Week 16 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Survival of the Fittest - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/21

I guess I would go with Tyler Johnson because he was on the field so much. But those are guys I'm probably just stashing at this point. Yeah, I'd be Perryman over Tyler Johnson. Would you? Just for, I think, big playability. I think Perryman is a better option there. And then beyond that, Donovan People's Jones will get Baker back. Right. So they play Green Bay in Green Bay. That doesn't seem exciting to me.

but another deep league option. At running back, the most rostered but best pickups are probably Jeff Wilson, who is currently 55% rostered, went 21 for 110 and 1. If he's the guy this week on Thursday against Tennessee, he's a great play, isn't he? Tennessee's been pretty strong against fantasy running back. So he's a good play in terms of volume. But, you know, like him in.

Dev and Singletary are both interesting players with bad matchups. But Ronald Jones is quite interesting here. He gets the matchup with Carolina. The reports that we are working on right now is that Leonard Fournett is at least out for a week. Is that the most recent thing that you guys have seen as well? Yeah, I mean, at least a week. Okay, because, yeah, it could be multiples. Now, Ronald Jones won't turn into Leonard Fournet.

That's not going to happen. They had Kishon Vaughn. Oh, he was bad. Yeah, but he's still better at catching the ball than Ronald Jones is. He had an ugly drop in this one. Yeah, but just saying, I don't think that the workload of that four net has been seeing will go completely to Ronald Jones, but he's a home run hitter. And with the injuries to the wide receiver position, it wouldn't shock me to see.

Ronald Jones be given 15 plus carries. Yeah, I mean, look at last year. Four games that Leonard Fournett missed, Mike Clay tweeted this out. 26 touches, 128 yards in one of them. 20 touches, 125 yards, 25 touches, 121 yards, and a touchdown. Yep, there you go. So I think it'll be over 15. I do. I think you're going to have to use the running game. I was trying to project conservatively. No, that's fine. That's fine. You know, I'm just trying to make Week 16 better. Oh, please. Sorry, Mike.

Oh, no, no, let's do it. Let's be positive. Somaget P. Rine. 52 touches for run. That's a minimum. Samajet P. Ryan, 17% roster, probably the most available of this group, obviously. And mixing in with the ankle sprain, he'll be limited early in the week. We don't know if P. Rhine will get that chance, but he's worth picking up because, you know, what if he is the guy? Yes. If he is the guy, he's going to see a whole bunch of opportunities.

and not just on the ground. This is crazy enough, despite the talents of Joe Mixin in the receiving game. A lot of time on third down, they have been going to Somagé P. Ryan, he has multiple games of seeing at least five targets as recently as week 14. He, like, the gold mine for running back is surprisingly bountiful here heading into week 16 with,

with the possibilities of replacement of, like losing Leonard Fournette, such a terrible time of the year for it to happen. But at least there's options. There's options that you can go with. Here's one that I am not buying. If you smoke-fired this one, I am very out on Duke Johnson. About as out as you can get. Now, he's not rostered anywhere. But the team has come out and said it'll be a running back competition this week because that's what we do in Week 16.

And they play New Orleans, which is a terrible matchup. Yeah, it is. All the players are going to participate in practice in the game plan, according to their co-offensive coordinator, Eric Studsville. So you're going to have Gaskin and Akman and Lindsey and Duke Johnson and Malcolm Brown. That's five. If he's back, yeah. Yeah. Okay, a minimum of four players participating. It took, it was late in the week when Miles Gaskin got the opportunity to come back. Still had 10 carries in the game.

So I would not personally at any point in time play Duke Johnson this week. I tend to agree that I don't want to play him. This was Fluke Johnson. You got one week. It was against the Jets. So that certainly helps things. But over 100 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns. 100 rushing yards is the minimum that you can put up against the Jets. But here's the thing for me.

I think Gaskin is done. Watching him this year, I don't think he is a starting running back anymore. He was 10 for 53 last week. Yeah. It was fine. Over the course of the season, I don't think that he's very good anymore. Ahmed is a fine replacement, but he's a backup running back. I think there is a chance that Duke Johnson is just the best player on this team. And I get it. He's been floating around the league.

They were able to just add him recently to the team because nobody wanted him on their professional roster. But there is a chance that he wins the competition. If your team is in a good position and you're not heavily going after these other running backs that we're talking about, I still think that Duke Johnson should be stashed. Like at least play some defense that getting into the championship weekend, maybe Duke Johnson goes out there.

doesn't put up prolific running rushing numbers but has opportunities and looks like Miami's going to go with him for week 17. I think you should at least try to block your opponents. New Orleans is number two in the NFL against fantasy running backs. The Ackler fallout would be Justin Jackson. Yes, it would. And again, that would be another example I think that you would have to jump on. Like Justin Jackson.

has maybe the highest upside of anybody this week. They play Houston. You know, Jackson looked good last week. You're saying if Echler is out. Of course. Yes. But I mean, that's a real possibility. And I think that I would play Justin Jackson with Echler Healthy over Duke Johnson. Wow. Absolutely. 13 for 86 last week. Because of Houston? Because of Houston. Or because of Duke?

No, because of both, because of New Orleans. Because Justin Jackson will get, like, what's the best case scenario here? Like, Echler didn't practice on Monday. He's probably not going to practice. He could be on the COVID list. He has an injury. I'm not saying you bench Echler. I'm saying, like, if you tell me, like, do you think, what's the over-under game script-wise that Justin Jackson ends up with 15 carries? 13 carries. It seems probable. Yeah, I, maybe.

Echler, you know, he'll be healthier now this week than he was last week, and that's still only turned into the 13 carries. He might literally not be. Okay, fair. It's in the realm of possibilities, yeah. But if you're like, what is the upside for Duke Johnson? The upside for Duke Johnson is 20-something carries, no yards, but...

multiple rushing touchdowns, which Miles Gaskin has done that this year. I think Justin Jackson without Echler has top 12 potential this week. Yes. Oh, I'll agree with that. You know I like me some Justin Jackson. So if I'm looking at prioritizing, you know, would you rather prioritize Somaget P. Rhine with the probability that, you know, mixes dealt with injuries and played through them? Right. Or Justin Jackson. Who do you jump on? I, man.

I probably go, that's interesting. Like if you lost Leonard Fournett and you have to have somebody to play, I guess the conservative play is to go after Justin Jackson because you know he will get some work. Some work where if Mixing is back, then P. Ryan will still just be the backup role and you were going to wish that you had Justin Jackson's backup role.

It's a tough call between those two. Yeah, and there's so much, there's potential upside and heroics from these players at the end of the year. And, you know, what, Pollard and Jeff Wilson won you a title last year? Yeah. Craig Reynolds? This guy. This guy, man. Dan Campbell on whether Craig Reynolds would still play whether when DeAndre Swift and Jamal Williams returns. If Craig goes into the game, Craig's getting some carries. That's what I will say. He's warranted that. Yeah?

Are you stashing Duke or Craig? Because I'm Craig. I'm Team Craig. I'm not Team Duke. I feel like we're in a, what was the twilight? Yeah, thank you. It's the vampire movie. We're choosing sides. That's a little too quick there, Al. Oh, you know he's seen. Little too quick on the Twilight reference. Which if you want to watch the Twilight movies, that's fine. It's funny that Owl Borland has seen approximately 22 movies in his entire life.

Yeah, have you seen the twilight? I've seen the first one. Okay, yeah. A little too quick. Although, okay, so here, Fookland, peel back the curtain. I've seen the first twilight, says Al Borland. All right. Braveheart? Have you seen Braveheart? No. I offered Owl Borland a free screening of the brand new Spider-Man movie yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah. And he said, no, thanks. I choose to believe he had so much work to do for us that he sacrificed this spot. Accurate.

The rest of the office would have no problem going to see Spider-Man. I know. Somebody's got to pick up the slack around here. Thank you, Jeremy. No problem, Bruxie. I mean, no spoilers, obviously, but did you enjoy the movie? Oh, I loved it. Did you? Yeah, I loved it. It's in the upper echelon for you of the Marvel universe. I'm a Marvel nerd. I like the Marvel movies. It was very long. Could have been longer. You would have been just fine with it. Oh, dude, Spider-Man is my favorite. Give me more Spider-Man. Yeah.

But for the question, I think I'm Team Craig. Jamal Williams is back. I can't imagine that DeAndre Swift is back. Atlanta's the match yet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, let's... And then the last one to mention, look for Dantrell Hilliard. He's widely available. If Deont de Foreman can't go for the ankle injury, he has been the preferred player of the team over Jeremy Mick Nichols.

Let's go to the gold mine, Mike. Tight ends. Oh, you need to. Share with me all these illustrious Kelsey fill-ins. Real, real tiny pickax. For this gold? To get these nuggets out because. It's a micromachines level. Yes. I. John Lynch just came out and said Elijah Mitchell will be a game time decision week 16 against the Titans. Gross. Gross. Gross. Actually, I think there is one decent option.

at the tight-in position. It's Colquemette. He's available in over 60% of leagues. He has had several flashes throughout this season here with Justin Fields. Three top 10 performances, including last nights, the Stink Fest. But the Stinkfest was nine targets that turned into six for 71 for Colquette. And he's taken on the Seattle Seahawks, which is, that's a pretty juicy matchup.

in terms of if you're streaming your tight-end position. But 22% of the targets, fields, they often limit how much he is going to throw. But I think you could do way worse than Colquette this week. Ricky Seals Jones would be ahead of him. For you? For me. Going to the future. I agree with you. Like Commet has flashed, but what hurts my optimism with him is just where the game plan can go for them, which can be.

like so limited in the passing game. Yeah. And so you've had, I mean, there was a week. I remember that Col Commet was, everybody was excited about it, and it was, you know, a touchdown for Jimmy Graham, who, by the way, he almost earned me $100 again last night. That was close. But you, I mean, Colquette has zero touchdowns on the year. Yeah. Zero. And when they get around the goal line, it's Jimmy Graham. You're paying that guy all that money. This enters the, uh,

if you hope for four or five points category for me, for a Colcomit. So Ricky Seals Jones is at least more necessary to this offense, and they're going to throw the ball more against Dallas. So I like him a little bit more. Commet, I'm fine putting in there number two. Defensively, you've got the Eagles taking on the Giants. They're going to be without Daniel Jones again. Opportunities galore for turnovers. You saw last week. Chargers. Chargers are a smash against Houston, although Davis Mills is shown he is capable of...

limiting the upside a little bit. Sure. And they did have a bunch of, like, Bosa was in the COVID list, right? This week? Yeah, I think Joey Bosa was in the big announcement. So pay attention just to who's actually going to play and who's not. And then Kansas City against Pittsburgh. I mean, you have to love the way Kansas City's defense has played. And Pittsburgh's offense has been atrocious. I mean, Najee Harris gave you a league worst week, Deontay, a league worst week.

The Chiefs, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver over the next three weeks. I mean, that's not bad for especially how well they are playing. And the 49ers at the top of, like they have Tennessee this week. Tennessee is obviously limited on offense. San Francisco's been playing great. Then they have Houston for the championship week. Sure. So that is an opportunity there. Let's talk streams. Full stream ahead.