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lost to get to. Over the course of this show, we will, as always get to the nine players upon whom you can take a chance. We will answer three tough questions, we'll give you some premature speculation, and we'll break down every matchup Fantasy Football Weekly style with letter grades on all the players you care about. And we begin with the Eagles taking the Colts. Scott, Eagles need to bounce back performance here, cold Squeaky Wheel maybe a

squeaky Wheel game performances. I'm really glad that you brought that up, because yes, it could be right there. And who would be the squeaky wheel player here? Yeah, I think it's probably got to be a J. Brown after his kind of dud last week. But did he squeak? I don't think he squeaked, but I think saks. I think the whole team is squeaking this. They're just not doing it publicly. He's there squeaking behind the scenes, squeaking. Yes, we've got an automatic A on Jail and Hurts. You

aren't mentioning him anyway. Colts isn't a great matchup. They don't a loot of ton of yards passing, but six of the ten quarterbacks they faced had multiple scores. They've given up three rushing scorts. Hurts tends to do that. So a grade there. I got a B grade on A J. Brown. You're not mentioning him. He had add last week. As we just mentioned, um, I would expect the Colts to run a ton and try to emulate

what Washington did. But Brown had five touchdowns in the three previous games, and Philly is angry and that that's squeaky wheel man. I got it. I got He's got to say something could be a squeaky win. I don't know. The Colts are number one against the slot though, which is where Brown often plays. So that's why I only have a B grade. I think it's gonna be a lot of running and Uh. Over to DeVante Smith. I

have a bench grade on him. Over the last five weeks, only two wide receivers have top fifty yards on the Colts. That was Terry McLaurin. We don't have Matt here for the sound or we should get that on the board. Uh and DeVante Adams and it took eight plus targets for each to get there. I think I think Brown is the more likely guy to have a good day. It's not outside the realm of the possibilities. But the number two wide receiver has done almost nothing against the Colts.

The best best game from a number two wide receiver against the Colts was fifty three yards and that took eight targets. DeVante Smith doesn't usually get that kind of volume. And Smith such a boom or bust guy, and this feels like a bust game. I'm with you very day. It does. It does. We don't just keep an eye on what the tight end situation happens. It might be six ft seven Tyree Jackson that takes that role. It

might be Stole. Keep an eye on it, but I don't I have him on the bench for this but don't you think that with Goddard out that's there are going to be a lot more targets to spread around at fed that way Once again, I think, I think Indianapolis keeps this game on the ground and keeps it a slow pace where maybe it's not as many targets as a normal game. So you're telling me you like Miles Sanders a lot. I do like Miles Sanders. I

gotta B grade on on Sanders. The Colts d is allowing the most running back touches per game against them at over thirty, but only a three point eight yards per carry. But the volume should be there for the clear number one in a potent offense. That's already that he's being very effective with his lower touch accounts and getting goal line work. And the weird thing is no catches for three straight for Miles Sanders. He can catch there, just they don't throw. Yeah, that's part of the B grade.

Not a lot of catching. And he's only top to eighty yards twice at it took seventeen plus touches to get there. So just a B grade for him. Kenneth Gainwell I have on the bench. I at first thought, oh the Colts are fourth have allowed the fourth most receptions, most receiving yards. That originally had me thinking gag Well's the sneaky play here. He doesn't catch that much either. The Eagles have under a hundred receiving yards total out of their running backs in this entire season, not even

a single performance over twenty two yards. They don't throw with Godard out right right, it's possible, Yeah, it's it's possible. On the other side, Matt Ryan had to find against one of the easiest QB match matchups possible last week, but only through times. It seems like this new Jeff Saturday offense is gonna run a lot like that is the ticket to beating the Eagles and doing it on

the ground exactly, and Washington laid that blueprint. So with low volume, I don't want Ryan in my starting lineup. I will say I do have se grades on both Pittman and Campbell because is Ryan is Ryan in his last three games, is hyper targeting those two and basically just those two twenty six targets for Pittman, h thirty four for thirty four for Pittman, twenty nine for Campbell in those three games. Um, everybody else just fourteen total targets.

Guys who have gotten that kind of target volume have been in the mid sixties to a hundred yards against the Eagles. I think I think we can see those two get eight to ten targets and decent sea level games. Uh. I don't know. I don't know what to make of the tight ends. They're all switching up, and now it's Kyle Grandson's turns, so I have them on the bench

right now has been ruled out of this game. So if you're desperate for a duard threat, and I do think Grandson's Grandson's starting to emerge, but it's it's one game. It's one game, so I'm not gonna anoint it the changing of the guard here in this one. When the changing of the guard comes, it's coming for Gilani Woods, Okay, there, it might be like he was my number two tight end coming out of this of this rookie class. I like him a lot. Automackab automatic A Automackay is that

a thing something a guy? Doesn't it? Oh? Man? Automatic? A for Jonathan Taylor, they're running a ton Washington laid the breuprint. We've talked about this a bunch. I don't even talk about Jonathan tayl you don't, but just let me say this, how great was that breakaway run from Jonathan Taylor last week that we brought you back to last year like he was doing that once a half last year and did just finally get the breakaway touchdown.

We're sitting here worried that he'd be shut down, that that anko would bother him all year, and then you're like, oh, okay, okay, all right, all right, yeah, let's go to the Brown's taking on the Bills. Brian, This game would have been far more interesting had it been played in Buffalo. No, it would not. Respective we want points, yeah, reality football wants. I love the Blizzard games. Both of the Ruddy backs would have been shorter than the snowfall, though, so there's

something to that. It would have been all Nick Chubb, go straight ahead. I was. I was very excited. But now we're gonna be in the antiseptic Ford field with perfect weather conditions whatever suited first shootout. I'm much happier this way. But uh, we'll start with the Cleveland side and Nick Chubb, who will not be plowing through the snow, giving him an a Since Week eight, the Bills are allowing seven rushing yards per game to running backs, the

second most in the league. During that span, Chub is averaging five point seven yards per carry. This year, It's an eight teen carries per game, which is a lot. He's only seen twenty twenty carries are more three times though so far. But in each of those three games, Cleveland has won. And you wanna know how many wins Cleveland has three, So feed Nick Chubb in this game. Also definitely worth noting. Winebacker Tremaine Edmonds has been ruled

out for the Bills, which outstanding. Also very good coverage of linebacker and that could affect David and joke if he ends up playing. Yeah, this we'll talk more about the Bills defense, but not as scary as it was earlier in the season. But I still have Kareem Hunt on the bench. Over his last four games, Hunt has gotten double digit double digit carries just once. He's topped one catch just once during that same span, and there's

not really a pass catching angle here. The Bills have allowed one running back to top thirty receiving yards and they and they've surrendered just two scores to the position through the air over the wide receivers a MARII Cooper gets a B. I was going to mention his horrific home in a way splits, but I can't really do that now it's kind of a neutral site. What I do know is a corner of factor. Davious White will not make his return for the Bills. It seems like

we've been waiting on that weekend and week out. But that bodes well for Cooper as well. In Buffalo. Has surrendered five wide receiver touchdowns and toward receiver performances performances over the last four games. So a B for Cooper and I see for Donovan people's jones might take it handsome me wide receiver from last week. I think you get for that yards, but we'll take five. How about a touchdown? He has get the score, but at least seventy receiving yards in five of his last six games.

But most importantly, I did the research here, guys. He was born in Detroit University of Michigan. This is like a platinum homecoming. It's not like just the college is a home something born and raised. Oh yeah, you know, you're not playing in the enemy stadium. You're playing in a neutral site stadium where all your fans, your family can come, so it's super sed. Yeah, we're moving it up to a B. I'm going to A. Yeah. I'm getting too excited people, I'm almost deep pantsed right now.

I'm so excited about this homecoming, So a B J pants. I'm gonna move on to the tight ends now with David and Joku. Give him a sea. Sounds like he'll make his return. Uh this week. The Bills are allowing more than five catches per game to tight ends, which is kind of a mouth watering production in the tight

end waste land. So we'll take that. So see for in Joco if he goes and if he somehow sits, I would give that see to Harrison Bryant like I did last week and lastly Jacoby Brissette borderline see, but I have him on the bench. The Bill steps are rendered zero or one passing touchdowns in seven of nine games. Only Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers were able to throw for multiple scores against them, but both that too, so buffaloizing can allowed three touchdowns yeah this year, and mostly

two were one. So Prisette on the bench over the Bill side Devin Singletary gets a B. Over his last four his volume has been on the rise, averaging thirteen carries as opposed to only eight through the first five weeks. The Browns were just torched for three total touchdowns by by Miami's back, so Singletary should be a solid start.

Of course, Stephan Digs as a solid start, he gets an A. Even though the Browns has held Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle to combined one ten yards and no loan receiver has top seventy yards against Cleveland over the last four they have surrendered five wide received for touchdowns during that span. So in a for Digs and for those reasons, those same reasons you gotta give Gabe Davis to be. You play him when he's healthy, and he

is this week, So solid start for him. Not a solid start for Dawson Knox, but I'll still give him a SEA because again it's the tight end waste land. There aren't many options out there. There they are. I will never forget on our serious x M show, I had to our producer had me sing that tight end wasteland to rally Wasteland. I wasn't on that. I feel like I was on the show. But anyway, anyway, we don't care about serious XM radio here, so you can

roll with Knox in a pinch, but temporary expectations. The Browns are allowing just three catches and forty four yards per game to tight ends, and they've surrendered just one score to the position. And lastly, Josh Allen gets in a the elbow doesn't seem like it's that much of a concern anymore. No, but no, here's the thing that you need to know about Josh Allen is zero designed runs last week because of the elbow. None clear. You know a week later, you know, is that going to

be still in place? No design runs take some of the ceiling off. Josh Allen some four yards and scrambles, but it's not you know, it's not the same as the designed runs. And so I think a little that ceiling that you normally get with Josh Allen is not in place here. When we come back, take a chance on me nine players not normally a new starting lineup. Any of these guys available on the waiver wire. Find

out who they are. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, take a chance on me nine players who you would not normally start many of these guys available on the waiver wire. We begin at the quarterback position. Scott Fish, Who you got? I have Jimmy Garoppolo. In his last four game versus the Cardinals. Uh. Since he's been with the four Niners for those interdivisional battles, he averages three thirty one yards and three scores per game. He blows up on them every time owns the Cards.

Pair that with the fact that Cardinals ranked third worst against fantasy quarterbacks, giving up the fourth most yards, fifth most passing touchdowns, and also being bottom ten and many other metrics. I got Jimmy g I like it. Brian,

your take a chance at me quarterback? I got Kenny p Kenny Pickett at home against the Bengals, who should see the return of cornerback Mike Hilton, but corner Trey Flowers and safety Dax Hill are banged up, might not play since he's best corner Hidobe Ausier certainly won't play, so I'm liking pick it a lot. This week. The Bengals have only allowed multiple passing touchdowns once. That was

Baker Mayfield in Week nine. That's not eight. But listen to the quarterbacks the Bengals have faced this season Mitch Rubiskie, Cooper Rush, Joe Flacco, Teddy Bridgewater, Andy Dalton, Marcus Mariotta, and Jacoby Rissette. That's all. That's the full list. There's Lamar Jackson and they knocked out too. But like basically, pick it might be the best pass thrower of the

based season. So I like Pickett. All right, I'm gonna take Danny j As might take a chance of me quarterback against Chicago posing quarterbacks averaging a healthy two hundred sixty six yards and almost two touchdowns against the Lions. But the big angle on Daniel Jones is on the ground. Detroit has been housed by mobile quarterbacks like Jalen Hurts, Gino Smith, Justin Fields, who combined for four touchdowns against the Lions. Fields rolled up hundred forty seven rushing yards

against the Lions last week. And still I like I like Jones both air and ground. This week, go to the running back position, Scott, I have my good buddy Tyler algae here. I don't know if become good buddy. Uh. This is the fourth best matchup he's got this week against the Bears, who just got rid of ro Kuwan Smith and Robert Quinn. To make it even easier, they've allowed seven running back touchdowns in just the last three weeks.

You might think the Atlanta back field seems a bit of a mess, but Algier is out snapping him, out out snapping Cordaro Patterson out touching him. He's getting more pass game work than Patterson, who weirdly only has six catches for thirty nine yards on the year. He's getting nothing in the past game Patterson is. Algier is getting more of the work. He gets almost thirteen touches every single game. I got Tyler Algier in a great matchup

against the Bears. All right, you're running back. I'm going Jalen Warren again, who I used last week, and he was serviceable. Over the last two weeks. Warren his average ten and a half touches and seventies six combo yards per game. He's pretty good, as further evidence by the fact he's fifteenth in yards after a contact per attempt among running backs and his ranked five in Pro Football

Focuses Elusive rating. And lastly, the Bengals have softened against the run since Week five, allowing the sixth most rushing yards per game and the second highest explosive run rate. Explosive output should be here for all. There's a lot of explosiveness here. Isaiah Pacheco is your new lead back for the Chiefs since gaining the starting work and back to back weeks. Last week a career high sixteen carries. Now you may be thinking that's not that much sixteen carries.

The previous starter, Clyde Edwards Despair, had topped sixteen carries once in his last twenty four games. So this is a pretty strong statement by Andy Reid, who was clearly finally shaken off the sunk cost fallacy of the first round blunder that was Clyde Edwards Despair. Well got just four snaps last week. Well, and the Chiefs made a claim on you know, ben In They didn't, but they were ready. Yeah, Ronald Jones still in roster, probably would have been the guy out. Um, how is Pacheco doing

so far? Four point seven yards per carry is pretty good. His eighty two yards last week were the most by a Chiefs runner in twenty six games. Great matchup this week. Los Angeles has surrendered one d seventy rushing yards per game to running backs over their last three games and they ranked twenty nine and run defense by Pro Football Focus. Isaiah Pochecko, Let's go to the receivers. Scott Fish, who you got? Yeah? In the receiving game, I have Darius

Tony who will we will definitely talk about later. But also MVS is currently Marquez Valdes Scantling is sick right now, Juju Smith Schuster has been ruled out already, Mikole Hartman is out, and on I R. It's basically Tony and Sky Moore and Justin Watson for the Kansas City Chiefs going up against a Chargers defense that is bottom ten in both receptions allowed and receiving touchdowns allowed to wide receivers. All right, Brian, you take a chance for me receiver.

I didn't envision this. I was hoping, hoping to be giving him a grades at this point in the season. But I have Alan Robinson at the I'm sorry at the At the Saints, we all know Cooper Cup is on I R. So there are vacated targets everywhere. I think it's over thirty percent of the Rams targets are now vacated with Cup on I R. The Saints have also been awaiting the return of cornerback Marshawn Lattimore, but he has been ruled out for the remainder of the season,

so that's not happening. Robinson had a thirty four percent slot rate this season before Cup went down, so those snaps should go up. He'll also get plenty of work on the outside. I just think they get creative with him where they tried to. The Saints have allowed the tenth most yards per game to opposing wide receivers. Are a ton of wide receivers and on the rams now, but Robinson's my guy. I think Deante Johnson counts as a g a chance of me receiver at this point.

He has not scored this year. It's gone nine games. Well, he and Robinson were going like in the fourth round late in summer draft. So if I use a rob you can use I think that counts. Um. Although granted, mims To Brisky and Kenny Pickett have not thrown from multiple scores in any game, which so it's probably much more on the quarterback position than on Johnson himself. Um

he was. He played Cincinnati this week's opponent a week one, put up a decent game, seven catches, fifty five yards his primary defender, and you alluded to this earlier rookie backup Cam Taylor Britt Brian, who allowed a score last week, and he's giving up a perfect passer rating in the three games in which he has substituted for injured cornerback Chidobe Awuzier. So we'll try Deonte Johnson. Let's see we can get him in the end zone first time this year.

Let's go from a Deontay to a Deonta. As we look at the Panthers taking on the Ravens. Deanta Foreman is the Panther you care about the most three big games and one dud game since the Christian McCaffrey trade. I'm actually a little bit worried about how much a healthy Tuba Hubbard is going to work into his work eat into his workload. But if Foreman's anywhere near his average of twenty carries per game, he's gonna be just fine here. And here's let me just explain a little

bit more about why I'm worried. So Hubbard came back. He was questionable going into last week's game. That was a Thursday night game, and it was in the rain, and I think They just didn't want to risk the ankle injury on a slick surface when you've got a big power back like form and running forward, so they gave for him and all the work. I think Hubbard's gonna eat into this workload much much more than people realize,

and I'm nervous about that with Foreman here. Baltimore has yet to allow running back to top ninety one rushing yards, but has a lot of four touchdowns in the last four weeks, So hopefully Foreman can get goal line work here and he gets a B grade. Hubbard is startable. I've got the C grade on him for the reasons I just talked about. I think I think he is going to get more used than most people realize. Um

also medium and basically a neutral style matchup. And the last time Hubbard was healthy, he ran for sixty three yards on a touchdown. So startable here, and then the only other Panther you care about is d J. Moore.

Last week's four catch twenty nine yard performance against the league's worst past defense does not give you a lot of confidence in starting more this week against Baltimore, coming off of by and with Baker Mayfield under center in five full games with Baker Mayfield d J. Moore's averaging thirty nine yards and zero point two touchdowns. That's it, um.

I think the only way you can rationalize starting more, who I've got a bench grade on, is if you believe the Ravens will jump to a big early lead and it's going to be all passing for the rest of the game. But I don't see that happen. I don't necessarily see that happening because the Ravens offense just hasn't done that much this year. So d J Moore

bench great. Let's go to the Baltimore side, speaking of under underwhelming offenses, as I alluded to, and I hate sound like a broken record because I I do Baltimore a lot, and I've talked about Lamar Jackson many times in the show. The passing just isn't going very well and as rushing doesn't automatically make up for it. Get this from week four forward. Lamar Jackson is quarterback twenty two.

That feels like a guy you should have sabotaged drop a three weeks ago when we were talking about absolutely His average game since then is one hundred sixty nine passing yards, one passing touchdown, sixty five rushing yards and no rushing touchdowns. That's Lamar Jackson's average average grant game

over the last effectively six weeks. Pathers secondary took a huge loss with with the injury to star cornerback Dante Jackson, who has done for the year after suffering a torn achilles But Baltimore's lack of wide out talent is just is just so thin. I can't tell you that Jackson's gonna bounce back here. I can do no more than a B grade on Jackson and drop it to a C grade if Mark Andrews does not play, So let's talk through. Andrews still working his way through knee and

shoulder injuries. Looks like he's headed for a game time decision. The Ravens desperately need him, and he's got strong individual matchups if he does play. Safety Miles hearts Field allows the most receptions and yards of any safety in the league, and linebacker Shack Thompson has allowed the sixth most receptions and seventh most yards of any linebacker in coverage this season. So if Andrews starts, I'm giving him a B grade. If he doesn't go and you inject Isaiah likely will

give him a C grade. If Andrews does not go all right, all the receivers are on the bench. What a total disaster these guys are. Get this, The entire Baltimore position group is averaging sixty five receiving yards since Rashod Bateman's injury. Sixty divided three ways tells you why you're not starting Prochet, DuVernay Robinson any of those guys. Then let's go to the running game. Sed Words gets

a C grade. Might not be back to a full workload off his hamstring injury, but in the same situation we saw earlier this year, the Ravens instantly loaded him up with sixteen carries, and in that one full game, he led the running backs with four red zone carries and rewarded Greg Romans confidence with two touchdowns. In that game. The Panthers have seen the fifth most rushing attempts, which has led them to surrendering the sixth most rushing yards

and the six most touchdowns to opposing backs. Gus Edwards gets a C grade on the prospects of a touchdown, and Kenyan Drake can also be started with a C grade and bumb them up to a B grade if it turns out Gus can't go. And even if Gus plays, though he is startable in this game, he'll need to score from distance, though, as Gus likely gets goal line carries, Drake probably gets more total carries in this game. The Ravens wide receivers as a whole have eight hundred and

forty five yards. That's it, gosh, I mean Tyree Hill Marks Brown has four d eighty five yards. He's played in sixths. He's probably on base for the more receiving yard. It's the old team you left, all right, but that that traded him, he didn't leave them. That sounds right, Uh, Scotty Falcons. Le'll see if we can knock this thing down in about three and a half four minutes. Okay, well, Justin Fields is gonna getting a gray. The QB one back to back weeks is almost an auto a right

now with his rushing upside. I came I figured this out to this week. I've been ranking guys for twenty five years. Don't believe I've ever ranked a Bears quarterback as my number one play going into a week until this week. First time. Yeah, against that Atlanta defense is one quick one quick angle. Sorry no one has mentioned this. The Bear or the Falcons probably could have taken justin fields last year and it would have made sense. Grooving

the quarterback of the future. Revenge took Kyle Pitts instead. Spike game justin fields. Spike game over there. Okay, it's an easy against the bottom six past past defense. Uh Mooney, I gotta b grade on is still the really the only startable wide receiver for the Bears. Clay was only playing about a third of the snaps. No one else is really uh really a good start there. This is

the number one easiest matchup for opposing wide receivers. Posing wide receivers specifically average seven catches for ninety six yards and a score against the Falcons. That's really Mooney's role in this offense. We'll see if he gets there. But he's had double digit Fantasy days and three the last four. You should feel pretty good about a start here. Co comet a grade. Five touchdowns in the last three games is totally sustainable. That's just it's absolutely gonna keep happening.

Maybe not, but the Falcons are allowing six catches for sixty yards to tight end tight ends on average this year, but only just one score, so we'll see how that mashes up. It's hard to tell, but four to five catches and forties seventy yards feel safe in this matchup here for Commet A grade over to David Montgomery. Somehow there are three A grade bears. How is this possible?

With Commet quietly or a top five offense and David Montgomery With Leal Herbert now on I R. Montgomery is going to get the overwhelming majority of the backfield trust and Ebner is the only other back they have on roster who has had a touch this year. In Montgomery's missed game, Herbert took it twenty plus touches. I'm gonna guess it's gonna be similar with Herbert gon Montgomery is gonna flip it and take twenty plus touches. He has

fifteen plus touches in seven games. That extra workload against a team that has allowed the fourth most yards in the last three weeks, the tenth worst fantasy defense on the season, and eleven running back scores in ten games. A grade for David Montgomery this week. I really like him. On the other side, I have a C grade on Marcus Mariota. Despite only averaging a hundred seventy four yards per game passing, he tax on thirty to sixty rushing

yards nearly every game, and he needs it. He scored in all but two games, as multiple touchdowns in half his games. But other mobile quarterbacks against the Bears, like Trey Lance, Daniel Jones, even Dak Prescott tagged the tag the Bears for forty to fifty yards and a score. So he gets a C grade just and it's a forty nine point over under in Vegas, it's gonna likely to be a high scoring game. I got Marioder with the Sea, Drake London with the CEA as well. It's

been rough lately. Rough. There's been random, yeah, random pop offs by Cadero, Hard Hodgen, demere Bird, but London is the consistent one, getting about six targets per game. Hasn't topped forty yards since Week three, that is the worry, but seven wide receivers have hit that mark in just the last three games against the Bear or Bears over that span their fourth worst against wide receivers, allowing the second most yards. I have a C grade on London. I have a C grade on Kyle Pitts. I mean,

you aren't benching him. It's Kyle Pitts, You're not. He's pretty much I will say he's matchup proof. He's matchup proof. Though good matchup, bad matchup still get you two catches for twenty to thirty yards. Uh. Given four teams on buy and the injuries to Earth's and Goddard and evert uh,

he's he's startable C grade plus. The only two tight ends that five targets against the Bears had good games that Pitts gets over that, and the Bears have allowed two touchdowns to tight ends the last three weeks, so there's some optimism. There were those targets catchable for those other tight ends, I'm like the targets that Cowpits. You couldn't let it go. Kyle Pits does not get any catchable targets. But Tyler l Jeer was my running back. Take a chance on me player. He's the only running

back I'd start in this one. Not no, not Patterson, Not the way he's playing right now now. It's the usage is inexplicable. I want to believe Patterson's gonna bounce back and become more of a workhorse, but we haven't seen any help. The world would be a better place if the Falcons did take Justin Fields and then Kyle Pitts got to go somewhere else. Oh no, Tyler L Jr. Did not start himself this week. You want to change your mind, I'll give you a chance. Send this. You've

got a whole show to go. Yeah, we'll talk about when we come back. New York Jets taking on the Patriots. Will find out what you can do with elements of the Jets passing game, including Garrett Wilson in this game, well the Wilson Wilson connection to help your fantasy team find out when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charching my coast or Scott Fish. You can follow Scott on Twitter at Scott Fish and you can follow Brian Johnson at b t x J and

I am at Paul Charching. You just gotta figure out how to spell it. That's the it's the challenge. It's a game within the game of fantasy football. Figure out how to spell my name. Back to the matchups. Jets taking on the Patriots. Brian Jet side of this game, Michael Carter lead back against a pretty good run defense. It is a great run defense. And I will mention and I'll reference this game. These teems just met in week eight, so some very recent history up or down

in that game. I'm pretty sure he was down by then. He was. He was because Michael Carter and James Robinson combined for forty three scoreless rushing yards on twelve carries in that first meeting. And the Patriots have surrender just two total touchdowns and running backs all season. So I'll give Carter a see if you're desperate. I got Robinson on the bench. Um, but I would explore other options other than Michael Carter. But if you have to start him,

go ahead. But there are other options out there most likely. Uh So, a soft seed for Carter, a CEE for Garrett Wilson. Opposing wide receivers are averaging him easily. Eleven catches and a hundred twenty seven yards and less than a touchdown per game. Has a hole against the Patriots. But Wilson had six catches for a hundred fifty yards in the weekend games, so there's some glimmer of hope there. So Jald Mills out there, he's awful, that's you know, if you can, if you can get that matchup for

Garrett Wilson, I like his prospects. Yeah, so he got the sea Denzel Mims, who has emerged as the wide receiver to uh, he's on the and so he did have seventy six yards in that first meeting, but just saw three targets. I'm not chasing those numbers. So he's on the bench, but Tyler Conklin is not. He gets a B in the tight end waste land. The Patriots have surrendered the most tight end touchdowns this year. Two of those went to Conklin and wee Gate when he

also had six catches for seventy nine yards. So B for Conklin, but a B in terms of bench for Zack Wilson. He did have three and fifty five yards and two touchdowns in the first meeting, but he also threw three picks. And in his ten career road starts and this game is on the road for Wilson, he's averaging one passing yards and has totaled four passing touchdowns.

So he's on the bench for me over to the Patriots side or Modre Stevenson not on the bench, but just to see this week he will split time with Damien Harris, who looks close off the injury list altogether. And I assumed that Harris didn't playing this Week eight game, but he did um something like eleven carries, but he played, Um, Harris.

I'm sorry, but Stevenson had a strong game regardless of Harris playing, finishing with one forty three combo yards uh, including seven catches in that game against the Jets, the most combo yards of the Jets have allowed to a single back all season. But it's a tough matchup on paper. New York is allowing just four yards per carry since Week three and they've surrendered three total touchdowns to oppose

and running backs during that span. So just to see for Stevenson, I got Harris on the bench, Gotta see what he does, what kind of what kind of snap percentage, he sees, all that stuff. So he's on the bench for me this week and a bad matchup. Jacoby Myers. I was closely giving a bench grade two, but I give him a CE based on expected volume. Saw twelve targets in the first meeting in the first meeting and turned them into nine catches, sixty yards and a touchdown.

But that touchdown was just one of two wide receiver touchdowns the Jets have surrendered over their last six games. So temporary expectations for Myers, but we'll start him with the CE not starting Kendrick Born or Tae Kwon Thornton there on the bench, Hunter Henry John H. Smith around the bench. They combined for four catches thirty two yards against the Jets in Week A. The Jets have not allowed a tight end touchdown all year. Easy bench for

them and easy ben for mac Jones. All right, let's go to the Commander's taking on the Texans and what is not a particularly sexy matchup, but does have a variety of starters in it, including Brian Robinson coming off his most impressive game of the year by a fair margin.

I thought he's getting tons of work with twenty or more carries in two of the last four games, Houston has been pummeled on the ground, seeing the most rushing attempts while allowing the most rushing yards and rushing touchdowns. In the last four games alone, the Texans have allowed eight rushing scores and three different backs of top two hundred and forty rushing yards against them. This as good as it gets for Brian Robinson. If you don't start him here, why is he on your taking? And we'll

bring Antonio Gibson into this conversation. If I didn't mention it b great for Brian Robinson, I'm giving a seed to Gibson here. You'd probably talked me into a B and PPR leagues, same easy match up on the ground as Robinson. He just gets fewer carries. He does chip in with extra receptions though, and JD. McKissick has been ruled out, so we will continue to help you that way. He's also managed to find the end zone in three of the past four games, and I think just absolutely startable,

especially in two weeks here for Antonio Gibson. And then a couple of the guys you care about in the passing game, probably Terry McLaren first foremost probably red Hot thanks Ever since the switch to Taylor Heineke, McLaren has seen at least forty of Washington's targeted air yards in each game since Heineke took over. That is a huge, huge number. The Texans have allowed a league high fifteen yards per reception to wide receivers this season. They do

have better improving cornerback play. In the last four games, Derek Stingley and Stephen Nelson have combined to allow four receptions for thirty nine yards per game. And oh, I didn't see that that does that is helpful? Then let me double check that Stingley's out. I'd consider bumping Terry McLaren out. All right, I'm giving him an A grade. Taylor Heineke comes in with a C grade here. I worry about out this run heavy game plan against a bad run defense, so I don't think there's a lot

of volume to be had for Heineke. And Houston isn't going to get like way ahead and forced Heineke to throw a bunch, so the game plan just doesn't feel like a big game coming here. No quarterbacks top two touchdowns in a game and only one is top three yards since the opener against Houston. All right, let's go to the Houston side. Given up to me. The whole rest of this segment and maybe the rest of the show would just be all about Damian Pierce. Let's do it.

I'm totally game for that. Since Week three, Pierce has seen at least twenty combined carries and targets every game, and he's put up at least one hundred total yards in every game but one. Since Week three. Pierce has also wrapped up the sixth most red zone carries among running backs, while the rest of the team has one carry in the red zone to one ratio. I love that about Damien Pierce. Washington is, though, got a very

good run defense. Only Derrick Henry is a clip seventy six rushing yards against them, and they give up just four point two yards per carry. The Commanders have surrendered the fourth fewest rushing touchdowns, just four all year. It's a tough matchup, but Pierce's volume keeps him at a B level. And by the way, is God given talent the only other startable text and I've got his Nico

Collins um. When Collins and Brandon Cooks have been on the field together, Collins has tallied more yards in three of those four games, and he's emerging as Houston's go to wide receiver. He played through his groin injury last week, but he's still very He's still maybe limited by the groin injury. Houston, sorry, Washington secondary is much improved, and aside from Justin Jefferson, they've held mortals in check, including A. J.

Brown's dud game on Monday Night. So I can only get you to a C grade on Nico Collins, and guys, what do you think about this? I'm already to just drop Brandon Brandon Cooks. Um. You know, he's lost the benefit of the doubt at this point. He scored one time all year. He's disgruntled. He barely showed up in the box score last week. And I think Nico Collins is the go to receiver now and and David support more of the one receiver. All right, that's exactly. It's

a dropping bread of coats. It depends on how shall I agree? But I'm sad about it. Yeah, that's I think that's totally fair. He went from underrated every single year two possibly properly. Maybe they want to bump his trade value up though in the off season, and maybe THATWN Lions take on the Giants. Scott, you know, I know you love I'm on Ross st. Brown, So I'm gonna start with I want to start with him right

off the bat. We're seeing with since T. J. Hawkins, and he's we're starting to see what feels like a repeat of last November December. You are you reading what I have written down here to talk about because I literally had a series of reflecting mirrors in the studio so I could read your notes. I was also wondered what all those cameras in my houset werefore. So wait a second. I'm on Ross st. Brown, the sun God

has thirty targets in the last three games. The volumes back to those league winning levels um over the last three weeks. The Giants actually, let's start, he have. The Giants on the season have been a top ten pasty against wide receivers, but over the last three weeks their third worst. They've allowed six different receivers over fifty yards. They're averaging about a hundred and eighties six yards and a score to wide receivers per game. And it's not

even like huge studs. It's the Jags and the Seahawks and the Texans are blowing them up, blow at at the wide receiver position. I have an A grade, Amra. I do have Jared Goff on the bench. Thou Giants allowing two in thirty yards per game. It's it's it's not a lot. Despite what the wide receivers are doing, They've given up just ten passing touchdowns in nine games. Uh As, as for the tight ends, you're you're not

starting the broc Rights and the world. Yeah, let's go over to the running backs, where it gets a little more complicated. I'm gonna start here. Jamal Williams missing practices this week with an illness. I think he's likely to push through and go and he'll be fine. DeAndre Swift logged his first full week of practice ends coming back from injury. He's been limited in previous weeks. Even last week. Dan Campbell said we're gonna work him in more, and

so he's been splitting snaps with Justin Jackson. This week is the first week none of those comments are out there. He had a full week of practice. I'm not saying Dandre Swift his back. I'm saying you should feel a little bit better this week finally, but still not great just the way it's locked. Uh So, I have a B grade on on Jamal Williams a C grade on Swift. Williams scoring nine times in nine games, but the Giants

have only given up four rushing scores. Swift. I got him starting because of that pass game work and how efficient he is with the ball when he gets it, but the volume is on Williams side, so I have the B grade on him. By the way, the Giants allowing five point four yards per carrying eleven point two yards per reception to running backs. Those are both bottom five in the league. The only thing that keeps the Giants up high in the rankings is twenty two total

running back touches against the Giants per game. That's league low. It's volume, That's why. That's why their rankings look good. It's volume when when they get touches, running backs get touches, they get massive amounts of yards over on the Giant side. Daniel Jones, would zeer take a chance on me player getting it done through the air and ground. I believe you said, Darius Slayton, I have a C grade on Despite only four targets last week, he made the absolute

most of them. Uh, he's the only guy you can really trust with targets of four, six and six in his last three. The matchup against the Lions was great earlier in the year, last three weeks not as great. Only Lazard sorry, Lazard top fifty seven yards and it took ten targets. Slayton plays eighty three percent outside. He might see some mokuda, but I don't think they're gonna shadow him. And if anyone's going to score for them

at the wide receiver, tight ends, etcetera. If Daniel Jones throws a touchdown, it's probably to Slayton, so we'll give him the see uh secon Barkley A grade, Yeah, Lions allow in five yards per carry, giving up eleven rushing tons town touchdowns in nine games. A grade. I'm I'm neven gonna go over now. It's it goes without saying that, say Kwon Barkley is an elite start um. Talk to me about Christian Watson. Guys five touchdowns in two games, and you know he has added a spark to and

otherwise struggling passing offense. Although it would help if Aaron Rodgers could like throw a pass and he's doing it misfiring all over the field. What he has like what five touchdowns on eleven targets to something like which, So that makes me very skeptical. You know when you see that kind of you know, that's pretty out of whack and not sustainable if you're not getting that much that

many targets. He seems legit, though he should have had a touchdown on like the first play from scrimmage for the Packers in Week one dropped a long bomb from Rogers and he was dealing with injuries. But when he's been healthy, which has just been as late pretty much the last two weeks, look looks pretty legit for for a rookie. And you know he he went to the small school in the North Dakota state. Right, let me

ask you this, he's got the pedigree. Give me a sense of how valuable Christian Watson is from a dynasty or Empire league standpoint is you're projecting four how valuable is Christian Watson? Yeah, that is That's an interesting one. He's probably still in the third or fourth range among the last year's rookie wide receivers just because we don't

know where Aaron Rodgers is going to be next. He's certainly uh leap frogged the sky Moore's who were getting drafted before him and rookie drafts, but I don't know, I still rank them below Pickens in London, and but he's knocking on the door those guys for sure. Is the explosive play potential is very big for Christian wats Dobbs has been out to Actually he might have just been usurped. Well hard to know yet, But when when Dobbs comes back, then this thing gets really really interesting

because he was very promising. So I don't think, I don't think. I don't think this is very clear, and I don't think. Don't expect these last two games to be representative of what Christian Watson is going to do the rest of It's a record, by the way, five touchdowns in five days has to be I don't know that. It's pretty wide, isn't it. When we can back our number two three Tough Questions, you can play along see if you can go three and oh with our panel

of experts. And if you missed any part of the show and you want to read up on our player rankings, go to Guillotine leagues dot com where you can find all the information you need to know about the players this week, the rankings, and why we've got them ranked. Guillotine leagues dot com our number two fantasy football weekly. Paul Charging with you. My co hosts are Scott Fish and Brian Johnson. This is a game we call three Tough Questions. You can play along try to go three

and oh against our panel of experts. We begin with tough question number one. Darius Tony's rest of season? Is he a wide receiver one, wide receiver two, flex or bench player. We begin with Scott Fish. Yeah, I think Juju is going to be back after this week. I can't imagine that concussion keeping him out much more than this week, So so I went with flex. I could see good, you know, all the way to wide receiver two. We saw every metric about him grow from week one

to week two. Hardman is going to be out for a while. Um, it's just that the wide receiver two and wide receiver three in this offense has rarely been very productive for fantasy. He may be better than those, and they're using finding ways to get him involved on the sweeps that he took over for Hardman. But and Hardman had four straight double digit Fantasy days before going to I R. But I don't think that's going to be very consistent. I have it as a flex, but

you're gonna get some wide receiver two games out of it. Brian. Darius Tony's rest of season is he a wide receiver one? A wide receiver to flex or bench. I don't have munch to add to what Scott said. Definitely not wide receiver one. With Travis Kelsey on your team, he's wide receive for one for the Chiefs. Um if Juju remains out, I would go wide receiver too, but I'm going flex.

But man, he's borderline wide receiver too. You really don't see many guys who are able to like stop on a dime Likedarius Tony can and change direction and with the speed like Tyreek. Kill is the only comparable receiver I can think of, and he fared pretty well in his days in Kansas City. But I'm so you're officially calling to Tyree. I love he's got that, he's got that upside. I must say he's gonna get there this year. But he looks pretty comparable to me. I love Travis

Kelsey shaking his has his head. I don't know how New York building well, you know, And I'm not factoring that comment because players say that stuff all the time and it doesn't necessarily mean anything. Do you think, co host, it was a coincidence that Kadarius Tony suddenly showed up in the box score in a game in which Juju Smith Schuster got knocked out in the first drive and McCole Hardman did not play even then. Even then his snap count was just of the of the snaps, so

it wasn't that high. And here's the thing that I really can't get past. Once everybody's back healthy, which should be as early as next week, well McCole Hardman not. But Juju comes back. In the Patrick Mahomes era, he will put guys on games that make them look amazing and you're like, oh, man, Mikole Hardman, if that guy is gonna be a game changer for the next five years, and you just do anything for the next five games. So in all probability, what awaits Tony once Juju and

especially hard to come back. It's just a timeshare with inconsistent results, because that's what this position always does. I can distinctly remember like four plays that Tony has made in his very short career with the Giants and the Chiefs. I don't remember anything that Juju Smith Schuster or Michael Hardman has done. But that's look, I'm taking all the fun out of Fantasy Phone. I admit it. I am the no fun charge. No fun flex is the correct

answer for Darius you gotta write anyway. With Damien Harris returning to full health for the rest of the season, is Romandre Stevenson a running back one running back to flex or bench Brian Johnson. Stevenson averaging more than five yards per touch while Harris has averaged nearly a yard less per touch. That's pretty significant. Stevenson also the much better pass catcher, so we should stay more productive moving

forward even with Harris healthy. That said, Harris, we'll eat into stevenson snaps, but New England is a top is top eight in rushing play percentage, so there's plenty to go around. I still think Stevenson gets his fifteen carries with four to five targets catches per game, so I'm willing RB two rest of the way even with Harris back Scott rest of season. With Damien Harris returning, Ramandre Stevenson is an RB one and RB two who flex

our bench. Yes, so ram Stevenson has outsnapped Harrison every game since Week one. Obviously, the game's Harris didn't play the whole game or missed ram head large work hold workloads, but he did that also in some of the games that Harris fully played. I actually view the start of the season to be what we may see the rest of the season, where Harris has some games, he's little

used in some games. It's more of a split Romandris RB twelve right now, even with a pretty decent downgrade, I don't know that he gets past RB twenty four in the volume that New England runs the ball and the goal line looks New England gives running backs. I have him as an RB two. I love Romandri Steve, Yeah, I love that guy, and I think he's a special I was talking to him the other day. It feels the same way. And he starts himself in his fantasy.

But here comes Damien Harris with fresh legs in a luxury in mid November, in the opening month of the season, when Harris was healthy and it was a shared backfield, he was Bill Belichick's lead back with more carries, more yards, more touchdowns than Stevenson. And we've seen belichick backfields take on a expected weird turns many many times. Yeah, right, And I am not ready to count out Harris at all.

And also this Damien Harris is a really good back. Stevenson, Damion Harris a good back He's gonna knock Stevenson back to the same flex play that he was in September when this was a shared backfield and they were getting

roughly the same work, but Harris was getting more. And even though I'm team Stevenson, I just think the reality of it as when I take off my emotional cap on this and I just look at this shared backfield, I think Damon Harris is gonna end up eating into too much of Stevenson's time for him to be a sure RB two correct answer flex tough Question number three. This is the no fun version of why am I? Why do I have to be the wet blanket? What's

the title of this show? Wet Blankets? Uh? Should we drop? Let's start over? Question number three? Should we op Dallas Goddard or stick it out with him on our roster? Scott, Yeah, I'm sticking. I'm sticking this out. Is if he's able to heal their tight ends are terrible this year. If he's able to heal up in a month and be back for Week fifteen, your week Week fifteen sixteen seventeen

Fantasy playoffs, Uh, He's He's worth it. The two caveats here are is the injury one that he may take time getting back after that or miss more weeks than the initial four coin flip, coin flip, it's possible. The other one is a shoulder to catch a pass. Yes you do, Yes, you do, especially at the high point team that he does a lot. Will the Eagles be locked into a one seed by that point and they'll keep him resting four weeks away from the playoffs. I

don't know that that's quite the case. Maybe maybe later on, um if it takes him longer. So those are two things that can do that. But honestly, if you're dropping him for a guy like trust and Ebner or something, no, if if you see it Cadarius Tony on the free agency, sure do it. But in most cases I say no, just told onto Dallas Goddard for this. For the moment, your answer is no, Yeah, that was a super long win. You're saying, hold Dallas, Hold all right, Brian, we dropped

Dallas Goddard or stick it out Holden. I don't have much I'll say. I will say, guys come back from shoulder injuries, running backs, wide receivers, and then they're fine when when they come back it's the lower leg injuries that you're really skeptical about when they come back from injury, and that's not the case with Goddard. Ozar, if you were rostering him, your team is pretty decent and you'll

have a shot in the playoffs. And if he comes back healthy, you're gonna want to start them to hold them. You know, we're not doctors here, but just you know, the reality is people have to make this decision this week on Dallas Goddard. And you know, as you mentioned, the early se can come back is week fifteen. The eight and one Eagles have Super Bowl aspirations. They care a lot more about having a healthy Dallas Goddard in January than they do in December, so there's no need

to rush him back at less than full health. So week number one he would be unrealistic. I don't know who knows. They may even be. They may have. We're in Minnesota right now. You know they want to I don't think the seating makes any difference here. I don't think it does. It's all about winning in January is all that the Eagles should be caring about right here. Tough call, but you know, when healthy Goddard is one of three reliable fantasy tight ends. That's so that's so

valuable in this league. And yes, he's going to soak up a roster spot, and maybe you would turn that roster spot into tight end help, but you probably aren't going to because they're probably just isn't that much tight end help to be had out there in the waiver wire. So while you might you might be able to drop him and find help, I think in most cases, God, it's just way too valuable to drop in the event that he does come back for your fantasy playoffs. That said,

I don't, I don't. I think Week fifteen sounds optimistic. So your answer is, do not dropped out? Don't drop down there? And I think, yeah, we all did. M on the Saints, Brian, they lose Cooper Cup, but they get back Matthew Stafford. Yeah, so that doesn't really matter

much with the Cooper Cup. So I got Stafford on the bench, has returned to full practice, should make his return, but without Cooper Cup, I gotta put Stafford on the bench because I only have one starting grade on any of his past catchers, and that was Allen Robinson was that might take a chance on me. Wide receiver Van Jefferson, Ben Skorennick, Brandon Powell, and s McCutchen. They're on the bench, and surprisingly in the tight end wasteland. I do have

Tyler Higby on the bench. The Rams offensive line, they just had two more injuries this week. It's on life support. So Higgy's me doing a lot of blocking. Yes, there are more targets that are gonna be spread around with Cup sideline, but the Saints have allowed just one tight end touchdown all season, and not one Moon tight end has topped fifty yards against him. So I'm benching Higby this week, and I'm also benching all of the Rams

running backs. Darryl Henderson, Camakers, Williams. I've got some stuff to read here, but I'm not going to do it. Just put there on the bench. Remember last year when we were throwing down automatic as a bunch of Rams, and well, yeah, you Rams Saints used to be a sound like the sexiest matchup in the world. When He's not not in this game. A few more starting grades

for the Saints, so go over to them. Not great ones though, Alvin Kamara, just to see the Saints are going to be without three stars on their offensive line. But the silver lining for camaras of the receiving angle here. Over their last four games, the Rams have allowed seven plus catches and nearly sixty receiving yards per game to opposing running back. So you know what, I'll give Camara B and PPR to see and standard for those reasons, Crystal, I'm nervous, he gotta be, but man, he he can

pop off in any any matchup. Really, um, Crystal Lovey gets to see The Rams allowed the lowest A dot average depth of target in the league at five point five yards, which is not bode well for a Lovey's game. Who should also see plenty of coverage from Jalen Ramsey, who has not allowed a touchdown in his bridge since Week two, but over his last few games, Ramsey has surrendered ninety two and seventy one yards in his coverage, so a lot of they startable with the Sea Jarvis

Landry not though he is on the bench. He actually led the Saints wide receivers and targets last week with six, which is encouraging moving forward, but not this week. The Rams have allowed the second fewest fantasy points to slot wide receivers this year, over to the tight ends Taysom Hill and Juwan Johnson got them both on the bench.

They're just gonna be doing a ton of blocking with that banged up offensive line, and the Rams have allowed the second fewest fantasy points to tight ends of this season, saying that watch Taysom Hill rush for four touchdowns in this game. But if you want to chase crazy upside play Taston mill have fund and then Andy Alton. He's on the bench. I think one game inside the top eighteen quarterbacks this year. I want Jameis Winston back, even though it doesn't bode well for Kamara. I'm tired of

I think Camara is a bench. This is an offensive line missing three starters this week. Um, I am very nervous that he's gonna catch ten pass. He's gonna catch ten pa I don't know you're I think you're a lot more optimistic on camera than I am. We'll revisit this next week. Feel free. Uh, let's take a break. When we come back, let's jump into Cowboys taking on the Vikings. Cowboys Vikings plenty of fantasy implications all over the board here, but some key injuries that could play

into the outcome here. You know what to do about Justin Jefferson. What about some of the more fringe e players in this game. So Dallas Goddard managers want to root for the Vikings because the Eagles want the number one seed regardless of you guys. I'm sure they take it, but I don't think they're gonna put their prize tight end at risk to get there. We'll find out, we'll learn more about Cowboys Vikings, and we come back to

Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish, Brian Johnson with you. We've got a big block o matchums coming at you right now, beginning with the Cowboys taking on the Vikings. I want to start with Dak Prescott because this is a fantastic opportunity for him. Vikings have surrendered three hundred or more passing yards and or multiple passing touchdowns in four straight games,

and the Vikings suddenly very thin at cornerback. Cameron Danceler placed in I r his backup with Caleb Evans has been ruled out of this game. This is a this is a great opportunity and a game plan that should lean strongly to the past. Dak Prescott is a very safe start and an A grade for him. My top ranked wide receiver of this week is c. D. Lamb. Now I can give him the fantasy Armpark. Who is Ard Park? I can give Ardarks? No, everybody can use

Art Art Vark is universal this week. Over the past five weeks, the Vikings have allowed the most receptions, the most yards to opposing receivers along with five total touchdowns. Minnesota has one good cornerback, Patrick Peterson. Ceedee Lamb only runs eighteen percent of his routes on Patrick peterson side of the field. The other two percent or against a struggling slot corner or a third what really, fourth string cornerback Ceedee Lamb is phenomenally suited for a big game here.

Also really like Dalton Schultz since Dak Prescott has been back and Schultz now finally healthy and they came back at about basically the same time at least five receptions and fifty receiving yards in every game, plus finally got on the scoreboard last week with his first touchdown of the year. Vikings are middle of the pack and most tight end metrics on the season, but lately they've given up some big games to tight ends, Dawson Knox, zach Ertz,

Mike Kasecki all good games, Dalton Schultz B grade. Michael Gallup startable here as well. He runs from the outside where sometimes he will get that Patrick Peterson matchup which I meant to, which is bad. But then when he goes the other side, he'll get either journeyman Duke Shelley I mentioned before, fifth stringer rookie Andrew Booth arguably also

a fifth stringer making a second ever start. Those are good matchups from Michael Gallups startable here for sure, and uh Noel Brown's the only receiver I'm not gonna put a letter grade on, although I wouldn't be surprised he did okay, but he just hasn't gotten enough look since Gallops returned. Let's talk about Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elli. Elliott expected to come back in this one, but it waters down the prospects for both guys a lot, and

it's a very tough matchup for either one. Um Week four was the last time a running back hit fifty yards on the ground against the Vikings, and in those five weeks, running backs are averaging less than three yards per carry. Vikings are Pro Football focuses number two ranked run defense. Polo has been way more effective than Zeke, and he's healthier than Zeke, and he's my preferred starter here.

But the reason I'm going to give a C grade to Pollard and the C grade to Zeke is that Zeke gets most of the goal line work and you can hope for a touchdown here. So I'm gonna give Zeke a C grade in a bye week in which I might otherwise give him a bench grade. Let's go to the Viking side, justin Jefferson's and obvious A grade. The toe injury appears to be okay and he's removed from the injury list on Friday, so he should be

good to go. Let's talk about Kirk Cousins. Dallas has got a very talented secondary, but they are risk takers and that's led to them allowing multiple touchdown passes and three the last four games. The main area of concern for Cousins is the pressure he's gonna take in the pocket.

They do expect left tackle Christian Derrisaw to return for this game, and that's huge off the injury party, and that's that's without it might have been very worried about Cousins, but as a result, I think we're okay here Cowboys. Cowboys defense has average a sack every nine pass attempts, which is in saying, that's unbelievably good. They have registered the most sacks among all teams. As you would have guessed,

Kirk Cousins, I've got a B grade on here. He takes a thirty nine game streak of games with a touchdown pass into this matchup straight with which is the fifth longest streak in NFL. His Wow, Alright, Kirk is single handedly powered half of those games. Uh t. J Hockenson's gotta be grade in this one. Since Hockinson's trade to the Vikings, He's been the second most targeted tight end in the league, behind only Travis Kelsey. Pretty impressive. He also leads all tight ends in red zone targets

since the trade. Unfortunately, those is a tough matchup against a good Cowboys defense that has allowed the third fewest Fantasy points and just one touchdown to tight ends, and that turns Tockinson from what would have been an A grade into a B grade this week. Adam Theland also startable here. Vikings announcer Paul Allen told me today that he expects Theland to have a very sizeable role world Internet Internet Ron James Alan, I've been bragging that I

have his phone number. I won't give it out, though I think you should be for the right price. He runs from all over the all over the field Ceeland, not Paul Allen runs from Lebron James probably could, but most often on the side of the field man by cornerback Anthony Brown, assuming he gets through his concussion protocol. Brown's bad just like last Year's allowed the ninth most receiving yards and the ninth most and he's a lot

of touchdowns in back to back games. Ceiling logs in with a C here and unless you think Paul Allen has got particularly keen insight, then you could give him a B grade. Uh. Dalvin Cook is the only Viking we haven't mentioned yet, a grade. He has scored in five straight games powered by big plays, more consistent chain moving plays than necessarily I'd like to get him more consistent chain moving plays. It's really the big plays that

he's that he's been helped with. Dallas has given up at least one hundred rushing yards and a score to running backs in three of four games, including getting pummeled for a hundred fifty rushing yards in each of the last two games. This is gonna be a very Dalvin Cook heavy game plan, right, So you've got Dallas is great at rushing the quarterback. The things can go haywire a lot of ways again when you throw the ball. Dalvin Cook's sitting on a lot of volume in this game,

and I like him with an A grade. Let's go to the Raiders taking on the Broncos, Scott. This is a Raider's offense. It's been highly dysfunctional, but a Broncos defense that's mostly been very good. Yeah. Mostly. They're the number one past defense against the past, allowing the fewest passing yards and fewest passing touchdowns just six passing touchdowns on the season. Close to that. That's insane. That's absolutely insane.

Uh So I have car on the bench. He's been a fine two and forty yard wanted to score guy, but this is a bad spot for him. I do have. I do still have Davontae Adams with an A grade because he's had a level game in all but one game, and that was the game. He was sick all week leading up to He does have a slight abdomen injury this week, but I'm not too worried about it from all reports, so I still have an a grade on him. Mac Hollins is back to the bench. He went to

for eighteen last week with Waller and renfrewout. Ren fro out that he had that one huge hundred fifty plus day, but all the other days, even with players out, he's done virtually nothing. I will say this is the number one past d against both outside receivers and slot receivers, so I basically everyone else besides Adam on the bench. Fostermorrow, Um, I have a bench grade on him, but it wouldn't surprise me. He's been a three for forty type guy

with Waller out. Um. This is a Broncos team that just allowed sixty two yards in a score to Titans last week eighty two yards the week before. UM. Interesting pick up there. He's got a match up with the Seahawks next week. That's that's planning ahead a little bit. Yeah, so that might be a pre spect. I'm gonna change my prespect, but now I'm not going to go get tomorrow for the next for next week's matchup. Josh Jacobs

a B grade here. He took thirty three touches for a hundred and seventy five yards against the same team in week four. It's not hard to envision another day in the high twenties against them. I will say, though, this Broncos rund you. They held Derrick Henry down, Breece Hall somehow, Damian Pierce, Austin Ekelah, all those guys under eight yards. But Josh Jacobs took him to the house. Um the pure volume in the fact that he already

did it. I'm giving a B grade to Josh Jacobs. Um, even even in this tough matchup, he already did it once. Russell Wilson on the other side, I hate to do it, but I gotta give a C grade. It's too good of a match. It's a good matchup that got hit nineteen times last week. I didn't see that hits. Also, did you see this. There's a report from one of the Denver Talk sports talk radio hosts saying that he's heard that Russell Wilson is calling out audibles from the

Seahawks playbook. Oh you know, imagine you're Tyler locket and he calls an audible for a Playboo, what do I do? Or Courtland Sutton? Yeah, that's uh, that would be crazy. Yeah, yes, Russell Wilson sideline. I just did exactly what Russell Wilson. I have a theory that Drew lock was included in that trade for Russell Wilson, so there wouldn't be a quarterback controversy. The Raiders are the fifth best matchup for fantasy quarterbacks, having allowed multiple scores in all but one game.

They also allowed two hundred and sixty yards per game, and they've even allowed four rushing touchdowns per game. Russell Wilson got one of those in the previous game that they played. Fifth most passing touchdowns allowed. I mean, this is a great spot for Wilson, but all those averages are light years above Russell Wilson's average of two seven yards and zero point eight eight touchdowns. So I'm only

giving him a C grade. I could see him squeak out better, but he's just been so bad this year it's really tough to give him much higher than that. No more Russell talk. Let's go, Yes, Jerry Judy, it was two minutes. It really was it really was. Jerry Judy has been ruled out. kJ Hamler is going to be out a little while longer. Uh. Hinton Man, Tristan Hinton, Hilton, what's his name again? Kendall Kendall Kendall Hinton Hint Kendall Hinton. Uh is dealing with his shoulder injury after getting a

decent amount of work last week. I have them on the bench. I I only have Sutton with a B grade, and mostly because Judy and Hammler are out and someone's got to catch balls out there. It's a byproduct the injuries. He had six for sixty six and to score last week. Talk to me about Dulphitch though, that's where this gets interested. Yes, let's let's go here. Uh. He disappeared last week, but he's at double digit Fantasy days in three straight. Prior

to that. I mentioned the injuries that are already there. Um, he was averaging four catches for sixty yards on six targets in those It's a better matchup Shore. We keep talking about the Broncos allowed four touchdowns to Kelsey. You gotta throw that out, but five other tight ends have had fifty plus and or a score and even Kyle Granson had a great week last week against them. I got a C grade on Dulstitch. But you can talk to you can talk me. You know I'm a Dulstitch fan.

He was my one number one tight end coming out of the draft. You could talk me into a B. But I don't love Russell Wilson running this offense. No, I don't think I do either. I have C grades on both the backs here, four straight leadbacks of top two hundred fifteen yards on the Raiders. The Broncos don't really have a lead back. It's kind of fifty fifty. But Murray gets the goal line stuff. Gordon gets the receptions.

This is a team that's allowing twenty nine touches per game, a hundred fifty combo yards per game, and a touchdown per game. You can split that up and get two C grades out of these two. Paying me to have to start any brodect it really would. I would not blame me from benching. If I had to start one, it's probably Gordon because I don't want to rely on the touchdown. I want to rely on the receptions when

we come back. Premature speculation, find out the players you want to pick up this week that everybody else been trying to pick up next week, but you got him first. Fantasy Football Weekly continues some moments. It is the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charge and Scott Fish Brian Johnson with you. If you missed parts of the show and you want to go back and here the show. Obviously, you can go to the podcast if you're listening over

the air. If you're listening via podcast, check for this over the air. This show is available both ways, which is kind of cool. Also, you can get all over play rankings available at KIO Team leagues dot com. This is a segment we like to lead with premature speculation players you can pick up now battle the people will be trying to pick up next week. Scott. We begin with you, let's try putting in the mic Gun. Let's go with Foster. Oh, I'm just kidding. I just kind

of didn't mention that the last segment. Let's go with Odell Beckham Jr. He's only thirty percent rostered and he has narrowed his candidate. He's cleared, he's healthy, and he's been cleared by doctors now, so he's just got to pick a team physical and the ones that he has pegged out, the Chiefs, the Cowboys, the Bills, like the Giants. He could either even with the Giants, you could come in as the number one reight receiver or number two

on several of those teams. Ever be back, um, but some decent offenses that he could jump into and actually have a decent fantasy role. See, I'm very skeptical but of what he's gonna do. But I like the pis using him then using him as a as a bargaining chip. Sure, because a lot of people name recognition alone, you can get a lot for Oh b J once he gets signed. Brian, who's your premia chure speculation player, I got a Raiders

running back, samere white. Now. In the summer, we were saying it's very possible the Raiders run Josh Jacobs into the ground in this contract year has worked out that way. But the Raiders season is pretty much coming to an end, and I'm hoping they have the decency to not run Jacobs into the ground for no reason. Oh yeah, if there's any organization that's going they we saw some flashes from some mere White in the preseason. They're gonna want to see what they have in him with they want

to give him an extended look. I'm assuming they're going to want to do that later in the season, so we could see some mere white starting running back in you know, weeks fourteen fifteen sixteen. So if you got a bench spot open, go grabs him. You're white. I have reason to believe that the tight end waste land is here. So here's an angle for you for those

that are looking deep. You may remember from back from April Arizona Draft at the first tight knight off the board, Trey McBride, and you know, at the time, we're like, well, you know, we'll see you Trey McBride, like three years when zach Ertz retires. Well, that whole time table got moved up a lot last week after Art's got knocked out early in the game, McBride got all of the tight end work of the game snaps and how many

routes did he run? Yeah, I mean, you know, so they put him into coverage a ton or you know, I like the opportunity for Tray McBride. Nobody's talking about this opportunity, But if you're in a spot at tight end, this thing has some weeks to develop because Earth's is not likely to play again this year. That's uh, that's an opportunity for you now is done at least that season ending. Yeah, okay, it's officially well it's still not expected to play this year. Yes, I don't think I down.

You can't argue that all. Let's go to the Bengals taking on the Steelers. Last time we saw the Bengals, Joe Mixon was scoring five touchdowns. Yeah. I don't know if we get five touchdowns in this one, but he did have a good game when these teams met in Week one. Uh, he had hundred forty five combo yards, so he gets an a here. Before their bye week last week, the Steelers had surrendered a running back touchdown in seven consecutive games Himes, so in a for Mixing

and a for t Higgins. He got hurt in that week one game left early. Jamaar Chase Tyler Boyd both scored in that one. We know chases out for this one, so we should see a lot of te Higgins in a plus matchup. Pittsburgh is allowing nearly two hundred yards and one and a half touchdowns per game to opposing wide receivers and do get Minka. I f it's Fitzpatrick back, which factors, but with Chase out, I like Higgins a

lot here should see a lot of volume. He gets the A B for Tyler Boyd, as I mentioned, he scored in the first meeting and now has two touchdowns and two of his last three games against the Steelers, who I also just mentioned is a pretty good matchup for wide receivers. So that's why Boyd gets the B. And so does Hayden Hurst, who has scored at least eight PPR points in five of his last six games. That's like he leaves just forty yards pretty much every week. Uh,

He's has some touchdown upside. He had a season high eight targets against the Steelers back in Week one. Over their last two games, the Steelers have allowed more than sixty yards per game to the position, including a touchdown catch to Juwan john excuse me Jawan Johnson last week. So would be for hearst At an easy A for Burrow and I can get into that with all those starting grades for his pass catchers. Over to the Pittsburgh side,

Najie Harris just a see for him. His snap share has continued to drop as the season progresses, and he has been nearly as effective as Jalen Warren has with his touches, but the Bengals have softened against the run since Week five, allowing the sixth most rushing yards per game and the second highest explosive run rates. So I will start Harris with the Sea, but I like my take a chance of me running back a little more, and that's Jalen Warren, So he liked him if it

came down to one of the other. Because a lot of people are rostering Didge Harris and Jalen Warren. I think the Bengals put a lot of points. I think the stealer is gonna put up points, and I think Warren he does more with his touches, and he's the better pass catcher, and I think they're playing catch up. So yeah, if I had to pick one, I would pick Warren and Uh. Deonte Johnson charge he was gonna take a chance on me wide receiver, and I think you could also take a chance on George Pickens. Will

give him a see. He lines up on the right side most often, will face Eli Apple uh in the Apple's last three games. He's a loud at least fifty yards end or a touchdown. Uh and with quarterback chie Dobezier out, it's open season on the left side against rookie cam Taylor Brett. We've mentioned him a couple of times, who's yielded a perfect eight point three passer rating in three games since taking over as a starter, so see

for Pickens. Also a cee for Pat Friar Muth and its three career games against Cincinnati, including that Week one matchup. Muth has finished with a touchdown or at least seventy five yards in every game. He's also averaging seven point six targets with Kenny Pickett as the starter. It's not

the best matchup on paper. The Bengals are allowing less than five catches and fifty yards pre game to tight ends, but they did surrender a tight end to um excuse me, surrender a touchdown to tight end Tommy Tremble their last

time out, so Friar Muth could do the same. He gets to the Sea and Kenny Pickett was gonna take a chance, and the quarterback Chief's take on the Chargers on Saturday and excuse me, Sunday night, and there's a lot of moving parts on this thing on the Chargers side, but the Chiefs side is a lot more straightforward, where Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are a's like usual, Mahomes will be without Juju Smith, Schuster and Nicole Hardman, which

is not trivial, but you know still it's Patrick Mahomes and you've probably fine here. Kadarius Tony coming off a statement game, and that was to take a chance of me play for for you, Scott Fish. I gave a C grade to Terrius Tony in this game mvs. If fully off the injury part. He had some midweek illness. He is okay now. He's notched at least sixty yards in four of his last six games, and he's coming off his first score of the season. I like Marquez

Velde Scantling in this game. The charter secondaries playing better lately, holding receivers scoreless and back to back games, but I like his individual matchup on the outside against Michael Davis, who gave up a season high sixty five yards last week and allows a passer rating of a one in six and four of his last six starts. That is a positive individual matchup. MBS definitely startable as a by week fill in for your team. Also startable in the

passing game. Justin Watson boy Sneaky played Dynasty Er Love you right now? I bet they did. He ran twenty more snaps than Kadarius Tony did last week. He projects as the starter in this game, running from both the slot and outside, and he's got winnable matchups at every spot, so you know, the volume has not been there. He's also been on the team for like twenty more months than actors into Honestly, yeah, I wish I could go

back and go. And he's had these like spots. Reason where Justin Watson has had these big games really hasn't. It's like one and two catches he's and he's got two touchdowns on the season. But if you're like, if you're in a pinch, consider Justin Watson A let's go to the Runners first. Let's start here. Clyde Edwards despair totally phased out of this offense just four snaps last week. Not only is he not startable here, he is absolutely droppable.

You does not belong on your team. Isaiah pacheco As might take a chance on the Runner also startable. Derrick McKinnon because of his increasing snapcout at the expense of Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He is a PPR helper with six catches in back to back games. If he's gonna get six catches in in a bye week, he's scored in the first meeting between these teams. Jerick McKinnon startable. All right,

let's go to a much more complicated matchup. Unfortunately with the Charger side of this UM, I think I'm gonna begin with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen. Okay, look, you know the danger in starting both of these guys. They're rolling into this thing limited and it's a Sunday night game. We have very few options in terms of flexing to somebody else if it turns out they don't go. So this is one of the biggest risk reward moments of your entire season. If you're a Mike Williams or Keenan

Allen fantasy manager, They're ups is tremendous. The Chiefs are allowing the sixth most fantasy points to wide receivers, and at least one receiver gets paid in virtually every Chief's game. The downside with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen is zero points like they're they're they're active and they don't play which we've seen Keenan Allen do before they're active and they get reinjured. I will add this, they both logged a full practice on Friday, their first one since getting

injured for both of them. Yes, so that that's promised, that's that's that's but before adds you know whatever, seven thirty Central, eight thirty Eastern. With those guys on board, if you're gonna do it, you need to have somebody else on your roster that you can pivot to. And by the way, you can't even go to DeAndre Carter, who might not go in this game, so you can't even go same games. Same to you, Michael Bandy. Maybe that's your angle. You pick up Justin Watson most likely

get well. DeAndre Carson might be the other guy to have Rosster. Great point, excellent point, Josh Palmer. Upgrade. I've right now, I've got a C grade on new but I don't I'm not gonna end up with a C grade on him at the end of this because we're gonna upgrade him to a B. If Williams does not go, he runs with the Williams routes, and I'm gonna downgrade him to bench if Williams does go, So you know

the deal on Palmer. He's been very inconsistent, but a plus matchup, and if Williams doesn't go, he's startable with a B grade. Gerald Everett is another guy that you can't necessarily know what to do with. He's got a groin injury. He's shaping up as a game time decision, and because it's the Sunday night game, you had all the same problems that Williams and Allen had and you've

got much of the same upside. In the earlier matchup this year between these teams, Gerald Everett was targeted ten times, so that's his upside. The downside is the risk of re injury or be him being inactive and getting use no points. Let's go to Justin Air Bear. His offensive line is killing him, maybe from basically from the rib injury.

For forward, he's been a disaster so far since Week three, Justin Air Bear averaging just one touchdown per game and he has not hit the three yard marks since Week four. The best news here, though, Austin Ekeler is a receiver, is gonna have a huge game, and we love Eckler is an obvious A grade. The Chiefs have allowed the second most receptions, fourth most yards, second most receiving touchdowns to opposing running backs. You know what to do with

Austin necklace. Obvious A grade and a C grade for justin air bear him, wear bear, now the wear bear. If he beware, beware, be kind of like wear bear though, like as if you know, like on a full moon only justin Jeffy, you've got to plot that out. Is he awesome in a full moon game? Our final matchup is the Monday Night or forty nine is taking on the Cardinals. Yeah, this, this one's an interesting one. It's a it's a really good spat spot for the forty

Niners players especially get this. This is the staff from adding Adam Aser from CBS. The forty Niners as a team average the most yards after the catch, which makes sense. Kittles debo. The Cardinals allow the most yards after the catch. It feels like, so giddy up here for some some starting grades. Jimmy g was my take a chance on me players, So obviously I like a lot of these guys.

Brandon Ayuk the most consistent receiver on this team, at least six catches and at least eighty yards in four straight very really reliable B grade guy, about nine targets per game in that stretch. Cards allowing the sixth most receptions to receivers, and they including five wide receiver touchdowns in just last four games. That said, only three wide receivers have topped eighty yards this year, so they're not giving up the giant games, but they're giving up a

lot of B level grades. So I have a B grade on Ayuk. I have a B grade on Deebo Samuel as well. He's been relegated to the six to ten touch guy between carries and catches. Not as much boom this year, especially with m caffrey back um, but this is the first this is the first time in a bit he's been um completely off the injury report with that hamstring injury, so he might be a little bit more ready to take on more work this week. Uh,

George Kittle A grade. It's death taxes and start your tight ends against Arizona Cardinals, who allowed the most receptions, yards and touchdowns to tight ends in the running game, I have an A grade on Christian McCaffrey and a C grade on Elijah Mitchell. McCaffrey gets the pass catching, he gets the red zone work, he gets, he gets the touchdowns. Um, he gets just as much work as Mitchell. Mitchell really just gets the runs. If we're going to go on based on the one game sample size of

last week runs interesting. But even in that, if we're looking at thirty ish touches for these two, Christian with the pass catching and the impossible touchdowns and tend to fifteen from Mitchell on the ground, it's still a sea level grade worth of volume in this matchup. Over on the other side, if you have Kyler Murray or McCoy, I have them both on the bench where you cannot risk waiting until Monday night to see if Kyler Murray is gonna go with a hamstring injury that might take

away the running problem. And that's the thing, right, even if he plays without the rushing, do you really want Kyler Murray no arm to try to get there by to a fantasy victor by itself against the fo's defense that has held six quarterbacks under two yards and really only Mahomes had a good day in this matchup, So no, I have I have them whoever starts a quarterback on the bench. DeAndre Hopkins popped up with a hamstring injury on and miss practiced Thursday. Uh, it sounds like he's

still gonna go and it's not that serious. So if he does, he's averaging nearly twelve targets per game since his return. Forget that ridiculous amount. Wide receivers getting even eight targets or more against the forty Niners are averaging seven and a half catches for ninety yards. You're not benching DeAndre Hopkins. Let's move on. Uh, let's go over to Ronde or who I have a B grade on.

More has thrived with Markus Brown out, averaging over ten targets per game over the last three at least seven catches in each a couple of games over ninety yards. Now with Earth's out he might see even more targets. Um, it's a safe spot for him. Four ns D has allowed six wide receivers over a hundred yards and or a score in just the last three games where they were really good earlier in the season. Marquis Brown, you're not starting to my him on the bench. But he is.

He's been practicing in the videos. Look good in practice, But I I can't trust a Monday night thing. Even if they say he's gonna go. You you got him on your bench. I also have McBride on on on my bench. But I want to see what he does. It's just a bad, bad match up against the place for a breakout game. I'm excited to see how he does, though, But only two tight ends of top twenty three yards against the forty Niners James Conner just to see grade,

mostly due to the volume. Forty Niners only allowed three point to five yards per carry, which is best in the NFL. Fust rush yards allowed running back his top sixty yards only four running back touchdowns allowed. That's like nothing. But James Connor is gonna get fifteen plus touches, so he gets my patented volume. See now with you know Benjamin out of town. Yes, all right, did patented. By the way, I'm nicely done. Getting out through the patent office.

Not easy. It's not that is not easy. Talk to me about Marquis Brown upon his return. Not this Monday. Let's just go next Monday forward. Because without Hopkins, he was like a top five fantasy receiver. Now with Hopkins back, what do you think going forward? What about Hopkins with Marked I don't know. I think they're both wide receiver twos. I don't know they can both be a wide receiver one. Yeah. I think Ron Delmore does disappear and Arts is out,

so there's target right, So that's that does help. I think both guys can become effective starters. I trust I only trust Tyler Murray to keep two receivers active total on that quick angle. Colt McCoy stash and deep super flex leagues because the Cardinals love is there are seasons effectively over. Maybe you never know with Brown and don't. I don't know if I want pull mcquit or any situation maybe QB two leagues. Thank you for listening to

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