Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October twenty second, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we notify
Speaker 1: you of our injury status to me your man MG
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f Florio and Lakwan Jones
Speaker 1: and fellas normally like to start the show. A little
Speaker 1: bit of happy chat, but not a lot of happy
Speaker 1: to start this show, so let's.
Speaker 2: Get into it. There were two Monday night games.
Speaker 1: You had the Chargers and the Cardinals, which was weird
Speaker 1: because it went a whole lot of scoring, wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: the most appealing game, and it was put behind a paywall.
Speaker 2: That's a whole different story.
Speaker 1: The other game that most of us were able to
Speaker 1: see without much trouble or without much trouble, the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers. On the good side of things, you
Speaker 1: had Lamar Jackson doing Lamar Jackson things, throwing five touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: You had Derrick Henry running the ball like a madman,
Speaker 1: getting in the end zone yet again. On the other
Speaker 1: side of things, though, things not so great. Yes, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield did end up having a good fantasy day. The
Speaker 1: Bucks ended up losing, but bad news all around with
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Wide receivers. The big one, Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: a dislocated ankle He's expected to have surgery later this
Speaker 1: week has been ruled out for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: Then the other one, maybe not as long term, but
Speaker 1: equally serious, Mike Evans, who was trying to play despite
Speaker 1: a bad hamstring aggravated that hamstring injury and now looks
Speaker 1: like he is out until at least after the Bucks
Speaker 1: By in week twelve, so the or week eleven rather
Speaker 1: week twelve being the earliest that he is expected back
Speaker 1: this season. So, Florida, I'm gonna start with you here.
Speaker 1: Obviously this you know you're sort of looking at next
Speaker 1: man up in the Tampa Bay Wide receiver room. I mean,
Speaker 1: my first thought was a BITVT to Jalen McMillan, but
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd is there as well. Which one of these
Speaker 1: guys would you rather have right now?
Speaker 2: For fantasy?
Speaker 3: McMillan, For me, I'm always a when it comes to
Speaker 3: like two situations like this, I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 3: young guy, the one that came with pedigree and stuff
Speaker 3: more than the guy who is kind of past his rope.
Speaker 3: But McMillan is one that I am willing to not
Speaker 3: only pick up, but to spend some fab on this week.
Speaker 3: Like in one of my leagues, I'm putting like thirteen
Speaker 3: dollar bid on him out of one hundred. I only
Speaker 3: have less than fifty left, so that is a good
Speaker 3: chunk of it. But I'm also putting in on Shepherd
Speaker 3: and Tucker like min bids either zero or one dollar
Speaker 3: or something like that, just in case I'm wrong or
Speaker 3: something like that. There will be volume up for grabs.
Speaker 3: But even more than McMillan. I think the big winner here.
Speaker 3: I think McMillan is the biggest wide receiver winner. But
Speaker 3: Kate Awton man like he was already getting so much
Speaker 3: volume or starting to get more and more and more volume,
Speaker 3: and then last night had ten targets and he's out
Speaker 3: there in a lot of leagues and tight end being
Speaker 3: what it is like grab kitaut in tonight when Waivers run. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Kayatton was a guy that I sort of liked as
Speaker 1: a sleeper the last couple of weeks because he was
Speaker 1: very quietly getting a larger share of the targets in Tampa,
Speaker 1: and then we saw on Monday night him getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot of work, and you expect that's gonna go
Speaker 1: up with Evans and God went out for at least
Speaker 1: the next few weeks. That God went out for the season,
Speaker 1: Evan's out for at least the next few weeks. So
Speaker 1: ot and going to get a big part of that
Speaker 1: target share in an offense that throws the football a lot.
Speaker 2: But Lakwan, that does lead us to the quarterback question.
Speaker 1: There in Tampa Bay, Baker Mayfield was having a fantastic season,
Speaker 1: both in real football and in fantasy football.
Speaker 2: I mean, as of this moment, he is.
Speaker 1: The second highest scoring player in all of fantasy behind
Speaker 1: just Lamar Jackson right now, eighteen touchdown passes, seven interceptions,
Speaker 1: and fifty nine passing yards.
Speaker 2: He's even running the football a little bit, Lakwan.
Speaker 1: For now, with his top two weapons gone, how much
Speaker 1: does that impact Baker Mayfield. I felt like he was
Speaker 1: getting to the point where he was kind of a
Speaker 1: set and forget an option for you now, do you
Speaker 1: have to think about it on a weekly basis?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I really think this is going to be
Speaker 4: where we see Baker Mayfield play a lot of hero ball.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be where he's gonna be making those
Speaker 4: bonehead mistakes like that interception in the red zone, Like
Speaker 4: that's probably the worst area for a quarterback to turn
Speaker 4: the ball over and scoring distance. And I feel like
Speaker 4: now Baker Mayfield, without his two core weapons, he's going
Speaker 4: to try to have to make whatever work with the
Speaker 4: guys that he has in front of him to step up.
Speaker 4: You're hoping Sterling Shepherd can step up in a way,
Speaker 4: being that they have previous chemistry in college. You're hoping
Speaker 4: Jalen mcmallon can step up and be that underneath guy
Speaker 4: that can kind of stretch the field as well at times.
Speaker 4: And Kate Odd and he's another guy that you know,
Speaker 4: we talked about him getting more opportunities as the weeks
Speaker 4: go on, and I think this might be the Baker
Speaker 4: Mayfield that we saw last year where him and Rashad
Speaker 4: White might connect a lot these checkdowns where you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of shot away fantasy managers are probably you know,
Speaker 4: unfortunate situations happy now that he could find a lot
Speaker 4: more fantasy relevance having a season high on Monday Night
Speaker 4: with a fantasy So I really think that Baker Mayfield
Speaker 4: does not become an option of every week, you know,
Speaker 4: we start and forget where you might have to really
Speaker 4: go out there looking on the waiver wire for Jameis Winston,
Speaker 4: you know, which sounds disgusting right now, but it is
Speaker 4: what it is. What Baker not having Mike Evans and
Speaker 4: Chris Codman, well, it's going to be really tough to
Speaker 4: go out there each week trying to think that Baker
Speaker 4: Mayfield is going to be put up the numbers that
Speaker 4: he did before.
Speaker 1: Well, and on top of it, when you look at
Speaker 1: the upcoming schedule for Tampa Bay, it's not particularly friendly.
Speaker 1: I mean, coming up this week they've got a big
Speaker 1: matchup in the Division against the Atlanta Falcons, who defensively
Speaker 1: are better, certainly than they've been over the last few years,
Speaker 1: kind of middle of the back in past defense, but
Speaker 1: certainly not as bad as they have been in recent years.
Speaker 1: Then they go to Kansas City to take on that
Speaker 1: Chiefs defense, which is shut down just about everybody they've
Speaker 1: run up on. Then they have to host the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers, who, again the Niners, maybe not the same
Speaker 1: defensive team they were a couple of years ago, but
Speaker 1: still not a defense that you really want to have
Speaker 1: to fool around with. So it is just not a
Speaker 1: great run over the next three weeks. Then they have
Speaker 1: the buy in week eleven. Hopefully in week twelve you're
Speaker 1: able to get Mike Evans back when you go on
Speaker 1: the road to the New York Giants. So just a really,
Speaker 1: really tough stretch for Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers, and
Speaker 1: now we're going to have some decisions to make when
Speaker 1: it comes to putting them putting him in our fantasy lineup.
Speaker 1: Other big story that came out earlier in the week
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, who suited up we heard he had an illness.
Speaker 1: He tried to go, couldn't go, ended up sitting out
Speaker 1: most of that game against Kansas City. Turns out he
Speaker 1: had pneumonia, He had fluid in his lungs, was admitted
Speaker 1: to the hospital on Sunday. He has since been released
Speaker 1: from the hospital, but no real timeline of when he's
Speaker 1: going to get back on the field. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll ask both of you this. I'll start with you,
Speaker 1: if you are looking for a niner off the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: knowing that Samuel is out for who knows how long,
Speaker 1: Knowing that Brandon Ayuk is out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, who would you rather have Juwan Jennings, who's
Speaker 1: expected back this week, or the rookie Ricky Piarsol, who
Speaker 1: made his debut on Sunday against Kansas City.
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I will probably play it safe here.
Speaker 4: I'll put in waiver wires for both Ricky Piersoll and
Speaker 4: Jawan Jennings, even maybe Jacob Cowing. I mean, honestly, I
Speaker 4: feel like you have plenty of options here if you're
Speaker 4: looking to replace a Brandon Ayuk or Diebo if he's
Speaker 4: going to miss extended time. But honestly, I'll probably hang
Speaker 4: my hat on Ricky Pearsall. I mean, we watched his
Speaker 4: college states. The guy can make all the circus catches.
Speaker 4: He just needs to get a little bit more adjusted
Speaker 4: if you're looking for that big swing upside where I
Speaker 4: think he could be a reliable target for Brock Berdy.
Speaker 4: But Jawan Jennings banged up. We did see earlier in
Speaker 4: the season. He did pop up, show up and show
Speaker 4: out in times. But more so, I'm going to be
Speaker 4: going with the young guy here where I think he
Speaker 4: has a lot to prove. He's been waiting to get
Speaker 4: on the field, So give me Ricky Pearsall. In this
Speaker 4: offense moving forward.
Speaker 2: How about you Florio Jennings or Piersol Jennings.
Speaker 3: For me, I agree with Lakwan. I'm putting in bids
Speaker 3: on all of them just in case, but the ones
Speaker 3: where I'm spending fab is on Jennings because I agree.
Speaker 3: I like Ricky Piersoll a lot. I still believe he's
Speaker 3: kind of behind the eight ball a little bit. He
Speaker 3: missed a lot of time this summer. He wasn't practicing
Speaker 3: with them, but Jennings was. And not only that, we've
Speaker 3: already seen Jennings step up when one of those two
Speaker 3: top wide receivers have missed time this year. Even when
Speaker 3: you came back, Marcus, you kept joking like, yeah, the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers paid their wide receiver one and Brandon
Speaker 3: Aiyuk this offseason because that's how much volume was going
Speaker 3: Juwan Jennings way. So I'm willing to bet to bank
Speaker 3: on that continuing. But I'm putting my big fat bits
Speaker 3: in on him. But I'm putting backup bids on Ricky
Speaker 3: Pearsol and then even behind him on Cowing because of
Speaker 3: what Lawan said, like if you miss out on one,
Speaker 3: you still want pieces of this offense so, and my
Speaker 3: belief is you should always put bids in because even
Speaker 3: if you're like, this guy's gonna go for way more,
Speaker 3: It's happened to me so many times where I end
Speaker 3: up just putting a just in case bait and get
Speaker 3: that guy. So put in bids for all three of them.
Speaker 3: If you need wide receivers, that's the order I would
Speaker 3: be putting them in. But yeah, you can never go
Speaker 3: wrong with just throwing a bit in just in case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. I would say that if I'm
Speaker 2: picking one.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one over the other, it's
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings just because we've seen him have a big
Speaker 1: role in this offense. I said it before third in
Speaker 1: Juwan was a real thing for this forty nine ers offense,
Speaker 1: and I go back to the fact that there was
Speaker 1: a good ten minute stretch when he was he was
Speaker 1: the leading candidate to be Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2: So I think the role is gonna be big for him.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see Pearsaw develop into something good along
Speaker 1: the way, but that may take a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: So if you need help right away, I think Jennings
Speaker 1: is your guy. If you're willing to wait and sort
Speaker 1: of wait for someone to develop, then you know, take
Speaker 1: the shot at Pearsaw. But like both of you guys said,
Speaker 1: probably worth it to put bids in on both of them.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: A rough stretch for wide receivers across the league and
Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of tough decisions for
Speaker 1: fantasy managers going forward. So those are a couple of
Speaker 1: things that we had questions about. In the meantime, have
Speaker 1: some more big questions that we're looking at fantasy wise
Speaker 1: for week eight and beyond the first one.
Speaker 2: Lakwan is it over for Travis et In?
Speaker 3: Like I know he was.
Speaker 1: Hurt and that was the reason he didn't play this
Speaker 1: past week in London, But Tank Bigsby looked so good
Speaker 1: and has looked very good over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Like, how worried should you be if you have Travis
Speaker 2: et In?
Speaker 4: You should be very worried. Him and Rashad White are
Speaker 4: literally in the same boat. Like it's one of those
Speaker 4: things where it's weird where you know they missed some
Speaker 4: time and then their backup show up and show out,
Speaker 4: Like I have this thing where you know I live
Speaker 4: by it. If it's a weird thing, but I say,
Speaker 4: if you take a day off where you go on vacation,
Speaker 4: might lose your job and opportunities. And that's clearly what's
Speaker 4: happened here in Jacksonville. You know, Travis Etn on the sideline,
Speaker 4: he's looking like Michael B. Jordan, like doing his best
Speaker 4: impression our side, Like he's smiling, shaking his head like yeah,
Speaker 4: this is great, like we're getting the run game going.
Speaker 4: But he's really crying inside because Tank Bidsby, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: he's just been playing phenomenal. Like I don't see how
Speaker 4: you go back to that, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 4: how do you go back to Travis Etn leading the
Speaker 4: backfield because he hasn't been efficient And I just think that,
Speaker 4: you know, Tank Bigsby just gives you that boost. He
Speaker 4: gives you that burst. There's some burst in the step
Speaker 4: and he's like one of those guys that can pull
Speaker 4: those over people like I love watching him play.
Speaker 1: So Travis Etn handshake ice Cube from Friday getting fired
Speaker 1: on your day off? Yeah, what's happening right now with
Speaker 1: Travis Etn. I mean, look and when he comes back
Speaker 1: and he's healthy, he's going to have a role in
Speaker 1: this offense, but at this point it's hard to see
Speaker 1: it being as significant as we thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be and as it was at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season because he's just flat out getting out played
Speaker 1: by Tank Bigsby Right now, Flouria, Do I have to
Speaker 1: keep starting Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 3: No pie behind the curtain of this week? I have Richardson.
Speaker 3: I haven't written it yet, but I have him as
Speaker 3: a sit in stardom sit him, And this one was
Speaker 3: hard for me because he has had a lot of
Speaker 3: success against the Houston Texans, but it's largely come on
Speaker 3: the ground rushing touchdown wise, I think he has three
Speaker 3: and two games against them, but the passing production just
Speaker 3: is not there, and I think teams have kind of
Speaker 3: figured out if you could take away his legs or
Speaker 3: at least contain his legs and you don't let him
Speaker 3: hit those home runs downfields. This is a team that
Speaker 3: is really going to struggle to consistently move the ball
Speaker 3: because of his accuracy issues. And this past week he
Speaker 3: completed just ten passes for one hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 3: yards three straight games. Now that he has started and
Speaker 3: finished and been held to single digit Fantasy points, it's tough.
Speaker 3: I get it. Some of you invested very highly in
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson. You just can't get away. You might not
Speaker 3: have an option or whatever, butack, some quarterbacks have hate
Speaker 3: off the waiver wire and if you picked one up,
Speaker 3: I think it is okay now to sit Anthony Richardson
Speaker 3: until we see more signs of life.
Speaker 1: I mean, last year a fifty nine percent completion percentage.
Speaker 1: This year it's even worse, forty eight point five percent
Speaker 1: completions for Anthony Richardson in a league where sixty percent
Speaker 1: is sort of the baseline for being a relevant, competent quarterback.
Speaker 2: I know we love.
Speaker 1: The guys who can run, but you have to be
Speaker 1: able to back that up with being at least a
Speaker 1: sufficient passer, and he has not hit that number. Has
Speaker 1: not hit that threshold so far this season. On top
Speaker 1: of it, he is just running less and being less
Speaker 1: effective when he runs. Just one rushing touchdown so far
Speaker 1: this season. He had four last year in four games.
Speaker 1: And I do think some of that as Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: being there because they did not play much together last year.
Speaker 1: They didn't overlap at all. Taylor came back and was
Speaker 1: healthy by that time. Richardson had the shoulder issue and
Speaker 1: didn't play against for the rest of the year. So
Speaker 1: obviously having Jonathan Taylor there, it takes away from Richardson's
Speaker 1: rushing ability and he is not nearly good enough a
Speaker 1: passer to make up for it throwing the football.
Speaker 4: Do they know each other?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure they have.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they've been introduced at some point this season,
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of it.
Speaker 3: When did Taylor get hurt this year? Let's check it out.
Speaker 3: So he was there the first three weeks before Richardson
Speaker 3: got hurt, and then they both got hurt in that
Speaker 3: same game. Act. So yeah, they've played three games together
Speaker 3: start and finish. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it has not really that LaQuan. Are we
Speaker 2: here for Alexander Mattis season? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Look, I mean the Raiders played your Rams on Sunday.
Speaker 2: You got to kind of watch it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Is Alexander Madison a thing?
Speaker 4: When you have matchups like that, I think you kind
Speaker 4: of start thinking like there could be some here, but
Speaker 4: absolutely not. I'd want no parts of this backfield. But
Speaker 4: he is averaging twelve Fantasy points per game. But it's
Speaker 4: like I'll only put him in if I'm depleted at
Speaker 4: depth at the running back position, or I got a
Speaker 4: guy on by, like I guess I'll throw him in there.
Speaker 4: Like you're very happy that he's taken most of the
Speaker 4: red zone touches and Zamir White is just basically dust.
Speaker 4: So I just feel like, you know, you have to
Speaker 4: really really be really down bad to have exally, oh
Speaker 4: my god, Alexander Madison, as you're starting running back going
Speaker 4: into the week, but I'm not here for.
Speaker 3: It at all.
Speaker 1: Samir White played fewer snaps than a mirror Abdullah on Olay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where we.
Speaker 4: Are, right, mister Stark. I don't feel so well.
Speaker 1: I mean right, I still go back to the offseason
Speaker 1: when you know josh Acobs left, everybody's excited he's going
Speaker 1: to be some mere White season. Alexander Madison got signed
Speaker 1: and people were like, no, whatever, it's still it's still
Speaker 1: some mere White season. He has not been good running
Speaker 1: the football, and he offers you very little as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher. It's just it's hard to really get excited
Speaker 1: about Zamir White. And maybe you're right, maybe Madison does
Speaker 1: not offer a whole lot more, but he does offer more.
Speaker 3: You know, I think the matchup bait. Like next week
Speaker 3: it's the Chiefs don't like him, but in their matchups, right,
Speaker 3: I have him in a deep league and I've played
Speaker 3: him a few weeks already this season because he's getting
Speaker 3: targets and he's getting goal line work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm I think that's sort of the thing.
Speaker 1: Right Again, the fact that he catches the football kind
Speaker 1: of gives him at least a little bit more juice.
Speaker 1: Samir White, he doesn't catch the football and he's an
Speaker 1: inefficient runner.
Speaker 2: It just it just doesn't work at all for him.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's look at some mid season fantasy predictions
Speaker 1: I mentioned at the top of the show. We did
Speaker 1: some awards, we did biggest disappointment in MVP on Monday show.
Speaker 1: But let's spend things forward about some players we are
Speaker 1: curious to watch in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because we're adding them and think you're playing
Speaker 1: him late in the year. Maybe it's a dynasty situation
Speaker 1: where you're sort of looking beyond twenty twenty four and
Speaker 1: seeing what these players have to offer. We'll talk it
Speaker 1: out right now, LQ. Who is on your radar for
Speaker 1: the next few weeks.
Speaker 4: I am on the Drake May train right now. I
Speaker 4: just love everything that I'm seeing from him. Like I
Speaker 4: watched his game very closely these last two weeks, and
Speaker 4: like he's just phenomenal. He's literally the future for New England.
Speaker 4: Like he's given this offense a way, like a whole
Speaker 4: new identity, and like defenses need to take him serious.
Speaker 4: And like we know he can get out of the
Speaker 4: pocket when there's pressure, because we know how bad that
Speaker 4: old line is, you know, the old lines Jersey numbers
Speaker 4: are coming screaming at his face. But he's more so
Speaker 4: just him cool, calm, collected in the pocket. Just he
Speaker 4: will climb the pocket and keep his eyes downfield. So
Speaker 4: these are little things that you're seeing from him, which
Speaker 4: is like great to know, like moving forward for Fantasy
Speaker 4: because like I said yesterday, like he's playing better than
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomesey's last two weeks man, Like he's averaging twenty
Speaker 4: Fantasy points right now, Like this is insane. Like he's
Speaker 4: definitely earned his spot on my especially especially with a runner,
Speaker 4: you know, like being able to get out of that
Speaker 4: pocket extended place. So I just absolutely dra loved Drake
Speaker 4: May right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think by Drake May, he's throwing the ball well.
Speaker 1: Even though they don't have necessarily a ton of talent.
Speaker 1: The Jalen Polk drops are becoming a thing right now,
Speaker 1: or just his inability to get open is kind of
Speaker 1: becoming a thing right now. But last week May or
Speaker 1: actually go I guess s say Week six, May led
Speaker 1: the Patriots in rushing. This week is past week. He
Speaker 1: was signed for the.
Speaker 2: Team lead in rushing up.
Speaker 1: Granted that was only eighteen yards, but the point being
Speaker 1: he will get out of the pocket and run. Is
Speaker 1: that cheek code that we'd love to have for our
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterbacks, Florida.
Speaker 2: Who is your eye on in the second half?
Speaker 3: A guy who literally you haven't been able to watch
Speaker 3: a single snap of so far this season, but Jonathan Brooks.
Speaker 3: I love Jonathan Brooks coming into the season, and I'm
Speaker 3: not shying away. I don't think he's gonna live up
Speaker 3: to the expectations I thought he would. I thought he'd
Speaker 3: be back already by now. I thought he'd be starting
Speaker 3: to take over this job. But I do think he
Speaker 3: could still come back and be a very fantasy relevant
Speaker 3: type running back. Chuba Hubbard is never going to go
Speaker 3: fully away, but Chuba Hubbard was held in check this
Speaker 3: past week. Miles Sanders gets involved, so I could see
Speaker 3: it being a two headed backfield. But Brooks has explosiveness
Speaker 3: for days. He can miss people, make people miss, He
Speaker 3: can be used in the passing game. He could do
Speaker 3: it all.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 3: That's why my expectations were him were so high. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know what this Panthers offense might look like
Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks after the trade deadline. But
Speaker 3: I do know that in the second half of the year,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Brooks will be active. He will be getting reps
Speaker 3: for this team. And my hope is if he looks
Speaker 3: as good as I think he can look, he could
Speaker 3: steal more and more workaway. And I think he still
Speaker 3: has league winning upside. But Cheuba Hubbard is going to
Speaker 3: be a thorn in that side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was not a thing that we anticipated
Speaker 1: coming into the He's had a chance to be on
Speaker 1: the Late Round podcast with the great JJ Zacharyese, we
Speaker 1: kind of talked about the fact that Hubbard is a.
Speaker 2: Free agent at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Brooks obviously in his rookie season, maybe they decide to
Speaker 1: pivot a little bit and start to see Brooks a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But I think it depends on whether
Speaker 1: or not Dave Canallys is sort of calling the shots
Speaker 1: on that or this is a front office thing. It's
Speaker 1: the front office thing. I think we see more Brooks
Speaker 1: if it's Dave Canalis. I think we continue to see
Speaker 1: Hubbard because he's helping them at least be competitive. Air
Speaker 1: quotes right now, I'm going another rookie running back, and
Speaker 1: we're all going rookies year, but I'm going Tyrone Tracy,
Speaker 1: who they said that he was going to start getting
Speaker 1: more opportunities in that offense in New York.
Speaker 2: And it showed.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Granted, the Giants got thumped by the Eagles this past week,
Speaker 1: but what you do love to see is that Tyrone
Speaker 1: Tracy led the Giants running backs in snaps thirty seven
Speaker 1: to twelve over Devin Singletary just back off injury, and look,
Speaker 1: Tracy has been very explosive. He's been great with the
Speaker 1: football in his hands, and it's good to see him
Speaker 1: getting more chances. I'm sort of like in Carolina with
Speaker 1: Brooks and Hubbard. I don't think Singletary's every ever fully
Speaker 1: going away. I think Brian Dabell, having had that previous
Speaker 1: relationship with him in Buffalo is still going to get
Speaker 1: him involved in things. But it's hard to deny that
Speaker 1: you can get Tyrone Tracy some opportunities, especially in an
Speaker 1: offense that is looking for a spark. Daniel Jones has
Speaker 1: not been very good at the quarterbacks position, at least
Speaker 1: not consistently. Yeah, so I think you just have to
Speaker 1: see more Tyrone Tracy. I think he's earned the opportunity
Speaker 1: for sure. Gonna take a quick break. Stick around for
Speaker 1: more of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Back here on
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Show, Let's get to.
Speaker 2: Some waiver wire deep diyes. We did the waiver wire
Speaker 2: on Monday.
Speaker 1: But if we're going a little bit deeper, LaQuan, who
Speaker 1: are we looking at?
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Cedric Tillman Man. I liked everything I
Speaker 4: saw from him on Sunday Man twelve targets, eight catches,
Speaker 4: Like he played behind Amari Cooper really on the depth
Speaker 4: chart in that role, and it looks like he's filling
Speaker 4: in nicely for that role. I mean, solwill Winston checked in,
Speaker 4: he made a nice twenty five yard completion and like
Speaker 4: some of the little things that Tim was doing, like
Speaker 4: not running into coverage, playing really good in the zone,
Speaker 4: just making himself available for him And like I think
Speaker 4: more so looking forward, they need somebody to step up
Speaker 4: in this offense, like one of the young guys, and
Speaker 4: he's definitely one of those players. Like I think Jerry
Speaker 4: Judy checked out, like I said on yesterday's spot, like
Speaker 4: just the body language of it. Like we know Jerry
Speaker 4: Judy could be very explosive at times, but I really
Speaker 4: think he's just over the whole Cleveland experience. And I
Speaker 4: think Cedric Hillman could be the guy that can step
Speaker 4: up and like find some fantasy relevance on the back
Speaker 4: end of the season. So I'm looking for all the
Speaker 4: wide receiver depth because they're dropping like flies. So if
Speaker 4: I can get a talented six ' three wide receiver
Speaker 4: that can make some of the big plays in the
Speaker 4: red zone and end zone, I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I like him a lot. And he had
Speaker 1: twelve targets on Sunday. Seven of them came with Dorian
Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson at quarter. Esp'll see what happens. We'll see
Speaker 1: if dtr is back on the field. I know he
Speaker 1: was dealing with a finger injury this past week. That's
Speaker 1: what let Jamis get into the game. Who are you
Speaker 1: deep diving for this week?
Speaker 3: Mike Jatavian Sanders from the tight end from the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 3: because in his last three games he is averaging six
Speaker 3: targets per game. In his last two he has sat
Speaker 3: just around like nine point nine or double digit fantasy
Speaker 3: points in each of the last two. And uh, this
Speaker 3: is someone that I know, LaQuan you pointed out Bucky
Speaker 3: Brooks was talking a lot about him during draft season.
Speaker 3: Just a huge target six four, two fifty, So he
Speaker 3: could be utilized in the red zone if the Panthers
Speaker 3: ever kind of get the ball in the red zone.
Speaker 3: He also could just be a yak guy for them.
Speaker 3: Plus there's a lot of rumors of like Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 3: Adam Thielen, some of these veterans potentially being available in trade,
Speaker 3: and if something like that happens, that just opens up
Speaker 3: more volume for Sanders. So with the bar for tight
Speaker 3: end being so low and right now that look, I'm
Speaker 3: not telling you to pick him up and start him
Speaker 3: in like a ten team league, but if you play
Speaker 3: in deeper leagues, I think he is already someone that
Speaker 3: you could stream, and there's potential for him to just
Speaker 3: keep getting better. This is something that I know we
Speaker 3: kind of have discussed previously, but like with rookie tight ends,
Speaker 3: he usually takes a little bit before they get going.
Speaker 3: So I'm very encouraged with what he's been doing these
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks and hopeful that he could build
Speaker 3: on it in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big athletic tight end on a team that's just
Speaker 1: looking for playmakers right now.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to get more opportunities later.
Speaker 3: In the season.
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsow is going to get more opportunities just because
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers are shorthanded at wide receiver and
Speaker 1: they need all the help they can get. There was
Speaker 1: the expectation before the season started, when it looked for
Speaker 1: a little bit like the Niners might be trading Brandon Ayuk,
Speaker 1: that Pearsaw could sort of be the guy to step
Speaker 1: in there, be a good route runner and win against
Speaker 1: man coverage. Now it appears they may need him just
Speaker 1: because injuries have taken their toll on this forty nine
Speaker 1: Er offense. We saw him finally get back on the
Speaker 1: field after being shot in a robbery attempt before the season.
Speaker 1: He got out there in Week seven against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: made his first NFL catch.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see a lot more opportunities.
Speaker 1: It could start as early as this week on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football against a Cowboys defense that has been beaten
Speaker 1: up and could be without a couple of pass rushers.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence expected to be out, Marshawn Neiland expected to
Speaker 1: be out, and Micah Pearson. Michael Parsons rather very much
Speaker 1: still up in the air with his availability for Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: So if we are adding guys, we got to be
Speaker 1: dropping guys. Lakwan, who's going back to the free agent pool? Ooh,
Speaker 1: you could say goodbye to ty Chandler Vikings backup running
Speaker 1: back to Aaron Jones. I understand the need to have
Speaker 1: the debt behind Aaron Jones, but honestly, he's toasted. He
Speaker 1: has not been great with his opportunities and they traded
Speaker 1: for cam Akers. I was very surprised to see that
Speaker 1: he had a forty five percent roster share. I don't
Speaker 1: know why folks are still holding on to him, and
Speaker 1: it's time to say goodbye because he's just not efficient
Speaker 1: has look great with his opportunities, and like I said,
Speaker 1: cam Makers might be that backup to Aaron Jones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, I think very telling when they signed or
Speaker 1: they traded for cam Akers again. Actually I thought it
Speaker 1: meant that Aaron Jones was going to be a beat up,
Speaker 1: but he actually played really well.
Speaker 2: Lauria, who are you saying goodbye to Trey Sermon?
Speaker 3: And I know this was He's not like a huge name,
Speaker 3: but I have a lot of teams that need running
Speaker 3: back help. Where I went like Hero running Back or
Speaker 3: zero RB or something like that, and Sermon was someone
Speaker 3: that I streamed the last couple of weeks and two
Speaker 3: now almost three weeks ago. At this point, it was
Speaker 3: good because he got the touchdown, he had the six targets,
Speaker 3: but those running back targets for him and Goodson kind
Speaker 3: of went away when we saw the move go back
Speaker 3: to Anthony Richardson from Joe Flacco and then Goodson had
Speaker 3: more carries than him. He produced him, he got the touchdown.
Speaker 3: This past week, Sermon pretty much had almost all of
Speaker 3: his fantasy production come on one drive late in the game.
Speaker 3: So even if Jonathan Taylor, who is getting closer, if
Speaker 3: he is out again next week. Goodson is a running
Speaker 3: back that I would trust more than Sermon right now.
Speaker 3: So it was fun. You helped me, You gave me
Speaker 3: a win in the league in one week. But it's over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably over for him. I also think it's
Speaker 1: over for DeAndre Hopkins right now. I mean, one, we've
Speaker 1: just sort of seen the decline in Hopkins.
Speaker 2: Over the years.
Speaker 1: But the quarterback situation in Tennessee is such a nightmare
Speaker 1: right now. You've got on the one side Will Levis,
Speaker 1: who is very aggressive at trying to push the ball downfield,
Speaker 1: but not very accurate and prone to making horrific mistakes.
Speaker 1: When he got hurt, we saw Mason Rudolph step in,
Speaker 1: and Rudolph is not going to push the ball downfield.
Speaker 1: He's very much going to be a checkdown guy. So
Speaker 1: that does not help Hopkins in any way right now.
Speaker 1: His best game this year came in Week three against
Speaker 1: the Packers. He went six for seventy three and a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Only time.
Speaker 1: He's been about fifty five receiving yards so far this
Speaker 1: season on pace right now for about forty three catches,
Speaker 1: which would by far be a career low. Really, it's
Speaker 1: hard to really count on any pass catcher in that
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans offense, but the new compkins very much among them.
Speaker 1: At this point, there's so many other wide outs there
Speaker 1: that you can get a look at that it doesn't
Speaker 1: really make sense to be holding a space on your
Speaker 1: roster for him.
Speaker 2: So uh, we we love you.
Speaker 1: Know you've been great for so many years, but at
Speaker 1: this point it looks like father time has has finally
Speaker 1: gotten up to you.
Speaker 2: So there it is all right.
Speaker 1: That'll do it though, for this edition of the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast, they happy, safe and healthy.
Speaker 2: Do good and live well and enjoyed. Theday is everybody,
Speaker 2: and we will talk to you again tomorrow.
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