Undrafted Gems + TNF Preview, Week 1 Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

I see a lot of people taking a shot on Tevin Coleman, and I think he doesn't have juice left. He's not in San Francisco, so the injuries could get slowed down. That's fair. That's fair. Hal Borland brought that up. Very important analysis from the producer. He averaged seven yards per carrying college, and we saw it last year. He had one game where he was given opportunity. They needed to use him, and he went ham. He was 117 total yards. He was the running back seven on the week.

I think there's opportunity here. This isn't necessarily someone you need to cut someone for and roster them now, but I believe it's a name we need to be paying attention to that a lot of people are like, oh, who's Ty Johnson? All right, before we give you three more names, we want to thank Hello Fresh for supporting the show. With Hello Fresh, you get fresh pre-measured ingredients, mouth-watering seasonal recipes delivered right to your door.

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shocked at how late Big Ben Rother's Burger is going. So I think you could throw him. Like there are several leagues where I am throwing a second quarterback on my bench for week one. A couple of the names that I would bring up is so Big Ben's one of them. He has a schedule that, look, week one, he's at Buffalo. But we haven't seen this offense. He's got incredible weapons. And then you got Las Vegas and Cincinnati at home.

Yeah, that's juicy. So if you're streaming, maybe you've got a week one starter like Kirk Cousins. Big Ben should be picked up because it could get interesting in Pittsburgh. Baker's another name that I will throw out there. I want to see if I can find a weekly starter or somebody that's a great compliment to who I drafted to start. And I want to throw them on the back of my bench for a week one just to see what happens. So I think Big Ben is that option for a lot of fantasy players.

I mean, we're in a, we just finished the best ball and he's, you know, like the ADP for Big Ben is below like Zach Wilson and, you know, other options where you're like, oh, yeah, Big Ben's down there. And I think he's an undrafted opportunity. We give a streaming quarterback, or we give some options every single week when we're talking about the waivers. And I can almost guarantee that Big Ben is going to be on that list come Tuesday with those.

Week 2 against the Raiders, week three against the Bengals. So if you are, if your starting quarterback is not strong and you know that you're probably going to be looking for a great matchup next week and you want to get ahead of it, I think Ben is an excellent addition to your bench. Last year against Cincinnati at home, which is the week three matchup, he was 27 for 46, 333 and 4. Like Big Ben has those games in him every year.

And, you know, if Mike's right and Chase Claypool takes a huge step forward, if Deontay becomes more consistent and is always open. Well, he has a running back he can throw it to again, too. That's very valuable because you're going to get a lot of cheap points out of that. If you can dump it to Najee and watch him go 56 yards down the sideline. And he has the best rookie tight end this season in Pat Friermuth. So.

Uh, it's just, I mean, awesome touchdown opportunity. The mute is loose? Yes, for sure. The mute is loose. We're, we're going to workshop. We're going to workshop that one. The mute is loose. What is there to workshop? That's gold. Oh. Thank you, Mike. I can't wait for a penny on the tracks. A Monday, a Monday, when, uh, Friamuth goes, goes, uh, for two touchdowns. Yeah.

Tooth touchdowns. Two touchdowns. All right. Jason or Mike, you want to share your second option? If you're dumpster diving for the tight end position, I like the addition of Parham. And this name hasn't been mentioned a lot. I think briefly we talked about him when Adam Troutman was injured. And we still don't know the timeline for that injury for the New Orleans Saints. But Joanne Johnson, he's an undrafted player, undrafted free agent.

He had, like Parham, like he has a certain skill set. He's, he's a big dude, 6-4-230, runs a sub 4-6. And right now, like Nick Venet, their other tight end, he's on the short-term IR. Michael Thomas is going to, is on the pup. He's out until at least week seven. Who's catching the ball for this team? I know that Callaway is the sensation of the preseason.

But somebody else has to do something on this team. And Joanne Johnson might be the one that steps up. Last year, Jared Cook, a kind of a shell of Jared Cook commanded a 12% target share. Mani Sanders was 16%. Both of those players are now gone. Where is the ball going to go? Juan Johnson may be a spot starter for those first few weeks. Can I kind of...

move to another Saints-related topic that we actually haven't got to talk about. Sure, let's do it. They did keep four quarterbacks. I don't know if you saw that. Yes, yeah. So I do believe that, like, you asked the question who they're going to throw the ball to them. Yeah, it might be Tayson Hill at tight end because I think he's going to be used in the Tayson Hill role. Trevor Simeon is on the roster. Ian Book was kept as well. So they can make Tayson Hill active outside the quarterback position on game day.

If they want to. Yeah, and he will be involved. Originally, I did not think, when they named Winston's starter, I did not think that Tayson Hill would be used in any of those gadget roles. But what they did at quarterback ensures that they are. In fact, to the tune where if James Winston were to go down mid-game.

It might not be Tassum Hill, who is the actual backup game planned, you know, because Tysm Hill might be over in them tight-in meetings. So, yeah, that's very interesting. And maybe you'll end up again with being able to play.

Tayson Hill is no. We can't. No, don't. You be quiet. You be quiet. That was not fair. I am fully prepared to be completely surprised with who catches passes for the Saints in week one, to be honest. Is it Joanne Johnson? Like Mike mentioned, he could grab some. Is it little Jordan Humphrey? Is it Deontay Harris? Is it Ty Montgomery? It's going to be a hodgepodge of probably no meaningful instructive value.

as they wait for Michael Thomas to return. Jason can't get away from Ty. Yeah, I had Ty Johnson and Tyson Williams. We've talked about him earlier this show. And over the last couple of days, the running back for the Ravens, who has been thrust into fantasy relevance due to the injuries of Ravens running backs. I know they signed Levi-on Bell and he's on the practice squad again.

Tyson would be the guy I would prefer. He is a big back, 511, 220, kind of a Damian Williams build. He can catch the ball. And so I would certainly pick him up over Ty Johnson. But because we've talked about him, the other name I wanted to bring up is actually the Cleveland Browns.

It's funny because I'm not one that wants to draft backup tight end, usually draft a backup quarterback, certainly not a backup defense. But next week, the hot commodity on the waiver wire will be the Browns defense. They're a good defense. They're probably going to be coming off a loss against the Chiefs, maybe, maybe not. But they're going to be playing the Houston Texans. And I have a strong feeling this year there's going to be a great strategy of.

Start the defense against the Texans. Well, what's very interesting about both names that you brought up is that Mike and I signed them in our League of Record six minutes ago. Oh, you sons of guns. So Mike actually spent too fab to pick up Tyson Williams. And the Browns are on my bench for next week against Houston. Which I'm incredibly happy about that. I've mentioned that my League of Record team is a full hero RB. I have no idea.

My running back two is going to be. The unfortunate part is I overbid by two because no one else even tried to get him. A bunch of clowns in this league. I got, since we're talking about our waivers here, looks like I was able to snag the Pittsburgh Steelers who are on the waivers in our listener league. Nice. Don't know if you guys saw that one drop. Nope. Nope. No, he didn't. Good for you. Thank you. Yeah.

But you and I did reject each other's trade offers yesterday. We sure did. We countered. And then rejected it. Yeah, yeah. All right. Any other names that we should bring up? I mean, we threw out Treyquan as well. But any other... I think that's a good list. All right. Thursday night breakdown. We get to talk about football. All right, the Dallas Cowboys. Take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The kickoff to the 2021 season. The Draft King Sportsbook line is Tampa Bay minus eight and a half right now over under set at 52. Tampa Bay was sitting at seven and a half for a while. Okay. So just people getting people getting jacked up over the Super Bowl champs. People taking Tampa Bay. Okay. I did switch mine. You know, I was I was picking Dallas to cover that.

And then when Zach Martin went down and was unavailable for this week, I was like, yeah, I don't think they're going to be able to keep up with the defensive line of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is so strong. If you've got offensive line worries, you don't want to play against them. All right, let's preview this game. A couple of great quarterback options, whether you're doing, you know, redraft or DFS. Tom Brady, Dak Prescott, we get to see his return, thankfully.

It's going to be a tough one, though, in Tampa Bay against a great defense. Tampa's defense was outstanding last year. They were fourth against, they were fourth in terms of least points given up against opposing fantasy quarterbacks. So 14 points a game was their average given up last year. So all that is kind of wild.

And it's going to be hard. It's going to be a difficult matchup for DAC in week one. So let me start with that side of the ball. Are you tempering expectations across the board? Are you starting Zeke, Amari, Lamb, Dak with confidence? Like, how are you viewing week one for the Cowboys? I don't know that you can bench anybody from this team. Every single one of these players is a high draft capital pick besides Michael Gallup, who to me.