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It is a difficult bye week for fantasy owners.
We call this by Apocalypse two.
How about by NATO? I like by NATO two.
By NATO two or by Brian Johnson. Gave me this one this week and I liked it a lot. Buye Hard too, Buy Harder Hard like that by Harder, I think that's really good too. Six teams on buye We here to help you unearth some possible solutions to the guys that you need to find.
It's a tricky, tricky spot.
I'm Paul Charchi and co host today Scott fish thor Nye Strum.
Hey, guys, Killo.
It's really good to be back, and it is healthy. Last week it was not good for me.
No.
I feel so much stronger, so much vim and vigor.
Nice. I like it that I can see it. The vigor is just out of poor coming right on to my pores. It's a little too much vigor a little viscous, but yes, uh.
We will go through all the usual stuff. This is the last week for premature speculation. We're down to a point where there's not much time left to speculate, not much return on that investment.
We'll give you the final three guys. We also pick up that time.
I like mine? Do you like it? I like min? I'm sure?
Okay, all right, good.
We'll find out who they are towards the end of the show. We'll also give you the nine players upon whom you can take a chance. Very important this week in the bye week, and we'll answer three tough questions, one of which is basically a personal question for me. Using the show for your own I really am to suss out some of the problems.
You know what, after thirty years, I feel like you've heard what.
I never do this.
Thirty years from now, you get another one.
All right, good, Well we'll talk about that in twenty fifty five.
Oh oh boy, jeez, Ian will be running the show.
Then he will be running the show. Then Falcons take on the Jets. Scott, Let's let's start with this one right right here. I want to believe, yes, this can be Bjon Robinson's biggest game of the year.
I have an A grade on him. I could almost give him the ard Vark. Did you know that Atlanta runs the ball at the highest rate in the NFL and the Jets allow the highest run rate against in the NFL? I love it. Yeah, that's an average of twenty eight rush attempts per game, and that's not even the receptions that Brice Hally gets. So I feel and Arthur Smith just loves loves running the ball by Jon Robinson twenty three touches and nineteen touches in the last two.
The last five lead Backs versus the Jets averaged a line of one hundred and five yards in a score. But I feel like's better than a lot of them. So yeah, for sure, absolutely, I do. Actually, I love they.
Got ground touchdowns and back to bed weeks he did.
I love it. I love it. I do have l and Patterson on the bench, mostly because they're now splitting and I don't know what like. If it was one of them, I would give them a C grade because they're gonna get some work in this one. But Patterson, he played in the early part of the game, took took about eight carries there, uh about six carries and then two in the fourth, and Algier didn't really come until the fourth, so it's almost like he supplanted him.
It's we're not it's Arthur Smith, though you have no idea what he's gonna do. Uh in the passing game. I do have a C grade on Jake Drake London. The Jets d is the only past to hold the team's wide receivers wide receiver group under their season averaging every single game, which means that you shouldn't start wide receivers against them.
Mostly, So why am I starting London here with the C grade?
But Drake London is really their only wide receiver option. He gets the volume and just recently, more recently, the Jets allowed Wattle over one hundred, Tyreek Hill over one hundred, Khalil Shakir over one hundred, DeVante Adams six for eighty six, Keenan Allen eight Forray seventy seven. A lot of those guys move around a lot, which is what Drake London does.
He plays about twenty seven percent from the slot, and he's been moving to the slot way more often, which he'll need to do to avoid DJ Reid and Sauce Gardner on the perimeters.
So they do that.
It's barely a C grade for Drake London, but I'm giving it to him on the off chance that he's on the idea that he's going to get like eight or nine targets and find some way to make some meaningful use of this game.
You know who's gonna Nazi Sauce Gardner and DJ Reid. Who John O. Smith?
Yeah?
I actually have John Smith on the bench. He what did he have zero targets last week? He's had his snaps drop four consecutive weeks now.
Yeah, But to be clear, Kyle Pitch isn't getting that action.
Nope. I also have Kyle Pitts on the bench. You could argue he's a slot guy that that you know would have a good matchup here. But I really don't like. I really don't like the option there, and I think they're gonna run far too much. There's only one guy in the past game. I think it's Drake London over on the Jets side. I will say with six teams on bye pits almost because almost becomes viable. That's what it takes at this point.
If Brian had that matchup, it would be a grade. It's right now.
Over on the other side, I like bris Hall. I gotta be no tiw I'm barely touching on the quarterbacks of the passing game because that's not what the Jets are. The Falcons are about Brice Hall. I have a B grade on the Falcons rank second against runners, but a lot of that is because they haven't allowed a rushing touchdown yet this season, and it seems a little unsustainable. They've had a few receiving scores over the last five weeks.
Kamara had one hundred and nineteen total yards, Connor seventy three, Madison ninety three, Henry one hundred and twenty two. Like backs are getting yardage on them, they're just not getting in the end zone. That's the problem. That's kind of why I have a B grade on Brise Hall, who's getting fifteen touches per game, but he's got twelve catches in the last two games. He gets the receiving any work.
Yeah, your problem here is this, Yes, you stop Breese Hall. Yeah, and you stop the entire Jets off of his. Falcons are going to play to stop Breeze Hall. That'll be the whole scheme, this defense, and Tim Boyle's not beating anybody.
Yep.
So that's why I absolutely possible, that's why I would you move him down to a seat.
I'd have a sea grade on him, all right, at no higher.
That's right, all right, that's fine, that's fine. Garrett Wilson. I do have a C grade on I'm not comfortable with it, but he has a thirty percent target share from Tim Boyle. If Tim Boyle throws at thirty times, that's ten targets. We saw it last week. He did need the score. You're probably looking at four to six catches fifty sixty yards out of Garrison. Garrett Wilson without the score, and that's a low C is probably where
he's going to end up. I don't have a starting grade on Tyler Coughland, No, but he's had some surprisingly fantasy effective games three out the last five games and Titan the Falcons are fifth worst against tight ends. It's actually a decent spot if you're really really in a jam. But I do have him on the bench. Tim Boyle's just not fine, I know, right, just non functional quarterback. The college guy that you are. How many college touchdowns did Tim Boyle throw.
Uh man, I don't know if the top of my head.
One, Well, you have many interceptions. He threw thirteen. Wait really, and he's in the NFL.
It's impressive.
That is impressive catch.
I'm not even mad.
Jesus no business being in an NFL starting line. That's unbelievable. Dolphins take on the Commanders Lions. Dolphins, Commanders.
Here we go.
Oh there we are, all right, thank you.
I'm thanking myself, by the way, arguably the best offense against unarguably the NFL's worst defense. So this is gonna be a one sided affair for sure. Yeah to Tyreek. Tyreek and Raheemos are just obvious a's. In Washington's last three games, they've allowed two passing scores of Gino Smith, three to Tommy DeVito, four to Dak Prescott. Jeez, by the way, they could go two, three, four, five. I'm not ruling out the five times game here for Tua.
Washington's allowed the most by a mile points per game twenty nine and thirty five points per game over the last three weeks. So all those obvious starts are all a's. You know, you're not even going to mess with that stock Jalen Waddle, who nearly comes in with an A grade. He likely faces veteran Kendall Fuller the most, and he's the only passable cornerback for Washington. He's allowed just two
scores all season, Still very good matchup for Waddle. No secondary surrendered more scores to wideouts than Washington's eighteen, so Wattle still comes in with a high B.
And then Devin H.
Chan is the most interesting play out of the whole matchup for sure, So total high risk, high reward play. A Chan could have a massive game against a very bad defense. The Dolphins could get way ahead. They could rest most stirt with the big lead and give a Chan carries. Or you know, a Chan comes into this game who's been you know, got injury issues of his own with the knee injury.
Or they could get way.
Ahead and they could just run Jeff Wilson or something, right, they could rest a Chan. So I mean there's a wide variance of possible outcomes here. Ah Chan can catch and if he gets target volume, he can help through the air. The last four games, Washington's allowed for receiving touchdowns in those four games to runners and a whopping fifty nine yards per game to running backs through the air. So a chan's going to help you a couple of
different ways. I've got to be great on him, but wouldn't be surprised if he blew up here or if they just get ahead and they dial back his usage. So high risk ky reward play there. Let's go to the Washington side, beginning with my guy, Sam Hoowell. It's been a great season. You're league leader in completions, pass attempts and passing yards and sacks and sacks absorbed. They spine shattering fifty nine. I think he's up too, I
believe to throw yes, that could be both. By the way, likely to be playing from behind throughout the entire game, right, So a lot of volume coming. Even though this is a guy who already leads a league in passes per game at forty one, he'll probably go over that in this one. Washington's defense is going to give up that big lead early game. Script is going to turn very
howley in this one. Miami's secondary looks much improved on paper, but they've also they've also faced in the last month Aidan O'Connell, Tim Boyle and the Quadrice benched mac Jones. I had to look up what was after the rice. Mac Jones had been thrice benched for like a month. Now he's quadrice benched mac Jones. Miami has lost their top edge rusher, Jalen Phillips, who's not expected to play here, well, he won't play, and probably top safety Javon Holland is
not going to play either. So there's a real opportunity for Sam Howell here, even just garbage time. Be great, Sam Howell, be great, and Terry McLaurin. This is really interesting. Here's Sam Howell with all of this production. Terry mclaurin's on the fewest yards per game of his career, oddly enough, spreading the ball around to a lot of different players. Now mclaurin's going to see a lot of Jalen ram
Xavian Howard. They're both playing well. Ramsey's allowing two receptions for seventeen yards in his coverage since coming off ir Howard giving up just three receptions for twenty five yards. I mean, both elite numbers, but again, these guys have seen some dreadful passing attacks and the last three quality number one wideouts they faced, Davante Adams aj Brown, Adam Thielen all rocked the Dolphins. So I'm keeping a B
grade on Terry McLaurin. B grade on Curtis Samuel, who's got targeted at wopping twelve times last week after Washington fell behind early. Same game cript game script could be in play for Miami here, and that could help Curtis Samuel again. He's got a very positive matchup in the slot against Cater Kouho, the weak link in the Dolphins secondary. He's allowed five touchdowns in his coverage and a whopping eighty five percent completion percentage, So very strong matchup for
Curtis Samuel with a B grade. Sticking with the passing game, Logan Thomas, Dolphins have given up at least forty one yards to tight ends in seven consecutive games.
But see that's the problem.
That's about all you get from Thomas is like the forty one yards. He doesn't score in no small parks. He doesn't get used in the red zone. He ranks seventeenth among tight ends in red zone targets. Behind it guys like Irv Smith, Kay Dotton, Logan, Thomas is better than that. They just don't throw to him in the red zone. He doesn't score touchdowns, so he can only give you the C grade on Logan Thomas in this one.
And let's go to the Let's go to the running game.
Brian Robinson likely to get games scripted out early for this one. You know, again, presuming Washington falls behind early, they're not going to be able to run. And Washington's got the lowest run rate in the league anyway. No back has top sixty six yards against Miami since Week six, none of top eighty eight yards since way back in Week two, and the Dolphins haven't allowed a rushing touchdown since back in Week seven, So it's all negative right now.
He's been Brian Robbins has been catching more passes late, but Miami's terrific against receiving backs. The average running back receiving game against Miami is twenty six yards, and if he's got to split that evenly with Antonio Gibson, there's just nothing left for Brian Robinson, and I can only muster a C grade, and I considered a bench grade on him altogether. All right, let's take a break when
we come back, take a chance on me. Nine players not only in your starting lineup, many of these guys around the.
Waiver wire and you need the help. It's bye week by Apocalypse too, you need the help.
We'll find guys that you can start in a pinch, including at least one tight end in a very thorny tight end week. Find out who it is when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. A segment we like to call take a chance on Me where we unveil a quarterback, running back, and receiver that you can in many cases pick up off the waiver wire and start. This week in Bipocalypse two, you start the quarterback position in Scott Fish.
Who you got.
Line's probably not on the waiver where I probably could have gone a little bit deeper with six teams on by here, but I went with brock Party getting an Eagles team. He's only forty eight percent started in all my one quarterback leagues. He's not started right now, so.
That's kind kind of a mistake.
That's what I thought too. That's what I thought too, gaining an Eagles team. There's a lot of whopping. Seven of the eleven quarterbacks they face to hit three hundred and or multiple scores, they're allowing three point twenty five touchdowns per game or the last four just a really good spot for brock party.
All right, Sore, you take a chance on me quarterback.
I'm gonna go with Gardner Minshew against the Titans. So Minshew is quarterback twenty one in fantasy points per game since he took over in week six. But I think this is a great matchup against a really bad Titan secondary since since Week seven, the Titans are third worst in completion percentage over expected allowed.
I think Minshew can pop off this week.
Yeah.
I like Minshew this week as well. I've got a starting great on him.
Yeah, me too.
I'm gonna make up for Scott's rather choky brock Perdy by going the other way with a super high degree of difficulty. It's such a high degree of difficulty. Greg Luganis would get off the diving board and go back down the ladder.
Be like.
Kenny Pickett.
Oh, you want to know how many touchdowns Kenny Pickett has thrown in the last six games?
Three, two, two, one.
Okay, you don't have any multi score touchdown games he has in his career.
One is one, but you know what we could get one here? Okay, now, it's two reasons number one. And I'm sure you guys saw this stat, but this, this was a mind blowing stat.
Last week, the.
Pittsburgh Steelers went for four hundred yards yes of total offense. The last time they went for four hundred yards of total offense was the game before Matt Canada became offensive coordinator and in the forty.
Four games between the two and no forty yard games. Yep, I saw that. I was like, that is staggering competence.
That is a bookend of incompetence for Matt Canada right there.
Incredible.
It is so.
Pickett, unshackled from Matt Canada last week, throws for seventy three percent completion rate and two hundred and seventy yards. I mean, he looked good. Didn't happen to find the end zone. But here comes Arizona. Every opposing quarterback has thrown a touchdown. This is a great opportunity. Pigott's gonna get at least one and prop not probably two. I can't, I can't go there. He's gonna get at least one here and maybe two.
I like it.
In this matchup at PFF ranks, Arizona twenty seventh in pass rush, twenty fourth in coverage, so there's a nice opportunity. Matthew Stafford just threw four touchdowns. Who's been languishing all year for touchdowns? Right, he just threw four against Arizona.
Yeah.
I like this game, Kenny Pickett, let's go to the running back positions.
Got Yeah for the last one, I almost won with Trevor Lawrence because I have him as my QB six on the week, and I thought that's really high for Trevor Lawrence.
He's coming off to big games.
Yeah, yeah, it's it's a good spot for him too. My running back this week is to Ernest Johnson. Eight plus touches for fifty plus total yards and back to back this week. The Jags are eight and a half point favorites. So when Ernest goes to Cincy, get it, Like Ernest goes to jail, Ernest go back there to the nineties. Yeah, I'm glad you've both got it, because I was really worried about the people would get that.
De Ernis goes to Citzy not to mention it, not to mention etn Is coming in banged up with a chest injury. So if they give him a lighter workload, especially if they get ahead. Denis Johnson could see eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen more touches. I like this spot for Johnson.
Oh yeah, I won't.
I won't lie it hurts right now. Yeah, Okay, let's go to Thorn. You take a chance with me running.
I'm gonna go with Royce Freeman in his game against the Browns. So Royce Freeman against the Browns, this is the bold part of that. Yeah, but their run defense hasn't been quite as good this year. That pass defense have been great. Riyce Freeman this year number twenty and miss forest tackles per attempt, number fifteen in yards after contact per attempt, and he's a top ten PFF graded
running back this year. Thirteen carries for seventy seven yards in a touchdown while playing thirty four percent of the snaps last week against the Cardinals. And this sort of goes with what Fish was saying with his If the Ram beat the Browns by double digits this week, the same thing could happen with Freeman getting all the touches, which would make him startable.
Royce Freeman also top five in yards over expectation.
Yeah, shocking.
By the way, this is nothing like the freeman known in the past. I'm upgrade now he was Royce dropped the piano freeman. I upgraded him to Royce dropped the organ freeman because he was apparently running a little lighter. I'm gonna make the move all the way up to Royce drop the flute.
Yeah yeah, I mean he's he is running like a man unencumbered.
Sure is, Yeah, sure is.
If we have time.
At some point later in the showman asked you about Zack Evans and what the hell's gone horribly wrong? All right, I might take a chance on me running back. This also hurts, I was.
I was not exactly right.
Damian Pierce has devolved into a take a chance on me player, and barely even one at that. But this is the opportunity right here. Last week, Pierce returned after.
A month long layoff.
Singletary still got most of the work, but Pierce is a week healthier. Singletary only managed eighteen yards with his starting role last week, so maybe there's an opportunity for Pierce here against a Broncos defense giving up one hundred and forty rushing yards per game to running backs over the last three weeks.
If you have only given up.
One touchdown to the position six games. So maybe not a touchdown here, but Denver ranks dead lasts and runs stuff win rate. They're twenty ninth in run defense by Pro Football Focus. The opportunity is certainly there Damian Pierce, you know, dart throw opportunity. It's I would feel a certain amount of personal gratification if he could come through in this spot.
When talking about Singletary, I'm disappointed you didn't say, after a couple of big games, motor stalled.
Yeah, have a motor Singletary there you got?
That would have been finest.
Yes, listen, I.
Don't play ma anybody for never listening to me about anything I ever say about Damian Pierce. Again, anybody actually take that advice? Go to the receivers. Who you got, Scott?
Yeah, I am going to go over to that Chargers New England game and I'm gonna start Gerald Everett this week in a game again against New England. Keenan Allen is coming and dinged up. He wasn't even practicing this week. If he gets a lighter workload, they're gonna need to depend on someone. Everett back to full health last week had four for forty three to score, and he's top
top five in tight end targets inside the ten. I think it's not a great matchup, but he's gonna need to be basically one of the only weapons.
That makes sense. All right, let's go to your take a chance with your receiver four.
I'm gonna go with Brown's wide receiver Elijah Moore against the Rams the aforementioned game against the Rams. More is wide receiver sixty in fantasy this year, but he's been coming on at least forty four receiving yards in each of his last three games, and this is a pretty solid matchup for him. The Rams have allowed the seventh highest PPR points per target to opposing slots. I think More could be a heavily used say ffty blanket for
Joe Flacco in this game. Get a lot of those targets and maybe wrack up some points here.
Alright, I like that.
Uh, you need a tight end. Six teams are on by tight ends, always a thin position. Trey McBride may very well not play, which is problematic. So you're looking for tight end help. I'm gonna give you two.
Oh in the same team, So three in this segment for people we're helping.
We are trying to help here, how about Taysom Hill and or Juwan Johnson. Okay, okay, So we'll take the two Saints guys. So the top three Saints receivers are expected to be out. In fact, they've two of them are definitely out. Rashid Shaheed, our Guy Thor and I well, I think you might be on him to love them Andy and yes, he's been ruled out.
Michael Thomas is on.
I are the only glimmer of hope, and I don't think it's gonna happen, like five percent chance Chris Olave goes, but all three top receivers are out, so they're gonna have to make do with other players.
I think the.
Opportunity is going to be there for Taysom Hill, who's been targeted twenty five times in his last six games with with an average catch of twelve yards over that span, and in the games that Derek Carr started and finished since Week six, he'll seen at least nine to nine total opportunities been targets and carries. Detroit allows four red zone trips per game on the road, and New Orleans gets inside the opponent's twenty yard line four times per game.
That's paydir time for potentially Taysom Hill. Now for Juwan Johnson, I didn't know this. He has the highest rate of lining up in the slot of any tight end in the league, which is really surprising. So he's a natural to take over the slot routes that have been left behind by Thomas and o'lave and Rashid Shaheed. So some opportunity for Juwan Johnson as well in this game. They gotta find somebody at Perry can only carry an offense so much so Taysom Hill Juwan Johnson both startable in this game.
Let's go back to the matchups.
Thor you're up to bat baby Colts taking on the Titans in this one. Zach Moss went off on the previous time these teams met.
Yeah, but that's a total.
Aberration for an otherwise very good Titans run defense.
So what do you think in this one?
I'm gonna give him a bee?
And of course Gardner minshew as might take a chance at me quarterback, but with Zach Moss, I'm gonna give him a bee. Returns to the bell call role with Jonathan Taylor out with his thumb injury weeks two to five, when that was the case for Zach Moss as the Belcow average twenty four touches per game and one hundred and twenty three total yards per game. And to charge his point, in Week five against these very same Titans, Moss had one hundred and ninety five yards from scrimmage
and two touchdowns. He's gonna get all the touches and all the use that should justify a be even borderline A. Those were the two I was between, not B and C.
It was go.
Now, I'm nervous because the Titans run defense other than that Zach Moss game has basically been shut down, and over the last six weeks they're giving up two point seven yards per carry for sure, So I have I'm a little more cautious on Moss than you are.
Yeah, and that's why I ended up going with the B. But yeah, I'm pretty bullish on him.
This week.
I will give an a though to Michael Pittman, who is quarterback proof, matchup proof, et cetera. And in this one, it's a good matchup because he gets to go up against Sean Murphy Bunning sixty five percent catch rate allowed this year and Christian Fulton one hundred and twenty two passer rating allowed on targets.
So Pittman's gonna eat here.
He's wide receiver seventeen in fantasy, and he's had a twenty nine percent target share with Gardner Minshew under center. Gonna look to him early and often, and Pittman's going to be beaten up on whoever's matchup across from him. Not quite as good of a matchup for Josh Downs. I'm gonna give him a c that. The Titans have been better against the opposing slots this year, allowing the
six lowest PPR points per target. Roger McCreery, who I've I was lower on the rest of his career, have been playing a little bit better out of the slot. He gonna beat up Downs and push him around. Very physical player, maybe a little two handsy sometimes. Yeah, like that, because you love that.
I love Downs.
Yeah.
The Titans run predominantly zone coverage, and over the last four games, to be fair to Downs, Downs leads the Colts in target share percentage against coverage. But I have to temper the expectations a little bit, just because McCurry has been playing a little better, so i'll give down to the Sea. You're gonna keep the Colts tight ends on your bench, obviously moving over to the Titans, You're also gonna be keeping mister will Levis on your bench.
DeAndre Hopkins, I'm gonna give him a c.
He does have an awesome first freed share ever since will Levis took over. It's nearly thirty percent, but it's led to only forty eight point eight receiving yards pol.
Game, and that can't complete a pass because Will Levis is not good.
Yeah, just totally errant and he locks onto guys, which is the one thing you can say for Hopkins, but it's just not leading to the production so far. And this is an average matchup for Hopkins. Even outside that context, India has been league average against boundary wide receivers since the middle of the season, so nothing special with regards to that. Chicka Coonquo is also going to be staying on your bench. Derreck Henry, We're gonna give him a be.
He has not had twenty carries in a game since Week eight. The Colts do have a below average run defense and Indy struggles.
Again zone runs. So the matchup is there, will the touches be there?
But fifty six percent of Henry's carries this year have been zone runs, and again Indy struggles against that. So with all that stuff baked, and I'm gonna give Henry a b and I hate to say, but you got to keep Tajay Spears on your bench. He's been awesome when he's been given the opportunity. He needs more opportunity does number one in the NFL and explosive run rate this year put Taja on the field more. Obviously, not
enough touches to start him. Sixteen point five total yards per game average over the last two weeks not the best.
You know, we get plenty wrong here, but you know one thing we got right was when Will Levis had that four touchdown breakout first game. Yeah, we said, look at those four touchdowns. Yes, those were on errand passes. That took a lot to all those things, and he had won that was a really nice pass and broken coverages as well.
Yeah, were like, you know what.
You know, before we assume that this guy's gonna be four touchdowns.
Every he hasn't had four touchdowns since.
Yeah, so it may not again.
Right, total, Well, maybe we don't go quite that far. When we come back, Chargers taking on the Patriots. Austin Eckler has been very disappointing and this is a thorny matchup. We'll tell you what to expect when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Churchi and Scott Fish and thorn Eystrom with you, Scott. Austin Eckler has been veryverwhelming, dominating fantasy back for years. He ranks twenty first in yards over expectation, twenty five in
rushing efficiency. He's top the meager milestone of three and a half yards per carry in one game since the opener YEP.
And even his yardage totals, even if you include the receiving totals have been sub one hundred multiple times recently, which.
Is good about this as a receiver among running backs. Yeah, why do you think he ranks? Some Pro football focuses just receiving receiving grade among running backs fourteenth fifty sixth.
Jesus, I would never have guessed that because there doesn't feel like that. I mean, there's a lot of running backs in the NFL, but that's staying near dead last of the ones that I do have a B grade on him here, but I almost gave him a C grade. The lead back has scored in four straight against the Pats. I mentioned a lot of the stats you actually mentioned, but he still gets eighteen touches per game, four being catches. So in PPR leagues you're getting four points right there.
You probably gained sixty seventy eighty yards and they're giving up touchdowns a lot recently for the Pats. I did give him a B. I could see it being a C over the passing game. Justin Herbert, I have a B grade on If keenan Allen somehow doesn't go, all likelihood is that he's going to go. He's been limited, he's been working on the side, he's not doing the full practices, but everyone seems to expect him to go. If he doesn't go, I would push Herbert down to a sea. But I do have a B grade on him.
Only three quarterbacks have multi score games on the Patriots, which pushes him down. And Herbert himself has been pretty hit or miss, But in the last five weeks he's had three multi score games, two games around three hundred. He's rushing a ton more. He's like one hundred and twenty yards rushing the least two games alone. That's insane to me. I love it.
I love all this extra work for Ramondre. We're getting the guy I want.
It all season. Yeah, over here. For Keenan Allen, I have an A grade.
No, no, no, I got a little exciting jump.
He got way too excited. You love ram Stevenson. We're mentioning a lot of nicknames on this show. I've noticed I don't have a rams sound to give you. Okay, Keenan Allen A grade if he goes. I know, limited practice, but he's averaging nine catches for one hundred and two yards on twelve targets, and he's a coin flip chance for scoring. He scores about sixty sixty two games something like that. Quentin Johnson and I do have on the bench,
but it's it's a good match up. And if Keenan Allen doesn't go, I can see trying to push Quentin Johnson or Jalen Guyton in. Gerald Everett might take a chance on me players. So obviously I think I have a secrete on him. You should, you know, try to get him in if you have a rough matchup over on the New England side, we don't know who the
quarterback is going to be. They're preparing mac Jones to start, but if they keep benching him for Zappi, and they've had Malie Cunningham working with the quarterbacks a little, and now they have three wide receivers out, and Malie Cunningham late in the week was working with the wide receivers a little. So we don't even know what's gonna go on with that. So I have the whole passing game
on the bench with tomorrow. Douglas is the only one you would have wanted to start, and he's out DeVante Parker. I can see him having a day, but you can't trust that. So Ramander Stevenson gets the only starting grade for the New England Patriots, averaging seventeen touches, gets like three to four catches. He takes three quarters of the two minute drill stuff, the long down and distant stuff, the pass game, snaps two thirds in the snaps in general.
More recently he's got twenty three plus touches in back to back, which I know Charge absolutely loves. I do Chargers allowing the ninth most convoy yards to backs, including bottom three in yards and receptions to backs. So and that's more Stevenson's game than Ezekiel Elliott's who's coming and banged up. So I have Zeke on the bench. Not a B grade for Stevenson, I didn't say.
So, Yeah, I don't think he did. And that sounds right to me too. Let's go to the Lions taking on the Saints. Saints were good defense, but has a good offense. And I've got a lot of good starting you know, good starting grades for Lions, not great good, a lot of B grades. But let's start with a B grade. David Montgomery. He's scored in all seven games
that he started. Yes, he's averaging one and a half rushes from inside the five yard line, a pace that leads the league, and carries from inside the five over the past month, the Saints are allowing two running backs to top forty three yards per game. So even if Gibbs and Montgomery both get plenty of carries here, you know, still like Montgomery a lot, and I think he finds his way to the end zone again. Jamiir Gibbs also comes in with a B grade. He's seen at least
five targets in each of the last six games. But the Saints have been terrific against receiving backs, allowing the fourth fewest receptions and the fourth fewest receiving yards allowed per game, and they've only given up one receiving touchdown allowed to running backs. He is getting some carries near the stripe, so he's not losing all the touchdowns to Monty, but it's still Montgomery's the touchdown first guy on volume. Jamiir Gibbs be great. Let's go to the passing game.
Jared Goff comes in with a B grade as well. Saints are a good coverage team. They rank seventh by Pro Football Focus seventh and passing yards allowed, but the pass rush isn't nearly as good and Marshawn Latimer, their
star cornerback, is out. New Orleans ranks thirty first in pass rush win rate and no New Orleans quarterback and New Orleans has seen sorry I'm trying to say, and New Orleans has seen some awful quarterbacking, including eight opposing quarterbacks who were either rookies, backups or been benched.
And that really leads them.
To I think some skewed stats in favor of the Saints that are not realistic here, I still like GoF B grade for him, A grade for i'man Ross Saint Brown. Of course, slot receivers killing the Saints and including fractionally talented players like Darnell Mooney and Christian Kirk and Josh Downs are good players, but they are not I'm on Ross Saint Brown.
When he lines up on the outside.
He also gets a plus matchup with Marshall and Latimer out, so I really do like Almen Ross Saint Brown.
A grade for him.
Sam Laporta comes in with a B grade Saints or a neutral tight end matchup, but they've allowed five tight end.
Scores in the last six games.
The only thing holding the Laporter back from elite tight end status is volume. He's posted between three and five receptions in eight different games. That's not quite enough to make you fantasy a Fantasy star tight end. And he only gets a B grade in this game. And all the other receivers like Josh Raymond, Kalief Ramon, Josh Reynolds, Kalif Rayman, Jamison Williams.
On the bench, Let's go to the Saint side.
I already gave you Taysom Hill and Juwan Johnson. Is might take a chance on me receivers at the tight end position. The only other guy that you could start from the receiving game is At Perry. This is a guy that Scott talked about last week last week, and he's the number one wide receiver.
Now I knew all those injuries we're gonna have exactly.
It's on all Covin against a pretty bad secondary. Perry is a taller guy with decent speed, and we saw Christian Watson put up a huge game against the Lions the week before that.
It was DJ Moore.
So I sick are six foot five pounds four four seven to be exact.
Well, but wow, very nice, very nicely done. This is a dart throw, but the Lions are like twenty six in coverage by Pro Football Focus. They give up the seventh most fantasy points to receivers. So At Perry your official dart throw for me in this one. And then the other guy that we care about, Alvin Kamara. Tricky matchup here. Lions are a good run defense, allowing just three point four yards per carry. No back has top sixty seven yards against them all year, and Kamara has
only hit that mark sixty seven yards on the ground once. Now, he does lead all receivers in targets, but Detroit is not allowed at running back to he hit five receptions or fifty receiving yards all year, and they haven't a lot of receiving score to the position all year either, So this is a tough spot for Kamara.
I'm giving him a bee on volume.
I would too, but that is it, and we're not playing Derek Carr and it's a very tough matchup missing his top three receivers all right. Final matchup of this segment is the Arizona Cardinals taking on the Steelers thor anybody from the Cardinals side that you like.
Here only because of bye weeks, starting with Kyler Murray, who I'm going to give a C grade too. He does have a rushing touchdown in all three of his games back, which has really propped up his fantasy value even when he's not throwing the ball well. But in those three weeks, quarterback thirteen, quarterback six, and quarterback nine in fantasy despite the poor passing numbers.
But this is not a great matchup here.
Pittsburgh's pass defense has been great in recent weeks and as you guys know, everyone is hurt on the Cardinals side. Yep, So we'll talk about the first one now, Hollywood Brown. I'm gonna give him a seat if he plays. He was on the injury report all last week with this heeled deal, but played eighty seven percent of the snaps anyway, which is why it was good news that he returned to practice on Friday, trending towards playing in this game.
Like I said, I'll give him a see.
If he does, he is likely to draw stud rookie cornerback Joey Porter Junior from the Steelers.
He looks so good, looks really good the past.
In recent weeks here, Porter Junior has shadowed Jamar Chase, Amari Cooper, and DeAndre Hopkins. Of those three guys, only Chase got over forty yards forty nothing. Yeah, Porter's been great and he's gonna get his hands all over Hollywood coming off the line. That's the question you always have with Hollywood, So that could be a bad matchup there.
Trey McBride's another Sea guy if he plays. Currently he's being deemed a game time decision and questionable with a groin injury, and even if he does play, it's a bad matchup for him too. The Steelers have allowed the ninth fewest Fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends.
James Connor that the other Cardinals receivers and tight ends you're gonna leave on your bench, obviously, James Connor, I'm gonna give him a c Connor is typically played around sixty five percent of the snaps when the game script doesn't flip wildly against him, which, of course, playing for the Cardinals, that's something that can happen. Connor's number nine in explosive run rate, number four in miss tackles force per attempt. It's again not a great matchup for him.
The Steelers have an above average run defense. That'll be keying on Connor here because Kyler's not throwing well and all Kyler's weapons are hurt.
So we'll give Connor a see.
Moving over to the Steelers, Kenny Pickett of course, was charged to take a chance on me quarterback and j Bold, Yeah, I mean, just to add something to that, can you Picktt last week? Number two and highly accurate throw rate across the NFL's.
Never a highly accurate passer you.
Take take the shackles of Matt Canada off and maybe we've got something here.
Naj Harris. I'm gonna give him a bee.
Since Week seven, Naje Harris averaging sixteen touches per game seventy two total yards per game. He's also number four overall in the NFL in explosive run rate this year. Cardinals, as you guys know, miss a lot of tackles and they also allow a lot of explosive runs. To think capping Harris's value as always is sharing the usage and the red zone touches with Jalen Warren. Those red zone touches have been about divvid fifty to fifty, so you have to keep that in mind. But I'm giving him
a bee. I'm also going to give Jalen Warren a b. Last four games for Jalen Warren, he's averaging fifteen touches per game and one hundred and eight total yards per game. Warren is number his top two in explosive run rate, misstackles force per at ten and yards after contact tempts now absolutely incredible when he's when he's been on the field.
This is a good matchup for him.
As I was mentioned when I was talking about Harris, but of course again Warren has to share the workload with Harris, so we're gonna get both those guys.
A B.
Deontay Johnson, he gets an A.
Johnson has a twenty seven percent target share since he returned from injury in Week seven. He has a thirty one percent first read share against too high coverage. Since that time, Cardinals run a ton of.
Too high safety coverage.
Looks, the Cardinals have allowed the third highest points per reception, points per target. I'm sorry to perimeter wide receivers this season. I think this is a game where Johnson eats George Pickens. Not as good of a matchup for him. We're gonna give him a C. I was talking about the thing of how much too high the Cardinals run. Teams that run too high against the Steelers are able to take away the home runs the Pickens hits.
He got more help deep. He can't. He can't do his deep ball game. It's not as viable against too deep.
George Picks only has a fourteen percent target share versus that coverage since Deontay Johnson.
Returned, So they don't even try it.
They don't even try it. Yeah, because he can't use them to stretch it deep. So I think all the use is gonna get funneled that Johnson in this game. You can start pickings, of course with all the bye weeks if you need to, but only giving him a C. Pat Fryarmuth is the is the other guy with an
awesome matchup. We're giving him an A. I think he's gonna feast this week, last two weeks last I'm sorry, last two games where Friarmuth played double high car against double high coverage forty seven percent air yard share.
Oh, I like that.
So they like to use him to use the space that they get in whatever finding those spots down this seam over the full season, because you know, you could be like, oh that's just two games, that's a small sample over the full season. Twenty five percent first read share versus too high for Pat Fryermuth. Very good matchup for him. We're giving him an A as well.
Oh I like it.
I think he's in my top three love receiver our tight ends for this week.
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the next hour as well. Stay tuned everybody our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charge and Scott Fish throw Nystrom with you. This is a game we like to call three tough questions.
Tough question number one rest of season.
New Indianapolis starting running back Zach Moss will be a RB one an RB two flex or bench.
We begin with Scottfish first.
I can't wait until Tank Bigsby goes to another team and is behind the stud runny back.
I was eventually right on Zach Moss. It just took us three years to get there.
Yes, that's all. That's all it is. It feels like we're that way a lot though. We call sleepers out and then it takes several more weeks or maybe a year or two. We are Look, we're usually early. We always want.
The young guys to do good fast, and we don't have the patients that the teams that acquired the players.
Yeah usually yeah.
Uh.
Here are where? Here are where Zach Moss? Here is where Zach Moss landed in the five games he played where either Taylor missed or he was limited getting back to action. This is the grades he would have had based on his stats A A, C, A B. That's that's how I feel he would have landed stat wise.
I don't remember how we would have graded him or how we did grade him at the time, but his remaining matchups through the Fantasy playoffs, I would say our ballpark three middle ones, one bad one good one, good one, and even the matchup that's that's a bad one. They allowed. They allow a lot of volume to back, so volume season play, I think RB two seems like a lock. He could get to a low end RB one for me.
Given the fact that that that team averages well over twenty touches for their lead back, I think I'm gonna say low end RB one is very in play here. So RB one, RB one, I'm gonna do it. Sure, let's get bold the.
Rest of season. New Indianapolis starting running back Zack Bass will be in RB one, RB two flex or bench RB one for me.
Jonathan Taylor probably out three weeks. They say two to three weeks, but it's not going to be two. Probably gonna be three weeks. We're already in week thirteen, so that's thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, So maybe Taylor comes back sixteen.
And we saw what happened when Taylor came back limited early, you know exactly.
So yeah, and Moss gets the Legiti bell call usage when Taylor's out, Like we were talking about before, and like Scott was just talking about, I think you have to consider him an RB one these next three weeks.
Colts appear to be in the mix for a wild card and we'll play it in the end of the year and try to win, which I think is a factor in all of this. And you guys hit on most of my key talking points here. He's going to get a workhorse level of carries while Taylor's out. Now, I do I disagree that now with Taylor coming back fully presumably fully healthy and not with a leg injury, yeah, handed your I think right.
Back, absolutely, I do think back once.
He comes back, probably the timetable is probably gonna be three weeks. So I can't give an I can't give him an RB one grade when he might be a bench guy in weeks fifteen, sixteen, seventeen at So yeah, you know, that's just not you know, I think it's going to be. And by the way, and Thorn and I disagree a little bit about this. I think this is a tougher match up against Tennessee than Thorn does this. I think this is a tricky one. So I've got the correct answer RB two.
Tough question number two.
All right, it sabotage drops HeSE We've done sabotage questions three straight shows, and you build the deal In this you have to drop a brand name player that is good enough that your opponents will pick them up and start them and hurt themselves by doing so.
It is a very difficult move to get correct. Should you sabotage drop Gus Edwards we go to thorn Ice from first.
No for me, because if Kethon Mitchell gets hurt, it's the Zach Moss corollary all over again. The Ravens don't have anyone else play, so then Gus Boss would become the heavy belcow usage guy the rest of the season. So for that reason alone, I think you have to keep him on your roster.
Scott, Yeah, so I'm gonna go injury agnostic here the old Bob Harris quote of not playing time, not count on injuries, not play towards injuries, And I'm gonna say, yes, he's We've seen his snaps go down more of a three headed mach monster. Now, Mitchell gained the start, by the way, Mitchell was one of my prespects before it was cool when he was on IR. I remember that again, way too early. Yeah, Gus was fourth in and running back snaps. Last week. He scored in five straight, but
he lost that work. The last game, he has no pass game work. His yardage totals, even in those touchdown games were between forty and sixty five yards. So if he doesn't score, he doesn't get it. I think the hope here is sabotage drop him. Someone spends it on him, and he doesn't score, and then then it's a bust of a game.
Dropping the guy with the third most rush touchdowns sounds insane, and maybe it is, or maybe it's just crazy enough to work. Touchdown dependent players are good candidates for this. In the fantasy playoffs, you need to get three straight wins. Yeah, can you count on a touchdown dependent player to not dud in any of those three?
Probably not. Now he's averaging just nine.
Carries the past two weeks, and as Scott mentioned, he does not catch. Let's go to the schedule, and here's the clincher. By this week, then Rams after that, they give up the seventh fewest rushing touchdowns Jacksonville after that, the second fewest rushing touchdowns Niners after that, seventh fewest rushing touchdowns Miami after that, twelfth fewest rushing touchdowns. If he doesn't give you touchdowns, you get nothing out of Gus Edwards sabotage drop boom.
Yeah, tough question number three.
All right, for the second consecutive week, I have a conundrum in my Empire League, this time involving my own rebuilding team. Rosters are only fourteen players. I love short roster Dynasty Empire leagues. I love them five my players out of the fourteen around by which is a common team's off right. But the other problem I got I have three more that are unlikely to play due to injury, so that gives me eight of my fourteen not available
to me. I can't field a full lineup without dropping somebody. That's part of my long term rebuild. Right should I be required to drop somebody off of my rebuilding Empire League team.
To help ensure that I field a full lineup? Scott? This is right in your wheelhouse?
Well say, I mean it's the same my borderline. The same answer I gave last week about having by week or injured players in your lineup for tanking. I feel the unwritten rule is fielding a valid starting lineup.
What if I don't have a valid starting lineup, you got.
To make it work. That's why you like short benches is because you have to make the hard decisions. That's the entire reason you like this short bench is because there's players on waivers and you have to make the hard decisions. I will say, in my leagues, we have really large IRS to allow for players that are out. We uh, I allow things like this, but if it's not explicitly stated in the rules, generally, I say, you should be filling out your full lineup and if you have to desision.
Yeah, but let me be clear about this, because I don't think you're giving the ans. It's not that you're not giving the answer I want. It's that you're not giving an answer that addresses this. Okay, I don't have the option to move to anybody to IR. Yeah, I got players who are out, like Chrystal Lave ruled out. He's not an IR, but he's not going to play. I don't I would have to drop a You're not dropping a Lave.
I'm not dropping Chris.
You're fourteenth player on the roster though, right different.
So, but you're saying even though these aren't players that are out, these are just players who are hurt. I would have to drop somebody.
Yeah, probably.
Okay, So you're saying you have to make it.
It sucks some position, yeah, and go try to cobble together with Yeah.
I generally play in leagues where you you fix around that. But if it's not staying the bilossie.
Now, this is different than last week's question about a guy who's tanking.
He he was starting. Jeff Wilson is over.
Jet, slippery slope.
I don't have anybody to play, right, all right.
I could argue that guy could be somewhere on a radio podcast arguing that you're tanking by by.
By not having Crystal Lobby play through a concussion. I'm tanking, that's true, all right.
Thor I can't feel the full lineup without dropping somebody who's part of my long term rebuild.
Should I be required to make a drop?
Well, this isn't going to change my my answer at all, but I do have a clarifying question. Is this this about etiquette or is this about conforming to the league rule?
The buyer is no league rule? Okay on this subject?
Well, either way, my answer is no, you should not be required to drop someone. And you bought the ticket, you get to take the ride field the lineup you want, you want.
You're not openly tanking here. This is just a contextual problem.
I don't think you should be saddled with a penalty because of circumstances, particularly in a rebuild, if your opponents don't like it, whatever.
That's kind of That's where I am on this, is that I'm not doing it intentionally. I'm not trying to lose. I just happen to have fallen into us.
I think that's if I think that's your argument. I think that's your argument to the league, is that it's not intentional.
Yeah, I'm not trying to lose it, but I'm probably going to lose if I have to start Chrystal Lave my starting lie.
Who are some of these guys we're talking about that you would have to drop, you know, like guys that are important to the long term rebuild. Well, okay, I mean granted, because we want to know if you're going to get in hot water because it's you know, someone who's borderline.
Let me look here.
One of them, my worst guy and the guy that I would end up dropping is.
Well, no, I have to start him. It would have to be.
Rashichi Heat. You don't have to be Rashii Heat would be the guy'd have to drop.
No, we can't.
I want to drop.
Got to keep right.
So is this the long term empire?
Yes?
Okay, yeah in an empire leaguef you don't know is an it's a dynasty league.
Ye.
Yeah, So I'm not dropping t Higgins. I'm not dropping I don't want to drop Rashiki Heat and I don't want to drop Chrysal And you shouldn't be forced to. I shouldn't be forced to. This is not tanking. This is just the circumstance that fell onto my roster this week.
That's it, all right.
It also very much affects the team you're playing against with potential playoff seedings.
That's I know. I don't like that part. Ye, but I'm not you know, but I'm not.
I know. That's the league integrity part that that comes into play.
Let's go to the Panthers taking on the butts of Bucks. Well.
Defense is playing like butt right now. Panthers cannot lie. Yeah, let's let's go to the Panthers side of this.
Yeah, they're really well. I love Adam.
I think Adam Field's going to bounce back from last week's bad game.
I do too. And it's a completely new coaching staff, so we don't even know what to expect from that. I do have Bryce Young on the bench. We kind of went over last week that the players that have tagged the Bucks that make their pass ranks so bad have been good quarterbacks. I don't know that I put Bryce Young there yet in his career, so I have
him on the bench, even in a good spot. But I do have Adam Thielen with a C grade Bucks along the second most fantasy points to the slot where he lines up like eighty percent of the time, eighty seven percent of the time or something like that. This year. Just a ridiculous amount dud last week, but twenty one targets in the prior to mentioned different coaching staff, so we don't know. They may just lean on their best best weapon. But Bucks are bottom ten in yards and
receptions to wide receivers. It's it's a great spot. I just a great spot. I'm just I only have to see because I really don't know how they're going to use him. We've seen duds recently.
Number one and different.
Coaching tight ends are out in this game. Hurst and Tremble are out. I'm telling you, Pep, they're gonna Piper Island.
I know a lot of people have Jonathan Mingo as after last week, but Jonathan Mingo is a sleeper for this week. I have him on the bench. But again, it's a decent matchup, all right, We'll see if Bryce Young can support that much. I have Chuba Hubbard here with a C grade. By the numbers, this is the fifth hardest spot for runners, and a big part of it is they're only allowing twenty four touches per game to Bax because everybody passes against the Bucks. Jonathan Taylor
and Christian mccaffley just walloped them. But that's those two. It's gonna be a volume C on a guy getting twelve to twenty touches per game or less, you know, x amount of games since even since Miles Sanders came back. Two to five of those are catches. That's where he's really going to make up the work and get to that volume C. Is with that the pass catching over on the Tampa Bay side in the past game. I
do have Baker Mayfield on the bench. The Panthers have owned only allowed four quarterbacks to even surpassed two hundred yards this season, and none since Week six. Dak had one hundred and eighty nine, Stroud had one hundred and forty. So if you're expecting Baker Mayfield to substantially perform those two and that both of those are pretty recent. So teams run on Carolina because they're terrible against the run, they don't pass. I do have a B grade on
Mike Evans. It's possible for a couple receivers to do okay even if Baker isn't startable. Evans has scored in eight games this year, including five to the last six. We keep talking about that forty percent end zone target share, that's just it's now up to forty three percent after last week it even moved up and he's actually second in the NFL, which is which is pretty crazy. The guy above him, Aj Brown, fifty two percent end zoned target share. Half the time when Jalen Hurts throws it
into the end zone, it's going to him. That's insane. Be on Mike Evans. If Chris Godwin goes, I don't know that he's gonna go. If he goes, I'm still giving him a C because he's seen six plus targets. His floor is that seven to ten PPR range, but no second receivers top sixty five yards since week six, and only one of them scored. It's a C grade, but if he doesn't go, he's here on the bench. A grade for Rashad White, however, against the Carolina Panthers,
I love this match. You could go a Fonsie, you could go in Ardvark, whatever you want. It's the third easiest matchup for opposing backs. They've allowed the most rushing touchdowns, bottom five yards per carry and bottom five in yards allowed. White averaging eighteen touches, four of those being catches, so he gets work there too. He's just a bel cow in a great matchup.
All right, four brownstaking on the Rams. You already told us see like Elijah Moore is, Joe Flacco takes the helm of there. I assume then that Amari Cooper's in play here as well.
Absolutely yeah, we're gonna give Cooper a B. He's got a twenty seven percent first read share. But since week seven, the Rams have allowed the pretty decent matchup here. Rams allowed the tenth most PPR points per target and receiving yards per game to perimeter wide receivers. Cooper can be started with confidence. Regardless of quarterback. Even though Joe Flacco has been pulled from the retirement home to start this one, Flackaw, you're keeping on the bench Jerome Ford, I'm gonna give
him a ce. He's played sixty four percent or more of snaps in three of the last four games. In those three where he locked sixty four percent or more, Ford average nineteen touches and eighty eight total yards per game. Usage is going to be their Kareem Hunt status up in the air with a groin issue. But it is
a tough matchup here. Charge you were mentioning how the Rams suppress the touchdowns of the opposing running backs, the Rams have also allowed the lowest explosive run rate and the lowest yards after contact per attempt week seven, so that run defense is playing pretty well. More of course, was might take a chance on me wide receiver David and Joku. Is that we've talked about some tight end issues on the one side.
Other tight ends that we love.
I love in Djoku since Week seven, and Djoku's number four in target share and number five in first read share with twenty eight percent. He's tight end seven in Fantasy points per game since then, and Get this, twelve red zone targets over that span since Week seven. This is also a very good matchup for Ndjoku. The Rams allow the second highest yards per route run to opposing tight ends. Moving over to the Rams. Matthew Stafford the aforementioned four touchdown game last time out. I don't think
he's gonna get there again this week. I'm gonna give him a se That was only his second multi pass touchdown game of this season. He doesn't look fully healthy and this is a tough matchup against a good Browns pass defense this week. Pooka Nakua, my boy, I have to give him a greade, a even over the I'm giving Pooka an a even over the four games with Cooper Cupback. Get this stat, Pokinnakua twenty one percent designed
look play percentage in those games with Cooper cutback. Cooper cups percentage of those per so they are still funneling all the usage of Puka. He He's the Duty's the straw that stirs the drink and everything. The Browns played the highest percentage of single high in the entire NFL. Guess who torches single high coverage, Mister Poka Nakua three point three yards per route run in his four career
games against single high coverage. I realized that's a small sample, but he's been lighting up coverage looks like this Cooper Cup. I can only give him a see He's played eighty four percent or more of snaps in the four games back, but has averaged only twenty nine receiving yards per game in those four Cup has only two red zone targets over his last five games played. The Browns have allowed the eleventh fewest PPR points per targets to opposing slots.
And again, they're not the design plays and everything like that. The first reads that's all going to Puka, not Cup. So we're gonna give him a Tyler Higbee. You got to keep on the bench. He's been targeted more than three times, only one time since Week four, going all the way back to September Kyron Williams, though, we're gonna give him an a Brian's Boy. Shout out to Brian Kien's return to his bell cow status last week against the Cardinals. Twenty two touches, two hundred four total yards,
two touchdowns. This is I was mentioned in this before about how the Browns. They still have the really good pass defense, but the run defense has regress sort of under the surface a little bit. Browns have allowed the Browns have allowed the highest explosive run rate in the entire NFL since Week seven.
Wow.
Yeah, so a little bit of regression there. Williams could absolutely be a top three fantasy running back this week. And because of the matchup, that was why Royce Freeman was might take a chance on me running back. I think that's worth looking into as well.
All right, when we come back, we'll talk about the Broncos surging defense kicking on the Texans.
Can you start CJ Stroud.
This passing game against suddenly solid Broncos not even suddenly even good for a while. We'll talk that through when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Church and Scott fish Thor and Eystrom. You can check out all my play rankings available at Guillotine leagues dot Com and in the Guillotine Leagues app as well.
Man, I'm still not over your third tough question charge, Like I know for me, I am such team owners should be able to manage their teams however they want, like That's that's how I generally feel about things. So, like you your question, it makes me feel things just all over, like on both sides of the fence. I see all the angles. I'm like, oh, I hate that. I know this is a heat that spot spot right now, I hate that spot.
I don't like it.
Yeah, you know what I do like is Broncos taking on Texans. We're gonna have a nice opportunity for Javonte Williams here. I don't know how a guy who's really the focal point of his offense like Javonte Williams is has no rushing touchdowns.
It's weird.
Week thirteen, still looking for his first touchdown. Sneaky, tough matchup against Houston. They're giving up sixty nine rushing yards per game to running backs.
That's very little. Over the last month.
Houston's allowed the fourth highest has the fourth highest run stuff win rate.
Well, that's bad news too.
Williams lightly involved in the passing game and Houston's a neutral matchup there anyway, so I don't think he's going to help out that much there. I can only get you to a B grade and it's on volume. But it feels like more like a c opportunity for Javonte Williams. I'd like to tell you this is going to break his maiden for the season on the I hope, though I don't know if it's gonna happen here passing game, I only got two starters for you. Let's start with
Courtland Sutton. He's a touchdown dependent receiver.
But he scores a lot.
He does score a lot, but you know it doesn't give up a lot. Houston giving up the second fewest wide out touchdowns. So if Houston plays like they normally do and Sutton doesn't score, he doesn't leave you with much. Now, in fairness, he's scored in five to six games. The passer rating for Russell Wilson when Sutton is targeted one hundred and thirty two really impressive. It's the highest mark among all wide receivers with at least fifteen fifty targets
this year. So still starting Courtland Sutton here, but danger factor definitely in play.
Also, he's one of the above forty percent end zone target guys.
Which wouldn't surprise him now.
Russell Wilson c grade here fantasy output is really capped by his low passing volume.
Just twenty nine pass attempts per game.
Houston secondary has been more vulnerable lately with Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence posting big recent games, but those quarterbacks he's also averaged thirty nine pass attempts. That's obviously well over Wilson's so with Wilson in fact, hasn't even hit thirty nine all year. He's thrown touchdowns in every game to Russe's credit, but just one touchdown in half of
his games. And it's worth mentioning the Texans have surrendered the most quarterback rushing touchdowns, and Wilson's rush for at least thirty yards in five of the last seven games, so he might help you a little bit on the ground here as well. Just the C grade on Russell Wilson and Jerry Judy doesn't even deserve discussion. In a tough matchup, not saying it's impossible that he will score, but I'm not taking him against an above average pass defense.
Let's go to the Houston side. I don't want to begin with I think I'll begin with the running game. I already told you Damian Pierce's might take a chance on me runners, So I like the guy who's gonna get more work a lot more Devin Sanitary. The return of Damian Pierced daggered Singletary's usage and snaps last week. But this is such a good matchup you have to
consider Singletary again here, Broncos. As I mentioned, I'll reiterate some of the key points averaging one hundred and forty rushing yards per game against Singletary on you usually active in the passing game last week and if that could if that does continue, that would be helpful here. Denver dead last and run stuff WI win rate twenty ninth and run defense by Pro Football Focus.
Singletary comes in with a B grade in this game passing game.
C J.
Stroud with a B grade.
Denver's turned into one of the tougher passing matchups over the last seven games. The Broncos have allowed multiple passing touchdowns one time, and that came in Week seven when Jordan Love only managed one hundred and eighty yards but got two touchdowns. During that same seven game stretch, Denver also allowing just two hundred and sixteen passing yards while averaging more than an interception per game. They've been very good, but so is CJ. Stroud and on volume and on
just ability. I can't get him worse than a B. It feels like a C game coming. But man, he's just Stroud is just so hot right now. I can't get myself to do it emotionally. I'm keeping him out a B grade. Nico Collins and Tank Dell also coming in on B grades. Let's start with the Nico side of this. For him, back to back games with seven catches, He's coming off a one hundred yard game with a score, and over the last four weeks his eight red zone
targets is second only to Ceedee Lamb. For Tank Dell, he's scored five times in his last four games, and he's got two one hundred yard games in that span.
But now all the bad news for these guys.
The Barcos secondary has allowed the fourth fewest receptions to opposing receivers, and the matchup on the outside that's both Dell and Collins primarily against Patrick's curtain is not good. He's allowing twenty five scoreless yards per game in his last month, and opposite certain Fabian Moreau is surging right now, allowing less than fifty six yards in his coverage in
every single game this year, so tough matchups. I still am cautiously optimistic about Stroud, Collins, Dell, but they're tricky spots here and then Dalton Schultz. Denver's allowed at least fifty yards and a touchdown to tight ends in each of the last three weeks. Linebacker Josie Jewel allows one yard per route cover and Schultz is tied for fifth and red zone targets among tight ends. He's got an opportunity here, dud game last week. Better chance here, ce grade for Dalton sltz.
All right, next matchup, let's do it.
Forty nine ers taking on the Eagles. Yeah, his game of the week for sure in this one. Every Eagles game is game of the week.
They are in. They are in the fourth of five crazy difficult games.
Not not Eagles pats. Right, didn't that get demoted from like a Sunday demoted? They're like Eagles, You're awesome. But if we have to watch the paths, we're gonna move, that's right. Uh yeah, So in the Eagles paths are the foreign nine ers on the fortyniners passing side. Brock pretty was my super super choky take a chance on me. Players it's fairly Truecky, it was chocky. Go start Trevor
Lawrence then if you if you're worried about it. Uh, Brendan Ayuk, I have an A grade on nineteen different receivers in eleven games have had one hundred plus yards and or scored on the Eagles. Yeah, that usually means two or more a game has scored in three straight Brandon ayukas I got a B grade on Deebo Samuel over the last three weeks, Debos averaging seven point three touches for seventy three yards. That's generally good for a
C grade right there. But this is an awesome matchup as I just mentioned, and he's scored in two of his last three. Deebo's target share jumps eight percent versus zone Ayux drops ten percent, so naturally they rise with the other the other way around. This matchup, the Egos play man at the thirteenth highest rate rate, so it might be a little bit more of an AUK game here.
And another thing with Deebo is he needs to do twice the work just to get Ayuk's stats, because Auk has twice the A dot two and a half times the end zone targets two and a half times the air yards. Everything about aux targets are more valuable. So I have the A grade on Ayuk, the B grade
on Deebo Samuel, A grade on George Kittle. Tight ends have scored in three less four against Eagles, and all but one target tight end to see target six targets scored, all ended up with a twelve top twelve finish as well. I feel like that's where Kittle's gonna land if he gets that kind of target volume here. Christian McCaffrey also in A grade. It's just it's Christian McCaffrey. Man.
Yeah, you don't have to flick all. We're all starting Christian mccaffy.
It's it's a Yeah. It's a tougher spot because teams pass on them, they don't run. But uh over on the Eagles side, Jalen Hurts A grade. It's a tough matchup. It should be a B for any other quarterback except for Jalen Hurts. For NAR's d leads the NFL in interceptions and allowing the third fewest passing touchdowns. But Jalen Hurts has had multi score games every single week since Week one, like that's just Jalen Hurts. A grade on AJ Brown, who appears to be matchup proof except for
when he faces lagarious needed. Yes, that's how it's worked this year. Highest end zone target share in the league at fifty two percent, as we previously mentioned, averaging seven catches on ten targets for a ninety five yards per game. Just ridiculous stats there for AJ Brown this year. B grade on DeVonta Smith has had a bigger day in two straight games than AJ Brown, which seems a little crazy going back to last year Devanta Smith without Goddard,
that data still tracks. We've mentioned a couple times this year. Without Goddard, Davonta Smith basically takes all that work and he has very fantasy viable work. That's not gonna that's gonna factor again this week. We'll see if Dallas Goddard is back next week though, it's where we want to, you know, start to pull back. B grade on DeAndre Swift getting fifteen plus touches every game since taking the starting job. In that Minnesota game where he exploded, usually
gets a couple of catches. I will say the forty nine ers only give twenty one running back touches per game, but luckily Swift gets almost all of it. So it's it's not the greatest spot. It's the kind of middle of the pack spot, actually a lower spot in San Francisco's top ten in a lot of categories. It's it's a B grade here. Yep, fine, that's it. Yeah, that's it. I was gonna I was gonna go on, but the
music started playing. But yeah, five five of the last seven lead backs have scored, so I think there's a chance for that, and he's gonna get more opportunities in a good offense. So that's why he gets a B as opposed to a lot of the other running backs that San Francisco's had a good job stopping.
Yeah.
The catch, of course on touchdowns for DeAndre Swift is this quarterback todown. Yeah, yeah, that's you know, that's the problem.
I also feel this game is gonna be gamescript is going to be closer. Philly's blown out a lot of teams, so the running backs don't run in this game.
He will when we come back.
Final segment of the show, Premature Speculation, Our final premature speculation of the year. This is it your last chance to go unurge somebody nobody else in your league has. Find out who it is when we come back. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul charge and Scott Fish Thorneistrom. You can follow us on Twitter Matt Paul Chargi and Scott is at Scott Fish twenty four yep, and thor Is at thor ku.
You are rocketed right now, premature.
Speculation, our last one of the year. Give me some guys that you'll want to pick up now that other people.
Will be trying to pick up.
Down the road, and they're already on your team, Scott. So this is the time of year where I generally say, go get back up running backs in case there's an injury. I'm just gonna say that straight out again. I've said it a few times. Get those backups. But also it's the time of year where we start to see rookie wide receivers get more action and start to break out a little bit. And at least one of these prespects here in this group is going to be a rookie
wide receiver. I'm going with Jalen Hyatt, who kind of broke out in Week twelve and no one really talked about he wasn't on Waiverwayer articles he had five catches for one hundred plus day. Being on the Giants, they're gonna be behind in a lot of games. I can see him getting in a decent amount of targets in negative game scripts and working his way to that, you know, high high volume for the rest of the season.
All right, you kind of convinced me on that. I like it. Thor your premature speculation.
Player Broncos wide receiver Marvin Mimms. Love Marvin Mims. His playing time has been ticking up ever since Week ten, and it's not showing in his receiving numbers quite yet. I think it will down this stretch here. Marvin Mims was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week a couple of weeks ago, so he has been playing pretty well. But you know, in terms of the receiving opportunity here, Jerry Judy has been terrible. Your Broncos tight ends haven't
been producing. You have a golden opportunity set up for Marvin Mims down this stretch here because of the matchups playing the Texans, the Chargers twice, Lions, Patriots, Raiders sets up very well. Add him before this Texans game. Houston has allowed the most PPR points per target to boundary wide receivers since Week seven. Texans also run a lot of too high coverage schemes. Mims leads the Broncos in yards per route run and yards after catch versus too high.
Big fan of Marvin Mims, go pick him up.
You know, I was tempted to do any of a variety of running back handcuffs because, as Scott mentioned, this is handcuff season. This is when you want to have the backups to your your workhorse backs. And I was like, you know what I got a I've got a handcuff wide receiver.
You might want to pick up.
Now.
You can ever bank on injury, but anything happens to Tyreek Hill or Jalen Waddle. Okay, Braxton Barrios is those guys. He's one of these short, fast, slippery receivers who would walk right into the same kind of game breaking role that those guys have because he's so stylistically sim more. You also, like Marvin Mims, you get some special team stuff. Who knows, maybe you get lucky. Maybe as a rare wide receiver, handcuff Braxton Burrios.
Like Okay, I'm luke warm on it, but you never know. You know, if you're in a.
Deep league watching with Trent sherfielder, who's the other guy.
There, Cedric Wilson, maybe something like that. Chiefs take on the Packers on Sunday night. Now, Patrick Mahomes, usualy just go Patrick Mahomes. Travis Kelcey obviously is the play has just been just not the same zeal right that you know that we've had in the past from those guys. Mahomes is throwing exactly two touchdowns in each of his last three games, which is good, but it's not mahomesy and good. And he's only averaged two hundred and twenty
passing yards per game. That's not even close to Patrick Mahomes. And here's Green Bay coming and despite injuries to it a Jayi Alexander and they trade away Rasul Douglas improbably the Packers allowing just two hundred and nineteen passing yards per game, just one point two passing touchdowns per game, that's it. So it's still a grade. I'm Patrick Mahomes, but not like the obvious a that we've had in
the past, So still a grade. Travis Kelcey, same as Mahomes, still a grade, but just not quite dominating like he used to. Still best of all from Travis kelce One dud game all year, that's it, and that's huge for fantasy tight ends.
Half what we're asking for us. Just don't kill me, you know, fantasy tight end.
The Packers are middle of the pack tight end defense, but elite tight ends have had plenty of success against him, and they've only really seen three and it was Sam Laporta twice and TJ Hockinson. They averaged sixty four yards and two thirds of a touchdown. Travis Kelcey A grade. Now the very controversial Rashee Rice. Every time I step out on a limb for Rashi Rice because I see something last week that makes me go, ooh, this is it. We can count on Rashie Rice. Then I get burned.
But I'm doing it again.
Yes, b grade, I'm with you. I'm actually with you.
Rice is scored in three of his last five games. He's rush off his first one hundred yard games. Mahomes has got a one hundred and twenty nine passer rating when he targets for Shee Rice. That's the third highest among all wide receivers he's had. Last week, he had a thirty one percent target share rate. That's the highest of his career by a mile. Maybe that's a sign
of things to come. Now he lines up in the slot a lot that puts him up against the worst of the Packers cornerbacks, Keishawn Nixon, who allows an astronomical eighty percent catch rate. So I like Rashie Rice. Here, I'm going out on him again. He keeps burning me. But I'm trying to B grade. I'm Rashi Rice, Isaiah Pacheco B grade and almost an A grade. He's running with just tremendous intensity. I love him. Just just watch,
you know, watching him run. Pajecko's averaged seventy rushing yards per game over his last three but he's run harder than that, and I think he's deserving of more than that. He saw five targets for only the second time last week, when he also scored a couple of touchdowns. Over the last three weeks, opposing running backs of averaged one hundred and twenty eight yards per game against Green Bay. That's great. He should get the majority of that one hundred and
twenty eight yards. They've also given up three touchdowns to running backs in the last three games, so I think Pacheco finds the end zone here too, So I again almost an A grade, but we're going B grade Isaiah Pacheco. The Packers only have a couple of middling C grades to give you here. Let's start with aj Dillon. As I've mentioned many times before, just because Aaron Jones is out does not mean Dylan is going to do particularly well. In fact, usually he does not. In eight career games
without Aaron Jones, Dylan averages forty four rushing yards. That's it as the starter, just three point seven yards per carry, and he's only chipping in thirteen receiving yards in those starting games as well. The Chiefs allow the second fewest receiving yards to running backs, so I don't think he's going to help you a lot here. Kansas City has allowed at least seventy five rushing yards and or a score to running backs in five straight so there is
some opportunity. But Dylan's but a total dud in these situations before, and I can only get you to a C grade. Speaking of C grades, Jordan Love coming off two of the two best games yes for sure, but they came against two of the worst secondaries in the NFL, Chargers and Lions. This is a dramatically harder matchup. Since getting handled by Kirk Cousins in Week six, the Chiefs are allowing per game averages of just one hundred and seventy six passing yards and one point one passing touchdowns.
That's it.
Five of the past six quarterbacks have thrown zero or one touchdown against the Chiefs. I can only get you to the C grade until Jordan Loves proves that he's capable of beating a defense this good. Jaden Reid is questionable with the chest injury. Expected to go Sunday night. He's kind of a poor man's Deebo Samuel. He's getting some carries. He's seen five carries over the last two games. He's hit at least four receptions in his last three games,
scoring in two of them. Over the last five weeks, Kansas City's allowed the fourth fewest receptions per game to receivers. So I don't love Reid here. He runs from the slot that puts him up against Trent McDuffie. He's a gambling cornerback who is willing to get burned. He's allowing a passer rating of one hundred and forty three over the last five weeks, so Reid is still startable, but this is a tough matchup. C grade for him. Christian
Watson Romeo Dobbs also se grades. Number one cornerback Lagerius Sneed has been suffocating over his last five games, allowing just three catches for forty two yards per game on a fifty percent catch rate. But the catches Sneed normally tracks the opposing number one outside receiver, but it's not clear on whether that's Dobbs or if that's Christian Watson, or if he's gonna follow neither. Maybe just goes by
scheme or goes by side of the field. So I've got a C grade on both guys, but honestly, I don't love either one. I prefer you don't have to start either one, because if Sneed goes on either one, it's.
Game over for those guys.
You can only hope that they would go up against Jalen Watson, the other cornerback instead. I don't like those odds in an important game with the playoffs looming. Se grades on those guys, but I prefer you don't have to start him. Our final matchup of the day is the Monday Nighter Bengals taking on the Jaguars. Thur on the Bengals side, Jake Browning really caps the upside for really this whole offense sure does.
Yeah.
Jake Browning, By the way, I don't know if you guys knew this. He's from fulsom California, the places Johnny Cash shang about.
Yeah, fulsome pritisan prison blues.
And if your fantasy roster is in quarterback prison this week because of the bye week, I do think Jake Browning might be started. Bull Why I'm giving him a sea He was quarterback eighteen in Fantasy last week and this is a decent matchup. The Jake Wars have allowed the eighth highest passer rating since week seven, Jamar Chase, I'm gonna give him a B wide receiver thirty three
last week in Fantasy with Browning. Obviously, there's a clear loss of value with Joe Burrow down, but this is a decent matchup as.
Well for Chase.
Jayguiers have allowed the eighth highest points per reception per I'm sorry per target since week seven. T Higgins, I think you got to keep him on the bench. He missed practiced last week or missed last week with the hamstring, hasn't been practicing this week.
I don't think he's playing.
Yeah, I don't think he's playing either. Even if he doesn't, I would still keep Tyler Boyd on your bench. And obviously the Bengals tight ends as well, just not going
to be the volume there. Joe Mixon, I'm giving him a be only running back twenty two in Fantasy this year, averaging eighteen touches for seventy eight total yards per game, but he does rank number one in opportunity share, and he has the opportunity for a strong showing here against the Jaguars run defense that has allowed the fourth highest explosive run rate in the league since Week seven. The
Jaguars also contextually stink against gap runs. That is a Cincinnati Bengals staple as far as their offensive scheme goes. Moving over to the Jaguars, I think Fish was talking about this earlier, but both you guys were about how well Trevor Lawrence had been playing. I'm gonna give him an a even though only quarterback seventeen in Fantasy over the course of the season, but the last two weeks
quarterback one, quarterback six in Fantasy. He's top eleven in the league in yards per attempt and highly accurate throw rate. This is also a strong matchup for him. The Bengals have allowed the highest yards per attempt since the middle of the season. Calvin Ridley, I'm also giving him an a wide receiver twenty two in Fantasy over the course of the season, but again, just like Lawrence, last two weeks, he's been great. Ridley wide receiver one wide receiver eleven
in Fantasy those two games. He also, I was talking about this with Fish before the show, seems to play better when Jay Jones is on the field. Jay Jones obviously back. The five games where Calvin Ridley's played with Zay this year, average line of six catches for eighty nine yards and a touchdown on more than eight targets per game. In the six games where Zay Jones has not played, Ridley's average line is three catches for thirty six yards, no touchdowns on only five plus targets.
Yeah.
I don't get that because it means a Jones barely impacts the game.
Yeah.
Our buddy Matt Harmon did a breakdown on this where he was talking about how it's difficult to press Ridley when Jay Jones is on the field. I guess that's what's opening them up. Okay, at least it shows in the numbers we'll see. But you know, Zay back here, this is also a good matchup. Even outside of that, Ridley feasts against single high coverage. Bengals are an extremely single high, heavy coverage scheme. So I like Ridley a
lot this week. Christian Kirk, I'm only going to give him a C. He is wide receiver twenty four in Fantasy, so we've been around where Ridley's been Any's thirty second in deep targets. But I think the usage is going towards Ridley this week. Is part of the reason why I knock Kirk down to a sea. The Bengals have allowed the third most PPR targets to Slot since Week.
Seven, so maybe I'm a little bit low on him.
But I skew it towards the Sea as opposed to the b You're gonna keep Say Jones on the bench. His biggest Fantasy utility this week might be opening.
Up Ridley for us again. Yeah, Evan Ingram, I'm gonna give him an a what tight end.
Skioas no touchdowns on the season, Are you calling a touchdown?
Right here?
I am calling a touchdown? Okay, right here?
All right?
Tight end seven and Fantasy this year number four in deep targets for Evan Ingram and this is an awesome matchup. The Bengals have allowed the second most fantasy points per game and the second most receiving yards per game to opposing tight ends this year.
Last two guys Travis.
Etm were given a be Fantasy RB five, but he has seen the snaps come down since Week ten in those games, averaging seventeen touches sixty three total yards per game. But since Week seven, the Bengals have allowed the ninth highest explosive run rate and the fourth highest miss tackles per attempt. So maybe ETN could get back going here, dearness Johnson, I got to shout him out.
Of course.
Fish talked about him earlier in the show as has take a chance on me running back.
I also think there's some value there potentially.
Yeah, all right, so you've got to see grade on him. I would assume yes, Scott's taking Ernest goes to since the Ernest goes to Cincinnati. All right, thank you for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. Everybody.
Next week, it's the last week before the playoffs. Oh boy, So next week's going to be a real grinder as you try to find your way into the playoffs.
If you're not already there, we'll talk to you then, everybody. Best of luck by on.
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