Week 5 Waivers + Droppable Names, Hamstrung - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/6

I mean, he was already, he was going to be 100. But I'm saying it. He was like the running back 15 or so. He got him to a thousand. He was at 100. That got him to a thousand. It's just so insane of, you know the play call is they're going to give the ball to Melvin Gordon. He's going to run it up the middle because all they want to do is waste the clock. And then he just bounces off of everybody and rolls out. You see that sometimes though, because the whole defense is up. If you break through that first line, you're gone. Yeah.

We'll see how it goes this week. I'm sure I'll take it up to 100. Take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Pick yours up today. And check out this Thursday's episode to hear our up to 100 picks of the week. Put me in, coach. All right. We're in the buys. We're in the buys. Week 5 buys. The Lions, the Packers. Kenny Colladay, Aaron Rogers, Aaron Jones.

MBS taking a week off after that heavy workload. Aaron Jones, man. I am. So much regret of doubting Aaron Jones. He's so. He's so good. You know, people debate value of running back, running back contracts, and they do it for good reason. You've seen situations where teams lose that prolific running back. They don't lose a beat. Christian McCaffrey. But there are a handful of players.

where when you watch them play football, you say no one can replace that player. Alvin Camara, Delvin Cook. Agreed. Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones is in that list. I will give a lot of credit to Jamal Williams. He looks significantly better. Whatever work he did in the off season, took it to 100 on that. Week 6 buys coming up. It's the Raiders, Patriot, Saints, and Seahawks for next week. So keep that in mind.

when you're making adjustments on the waiver wire. Let's start with the wide receiver position when we're talking waiver pickups. We always start with drop candidates, players that, you know, you as listeners, you bring them up on Twitter, on Instagram. You want to know, you want permission, really. You want permission to drop a big name most of the time because you want to go after the newest waiver wire pickup, but you don't know if it's okay to let somebody go. So I'm going to bring up some names at wide receiver.

You say if you're willing to let them go for some of the guys on the block this week. Marvin Disappointment Jones. Yes. Yes. Well, you're trying to sway the jury over there. That was a little bias. Objection. Leading the witness. Yeah, you cut him. All right. You said yes as well? Yeah. He's a great basketball player, though. He'll have a big three touchdown game coming soon. Still waiting for it. AJ Green. Cut. Yeah, he's gone. Yeah. T. Yilton. Cut. Yep.

I'm not cutting T.Y. Well, no. I don't blame you. He's not a... Not yet. The other two, I mean, first of all, if I've got someone with the name of A.J. Green, I'm going to try to trade him first. Of course. Before I cut him. We need to say that because that's good advice. People will trade for big names, but he... I mean, my number one waiver pickup, I'm skipping ahead is his teammate T. Higgins, but if I had to roster T. Higgins or A.J. Green, it's going to be T. Higgins.

Yeah, and I'm close on Hilton. Don't get me wrong. I'm very close. I just want, I want them in a game where they're not dominating from the beginning of the game and see what happens. Their defense is so good. It's very good. Brandon Cooks? Cut. Yeah, you can say Sayonara. Michael Gallup. No. Okay. Darius Slate? No. Nope. Hanging on, especially this week. Yes. DJ Moore? No.

Yeah, those three guys, I'm continuing to roster. I mean, put it this way. If those three Gallup, Slayton, and DJ Moore were on the waivers, I would definitely put DJ Moore and Michael Gallup ahead of all the other wide receivers that we're going to be discussing today. So, yeah, they should be rostered. I think one of the reasons why I'm okay holding on to Hilton for another week is because I'm really not that.

enthusiastic about the wide receiver pickups this week. It's a good point. The last week was exciting with the triple rookie breakout. Yeah. Justin Jefferson, great pickup. Oh, yeah. I'm glad we said to go hard in the paint after Justin Jefferson. You didn't tell me to go hard enough because I missed out on him. I was really close. I spent 35 Fabby, went for 45, and I'm super disappointed. I love that Andy Holloway, host of Fantasy Football podcast, is blaming his co-hosts.

For not telling him to bid higher. That's right. But for the record, if I had gotten him, I would have been taking the credit for giving myself the advice to go hard enough. That's fantasy football, baby. That's right. You're right, though, Jason. There was the rookie breakouts last week and other ones in the Waverwire pickups this week. But I'm really not, I'm not that excited about all of these options. You look at T. Higgins. All right. Well, T. Higgins, he seems to be.

further integrated into this offense, super impressed with Joe Burrow, seven targets, four for 77, really seems to be the guy outside of Tyler Boyd that's going to get the target share now. Has Baltimore in Baltimore this week? Has the Colts in Indianapolis the next week? He's probably at the top of my list for long-term value, but I'm not...

actively starting him, which means I'm not going to spend a ton of fab. Yeah, I completely agree. This is a player that hopefully, based on our advice, you already had picked up because he was kind of our number two pick up last week. But coming into this week, it really is a matter of look at your roster and say, is this player I need to plug into my lineup because I lost player X, Y, or Z? Or is this just he's out there? He should be rostered.

Because if it's a player you need to pick up and play, I'm between two players. Interesting. I have my number one. Who is your? So I like Russell Gage a lot. I know it was a disappointing game. He was just back from the concussion this week. But Carolina and Minnesota are, and then Detroit is the upcoming schedule for Russell Gage. I think Julio is going to be out. He, to me, is a great. If you need to pick up a player and plug him in your lineup and hope for 10 points, Russell Gage.

would be the guy. The other one is Scotty Miller. Scottie Miller. He's my number one pickup. He's been getting it done. And if you, you know, we keep going back to it. But if he just caught the touchdown pass that hit him in the hands on his down week, then he's pretty much been good every single week. If he caught that, I'd be three and one on my taking into 100. You would. And look, Chris. Thank you, Scotty. Chris God was not going to play this week, is he? It's a short week. No. He's got the hamstring problem. I thought it would, I'm trying to remember off the time of my head. I thought it was a multi-week.

We already knew that Godman was going to miss. Correct. Yeah, Scottie Miller, I'm with you, Jason. Scotty Miller and Russell Gage are my, those are my top two pickup. So I guess you said T. Higgins might be your number one. You would be three for me. Yeah, looking at this, I mean, this is again, if I needed to start this player now, T. Higgins would be my number three because I would rather start Russell Gage and Scotty Miller ahead of T. Higgins. Yeah, Scotty. Scotty is at the top of my list. Leviska-Shanalt.

I know he's dealing with the hamstring injury. I couldn't have been more impressed with him this past weekend. He has Houston, Detroit. He's number two for me behind Scotty Miller. That's fair. But I do want to monitor that hamstring injury this week because he's a must start this week. Yes. If he's fine, if he's okay. He's not Julio Jones, Jason. He's very young. His hamstring is. It's a really solid. It's really solid point. Does the voice get higher as you get older?

For the hammy? Yeah. I mean, it's the opposite of growing up. Right. Yo-hoo, no, it doesn't. Or so is Levisca? No, they're all high fish. We're all headstrings. All right. Brandon Ayyuk is maybe on some people's lists. He is an impressive athlete. He is still very difficult for me to start. Yeah, I don't think you can start Iyuk. I did have the thought, though, of once Debo is back.

Is Debo going to have an Iyukin problem? Yeah, I mean, I agree with what you're saying, in the sense that he's playing essentially that Debo role we saw last year. Are we just splitting that role? Yeah, the end of the rounds go back and forth between Debo and Iyuk. Right, exactly. And Debo was back this last week. He played on 34% of snaps, but he's going to be more integrated. And, yeah, because of...

Both of those players, I'm kind of out on each of them. I'm more, I would rather have Debo by a lot. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I don't think, and I don't think you can start Debo this week yet, though. I need to see more than 34% of the snaps. And then a, if you're looking for a stash player at the wide receiver position, McColl Hardman is still available in about, in more than half of leagues. He has, he's taken to Marcus Robinson's job. He's Kareem Hunt.

He is Kareem Hunt at wide receiver. Here's what I mean. I would love to know. This is a player who is himself outstanding and electric, but he's not the starter, essentially, like Kareem Hunt wasn't. You can play McCall Hardman right now as a backup. Just like you could play Kreme Hunt. Now, obviously, it's Kreme Hunt light. Kreme Hunt was dominating as a backup week in and week out and getting enough touches to be confident in him. You're not as confident in McColl Hardman, but...

Every single start can have a touchdown for McCole Hardman as he's had the last two weeks. And should something happen, a lot of this Nick Chub injury that puts McCle Hardman, you know, next to Tyree Kill on a regular basis out on the field, I really like McCall Hardman as a, you know, as a deeper stash play if you need to, but hopeful insurance policy as well. Yeah, it's kind of a philosophical thing. Do you want to target?

type of fill in for your team like a Greg Ward who might go out and get 7, 8, 9, 10 targets, or do you want to take a shot on one big play with McColl Hardman? In general, I want the targets. In specificity with Greg Ward at Pittsburgh, then Baltimore, no thank you. But, yeah, I mean, I think the first guys we mentioned, you know, the Scotty Miller and Russell Gage and T. Higgins, those are up. And then McCle Hardman. But none of these guys like super inspire me.

So, you know, I'm not putting. Are you chasing Treyquan Smith points? I mean, on the Saints, I expect Michael Thomas to be back this week. And they're playing the Chargers. Chargers, I get, Tom Brady threw five touchdowns, but they are still a solid defense. And then you have the buy week. Trequon Smith is just a really deep league ad for me, if at all. All right. Let's look at the running back position on the waiver wire this week. A couple of drop candidates that.

have been coming up on Twitter, Instagram. J.K. Dobbins? No. No. Yeah. Dobbins is somebody that should be rostered. Yes. I don't think it's an absolute for every team. If you need to go get somebody to play, Dobbins is not that option. I mean, that's truly whatever name you're going to say is probably the case for running back. Because if there's someone who has the potential to be involved at some point,

at running back, then they need to be rostered by someone in the league. I see you're about to bring up Zach Moss. Like my initial instinct is, oh, yeah, cut, cut bait. I didn't want Zach Moss anyways. But at the same time, he's one of the, I mean, I'm picking up guys at the running back position that are seemingly, you know, feels like a backup to the backup sometimes. Just your weight and hope. And so in that category, Zach Moss should be rostered.

I would much prefer the waiver options we're about to talk about. Yeah, I would rather have Moss on my roster than Dobbins right now. Yeah, that's fair. All right, waiver wire pickups that you're focusing on this week. I think that there are kind of, I'll say three, I guess it's four names, but three situations. There's the Chargers situation with Joshua Kelly and Justin Jackson. There's the Cardinal situation with...

Kenyon Drake, though, we think he'll be back out there. So Chase Edmonds probably rostered in a lot of leagues. And then there's the Brown situation with Nick Chubb missing time and to Ernest Johnson, who was an Alliance of American Football Star that they signed and came in and had a big week last week. How are you prioritizing those or do you include anybody else in that kind of category? Sure. So if we're talking through all of the situations,

I would be prioritizing the Chargers, and I think it's still Joshua Kelly would be the top player I would be going after. He's not, he is the least available of the players that we have mentioned right here at the running back position. It was a bad game for Joshua Kelly. I get it, but he's going to have a ton of opportunity with Austin Echler out. But Justin Jackson will also be on the field, and he projects more.

as a pass catcher. He has that skill set, and he is excellent at it. He's not Austin Echler, but he's good at it, and we'll have to fill that Austin Echler pass catching role. So both of these guys are in play, and I believe I would prioritize Justin Jackson over De Ernest Johnson from the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, I think that's where the question is, is Justin Jackson versus Dearness Johnson?