Week 11 Waivers + Upset City, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/15

a starter involved and targeted. Like, he was their plan. He was the second pick in the second round of the NFL draft, one of the highest draft capital they've ever used on a wide receiver. He's looked the part. First play of the season for them was supposed to be a bomb touchdown. We just haven't seen him healthy. Now that he's back, in his first, like, full healthy game, he had the highest target percentage of All games, all wide receivers for the Green Bay Packers this year. No one's had as high percentage of targets. They will get Randall Cobb back likely this week, just something to monitor. Boo. What? He's got Christian Watson. Oh, he just, wow. Very anti-Randle Cobb. Randall Cobb. Not the man, just the targets. Yeah, no, I'm a very unbiased view. If both are there, good question. Where are you going?

I'm going with Cadarious Tony. Yeah, I'm going to go with the offense that hasn't. I mean, this was the first three touchdown game of the season for Aaron Rogers. It's been a tremendous struggle for them. I think there's going to be more total targets heading Tony's way in the future. Juju's in concussion protocol. Hardman's been injured. So I lean the Tony direction just for this year. Sure. I lean the Tony direction slightly as well. But he's not available. But Christian Watson, if he is there, At this point of the season, I'm going pretty hard in the pain after him. What does that mean? I mean, like, if you're looking at, if you only have two stable wide receivers, I mean, at this point, probably the rest of my fab. Here's a player I really am interested in at this point. Paris Campbell. Yes. Yes. Jason. No, I get it. Oh, man. I really am. I'm interested in the.

I like him better than Michael Pittman moving forward. He's had three top 11 finishes in the last five games. He's scored in three of the last five games. He's just very interesting in what Matt Ryan and this offense wants to do when he's 27% rostered. Now, do I want him, you know, he's playing Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Dallas the next three weeks. So when you look at buying into Jonathan Taylor, when you look at buying into Campbell or taking a gamble on Pittman, those are. Three kind of difficult matchups coming up. But Paris Campbell is somebody that can plug a hole immediately. You have a buy week. You don't have Waddle. You don't have Lockett. You don't have Metcalf. There's a lot of missing wideouts this week. And I'm interested in Campbell. Yeah, I completely agree. And even though it's not a great matchup against the Eagles, it's one of those types of players where when the pass rush comes through, there's no Naim Hines anymore. Matt Ryan's going to be looking to get the ball out quickly to Paris Campbell. I would not go as...

far as to say I would rather have him over Pittman. Pittman had nine targets this last game, but I think he's right there in the pecking order and is a wonderful pickup who's available in the vast majority of leagues. All right. Some other names worth mentioning. Some of them kind of qualify as a stash candidate. You know, Beckham is supposed to choose a team. He's about 50% rostered. Traylon Burks would be a stash and not someone you can play yet, but just coming back off of injury. I had a decent target share. Rookie wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, he was only on the field about 50% of the snap. So you could have him be really good the rest of this year. Certainly a good stash pickup, but not someone you're going to play. And then we mentioned DeAndre Carter. If you need a spot start this week, DeAndre Carter could be in play for you. There's quite a few spot starts. Darius Slayton.

Yeah. I think it's a really good spot start. Detroit. He had 95 yards in a touchdown this last week. He's going to be playing against Detroit. So, I mean, no one wants to play Darius Slayton, but you can and it can work out pretty well. Ben Scronick. Yeah, man, deep, deep leagues. 98% of the snaps. It was two receptions for 14 yards, but it was seven targets and it was the backup quarterback. Matthew Stafford will be back. It was concussion protocol, so it's not like a long-term injury for him. And with Cooper Cup not on the field, this guy's going to be out there. He was already essentially a high 80% of the snaps player and was getting more action than Alan Robinson. Van Jefferson still returning from the injury for, I don't think he's going to, he's not going to turn into Cooper Cup, not anywhere close, but he's going to get targets for a team that.

Just lost. What was Cooper Cup's target share on this season? 110%. Like all of the targets? You like him more than Van Jefferson. Oh, yeah. He's my favorite ram pickup. Do you like him more than Alan Robinson if you had a choice on waiver wire between those two? If somehow Alan Robinson was there, I would probably take him just because of the money and the touchdown upside. But Scoronic, I don't think is that far behind him. Let me ask you a question about some drop candidates that have come up on Twitter. Wondale Robinson. Yeah, I think you can drop him. Brandon Cooks, where, you know, Nico Collins is on our list of all the waiver rankings, by the way, on the website, the fancy footballers.com. But Nico Collins is, you know, 10 targets, 5 for 49, 21% target per route run on the season. Is Brandon Cook somebody you just kind of, you're still holding on to? After you came back? I'm still holding on to Brandon Cooks. DJ Moore, now that Baker's back. I'm still holding on to DJ Moore as well. Don't drop him yet. I agree. But, uh-oh.

And don't they have a Baltimore matchup this week? Yeah. Delightful. Yeah. Uh-oh. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back with the running backs. All right, Foot Clan, let's dive into what running backs. We are welcoming into the fold for the upcoming week. It's tough because I think the true biggest long-term upside running back pickups, if they're out there, are both on by. We had reports this morning that Rashad White after the breakout performance is likely to maintain the starting role in the Tampa offense, which is a valuable role. He's 22 for 105 heading on by. Jeff Wilson, 17 for 119 at a touchdown. Big game, part two, two for two in Miami for Jeff Wilson. Also on the by but comes out with Houston.

and is rostered in 75% of leagues already. Yeah, those guys are probably rostered, but you need to check your leagues. And because they're going into the buy, a lot of times players will go to look at available players and it's sorted by projections. They will be projected for exactly zero points. So you need to look for those players and see if they're available. They should be rostered in 100% of leagues, not 55% of leagues. So thank you. So, yeah, those are the first pickups, and unless I absolutely have to start someone off of waivers, I would rather take the buy week, spend to get one of those two guys over grabbing one of these next names. Now, I will throw Brian Robinson into the mix as maybe competing for that top spot, though, because Houston, Atlanta, the next two weeks, Washington is a team on the rise, and his workload is...

you know, likely to be very high. Houston's given up the most fantasy points to a running back, to the running back position by a wide margin. So like you said, if you need a spot start this week, if you are kind of on the fence between needing that versus waiting another week, I think Brown Robinson could do you well this week. Yeah, he could do both for sure. You know, we've got our quarterback streamers going here in a little bit. And I thought about Taylor Heineke. He looked pretty good. He's playing against Houston. But the reality is when teams play against Houston, they just don't throw the ball much because you don't need to. You can run all day on Houston. And that's what they're going to do with Brian Robinson. That's what they did against the Eagles and got to win. I mean, Brian Robinson is going to have more than 20 carries against one of the worst run defenses in modern day memory. Yeah, and please monitor the situation with the ankle for.

Antonio Gibson, who seems to be fine, but sometimes you play on it and then you end up limited to practice. Isaiah Pacheco, 16 for 82. Seems like you could have a breakout performance on the way on Sunday night football in prime time, which means if you're going to get him, this week is a lot better week to do it than next week. He's only 33% rostered. And Clyde Edwards-Alaire has been kind of phased out of this offense, at least. this past week. I think Pacheco is actually, you know, from a value perspective, maybe your best pickup at running back. I've, I've been more and more uninterested lately in the Chiefs backfield because whenever you have a three-headed rotation, it's just difficult, especially when most of the touchdowns for the team just go in the passing game. You split that three ways really difficult, even with a great offense. But Clyde was done.

I mean, he got four snaps on the game. This is a two-headed backfield, and Isaiah Pacheco is now the starter. He had 16 carries for 82 yards. That was great. Now, if you look at the final box square, you're like, well, that's like, that's not that many fantasy points that he put up last week, but. They gave him, and he fumbled. He lost a fumble. So I think he finished with like six fantasy points. It's really, really bad. But he came back in after the fumble and was just, you know, he's the guy now. The Chargers are a bad run defense. We just brought that up a minute ago. That's the matchup. I think he's going to be a really good play this week. Yeah, I agree. And my only fear with Pacheco is just that if he, this team is smart enough to where if he's not succeeding, like if he's not playing well, they'll make further pitch.

pivots. Clyde could get more time, could be McKinnon, but as long as he plays well, he will have the opportunity. McKinnon is also a fine pickup. Eight targets. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, we talk every week. It used to be Jady McKissick as the, you know, smash glass. in case of an emergency. McKinnon is the past catching back for this team, and now that it's a two-headed rotation, if you need a spot start, you could throw him in there. And no juju. So I think part of what made McKinnon more effective in the game was you saw him. It wasn't just out of the backfield. It was, you know, in the short area in front of Patrick Mahomes where juju had been. Other names, Gus Edwards, coming off the by. It's coming off the by, coming off of the hamstring.

injury. I think that Gus Edwards needs to be rostered. The difficult part is can you immediately play him? I mean, one, we haven't gotten the all clear from the Ravens because they didn't have to tell us anything over the bye week. But I would expect that he would be back. But Kenyon Drake, in the couple games where he's been the guy, Kenyon Drake has looked very good for this team. But week seven, when Gus was finally activated, He was right into the leader of the committee of the backfield. He got the two touchdowns. The next week he had 11 for 65. I mean, it was a committee, but he looked good again on 21% of the snaps. 11 for 65. That's a good pace to be on. But then unfortunately hurts the hamstring. Where are you guys with his plug and playability? Because like.

You've got to pick him up, but can you actually rely on him versus Carolina this week? Yeah, Carolina's run defense has been surprisingly bad this year, and it's going to be a matter of practice reports. You're not going to know how he practices this week when you put in your waiver claims tonight. So you just make a waiver claim because he should be picked up. And he's picking you up. Oh, yeah, Gus Bus. I'm going to wait a week. I think they're going to share it. I think you're going to share the load this week. I think they're going to share.

It'll be a time share the rest of the season. It's just does he get the high value touches near the goal line? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think he's worth the pickup for sure. He's rostered over 50%. Some stash candidates at running back in the lower rostered percentage numbers. Isaiah Spiller, 15% rostered. Kenny Gainwell, look, these are. In case of injury, Somaget Pirine in Cincinnati. And then Madison is about 50-50 on roster percentage. And you know Dalvin Cook's injury history. And then Kyron Williams, what do we think about Kiron's opportunities? If this team, here's, let me make the case for Kyron Williams. This is the rookie running back for the Los Angeles Rams. Thank you. Who did play more snaps than Cam Acres.

Acres only at 15% in the entire game. It was by far Darrell Henderson as the snap leader. My case for Karen Williams is why not? And I'm speaking on behalf of Sean McVeigh. This team, they're circling the drain. Cam Acres is not your future at running back. No. Darrell Henderson's not your future at running back. So I would imagine over the back half of the year as a team that's likely not competing for a playoff spot. Kyron will get opportunities and could be a little bit sneaky in terms of value. I like the fact that he was catching passes in this game. He's 3 for 30. I just think he's worth a glance. I don't think he's, you know, he's nobody you can start right now. I would agree with that. The last name, we've mentioned his name in passing, but Jalen Warren is another good backup. He's more and more involved. Andy, you had such a good comp when we were watching this game.

You saw a lot of Austin Echler in him. And as soon as you said that, I mean, I could see exactly what you're talking about because Echler is a very unique style of runner. You know, the size. Yeah, the size and the legs that he can make a cut and get hit and keep going forward. And that's, you know, a fellow undrafted rookie free agent. Jalen Warren should be. Should definitely be rostered and should something happen to Najee, who's already been struggling with the foot injury over the course of the season, maybe he'll get a bigger opportunity. And even in Dynasty League, he has played his way to more relevance on the field. And I do think that he looks like a really good player. He is, they're both 5'8, Austin Echler and Jalen Warren. Warren's actually listed at 16 pounds heavier than Austin Echler and both undrafted. So.

Kind of interesting. Can you drop Clyde Edwards a layer? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would do it. Even if I didn't need anybody and I wanted a blank spot on my bench. How wild is that? Clyde, you know, I know it was obvious and we weren't the only one saying this over the first handful of weeks. It's like trade Clyde. It's hollow. It's touchdowns. But the first month of this season, he was the running back 6, 10, 17, and 8. three of his four weeks as a top 10 fantasy running back, and now without being injured, at all not once this whole season, is droppable. Oh, man, that's crazy. Yeah, it is. All right, let's welcome some tight ends into the fold. Right now, Tyler Higby tops the list. He's rostered in a lot of leagues, but if he isn't, Mike just brought it up the case for Ben Skoronic, and in that case exists for Tyler Higby, eight targets against Arizona.

He is very much Mr. Necessary for this offense. When they are short-handed, he becomes a high-value option. They have a bad offensive line. He is an emergency valve. And Tyler Higby could be a PPR relevant player with the absence of Cooper Cup. They design plays for him. There's not a lot of tight ends that get a design tied-in screen at least once a week. So, yeah, I get it. He's not on your waivers, but. Some people he might be there. Yeah, and if you want to get there fast and then take it slow, Colcomot, Colquette, look, two touchdowns two weeks ago, two touchdowns last week. Oh, I'm not saying, but against the matchup against Atlanta, he is more involved in the passing game. He's available in half the leagues out there. Colcomette seems like someone that you can pick up and start if you need to throw someone in your lineup. Yeah, and you're not, I mean.

Maybe you'll get two a week. But if you don't, be encouraged by six targets and seven targets the last two weeks. Yes. But watch the injury report because he was a little banged up at the end of the game. Other kind of break glass options at tight end, Foster Moreau. Yep. 31% rostered. Of the Las Vegas Raiders. Back up for Mr. I.R. Darren. We're back to the island. We haven't been here in many years. It's overgrown. Yeah, we need some... Build a shelter. We need some equipment. But the island of Foster Moreau, always relevant around the goal line without Darren Waller. So, yeah, it's tough, it's tough in the tight-in streets. Jason, you asked yesterday, in the office, he said, and we should ask Mike, because who's the number three tied in in fantasy? Who would you want the most outside of Kelsey Andrews?

Because this is the question we were kind of walking through. Right. And, um, I mean, it's probably Goddard. Okay. Goddard was one of about five names that we brought up. Probably Dallas Goddard who just, I mean, Goddard 22 yards short of, uh, of a 10 leger over here. Mike had a monster parlay that, uh, you know, should have told you guys not to hit him so late in the play. Yeah. Um, hey, hey, ref, he got face masked. Dalton Schultz, could he be the number three? The rest of the season? He could. He's with his, he doesn't have the week-to-week upside for me that Goddard has. He's safe. Sure. Like a top six play. Like Kittle. Kittal, Goddard, Schultz, Hawkinson. They're all like in the mix for that number three spot. The point here is outside of Kelsey and Andrews, there's a Grand Canyon to relevance. To the next tier. Yeah.

It's true. I don't have any other names I want to mention it tight end. You know, the world wants to know should they drop Kyle Pitts. He's the most brutal situation, obviously in fantasy. He has the, Kyle, that number, that metric you gave me yesterday. Is it the most uncatchable targets in all the football? The most off target percentage. 30% of his targets are off target. And this is a tight end and a player and a freak athlete with the biggest wingspan at the tight end position in the history of football. And you can still throw him the ball off target. Like that seems shocking. And yet is the reality, Kyle Pitts is not a reliable start in any way, shape, and form. You will always have a chance at the kind of play that Foster Moreau won't give you, which would be like they take a deep shot. He comes up with one that's on target and it's a 74-yard touchdown. That won't happen with a number of these guys. But you're really just like rolling the dice and it's against you.

It is so easy for a tight end to be top 12. It does not take much because we just brought it up. There aren't a lot of good tight ends. And Kyle Pitts, we're heading into week 11. There's been two times on the season he's been in the top 12. Oh, my goodness. I mean, there's been half of his games have been outside like the top 30. Like just complete irrelevant. You're much, much better off playing. And I, this is just disgusting, but playing somebody like Evan Ingram, who, you know, there's in-zone shots to him, design plays for him, he's still athletic, he could still break a big play. And, um, good old Schmevin. Schmevin, Schminger. Yeah, I would never tell anybody. I'm sorry, Evan Ingram. It would be Schmevin Schmengroom. Just put some glasses on him. Look, I didn't see him in our list because I don't know what his roster percentage is right now, but where's Greg D on the roster percentage? Because last week, um, he was on the field the whole time. It didn't go well, but if Jerry Judy's limited, he still could have,

Bigger opportunities. And the Raiders matchup is 36%. Yeah, he's worth a mention. Absolutely, yes. What team defenses are we welcoming into the fold this week, gentlemen? So there's a couple interesting ones. The Bengals are coming off of their biweek, so they are pretty available, rostered only 19%. But they get Pittsburgh and that offense, I mean, as excited as you are for the target distribution going up for Pickens and for the Muth, They're not good. So Cincinnati can handle that. And they get to follow that up with Tennessee, which if you stop Derek Henry, which the Bengals have a good run defense, then there's nothing they can do against you either. The Washington defense is by far my favorite pickup. And they're super available. Chase Young might make it back for next week. Even if he doesn't. I mean, held Chicago to seven points. Held Green Bay to 21. Held Indianapolis to 16.

Minnesota to 20, and then last night against Philadelphia was the number 2D on the week. Sure. And Houston is just this delightful floor when you play against them. That's why I like the Giants last week. Yeah, there's also two games being played this week that I am happy to have either defense on either side. The Patriots against the Jets, Belichick against Zach Wilson. Heck yeah, man. But also. The Patriots offense doesn't seem that scary to me. The Jets defense has been playing great. They're coming off a buy. I'd be okay with the Jets side of the ball. And then the Rams Saints. Sure. Those are two offenses that just are so good at throwing touchdowns to the other team. They are so good at it. And, you know, if you want to just the season of giving, Jason. Right. This game, it's funny because you could have two.

Bad offenses, two good defenses. And I'm not sure I would bet the under because defenses could do some scoring in this game. Both overunders are beneath 40 points as well in those games. It's disgusting, but that's great for playing your DST. All right. That was welcome to the fold presented by Samsung Galaxy. The Galaxy's EFold 4 makes multitasking easy. All these waiver wire pickups. Use it to check out the player rankings as well. Watch highlights, view trade targets. You can do it all at once. Improve your roster. Visit Samsung.com. to learn more. Full stream ahead. It's a little slim. It is. I had... The river is not flowing. Mike's stream of the week is the one that jumped out beyond all the rest. So I'm going to let you lead the way, Mike, because I'd rather you say these words at the part of the show before people disconnect. And then if you want to hang around for Jason and I's, feel free. It's Daniel Jones. He's been...

Fine. He's had some big games here and there. Quarterback 16 on the year. QB 13 last week. Get to the Y. Get to the Y. He's playing the Detroit Lions. Thank you very much. He's averaging nearly eight rushing attempts per game. The Lions dead last in schedule adjusted fantasy points to the quarterback position allowing the highest yards per attempt. We mentioned Slayton as a possible upside. By week fill in at the wide receiver position. Jones should be. should be perfectly fine this week. I'm going. I was just going to. I was just going to add that Daniel Jones is one of those rare quarterbacks that is not good, not good for fantasy, but has explosions. He really, you know, he's one of the quarterbacks that can put up 30 points because he can have a 60 yard rushing touchdown or a 70 yard Darius Slayton Baum touchdown. So I do like him quite a bit for the matchup this week.

I am going to roll the dice with Jimmy Garoppolo as my streaming candidate this week. It is 100% about the matchup. The Cardinals have been the best matchup for quarterbacks for the last three weeks. You saw Andy Dalton in a game that they lost. This has been the enigma of the Cardinals defense. They have actually been one of the best fantasy defenses each and every week. And they should have been even better last week. The number five on the year right now, they had a touchdown. straight up stolen from them by the referee blowing the whistle too soon. I don't know if you saw JJ Watt actually paid out a bet to somebody that lost a parley because of not having a defensive score. But the Cardinals have a way of doing what they did to Andy Dalton, giving up a huge fantasy day and yet intercepting the ball and doing things on defense. Jimmy G. Arizona, it's in Mexico City, Jason. I know yesterday you were saying the disrespect of the Cardinals at home being eight and a half point favorites or underdogs.

It's because they're not at home. They're in Mexico City. And I think Arizona giving up that near 70% completion rate, Byron Murphy didn't play last week. Jimmy G. is interesting. I know he prefers not to throw any touchdowns, but if things go against his plan, you could end up with a couple. And my stream of the week. Oh. Well, let's start off with a great. Boston. A great tweet from at Paul Himbo, just for some context here. Oh, baby. Patrick Mahomes is the NFL's all-time leader in passer rating at 105.8. The league has a 107 passer rating against the Raiders this season. So yes.

I'm going dangerous. I'm going Dangerous. I'm going to Danger Witch. I'm going Russell Wilson as my stream of the week. Limited. He's been so bad. He only has one top 12 performance on the entire season. And it was against these Vegas Raiders. He was the quarterback three. The Broncos put up the season high in... points. This is a matchup that's exploitable. And I know you've got questions about Jerry Judy, but there are enough weapons here with Sutton, with Greg Dulcich to be able to get the job done. I mean, you saw a broken play 50-yard touchdown last week from Russ. That can happen against the Raiders on any play. I couldn't do it. I mean, I was sitting. Mike had claimed Daniel Jones, and I'm staring at our streamfinder tool from the website.