Starts of the Week + Week 6 Breakdown, Bye-pocalypse is Coming! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/14

The Draft King Sportsbook line, Chiefs, mine is six and a half. Over under is 56 and a half. That's big time. That's because the Chief's defense, or lack thereof, combined with their offense, means that you're going to have some points on the board. Mahomes, Tyreek, and Kelsey are auto starts every week. But Darrell Williams is the interesting name to mention here, where he is a solid running back to play to me.

Would you play him or Devante Booker? Let's say Daniel Jones is in. You go on Booker or Daryl Williams? I lean Williams slightly. I do as well. Would you play Daryl Williams or Jamal Williams? I lean Daryl Williams. I do as well. Miles Gaskin or Daryl Williams. I think I'll stick with Daryl. Okay. So he sounds like he's pretty locked in. Yeah. I love Michael Keating.

Look, Antonio Gibson on the other side at running back, you know, there's these reports about the stress fracture in the shin. But the two games since the reports, he's been great. And he's right on the edge of running back one territory. He scored three touchdowns over the last two games. He says that the pain is not significant at all with the injury. So I'm becoming less freaked out about this injury with Antonio Gibson.

But J.D. McKissett could end up out there a ton because of the game flow. This game is one where I just expect massive, massive points. I mean, obviously the over under is 56 and a half. It's the highest of the week. Is this like the highest of the year? I don't know, maybe, maybe not. I think we've seen this before. It's one of those games where Taylor Heineke has, he had a really,

poo-poo game last week. But this defense has been so bad. Yeah, the Saints are a really good defense. The Chiefs have been so bad. Chris Jones, Full did not participate again in practice. I would not expect him to be out there. They need him desperately. They don't have him, him being a defensive star for the Kansas City Chiefs. So I think Washington's going to put up points. And Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes coming in off a loss, two and three against this.

putrid football team defense cursed by benching Ryan Fitzpatrick regardless of injury. Yeah, I want pieces in this game left, right, and center. What do you think about McCle Hardman? He was really involved this last week, 12 targets, 9 for 76. He's run the second most routes on the team at the wide receiver position. He could absolutely have a good game. I'm probably not going to start him in a...

Home League in a redress. If you want to take a shot at, you know, a DFS lineup with him in it, sure. The reason I'm not is just simply because, and I said this when they signed Josh Gordon, it's that I don't believe in Josh Gordon, but I do think he'll be involved enough to just simply make it to where DeMarcus Robinson and McCall Hardman, like those guys are now harder to start and rely on because there is another mouth there that could just end up with the catches. Would you play McColl Hardman or on the other side?

Guys that I think are interesting, you have either Diami Brown the rookie plays, which we don't know yet. We don't know if Brown is going to play. But if he doesn't play, DeAndre Carter, who we talked about him a little bit on the Waiver's show, he showed up just seemingly out of nowhere. It seems to have the confidence already of Coach Rivera. But last week against the Saints, eight targets, four for 62.

20% target market share last week. We were laughing while watching because Andrew Siciliano kept calling him Diomi Brown. We're like, he's active? And then it was like, no, it was Carter. But he had a lot of targets. He was looked to. And Rivera was speaking very, very highly of him. So he's interesting, but I'm not, I'm not necessarily starting. So I'm saying Carter or Hardman?

I would go Hardman. I would rather tie myself to Patrick Mahomes. I mean, if this is a DFS lineup, obviously, and value comes into play, Carter is a $3,000 basement wide receiver, kind of shot in the dark that you could take if Diami Brown is out. And obviously smash play for Terry McLaurin. Oh, yeah. And Taylor Heineke's a nice stream. Yeah, absolutely. And you mentioned. I believe Ricky Seals Jones had like 90-something of the snaps that tied in last week. Yeah, he was running a...

99% of snaps. I think he ran one fewer route than Terry McLauran. Yeah, he is in play. And Andy, you mentioned eight targets. Jady McKissick, I think that he is a flex play as well. So everybody. Yep. All right, the Vikings at two and three take on the three and two Carolina Panthers who have lost a couple in a row here. Drafking Sportsbook line Vikings minus one and a half on the road. That tells you everything you need to know about the trend here.

Over Under is 45 and a half, but the Vikings are road favorites here. Delvin Cook. Devon Cook should be returning and Christian McCaffrey is much more 50-50. In fact, I'm a betting man, I'm betting he's sitting. So do you take the approach of McCaffrey active equals play, right? Yes, 100%. I mean, I have McCaffrey and I've got Hubbard. That's just one player. Whoever is active will be in my lineup. And I really hope it's McCaffrey.

DJ Moore, you play him, but beyond DJ Moore, the confidence in Robbie Anderson is Zilch. Terrace Marshall hasn't really done a lot. So is it really McCaffrey and DJ Moore and no one else? Yep, pretty easy. I think so. I do think Sam Darnold is, you know, this is a game where at home he could be a fine stream. I think there are other options like Heineke.

that are widely available. I would play over him, but in a two-quarterback league, you know, you could do worse than Sam Darnold. Kirk Cousins on the road. Is he on your bench? Man, I was going to say, are you playing Sam Darnold? Are you playing Kirk Cousins? I would rather play Kirk Cousins, but, I mean, this, I believe in the Carolina defense. I really, really do. I think they are fully legit. I expect Alvin Cook to...

be back this week. And so this could be a game. Maybe we see a more defensive-minded lower scoring game. If Christian McCaffrey is out and Carolina's defense at home is legit, maybe this ends up a kind of disappointing game where you've got DJ Moore, Dalvin Cook, and then Justin Jefferson and kind of move on. Would you play? You skittish on Thielen right now? Yes.

Yeah, I am too. Would you play one of these quarterbacks or Trevor Lawrence against Miami? I'd play Lawrence. Lawrence. Ryan Tannahill against Buffalo. Tullio active? I believe. No, I would not play Ryan Tannahill against Buffalo. I'd play Tannahill over these two. Okay. So let's keep it going. Then Carson Wentz against the Houston Texans or Cous or Darnel. I agree with what Jason said earlier in this breakdown, which is that this game has the chance to hit the under.

and be a more defensive-minded game with two offenses that injuries are causing them to have some sputter. Yeah, it's a sputter. Thank you, Jason. That's the word I was looking for. Does Dalvin Cook being active affect how you believe in Kirk Cousins this week? Slightly, yeah. As in like, are you more likely to play Cousins with Cook active or more likely to play him if Cook sits? More likely if he's active. Correct. He's definitely been better with

Cook active. I mean, that's how I feel about Darnold, too. I mean, Darnold, he had a nice week two weeks ago on rushing touchdowns, and then he drops the 29th at the quarterback position, and you look at the offense and they gave the game away. They seem like they were in complete control of that game. They really do. And then you blinked and turnovers and... Yeah, if Christian McAfre is active, that's 75 receiving yards that go to Sam Darnold. All right. You can always find our rankings, the start sit tool, and a bunch of other resources on the website, the fantasy footballers.com.

Communities join thefoot.com. Let's talk starts. Starts of the week. My quarterback start of the week. Turns out it was your stream of the week, Jason, which I found out after I put his name in here. So we're in agreement on him. Trevor Lawrence in London, he's been a top 12 quarterback twice this season, was number nine last week.

That's the same amount on top 12 performances as Lamar and Stafford and Rogers. He's averaging five rush attempts per game. They're using them around the goal line in that capacity and the Miami defense, full regression. I mean, they're allowing the second most points per drive, second most plays per game, second most 20 plus yard passes. Dan Arnold gives you a better, some more stability in the receiving game. Does the postman deliver overseas?

He does, yeah. They don't take our stamps, but he likes to travel. Yeah, I like it. I like Lawrence this week. I like Lawrence a lot.

I'm going with Taylor Heineke. You're going with my stream of the week. That's right. I see what's happening here. This is a good week to pick guys up off of waivers and play them. Taylor Heineke was the quarterback 12, the quarterback 9, the quarterback 5, and then played a really, really good New Orleans Saints defense. And now it's playing a really, really bad Kansas City defense who has...

The lowest sack rate in the NFL, no pass rush. It looks like they'll be without Chris Jones. And it's the highest overrunner of the week. I said I want players in that game. I ain't lying. Taylor Heineke, I will start him happily over a lot of, you know, better NFL quarterbacks this week. Just a quick aside, Kansas City is really the dream. Currently, yes. When you're facing them, because you know they're going to score. Yep. You know, it's not just like you're facing a terrible defense, but then they have no offense whatsoever. Like Miami.

right now has no offense. Their defense is awful, but they have no offense, so you don't need to put points up. Heineke will be throwing the ball, and Heineke runs the ball. He's averaging over five carries, 25 yards a game on the ground, so you know he's going to have to throw against a bad defense. He will not run if you throw a prop bet down on him. All right, Mike. It's like, wasn't Seattle like this last year? Right. Where you wanted to target them with all your offensive players. All right, my start of the week, I like Joe Burrell.

A lot. Detroit secondary, factually and scientifically speaking, they stink at football. I don't know that the, you know, I'm sure that they have good hygiene there, but on the football field, they stink. They're seeing the highest percent of 20-plus yards in the league. And guess who plays for the Cincinnati Bengals? The King of the Deep touchdown right now.

Jamar Chase. Joe Burrow is playing excellent football. He's completing 72% of his passes. And the past two weeks,

We've seen the passing volume increased 32 attempts against Jacksonville, 38 against Green Bay. He's healing up. I know he's on voice rest right now. I don't know if you guys heard that for the throat. Is he really? Yes. So, but he'll be good. It is comical to see the injury report. It's so strange. Throat. But he'll be good to go. They're starting to ramp up the passing offense and he has three elite options. He feels very safe because he's been two or more touchdowns in every game.

He's had like a 7.5% touchdown percentage this year. He's playing tremendous. Javier Chase will do that to you. Well, it's nice to know that you can make an entire week on, like, he's had some pedestrian weeks, and then all of a sudden it's just one play and 70 yards later. All right, running back, I'm going, Darrell Henderson. The Rams, 10.5 point road favorites, 29 point implied total. They're going to roll the Giants. I mean, this is a smash matchup for Henderson. He just needs to stay on the darn field.

for the entire game. He's been in the teens the last couple weeks, fantasy point wise, 80 plus percent in the snaps this season. This could be a top five week for Daryl.

Yeah, I like Daryl a lot this week. My start of the week at running back is Joe Mixen, talked about them earlier. We thought Cincinnati was going to be a heavy pass team in 2021. Like they were the last two weeks? Yes. Well, they are still currently the sixth highest rush rate and second highest in neutral game scripts in the league. I don't expect Detroit to be out to a huge lead per rich rebar. 71.4% of touchdowns allowed by the lion so far have been scored by running backs.