Week 6 Waivers & Streamers + Jason Weeps - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/10

The sad thing is all these guys you're picking up, it's not a guarantee they're the starter. Like even with Deont Foreman, it could be Rocheon. You could pick up Rochon as the more talented player, and he doesn't even play this week. Which Rochon was, that was a Thursday night when the concussion happened. So he has had some extra time. You could pick up DeMarcato going back to the Cardinals now, and it could be Keonté Ingram. I do not believe that Keonté Ingram will play. He's had a neck injury. It's kept him out a couple weeks. I don't think the injury to James Connor is going to heal.

his neck. I haven't heard any reports. And if you watch what the Cardinals did, they were immediate on picking up Tony Jones. They went and signed Tony Jones immediately because they knew they were going to be without Connor. And that says to me they probably knew they were going to be without Kianti. So I'm approaching it as if Kianti Ingram is not going to be active. He could be active and be the starter. It's also possible that Tony Jones is running backs can come right off the street. and just be put into first position. Tony Jones has been active this season, played in games. This isn't a player who's out of shape and needs to work his way back into, you know, football shape. So personally, what I saw from DeMarcato last week, he knows the system, he played well in it. He scored a touchdown that was really mostly his doing, you know, broke a tackle, hit the right hole, dove for the pylon, got in. It was a really nice play.

I believe he will be the starter, and I think he'll get the majority of work. He's also been very involved in running routes. He's been on the field on a lot of third downs. He ran a route on a very nice 69% of dropbacks. That was the fourth highest among all running backs. So, DeMarcato, I mean, you could make an argument he's an undrafted free agent rookie. It's not a super talented player, but you could make an argument he's just as good to pick up as. you know, Deont to form. Sure. Roshan, to me, is like your upside play. Because I think talent-wise of all these guys that are out there, he's actually got the juice. But he's, I don't think he plays this week. Yep. Jaleel McLaughlin of the Denver Broncos. He remains available in about half of leagues. We've kind of talked about him already. There is a chance that, like, there's a Thursday night game. Is Javante going to go?

Did McLaughlin work his way into actually getting some meaningful snaps TBD? He was Andy's number one pickup of the week. Still? Yeah, McLaughlin was the guy he really wanted. I mean, he showed the juice as well. He looked like he had it. I think he plays his way into being a starter. But once Giovante's back, I think you're going to have three running backs involved on a bad offense. The Miami part of the story. Devon A. Chan expected to miss multiple weeks, possibly going on to the IR. Rahim Moster, of course, gets a bump up. But now what happens with the secondary players? Because there has been multiple running backs playing for Miami every single week. Jeff Wilson, Jr. on the IR to start the season, he is expected to be activated. Is he going to play this week? That remains to be determined. Then you have Savon Ahmed, and you also have rookie Chris Brooks.

which Brooks has been playing a little bit ahead of Ahmed. I believe that's also due to a special team situation. So how are you approaching the dolphin? This one is the messiest, but also has tremendous upside. Like if Jeff Wilson's ready to go, and it's him and Mostert, we saw that last year where it was a little bit frustrating because the guys would flip-flop and value from week to week, but that still was. Basically every other week, you were getting a solid game from a player that's from the waiver wire. So who are you looking at? Who are you prioritizing for the Dolphins? Yeah, for the Dolphins, I am prioritizing Jeff Wilson Jr. When you say, oh, we believe that this injury isn't season ending for A. Chan.

I'm just waiting. You know, I know the news is going to come. They're going to put him on the IR and then hopefully he's back, you know, in five weeks, but that's not even a guarantee. They have said they're opening up Jeff Wilson's window to return. This is a situation where you can't, I don't believe you can start the dolphins running back two this week. They very well might have fantasy points. You could luck your way into a situation, but it could be Ahmed. It could be Brooks. It could be Wilson if he is active. I think if Wilson is active for this game, they're not going to. I mean, we've seen this already twice with the Dolphins. When A-Chane came back from his injury, he was buried. He was not used in the game. It wasn't until an injury ahead of him gave him one carry. They slowly worked him back. Then when Ahmed came back from his injury, they left him as the, you know, he was active for the game.

But they left him doing nothing. I think he got like one carry. So if Jeff Wilson is active, I don't think they're coming and throwing him straight to the wolves and saying, hey, you're going to get 15 opportunities this game. But he is, I think, the best player. I think he's better than Ahmed, better than Brooks. We saw him last year in this system, do very well. He had three weeks as a top 24 running back. And keep in mind, he only played half the season for the Dolphins. He was traded to the Dolphins. All those games. Rahim Moster was active for. So there is fantasy gold to be had on this offense. I think some people have Jeff Wilson this week as like that clear number one pickup. I don't go that far. I think that once Ahmed is back, once A-chan is back, what he did is going to come right back to, you know, surpassing Jeff Wilson. A bunch of other guys to monitor should you not want to break the bank or are you already

broke the bank and you can't really compete for these guys in Fab, which this is a note. Always try. Always try to pick up players because there is a weird mentality that happens right around now every season where people, maybe they're fatigued from waivers. Maybe they're just like, I'm not going to get this guy. I'm not even going to bother putting in a bid. And then you somehow see Justice Hill get picked up for. Five fab or whatever. Weird things happen like this. They happen in our league. Happens in every league every year. I mean, you just go put a small bit on any of these guys you want. If you don't get them whatever. Yeah. But I am always angry. Angry when I go, what? This guy was picked up for $3? What did I do? Yes. So make sure you at least try. Worst thing that can happen is you don't get them. Or the best thing is you get a player for very cheap, but it is.

It is starting to become insurance season. I'm going to bring up Chuba Hubbard. I think he is actually a little bit more than an insurance back at this point. He takes on the Miami Dolphins next week. Miles Sanders, is it because he's hurt or is it because Miles Sanders is just not good enough or doesn't match the system? Maybe he's not good enough. But Chuba has looked like the superior running back for about a month now. Miles Sanders is still getting a bunch of snaps, but this is a situation where it could turn. I think that if things keep playing out how they are right now, there is a chance that Chuba is the one who is really in charge of this running back, the running back room for Carolina, and then start stashing other people's backups, or if you want to start, if you're confident who the backup would be for your running back, now is the time to start thinking about those things like Rico Dowdle, Ronnie Rivers, Tank Bigsby, if someone had gotten lost their patience with him, and...

Kendra Miller, too. Kendra Miller might not even be just an insurance back. He kind of had his best game so far as a pro. He is a rookie, the rookie for the New Orleans Saints. And he's, it is Alva Kamara's running back room, but Kendra Miller has some juice. And I think that he is worth a pickup. He gets to play Houston this week. Yeah, if you didn't lose a running back and you're okay in those rooms right now, you will lose a running back. It will happen in the future. It happens to all of us. So the three guys that I'm targeting.

Kendrae Miller, Tajay Spears, and Tank Bigsby. I like the rookies with talent behind stars because should that star go down, they get an opportunity and they're talented. You know, you brought up, you know, the Rico Dattle and Ronnie Rivers. Those guys could have the opportunity. I just don't think they're talented to really dominate, you know, and become a league winning type of back. They're just kind of, oh good, I've got to break. Glass in case of emergency option. All right, quick break, and we're back with the wide receivers. Wide receiver ads that we are looking at. Make sure you pay attention to the Los Angeles Chargers wide receivers. Joshua Palmer, Quinton Johnston, AKA QJ, aka Quge, Kuge. Huge. We're going to make it happen. Oh, man. Andy can't stop us. We're watching the game, and whenever Kuge gets a target, it's just fun to say. It's a good time.

But look for them. They are definitely on some waiver wire. They weren't picked up as much as they should have been this last week. Yeah, it was strange. I was surprised to see that after waivers ran, they were like, you know, picked up in 60% of leagues. It's like, wait, what is 40% of leagues doing? Now, after a by week, they were probably dropped in some places that they were picked up. So certainly Palmer and Kuge should be out there. And also. Foot Clan. So last year we came out with a tool on our website that has all of these waiver wire rankings. Our fab ranges, our order, individual. You can look at who I like better, who Mike likes better, who Andy likes better. And, you know, we're talking about so many players. You're not going to remember this if you're driving when you get home. Pull up the waiver rankings on the website, you know, on one half of your screen, your waivers on the other, make it easy on yourself. So the number one wide receiver, I think it's...

probably still Cuge if he happens to be available. I think it's Palmer. I have switched to Palmer over Cuge because I know he's a rookie. And coming out of a buy, sometimes we see that shift. That's where rookies have the extra week where they're kind of game planned more into like, okay, let's let's let the rookie show what he's got. Obviously a first round talent. Supposed to be an heir apparent to Mike Williams. Mike Williams went down. Got no problem going after Q. Quentin Johnston. But he didn't earn anything through camp other than some reviews saying that he dropped the ball a lot. He didn't earn anything through the first five weeks, including a week where we saw him on the field.

He had a drop again in that game on a deeper target. Hard, you know, not entirely just a drop ski, but didn't reel in a good opportunity. He just hasn't proven to me that he can get it done. And I think Palmer, while his ceiling is not as high as Quentin Johnston, Palmer is a guy that I think you're going to be able to plug and play as like a, you know, a wide receiver three and get 10, 12 points, you know, regularly in fantasy. So I think Palmer's probably still my number one pickup. Another great pickup. Josh Downs, rookie-wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. He's been having a very solid season to start, just had his best game as a pro. Six for 97. The injury to Anthony Richardson, while unfortunate Gardner, it can be similar to the Carolina Panthers where, yes, Richardson is the future and will get better and better as a player. But much like Bryce Young, and then we saw Andy Dalton come in, and then the pass catchers,

We're getting better targets and better reads. Gardner is a more seasoned quarterback. He is not a running quarterback. I think that we're going to get a little bit of a boost here for Michael Pittman and an okay one here for Josh Downs, who in the two games so far with Gardner, seeing about a 25% target share. Dude, Gardner's going to throw the ball so much more than Anthony Richardson. This last week, you had Josh Downs against Tennessee be a top 20 fantasy wide receiver when Gardner came in. The last time we saw Gardner there was week three when he had the full start. Do you know how many targets Josh Downs had that week? I do not. Twelve. Twelve targets, eight receptions. You know, they're bitty-baby targets. He's the slot guy. He's not going to be dominating down the field. But if you're in a PPR league, certainly he's a great pickup, you know, at least for the next month. Anthony Richardson has a grade three AC sprain. So he's probably going on IR. If not, he's going to miss three weeks plus.

You could see him miss five, six weeks with this type of an injury. So Josh Downs is a very, very good pickup. Kyle, the Borgogan, is already declaring that Gardner is the cash quarterback of the week. Oh, yeah? For if you're playing on draft kings. Demarcato, I think, is 4,900. Yeah, he's probably a free square too. All right. Minnesota, which, Jason, I hate to bring this up, but we did have an ESPN reporter on the Pat McAfee show. Quote, the Justin Jefferson injury is significant enough that there's some concern that even after four weeks on the IR, he won't be ready to come back. So let's talk about KJ Osborne. Look, Jordan Addison, if somehow Jordan Addison is on your waiver wire, go get him. If Jordan Edison's on your waiver wire, that's a fab dump. Sure, yeah, and I'm with that. But I can't imagine that he is. So let's talk about KJ. Osborne, who is playing in front of Jordan Addison.

The production does not match that, but the snaps are there and the routes are there. They get to take on the Chicago Bears. It has, I mean, it's going to be KJ. Osborne and Jordan Addison as the wide receiver one and wide receiver two. I think that T.J. Hawkinson is going to be the one that gets the biggest bump because you have Justin Jefferson, what, about a 30% target share? I mean, he's an elite player getting elite targets. So those have to go somewhere. How interested are you in? KJ Osborne for this run coming up. We got Chicago, San Francisco, Green Bay. I am surprisingly interested. You know that, look, I love Jordan Addison. This is going to be his opportunity to show that he is who we think he is as a top flight NFL wide receiver, just a guy that can be special. I believe he will, you know, surpass.

KJ Osborne, he'll be the one and KJ Osborne will stay as the two. We saw a lot of opportunity last year from KJ Osborne. Adam Thielen missed some time. KJ. Osborne last season disappointed. Would you say that expectations for KJ. Osborne last season were not met? Yes. I mean, towards the end of the year, in the last month, he had himself a run where he was the wide receiver two. wide receiver 71, then 12 and 13 to finish out the year. So it's there. Yeah, last year, the last month of the season, he averaged about 90 yards and a half a touchdown a game in that last month. So obviously we can see that. But on the course of the season, you look at the other 13 games, he was piddly poop. They need him. I think the way that this breaks down, if you just look at the Vikings holistically, KJ. Osborne is going to get a bump.

He's going to be very similar to Joshua Palmer, someone that's a reliable wide receiver three gets you about 10 points, hopefully on a week. Jordan Addison has the chance to become something special and really take a major step forward. I think Alexander Madison is going to be more needed. They're not going to be able to throw the ball at the same pass rate over expectation without Justin Jefferson. So you're going to see more volume there. And then, of course, congratulations if you have T.J. Hawkinson. He's going to have 10 targets a game at tight end, which is incredible. Is there any other wide receivers you really want to highlight for this waiver episode? I mean, Tyler Boyd, he was okay, seven targets, six for 39. We still don't know if T. Higgins will be playing next week. Tyler Boyd would be the name I would bring up. You can also throw in Trenton Irwin, wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, who ended up with 10 targets.

eight receptions. He's more like the Josh Downs where you're only playing him in a PPR league where you're getting full points for those little pittily poop receptions. That's two pittily poops today. I'm going to make a three by the end of the show. Don't you worry. Tyler Boyd looked pretty good and he did have a very, very nice touchdown in that game that if you're just box score hunting, you didn't see it got called back on a penalty that did not really affect anything that happened with Tyler Boyd. But he looked good, beat a man, dove for the pylon, got in. Unfortunately, play didn't count. We'd be looking at him very differently if that flag wasn't thrown. Do you make anything of the last two weeks for Curtis Samuel, wide receiver for the Washington Manders? Jahan Dotson, massive disappointment. But in the last two weeks for Curtis, we got eight targets that turned into seven for 51 and a one-yard rushing touchdown.

The past week against Chicago, six for 65 with a touchdown. No, no, not chasing. No, because we brought this up with regards to Terry McLaurin and Jordan Addison, better players than Curtis Samuel. Not that Curtis Samuel isn't a good player in his own right, but you have Logan Thomas, you have those other three wide receivers we just mentioned, and they threw the ball to, what was it, like 11 guys? It was insane. So if you're spreading it around that much, Curtis Samuel's had a good week in back-to-back weeks because he got a touchdown. And I feel like what you're doing if you try to chase that is you're just saying, oh, he gets touchdowns. I'm going to bet on a Curtis Samuel touchdown. If you go to Drafking Sportsbook and look at like what is just a line for a Curtis Samuel touchdown, I'll bet you're going to get some juicy on that because it's not expected. The last name I will throw out just as a stash. Like if you're looking at your roster and you're feeling really good about things, including Bipoclos coming up, Rishi Rice of the Kansas City Chiefs, Denver.

Chargers, Denver. That is the upcoming schedule for the Kansas City Chiefs. No one has broke out for the wide receiver room. In fact, Rice saw his snaps drop to 30% where he was right around the 50% mark the past couple weeks. So he has not secured his place as like the number one wide receiver. But when he's on the field, man. But I think there is a chance that over the next month or so things start to. trend in his direction. This is all just speculative. Yeah, the unfortunate thing that we see with the Kansas City Chiefs with Andy Reed and with Mahomes is that they have they have a bunch of packages. All of these wide receivers are playing snaps. This isn't one of those situations where it's like here's our three starters and then go play and we're going to figure out who gets the ball this play. This is who gets to play.

this play. And so it's very frustrating to rely on anyone, Cadarious Tony, MVS, Guy Moore, Rushie Rice. But Rushie Rice is a rookie who has looked good on the field and those guys tend to get into more packages as time goes on. He is targeted on 34.8% of his routes this season. That is enormous. That is tied with Tyree Kill for the highest in the NFL. But he's just not on the field that much. So I would agree Rushie Rice is definitely worth a stash. And in League of Record, go ahead and look for Rushie Rice on the waivers this week because I'm going to have to drop people I don't want to drop. I'm making a note. And rice. Thank you. I don't have to look for it. At the tight end position, Logan Thomas, he's the number one pickup of the week at the tight end position. 11 targets, 9 for 77 with a touchdown, gets to take on the Atlanta Falcons. He's not my number one.

Oh, he's not? No. At the tight end position? At the tight end position, he's not. Okay. Well, did you talk me into somebody? I was, I was anti this player through most of the draft season. I'll swallow my pride and say the Colquemette looks good out there. And if Justin Fields is going to continue passing the ball well and he, you know, the last two games once, sure, was against Denver, but not both of them. You know, the Washington Manders have a decent defense and. Justin Fields went out and put up four passing touchdowns, but you look at... You're talking about the tight-in three on the season? Yes, the tight-in three on the season who plays Minnesota, Las Vegas Raiders, the Los Angeles Chargers as the next three weeks. You know that he can get in the end zone, and he's involved, you know, 42 yards this last week, 85 yards the week before. Yeah, he would be the tight end I would be targeting. He's got a lot more left in the tank.

as an up-and-coming player than Logan Thomas does as an elder statesman. All right, fair. I'll take the targets from Logan Thomas. The doctor, aka Dalton Schultz of the Houston Texans, maybe he's waking up. Doctor's going a lot of vacations, man. I'm not chasing it. I think this was his 7 for 65 with a touchdown was more repruged of. It's his best game of the year. Of the wide receivers. At the end of the year. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'm with you. So I'm not chasing there. How about Noah Gray? Do you pick up Noah Gray if you are the Kelsey manager in case Kelsey goes down? Also, this is a name worth bringing up. I think if Kelsey goes down, Noah Gray doesn't just become a week in week out dominant force. I mean, we saw Noah Gray in week one without Travis Kelsey. He didn't dominate. He did have the most targets at the tight ed position.

routes and was valuable, but he didn't get the touchdown that week. But this is, you know, Sunday mornings, you look for running back stashes. You know, some guy gets marked out from your bench, you throw him on your IR, and you just look for a backup that could have an injury ahead of him. You try to get ahead of the waivers. If there aren't those players on your waivers on a week-in, week-out basis going forward, Noah Gray is one of those guys. You could try to play that in case something happened to Travis Kelsey like it did this last week. I would be fine playing

and starting Noah Gray, especially this week against Denver? Sure. Like, would you rather, I mean, I'd probably rather grab Cole Commet personally than Noah Gray, but would you rather have Logan Thomas your number one over Noah Gray if you're the Travis Kelsey manager? I lean going Logan Thomas there yet. I just feel safer in some volume. Okay. But not by a wide margin. At the DST position, the... low rostered team out there that has a good matchup. It would be the Atlanta Falcons taking on the Washington Manders. If you're talking about higher percent rostered teams, the Kansas City Chiefs, they're set up for a three-team run here, or a three-week run with Denver, the Chargers in Denver. And look, the Jags, I guess, the Jacksonville Jaguars, they get to take on the Colts and...

and Gardner. I actually think the Los Angeles Rams might be the pickup of the week. Okay. Versus the Cardinals? Versus the Cardinals. They're at home. What we saw last week from the Cardinals' offense, they're going to have to pass more, which is good for Joshua Dobbs, but also they're going to struggle. That means more opportunities for sacks, more opportunities for interceptions. The locomotive that made this Cardinals' offense work through the first four weeks was James Connor. And we saw when he went out, they struggled a little bit more on offense. I think Joshua Dobbs can have a good game. But I think the Rams at home have a really good chance to produce the things that produce in fantasy turnovers, touchdowns. And they're 2% rostered. So they're completely widely available. Again, Jason mentioned it, but the full waiver rankings are available. The Fantasy Footballers.com. Make sure you go check that out.

But let's talk quarterbacks. Full stream ahead. My stream is Matthew Stafford. My stream of the week is Matthew Stafford against the Arizona Cardinals. Pretty sure I said it. You did. You did. But I had him in the dock. So that means that he is mine. He's on pace for almost 5,000 passing yards. The touchdowns just have not been there. I got a shocking thing for you, Jason. Okay. Cooper Cup comes back. Matthew Stafford finally throws two passing touchdown. Wow. You don't say. Incredible things happen when you have an elite player back on the field. Arizona is, it's a plus matchup. It's a super plus matchup. There's no one that hasn't had a good game against the Cardinals this year, including Daniel Jones. Yes. It's strange because the Cardinals, like the narrative was they're going to be so bad. And then they weren't. Yeah, they weren't better than expected. But.

But they still have no talent. But when you look at the numbers, quarterback above expectation has been pretty good against the Arizona Cardinals. It is the best matchup through five weeks. So Maddie Stafford, I'm going to take him as a streamer this week. I love it. My stream of the week is Matt Stafford, his brother. Look, I really do believe he is a phenomenal play this week. This is a player who's probably going to finally throw three touchdowns this week. If I'm starting someone else, I think you could start Joshua Dobbs on the other side of the field in the same game. I think this has some sneaky upside in this matchup, home in the dome in L.A. But Brock Purdy, if he is still available on your waivers. I can't imagine he is. Yeah, just throwing his name out there because he shouldn't be on anybody's waivers. He's been unstoppable and people might be afraid of the Cleveland Brown's matchup.