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a big, big bye week. Oh Man, week number Uh well it's week number nine, but nine times six quite not quite, doesn't quite work that way, uh six teams on by. We're gonna test the metal of a lot of fantasy owners, the depth of your roster. If you've been coasting on two good players, maybe not so more, not so much, maybe no longer, I don't know, Yes, something like that. We've got we'll break down all of the games with the remaining games, whatever is left on

this rock. Right, So we've got three games missing, We've got one that happened Thursdays games. I think that's all that's left. Not a lot, So we'll zip through those, will go through take a chance, I mean which we give you nine players you would not normally start. Many of them were available on the waiver wire and man, do you need it this week? You do? Between the bye weeks and the injuries, it's a it's a terrible landscape.

We're here to help with players you can pick up and start, and then premature speculation, as always, I want to start with this, just a personal anecdote. I performed a great sabotage drop this week. It was surgical. It was surgical. Now it was in a guillotine league, which is a little bit different. Ten teams left in this league. I dropped with no other quarterback on my roster. I dropped Lamar Jackson on Tuesday in the hope of getting

somebody to burn a bunch of fab on him. Now, Lamar Jackson has not been a very good quarterback for a while. He's gonna be missing key receivers this week and then he's going into his by So I'm like, this is the perfect chance to try to get somebody to use up some fab. And you think you're gonna get him back in two weeks, And that's right, that's exactly right. There's a decent chance in a guillotine league format his owner will get cut this week or cut next week, and I can have him back then or

just find somebody else. So I cut him out right, And even at this moment as we're talking, I don't have a quarterback out my roster yet for Sunday. So then I actually end up putting a bid on him, but a very small bid in case he would like

get all the way through waivers. Now, the average team in this league's got about two fifty dollars out of their starting thousand left, and one person the winning bid seventy one dollars, so about a quarter of his remain about a quarter of the remaining fab And I consider this to be a slight win right now for me. Now, Lamar, maybe Lamar Jackson runs for two n on hundreyards and it looked like an idiot, and you're not starting a quarterback this week, so obviously that's bad. I'm going to

I'm going to find a quarterback this week. I don't know who it is yet, but I've got a bunch of bids. Pay Maybe we can help you and take a chance on me. Wouldn't that be perfect? But for anybody who thinks that we're all talking no action on the whole Savantage drop concert, there you go, you know, charge I think that if you're going to put a player on waivers or you're going to drop them for for your waiver system and guillotines, I think you drop

them before you have to morning. But but but I think that you do that regardless, like like the whole way. If you know a guy's not going to be on your roster, you drop him right away just to see if that name will fetch some dollars. You're trying to get people to spend those bucks. Yeah, and I've done that the key, the key receivers, I've dropped our chase and Mike Williams was in a guillotine again. I'm talking guillotine format where you just you know, you're my visions

like two and three weeks out. That's that's the lot is. That is doesn't matter to me. And those guys have yielded. You know, people spend big money on those players. Yeah, and they're gonna burn a roster spot on him for a long time. All right, let's get right into the matchups. Let's begin with Scott Rams taking on the Bucks. Rams running back position is to It's it's a mess, Yeah, it's it's it's a mess. I'm gonna the Ronney Rivers thing from last week. Darrell Henderson came into the game.

He was sick all week. There was a little tiny amount of expectation out there that he would be limited and a guy like Ronnie Vers could get some run. I I did, he just didn't do anything. Yeah, I think that was a one week old nominly. Now we're sitting on a week where Kiren Williams is getting you know, teased as a pregame activision activation not activision, that would be an old game system. Um cam akers. Yeah, I liked chopper command as a chopper command. I think it

was chopp lifter chopper command. I love I love when misspeaking everyone on a tangent cam. Hackers is backpracticing with the team and he might be active. But assuming that all stands as it currently sits as we record this, I have Henderson with a C grade. He The problem is he is going to split touches. He's only had six of the running back touches once this year, so

he splits every game even when he's healthy. It's a decent matchup though against the Bucks, do you who We've we've mentioned a few times in this show it's not the stout rundee of old. They've allowed a hundred fifty plus total yards each of the last two weeks. But Henderson's gonna split, So I can only give him a C right here, makers lurking right, and every everyone lurking. But as I just mentioned, it doesn't matter. It can be Ronnie Raber, Rivers and Malcolm Brown. He splits every

game no matter what. He doesn't get over. So in the Rams passing game, I have Stafford with a B. The Bucks allowed five of the last six quarterbacks to have multiple scores. Stafford only has one game one multiple score game this season, but he's been a borderline lock for two three hundred yards each game. And I think this is a little bit of a get right here where he'll get that yard edge, he'll get one of

two scores that's right in that B grade range. Maybe you know, maybe a high sea what is that Brian called an ectos cooler? Yeah, yeah, But no, I have a beyond him. Tyler Higbee's all getting also getting to be for me. He's a averaging seven targets per game. Tight ends with that level of targets against the Bucks have averaged six catches for sixty yards. That's B bordering

on a level. If they score and half of the tight end half of those tight ends that did that scored, sounds like you should just make him an A. Yeah. I suppose the Bucks have allowed four touchdowns in the last five games. They're the fourth thesist against. You know, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. But you know, with six teams on by, there's let's do it. I don't like doing it, but I guess I'll do it. Uh over on the bottle. I didn't even do the

wide receivers. Let's do the wide receivers quickly. Yeah, Cooper, well, I got two grades. I got Cooper cup with his usual A. I don't care if he tapes up his ankle and he's like slightly hobbled, he's still gonna find ninety five yards in a touchdown hobbled. I don't know how he does it. He just does it. As for Allen Robinson, he's got a C grade for me. Here's what number two wide receivers have done against the Bucks average of four and a half catches in sixty yards.

Four of those eight that the eight Number two receivers they played scored. Uh, there's B level grades all over the map. As the second receiver against the Bucks, so that's why I have Robinson as and especially if Cup becomes slightly a decoy, then Robinson might see a little more action. But that's it. In the passing game. You're way more optimistic about Allen Robins. Yeah, I feel like it's a C grade. It's barely anything. It's a C grade with six teams on buy is what it is.

On the other side, I have a B grade on bout on Tom Brady. Since Josh Allen tor up the Rams and the opener, the Rams have only allied Loud five passing touchdowns and an average of hundred and seventy

two yards per game. That's terrible, but it was against Ayota and Cooper Rush and Jacob Easton and p J. Walker and Jimmy g a couple of times, and it was statistically the softest quarterback schedule based on what those quarterbacks have done outside of the game they played against the against the Rams, so it's a it was a pretty easy schedule. Brady's second in the NFL, and passing he's gained two two four yards per game. Uh, the

problem is he's not scoring multiple touchdowns. I have him with one to two in this so I got him with a B grade. Evans and Godwin Evans, I got the A grade god when I got the B grade. Evans has twenty six targets in the last two games, five of those reds on targets. Godwin has twenty four. They're two of the top five target getters in the NFL and the last for the last two weeks. Evans has a third of Brady's touchdown passes and has top ninety five yards and three the last five. That's why

he is getting the A grade. Wow, Jalen Ramsey has been awesome. Get this. I'm still games. Jalen Ramsey's averaging one catch for six yards in his coverage and you can't can inch me. He's gonna be anywhere else besides Mike Evans. I don't think you're giving that matchup between all right. I have a tough time believing the force fed targets aren't gonna get and Evans has a height advantage. I feel like Evans can still do it against Ramsey.

I we should look up Ramsey and Evans prehistorical stats there Um god with with B grades six plus catches in all five games since returning from injury. The problem is he's not getting the yardage. It's only one game over seventy five yards, so he's got a B level floor for me there. I do have Otton and Braid on the bench. The rams are number one against the tight ends, and Brad might come back which will limit

them both. Otton would be an interesting dart throw if he's the sole guy, but I'm on the bench for now. But in the running game for Net's the only guy I have with a grade. Uh, it's a B grade here. Rams d is top five against running backs, not allowing a hundred yard rusher. H Christian McCaffrey, however, tore him up in back to back games, and four Net can catch the ball quite a bit. He's in eight team plus touches. Uh, He's got a pre grade just on volume, in the fact that he gets a lot of pass

game work. Rashad Whites on the bench though, only seven, seven or eight touches in every game since the opener, So I'm projecting seven or eight touches here. But he's been under forty five yards and all but one of those games, so I'm gonna keep him on the bench. Leonard for NET is not top four yards per carry since the season opened. Its volume, it's all volume. It's this there's at some point a desperate Bucks team. Unless his offense turns around, He's gonna make the change at

running back. The only two duds on four NET in four NET scheduled this season. We're in those blowout games. The closer games is where he makes his hay and I think this one's gonna be closer. Panthers take on the Bengals and this is DJ Moore with one of the electrifying touchdowns of the season last week, and I kind of like him in a another opportunity spots start here. Yeah, he's getting a shocking forty five per cent of his

team's are yards. That's the most in the league. And since Walker has taken over at quarterback, he's only gotten better scored in two straight double digit targets and two straight teras. Marshall actually getting all the extra snap since Robbie Anderson left home saw nine targets last week, posted eighties seven yards. Since he is allowing only ten and a half wide receiver receptions per game, that's the fifth fewest in the league. But cornerback Mike Hilton has been

ruled out. Trey Flowers hasn't practiced all week with a hamstring injury. They already lost cornerback A Woozy. A. Yes, Uh, so we're down to like fourth and fifth and sixth cornerbacks that are going to be on the field for Cincinnati. Um, I'll give d J. More and a here and Terris Marshall worth a look if you're in a deep league and in by week. Hell uh, p J Walker. Next Gen stats gives Walker the least time to throw in the league this year. Weirdly, Tom Brady is second and

Aaron Rodgers is third. No wonder why they're not having a very good season. Uh, it's just not as lucrative a matchup as it was against Atlanta last week. Since he has only allowed seven passing scores through eight games. Obviously a lot of corners injured there. I'd want to keep Walker on the bench. I could see a C grade if you really really need a guy in in this weird bye week. Uh. The only other guy to

start is Donta Foreman, who gets a B grade. Here twin one and eighteen rushing yard games since CMC left Town added three touchdowns last week. Tuba is already out this week as well, so it's all form and this week the Bengals are a much tougher tests though. Their top ten in yards per carry, rushing touchdowns, and allowed com and allowed combo yards to opposing back, so top ten in all those categories. On the since side, Joe

Burrow gets an A grade. Even in the weird loss last week to Cleveland, Burrow still put up decent fantasy numbers. The Panthers have allowed the sixth most completed passes this season, in the twelveth most yards, and Marcus Mariott to just passed for two fifty three and three. On this defense, Burrow can do at least that. Tyler Boyd gets a B and t Higgins it's an A. None of the Carolina corners are particularly good, and they've been moving Higgins

around a ten mismatches. I think Horne is really good and getting better, and Donte Jackson is a gambler, but he can be good too. They're not as good as te Higgins, though that's probably true. The Panthers are allowing the second most receptions and the eleventh most yards per game to the wide receiver position. Hence, I don't think their corners are all that good. Hayden Hurst startable with a C grade. Panthers have given up some big days

to tight ends in the past few weeks. Some random guy named Kyle Pitts had eighty in a score last week, Kate Otten had sixty four the week before, and Zach Ertz had forty seven and to score a few weeks ago. Finally, Joe Mixon, Yeah, I want to give him an A, but he hasn't been good all year. He scored three times in eight games. His high mark for rushing yards is eight two. In the six of eight games he's played, he's been held under three point five yards per carry.

The Panthers are allowing the sixth most comboy yards to opposing runners at a hundred and thirty eight per game, and they just allowed Caleb Huntley to run for nine one last week. I'll give him a B and hope for the best. But kind of like Leonard four Net, I think the end is creeping up on Joe Mixon, and if he goes off this week, I would trade Joe Mixon as soon as I am able. He's uh, he's getting a lot more attention in the passing game

up late. And that first game without Jamaar Chase, what do you have like nine targets nine times that Donta Foreman. By the way, just because you mean you mentioned him, I'll just say this, Uh, donte Foreman has is really our lone success story coming off Achilles. Now it's four years later. It takes four years, right, but tip of the hat to dott a Foreman as the really the only running back you can point at and go, here's somebody who has salvaged a career. He's running at five

yards per carry and again four years off. So three years from now, cam Acres, James Robinson their back, baby. That's right, They're gonna have a great season when we come back. Dolphins take on the Bears. Will break down Raheem Mostard's prospects and take a chance on me. Nine players not normally and you're starting line up in a brutal bite week. We'll tell you some guys you can lean upon who are available in your league. Take a chance on me. At nine players not normally and you're

starting line up. Many of these guys are available on the waiver wire. In fact, I think I bet on average of seven of these nine are going to be available on your way. Yeah, let's bed with the quarterback position, Scott Fish. I'm going with a trend that started a few weeks ago for us. It's played the quarterback that plays the Raiders. I'm going with Trevor Lawrence. He's playing the Raiders who have allowed multiple touchdowns every quarterback they've faced.

Trevor is decently most mobile, and they have allowed three rushing scores as well. When guys like Andy Dalton and Davis Mills and and Russell Wilson can have solid fantasy days, you know what each way to didn't get the Russell Wilson didn't. Yeah, he's averaging more Fantasy points than five of the seven quarterbacks who put up those decent days so far this this year against the Raiders, Matt, you'll

take a chance, I mean quarterback. I want to mostly point out that Aaron Rodgers is one of nine players who might be in your might not be in your starting lineup, and one of which who might be found on the waiver wire, and I might dropped him in. Rogers has been mostly bad this year. It might not be all his fault. I mentioned that he's had the third least amount of time to throw in the pocket

as both of his starting tackles have been injured. But he did show a little glimpse of life against Buffalo last week. And for as bad as he's been, the Lions defense has been worse. In DFS, You've won a lot of money this year if you've just done game stacks with and against the Lions to A three two and three Gno. Three twenty and two plus forty nine and one on the ground Carson Wentz even three thirty seven and three, Jalen Hurts, Kirk Cousins put up good games.

Plus Rogers has thrown multiple touchdown passes in eleven straight games where he started and finished against the Lions, and eighteen in his career. Just owns the Lions. Taylor Heineke takes on his former team, the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings zone defense is very soft at the linebacker level and coverage, and that's right on target for Heineke, averaging seven and a half yards per attempt. I see a lot of short completions coming, maybe not the explosive place, but a

plenty of short ones. The LAS two teams to face Minnesota have thrown for three hundred twenty six yards and four hundred seven yards. Both Terry McLaren and Curtis Samuel strongly positive matchups. As you will hear in just a few minutes, Let's go to the core running back position. Let's do it. This is one of those guys that's probably not on your way for wire anymore after the trade ditline. But you might be hesitant to start. I'm saying you should. Uh. Nahem Hines new running back, pass

catching running back for the Buffalo Bills. They were desperately trying to fill this role over the off season. They had j D McKissick as they're they're running back for about an hour and a half. Uh. They had Chase Edmonds, they were trying to trade four. Uh. They then they drafted James Cook that hasn't worked in the past catching role they wanted. Now they traded for Nahem Binds. The Bills are double digit favorites, which should allow the second back to get in enough, and the second back is

top fifty yards in three straight against the Jets. Jets allowed over five receptions the game, and they just got hit for seven for seventy two by Rumadre Stevens last week. By the way, that's that's the game script with the Bills is they keep passing, even late in the game when they're up, and they passed to the running back at that point. That's why James Cook has had value at the end of the games. Matt, you're take a chance of me running back? Uh. The guy that niheim

Hines left behind in India is Dion Jackson. In Week six in the Year of Our Lord two, the Colts offense was missing Jonathan Taylor and Nike Mines. That week, Dion Jackson burst onto the scene had forty two rushing yards plus a score, added ten catches for seventy nine yards. Taylor will miss this week again with injury. Niheim Hines is now a Buffalo Bill. Last week and Sam Elinger's

first start, he relied heavily on Taylor this week. It wouldn't surprise me if he does the same thing with Jackson. It's tough to run against the Pats, though, but they're allowing the eighth most receiving yards to opposing runners this year, so I think he's still in play. And Jackson has been targeted fourteen times. So far this season, he has caught fourteen passages. I doubt they throw it to the ruin backs throw it to him ten times. They threw

like sixty about sixty times in that game. I don't know that that happens. Might take a chance to be running back is Dontrell Hilliard of the Tennessee Titans taking on the Chiefs. Chiefs are a very good run defense, and I think they're gonna bottle up to some degree anyway Derrick Henry. But you know where they're terrible is

through the air. Dontrell Hilliard has two games with four receptions, another game with sixty one receiving yards, and he's got a league high time three receiving scores for the running back position. The Chiefs are allowing nine receptions for sixty four receiving yards per game to opposing running backs. I would take nine for sixty four from Dontrell Hilliard. The game script here is likely with the Chiefs getting ahead, they're gonna have to be in pass mode for at

least much of this game. Now, Malik Willis is a starter, all bets are off because they only trusted him to throw the ball ten times last week, which is humiliating for Malik Willis. We want to be honest about it. But as long as it's Matt, as long as we've got Ryan Tannehill at under center, Dontrell Hilliard is a viable player. You don't need to throw against the Texans.

You just have Derrick Henry run for two yards. Problem well, I mean, and he's been living in practice at the end of the week, so I mean, this could this could really be a boom if that if he doesn't play somehow, let's go to the I meant Derrick Henry has been living in practice. Yes, I figured that's what you met, but for a second I wasn't positive he'll certainly play there in this game. Okay, uh, let's go

to your receiver, Scott. I'm going with Josh Palmer, one of the last men standing over there for the Los Angeles Chargers. Keenan Allen is going to be out. Mike Williams already knows out. Donald Palm is now going to be out for weeks apparently with this new hamstring injury, so he like he probably wasn't gonna factor anyway. So it's gonna be Palmer and it's gonna be DeAndre Carter, and it's gonna be Gerald Everett, and that's about it

for that. He gets a Falcons matchup who they're just getting torched through the yeir Qbs are averaging three yards on them. The Falcons have allowed seven wide receivers over seventy five yard It's in just the last three weeks. They're they're getting tors So Josh Palmer, Okay, you take a chance for me receiver Matt I got Romeo Dobbs, who's only roster and percent of Yahoo leagues at the beginning of the week. Allen Lazard and Christian Watson might

not be ready to return this week. Almost doesn't matter. Dobbs has been their best receiver so far. He's had touchdowns in three games, including last week, seven or more targets and four of the last six, and just with the eye test, doesn't look like there's a lot of players Rogers seems to trust more than Dobbs right now, facing a Lion's defense that's allowed a hundred and ninety three yards per game to opposing wide receivers. So I think Dobbs gets his first career one hundred yard game

right this week. Alright, I like calling your shot. Might take a chance on the receiver. Is Indianapolis rookie Alec Pierce going up against the Patriots. Now here's the key thing you need to know. The Patriots have got one elite cornerback, Jonathan Jones, and he's awesome, but he's gonna be busy shadowing Michael Pittman. Of course, that's the fu's biggest threat. The other outside cornerback is Jalen Mill and

he's horrible. He ranks his Pro Football Focuses one hundred twenty second quarterback fourth from the bottom of your monitor if you're looking for a hundred and twenty two. He has allowed the fifteenth most yards per game in his coverage. Jalen Mills has so Alec Pierce. He fared pretty well with Sam Ellen. You're slinging the ball last week sixty five yards and Ellener's first start. So yeah, let's take Let's take Alec Pierce as might take a chance on

me receiver. Next matchup up Dolphins taking on the Bears. You already know to a waddle Tyreek Hill are all A grades two ranks number one in passing yards, number three in passing attempts per game, and that there's no stopping these guys right now, even though there are some good matchups on the table. But let me mention this Tyreek, Hill and Waddle both run out of the slot copiously.

Maybe the league's worst slot cornerback is in Chicago Kyler Gordon, who has allowed the most passing yards in the NFL. Sticking with the passing game, Mike Kasecki gets a see he's fourth red zone targets by tight ends and he has scored three times in the last three games. The catch, of course, with kisek in you know this from years past.

He's a low volume, touchdown dependent player. The Bears have given up the six few ess yards per game to tight ends, and the Bears have kept volume low by only facing two tight ends, only allowing two tight ends

to see five or more targets. You need it, You need a touchdown here and only because it's a it's a six team bye week, and by giving a C grade on Mike Koseki, and that's the only other dolphin that you really care about here is whe Mostard Bears allowing the fourth most total yards and fifth most touchdowns per game to opposing running backs the last two weeks, Ramandre Stevenson and Tony Pollard have averaged one hundred twenty three total yards and two scores per game, most of

is averaging seventeen touches as the starter in Miami's reinvigorated offense. So plenty of opportunities to do damage here and a B grade on Mostard. I don't think Jeff Wilson is gonna get enough duty to start him yelling here, and we're gonna talk more about this Wilson Mostard backfield a little later in the show. Chicago side. Let's start with Justin Fields, who has finished as a top twelve fantasy quarterback in four straight games, including top five finishes the

last two weeks. We all want Fields to throw more often, and this might be the chance because Miami owns the seventh highest opponent passing play percentage. They've also allowed two hundred fifty or more passing yards and or multiple touchdowns in six the last seven games. Another good start potentially coming from Fields here, and he could help out on the ground. The Dolphins surrendered one nineteen rushing yards and a touchdown to the comparable Lamar Jackson earlier this season.

B grade. I toyed with an A grade justin fields, but couldn't get myself to do it. Do it, I can't do it. Chase Claypool gets a C grade with five days to learn the playbook. I think. I think he's on the field for like thirty snaps, maybe half of those total snaps something like that, and some of those snaps will be designed plays for Chase Claypool, and quite possibly in the end zone where claypoo We can use this big frame to box out Miami's cornerbacks, particularly

the slightly built Noah ig Binogeny. I think I got it right. I don't think, uh, what do you think it is? H Yeah, there you go. But yeah, you talked to big story until you had the rest of the letters are silent. It's only reasonable to expect. Perhaps. I think you get maybe like three or four receptions from Claypool. You hope one of them is a touchdown,

and that puts him in the C category. In a tough bye week, Darneld Mooney also see Until claypools fully integrated, Mooney remains the number one option against the Miami pass defense that Pro Football Focus ranks third worst in coverage he'll face off with against undrafted rookie cater cohu Man you made that name up plays Ben but don't break coverage, allowing at least four receptions in each of his last four and fifty nine yards per game, but is not

allowed to score this year. Mooney has not scored a touchdown all season. So that's all the more and gimm is a c grady, although it's a good opportunity. So now let's go to Chicago's running backs because this thing has been an evolving a situation. You've got David Montgomery and you've got Khalil ground there Herberg. They both get C grades. This has turned into an almost even time share. Herbert has been more efficient, He's been more explosive. Montgomery

continues to get goal line work. Herbert's got more yardage to Montgomery in three straight games. Herbert is the only running back in the NFL that is both top five in yards before contact per carry and yards after contact per carry. Herbert's good. And by the way, those of you in dynasty leagues, Empire League's keeper leagues that are

maybe thinking about Herberts You're starting running back next year? Yeah, I think I think Montgomery's contract is up to so yeah, keep that in mind this, You know, if you're already thinking for next year, Herbert's a good acquisition now, not when he's everybody knows he's the starter next year. Miami's only allowing seventy rushing yards per game, and if that's going to be split roughly in half between Montgomery and Herbert,

there's not a lot there to love. But we'll hope for a touchdown for Montgomery because he's getting the goal line work. We'll hope Herbert can get maybe forty fifty of the total yards and that puts a C grade on both of those guys. Our next matchup up is Raiders taking on the Jaguars. Scott Raiders got humiliated last week and there were no points we had from anybody. Um everybody started Raiders. It was an embarrassing law and Davante Adams came in sick and we thought he'd be

absolutely fine. It was it was not fine. Uh this one? How this one? I got Adams right back to his aid? Does happened? Mentioned? He was sick with an illness all last week, came in sick and apparently you know he had yards and or scoring every single Gear game lading up to that New Orleans game. This might be a little bit of a squeaky wheel game for the team

where they please don't play that sound effect. I hate that. No, I would, I would give it grease if there was has been decent I actually have Car on the bench, I have Hollans on the bench. I read for all the bench. So maybe maybe it's not as squeaky of a wheel game as it sounds. Uh. Let's see, Car has just three touchdowns in the last four weeks and he's averaging averaging under two yards in that span, which

is pretty in line with the Jags d recently. Since the opener, the Jags have allowed just six passing touchdowns in seven games, and three of those came in the same game, so only one multiple score game in those uh four games under two hundred and five yards. In fact, I have Car on the bench, had most of this passing game on the bench. Even though I think Adams can find his way to get h his with Waller out or with with with Waller, it's question whether he'll

play or not. If he does go, it sounds like he's gonna go. I have a B grade on him. Jacksonville just allowed eighty seven yards to Dulcinich. Right before that, they allowed seventy two to Goddard, and those are well that was a few weeks ago, but that was the only two like commonly started notable fantasy tight ends they've even played this year, and both for a commonly started tight end anymore. I think he's still pretty commonly when

he's active and upright, I guess that they probably start him. Yeah, I think that. I think maybe draft capital leads people to continue starting him. Um, that's that's probably I was gonna I was gonna love. Yeah, I was gonna look up to see exactly where his targets feel like they're still Yeah, the last few weeks when he's been injured, No, but he was. He had over five targets in every single game until he got injured. So, uh, Josh Jacobs have an age grade on in this one. I think

this is where they likely get something going. It's probably not going to be in the past game here, but Jacobs, like with Adams, I'm willing to throw out last week he got twelve. He's still got t of touches, but should return to his eighteen touch ways he was in the previous five. He was chipping in three to five

catches on top of his eighteen plus. Uh. Jacksonville is allowing a hundred and thirty five combo yards and a touchdown per game to backs and Jacobs gets almost everything, so he should he should have a darn near and eight getting almost everything. Travis Etna, Yes, man, is he powering? He felt Snoop Connor on his heels and he's like,

I gotta make sure. Yeah. Absolutely. On the other side, I have a Trevor Lawrences might take a chance on me player, because you know, quarterbacks just killed the Raiders. Christian kirk b Grade is the only one you can trust at wide receiver. He has seventeen targets in the last couple of games, and the Raiders give up the fifth most yards to slot receivers. He's in the right spot for B level Day uh day and Marvin Jones on the bench. They're taking turns being irrelevant. There a

grade for e t n uh. You just mentioned like he gets everything. Twenty seven touches last week, his first, his first real game without Robinson. This was a top ten run day Rundy. But now they're ranked eleventh worst over the last three weeks. Uh giving they've given up two and fifty yards and three scores in the last two. In fact, Evan Ingram, I have an A grade on charge. Do you disagree with that? Evan Ingram A grade? I

think I do disagree, all right. You wanted me to push hag me to an A and I like I like this matchup better alright. He's averaging five catches and about fifty eight yards on an averages seven or more targets in each of the last four weeks. Impressive opportunity here for for him. The only true excuse me, I guess I'm getting the wrap up music here. Um. The only other true tight end that that played against them had three for fifty four and a score. Day. I

feel like it's a good day here for Evan. It's like the Oscars. If you spend too long on a matchup, all of a sudden, music left the music exactly. But when we come back, Packers take on the Lions. We already told you Matt likes Aaron Rodgers in this game, and Romeo Dubb and Romeo Dobbs. There's a there's a lot to like from the Packers will talk more about that game when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy in Scott Fish

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Thursday night points count. Where does Jalen Hurts go? Where does Dallas Goddard go. Where does Damien Pierce goes? Damien Pierce the first rounder? I think he I think he might be. He is special. We'll talk more about him in a few minutes. Let's continue breaking down matchups. Packers take on the Lions. Matt, you already told us how much you like Aaron Rodgers, Romeo Dubs. Who else in this passing game can we rely upon? Um, there's one other guy in the passing game you can rely upon.

That's Robert touny In, tied for first in the league in next Gen stats separation staff. Yeah, that's weird. Robert tunn In open all the time average four points six yards away when he catches the ball. That's how far the defenders are when he catches the ball. He's wide open. Uh. This week he faces a Lions team that has allowed the ninth most yards to opposing tight ends and already

five touchdowns to the position in seven games. Uh. The other wide receiver Sammy Watkins and Marie Rodgers, who got the most snaps last week in the absence of Christian Watson and Allen Lazard. Now, both Lazard and Watson have been limited in practice this week. If Lazard plays. He'd probably be worth a C grade in this one, but

the rest are desperation plays if they're active. If Watson and Lazard don't go, I guess Watkins is kind of interesting, But just because he's on the field, Aaron Jones, He's only facing eight man fronts in four per cent of his snaps, the lowest amount in the league, and they're not handing him the ball enough. Although in fairness, A J. Dillon's coming off a really nice game last week. I guess yeah, But the last time Aaron Jones faced the Lions,

it was September. He had a hundred and fifteen combo yards and four touchdowns. The Lions have allowed the league's most rushing touchdowns to opposing backs, So Aaron Jones gets the fantasy ard vark this week. It also brings A J. Dillon into the mix, who did look all right against Buffalo last week. I'll give him a C grade in

this one as well. I think he does deserve a se right here, and especially if with the potential of a well, I don't know if we can call anybody the Packers, I get I don't think have actually Ken threatened to blow anybody out, so never mind, probably not, but this game could be interesting in a lot of ways. Detroit's kept it close offensively. Well, let's see. Let's see the Detroit side here. Let's start with DeAndre Swift. He did not practice on Wednesday, he was limited on Thursday,

but he's trending in the right direction. I'm still going to give him an A grade here. The Packers have been a disaster against the run. Uh They've allowed the second most rushing yards in the lead to opposing runners and a shockingly bad five point one yards per carry. I think for that reason, Jamal Williams is a C in the revenge game too. You've got the letter grades mixed up on these two. Swift touch six times last week and his head coach says we overworked him. The

injury is just he's just not ready for the workload. Yeah. Background Jared Goffe, he's on the bench. Easy to run on the pack, really tough to pass. Green Bay is allowing the second fewest completions and yards per game. This isn't the spot to start Goff, but Aman Ross st Brown is the receiver you can consider. Josh Reynolds went backwards in practice this week. He was limited on Wednesday

and did not practice on Thursday or Friday. Calif Raymond has been on the field for percent of the snaps or more for three straight weeks, so he's probably the other wide receiver. Of course, t J. Hockenson was traded to the Vikings this week. Brock Wright is the new starting tight end, but he's not worth rostering. So in the games where Hockinson was gone and last year and st. Brown was the only option, he saw six straight games of double digit targets, six straight games of eight or

more catches. Five of those six games he scored a touchdown. Five of those six he had eighty or more yards. Even with the tough matchup. Solid be here for a Monroe. St Brown. I like it. I think you're onto something there. There's there's a nice opportunity for him. Let's go to the Vikings taking on the Commanders. We begin with Justin Jefferson in a grade, but we're seven weeks removed from his last receiving touchdown and that was the opener. So last time Justin Jeffery he ran one in like four

weeks ago. But that's it. I think that's something that should get corrected in time. Jefferson has been targeted from inside the ten yard line, which is as much as all the Minnesota receivers combined. So I think the touchdown correction is coming, and hopefully it's coming here A grade on Justin Jefferson. Let's talk about the other parts of the passing offense from Minnesota, including Adam Feeling. He is averaging seven targets per game, and that's substantial enough to

produce against a suspect Washington secondary. The Commanders have improved since they benched and then subsequently traded William Jackson. That was a that's the old addition by subtraction right there. Um. This is largely due to a schedule rife with impotent passing attacks. However, outside cornerbacks Benjamin st. Juice and Kendall Fuller allowing a passer rating of one four between them, kind of like Feeling here. I can't say that he gets in the end zone because they're just not using

him that way anymore. But still a solid fifty to sixty yard game probably coming for Adam Feeling and a C grade for him. What to do about t J. Hockenson. I was talking about this with former Viking Chad Greenway on Friday, and he was like, five days. You could be on the field for half of the snaps in five days to learn a playbook. But here's the problem. The Commanders have been an awesome tight end defense. Get

a load of this. They allow the fourth fewest completions, the second fewest receptions, the set in fewest yards, and the second fewest touchdowns two tight ends just one all year. Do you think with Hockinson coming in a little green this week, they use them more in the slot and not in line, so he doesn't have the blocking duties. Yeah, that would make sense, so you know that would you know? But I assume that they've faced other tight ends that have shared up in the slot too, But there might

be a little more upside. Think there's a little more upside, and they need they need better touchdown production. I was just mentioning Delon's not catching touchdowns, Jefferson's not maybe a touchdown here, But I can't put his starting grade on Hockinson five days into his new team. Uh, he actually played Washington already once this year. How do you do three catches for twenty six scoreless yards? And that's again why Hopkinson's on the bench this week, Kirk Cousin comes

in with his perpetual B grade. The Commander's secondary improves a ton, as I mentioned with William Jackson out, but that just means they're non terrible here. This is the middle of the pack secondary. The only quarterbacks who have failed to throw multiple touchdowns against Washington Samuel and earn his first start justin fields and Ryan Tannehill. Cousins is a better pastor than all of those. I think two touchdowns sounds about right for Cousins where he's logging in

most of the time, thirty seven straight games. But they touchdown pass for Kirk Cousins sixth longest all time, and he's currently on his longest streak all time of throwing two or less. He hasn't thrown. Yeah, that is that is probably true as well. All right, let's get to the Washington side of this matchup, and I want to begin with the running backs in this one. Brian Robinson just isn't very good. It's the I want the narrative to be that he's great and you know the Hollywood

ending here, but we're not seeing it. He looks slow, he's not productive, and you'll have to take my word for it. Here's the stats. He hasn't topped three point seven yards per carry in any game, and that's terrible. Did you see my tweet on him that he that it reminds me of watching someone play plink. Oh, he just runs into the back of one lineman then dead into the fact of that. That's good, and then I do it justin said, and sometimes the tight end just

keeps running into him. Ron Rivera knows it. He's dropped. Robinson snaps down to fifteen last week. The only thing going for him is that he's getting most of the goal line carries. And that's all your only reason to even consider starting Brian Robinson. Antonio Gibson, by the way bench grade and Robinson. If that wasn't already clear, Antonio Gibson gets a C grade here. He's clearly better than Robinson.

He's averaging five point three yards per carry over the last three weeks, and Gibson has caught a touchdown in back to back weeks. And J. D. McKissick is out, so Gibson's gonna notch some extra receptions there. Last week, Gibson had seven catches. Minnesota's Pro Football Focus is top ranked run defense No back his top eighties seven yards, but defensive tackle Dalvin Tomlinson is out of this game,

so that could be helpful for Gibson. Almost gave him a B grade, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. C grade on Antonio Gibson. Let's go to the passing game for Washington Terry McLarin y McLaren and his two games with Heinecki. McLaren is averaged five point five receptions for nine three yards. He's scored once running against the very against running against very good cornerbacks j Or Alexander

and Stephon Gilmour. He runs from the left side twice as often as anywhere else, and that puts him into a favorable matchup with Cam Danceler. And that is a B grade on Terry McLaurin and B grade on on Curtis Samuel. Running from the slot, he goes up against Minnesota's worst cornerback, Chandon Sullivan. He's allowing the sixth most receptions, seventh most yards, and the most yards after the catch

of any cornerback. So be great on Curtis Samuel here, and a C grade on Taylor Heinekey as I outlined and take a chance on me as well. J D. Mckissic is out. Logan Thomas is barely coming back to the calf injury. John Dotson has been ruled out of this game. When we come back for our number two three Tough Questions, see if you can go three and oh,

like our panel of experts will try to go. When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, and also, as always, you can go to Guillotine Lee dot com and join the Guillotine League. Now more Fantasy Football Weekly coming up in moments. It's our number two Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Church and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you. This

is a game we call three Tough Questions. You can play along see if you can go three and oh with our panel of experts, Ian Fish, you should pay attention to see they'll see how many you get right. We'll see if you can match wits as well. We begin with tough Question number one. You hear the shuff questions common man here exactly? Uh, these are all trade ramification questions. So that is the theme. Last week we

had a theme. This week we actually, I think the last three weeks we've got a theme and three tough questions we do not normally have. Tough question Number one, Jeff Wilson was traded to Miami, where he reunites with Mike McDaniel. From this point forward is Raheem Moster and RB one, r B two flex or bench player Scott So Jeff Wilson is a far bigger threat to most than Chase Edmunds ever was going to be, So that's of some concern. McDaniels got the two guys he rotated

when he was in San Francisco. Two of the guys he rotated anyway, that said, most of it's performing semi decently. Uh, and the lead for what's shaping up to be a top offense that's going to move the ball and be able to run it a decent amount in games, my instinct was to say flex. As I look through the list, I put him down right around RB twenty one. I'm thinking it might be a low end RB two. I think talent level is closer to flex, though I'm gonna

lean high end flex. Okay, Matt for this point forward is Rahee Mostard and RB one, RB two flex or bench player right now and PPR he's ranked so he's already a flex player, UM, and Mike McDaniels has been very shanahany in his ability to stick with one guy in the run game. Now, Wilson seems to be the clear insurance policy for if and when Mostard gets hurt, and he's got a long injury history. But here's the issue.

The next three weeks the Dolphins faced the third easiest run team, the second easiest run team, and the easiest run defense in the league. Mostard probably gets first cracked to hold the position for the next week or so. He should should succeed in those games, which just might hold Wilson off for the long term. Like I said, he's already a flex player. I think he just stays there.

Most has run well over the last month, five yards and carry and dominating the snaps, getting two thirds of the work, roughly the same volume that Derrick Henry gets, So you know he's he's been getting to I think it to beast running back, very similarly built, same same usage really, UM, But what we don't know is how

much of that was because Chase Edmonds sucks. Wilson is far better and a much bigger threat, where Mostard is very vulnerable and here's really well on to focus in on this question is touchdowns from inside the ten yard line. Mostard has four carries, only four and zero touchdowns out of those four carries from inside the ten and he scored just two times all year. And the goal line is where it gets very interesting for Jeff Wilson. Wilson

is an effective short yardage ball carrier. He's got eighteen lifetime carries from inside the five yard line and he's scored on almost half of them. Last year, when Wilson was at San Francisco with Mike McDaniels as his offensive coordinator, Wilson scored on half of his goal line carries. And that is meant as long time listeners knows, that's what you're gunning for. He's a fifty percent conversion rate into

touchdowns on carries from inside the five yard line. Most of injury history has got to be taken into account. Here's well because we know most are breaks down most seasons and then Wilson be ready to go. So when you factor in the lack of touchdowns, better competition, and the injury risk for he, Mostard is just a flex starter across the rest of the season. We ended up at the same spot, but I was much more glowing tough. Question Number two From this point forward is new Bears

wide receiver Chase Claypool a wide receiver one. A wide receiver to flex or bench player. We begin with Matt this time. We talked about Justin Fields a little bit and how he's shown some signs of life over the last few weeks, but he's still only throwing the ball more than twenty three times once this season, and twenty

three times is an insanely low amount. Now, granted, having weapons might make you throw the ball a little bit more good matchups in the next three weeks with Miami, Detroit, and Atlanta, but after that the schedule turns absolutely brutal for the Bears four top eleven past defenses in the final five Fantasy weeks. I think he'll get a few sea grades, but he'll mostly be a bench player for you,

all right, Scott? From this point forward, is new Bears wide receiver Chase Claypool a wide receiver one wide receiver to flex or bench. Yeah, so, first off, can you guarantee me that Justin Fields is going to actually throw for over two yards in a game coming up? Because he hasn't done it yet, and I would really like that because that would help. UM I had I had I had Claypool in the same exact spot Matt did. I think he's gonna be a flex actually most weeks,

but with a few benches. UM, I'm not sure Justin fields can support two wide receiver options. He's never done it in almost any of the games that he's had in the first two years. UM, but you only can't until you can. I should trademark that you only can't

until you can. UM, He's got Sea level upside and this offense if they start to turn it around, I can see with the matchups, there's some flex plays, there's some bench plays, but overall I'm to give him a flex is Russell Wilson you only can until you can't? There it is? Yeah, I think. So I make him put that on a T shirt and he'd it to the Broncos. He's MR unlimited until he can't until he is limited. Chase Claypool was mostly a bench player while

he was with the Steelers. UM, So the real question here is canny advance now to a flex level starter. Chase Claypool just one touchdown on the season, most of his games in the thirty to forty yard range prior to this, So he gets a passer upgrade from Kenny Pickett to Justin Fields, which you would not think would necessarily be an upgrade, but the way Pickett has been playing, I think I'd rather have balls coming from Justin fields.

The Bears are ultra incentivized to use Claypool copiously. They want to evaluate fields, they have some sense of what they've got with him, and the parents aren't exactly dead for a playoff spot in the wide open NFC, they're actually alive. That's a good joke. Church. Now, if we were only looking at the immediate games coming up, and Matt,

I think you broke the code on this. He has two strongly positive matchups the rest of the way, their Week ten and Week eleven that's coming up next week, not this week, but the week after that, the week after that. But then to your point, there's this brutal set of five games which I can't even imagine rostering him through Jets who have turned into a very good past defense. Packers, Bye Week, Eagles, Buffalo. That's five straight games which I can't even I don't even want to roster.

Here was my only thought. My thought on the flex scene for those game script, they're gonna be behind in all of them. Now that maybe that ends up helping out in some of these instants. Um but these are great past defenses, and I think mostly he's going to get bench grades for us. So we will go bench grade on Chase Claypool. Number three from this point forward is new Vikings tight end t J. Hockenson, a top five tight end, a top ten tight end, a top

five teen tight end, or worse. We begin with Scott Fish. Yeah, so he was tight end four at the current point. But remember that about six of those fantasy stats came in one game with a bunch of players out sixty yards closer. Yeah, but still most of it came in one game. I don't think he's gonna come close to touching the Kelsey Andrews um uh. You know, George Kittle zach Ertz level. I think five is pretty much out of question. I think he's a slight upgrade over Smith,

you know, in this offense. I think he's going to be a better red zone weapon, even though the Detroit Lions did not use him that way. I think he's going to be a better red zone weapon than we've had for at the tight end position. Uh So, I feel like he's gonna round out in the six to ten range. There's a whole lot of players in that range right now who I don't think are going to

stay there. So you're saying top ten, top ten, you have six matt from this point going forward, is new Vikings tight end t J. Hockenson a top five, top ten, top fifteen, or worse Fantasy tight end. I'm trying to think of the tight ends that I'd rather have over

t J. Hockenson right now. It's Travis Kelsey obviously, Mark Andrews, Dallas Goddard, zach Ertz for sure, God for I know those should have those those guys are I meant to add, I meant to add, And then we're getting into the George Kittle, Kyle Pitts, t J. Hockenson range right there. I think that he's right in there. Uh So, I do think that it's it's probably unlikely that he finishes as the number five tight end, because there's four that I like a lot better. But I think top ten

is very easy for him to do. He now moves to a more competent, reliable offense, but one that also needs to feed Justin Jefferson the ball, Dalvin cooked the ball, Adam feeling the ball, and Kevin O'Connell's two seasons as offensive coordinator in Los Angeles, which I think is highly relevant here. Tyler Higbee was tight ends seventeen and tight end eighteen. Hmm. Not ideal. Granted, Hockinson's better than Tyler Higbee. I think that goes without saying here, but materially enough

to move him into like top five category, no chance. Now. In Detroit he was tight end. I had item is tight end five to this point, scottsond tighten four, but much of that ranking was the one explosive week what you mentioned, and he had had four out of his seven games just straight up bad, straight up bad. I think top ten is as much as we can get here. I expect similar up and down output for Hockinson because

of the diversity of friends on the offense. Some games, the volume simply won't come his way, and you're gonna have to make do with some bad games out of Hockinson and then some better games and he will score more touchdowns. We talked earlier when I was breaking down the vikings. Jefferson struggles to score, Theeland struggles to score. I think that's a lot of why they brought in the big body t J. Hockenson. The correct answer is

top ten already in Fish, How did you do? Did you get zero, one, two, or three correct answers from the three tough questions? I had two right in one wrong. Nice job. That's still a winning record for Ian Fish. Well done, my man. Let's go to our next matchup, which is the Bills taking on the the New York Jets. Scott, this is a This is a game that features should feature a lot of points traditionally, but as we mentioned just moments ago, this Jet secondary vastly improved. Yeah, it

is vastly improved. But we're still not going to give anything less than an ad to Alan or Diggs. You can't do that. The question is can you give more to Davis, Mackenzie and the other options? Uh? Gabriel Davis, I do still have a B grade on despite being thirteen point favorites. We've mentioned before in the show and many of our shows, the Bills keep passing. Even in positive game scripts. He's often the big play guy who scores an unreal rate. He's kept that trend up this year,

scoring three times in the last three games. Uh. Mostly. A big part of the reason I give Davis to be here is in the two two blow up victories he went and one and a hundred and seventy one into And you're not benching him because he's the type of guy that on any given week could finish wide receiver one for the week. Here's what he's got that in here. Here's the thing about Gabriel Davis. He is

the rare touchdown dependent wide receiver. When he does not score touchdown, his average game is two catches for twenty eight yards. And that's how you take an L. So I think you still and this is this is not a bad secondary. I think you still have to show caution. I have more caution than gave Davis than you do. Yeah. Here, there there was one weather game in there, and yeah there's been three. There's one game he didn't play there.

But yes there's been there's been against him. Obviously, I'm not taking and giving him zeros when he didn't play. All right over to Isaia mackenzie got him on the bench. Snapshare has gone down Shaquire's has gone up. His volume is terrible when he doesn't score. Uh and he scored actually four times, so that's kept his value up. But he has just one game over forty yards. The Jets do allow the most targets per game to this lot. But I do have it. I do have him on

the bench. I just he just isn't getting the right amount of volume and too much. Dawson Knox C grade three to four catches for five to forty yards every week and you're pretty much every week and you're hoping for a score. That's his normal day. But at posing tight ends against the Jets are averaging almost six for sixty. That's buoyed by some hard, high target days and those high target games. Game games match what Knox has been

getting tons offense. They haven't a lot of touchdown yet, so only a see here um in the running game. I had to take a chance on me player of Hinds who I think you know can get can get some late game touches in some special pass game work during the game. Devin Singletary. I'm only given a C grade though too because of that. He gets a lot more volume in the games. They don't get up to big leads, and I think they're gonna get a big

lead here. You don't think. So there's thirteen point favorites here. I I respect the Jets defense more than the betting public does. I guess, all right, and and that's very possible if I guess once the line on the betting on either side. So maybe they put it there. Uh but but if it does become a blow, and that is very possible. With how good this Bill's offense is. You saw you saw how they were against the Packers,

who also have a very good past defense last week. Um, when they do get up, Singletary starts coming out and the backup running get backs come in. He had eight ten touches, eight touches, and seven touches in those two plus score blowouts. Only backs to top seventy yards took nineteen plus touches to get there. I don't think Devin Singletary gets anywhere near that, So I have a C grade on him. Let's go over to the other side.

Let's just start here. The Bills are top eight against every position, They rank first through eighth and against quarterbacks, running backs, watch tight ends. They're they're just good. So you got Wilson on the bench. The bright spot is he's coming up at three and fifty five to score game negative games wrapped. That's nice, But the downside is Mahomes and Rogers have had multiple scores against the Bills, but no one else did. Um, not even to not

even Lamar Jackson, Like it's a bad spot. Garrett Wilson, I am giving a C grade too. I think that that's where that comes and play. He's he's he's the target leader for the team. Uh, they've been in those blowouts that there's been an average of forty one passes against the Bills. If if Wilson's throwing that much and Garrett and Garrett Wilson is a lead target getter ten targets or so, he can do something with it to make a C level grade. Uh. Tyler Conkins C grade

on I don't actually love it though. I no tight end out of outside of Travis Kelsey is top forty yards, not even Mark Andrews. But Conklin is getting more targets than everybody else that except for those two. Um, so I have a starting grade on him, a C grade. Conklinand's had five plus catches in in multiple games in a row. Here their yardage total, the yardage totals of five plus target guys against the Bills forty three thirty nine four to six catches. That's probably what you're gonna

get out of Conklin just barely startable. Carter and Robinson though they're on the bench up until Aaron Jones last week, no other back had topped fifty yards against the Bills. These two are not on that level and they're splitting carriers. Yeah, it's a bad deal right now. Sad about Briest Hall, that's for sure. Although this would have been a tough matchup for Priests Hall too. Yeah, there's nothing to like that.

Still would have started Priest though. When you come back cold steak on the Patriots, Matt will tell you a little bit more about this new running game without in this new offense, without Jonathan and Taylor, what can the Colts get done? Sam Ellinger and Dion Jackson just the way we will for this season Togo for the Colts. Stay tuned for that and more. Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Scott Fish, Matt Harrison with you,

I am Paul Charchi. In We've got a big block of matchups for you, beginning with the Colts taking on the Patriots. Matt As we were talking about going into the last break. I don't think any of us saw scenario coming. Nobody where it would be mid season and it would be Sam Ellinger handing off to Dion Jackson. Yeah, everybody thought it would be the first, the first. He's Jonathan Taylor and Matt Ryan all first names there by the way. No, but but they're all gone, So Jonathan

Taylor out, hence Dion Jackson. As might take a chance of me running back Zack Moss, by the way, the new backup in India. I wouldn't start him this week, but if he's available in your league, there might be a little tiny premature speculation. Angle. That's okay, Uh, Sam Ellinger, I want to give him a see here, but I'm gonna leave him on the bench. Uh. The angle is the Pats are easier to pass on than run on, and New England has allowed the second most quarterback rushing

yards this year. But the Slinger only took off six times on the ground last week and only got fifteen yards. He is known to be fleet of foot, but he didn't flash all that much in last week's game versus Washington, and that's an easier matchup than against Belichick. Michael Pittman just a C grade here. Alec Pierce is on the bench this week. Pittman had a couple of drops last week and key situations. Maybe the chemistry between him and

Ellinger just isn't there yet. Either way, the Pats have only allowed four touchdowns to wide receivers all year and are allowing only eleven catches to the position per game. Over on the other side, there's some more interesting players. Romandre Stevenson very interesting for me. Yeah, I love it. He gets an A grade here. Damian Harris gets a C grade. Stevenson still dominating the touch count twenty three

to thirteen last week. I don't think Harris is even gonna play mad I don't know really, they haven't ruled him out, but just you know, you've got almost no practice all week and he just like pops up out of nowhere. He's a Patriots questionable. Come on, that could be. The Colts are allowing the most running back touches per game at thirty, which is translated to forty four combo yards per game to the position. There's plenty to go

around here. I mean, if Damien Harris is out from Andre Stevenson is through the moon out, he's an art park, that's what he is, just giving out art parks left and right. Oh my gosh. Mac Jones, he's the opposite of an art park. He's up bench. The opposite we've established is the mongo among the natural predator for the art Okay, so that would be that's wait, what were we talking about again, Mac Jones. Patriots receivers have had some of the lowest separation numbers in the league, which

is why Jones had little success this year. Hasn't had a multiple touch down game yet this season, only top two or six yards once. Definitely on the bench. Jacoby Myers is the only receiver I'd consider here. He'll mostly see Kenny Moore in coverage this week, who is the Colt's lowest graded corner by Pro Football Focus. More has allowed a passer rating of one point seven in this coverage. And Myers, the guy who could not score a touchdown last year, has scored in three of the last four

games since returning from injury. So Jacoby Myers strong c grade here, something between a C and a B. If there isn't, If anything like that, fine would imagine your letter? Do you believe exists between B and C? Is it greek? Is it's visit? Is it from Planet Xenon? Yeah? Yeah, okay, it's Greek. Let's go to the next Let's go to the next matchup, Titans taking on the Chiefs. This is my matchup. Is I want to begin with Derrick Henry.

Besse is a fascinating one. Now, these seems played each other last year and the Tennessee Titans went into Kansas Itty and gave him a beat down. But it wasn't because of Derrick Henry, which is kind of how I had remembered it, because he carried the ball twenty eight times in last year's meeting with the Chiefs. But get this, those twenty eight carries for Derrick Henry resulted in eighty nine yards. That's three yards per carry. And the Chiefs

run defense is way better now. Chiefs are allowing the sixth fewest rushing yards per game to opposing backs. They also allow the most receptions and receiving yards. But Derrick Henry doesn't chip in much through the air, which brings us to Dontrelle Hilliard. I like you guys know, I'm a Dontrell Hilliard fan, and he might take a chance on me running back, and I've got to see grade on him for what he can chip in through the air. And by the way, we're talking about Dontrell Hilliard sards

a second. We think of him as receiving back, which he is. He's also Pro Football focuses a thranked runner this year now, not on a ton of carries, and he's only got like seventeen carries on the season. But Dontrell Hilliard's a good player. The only other out letter grade I've got on any Titan is Robert Woods, a massive disappointment so far this year, with just one touchdown on only one game with more than thirty nine yards.

So you're giving him an F. So I'm giving him a C grade, although an F grade if if if it turns out that Malik Willis is the starter, then you can't start Robert Woods or any other part of the passing um. It's a C grade for garbage time. We'll call it garbage time. If Tannehill starts, he runs from all over the field, but will most often see Jalen Watson on the right side. That is a seventh round rookie cornerback who's been pressed into service, yielding three

touchdowns in five games. So in a tough bye week, if Ryan Tannehill starts, go ahead and put a C grade on Robert Woods. That's for Tannehill himself. We're gonna keep him on the bench, looking like a game time decision with his bad ankle. Either way, what are the things that gives Tannehill some fantasy viability? Is his ability to run in touchdowns seven touchdowns last year, seven rushing touchdowns, seven rushing touchdowns year before that. But on the ankle injury,

that's off the board. So and then you were you run the risk of reinjury here too, So pennels off the board. And then I mentioned this before your Malik willis you're all jacked up for your first NFL start and you're allowed to throw the ball ten times. That is an insult. It's humiliating, and I don't think it's as much of an insult as it was. It's so easy to run against the Texans. It's just so easy. He didn't have to do anything else. He didn't run

the ball either. I know you just handed it Terry game. Malik willis on the bench if he ends up getting the start in this game. Let's go over to the Kansas City side. Obviously, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey are A grades here, and they're both ranked number one at their respective positions in my rankings. As always a grades, particularly this week. This is a very good Tennessee run defense and a very bad past defense. So love Mahomes, love Kelsey, Juju Smith Schuster all the way up to

a B grade. He's commanded at least eight targets in five of seven games, and similar volumes should provide a very solid and floor for Juju Smith Schuster. Reid moves Juju all over the field. Andy Reid does, but most of his production comes from the right side. But will face struggling rookie cornerback Roger McCreery, who has surrendered two scores and a massive seventy eight percent catch rate in his coverage. And then that brings us to the rest

of the receivers. So now we have Nicole Hardman who had a good game last week, and we have um Marques Velda Scantling. Then we have now kid Darius Tony, who they've indicated will be active for this game, so the sky more and yeah, just kind of it's just too many guys, and and sure somebody is probably going to get something done here against a bad Tennessee secondary, Titans have allowed the seventh most yards and fifth most

touchdowns of the position. And if I had to pick one guy to be the dart throw player, wow, I would pick mvs because he runs from the outside, which is as a more stable snap count than Tony and Hartman, who run from the slot a lot, along with juje You, but really, I don't. I don't think you can start any of those guys. Also on the bench all of the running backs for the Chiefs. Let's look at how this is devolved into a miserable time share, and none

of them look particularly effective. And Tennessee is a very good run defense, Titans allowing the third fewest total yards and touchdowns per game to opposing backs in last year's beating between these teams, the Kansasy Runners is a group land and air total just seventy four yards. If it's going to be another seventy four yard issue style game, then that you can't start any of the Chiefs running backs. I'm afraid alright, final matchup at this segment, Chargers taking

on the Falcons, Scott. We've already talked a little bit about the Chargers, Frost and Ekeler. This is an A plus opportunity A plus. It's an art vark game, Matt. It's an art game. You can give out the week the top producing running back in Fantasy in the league against the team that just allowed Dionta freaking Foreman to go for a hun and eighteen yards and three scores. Come on, uh, Sonny Michelle, I do have the on the bench, but I get the dart throw. I I

get the dart throw here. Team might get the goal, might get some goal on work, but I don't know. I have a bench grade on him in the passing grade. I do have an A grade on Herbert. He might be He's gonna be without Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. He he might also be out be out with have DeAndre Carter out whom my nine year old passed me a note that he popped up today. Are popped up on Friday with a questionable illness, and that's not good. If he gets sick on Friday, and you never don't

love that. Yeah, he I had a C grade on him if he plays because everybody else is out. But if he doesn't, just just plot Palmer in there with a better grade. I do have an A grade on Gerald Everett. Uh. He's the guy more intrigued by five plus catches in four of his last six, fifty plus yards in four games, six plus targets in five games, second on the team in red zone with with red zone targets with eight. The Falcons are allowing near seven catches per game in nearly seventy yards per game to

tight ends and Donald Palm. Palm is out for at least a few more weeks. It sounds like with the hamstring injury that he incurred, you know, recently after getting off concussion protocol. Uh. So that's that side. On the other side, Mariotta, I do have a C grade with Chargers a three point favorite something game. It should be a closer one, but the higher and the high the over under is one of the highest of the week

at fifty. That should give Mariotta a nice game script to throw more and be you know, try to score a lot of points. He gets a lot of a lot of work on the ground that keeps him usually in sea level just with his groundwork. Um, there's not

a passing unfortunately. Yeah, he's thrown one to two touchdowns in all but one game as well, so he's getting at least a little through the air for you too, Drake London, I have a C grade on He cooled from the start of the season, but he was really hot and the start a season when Patterson was there, and Patterson is sounds like he's coming back this week. London still leads the team and target snaps, routes, run

everything matchup. His middle of the pack game script should be good for uh, good for good for passing game Chargers will now be without J. C. Jackson, which is going to help in the secondary. For it could it could be he really it was. It was a great addition in the preseason in the off season, but he was playing poorly, that is for sure. Uh. Cow pits

A grade. Pitts has seen fourteen targets in just the last two games, including three end zone looks, and honestly, he was about an inch away, like like a very microscopic inch away from scoring in three straight games. Uh. Darren Waller, Travis Kelsey, David and Joeku all had fifty plus days. Dulcitch, in his first ever game unlimited snaps against this Chargers team, had forty four in a score. I got an A grade on him. I haven't ranking to my top five. This would be very proud of you.

Were he here. I know I was. I was channeling him when I said it. Uh, Patterson, I have a B grade on gets a nice spot to come act against the sixth easiest matchup for running backs. They're allowing twenty six touches for a hundred and fifty six Comboy yards per game. Patterson had twenty five touch and eighteen touch games earlier in the season when he's when he was healthy. Charges have allowed ten touchdowns to running backs

and a hundred plus rusher in four of the last five. Now, if Patterson doesn't go, it's at this point it sounds like he's probably gonna go. But if he doesn't go, I have C grades on both Algaeer and Huntley. Uh. Splitting that work they've shown in pre in the last couple of weeks, getting fourteen sixteen touches each in the same game and Huntley getting the goal line work, Algier getting more in the middlework. I think I have both

Sea grades on against this matchup. If if Patterson doesn't go, I think Huntley is a sneaky play if Patterson doesn't go, since since Huntley gets the gold line and he looked better last week, I wouldn't. I would definitely I would put Hunley up. Algier starting himself though he's starting himself again, So wait, wait, are you in a league with Tyler Algae? It might be I might be. Yeah, I don't think

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to pick up next week. Premature Speculation on Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next final segment Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you. This is a segment that we always start with premature speculation. We give you three layers, you're gonna get more than three. Is it concerning that the time machine exploded? It didn't explode.

That was just the sound of your mind exploding at the end of the brilliance of picking up players one week before the rest of your league is trying to pick those players up. Also, not a fan of my brain exploding. Did we get sued for the quantum leap? What is that? Happy? Did not get sued for that? I'm happy to say, Okay, that has not happened to this point. Uh, let's begin with Scott Fish, your premature

speculation player. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Elijah Mitchell. John Lynch said this week they felt comfortable trading Jeff Wilson because Elijah Mitchell was pretty pretty close to ready to be back. McCaffrey has been injured quite a few times over the last few years. I'm not calling that or expecting that, but right now, this is the time of year where you see Dion Jackson. You want the backup running backs for these offenses. Elijah Mitchell should be owned.

Go get him and make sure he's on your roster before he comes back from injury. Alright, Matt Harrison, your premature speculation player in our slack. You pooh pooed this chart, But I've got Isaiah Likely. He's rostered in thirty three percent of Yahoo League's fifty five percent of MFL leagues. It should be a lot more, though, because he's the best remaining receiver in Baltimore. Rashad Bateman out for the season,

Mark Andrews looks like he's gonna miss this week. Uh charch will highlights soon a tough tight end defense this week in the Saints. But the and then the Ravens go on by so that might not be a reason to go. That's why I was I'm lukewarmon because I love him as a talent. Isaiah Likely is going to

be a factor. So here's the deal. Though you would consider that Likely has lined up as a traditional tight end only on fifteen percent of his snaps this year, Sixty six percent of his snaps came from the slot nine as a perimeter wide receiver. The Ravens don't use their tight ends like tight ends forty to Mark Andrews sixty four targets have been when he's lined up in the slot sixteen of twenty two for Isaiah Likely, he's

a big slot wide receiver playing tight end. I think you pick him up and on that bye week after he has a huge game this week, he's gonna have a huge game. Then you trade him on that bye week and you can tons of money because then Mark Andrews will come back. It'll be great. Well, I'm gonna have a different opinion. Yeah you will. And it's not that I don't love Isaiah Likely. That kid is gonna be great. But you may be right that they can support two tight ends. That's possible, and they have to.

They don't have anything else. All Right, I've got one too, I got four guys for premature. Just pick one, cover one and you can decide whether or not you you care to roster DeShawn Watson, but if you want to, they reiterated this week that he will be period end of story, the starting quarterback in week thirteen. You're already thinking about the playoffs. You're already thinking about your playoff run, and you want the rare passing running upside of that.

Deshaun Watson can provide, then you can decide if you want to add him. This would be the time. Next up, Zack Moss is Dion Jackson a lock to hold down the number one running job in Indie. Maybe not. He's three point seven yards per carry right now. Maybe he's more of a role player. They traded for Zack Moss maybe at some point and he's got to move to him. You just can't quit Zack Moss. Well, we'll see. I already quit him in all my other leagues, but maybe not.

Next up, Julio Jones back healthy. Wait, how many does he get to do? Now? For doing four? Premature speculation? See that other one for next week then, Julio Okay, no, the last, the last one. Sure, I'll save it for next week. Julio Jones. Russell gage is dinged up. Jones is finally healthy, scored last week, and I don't think the Russell gauge is going to automatically get his job back. Julio Jones is healthy until he sneezes and then his

hamstring explodes. No, it's it's usually ankle. It's ale does okay, if he coughs, it's the hamstring. That's what it is cough would be the Hernia just to be clear on Uh, turn your head and let's talk about the Seahawks. Oh boy, yeah, let's do that. This is a I'm gonna turn my head to that one and let's stead Yeah, for sure, that sounds good. Seahawks led by your offensive player of the month, Gino Smith. Think about Gino Smith as he

takes on the Cardinals. Yeah, well, these two teams met in Week six, just a couple of weeks ago, so I'll refer it's that a fair amountain this matchup. Gino Smith. He gets an A grade in this one. Had kind of a rough go in the prior meeting, only one through the air. He did add forty eight yards on the ground. The Cards have allowed at least twenty rushing

yards to a quarterback in four straight weeks. That includes Andy Dalton and Kirk Cousins, not known for the Arizona is also allowed the fifth most passing yards in the league this year at two one per game, hence the A for Gino. Dk Metcalf and Tyler Lockett both get bees. They were locked down in the first meeting, but each score touchdowns last week, and despite both being on the

injury report. In week eight, both saw at least eight targets, and it looks like Markue's Goodwin is going to miss this week with a groin injury, and Metcalf and Lockett are not on the injury report. Locket average is receiving an average cushion of seven point nine yards on his targets. They're playing so far back on him. That's the high one of the highest marks in the league. They're respecting the deep speed. In the past, he's absolutely torched the Card.

Let's see if he can repeat it this week. Noah Fant gets a C. That's the the ludicrous I'm gonna give give Noah Fant a ce Brian loves that one. Uh six catches for forty five yards in the prior meeting. The Cards are maybe the worst tight end defense in the league, unless the Seahawks say, hold my beer. In the last two weeks, the Cards have allowed four touchdowns to the tight end position. Finally, ken Walker the third

he gets an A grade. He's yep, he's scored. It's so jarring when R. E. M comes on in my ears, Yeah, get used to it. I guess uh scored in every game as a starter, including the game in Week six against the Cardinals where ended up with a hundred and ten combo yards and a touch. On the other side, Kyler Murray gets a B. He ran ten times for a hundred yards in the week six meeting, and the

Seahawks have actually not done well against running quarterbacks. They have allowed the ninth most rushing yards to the position. Rushing score is to Marcus Mariota and Jimmy g There middle of the pack past defense, Kyler should be fine, although his average intended air yards is only six point six that's fifth lowest in the league. But that bodes well for Rondale Moore, who I'll give a C grade two here. In the first meeting he saw ten targets

turned in six catches for forty nine yards. Last week, he was heavily involved against the Vikings. Things are kind of trending the right way for Rondale Moore, so I kind of like him here. Deander Hopkins gets an A grade. Let's just say double digit receptions triple digit yards in both of his games this year. He's been fantastic and his one handed snare for the touchdown last week was awesome. Yeah, he's good. He doesn't look like he lost a step

at all. Maybe those performance enhancing drugs are worth Maybe people should take those. Take six weeks off, you come in fresh and enhanced. It seems I like it. Zach Ertz gets an a grade. Seven catches for seventy yards in the first meeting on ten targets. In the last seven games, seven different tight ends have had double digit PPR points days against the Seahawks. That's why they're holding the beer of the Cardinals right now. Finally, the running

backs James Conner or is it you know? Benjamin Connor still limited in practice with a rib injury. Even if he does play, he's not been good this year. The only thing more disappointing is Eno Benjamin doing nearly nothing with his opportunity to shine. In the weeks six meeting, Eno managed to take eight teen touches and turn it into a whopping sixty five yards. That's not good. Uh,

the matchup is positive. The Seahawks are allowing the fourth most Comboy yards to the running back position this year, and a running back is scoring an average of one touchdown per game. So I guess if Connor is active, he gets don't do it? You know, don't do it there. Yeah, let's keep him on the bench there. It's just a gross running game. It has been all year. It is. They can't they can't block for either runner, neither ones performing very well. I think that's the right answer. Monday

night's game is Ravens at Saints. Let's let's talk this through. I've gotten a bunch of people king at my play rankings available for free kioteen leaks dot com. Oh, bunches of them are looking at right now. Why is Lamar Jackson so low on your rankings? Do you really expect me to start justin fields over Lamar Jackson. You're you're hilarious. You you did the sabotage drop and suddenly you just hate Lamar Jackson. Well, you know, here's the thing you're

trying to will it into existence. Last Here's here's his last five starts for Lamar Jackson. He's been quarterback eleven, quarterback twenty three, quarterback eleven, quarterback sixteen, quarterback nineteen on average. Whoever else you have on your roster has been a better starter than Lamar Jackson for five straight weeks. Okay, without Bateman and Andrews, I don't know how you trust Lamar Jackson beyond the rushing element, and the passing has

been bad for over a month. Since Week three, Lamar Jackson's average passing line one hundred seventies seven yards and a score. That's it, and that's terrible. He's such a good runner though, sure his rushing creates a solid floor, but he hasn't scored a rushing touchdown in five games. In his typical fifty rushing yards, that's five fantasy points. That's not making up for the lack of passing. Lamar Jackson c grade in this game sea level. Now, as

I mentioned, Bateman's out anders not expected to play. Let's talk about Devin DuVernay. I think you can give him a start, but maybe let's watch Marshawn Latimer because the Saints secondary without Latimer has been bad. When they had Marshawn Latimer, they were good. So if Latimer comes back in this game, and as of right now, we don't know for sure. The Saints just shut down Davante Adams, but in the three games prior to that they were getting torched, they've given up three yard to one hundred

yard games to receivers and six touchdowns. In the previous three games to wide receivers. If Latimer is out, that plushes Pulse in a dabo into starting territory, and he is awful. He's allowed four scores in five games in a past rating seven, which is approaching perfect at that point. So do DuVernay gets a C grade here. Let's talk through Isaiah Likely. You're probably starter in place of Mark Andrews.

He's probably the best overall receiver on this team. But the Saints have allowed the fewest fantasy points to tight ends. They've not given up a touchdown to a tight end all year. And what's more, they're allowing an average of less than twenty nine yards per game two tight ends. That's it. I've got a C grade on Isaiah Likely and that's all I can muster here. And then Kenyan Drake, assuming Gus edwards Um does not end up going in this game, Kenyan Drake should get most of the carries.

Drake has seen at least fifty eight percent of the snaps and two of the last three, and in those games he's averaged eleven touches total yards and a score. Saints are good, not great run defense. If you're in a bye week pinch. You could do worse than Kenyan Drake if Gus Edwards does not go all right on the saint side, Alvin Kamara obvious A grade, especially with the far better play over the last month when healthy.

With Dalton under center, he's been a lot better of late, So then that brings us to an A grade with Camara C grade on Taysom Hill. Tayso Hill remains the most unconventional tight end ever, and it is true targets last week we're a season high. But he's tied for the most touchdowns among tight ends with seven so far, so he's a total wild card. Baltimore's defense has given up four touchdowns to tight ends, so let's give Taysom Hill a C grade in this one. Andy Dalton gets

a C grade. If you're in a bite week pinch, you could try him. He was might take a chance on me quarterback, and Chris o Lava gets a C grade as well. He's gonna have to deal with cornerbacks

Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters on the outside. We were playing extremely well until allowing Mike Evans and Chris Godwin to combine for one yards last week, so We'll give Chris O lave A a C grade here in the hopes that he's able to u able to perform well as the probable recipient of most of Andy Dalton's targets. Who that was a lot of talking right there. Here's where I want. Here's what I want to know from you guys. Give me the week in which Jonathan Taylor

gets shut down. Give me a week number for Jonathan Taylor when he gets shut down for the season. What week is it? Now? I think I think it's possible. I think it's possible, possible, it just happened. It's interesting. They'll probably lose to the Patriots this week. They got Philly and week eleven, and they got Dallas in week thirteen.

Then they have a Week fourteen by. If they're like looking up at Tennessee with a three game lead coming out of the bye, I don't think Jonathan Taylor plays again. That's more more more realistic. And ankle isn't right at week fifteen coming out of the by that's when he gets shut down for the year. I was, ha, it's a very very I was having a fun joke. All right, we're on week fifteen. Jonathan Taylor. We all think he

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