Week 6 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Three Fiddles - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/13

The buy week is timed up for the charges pretty well here. Yeah, Matt Rule said he will make a decision on Christian McCaffrey's week six status after tests on the ankle. It was a four to six week injury. If he came back, it would be right at the four week mark. And he's not expecting it. When he talks about this, you saw an interview yesterday, he said, yeah, there's probably no way he's back this week. So keep playing Mike Davis. Yes, he's also the quote on Mike Davis. They said, Matt Jow Rule, what do you think of?

Mike Davis performance so far. And he's like, oh, murder. Yeah, he's right. He's right. And well said. Well said. Any other news that Sammy Watkins is going to miss a couple of weeks? That does impact the wide receiver pickups of the week. Sure. Absolutely. Which we're going to get into right now. Yep. Put me in, coach.

All right, returning from the buy, the lions and the Packers and then the Broncos and the Patriots who had an impromptu buy, as we call it in 2020. Week 6, bye weeks, Raiders, Saints, Seahawks, Chargers. Great, the Chargers get to sit in that close loss for another week. That's tough. All right, here are some drop candidates. Whenever we do our waiver show, we like to bring up some names that we see frequently on Twitter, Instagram.

players that someone's wondering maybe if I go after a waiver wire pickup, these are the guys that got to let go. Russell Gage, I think you can let him go. Gage is droppable for these first couple players we're going to talk about, yes. Michael Gallup. That's one of the toughest players this year. It's really interesting because he has been involved. He's a player we have recommended not dropping because he's been in a great offense with a bad defense and he's had a couple good games. But now with the kind of

middling performance he's given you adding in Andy Dalton, you go, can you trust him? And if Michael Gallup were on waivers, he would be someone I would be looking to pick up, but not necessarily first in priority over some of the other guys we're about to talk about. Yeah, he feels like he should be rostered. Through five weeks, he has one nice week, week three. He was the seventh overall wide receiver that week.

and then pretty much nothing good. The hard part for Michael Gallup is you don't know now what's Andy Dalton going to do as the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. What are his tendencies? I mean, that's why we were talking about you, there's some concern here for Dalton Schultz. Will Dalton utilize the tight end position the way that Dak Prescott did? Who is Andy Dalton going to favor? And Michael Gallup did see three targets from.

Andy Dalton, he's not a player I'm dropping right now. What's nice about Dalton as the backup is this is not a situation where you're bringing in somebody that's going to be afraid to challenge down the field. Dalton has an extensive career. He's done it before. It doesn't mean he's going to be good at it, but he's not going to be afraid. Sometimes you bring in a game manager that's just going to hand the ball off to Zeke. At least Dalton has a little bit of ceiling in this situation. So if he, if he,

Takes a liking to Michael Gallup. Maybe it means something. Sure. Deonté Johnson, no way you're dropping Deontay Johnson. No, he's just, unfortunately, been hurt. I don't think that there are a lot of players in the wide receiver realm that I'd be dropping, you know, Gallup for of this group. Chase Claypool is the big name of the week at the wide receiver position. He had the breakout performance, three touchdowns.

When you look at the four, technically, if you count the rushing touchdown. I do count the rushing touchdown. That's right. Fantasy points in fact, count them. Yeah, we were looking up all the players that had four touchdown games at wide receiver. And of course, Jerry Rice had a, he had a 218-yard five touchdown game in his career. But Claypool, he came out, he balled out. He didn't run as many routes as James Washington or Juju Smith-Schuster. Deontay Johnson was hurt. Those are kind of your.

temper expectations bullet points for Chase Claypool. Now, this week he has Cleveland. That's a great matchup for fantasy-wide receivers. Let me ask you this. What are you investing in Chase Claypool in terms of Fab and blowing your waiver priority? And then are you willing to instantly start him chasing last week? I am willing to instantly start him as far as a...

If you have the number one waiver priority, if your league is in that and Madison is there, I get it. Maybe it's only one game of Madison. That still would be the move I would make. If Madison is not on the waiver wire, then Claypool would be my number one claim. I would be willing to break my waiver priority for it. In terms of fab, you know, at least 15 plus percent here, I believe in Chase Claypool, the player. This is, it's...

It's interesting, you know, because every year you have these random games, Ogletree. Ogletree is from the Dallas Cowboys years ago. That's kind of always the reference point. Week one, Ogletree comes out, has a three touchdown game. What do you do with that? You mark that. That's a one-off because that's not who he was designed to be for this team. Chase Claypool was a second round pick for a team that is preparing to get rid of, or not get rid of, but not retain.

the services of Juju Smith-Schuster. So if you're the Steelers, how do you go backwards from when Chase Claypool has shown you exactly what he can do, the impact he can make on a game as a rookie, how do you not unleash him? And why? Why do you go backwards? Right. You shouldn't. That's what I mean. But that's also then buying into, we warn about believing in the rational coaching fallacy of these coaches don't always do what.

you think is the right thing to do. I, yeah, and that's, that's true. But Mike Tomlin is a really proven, known commodity, a great, uh, procurer of putting talent in the right positions to do what they do best. And so I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to believe in Chase Claypool. This week, I know Deonti Johnson went down with the back injury. And so.

Some of the snaps are probably skewed a little bit. Some of the targets are skewed. Deonti Johnson probably would have led the team in targets, and that would have taken away from the hundred yards that Claypool got. But prior to the injury, this was Chase Claypool's first start. They put him into the starting lineup. So he was a part of the plan. They were drawing up plays for him. The talent is there. He's proven he can do it. He looks great. So yeah, I agree. Chase Claypool is the number one wide receiver.

pickup of the week. And I think, you know, I don't know if I'm willing to pay enough because of Deontay Johnson. I'm probably 15% of my budget. I'm more. I'm more. I regretted not spending up on Justin Jefferson, somebody I believe has staying power in that offense. And you make a great point with him. This was his first start. Now, Deonti Johnson, I was reading about him this morning. He's going to be back. He's going to be back. It was not considered a major injury. But Claypooled.

I think he's somebody that you want to take your shot on because if he is this special player, you can win a league with him. This is not a one-week rental situation, but you can start him right away against Cleveland. So I would go 25% or more, maybe 30. I'm going to go to 30. Can I get 35? I do not blame you. And if, you know, athletic profiles can be overrated.

But you need to understand. If you're not familiar with Chase Claypool, let's say you're not a dynasty player, so you've already, you know. It's a new name for you. Right. He's new to you. Chase Claypool is 6-4-2 pounds and ran a 4-4-2. If you go look on the Fantasy Footballers.com, look at his athletic profile, or his player profile, I should say.

His athleticism score as a 6-4-240-pound man is 96 out of 100. This dude, Mapletron, is an absolute machine. He's a beast, man. Yeah, when you can run like that, you can play the Martavis Bryant Deep Route role, but then you can be involved in things like these. I mean, he got rushing attempts multiple times in this game. He's very, very interesting moving forward. Agreed. This was a, you don't put up four touchdowns. This doesn't happen occasionally to a nobody.

Right. This was the perfect timing of the talent was there. He just needed the opportunity to come to, to have his breakout moment. It came sooner than I thought it was going to. I thought Claypool was a longer term type of a player for the Steelers, but he took it to 100. Yeah, and he did it against me in Dynasty. You might say, I don't appreciate the rushing usage, though. James Connor was on the goal line, and I.

Could have used that touchdown, Chase. You had enough. But speaking of taking it to 100, this episode of the fantasy footballers is brought to you by head and shoulders available at Walmart. This year we're doing a new segment every Thursday. We are going to be picking our up to 100 players of the week. Last week, Andy, and if you're new to the show, we're trying to pick players who, like these aren't top 24, just, you know, they're a locked and loaded starter. You have some questions.

Andy went with Leviska-Schanal wide receiver from the Jacksonville, Jacquesville. And this man. I count it. Oh, no. I'm saying this man absolutely took it to 100. He was the leading receiver on the team. He was well worth the start. I imagine we're talking about him in the waiver section here. If we're not, we need to get him in there. Jason went with Darius Slayton, who took it to 100. He took it.

It was a great game. He absolutely did. And I was with Eric Ebron, who was on his way until he fumbled the opportunity away. Twice. Oh, Eric Ebron. Yeah. Well, one was an official fumble. Yeah. The other one was probably a fumble. And then the Steelers were like, man, do we have anyone else six four that could get touchdown? Oh, Chase, Chase, Chase, Claypool. Why don't you have four touchdowns?

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All right, there are a lot of other wide receiver names that maybe we have similar opinions on, maybe some different ones. You know, Mike, you brought up the fact that Watkins is going to be out for a little while. McCall Hardman looks a little bit more interesting. Yes, he does.

Also, Travis Fulgum, had the breakout game for the Eagles this past week. And when I say breakout, I mean it. It's 10 for 152 and 1. This is a player that is 6-3-215 has been dumped by multiple teams, the lions, the Packers, even the Eagles before they brought him back. He had his shot and he took advantage.

And he's not rostered in any league right now. Yeah, but the thing about Travis Fulgum for the Philadelphia Eagles, like when Carson Wentz is looking at his options of who's down the field, he's got Zach Ertz there. And so Travis Fulgum just looks like an absolute superstar talent. Do you believe in this past week's breakout against Pittsburgh to the degree that you are wanting to put him on your redraft roster? I personally have...