Stack Attack! + High Risk Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/25

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Tuesday, August 25th. Welcome in to another wonderful show. We have, we got a lot going on today. We have a bunch of news to catch you up on. We have performance climbers on this show today. We're going to get into the mailbag, some of your voicemail questions. We're going to talk through a trade.

today and what we think about it, what it means to the Houston, Texas, acquiring another wide receiver. And, yeah, a lot going on. We're going to talk a little stack attack, talk through some underrated stacks in fantasy football. And as you heard at the top, the Megalobole is open right now. So you can go sign up playing a league with us and see if you can win amongst 20,000 plus footclan players. That's hosted on Sleeper, and it is megalobole.com.

So that's going on. We just did our live stream yesterday, gave away a UDK for life. I put a little poll up on Twitter. Obviously people are in a lot of different leagues, but it looked like about 75% of people still had not drafted. That's great. That's smart. That's wise. Yeah, I mean, injuries are, they suck. It's been worse this year.

No, it's actually been... Is it normal? It is normal, and I hate to say this out loud. Hey. So far... I got bad news for you, Jason. Jinks isn't real? Yeah. What you say in this end of the microphone right now, we'll have no... Oh, really? Yeah, really. This year, the injuries have been absurdly lower than in recent history, and I'm so happy about that that there will be so few injuries for this off season. Let's see.

You think you got a lot of power? I'm going to find out this weekend. I hope I don't. Settle down Truman. I am not joking in Mike Truman shows in my head. Yeah, so a lot's going on. Let's go ahead and jump right in. Performance climbers presented by GMC. All right. We're looking at players whose average job position has arisen in recent the last week or two. Keenan Allen. That one's kind of like, duh.

I mean, Keenan Allen's ADP somewhere in the 14th round range. And what do we think? I hate him. You hate it? I hate it so, so much. I realized as I've got to. Can you hate Keenan Allen? I hate that Keenan Allen signed with the Colts. I love Keenan Allen. I really genuinely believe Keenan Allen's going to be their like number one wide receiver target right off the bat week one. And that's what I hate because I was.

pretty high on Josh Downs. And the more that I've really looked at who this affects the most, it's clearly Josh Downs. Like, Tyler Warren's going to get his. When Alec Pierce comes back, he's going to be on the outside. We know he's going to be on the outside. Keenan, while being a slot player through his career, he has been more of an outside guy the last couple of years with the Bears. He went and played actually 60, 40 outside to inside. He can do it. And so my whole thing is like, I wanted to see Josh Downs in two wide receiver sets.

And I don't think I'm going to. Yeah. No, they didn't want to. They did. They saw it. Yeah, maybe he wasn't good enough. But there's also. It's a tough thing to ask a player to do that's been in the league for a long time that has that physical size to go and become, you know, reliable at a position you're not used to. I don't think it is solely an indictment on Josh Downs. They don't have depth.

Alec Pierce is not back yet. They need another wide receiver, period. Yeah, they do. The relationship here between Steichen and Jim Bob Cooter and Keenan Allen, like this was... Is there a chance? It's still downs? I think there is a chance, but Keenan's gonna get his. I mean, he's after this year, if he gets 50 receptions. At least 50 receptions, book it. He moves behind Jerry Rice and Larry Fitzgerald as number three all time. That's crazy. So he'll get his...

For fantasy, where do you draft him? What do you expect he's going to do? I think if I'm in a full PPR league, Keenan Allen's going to be a definite top 24 wide receiver for the first month. Oh, I don't know, man. I think that there, maybe, maybe that's the case. I don't look at Keenan Ellen as a player. I'm targeting in drafts personally. Me either. Because I don't target older PPR wide receivers in the super late rounds. I target young rookie upside Concepcion, Lemon,

You know, those Tyson, Tyson will be earlier. But just anybody in that later around, Jacoby Lane, who we're going to talk about in a second. I just want a shot at seeing if I can find gold. Like Keenan Allen at, I mean, to your point, if he's good at the beginning, it will decrease with the return of Alec Pierce. Which we did just from Stephen Holder, Colts.

Wide receiver, Alec Pierce, is expected to return to practice this week if all goes to playing. Well, that's great. Oh, it's funny because I saw something this morning that was an announcement that Alec Pierce won't practice today. Well, today. Both can be true. Yeah. It could still be this week. That's good, though. That's great for, I mean, they paid that guy a lot of cheddar. Mike, do you see Keenan on any of your teams? Certain builds, I think there's definitely a point where.

especially like jay said it when you're in ppr and you're just getting those those free points but you know we make the joke all the time of like he could be a boat it's like he can't be a now it could might be a row boat right this point but which is like it'll you aren't gonna sink

Yeah, you're not plugging walls. You're not drowning. Yeah, but it's going to be a workout. Keenan or Dix? It's going to be a workout. I go. I would take Stefan Diggs. That's how I lean too with the opportunity with Jaden Daniels. Jacoby Lane, uh, aforementioned Jacoby Lane, rookie wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. He has moved up about a round or two. He was a third round pick, six four, two hundred. I watched a lot of Jacoby Lane film over the last month and a half. Why is that? He's on my dynasty team.

Don't act like your Kyle Williams excitement isn't fueled by your dynasty rostering of Kyle Williams. Sir, I would never. Yeah, I know how this works. But yeah, you pay a little extra close attention to players. Yeah, you do. Of course. Especially on a team like mine where I'm like, do I have any players? But to me, it's just been really exciting to watch him work. His highlights, his collegiate highlights are awesome. Jacoby Lane, you know,

so far been making plays. He's one of the few guys like Pat Bryant that has made headlines in camp. And you have a situation now with, look, Zay Flowers got paid, Mark Andrews is older. Rashad Bateman not only has never really materialized into anything of value for fantasy, but now he's dealing with the domestic violence situation. From the summer. Yeah. Like, yeah. And so Baltimore beat reporters. What are you doing? Whether he's out, this was out there.

Well, okay. I think the most recent, I mean, I thought the news broke like a week ago. Yeah. If it were out, if it was out, look, I'm pretty much the lawnmower man here. I live on the internet and I didn't see it. So they were not really getting the word out. Yeah, I mean, the, I literally had a claim in because there's like the day before that started going like public.

There was a report. It's like, hey, the Houston Texans are looking at trading for Kashan Booty or Rashad Bateman. Right. I had a waiver claim in in our Dynasty League for Rashad Bateman. And then you canceled it? And then it's like, oh, this is all the sun coming out. It's, I don't know. Maybe it was out there and we all missed it. But following reports on Friday of Ravens Receiver, Rashad Bateman's June arrest, the NFL started launching an investigation three days ago.

So the club has been in contact with the league regarding the matter, which is under review and the personal conduct policy. He could be suspended unpaid six games that may need to have the legal process complete for the NFL to do that. Yeah, he won't start suspended, but I'm curious, does it force Jacobi Lane onto the field sooner rather than later? Because he's a third rounder. We know historically the trends are.

Guys who are going that late, they don't play very many snaps at the beginning of the year. It's towards the second half. But if you are bracing that Rashad Bateman isn't the future, he will have his own problems in the future. Maybe we get Jacoby on the field sooner. Great quotes from the team. Jameson Hensley came out on August 8th and said in 27 years covering the Ravens. I've never seen a rookie have a training camp like Jacoby Lanes.

Every day, Lane produces a highlight-making catch and day. He has Derek Henry leaping in the air in celebration. Declan Doyle, their offensive coordinator, we thought, what we thought about him, it just continues to show up. The guy I was around that has hands like his, that he reminds me of is Michael Thomas. He's definitely got amazing hands. Let me ask this one. The hype train is going.

We haven't really seen any wide receiver two in, you know, with Lamar Jackson be very relevant. Right. And obviously day three picks are. Well, we've seen a wide receiver and a tight end be relevant. So is like, is there enough? Yeah, for sure. And, and this is a new offense as well. But with the, with the data that we have of like day two and day three wide receivers starting slow after this trade for Kashon Booty.

a veteran who's going to almost certainly be the wide receiver two on the field. Would you rather draft Booty or would you rather draft? Oh, that's a good question. Jacoby Lane. I don't think, I mean, I saw some stuff this morning about Booty. The team might not even see him as a starter. And so I would take the shot on the younger Jacoby Lane establishing himself in a new offense with a new head coach and offensive coordinator and system that we don't really know what they're going to unveil, but we know.

that we trust Lamar Jackson more than we trust C.J. Stroud to make something out of Booty. I mean, Xavier Hutchinson could very well be the starter from day one in Houston. Booty, it doesn't, you know, he's a last year of his deal, right? So do they use him? I don't know. It's also a pretty late transition to get things into gear for Houston. It's a good point. Yeah. The last name in Performance Climbers, Mike Washington, Jr. What a week it was for...

Mike Washington Jr. and all the hype there. I wish we had like real-time data of just like his draft spot. Yeah. Here's what we'll start with with Mike Washington. This is a rookie running back for Las Vegas. Mike, you I think really liked what you saw on film from him. No, he was more of the opposite of the, his metrics and stuff didn't fully match what he should be doing. Like he's 6'1, 220, and he is

Like, he's the 1% of the 1% when it comes to athleticism. So you expected more out of, at least I expected more out of him. And we, you know, in the process it was, oh boy, this guy just ran a 433. Like, he's going to get real steamed up in the draft. And he didn't. So I think that that was the part that we, that I liked of, okay, he's going to a spot where he doesn't have to be the guy right away. Because I don't think he's ready.