Playoff Positioning

one seed. For some of you, that means turning a team that's out of the playoffs into the playoffs. I like it. Yeah, that is the voice of Scott Fish. My other co host today, Brian Johnson. Hello, guys, it's very very is this is this officially nut cutting time? And if so, what nut? And who cuts nuts? Seriously, who's sitting around cutting nuts? That you cut the shells, not the nuts, right, and you crack the shells, you

don't cut them. I mean, imagine if you took something a little fever to a wall, knocking some you'd lose a finger before long. We've got plenty to get to over the course of this show, including nine players not normally starting lineup. I've got a stone cold winner at tight end for you that you're gonna hear and take a chance and he later. We'll answer three tough questions and letter grades for all the notable players in all the games, beginning with the Saints taking on the Jets.

Alvin Camara coming back, perfect timing for those people that were languishing for a month without Alvin Kmara. And we probably don't even have mark Ingram to muck up the works. Yeah, Alvin Kimara walking pretty much right into a fantasy Fonzie in this matchup against the Jets, especially with mark Ingram unlikely to play COVID COVID uh so yeah, and a for camera, the Jets have allowed the most fantasy points

of opposing running backs. It's pretty simple here. And they also uh they as in the Saints might get left tackle Tehran Armstead back who hasn't played us since Week nine, was played in just one game since week nine, so if he comes back, that bodes well for camera. But he gets an easy day, easy a either way. Uh. The wide receiver situation not so easy. Uh. Deonte Harris

was looking really good, but he's not suspended. Um, and we're gonna talk about that's the thing that goes that slingers all the way back to like last summer, right, and then you know they finally rule on it now. Kind of weird, And I mean we'll talk about the who's throwing the ball quote unquote gonna throw the ball for the Saints in a second. So Trey Kwan Smith and Marquess Callaway, I got them both on the bench. Uh, neither one has really distanced distanced themselves as a wide receiver.

One Harris was doing that, but again he's suspended. So uh. Even though the Jets are holding opposing wide receivers wy lesson twelve catches wondering, wondering segyards per game, it's really because they're so easy to run on. So long story short benching the wide receivers, I am gonna heave a harpoon at Nick Finette. Though tight end Nick Finett caught three or four targets for forty eight yards last Thursday from Taysom Hill, the Jets are allowing more than five

catches sixty four yards per game to tight ends. They've surrendered three touchdowns to the position over the last two games. The Jets have so Nick Finette, especially a daily Dart. Uh, he's worth a harpoon. Uh you know a C dart relate to call them here. And lastly for the Saints, Taysom Hill, can you give him a B but be warned. I mean he could go completely belly up, as we all know, he could throw. It's one or the other.

It's really one or the other. I'm leaning towards the other because it's the Jets, because it's the Jets who have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in eight straight games, with the most recent performances going to Gardner Minshew and Tyrod Taylor.

Rod Taylor, I'm sorry, you know, Taysom Hill almost on par with those guys as a passer, but of course most dangerous on the ground, easing the only one opposing quarterback has seen more than four rush attempts against the Jets, and it wasn't Josh Allen who who faced on recently. He had just two rush attempts. So not a lot of you know, mobile quarterbacks on tape against New York with Tarrod Taylor. Tyrod Taylor had thirty yards on two carries just two weeks ago. So Taysom Hill probably a

pretty good game here. Yeah, he's his own guy in that I got, I got need to bacon the risk of him potentially just yeah, he's got the foot injury, but they took him off the injury part on Friday, so fully healthy, fully mobile. I'm in on Taysom Hill's big time against the Jets. There are not a lot of Jets to be into this week, but Ty Johnson they're gonna give him a see based on expected volume.

Michael Carter still on I R Tevin Coleman has been ruled out with a concussion, so THI Johnson should be the guy. The Saints are a brutal matchup though for running backs, both on the ground and uh in the in the air. They're allowing less than ninety eight combo yards per game to the position that second fewest. But Johnson should see fifteen and twenty catches, I guess unless Austin Walter, yes, steals some touches, which you might, but he's on the bench. Walter is, but I'll give to

see the Tye Johnson. Elijah Moore, I will give him a see if he plays. He's been questionable with a quad injury. Twelve targets last week, so um. The concern with Zack Wilson coming back quarterback out the window. He was looking Elijah More his way. I think Jack Wilson played the best game of his career last week. He looked a lot better. Uh. Spoiler alert, He's gonna be on the bench of those zat Wills and his Elijah

More A see if he plays. If he does not, I'll give Jameson Crowder a see Crowder on the bench though if More If Moore does play, Crowder saw six targets last week, caught four of them for sixty something yards. That's double digit PPR points, So he's viable if More is out. But if More plays again, Crowder on the bench and Zach Wilson bench. But hopefully better days ahead for Zack. Jaguars take on the Titan Scott. We're gonna do a deep dive a little later in this show

on James Robinson, but let's not. He's coming off of pretty tough game and now he goes up against a shockingly competent Titans run defense over the past I don't know, six weeks or so. Yeah, and and Robinson is actually the guy who had a hundred plus hard day against that defense. But right before that five or six games stretch where they haven't allowed it back to top seventy rushing yards. Uh. Right now, it's a banged up version of Robinson, who's was inexplicably benched last week after a

fumble that he didn't even lose. Right, this bumble two games in a row hasn't lost him before that. He hadn't fumbled in twenty three games. It's not even an issue for him. But Herbert Meyer needed to send a message we don't recover our own fumbles on this team. And I'm going to categories this as a sneaky squeaky wheel game for him because I think urban Meyer took a ton of heat from that, and other teammates spoke out. Yeah, this week, I think Robinson actually gets his I have

a C grade on him. You could talk me into a BE just on the amount of volume, but I am worried at how much the Titans have improved over the last half a season. So I have a C grade on him. Um, I'm not gonna gonna be somewhere in between a B and a C. Okay, Alright, In the past game I have on the bench, Trevor Lawrence looks terrible. I rewatched that game. He's throwing it at people's feet. His accuracy is horrible, just terrible. He throws the least catchable pass of any NFL starter. I agree

with that statement. Were you watching that game, it was it was gross. You might say Treadwell's got fourteen targets in the last two games. You know nobody's saying that. Yeah, I saw him picked up in a couple of leagues. A third of his yards in the last two games came off of one play where the defender drop fell fell down. So no bench the entire passing game. Uh, it's just Robinson with a grade on that side. Over on the other side, Tennessee Titans, Ryan Tannehill on the bench.

I'm sorry, just to multiple touchdown passing games this season, just too after being so efficient over the last couple of years. Uh, he's rushed for a touchdown in five separate games, but you can't count on those, and he's had a ton of low yardage day days. The Jags d has been really, really improved. We've talked about that on the show for a few weeks now. Um Stafford let them up last week, but before that they had they had held the previous five guys um four of them.

Four of the previous five guys under two hundred yards, so they're there. I have Tan Hill on the bench passing game, however, I think you can make some work out of it if he concentrates his passes, which he does. Basically, two guys Julio Jones will be back and he gets

Shaquille Griffin who will likely be back. So I only have a C grade on Julio Jones, mostly because he's a forty to sixty yard guy this year, but he has that explosive upside and is shown in one game this year and a J. Brown is not there, so they might lean on him a little more um. And also players that got eighteen players have gotten six targets against the Jags, twelve of them top two hundred yards or scored um and the end four of the other

one's top sixty yards. So like, if he's gonna get six or more targets, it's possible, It's possible he reaps the day. Uh Nick Nick Westbrook Keene, I have a C grade on him too. I think if she Gil Griffin takes Julio, he's gonna have some open time out there. I've just listed off what some wide receivers do with six plus targets. I think both Julio and him gets six plus targets. He has twelve targets in the last two games. I have a secret I kind of like him here you can, you can make a good case.

Then he's safer than Julio Jones. He gets red zone targets to uh in the running game, Jeremy mc nichols is likely to be back, which I think. I think it bites into Hilliard is what it does. I think Devon Deonta Foreman still gets his fifteen plus touches on the ground and a little bit of receiving, just a tiny bit, just enough to get him the volume. See

for me, um, they've a lot. The Jaguar have been pretty good against the run this year, but they've given him a hundred plus rushing yards in three straight And I think the game script here helps Foreman, so C grade for him. Yeah, he's built for goal line use and the others really on. That's what I had written down, goal line use and you know, playing with the lead

Foreman startable in a pinch. Cowboys take on Washington, and I've moved Zeke up to a C grade from the bench he was at after we learned that Tony Pollard has a torn planter fascia, and apparently it's the best case scenario is the tear, the complete tear, and he may actually play on it. But still you gotta figure that that's going to have a pretty significant effect on

Pollard's running game and total usage. So even if he does play, So we'll start Zeke here with a C grade, but only a C grade heel e se Kiel Elliott because Washington ranks number one in total yards allowed to runners at just ninety three total yards. And if that and if he's gonna split that like I don't know, seventy with Pollard, you know we're knocking him down to like sixty yards. Now. The good news is Washington has

allowed to touchdown in nine different games. So your best hope here is for a score for Zeke, which could happen. And that's why I'm keeping him with the C grade. Nine times I did that manually. Don't have access to the brain bar You gotta be the backup button barrow guy over there. Down. That's that's very important key work over there. Let's go to the passing game. Starting with C D Lamb, he gets a Washington defense that has allowed at least ninety yards or a score to the

opposing number one receiver in four consecutive games. Ceedee Lamb is clearly the number one receiver for Dallas. With the return of Michael Gallup, Lamb is playing much more from the slot, and that's where he's gonna find. Danny Johnson, who has been handling slot duties for Washington over the past couple of games. He's given up a passer rating of one two in his coverage, and Lamb has a positive matchup, has a positive matchup on the rest of the cornerbacks as well if he doesn't line up in

the slot. So on a grade like usual on Ceedee Lamb everybody else, though, I've bumped down to C grades because Washington's past defense has improved a lot, and particularly

against none number one receivers for Marii Cooper. Over the four game win streak, Washington's allowing the fifth fewest receptions and eleventh fewest yards per game, and non number one receivers are averaging fewer than two receptions in twenty three yards over the last four games, so Cooper just the C grade did it with Gallup for really all of the same reasons. Let's talk about also see grad. Let's talk about Dalton Sheltz, who comes into the C grade

almost when b here. He's playing nineties six percent of the snaps since Blake Jarwin went down, and he's averaging seven targets, four catches fifty yards over that span, which is pretty good. Washington's allowing healthy five catches and fifty eight yards per game to tight ends and they've given up the seventh most red zone targets to the position. So Shelt's got a decent chance of scoring in this one.

Still only have the C grade on him because he really hasn't had hasn't been a consistent fantasy producer even with Jarwin out. All right, let's go to the other side for Washington. During this four game win streak, Antonio Gibson has been a monster, averaging twenty seven touches for one hundred seven yards and almost a score per game. I think you can safely expect more high volume from Gibson and particularly JD mkiss. It can't go and we won't know he's shaping It was a game time decision.

Opposing backs against Dallas who gets seventeen carries or more are averaging one hundred total yards and zero points six touchdowns per game, and in two career matchups with Dallas, Antnio Gibson has totaled forty carries for two hundred forty three yards and four touchdowns in two games. Dallas, typically pretty stingy against running backs, have only allowed eighty two rushing yards per game and six rushing scores per game,

so it's not an easy matchup. But on sheer volume and keeping in a grade like he's a bell call and a workhorse combined. Something. Oh, I like that? Could he here's your there's it's a sleigh bell maybe or I don't know it's here. That might be the answer for Antonio Gibson. Let's go to the passing game. You know what I didn't mention. I did not mention Dak Prescott's great. I'm sorry about that. Back to Prescott for

just a second. Uh, I'd be great on Dak Prescott if we rolled together Lamb and the sea grades they gave to Cooper and Gallop and sheltz Um. This is again an improved red skin. Sorry, formerly Redskins now Washington defense over the past five games, Washington allowing just two three passing yards at one point four touchdowns. So I can't get him quite up to the A grade i'd like to give. Dac and disappointed me last week too.

I have an A grade on him. Last week. You didn't do much, all right, So now back to the back to the Washington passing game. Terry McLaurin has been very hit and miss, which is weird because the bit of the story and McLaurin up until this year had been he'd been very safe, but this year very hit and miss, and I worry a lot in this game. On the plus side, opponent's number one receivers have generally fared well against Dallas, including recent good games from Tyreek

Hill and Hunter Renfro. Cowboys allowing an average of one touchdown per game to wide out since Week six. And I guess if there's one touchdown to go around, who else would get it but Terry McLaurin. So I've got to be great on him here, but just be aware of the dud games that have surrounded much of his season. And I mentioned J. D. McKissick Earlier's got the concussion. He looks like he's a trending towards a game time decision or some maybe something on Saturday or Sunday when

we'll learn more. If you believe the Cowboys are gonna get head by a lot and he's active when Washington is losing is when you can play McKissick. So if you like Dallas in this game, give a C grade to McKissick. And Um, it turns out Ricky Seals Jones has a decent chance of going in this game. Did you just leave it up to the listeners to grade him? Do I give him a see if you if you if you think, if you think Dallas is going to be ahead, I usually don't take it, but I did. Um,

Ricky Seals Jones is probably gonna go. He sits tenth among tight ends and red zone targets despite only seeing thirty four total targets on the year, so they thrown to him a ton in the red zone, which I love. Dallas is a plus match for tight ends. They're giving up the eleventh most Fantasy points per game to the position. So I've got a C grade on Ricky Seals Jones. I'm keeping Taylor Heinike on the bench, He's um, He's

been a middling producer. Plus, Dallas's past defense has improved a lot, allowing per game averages of just two hundred forty three yards and zero point eight touchdowns over the past six weeks, and they've shut down far better passers than Heineke lately. Kirk Cousins, Matt Ryan, Patrick Mahomes just not enough good targets for Heineke as well. The last four or five weeks, we've been saying, go grab Logan Thomas for this amazing stretch. Now Ricky Seals Jones stays

the same. If Steals Stones doesn't go, are you thinking about John Bates? No, I will give you next sake it. I will give you the sneaky, awesome tight end to pick up. The opportunity is golden and he is available in your lead. Is gonna play though, so he's gonna go. But regardless, we'll tell you who that is when we come back to take a chance of me after this Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment we call take a chance. I mean not nine players and

not normally in your starting lineup. We'll tell you who they are. Beginning at the quarterback position and Scott Fish. Yeah, I'm going with Jimmy Garoppolo, who seems to be a staple of this some reason. I was just realizing as I was looking at it. Over the last five the be Thols are allowing an average of two seven yards and two scores to opposing quarterbacks. Incomes to forty niners who over the last month or averaging nearly thirty points

per game. There's an employed implied total of fifty year. I just I just like Jimmy g in this matchup for a score two and probably somewhere around two yards. All right, you're take a chance of any quarterback, Brian. The Texans are going back to rookie Davis Mills at quarterbacks. I'm rest of the just find out what you got in him, to make sure you know if he is a plausible starter going forward, no doubt. And he's got the Seahawks at home this week, which is a pretty

good matchup over the last three weeks. Colton McCoy, who was just Colton McCoy and didn't have DeAndre Hopkins through three yards and two passing touchdowns, and Jimmy Garoppolo just did that last week without Deebo Samuel and Jimmy g is not all that great, So why not Davis Mills and over Seattle's last five games, opposing quarterbacks are averaging forty pass attempts per game. It feels like a spot

where Mills will throw at forty plus times. Seattle also just lost safety Jamal Adams for the season with a shoulder injury. Bellow safety Quandre Digs very questionable to play with the calf injury. So I'm kind of feeling to shootout in Houston. I'm liking Davis Mills and you'll find him. You know you've on this on the daily sites for sure, no doubt. Baker Mayfield was not playing well before the bye week, but he was also dealing with shoulder, foot, knee,

and groin injuries. So presumably coming out of this bye week, you'd like to believe two weeks between games that he's in much better shape right now. And you'll remember early in the season through the first handful of games, he was actually pretty good when he was healthy. He gets the Ravens this week, and this is a wobbly past defense allowing per game averages of two hundred eighty passing yards and one point seven passing touchdowns over the past

six games. If Baker Mayfield is gonna get to eighty and two touchdowns, I'm in and nuts. Remember the Ravens are now without cornerback Marlon Humphrey, their best cornerback who's lost for the season. Baker Mayfield, I like it. Let's go to the running back position. Your take a chance of me runners. I'm staying with the San Francisco forty Niners and I'm going with Jeff Wilson. He practiced in full the last couple of days. Him and jama Ja Michael Hasty are the only two healthy running backs for

the forty Niners going into this game. And Jeff Wilson had four games with fifteen plus touches last year, a few of them in the twenties. He had a twenty touch game just a couple of weeks ago when Elijah Mitchell was out. I think he takes back that starting role for this game with Mitchell out. Agreed, Brian, you take a chance of me runner. I'm going with the Seattle's Rashad Penny at Houston just talked about this game. Now.

Um Alex Collins likely to make his return. But Rashad Penny was a first round pick about three years ago, and he's healthy. He's never been healthy, but he's finally healthy. He essentially split work with Adrian Peterson last week, who just looks and Peterson. There's reports that Peterson won't even be active for this game. Yeah, and he shouldn't be. And don't read into the three carries for eighty yards and a touchdown from Travis Homer that came on a

fake punt. So I feel it's a gut feel. Shot Penny is gonna be the lead back all it can be against. Shot Penny has given you no statistical analysis to suggest he's any good. I swear there's been like two games in his career has been healthy, and he looks fantastic on Sunday. I believe that is true. And it's not hard to look fantastic as a running back against the Texans who are allowing a hundred and fifty three combo yards and one point to five touchdowns per

game to running back. That the opportunity is there, You're right about that. I'm going to Cuba Hubbard as he takes on the Falcons. They fired their offensive coordinator Joe Brady, mostly because he didn't run enough. Remember Matt Rules saying he wants to run the ball thirty to thirty five times. Well, if Cam Newton was my quarterback, I wouldn't want him to pass either. I would want to run the ball as much as possible, both with Cam and with Chuba

Hubbard doing it. During his five starts this year, Hubbard averaged eighteen rushes eighty three yards. If those eighteen rushes are going to be more now that Joe Brady's gone May maybe he's got hundred hundred yard upside. And he ran for a touchdown in eighty two yards against Atlanta already once this year. So Juba Hubbard is my choice. Let's go to Scott and your receiver. Yeah, I'm going with Josh Reynolds. He's he's been pretty on fire the

last couple of weeks, playing most of the snaps. He's got that rapport with Jared Goff. This week he came out they want Jared Goff to take more twenty plus yard shots, that more shots deep down the field. He was actually near the top of the league in that category just a couple of years ago with McVeigh um Josh Reynolds been the deep ball guy the last two weeks. Three targets over twenty yards against the Bear Bears, three more against the Vikings. He has three receptions over twenty

five yards UM and HISS. His average average yards per reception is twenty yards. I think just a few deep plays, he's gonna get it. Brian, your take chance on me receiver now. I was gonna go with the Chargers Jalen Guighton before Keenan Allen was ruled out. Keenan Allen now ruled out, I'm certainly still going with Jalen Guiton, who caught all four of his targets last week for nine yards and a touchdown. It's still to be determined if Mike Williams is gonna play in this game. That will

make this very much a lay up. Take a chance on me play with. The Giants are top five in targets yielded and touchdowns allowed to wide receivers. I might a should have went deeper with Josh Palmer, but Jalen Guiton Josh Palmer can become very viable this weekend against the Giants. Austin Hoopers might take a chance of me player and I love this opportunity. Now. Normally Austin Hooper is part of a three man Cleveland rotation at tight end with David and Joku and Harrison Bryant out this week.

That means what I'm out, Hooper is going to get all the work. So allow me to tell you what in Joku, Bryant and Hooper together look like this year. If you give all of their average production to just Hooper, your average game is six catches, seventy two yards and half a touchdown. Who else is almost exactly six catches seventy two yards and half a touchdown t Travis Kelsey. You've got Travis Kelsey in usage for the Cleveland tight ends if you roll them into one guy, and that's

Austin Hooper. This weekend, plus the Ravens allowed the second most yards and the fourth most touchdowns too, tight ends. What a DFS play Austin Hooper is. If you're struggling at tight end, Darren Waller, whatever, Austin Hooper, that's the point. If you've got Darren Waller, this is your pivot guy, Austin Hooper. So safe to say, across your leagues you've been a Hooper Scooper. I've been jumping through hoops Cooper Scooper,

I like Whoper I do. It is pretty good. Good Falcons take on the Panthers, Brian, we can just dispense with the Kyle Pitts A plus plus. It's Fantasy phone z right there for you. We're gonna have an in depth edition of Fantasy Football Weekly to the off season. Yes, will be a very civil conversation. Of course, this would be a good one. We'll start with the sooner you acknowledge that I was right on this, the sooner we can just well, there's still a lot of season to play.

First off, but yes, we'll get Pits has not lived up to his a DP, but neither of thirty of the forty players that were drafted before him either. But we're not gonna get into that. Now. We're gonna get into the Panthers and Tuba Hubbard. You'll take a chance to be running back charge. I also like a Mira Abdullah. I'm gonna give him a c uh. In Week twelve, when Christian mccaffee went down, Abdullah had twenty seven snaps

to the eleven from Cuba Hubbard. So in PPR against a team like the Falcons throw a dart at a mirab dula. I know I am in a deeper league, so to see for him, just to be for d J. Moore, the only wide receiver or tight end who matters on the Carolina Panthers at this point. But far and away, I've seen the most targets from Cam. Newton has notched the most yards, touchdowns, and first down conversions from Cam.

The Falcons are allowing a healthy fourteen catches a hundred and sixty yards one point to five touchdowns per game to wide receivers more only at four catches for fifty nine yards when these teams first met in Week Gate, but still B grade for him, Robbie Anderson on the bench and Cam Newton. It's really going one way or the other. With Cam, it's like he's gonna go off or he's gonna go sit on the actual bench. So I'm gonna cut it right down the middle of him,

a B play it safe. I don't want he see, well you can, I'm leaning. I'm leaning see they're gonna lean on the run game more so than not, I would think, And it could that could be Cam Newton. I don't know it could be Cam. Now keep in mind he got benched in their last game. Yeah, he looked really good bench three times last year. He's so that's the frustrating thing. P J Walker should be starting

this game for Carolina and he's Unfortunately he's not. So I'm going to see he's probably the best passer on the team, oh, for sure. Over to the he's the best. P J Walker is the best passer in this game. And that's including Matt Ryans thrown out of the way. He's on the bench. One six yards, one touchdown, two interceptions when these teams first met. He's just god awful. Uh, Corrill Cordarrell Patterson is not, though I'm gonna give him a B yet thirty five rushing yards, thirty seven receiving

yards in the first meeting, did catch a touchdown. Carolina is very tough on running backs and wide receivers alike. Whatever you want to consider Patterson, but the guy's unicorny really can't. I'm only benching him in one league, and it's a guy team league where I'm in the finals and I have like five stud running backs ahead of Patterson. He gets a B and Kyle Pitts still gets to see brutal matchup on paper for tight ends. Pitts is a wide receiver of courts. Of course Carolina treated him

as such in the first meeting. Gil Morris shadowed him in that game. Calvin really did not play in that In that game, Calvin Ridley certainly not playing in this game. Pitts had his worst performance as a pro, just two catches thirteen yards, not afacking a monster game, But talent and opportunity is still there. So a C for Kyle Pitts and uh Russell gauge out through a ce dart at him in PPR as well, go to a bank b All right, Scott, all right, he missed, he missed

the first meeting. Um, yeah, well, Kyle Pitts is gonna get like triple quadruple team because he's just such an amazing talent. Though the Scott Fish I co signed the b on Russell gage. All right, when we come back, more matchups for you, including forty nine ers taking on the Bengals. We've already talked about some of the forty niners that Scott Fish likes, including Jimmy Garoppolo, Jeff Wilson.

How much upside do you have from guys like Brandon Au and what do you expect from Deebo Samuel if he plays on the groin injury a huge conundrum for fantasy owners. We'll talk about that when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is the final segment of our number one a Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a two hour operation. We're here to get you ready for the fantasy playoffs. Your final playoff positioning potentially on the line in this week's game. Almost everybody's got some kind

of movement. Almost nobody's locked into a particular spot quite yet, probably not. We both agree, Scott that the last spot in your playoffs should be awarded to not the team with the next best record, but it should be awarded to the team with the most points or potentially the team with the best all play record that something like that, because in this we're a better indicator of a great team instead of schedule schedule luck. Because you your team

can't play defense, it's not it's not your fault. If your opponents have scored a lot of points. Your fantasy team doesn't play defense. So yeah, be creative with that last spot and think about it for next year. If you haven't already set that up. Let's go to some of our matchups, beginning with the forty Niners taking on the Bengal Scott. For the forty Niners, you already talked a lot about Jeff Wilson at the running back position. Are probable starter? Is Jamichael Hasty a possible play here

or not? I think I think he could be a dart throw if you're in a serious bind. I don't have a starting grade on him. But keeping keep in mind, the forty Niners give their running backs thirty touches a game, and it very well could be twenty for Jeff Wilson, and Jamichael Hasty might be able to do something with the ten he gets. But I have him as the second end of of of those two, and I don't have a starting grade on him in the passing game.

Might take a chance on me. Quarterback was Jimmy Garoppolo. I liked him for two and a couple of scores. That's I don't know where it's gonna go. But I have an a grade on kill because I think it's obvious at this point he's just playing like a beast. Uh Deebo Samuel. If he goes, I have an A grade on him if he goes, because he's just been too efficient and productive, and I don't think they will risk him if he's not good to go. I think with that groin injury he can. If he can go,

he will go. All right. I see the concern in your face. Groin injury plus the Dalvin Cook thing from the other night, that's probably your Your concern is he he could blow up? Okay, I'll give him a B grade. I'll give him a B grade out of that concern. How's that sound? Dalvin Cook's groin isn't in his shoulders though? No, I'm talking about Dalvin Cook situation of should I start them, could they reinjure? Could they leave? Type of situation. Fine,

I'll give him a B grade. I I still think if he's going, he's probably gonna be a top ten guy. Brandon Ayuk, I'm giving a B grade either way, if Debo goes or he doesn't. The top receiver against the Bengals, and this is if Debo doesn't go has top ninety yards and back to back and they've the Bengals have allowed five receivers to top eight yards and or scoring just the last two. Uh so even if even if Debo goes, I think the second receiver can get some

work here. Yuk himself his top to eighty five yards and three of his last five, and he's consistently seen six plus targets even with Diebo Samuel, he was starting to see that starting about the midway point. So I have a B grade on Ayuke. On the other side, I have a C grade on Joe Burrow. Only one quarterback his top two fifty yards on and that was all the way back in Week one. That was a long time ago. That was almost a false season ago.

That includes five quarterbacks under two hundred yards. They've allowed multiple touchdowns and back to back. But given the way this defense has held down quarterbacks and Burrows two injuries, which supposedly he's been fine with this week in practice, the best I can give him as a C grade because this is one of the better offense with the most weapons that the NS will have played this season. So C grade on Burrow. Higgins I'm giving an A

grade too. He's just too hot. He's turned into the player that he was last year, and Jamaar Chase has fine has kind of taken a backseat. Yeah, and if you look at the early season stats, the targets and receptions, and they were going, they were going Higgins way. Chase was just getting the big touchdowns, and we talked about that earlier in the year. Those big touchdowns aren't coming anymore. And Chase's best output in the last five weeks is fifty two yards. He scored twice in that stretch. The

upside is there. So I have a B grade on on Chase and a grade on Higgins because I think he's going to get the bulk of the work. I have Tyler Boyd on the bench, just two and consistent, only top sixty yards four times this year. Now we get to the running game. Joe Mixon has been dinged up and sick this week. He was digged up last week. He came back in and scored touchdown. He played the rest of the game, but he's been He's been with

an illness this week. I have an A grade on Mixing if he goes, because I think that means he's over his illness, and and so over the last five weeks are surprising the fourth worst against fantasy running backs, allowing seven rushing touchdowns in those five games. Mixing himself has nine straight games with a touchdown. I probably could have phrased that to get a nine times out there, but anyway, Yeah, but keep on an injury and iron that injured, that that illness, because if he doesn't go,

pren becomes interesting in this spot. I would give him a C grade or maybe even a B grade just because of pure a ton of volume in a high pretty good. Yeah, it's just recently they're giving up so many touchdowns to running backs. But that's all I have for that. Ravens take on the Browns, and on the Ravens side, I want to start with Devon Freeman. Browns allowing one fifteen total yards per game to opposing running backs. That is the sixth fewest. I don't love this matchup.

Freeman though, averaging seventeen touches per games since taking over as the starter, and had seventeen touches last time he played the Browns two weeks ago, but he only that only equaled sixty total yards, his second lowest output as a starter. I don't love him here, but just on volume, we'll give a C grade to DeVonta Freeman. Let's go to the receivers now, Marcus Brown comes in with a

B grade. After scoring six times in the first seven games, We're all like Markue's Brown, every week starter touchdown machine. He's now been held scoreless for a month. He'll face speedy cornerback Denzel Ward primarily this week, who's held opponents to just twenty five yards per game in his coverage Hollywood. Brown tangled with the Browns for a one yard game in the last matchup and a score uh two in

two meetings last year. And Ward played every snap of the one yard game, so he could do a little something here. Also monitor Cleveland cornerback Greg Newsome, who suffered

concussion and practice. If he misses this game, you could bump Marquis Brown up to an A I'm keeping I'm putting a shot bateman on the bench at a massive decrease in playing time the past two weeks, Apparently the team has decided they don't think he's ready yet, and we're seeing a lot more of Sammy Watkins and Devin DuVernay, so he's out. Mark Andrews comes in with a B grade.

Over the last five weeks, Andrews has seen a position leading forty seven targets, and in his last match up against Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, Andrews caught four of ten targets for sixty five yards and a touchdown. Browns are kind of the middle of the pack tight end defense, giving up the nineteenth most fantasy points on the year. But if you look at just the last five weeks, they've been the seventh easiest matchup for tight ends. So maybe trending the better direction here. So b grade

on Mark Andrews. If I were to ask you, guys and listeners without don't look it up just top of your head, how many games has Lamar Jackson had a rushing touchdown in this year? And don't answer a lot? Three? How about one? That one game with a rushing touchdown for Lamar Jackson this year in that and he has exactly one touched on by lance or air in nine different games this year, nine times touchdown, only one touchdown.

That's depressing. He does have two hundred yard games, two hundred yard passing game, rushing games, yes, that's I mean that certainly helps. Um it's three straight underwhelming fantasy games from Lamar Jackson, including a game against these same Browns two weeks ago when they held him to just one hundred sixty five passing yards and sixty eight rushing yards and one score. Cleveland comes out of its by allowing just one hundred seventy five passing yards per game over

the last three That is awesome past defense. C grade on Lamar Jackson, and that is it. He's at this point, he's lost the benefit of the doubt. I can't put him on the bench because the rushing numbers keep him fantasy startable, but the passing numbers just aren't good enough. Your grades, they're basically chopping my gig league right now. I'm sorry I bought that your team. Let's go to

the Cleveland side. You Mary called Baker Mayfield was might take a chance, I mean quarterback Austin Hooper was might take a chance on me receiver. That leaves us with Jarvis Landry. You want to monitor his knee injury here. He's coming into this game as a game time decision. You know my touchdowns Jarvis Landry has on the season zero he has He has commanded at least eight targets in four of the last six games, and he is the best of the available receivers. Assuming he plays for

Baker Mayfield. Didn't have like like last year in Miami, have like a hundred and ten catches and he didmember that. Yeah, remember that. I remember that season very well. Um Baltimore could He'll go up against Baltimore's Tavon Young and the slot he gives up a seventy catch rate. So I've got to see great and Jarvis Landry just for sheer volume, he'll probably find his way to like fifty six to receiving yards. Will be scoreless there, So see great on

Landry your dart throw. Here is Donovan People's Jones, a guy we mentioned on this show a lot who never quite seems to produce to the level we would like. He's shown flashes in the last month, producing a three game stretch in which he averaged eighty six yards and he scored three times. Baltimore Secondary has allowed four one yard receivers in their last three games that are now without Marlon Humphrey for the rest of the season, So

an opportunity there. Let's go to the running game. Nick Chubb. In his last game against this team two weeks ago, he put up sixteen rushing yards and two yards per carry, both his lowest numbers since his rookie year in any one game. Baltimore's run defense is fantastic, allowing only seventy two rushing yards per game, fourth fewest on just three point nine yards per carry to opposing running backs. Chubbed just to be here, and I've got a C grade

on Kareem Hunt. Will try to get something more done through the air a little bit, but this is also very again, very tough team to run upon, and I don't expect a lot there. And he was held to just twenty yards and two point nine yards per carry two weeks ago, so only the C grade on Kareem Hunt. Our final set of matchups is the Seahawks taking on the Texans. Brian, you already told us that you like Rashad Penny in this game, but let's flip it over

to the passing game. What do you think about Russell Wilson coming off a nice outing, Yeah, Penny might take

a chance of me running back. If I'm gonna pick one from Seattle, it is him to the passing game and Russell Wilson gonna give him a B. He has not looked great or even really that good since coming back from injury, but he has top two thirty passing yards with two passing touchdowns and back to back games, Houston has allowed the third most passing yards, but just seventeen passing touchdowns, which is less than one and a half per game. That said, the Texans have allowed the

most rushing touchdowns the quarterbacks. Wilson still a threat on the ground, so after all that, I'm gonna give him a B. As well as both of his wide receivers dk Metcalfe and Tyler Lockett. The Texans are allowing these second most receptions in the third most yards per game to opposing receivers over the last five weeks. Lock It's been not pretty good over the last to two games three catches for ninety six yards and last week seven catches for sixty eight and a touchdown. Hopefully he can

stay consistent. Gerald Everett though brutal touchdown last week yeah and almost resulted in interception. He also lost two fumbles. I think he's in the doghouse basically, I don't. I don't trust him to get enough playing time in this one. They might lean on Will dis Lay a little more at tight end for the Seahawks. So Gerald Everett is on the bench over to the Texans side, Brandon Cook's gonna give him a B. He's seen a thirty percent

target share when Davis Mills is at quarterback. The Seahawks have been somewhat tough against wide receivers lately, recently holding Davanta Adams and Terry McLaurin below their standards. But I mentioned and take a chance to me, they will definitely be without starting safety Jamal Adams and likely without their other safety Conjre Digs. So a B for Cooks based on volume alone. Nico Collins, I don't expect expect mud from him. He's on the bench, but it's still a

good dynasty stash. Now, normally we don't talk about Texans tight ends, but for good reason because Brevin Jordan's and Pararell Brown last week combined for six catches on nine targets. Sadly they're not one person. But Brevin Jordan's might not play in this game. If he does not, Farrell Brown walks into a matchup against the third easiest team against tight ends, that is the Seahawks allowing six catches sixty three yards per game to the position, So Farrell Brown

keep an eye on him. If Brevin Jordan's is ruled out. Davis Mills might take a chance of me quarterback. I think open the ball at least forty times in this game. And uh, lastly, of the running backs, we don't really talk about the Texans running backs much. Rex Burkhead is starter inefficient. That's it is a lot of volume against a bad un But David Johnson might take a chance back this week though so but Johnson's not getting much either. He was hurt. Lastly, I don't know, I'm not I'm

not recommending I'm start of Texans running back. That's all I'm saying. If you're on a pinch, if you're in a pinch deep league, in a pinch, then I think you could go rexperg That's probably it. A couple of quickies for you between now and the end of this segment where and I want the exact spot where Cooper Cup will be drafted in fantasy leagues next year. I want the round and position Scott round one, sixth spot, Brian, yeah, six or seven and probably going to be wide receiver one.

I would think overall draft, I mean, it's gonna go, It's gonna go Jonathan Taylor. Then Javonte Williams than A J. Dillard, like all the all the ones people love. Davante Adams might go before some leagues, but I think he's gonna go three. I think you got the first two right and the night GE's gonna go Cooper Cup three. In part because the running back position burned so many people last year, there's gonna be a great willingness to pivot next year to go to wide receiver, and it'll be

Cooper Cup when we come back. Plenty more matchups and three tough questions. Play along is our panel of experts, try to go three and Oh. It's Fantasy Football Weekly, brought to you by Guillotine Leagues dot com. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, our number two. I'm Paul Charchy and my co host or Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. You can follow Scott at Scott Fish twenty four on Twitter, Brian is at b t x J on Twitter, and

I am at Paul Charchy. In Tough Question number one for the rest of the season, Aaron Jones will outscore A. J. Dillon by a a lot, be a little, or see no no no. Dylan will outscore Jones. What do you think, Scott, Okay, I'll start by ruling out a lot. I don't. I don't think unless there's an injury, either one of these guys is going to outscore the other by a ton um. Just because Dylan has been gained so much more work recently,

it would almost require missing time. Although Dylan got more work in week twelve after jones one game absence, Jones wasn't a percent. The bye week is probably gonna help that Jones has a proven track record for, you know, being efficient to the goal line in a much smoother pastor. He just looks like a much smoother pastor. Even though Dylan can catch, he just isn't a smooth and doesn't isn't as efficient, doesn't get as much production from it.

Even if they split more down the middle, middle, down the stretch, I still Jones outscores him, not by a lot, but just a little. So I'm going a little, a little, all right, Brian. For the rest of the season, Aaron Jones will outscore a j Dillon by a lot a little, or Dylan will out score Jones. Yeah, Fish took most of my talking points he mentioned. In Week twelve, Dylan

outscored Jones by a lot in that game. Jones was kind of a surprise active in that one, and and the Packers kind of controlled that game against the Rams, so they didn't really need to push Jones to a certain extent. So Packers are on there by I still think they go Dylan. I'm sorry, Jones is the lead back. They'll certainly mix in A. J. Dillon a lot. He's he's proven able to play at a very high level. But I'm with Fish in that Jones will outscore Dylan

by a little bit. You guys hit all my talking points pretty much here, and it is the correct answer is Aaron Jones will outscore A. J. Dillon by a little um. But I think it's it's really really close. And I think this is a hard question if you go back, I think it was weeks ten and eleven or eleven and twelve when they were both healthy. Last it was fourteen touches to fifteen touches for Dylan and Jones.

It was that close. And Dylan is viewed as a cold weather mutter, as evidence by last year's Tennessee game in the plus three stuff. Yes, twenty one carries in that game, um, but also really salient to this topic because Dylan's improvement as a receiver. He's caught thirteen passes the past three weeks. But but to Scott's point, he didn't as natural of a receiver as Jones is. So I'm still giving the edge to Jones by a little bit.

He's healthy, he's a proven special talent, and he's the better receiver, and he still gets more snaps and touches. The correct answer is a little tough question number two. If se Kwam Barkley posts a dug this week against the hapless Chargers run defense, do you sabotage drop him next Tuesday? And for listeners that are maybe new to the show, the sabotage drop is when you drop a brand name player early in the week for the express purpose of having somebody use up waiver equity and then

start somebody who's ultimately going to hurt them. That's the premise of the sabotage drop. Say Kwon Barkley next week, Brian, Yeah, if he drops a dud against the Chargers on Sunday, I don't know how much of a sabotage drop it will be, because this is the best matchup Barkley's got on the rest of the schedule. But yeah, if he drops a dud, I'm dropping Barkley for sure. I mean,

the Giant season is lost. Not to say that Dave Gettleman uh Indoor, Joe Judge, the head coach are gonna do the right thing because they're pretty much gonna get fired, I think. But they should shut down Barkley for their mainder of the year, especially if he doesn't have a good game against the Charger is something. There are many things clearly wrong with that franchise. So yeah, if he if he doesn't go off against you know, even if he has a good game against the Charge I almost

got part. I think you should. I think you really should. I think that makes more of sabotage drop. So either way, yeah, I'm sabotage dropping, say Kwon Barkley, unless I'm like super

desperate running back. But overall yet, Scott, No, no, because unless you're in a ten team league or a league with twelve roster spots, you're not finding better running back options out there, and you're neither your league mates that we're talking about starting guys like p Ryan and and Wilson and Hasty and we just talked about Burkehead maybe being a start and you're gonna they're not producing what

Barkley is even in Barkley's dud's game, You're not. You're you're only helping your opponent to you know, not have to start Burkhead and being able to get s Kwon Barkley. The whole point of your sabotage drop is again to make an opponent use waiver wire equity. Would that happen if you dropped Sae Kwon Barkley? How much weaver wearing money do people have left at this point in week four?

Answer is yes? And then would this pert? Would somebody who picks him up then feel compelled to start Barkley and he'll all really hurt them? Answer? Yes? The last this the Chargers are your last good spot. The rest of the schedule is straight brutality for the Giants. There are no positive matchups left. In fact, every single team left is in the top quarter in fantasy points allowed.

Two opposing running backs. We don't know when, if ever, Daniel Jones will return to help the offense, and at some point they may just shut down massive parts of their wide receivers since these guys can never get healthy and this is pro football. Focus is ranked run blocking line and that's not going to help Barkley either. Answer. Yes, we're taking a chance on guys like Penny Tough. Question. Appropriate level of concern for James Robinson is it? None? Some? Alright?

Bowl loosening level of existential dread Scott, He's the best player on the team. Urban took a bunch of heat this week. We've mentioned it. I mentioned this already. I think it's a sneaky, squeaky wheel game. I think they give him a lot more work going forward. I think, uh, I think that's the way this goes. However, this offense doesn't move the ball very well. And as far as coaching goes, urban Meyer makes Matt Naggy look like Andy

Reid like. Urban Meyer is not good. So for those factors, not the production on the field, but for those factors, I'm gonna say some, Okay, some alright, Brian, appropriate level of concern for James Robinson? None? Some or blowed? Are you? I'm so tired of the benching of running backs after they fumble, like they're doing it on purpose, like putting them in the corner, like with the dunce cap, like

you'll learn your lesson never to fumble again. Urban was like Belichick doesn't, so it's got to work for me too. It's just such a tired practice. I'm so anyway, I'm at some two and it's really just because not because of the disciplinary reasons that I fear that urban Meyer might bestow upon James Robinson moving forward. It's just the offense is pretty bad and Robinson is the best player. He does have two promising matchups starting next week with

the Texans and then the Jets in week sixteen. So but still not I'm not blown on Jay rob not a little, but just some some concern for him. Um, here's your average game for James Robinson going all the way back to week six. Week six was a long time ago. That's the middle of October. Ten carries forty three yards, zero point four touchdowns. That's it for James Robinson, and he chips in almost nothing as a receiver. Ten carries forty three yards. That's terrible. Heel injury is an

ongoing problem for him. And if you just watch James Robinson run the ball, you can tell that foot is bothering him. He's not running with the same Gusto that he used to run with. Jaguars have the twenty six ranked run blocking offensive line by Pro Football Focus. No help coming there. Second lowest scoring overall offense at just fifteen points per game for Jacksonville, and defenses don't have to sweat the passing game because they don't have one.

Trevor Lawrence having a dismal season so far. And lastly, offensive coordinator Darryl Bebel's usage of Robinson is downright dispiriting. The correct answer blowed. Oh man, I can feel it in my insides, a bowl loosened level of existential dread every time I think of starting that might that I'm not ruling it out. That is possible. Let's go to the Lions taking on the Broncos. Scott T. J. Hockinson not expected to go in the game. Your player, your

offensive player the week is Jared Goff. Yes, like, yeah, I did not see that coming. I actually I have golf on the bench. I know it's crazy, but I just think he's not going to produce much. He's thrown for under two hundred and twenty yards and over half his games. Jared Goff, Uh, yeah, you had a good game last week. That's good for Jared Goff. The Broncos are are are allowing opposing quarterbacks in average of two or in thirty five yards, barely over a touchdown, and

about one interception per game. That's that's probably the ceiling for golf in this one. I am going to give a couple of starting grades here though. With Hawkinson out, I had my take a chance on me player be Josh Reynolds. I love his rapport with Goff and what he's done recently. Golf can throw for two hundred and two. Receivers can have okay days yeah maybe yeah, eighty yards for each and maybe a score for one of them. Uh. I'm on Ross St. Brown, the sun God, who is

the leading receiver wide receiver for the Lions. As I said before the season, it just wasn't very fairly start. I got the call red. Not for fantasy, though. I have a C grade on him. Uh. He's on the field like a the time he gets six. He had twelve targets last week, but he's getting six plus targets a game. I think with Hawkinson out, they're gonna have

to lean on Brown and Reynolds. They have no other options, So I can see a ten plus target a six to ten plus target game for both Reynolds and Brown in this one. So I have C grades. They might just get their own volume. Maybe they get you a score. In the Running Game, Jamal Williams is placed on the COVID list on Friday, which means it's it's he's vaccinated. So he could have a negative test Saturday. Maybe they test him that day and maybe you can play, but

it's pretty unlikely he's gonna go. We're looking at a stack of Jamaar Jefferson and Uh, Godwin Iguay Beiqway. I think EU come to this. Yeah, it would be the one that gets the majority. He had a lot more snaps than uh than Jamar Jefferson last week he played. He's played the backup role more or maybe and watch

what this is gonna happen. They're gonna promote Cuztown Cuts Town University Golden Bear product, Craig Reynolds off the practice squad and he is gonna vulture touchdown, so that everybody out Sunday is like, who is Craig Reynolds. That's probably what's gonna happen. If you like anyone in this game, it's probably Godwin Equabiquay. But I have them both, all three of them on the bench, even if they bring up Craig Reynolds to matchup anyway. But you heard Craig

Reynolds here. If he's touchdown on the other side, Teddy Bridgewater, I have him on the bench, don't worry. I can tell by your side. He hasn't had a multiple score game in five weeks. They mainly lean on their run game. Just what they should do with with those running They have talented receivers. The problems, Teddy, the problems in Jerry Judy. It's not Sutton either, receivers Tim Patrick. But Sutton hasn't topped forty yards in the last five weeks since Judy cast,

so he's on the bench. Jerry Judy, I do have a B grade on He's got thirty targets since returning that six per game. Unfortunately, he hasn't scored at all this year and he's averaging just fifty five scoreless yards. He's had a couple of eight yard days. Only a B grade because it's the Lions. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. It's the matchup, uh, the opposing top receiver against the Lions this year averages one hundred and eleven yards. That's

the average of the top receiver against the Lions. Most of them went over a hundred obviously with that average, So B grade on Jerry Judy, Uh for the tight ends Fanton Albert Oh I have on the bench. They're monopolizing each other and most of their work is at the line of scrimmage and they don't get yards after the catch like it's think it's a perfect storm of of I don't know, terrible nous. Uh with the running game. B grade on Javonte Williams and a C grade on

Melvin Gordon, who I do think goes. I know they were splitting the work very evenly before Melvin Gordon was out on injury. I think now they start to lean more and more towards Javonte Williams after what they saw the Lions have been. I hope you're right, but this sounds like wishful fantasy guy talk. He's coming in ding dup too well, I know, but Gordon played. Gordon practiced all week, and you know this is gonna I think this is gonna be way more frustrating than fantasy owners

want to believe. I like the Denver Beat writer who said Gordon practicing, which is good news, and it was like, right, I want Gordon to be healthy. You like good for you know what I mean? Contract next year? We want Bell Cou Javonte Williams every week and Gordon said this week he wants to come back next year to the Broncos.

No welcome. Sorry, he will not be the two over Javonty won't be the two overall, but he'll be that under uh Lions have given up twelve scores to a given up touchdowns to twelve different running backs this year, so I I have starting grades on both those guys, all right. When we come back, Raiders take on the Chiefs. The trickiest play of the entire week is Patrick Mahomes. We will give you the vast range of possible outcomes. I'm Patrick Mahomes and we were just talking Broncos and

Broncos receivers. Of course, I think we all want to pay our respects to to Marrius Thomas. Legends, four consecutive top twelve PPR finishes from among all positions, the guys, just the absolute Legends. Rest in peace to Marius Thomas and for your fantasy necessities for this weekend. Patrick Mahomes. When we come back, what in the world to do with him? He's tortured your fantasy team for the better part of six weeks. We'll tell you what to expect.

We return, It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. We continue on through the matchups of week number fourteen, Raiders at Chiefs. I want to start with the running game of the Raiders and Josh Jacobs, who did nothing when these teams met ten weeks ago. Sorry in Week ten, but the Raiders are playing from behind throughout that game and got completely smoked in the second half, so you know, the running game was never

really a factor. Jacobs is sitting on a high volume game and all probability here because Kenyan Drake's out and Jalen Rochard is likely to miss the game with COVID, so we're gonna see a lot of Josh Jacobs in this game. Casey is a good run defense. Only Javonte Williams last week was able to top eighties six rushing yards and it took Javonte Williams twenty three carries to get there. But Casey is allowing the eighth most receptions and the third most receiving yards per game to opposing

running backs. And I think Josh Jacobs will help chip in some through the air mileage for you as well. Seven different backs of top five catches against Kansas City, and I think Jacobs is going to get to that five catch mark and potentially over that. So B grade on Josh Jacobs is somewhat random. I haven't fully fact checked this, but Jacobs is only one month older than

Nagy Harris. I believe. Yeah. Wow. Let's go over to the passing game, and I want to start with receiver Hunter Renfro has been very consistent and with Waller out of the lineup last week, he saw double digit targets for the first time this year. Notched his second consecutive one hundred yard game last week. He has now scored or hit one hundred yards and four of the last five games. He's been highly startable ever since the Henry Ruggs situation. Renfro tagged k C for a touchdown in

Week ten. Slot corner led Jarius Snead gives up a seventy six percent catch rate and a passer rating of one hundred seven, and he gave up his fourth score of the year last week. So Hunter Renfrow comes in with a solid be here. Foster Moreau was a popular pivot at tight end last week. I liked him last week and he was he was bad. Well, it wasn't bad. He isn't throw to him. I think, yeah, I think you go back to the well a little bit here. Um. And on the season, the Chiefs are allowing the eighth

most fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends. They've been better lately, though, allowing the second fewest fantasy points to tight ends over the past five weeks. In the Week ten meeting, Waller healthy then was targeted seven times, but turned him into just twenty four scoreless yards. I've got a C grade on Foster Moreau because who else do you even throw to start a Renfro? It's an It might be Derek Carr if those are the receiver grades I've got. Um, I like Derek Carr, just to

see level here. Since the Rugs tragedy, the Raiders passing game just hasn't been the same. Who knew Henry Ruggs on the limited usage he was getting was so pivotent. He kept the top off, he kept a safety DP that That's exactly it, I think, further complicating matters, No, Darren Waller here, Car's track arket against the Chiefs is solid, multiple touchdowns in three straight games, including his two d sixty one yard two touchdown game in Week ten against

this same team. But the chief secondary has become really good. Remember how terrible the Chiefs were at the start of the season to reverse completely. Since Week six, the Chiefs have per game averages of just two hundred twenty eight yards and one touchdown pass per game. That's it, Derek Carr c grade. Now let's go to the toughest call of the entire week, I think by a mile, Patrick Mahomes, and what do you do with him? So when these teams met in Week ten, Mahomes went berserk, throwing for

four hundred yards and five touchdowns. But in the five games surrounding the Raiders game, he's averaging two hundred eighteen yards and zero point four touchdowns. How bad is two eighteen yards and zero point four touchdowns the only starting quarterback over that same span with worse than two hundred eighteen yards and zero point four touchdowns is Trevor Lawrence.

That's it. The only quarterback worst than Mahomes. And on top of everything else, the Raiders secondary has been on the whole awesome this year except for the Mahomes game in Week ten. So this is why it's so hard. I think Mahomes and Trevor Lawrence have more combined commercials than passing touchdowns this season. You may be correct about that. Vegas ranks number two in pass rush by Pro Football Focus. They've got the excellent cornerbacks Casey Hayward and impressive rookie

Nate Hobbs. Three of the fast past five quarterbacks to face, the Raiders haven't even hit one passing yards. I went between a B and C grade on Patrick Holmes for a long time. What could you do in this instance? Because I'm a man about it, we go whole letter grades, and I decided on a B grade for Patrick Mahomes. He is my eleventh ranked quarterback this week. Tyree Hill faced the Raiders secondary in Week ten. Torched him for two touchdowns in that game, and they gave up five

in the game. Um, but here's the funny thing. They they found ways to get him not on Casey Hayward, primarily because they ran him in the slot a lot, and they could do that again here. That puts Tyree Hill up against Nate Hobbs, and Hobbs is pretty good. But it also puts him up against safety Jonathan Abram and that's where he'll roasted this team. And if they can get that Abram matchup again. I like Hill, I've got a B grade on him, but he has also

struggled significantly over the past six weeks. He's had dud games, so there is some caution here and that's why you only have the B grade on Tyreek l Travis Kelsey coming off a down game. He smoked the Raiders in Week ten like everybody else did um and the Raiders have struggled defending tight ends their thirty feet and Fantasy points allowed to the position, including consecutive top twelve finishes

by opposing tight ends. When a grade on Travis Kelsey in this game, let's talk about Clyde Edwards a layer. Over the last five games, the Raiders are allowing one hundred fifty total yards per game to opposing running backs, which if put over the whole season, would be six and most starters are doing most of the damage. Starters alone are averaging over one total yards in a score

against the Raiders. I like Clyde Edwards, a layer who's conceiving, who was seeing more and more playing time as he gets healthier and now really should be at full health. We've got a B grade on Clyde Edwards, a layer in this matchup. I like him. Here Giants take on the Chargers, Brian, there is not much left of this Giant's offense. Let's start with say Kwon Barkley. We talked as we alluded to in the last segment, this feels

like the last great chance to start say Kwon Barkley. Yeah, he was put on the injury report this week with an ankle issue, so does monitor that. But he he's likely to play, and if he does, it's a good matchup. I'll give him a B. If Barkley suits up, the the Chargers are allowing more than forty combo yards and one whole touchdown per game to posing running back. So

B for Barkley. And if for some reason he does sit, Davante Booker an easy CE for him, who will fill in as the starting running back if Barkley is out. Speaking of out, Darius Tony is out at wide receiver. Sterling Shepherd is questionable, but pretty much just always rule out Sterling Shepherd if he's questionable at this point in the week. So that leaves us with Kenny Golladay and Darius Slayton talking about the Giants wide receiver is just

incredibly depressing and you don't have to do it. They're both They're both on the bench, Golladay and Slayton. Chris Harris likely to play. He's on the COVID reserve list UH as of now, but he should play. Assante Samuel should make his return. He missed last week with a non COVID issue. So Golladay slating on the bench. Evan ingram I will give him a see if the Chargers have surrendered the second most touchdowns to the tight end

position at nine. But Mike Glennon is your quarterback, not like Daniel Jones is any better, but I mean just he's probably a little better. But if you're starting positive matchups that we we we keep thinking, well, this is a positive matchup, it never materializes for him. Go get uh. Maybe he's just go be a Hooper Scooper or even baby for Faroh Brown even like it's the better options in Evan Ramount there. Okay, that's enough for the Giants. Over to the Chargers side, Austin Ekeler, easy a here

the Giants are allowing plus combo yards per game. Easy a for Eckler, sadly an easy bench for Keenan Allen, who has been ruled out with the virus. Uh, it's a great matchup for him. The Giants are top five and targets yielded and touchdowns allowed. Two wide receivers. So if Mike Williams play is he gets an a very good games in two of his last three, but for whatever reason he's ruled out. Well, Jalen Guytons might take a chance to be wide receiver before anyone was ruled out,

But now Keenan Allen out. If Mike Williams is out, Jalen Guiton gets an A. I guess, but maybe we'll go under the presumption that Mike Williams I don't think not playing helps Guy, and I think Guy probably right. So a Guyton uh a very solid sea. And then again, Josh Palmer, keep that keep that name of mind. Rookie Josh Palmer could be very viable. If Williams sits so h you're still gonna want to start whatever healthy pass catchers are out there for the Charges. Let's put it

that way. Against the Giants, including Jared Cook at tight end. I'm a little worried about Donald Parham stealing some targets from Cook, but Cook is okay, well, I hope so I got him in a ton of a ton of best ball leagues. I would much rather have par him score over Cook, but a good matchup. It's allowing five and a half catches nearly six yards per game to the tight end and Justin Herbert, I mean he's great.

Obviously depends on the availability of Mike Williams, but even if Williams is out, you still gotta love the air Bear, and this one I'll give him just a safe be against the Giants. Good quarterbacks have fared well against the Giants. Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford, Patrick Mahomes still a good quarterback, I guess, and Tom Brady uh combined to average two four yards and two and a half passing touchdowns against the Giants. Is here so air Bear could do the same.

Bills take on the Bucks. Scott and we're gonna throw out last week's game. Don't care anything about what happened the Cold Wind game. First, we're throwing out last week's Monday perfect. All right, to talk to me about the Bills in this offense and what you like against the Buccaneers. So earlier I mentioned this this game is to you off off I said, this game is basically all a's

maybe a few bees. So I went and checked. This game has two quarterbacks in bull of our top five, three wide receivers in both of our top fifteen, and two tight ends in both of our top six, and a running back in both of our top five. Okay, so there's a lot to like here. So there's a

lot to like here. On the Bills side, my number two quarterbacks, number one quarterback for the week actually uh, Josh Allen a grade uh thrown out last week's game, but before that, before last week, he had multiple scores and nine of his last ten. The Bucks started the season poor against quarterbacks, have held down passing numbers decent recently, but those quarterbacks were Jalen Hurts, justin fields, Trevor Simmey and Tyler Hanicky, Daniel Jones just some pure TOSSI tossers

right there, just really good quarterbacks. They've held down um the last two weeks, Wentz and Ryan managed to throw for about three each Bucks to he is healthier, but Allen's still getting the grade. Three hundred plus and a couple of scores. I think, uh Digs a grade reminds remains the only wide receiver you can start with con and in my opinion, the other three just monopolize each other too much. None of the other three are even finding their ways to way to fifty yards very often.

So the top receiver against the Bucks has had a hundred plus and or scored in four the last five five games, and Digs himself has scored in six of the last seven before that Monday night game. He also sees nine targets per games, So a grade on Stefon

Dicks be great. On Dawson Knox, despite saying I was throwing out the Monday night game, He's still had six targets, a couple of jobs, one knocked out of his hands, but still they trusted him in that weather for six targets, which I kind of like they throw him in the end zone. Ye. This year he has scored nine times, which is a lot for that end, and has constantly looked too in the red zone, just like he's he gets fired with light level looks in the red zone.

But he's missed a few games to which more impressive bucks or bottomed against tight ends. Although it's been more like death by a thousand paper cuts a ton of twenty to fifty yard days by multiple tight ends on the same team, Knox gets basically all tight ends. So uh, all the running backs around the bench, though, I will say last week's Moss output, they weren't gonna have bright

in there. He's a pass catcher. They were not going to have him in there for that that you know, windy snowy game, that that wasn't going to be his game. I think he comes back for this one. If you're really in a pinch, maybe, But I have a bench grade on him. Over to the Tampa Bay side, a grade on Tom Brady. He's my number three quarterback. I think he's like your number four or five. It's the whole thing. It pivots on Tradabus White not you know,

being out now exactly and exactly without him. That takes a that takes a really key element of this Buffalo passing game off the field. We didn't. It didn't matter last week because nobody threw against Buffalo, but will this week and then this game has an implied total in the mid fifties. It's it's scheduled to be a shootout.

Like the Bucks. The Bills have held down a lot of qbs like Ben Roethlisberger, Jacoby Brissett, Hi Uchi, Davis Mills, Tannehill too much, Reevor Madam, Mike White, went Simeon like they've the guys. They've held down their Their entire schedule has been a cupcake QB schedule. Treevious White now out. Brady has just two games where he failed to have multiple scores this year. He has finished as a top five quarterback for the week seven times, so I have

him in my top five once again. Godwin A grade. This is a much meteor matchup than I thought. It was. All the eight grades A grade for Godwin. Without Trenevious wedding, he wouldn't have covered him anyway. He would have been on Evans on the outside. He wouldn't have covered Godwin in this slot. Probably are most of the time, but the Bills have played one game without Tevious White, and

that was the crap fest last Monday night. So we don't even have any data point on what it's like to pass against this team without Jadeveous White this year. Um that said, they've only the Bills have only allowed three wide receiver touchdowns all year and no one yard receivers. That's concerning. But last week Godwin had activated god mode against Atlanta Antonio brown Out. The targets really really funneled to Godwin and Evans. Brashad Perriman has taken on that

wide receiver three role. He has overtaken Tyler Johnson, but he's doing nothing with it. All the targets are going to Evans and Godwin. So and A on god Godwin, be on Evans. He's getting the targets yard, He's not getting Godwin's targets yards and receptions. But he's got ten touchdowns on there. He's got twenty three with Brady in two years. That's where he scores. He's got high odds of scoring here. Speaking of high odds of scoring, yeah,

Gronk House a grade. It's just obvious to this point though, like he's he was tight end too before he left. I think he's tight end too again now after he's back from his injury. His worst game was four catches for fifty five yards, which is like, that's that's best. A B grade. His his floor is a B grade and he's got tight end one upside every game. Leonard Fournette A grade. He leads all running NFL running backs and receptions, which of course we obviously knew that was

gonna happen. Receiving leader for running backs. He has at least six catches in each of the last four games, basically a lock for sixteen twenty five touches. With that reception total receptions coming in, I got an A grade on him. Yeah, that makes it. It makes sense. Leonard Fournette has been money for I don't know three four weeks and really most of the year. Going back to Gronk,

it's like a reverse homecoming. He used to murder the Bills when he's with the Patriots because he's from buffal Like just monster games like weekend and week every time he faced Buffalo. When we come back, two matchups left the Sunday night here in the Monday night here Rams taking on the Packer, sorry, Bears taking on the Packers. We'll tell you what to expect from David Montgomery and how many points do you need to do? You need a calculator to try to figure out how many points

Davante Adam is going to score in this game. We'll talk about that when we come back. Final segment Fantasy Football Weekly coming up. The final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly, our last chance to get you ready to improve your playoff positioning. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you. The Sunday night game is Bears taking on the Packers. Let's talk about David Montgomery. Came into the week hobbled, came out of the week not on the

injury reports, should be in a good spot here. In four career games against Green Bay, David Montgomery averages a solid seventeen touches for ninety two yards, and he has scored in two of the four games. But I think he's gonna get a little more activity than that, in part because Justin Fields is back under center, and he average is just twenty passes per game, the lowest of

any starting quarterback in the league. And if that means that he's gonna have that low of a volume, it means Montgomery's got to have more touches than just seventeen per game. Green Bay, though, is a good run defense. No back has hit triple digits all year, and they've only given up one rushing touchdown in their last four games. So be great and David Montgomery. I like the volume, I don't love the matchup here. Let's go to the passing game. Darnel Mooney is about the only guy worth

talking about. Packers allow the fourth highest average depth of target, which is salient for him because Darnel Mooney is very fast and the deep connection with the big arm at Justin Fields is tantalizing. But the Packers secondary likely or maybe gets back Jr. Alexander and Kevin King to bolster a defense that has allowed some big games without them. But if they're back, I'm nervous on Mooney and I've just got the C grade on him. Alan Robinson's expected

to make his return from it, this long standing hamstring injury. Boo. I know, right at bad time to be coming into free agency for Allen Robinson. Um, I just don't think I'd worry that he's not going to get the full workload here. I have a league with pretty sharp people and he's not even rostered right now. Dang, that says a lot. Justin Fields is on the bench as well. It's a difficult matchup against the good secondaries. I mentioned Jr.

Alexander Kevin King patent potentially coming back. Fields struggled in this matchup in week six, throwing for a meager one hundred seventy four yards and completing barely half his passes. He ran for forty three yards in that game. And that's your only hope for fantasy relevance here for Justin Fields is on the ground. Five different quarterbacks have run for at least thirty two yards against the Packers. Thirty

two is not even that much. In the three games prior to fields injury, Matt Naggie allowed him to run eight times, eleven times and eight times, so that's really important. This is where the fantasy points can come from for Justin Fields is on the ground. I've got a bench grade on him, but you could hope that he gets another eight three eleven rushes and he could turn that into forty or fifty yards him up to a sea eight, eight and eleven That averages out to nine times over

the three course. Why you don't say how nice. All right, let's go over to Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams are obvious as they are my number one ranked players at their respective positions. How about going a little deeper into the depth chart. MVS is a possible dart throw here because the Bears have got one good cornerback, Jalen Johnson, and he'll travel with Davante Adams. They let him shadow if there's an opposing number one receiver who's

really good. He's shadowed in the past. That puts MVS on some combination of Already Burns, Xavier Crawford, and our old friend kendallville Door. These guys at best rank one hundred thirty eighth at the cornerback position by Pro Football Focus. That's the high water marks even that many corners. I know you don't think there would be that many cornerbacks. So MVS gets a C grade for me. Let's go to the running game, and I think this is going

to be frustrating for a lot of people. So now fully healthy, does Aaron Jones return to his lead back role. We alluded to this earlier in the show. A J. Dillon's usage was climbing to the point that they were at an even split last time they were both healthy. What's more, Dylan's look good over the last three games as the primary back. He's earned plenty of time share here.

Only one runner his top eighty one rushing yards against Chicago all year, and over the past five weeks they've only given up seventy six rushing yards per game and

twenty five receiving yards per game. So if there's only a hundred total yards Aaron Brown to go around, and if Dylan and Jones are gonna split that in half, I can only give them C grades and Aaron, you know, Aaron Jones was a first round pick, but I can only get from a C grade in this one because of the time share and Chicago is much harder to run upon than pass. Let's go to Monday night game, Rams taking on the Cardinals. Brian for the Rams passing game.

Matthew Stafford has been pretty inconsistent as a passer, but mostly he's ended up with pretty good Fantasy box scores. What do you think about him in this matchup against and frankly pretty good Arizona secondary Yes, speaking of Fantasy box scores, Stafford had a fantasy box score against the Cardinals in Week four. These teams met once already the season divisional rivals. Of course, this will be the second meeting. In that first meeting, Stafford had two yards and two

passing touchdowns. Kind Of feels like a somewhat safe floor for him here, especially considering Andy Dalton just through through for two scores in the rain against the Cardinals last week. So I'm gonna give Matt Stafford b uh, mostly because he has Cooper Cup. Uh. Not gonna give cup and A though he's working through a toe injury a very firm B here, Scott show a B. He's always has

a potential. Of course, these teams first met. He did only have five catches for sixty four yards, probably his worst game of the season now, but I don't care. It's still a very strong play. The Cardinals have allowed the fourth most wide receiver touchdowns of that this season. But that said, the Cardinals are bottom eight and catches and bottom four in yards, and that's in terms of the most bottom, so I'm not good. Most are the bottom eight in terms of the most, so like not

a good thing for Cooper Cup. The top eight in top eight fewest yards. So they are What the Cardinals are is a pretty bust but don't break, Bend but don't break. They are a a a break but don't bend. They are a break but don't bend defense something like that. They're not a cake matchup, that's for sure. We'll put it that way, and that's why Van Jefferson and Odell

Beckham Jr. Both get a sea. Since O. B J's arrival, Jefferson has out targeted Beckham Beckham eighteen and has put up better numbers than O. B J, scoring in back to back games Van Jefferson, that is. Beckham did score last week as well, though, and it's worth knowing that Beckham did face the Rams of this year earlier as a member of the Cleveland Browns, had five catches for seventy nine yards. But just to see for both of those guys, Tyler Higbee, he's on the bench, he's the

fifth wheel in this offense. Just four catches for thirty six yards in the first meeting. So bench and Higgby go grab go scoop scoop yourself some hooper Hooper Scooper. And lastly, for the Rams, Darryl Henderson should make his return, and Sean McVeigh made it clear that Henderson will be the lead back if he is active, even though he was active last week. So let's just pause on this for a second. This is the Monday night game, it is we are probably there's a good chance we won't

know Henderson's status at kickoff on Sunday. Now what do you do. He's trending towards playing. I mean, if you've got you gotta be in a premium. He was active, Yeah, it didn't matter. I'm going under the prem minition. He will play. Hopefully you have Sony Michelle and Ross her as well alongside Henderson, but I'll give Henderson the B and Michelle will get to be uh if Henderson is inactive. But let's hope Henderson does play. Arizona allowing four point

seven yards per carry. That is good for Henderson, but the Cardinals have allowed just five total touchdowns to running backs all year, that second fewest. That is bad. I will note that Henderson did have a hundred plus combo yards when these teams first met in Week four, so that should be a safe floor for Henderson if he goes. But he will, all right, that's it. For the Rams over to the Cardinal side James Conner Just to see here.

With Chase Edmonds expected to make his return, that kind of puts Connor back in the goal line change of pace role, one would think, and goal line touchdowns aren't easy to come by against the Rams, who have only allowed three rushing scores to running backs since Week four. So just to see for James Connor, I am benching Chase Edmonds that we got to see what we have there and we know it's usually not much. Here's here's what you got is no touchdowns. You can say that

for sure. That's almost a given for sure. So he is on the bench and Deando how begins close to being on the bench, but he is. He should be healthier than last week. He did score last week, But just to see. For DeAndre Hopkins. The Rams have struggled against wide receivers as of late, allowing the ninth most catches and yards per game to the position over the

last five weeks. But Hopkins likely to draw shadow coverage from Jalen Ramsey, who allows just thirty two yards per game in his coverage and has just allowed two touchdowns all season long, and as a Cardinal Hopkins numbers aren't great against the Rams. He's averaging just five receptions for fifty one yards, but that's double digit PPR points, hopefully

a floor for him. Here. Christian Kirk, the last wide receiver will mention for the Cardinals, gonna give him a C. Again, the Rams allowing the ninth most catches and the ninth most yards per game to the position over the last five weeks. He should not get shadow coverage from Ramsey, so to see for Christian Kirk, zach ERT's gonna give him a B. Arts wasn't on the Cardinals when these teams first met, but Max Williams did have a great game. He had six catches for sixty six yards and a touchdown.

He finished top six among tight ends this week. Uh, and what what's more? Opposing tight ends I've seen the seventh most targets against the Rams and uh, any tight end and I'm sorry, opposing tight ends haven't seen less than five targets in any game against the Rams, so they're heavily heavily utilized. So I like Arts here can give him a B. And lastly, Kyler Murray your son's

favorite player, Scott, what's up? Ian Fish? My friend gonna give Kyler Murray an A. The Rams aren't an ideal matchup, but they are one of ten teams with an opponent passing play percentage of six or higher. Recently, l A has surrendered three hundred plus yards and two passing touchdowns to the likes of Jimmy Garoppolo and Davis Mills. Uh. And in the first meeting, Kyler Murray through for two sixty eight and had two touchdowns. Also added thirty nine

rushing touchdowns. So uh, safe B floor, But I'm shooting for the A upside. He gets the A grade here. That sounds about right. Wow, that was a lot of guys to talk about. It should be a good, good game and that's the Monday night game. Well, we'll see how that one ends up working out. If you are listening to the show over the air, no that we are also podcast you can also podcast Fantasy Football Weekly

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