This season has
been deeply disappointing for Hunter. Renfro. Yeah, but if he
doesn't go, Collins had an eight for one and a
score game. Uh win. Renfro was out before. With Waller
and renf Out, Hollins might see a bunch of targets.

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I wouldn't expect that kind of game. He's also nearly
nursing a heal injury. But I'll give Hollins a C
grade if Renfro does not go. Otherwise he's on the bench.
Josh Jacobs has gained an A grade and it's pure volume.
He's top five in almost every usage category, snaps touches
inside the five, work red zone work. His early games
were a lot of volume without much production. We kind

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of railed on that, but then it boomed, then it hit.
He's top two hundred seventy five total yards and scored
in each of the last two weeks. The lead back
the last three weeks against this Texans team hundred fourteen yards,
hundred nine yards in a score, hundred sixty seven yards
and two scores. Texans allowing a hundred and seventy six
combo yards two running backs per game. Jacobs gets everything.

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He gets twenty two plus touches a game. I have
an A grade on Jacobs alright. Final matchup of this
seg mad Seahawks taking on the Chargers. Seahawks didn't really
perform in a pretty good opportunity last week, but this
Chargers defense has been bad. What do you What do
you like about the Seahawks offense? Well, I like Ken
Walker three. He's in a grade in this one. As
expected with Rashad penny Down, Walker saw eight teen carries

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last week and essentially became the bell cow. This week,
he gets a Chargers team that is allowing five point
eight yards per carrying. That's laughable. They've allowed three of
the past four lead runners they faced to go for
at least a hundred and fifteen Combo yards easy A
for Ken Walker. UH. Gino Smith he gets a B grade.
Came back to earth a little bit last week versus Arizona,

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but still helped by his fantasy numbers. With forty eight
yards on the ground. Gino has had multiple touchdown passes
and three of his last four, and he faces a
Chargers defense that is allowing almost two passing scores per game. Uh.
The matchup is strong for both DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett.
I'll give a B to Metcalf, but we have a
game time decision on Tyler Lockett, who's nursing a hamstring injury,

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so just to see for him. UH. J C. Jackson
has been an absolute disaster for the Chargers this year.
Of the corner, well of the corners who have played
at least half the snaps this year. He's Pro Football
Focus his worst corner in the league and his deal
was like that supposed to be the Yeah. He's allowing
the eighth most passing yards in his coverage at three

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thirty one. On the other side, Sante Samuel hasn't been
much better. He's allowing the fourteenth most passing yards in
his coverage at two nine, So Lockett and Metcalf probably
do for a bounce back this week after last week's disappointment.
In fact, if if Lockett doesn't play, Metcalf probably goes
up to an A grade. Uh. It seems like Noah
Fant is taking over the tight end position in Seattle,

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which I correctly pointed out last week. He's about even
for snaps with Will Disley, but they're sending Fant on
the route tree while keeping disleyan for protection. Fant sauce
seven targets last week to just one for Disley, and
Fant also got the loan tight end target in the
red zone. The Chargers have allowed the sixth most yards

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against the tight end of this season. So just like Ludacrous,
I'm gonna give give Noah Fant a Cee Brian would
appreciate that one. I know Austin Ekeler, well, I can't
give him the art Vark now, but I guess I'll
give him up. I want to give him a Fonzie
and an art Vark, because good Lord, Austin Ekeler is

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going to have a great game. I kind of highlighted
it with Sony Michelle as might take a chance on
me runner just an air bear. He's also an A grade.
I'm going through all the sound effects in this one charge.
Where's my bear? Come on? There is? Uh. Seahawks are
allowing the seventh most passing yards per game at two
fifty six. Keenan Allen still limited with the hamstring injury.

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I don't think you can think about starting him right
now because he's a late game and Mike william Is.
He gets a B grade, A seed to Josh Palmer.
Palmer saw twelve targets last week against Denver. If Alan
doesn't go, Palmer flexes into the slot a lot more,
where you'd see the best corner matchup of Justin Coleman.
This week, it's a similarly tough matchup to last week

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against Denver. Seattle's fifth round rookie Tarik Woolen has an
awesome start to his career. Uh He's only allowed fifteen
catches through six games. He'll mostly see Williams hence to
be finally Gerald Everett. He gets a C grade here.
Everett saw seven targets last week and went five catches
for twenty nine yards. Donald Parham seems to be the
deep threat caught all three of his targets for fifty three.

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But I had another concussion last week. There might be
a career for Donald. I'm just so nervous about him.
It's too bad. When we come back, premature speculation. Nine players,
not sorry, three players, actually four. You're gonna get four
players that you can pick up this week that everybody
else will be trying to pick up next week. Speculation.

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When we come back, it's the final segment of Fantasy
Football Weekly. Paul Gearchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison

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with you. If you have not yet joined a guillotine league,
there are still leagues forming all the time. Basically, if
there's not a game playing actively NFL game playing, you know,
there can be an NBA game playing, it doesn't matter.
Then we're forming new leagues at Guillotine leagues dot com.
You can still get into a season long guillotine style
league even today. This is a segment we call premature speculation.

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The premise is we're gonna give you three right before
that you can pick up this week that everybody else
will be trying to pick up next week. Why is
it that all of our time machines stopped suddenly? But
that's when they've reached its death. The nation time time

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to right now. I like that we have multiple time issues.
All of our machines always just stop making noise. They
don't like fade out anything. Let's begin with Scott Fish,
your premature speculation player or players. Yeah. See, I like
helping people with the tight ends. I know people are
have a lot of issues. Gave you Kad Dot and
earlier Daniel Bellinger. Now I'm going to Greg Dulcich. Some

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of these stats are from my good friend Andrew Cooper
of Fantasy Alarm, so I want to give him some credit.
But he did. He played almost He played eighty one
percent of snaps, sixty one cent from wide receiver position,
zero snaps pass blocking. Dulcich twelve yard average depth of target,

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so he's getting down field for these. He did have
two catches for three yards scored a touchdown in his
first game. They had Albert a queb and i'm uh
inactive a healthy scratch. They didn't draft Albert. They drafted
Dulctch this regime um and his loan target they didn't
catch was an end zone target. So a lot of
great usage and the reason I mentioned him is because

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if he does become a thing, you want to get
him now before he becomes a thing. He might be
a streamer guy. You can drop him. If he's not
get him now. He did have a thirty nine yard
touchdown last that was sweet to all right, let's go
to the next premature speculation player man Uh Kirra and Williams.
The news came out that the Rams are attempting to
move on from cam Acres, not attempting. That's that ship

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sailed my mind. Well Acres hasn't like sailed out of
l A as far as I know yet, but there's
gonna be open touches in the Rams backfield. Kiren Williams
currently eligible to come off I are where he landed
after Week one and after having ankle surgery. The Rams
are on a bye this week. In week eight fits
the timeline for Williams's return. The Rams have also been

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a backfield by committee since Todd Gurley left. They've seen
their runners wear down as the season goes on. It
happened to Darrell Henderson last year. I can't imagine they're
gonna let him get twenty touches per week for the
next twelve weeks. So somebody's gonna have to fill in,
and I think it's going to be kyr and Williams
totally agree. Henderson doesn't look good and Acres is dead
to them, so they did mention they want Karen Williams

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to have a big role when he comes back. Absolutely,
I think this is this is the this is the
best of the premature speculations. I'm gonna give you two.
One that Matt Harrison hates. Johnnie Woods is a freak
athlete tight end on a team that throws the tight
end all the time. Now he's got it. At some
point get a bigger time share than what he's getting

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in a mixed time share with the Colts. But the
Colts have of the ability to feed tight ends. And
if Johnny Woods is as good as he can be,
I think at some point he outpaces mo Ali Cox
and others. If it's not, it may not even happen
this year, maybe it's next year, or maybe he just
gets better throughout the course of the season as a rookie.
I like Jollnnie Woods. The other guy I want to

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mention Matt's premature a sorry take a chance on me
running back was Sony Michelle it was any good. No,
he's not. Isaiah Spillers. He's gonna be active for the
first time this week. Now. We would have loved it
had he been so good that he would have taken
command of the number two job. But you know what

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it's he was a rookie. Sometimes it just takes a
while to get the pass blocking and everything else going.
If Spillers flashes something here, he may end up having
the the number two job to himself with Josh Kelly out.
Because Sony Michelle's no threat, I have another one for you.
Charges premature speculation right back, Kenny Drake, is he any good?

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Justice Hill overtook him until he was injured. He's coming back.
J K. Dobbins is up. Maybe go grab him? What
about Gus Edwards about premature speculation? Got m last week?
What about don't use any Ravens running backs? What about
Jamis Jamison Williams Lions wide receiver. He'll be coming back
in a few weeks. Go pick him up. We're just
throwing him off. All the names in fantasy at the

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rest of the roster the NFL, is this come up? Oh?
This is off? The Rails Bears take on the Patriots
on Monday night. Um, let's talk this one through. By
the way, you may not know the Patriots starting quarterback
is until closer to Monday. They have not made any
announcement as we have gone on the air here, But
there's only a couple of Bears players to start on
their side of the ball, beginning with David Montgomery with

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just a C grade. Patriots run defense has played well
this year, including holding Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt to
a combined sixty eight yards last week. Only one opponent
has topped sixty rushing yards all year against New England. UM.
Patriots the league's only team that has a lot of
running back touchdown, ground or air. Zero touchdowns allowed. So
I can't love Montgomery here, but let me mention the

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Patriots are not a totally impenetrable run defense. But you're
upside here from Monty's probably eight scoreless combo yards and
that's a C grade for Montgomery. Have they allowed any
touchdowns by sea? No, uh, nor by space or by time?
You know, the fourth dimension is time, so none of
those places and pretty good Montgomery is only a C.

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That means is only one third of the snaps of Montgomery,
so we can't go to him either, he's on the bench.
Darnell Mooney is the only other receivers with a C grade.
Three straight matchups with over fifty yards for Darnell Mooney,
I like that part, whopping twelve targets last week by
far as big as total of the year. Tricky matchup

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though against a good Patriots secondary. Mooney runs predominantly from
the slot, and that matches him up against Miles Bryant
and inconsistent cornerback who allowed to touchdown last week. New
England's secondary has been dominant overall, though the last couple
of games. Last week's opponent, Cleveland, had all three of
its top pass catchers finished in the bottom fourteen and separation.

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So I don't love Mooney here just to see grade.
Nobody else is startable on the Bears. Well, let's spend
a minute talking about Cole Comet. Can we okay? A
whole minute? One minute? He's on the field for of
the the snaps and yet he never gets any targets
or receptions because he's their best offensive lineman. Well, you
would think that that's that they must be keeping him
back to block, which is what I thought No, he's

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running routes on the passing plays and he gets one
and a half targets per game. He's the ultimate decoy.
Yes he is. He's been targeted on eleven of the
team's passing plays. He should stop running down the field
yelling hey, justin pass it to me, pass it to me.
Even in a bye week, commits one catch average makes

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him too deep to be considered a Oh God, I
got I had to break out the dark thread. I'm sorry. Uh,
nobody else is starting that side. Let's go to the
New England Patriots side. I'm gonna start with the running
game here. There's a chance Damien Harris plays in this game. UM,
so we'll first We'll start here. Romandre Stevenson is an
auto A. If Damien Harris does not play, will downgrade

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him to a bee. If Harris does play, he's averaging
twenty five touches without Harris and fourteen with Harris if
he will face a Bears defense that's allowed the fourth
most total yards per game to opposing running backs. The
last five starters to face the Bears have averaged one
twenty three total yards and one point two touchdowns per game.

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Those are mouth watering numbers. Hopefully, honestly, hopefully Harris does
not go, so Stevenson can just be a have a
great play here and um don't know the quarterback situation,
but they're both on the bench. So whether you want
Matt Jones or Bailey's Appy, we're not gonna go with
either one of them in this game, although Zappy honestly
has looked a little bit better. Damien Harris, if he

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plays just a C grade, put in a full practice
on Thursday, suggesting you will be able to go UM,
but he's got an ankle injury. There's the prospect of
re injury here. Stevenson might be the starter because he's
the healthier the two. Harris only available, only startable in
a pinch. Uh, Jacoby Meyers was gonna take a chance
to me wide receiver. He gets a B grade from

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me here. You might be tempted to go with Hunter
Henry if your back to back solid games, but one
of those came with John and John who out injured,
and the Bears have been an elite tight end defense,
allowing Chicago to Chicago, allowing um is let me back up.
Chicago is top eight in tight end receptions. Tight end
yards and tight end touchdowns, so we are not going

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to start any of them. Hunter Henry is on the bench.
Final matchup is Steelers taking on the Dolphins. Scott, Yes,
who's our Who's our Steelers quarterback for this game? It's
gonna be Kenny Pickett. Alright, it's gonna be he cleared
concussion protocol. He's gonna be the starter, and I got
a C grade on him. I finally get to maybe
start Kenny Pickett in a in a in a league,

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maybe this week. The Dolphins d has allowed multiple scores
in four the last five and at least one touchdown
to every quarterback. They're also allowing two d and sixty
seven yards per game. That's a fairly sea level floor
if you're looking to sixty plus and one to two
scores minimum. Uh and pick It's also a capable runner
who had a couple of touchdown runs just a couple
of weeks ago. I think this could be a game

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where they're you know, touchdown dogs, where he threw fifty
two times just a couple of weeks ago, you know,
as a trailing team. I think he could unload for
forty to fifty attempts again in this one. Uh C
grade for Kenny Pickett. As for the past catchers, this
one's really annoying. Uh, Deonti Johnson, I do have a
B grade on UM. In the loan full game that

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Kenny Pickett played, all three had five to six catches
fifty eight five yards. But Deonte Johnson has at least
five in in five of the six games he has caught.
Let's see here, he has caught at least five passes
in each in each of those games, UM with pick
it in. Uh, let's see, let's go over to Kenny Pickens.

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Uh wow, I'm having trouble now, George Pickens. George Pickens
is gonna get to see he has eleven catches on
a hundreds for a hundred seventy two yards on seventeen
targets with Kenny Pickett in Chase Claypool, eight for seventy
eight yards on twelve targets, a lot less volume for
Chase Claypool with Kenny with Kenny Pickett in the game,
So Pickens is going to get to see. Last week,

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pick It only targeted Claypool twice. All that all the
Claypool stats came from Trabinsky, right, Yeah, yeah, pick It
only targeted Claypool twice. Trabinsky only targeted Pickens twice. It
seems like those two flipped depending on who the starter is.
Pat Fiarmouth, I gotta bree b grade on. Before the concussion,
he was averaging nearly five catches for fifty six yards

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per game. Uh. The Miami Dolphins allow on average six
catches for fifty six yards to tight ends. That feels
like you might get there. Uh, and including scores and
half their games, So be great on Pat Firemouth Nag Harris. Yeah,
we begged you to trade him three episodes again. Uh,

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this this one I hate doing like I want to
mention him. I want to. But given the bye week,
and given the fact he gets fourteen to seventeen touches
weekly does nothing with them, but he gets you two
to five catches, he's gonna get a volume. See for me,
He's not explosive, Like his best day is eighty nine

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total yards. He's been sub fifty yards and back to
back the Dolphins are allowing the tenth fewest combo yards
three point six nine yards per carry. It's a bad
spot too. The only thing he's got going for him,
and he's volume and Jalen Warren only got two touches
last week. He gets everything, so he's going to get
the C grade on fifteen plus touches and we'll hope

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he can do something with it. Over on the other
side to ah To, I'm given an A grade too.
It's it's it's the start of that top ten finish.
The charge and I both had in in three tough questions.
This Steelers defense is allowing two nine yards and two
scores per game, about two hundred nine yards and two
scores per game, and they have a ton of injury.

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He's in their defensive backfield. They have allowed multiple touchdowns
and three or six. I don't need to keep going.
We saw what Too has done, what that Miami offense
has done. We've talked about it. A grade for two.
He's gonna get those yards and scores this week. Tyreek
Kill and Jalen Waddle, I feel are automatic a's. The
volume is concentrated to those guys. I know Waddle is

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a little banged up and he had too a couple
of dods this season, but his upside is a hundred
and fifty plus yards in a score. You can't bench him.
And this is a pretty decent matchup against his secondary
that's that banged up and has allowed eight different writer
receivers to top a hundred yards and or a score
this season. Mike Kasecki C grade. He's about as hit

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and missus you get there, gonna showcase him first grade.
I'd feel exactly, I'd feel better better if Wattle wasn't going.
But he has four games the thirty or fewer. But
he's got forty one yards or a score, forty one
yards in a score in sixty nine and two scores. Uh.
If Waddle doesn't go, upgrade him to a B where
he mostard B grade lead the team in touches in

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five straight games, fifteen plus touches in three straight. He's
getting all the work most most of It's gained four
catches in each of the last four games. Fifteen touch
guys generally get over eighty five total yards on the Steelers.
That's B grade level. If he's getting a few catches
in eighty five plus yards, that's that sounds about right. Yeah,

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James Conner, you know, Benjamin the rest of the year,
what do you think. I think it's still James Connor.
I think it's neither just a week ago, we saw
you know, Benjamin go fifteen carries for thirty seven yards.
I mean, like, do you guys not cross off offenses
or backfields? Like I think I'm always the one crossing

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off I do, but charge forced the question. So all right,
I'm team you know. I don't love him, but I
thought I prefer you know too. But all right. If
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