Week 5 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Tilting PSA

We don't know anything else about it, but he walked off with a noodle arm. It's very likely that he's out. Yeah, he's had shoulder troubles frequently in his life. Tate was targeted six times last night. He had four catches for 50 yards. He's six foot five. He faces Arizona at home, and Cincinnati throws the ball. So I actually love Tate this week. Now, we're going to mention Golden Tate, too. But Auden Tate has...

A great opportunity against a terrible defense. If you need a one-week flex, a one-week rental. Right. Yes, it is one. Sneaky pickup of the week. Yeah, I almost picked him up for this game, like I said, against the Steelers. You had him playing 88% of the snaps two weeks ago over 90% this week. Two weeks ago, he had 10 targets for six receptions. That was against Buffalo. He's a big, giant beast of a man. You know what he reminds me of? A tight end.

That means the Cardinals are not going to guard him. If they think he's a tight-in running routes, they will leave him alone. 100%. Man, let's talk about another Golden Tate, or I mean another Tate. Sure. This one's golden. What do you think? 50% owned, Golden Tate's out there on the waiver wire. Sterling Shepard has been great. So are you as excited about Tate as you were a couple weeks ago to pick him up against Minnesota, New England? That's why.

Yeah, I don't see a lot of opportunity here for Tate to be a plug-and-play week-one option. I would be adding him because we'll see what happens, but I would be adding him on my bench, which probably means I'm not spending a bunch to get him. I absolutely think he is an ad. Although let's say you're one of these own four teams, he's one in three teams that you need someone this week. Golden Tate, unfortunately, probably has to drop on your priority list because Minnesota and then the Patriots next week,

Even though Daniel Jones is playing pretty well for a rookie, I can't imagine you're starting Golden Tate with any level of confidence against these two teams. You don't have a clue how he's going to be used. You don't know if he's going to be the number one, number two, number three target behind Shepard and Evan Ingram. I mean, he hasn't had the on-field experience through these last two weeks with Daniel Jones and now two terrible matchups. Sure, should you grab him? If you've got a deep bench and you've got the ability.

You could do that. If you're at a full PPR, sure. But if you need a win, if you need a guy to play, I don't think Golden Tate is your guy. I would rather go out even in a somewhat minus matchup. A grab Cortland Sutton, who's still available in half of leagues out there. He's the wide receiver 15. He's been doing great things, and they have not had an easy slate of matchup so far this year.

So you said he would be your top pickup? Yeah, he's not nearly as available, but about half of leagues. He's there. He's the wide receiver 15 on the season. And we like to give Joe Flacco tons and tons of crap, rightly so, for the things that he does. But right now, Joe Flacco is sustaining two high-level fantasy-wide receivers in Cortland Sutton and Emmanuel Sanders. Like, we are, we're four weeks in. Like, we got to start adjusting our view.

Maybe Joe Flacko is going to be able to sustain these guys moving forward. Case Keatim was the last year. Right. And he gets, Cortland Sutton gets the Chargers, which that's not my favorite matchup. However, Manny Sanders should be the one who to draw the shadow coverage from Casey Hayward. It's a strange thing because, so Sanders is the wide receiver 13 on the, on the year. Sutton is wide receiver 15. Sutton, you just look at the consistency charts. He was 22nd in week one.

60 second, then 30 second, and then six this past week. So it was on the heels of this Jacksonville matchup. It just goes to show, with him being wide receiver 15, I don't want to take anything away from Sutton having a good start, but you really, you were happy with him two of the four starts. But it just shows what... Three. Like, you're playing, you're playing Cortland Sutton as a wide receiver. Oh, okay, sure, sure. Two of the four, right? Three of the four. I would say three of the four. Finishing 32nd?

Yeah, as a wide receiver three, you're happy with that. Because you're not starting him, like Mike saying, you weren't starting him as a one or two. Going, man, I'm going to get some Devante Adams numbers. He certainly didn't kill you that week. Right. You're right. And his bad week was Chicago. But it just shows you what's going on with some of these top tier options. I mean, let me illustrate this for you. DeAndre Hopkins was number five in week one. Go by DeAndre Hopkins. He's 57, 41, 50.

over the last three weeks. He's making Sammy Watkins look good. I mean, it's the same story with Sammy. It's the same story with Beckham. There are a handful of these guys. And if you look, even the top five at the position on the year, Keenan, he's been consistent. He's safe, yes. Godwin, pretty consistent, but had a bomb week. Cooper Cups been...

balling out the last three weeks. I would say he's very consistent. But Mike Evans, he's split, right? He had two bad weeks, two good weeks. You know, even Julio Jones has had two weeks in the 30s. You're not starting your wide receiver one to get you in the 30s every week. So consistency-wise, it's actually been like Michael Thomas is the only wide receiver in the top 10 that has finished in the top 24 every week. That's it. Nobody else has done it. So I think maybe that speaks high.

higher of Cortland Sutton in the fact that every player is going to have an up and down, but you've seen a pretty good target share for him. I don't blame you long term making him your favorite pickup. What do you do with Cole Beasley? He's been consistently targeted. Last week, seven for 75 on 13 targets. He seems very safe for PPR formats as a wide receiver. Yeah, I think that he is. I mean, he's a slot wide receiver. He's one of Josh Allen's favorite go-to guys, double-digit targets the past two weeks, takes on Tennessee.

and then gets the bye week. So I don't know how excited I am to pick him up right now because he's just, he's going to be right back on the wave of wire. Yeah, there's better weekly starts. So just wait for the by week to pass because then he gets Miami and then Cole Beasley will be a good start. What are you doing with A.J. Brown? I mentioned yesterday on the show. I'm letting someone step on the landmines. See you're with me on that. Yeah, I'm not interested in A.J. Brown and Corey Davis, you know, he's barely, AJ Brown's.

50% snap count right now on the season. They have a tough matchup against Buffalo this week. Then they go to Denver. Then the Chargers. AJ Brown feels like the kind of player I'm going to pick up. I'm going to try to put in my lineup. He's going to goose me. I'm going to drop him. He's going to blow up on the waiver wire. And we're going to play that game all year. He's the type of player I'm not going to pick up. I mean, he's just, it's a low target volume offense. He's a low target player. He's talented. He'll.

maybe have a future, but I just don't want to rely on Marcus Mario. What do you do with Deontay Johnson, Jason? Deontay Johnson's only 5% owned right now. Pittsburgh wide receiver, six for 77 and a touchdown on six targets. He has Baltimore this week, but fantasy owners should realize Baltimore, the matchup against Baltimore.

It doesn't mean what it's meant in the past. Baltimore has been beaten up this year. They've lost a lot of pieces over this last offseason. If I have to pick between those two rookie wide receivers, AJ Brown and Deontay Johnson, I'm taking Deontay Johnson. He's looked good two weeks in a row. He, you know, I think, I still believe that Mason Rudolph, as the season goes along, gets more opened up, not less. I don't know that they're going to do that with Marcus Marietta. We know what he is.

They want him to manage the game. So, you know, I would lean Deontay Johnson. Six target, six receptions doing his job. That's something that Dante Moncrief once had a dream about, getting six targets and then catching all six of them. Oh, you can keep dreaming. Dante. Well, and he would have been, Dante Moncrief would be happy catching him and then fumbling them. He would be fine with that. In fairness, Deontay Johnson did that once. That was the point. All right, Indianapolis, if they miss.

If Paris Campbell's out, if T.Y. Hilton misses another week, you know, it wasn't worth a shot on pretty much anybody this week. Zach Pascal had four for 72 on seven targets. Prior to this game, he was not getting the snap count that, you know, Dion Kane was getting Chester Rogers, but it just feels like a crapshoot. They're going to piece it together with tight ends and middling wide receivers in the absence of T.Y. Hilton.

If T.Y. Hilton is gone this week against Kansas City, you could take a shot on someone like Paris Campbell to just break one long. Would you play Ebron in the flex over any of those wide receiver options if you're picking somebody, like you said, taking a shot? Of any of the Colts guys? Yeah. I'm playing Pascal or Kane or Rogers or. I would play Ebron. Yeah, I think I would play Ebron.

Anybody else do you want to mention a wide receiver before we start talking running back? Just for Brooks's sake, I'll mention Dante Pettis again. He's off of bye. I will say this. I did pick him up. I was looking at the injuries that happened in the first three weeks. There were a couple different things that didn't come out. Shanahan was talking him up. So we'll see. And he's shaking his head, no.

I'm still a believer in the town. I just thought we did this show for like all the footclan out there, not just for Brooks. That's what I, I didn't know it was all about Brooks stashing. The foot plan loves Brooks. If you want to stash a player and you are a winning team, you have a spot on your bench. You can sit and wait on a guy. Robbie Anderson probably should be stashed at this point. We might finally be getting around to a time where he can be useful after.

A horrifically unfortunate situation was placed upon him with his own injury, and then his quarterback smooching around getting that mono-nucleosis. As far as we know, Donald is on track to play next week. That's why Robbie Anderson is a stash. I think Robbie is stashed in the majority of competitive leagues. I agree with you that he's dropped in a few, though. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree. I think he's going to be playable at some point in this season. We just need to get through this. Yeah.

by week situation and you know chris herndon's coming back as well it could be a lot better for that offense soon running backs carlos hyde most likely owned 67% right now snap count wise this past week duke johnson saw more of the field do you do you target carlos he's a running back hungry team and he's still out there yeah or would you rather i mean ronald jones carlos hider adrian peterson there's other uh of those uh

I'll go with Ronald Jones. Yeah. He would be my top one of those guys. Like, Carlos Hyde is fine if you need a... I really need someone to pick up and play, but there's other options that we're going to go through that I would prefer over Carlos Hyde. Yeah, if you have to start a guy and you want some cheap... I mean, the thing is, is like, Carlos Hyde, it's interesting because he's 67% owned, but I feel like I should be able to get him super cheap.

Like if he's on waivers. So I'm certainly not spending up for Carlos Hyde. There are other guys that I think are cheap and good options this week. Yeah, another likely owned, but possibly out there. Frank Gore, you know he's going to get consistent work. He may get even more with Josh Allen if he ends up on the shelf. It's not a great matchup against Tennessee, but sheer volume.

And the way that this defense plays, you could have some short fields for Buffalo. You could. It's about Devin Singletary, though, where he did return to some practices last week. It looked like he might sneak in the game. He did not monitor Singletary's health because... That changes it a lot for you? The Singletary, I don't think coming back off the injury is going to get a lot of work in week one. Perhaps in week one, I'm saying for the long term of Frank Gore. Once Singletary is back and playing, Frank Gore will still get work, but he's going to...

he's going to be vultured in a few places. I think the player I'm most interested in terms of available, interesting, throwing the football a little bit. We made the joke about it. But it's Jaylon Samuels. Jan Samuels, you know, 10 for 26 and a touchdown on the ground ran the Wildcat, eight for 57 through the air on eight targets. He passed the eye test. He looked like he was a valuable weapon in this newly assembled offense. And he got to throw the ball three times. So throw, quote. Yeah.

Yeah, tap pass. That's funny, though, right? I mean, you do the tap pass and you get the credit as the quarterback in that situation. So ridiculous. You need to exploit that as a fantasy football owner. And so I think Jan Samuels is a mustad. Yes. Agreed. Samuels, to me, the two guys that I'm most interested out there are Samuels and Ronald Jones. I had to get it out too, man. I know. It's really tough for me.

to believe in Ronald Jones. But now three of the four weeks, he's been great. Tampa Bay is clearly wanting to run the ball as much as they can do to protect James Winston, which has helped James Winston. They're the second most rushing attempts in the NFL, averaging 26 per game. So Ronald Jones has looked great. He's the snap leader. I don't know what happened in that bizarro week two, where it was like, hey, Ronald just...