Week 2 Waivers + Bounce Back or Buns? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/15

fragile or, you know, commonly injured head starting running backs who are getting a ton of work. So, yeah, Kaelin Black for the 49ers and Emmett Johnson rookie for the chiefs are the two guys that I would prioritize to grab. I agree with that in terms of just pure backups. Braylon Allen should be mentioned of, I don't know if that's sticky that the 10 carries, one target. He did have a huge touchdown that got called back on a, I think a hold.

I think he would be very good if Brice was out. Right. Well, I'm saying in this list, it's like the only guys I'm confident are Tyler Adjier is going to get work. And then after that, looking at, I mean, we are, it's really just backups. I think that Braylon Allen probably gets the second most work of the guys we're talking about. I think I'm on Jason's side of it. I think Kalin Black was a.

Like, it's awesome to know that information, especially with Jordan James being a healthy scratch. I think it was more of the report of that McCaffrey's playing through cramps in the international game. So I think CMC goes back to his very healthy workload. And even with the, I mean, 14 carries is like, if you had desperation played Caitlin Black and you got that work, you're like, eh, it didn't really turn. Yeah.

I think that the bigger... He doesn't get high value touches. It's rare in week one that the bigger pickups are not at running back. But I don't think that... I think right now what you're dealing with at the running back position is backups insurance options. Yeah. Which is... That's great. I would make sure that people are aware of Amari Demarcato. He's universally available. He's available across the league. There was a super late, you know, this is, I think it was the Thursday before kickoff injury. No one knows what team he's on. So Dallas Cowboys.

He is now the backup to Giovante. Malik Davis got seriously hurt. Yeah. On the Thursday before kickoff, he was carted off. Seems like a long-term injury. So all of a sudden, Amari DiMarcato goes from a guy who wasn't on this roster a month ago to the number one backup. Yeah. All right. You guys want to move on? Yeah. And also, we do have we have a lot more names on our list. You know, Tajay Spears split a lot of work, but he's on a.

Titans. We've done that for years in a row. Camara. But all of that is on the website. And you can also plug in your specific roster. You can go and, you know, join thefoot.com and import your league and see who is available in all your different leagues on your waivers. And it goes farther than just the guys we can talk about on the episode. Would you drop Tank Biggsby, Tyrone Tracy, Jonah Coleman, Marshaun Lloyd? Tracy is, that's a Baxter punt.

Bigsby is, he's just like these other high value insurance running backs. Would you drop them for Black? Yeah. I don't know. I would. Yes. I think I would. So then break that tight. Because to me, Tank Bigsby, should Christian. I'd rather have Kalin Black. Really? Yeah. I feel like if Christian McCaffrey and Sequin went down completely, they both, you know, were they both retired.

Right. This week. I think Bigsby scores a lot more. I agree with that. I'd rather pick up Kalin Black in terms of... More risk to McAfree. What if he... I'm not just the risk. Like, we're projecting that... Cards out of roll. That McCaffrey will be the heavy workload yet again. But what if every single week? Canlin Black is getting 12 opportunities. I think you would... Bigsby won't. It won't be Biggsby every down either with Sekegon out. Shippley? You'll have Shipley in there. Sure.

All right, wide receiver pickups. You do have some big ones this week. I think the two biggest names for me on the week that are in the wide receiver position. Debo Samuel, Jalen Koker. Dejohn, Stribling is out for an extended period of time. Debo was heavily involved. Six for 48, scored a touchdown, got the classic rushing attempt. 71% rostered. So this is a higher rostered player. Jalen Koker is at 66%. He was the number one wide receiver on the week.

I would not take that as, you know, prescriptive for the entire year. But so I'm not, I would not like, both of those guys are like well below 20% of my fab. What do you think about? In the, you know, 8 to 10% max. What do you think about the fact that second half of the game, DeMarcus Robinson played 24 snaps to Debo Samuel 7? I know that game got, I guess I don't know how much of that was. I think you have to factor it in.

Yeah, we did talk about the fact that veterans got a lot of, I mean, CMC, Kettle, and Debo got very reduced workloads. I don't know if it was strategic, preventative, a precautionary, cautionary, whatever you want to say. So in the third quarter, when the game was still, I mean, the Rams weren't, you know, benching their starters in the third. It looks like Mike Evans and DeMarcus Robinson played 12 snaps. Debo Samuel played four snaps.

So I just bring up that because DeMarcus Robinson is also a name. The Deshaun stribling injury is going to matter. And then obviously Debo got the touchdown. He looked not too bad. But DeMarcus Robinson will be involved. He will. But you wouldn't start him over Debo, would you? Because I mean, we've done the Dechon Robinson thing over the years. And I think the designed plays for Debo are more valuable than any of these snap count numbers. But I guess my point is if it.

If it cost me 15 Fab to get Debo or $0 to get Robinson. Robinson, I'd probably rather save the Fab. I think I like all these other names more than Robinson. Okay. Devon Veilay. Caleb Douglas. Veil is my number two. Yes. All of those guys are awesome. I think those are the pickups and Antonio Williams as well. How much would you spend on Coker, though? Let's not leave that for a second because eight for 132 and two, 84% of the snaps.

First read targets tied with McMillan. Air yards went to Coker. You know, you're talking about a player they just paid money to. He hasn't been healthy when he's been healthy. He's always flashed. Like Robert Woods or Parker Washington are these guys that once they got opportunities, they performed. What about the fact that he's not healthy? Precautionary. I mean, a first quarter injury. I'm not too worried about it. Coker's going to be expensive.

He, he, I will say this. He'll be a 20 plus percent of fab. I would not spend that. Andy is definitely correct that he is. I think someone in your league will. I mean, that was. He'd definitely be my number one pickup. There's a wild game. You got Atlanta this week. I mean, Coker is my number one. But I, I would cap my spend on Coker at 15% probably. Maybe, maybe like 12. I would, I would want to. You can make a very easy argument that Devon Bailey is a better pickup. I mean,

You still have the Bryce Young problem. Obviously, Jalen Coker had a Bryce Young quarterback in week one. He was the wide receiver one on the week. But the Bears defense looked really, really bad. That game got out of hand and was awesome for fantasy. I don't expect that to be the norm. I don't expect Velae to get 7 for 69 and a touchdown every week either. I think Johnson will be more involved and they won't run 86 plays a week. So I think both of those guys are going to be a little bit of like my investment on Bailey would not be very high.

Because there's just a bunch of guys that I think are in that same category that I can get for free. If you need a start, to me, Velae is very valuable. The Ravens, Raiders, and Falcons next three weeks, that's the time frame where we know Jordan Tyson can't come back. So he's going to be the wide receiver two on the field. And I liked what we saw from Shuck. It got off to a slow start, but he really played some quality ball down the stretch. I'm like, to me, Velae and Coker.

are very close to one another, and I feel like I can get Velae cheaper. Those two guys are close to another? That's what it is for me. To me, I mean, Velae is expiring. Cokers of rest of season value. When I'm spending any fab at the top of the season, I want them to be somebody that's not temporary. So that's a big differential for me. I would agree. I mean, I could start on Tavian Wicks this week for not that much, and I don't think that that's a disservice to, like, it's worse than Velae.

Dantavian Wix is another great name. He could be a rest of season. I mean, you could argue the expiring asset as McCoy Lemon gets more involved the same way that Jordan Tyson will be back. But his role seems established. He played 91% of the snaps. He had a bomb touchdown. And Wix is good. So I actually had a short touchdown. He had a bomb catch. Oh, that's right. The touchdown was not on the bomb. I guess when I'm looking at all these, you've got Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas, the rookies from Miami that.

despite the fact that I don't feel like the Miami Dolphins offense looked good. Both these guys were okay. You know, Caleb Douglas, five for 94 in week one in a not great game. I still think it's the time to scoop up Chris Bell. He only played 50% of snaps in week one. They're figuring the offense out. But I don't think Bell's, I don't think he's going to be playable for a while while he works up to speed.

It's possible. I guess my point here is that I'm not going to spend a ton of money on these guys because there's enough. Like I would rather, you know, take an $8. Exactly why I'm not spending anything on baili because I think there's 10 other guys that I would be willing to start. If I took an $8 fab, you know, bid on all, even like, okay, I would maybe be willing to spend more on Jalen Coker. But I'm not personally like super bullish because I still think Bryce Young is going to fail.

That's where I am too. And so it's like if I took an $8 bid and I put it on Coker and Valey and Douglas and Wicks and Bell, great. I'm going to probably get one of them, if not two of them. I like Malachi Fields a lot. He's actually the sneakiest, cheapest player that I would pick up and actually care about. I think the offense, he played 73% of snaps. It wasn't a hugely productive week, but he's not rostered in a lot of leagues. He's a rookie with upside.

I like those. Antonio Williams is in that category. I want to have a zero dollar bid on these guys. I can agree with that. And pick up some rookies to hold because we, look, some of the rookies you held in week one are gone. Jacoby Lane, Dajon, Stribling. These guys are on IR or out. Stribling technically, not on IR yet. But they're going to be in your, in your IR spot. So I just like picking those guys up versus like.

Absolutely. Like DeMarcus Robinson, okay, I guess if you need a spot starting week too. With the injuries to wide receiver, you have to figure out what your team needs. Yeah. I think not being overly aggressive on the fab spend this week is probably the right strategy. I mean, you might, you know, you could have been devastated at the wide receiver position. You really have to go get somebody. And did we throw it, Matt Collins' name yet? No, Matt Collins played the most snaps.

wide receiver position in the second half for the for the patriots he will they get Kyle Williams involved I don't know why why won't they they're not good and there's yeah there's something going on that we are we are not privy to but Matt Collins is like he's literally just the guy that he's like oh crap our plan

didn't work. Mack Hollins get in there and fix it for us and he's like, no problem. Let me take my shoes off and get in there. DiMario Douglas in a full PPR is going to be the same story with AJ Brown out. I mean, he was heavily involved in the offense. I think he only had, I think he had seven catches for 20 yards. He had seven targets, five for 20. I'm just, I feel like the floor play of Douglas is I'm not interested. Has to at least be in full PPR because he's just not going to get the yards to go along with the catches. Romeo Dobbs?

I would pick him up. He is one of the drop candidates that a lot of people are going after the goose in week one. Do I drop him? I would not drop him. And like Mike said, I would not either. I'd pick him up. The opportunity with AJ Brown gone. You've got a week to actually prepare for like, okay, now we don't have AJ Brown. What are we going to do? And Dobbs was their other big money free agents. Where would you guys rank Pat Bryant in these wide receivers?

He looked okay. I mean, the game got out of hands. It was out of hands. Yeah. I tried to get both of them on it. What, he got three receptions on that first drive or maybe it was a second drive. Water only having one catch kind of throws the thing off for me too. It's like was this, the whole offense not functioning, you know. Right. But they led the team, they led the league and pass attempts last year. I definitely pick them up. They're out of control with their pass rate yet again. We'll see if it holds.

Like, I think Pat Bryant, you know, everything that they talked about with the offseason, we said, hey, you know, Parker, Jacoby Lane, unfortunately, he's hurt, Pat Bryant, there might be a name I'm missing, but like those were the loudest drum beats of the entire off season of these are the players who are taking a step. The fact that Pat Bryant is a year two wide receiver had all of those things, comes out and leaves the team in targets. It's a good sign. Like, that's a.

I don't, he won't pass Waddle. I really, really expect Waddle to be perfectly fine, but it's like, Cortland Sutton might be done. And it's just B Waddle and Pat Bryan. Are you dropping Jordan Addison? He was a goose in week one. I was going to ask if he's a bouncebacker of buns. Buns. I'm, I think, I think Jeff, Jefferson's going to just hog everything right now. We saw that when Carson Wince was there last year, how much he targeted Justin Jefferson, which is.