Week 14 Waivers & QB Streamers + Droppable Players - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/5

The fantasy football playoffs are approaching. We've got an important waiver wire show. Today we're breaking down all of your top pickups. Some players that can give you starts to get you into the playoffs and help you win that championship. Make sure you click subscribe right here. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. Here we go. Where are we going? I'm very interested. Hopefully to the playoffs. We are a week away from the fantasy football playoffs. We survived a very eventful Monday night football game. There were many matchups that I think in several of our leagues that we thought were over. And then...

You know, Jamar Chase happened and Travis E.T.N. happened. And Evan Ingram happened. And we got ourselves a football game. And this is very much the Jake Browning. I thought that Zach Taylor would unleash last week. Dude, it was so weird. The way the game starts, it's like, you know, terrible runs. And then all the, and I think there was three catches to Jamar Chase, each for a yard each. And it was for each. It was, oh, good Lord, here we go. You're in for it. This is going to be an awful game. And then they looked at the results from that, went, we should play regular, regular Bengals football. They did and we scored a bunch of points. Throw the ball downfield sometimes. That's what they did when Browning took over in the injury game, which gave me confidence in Jake Browning. Because I think Zach Taylor is.

a smart coach and he knows, you know, there were certain situations even in this game where it was like third and two was the bomb to Jamar Chase because it was single coverage and he let him take the shot down field. Like this whole like I turtle up because it's my backup quarterback is almost you have to thread the needle so much with your defense and you have to have such perfect drives. Here's Jake Browning's numbers from last night. 32 for 37. Very nice. 354 and 1 and I'm not going to dismiss the value of T. Higgins on the field for Jamar Chase, just the fact that there was another wide receiver out there. You know, the worst play of the game was Tyler Boyd. Yeah. The pass attempt. For all the praising we're giving the Bengals coaching staff to go to the Jamar Chase throw, trick throw, and then the Tyler Boyd trick throw. Why? Well, I mean, at some point, it's got to be Tyler Boyd's fault.

You can't throw it directly to the defender. No, it was Jamar Chase's fault, too, of you have to recognize I should not throw the ball back to the quarterback. This is, look at what's going on. This is not a good idea. So we had a football game. We had 65 points on the board. We had an injury to Trevor Lawrence, an ankle injury that took him off the field. He's still walking. to the locker room. He's still like the locker. He's almost there. Jason was making the point that maybe they should have given their franchise quarterback a cart. I mean, they showed him like five minutes after he started leaving, still walking to like inch by inch with a coach on each arm. Like dude, just pick him up. Just drive him to the locker room. What are you doing? What if he waved off the cart? Like Mac like Mac Jones would have possible. And then.

You could see the regret. Yeah. So we have... Oh, that locker room is further than I thought. We have a waiver show today. We have waiver rankings on the site, the Fantasy Footballers.com. They were being updated all throughout yesterday and today, including a couple new names this morning. It'll go live today. There was a point in the game with the Christian Kirk groin injury. Now, that was the one huge disappointment. Like for fantasy, like, you know, Trevor Lawrence had done a lot by the time he was injured. Christian Kirk had a catch and he went out with the groin injury. Was it the first catch in the game? It was. Yeah, one for 26 and then out and out. But there was a point there where like Zay Jones jumped to the tippy top of my waiver pickups. And because Zay Jones had a good game in and of himself last night and then Trevor Lawrence goes down. And then he trickles down my waivers a little bit. And now we're getting news this morning. We'll keep you up to date. Trevor Lawrence's injury, it's an ankle sprain. He was rolled up.

Last year, I believe, came back fairly quickly, but next week might be ambitious, so the Zay Jones signing, you know, we'll talk about it on today's episode. I did want to give a quick shout-up to, we're not affiliated with this website at all. What are we doing here? But it's great for this week heading into the playoffs. The fancy footballers.com? That's a good website. But no, if you go to thefffhub.com. Oh, yeah, yeah. You can actually, what they've done, and I don't know who even runs it over there, but what they've done is they let you import your league, and they will give you the, basically the playoff odds and the situation for your league. So if you have teams fighting for playoff spots, you can go ahead and not only, you know, see the percentage odds of those teams making the playoffs, but they have a tool on there where.

They show the upcoming matchups for the week, and you can choose who wins each game, and then it will tell you the outcome. And you can even choose like piebreaker situations. You can see your all-play record against everybody in the league had you been in an all-play league. You can see if you were given Jason, Jason's schedule was given to me, what would my record have been? It's just kind of a fun tool. It doesn't work on every league, and we don't run it. So if something's broken, don't come to me. I've already seen the tweets. It's the perfect place to go if you've been knocked out of the playoffs, if you want to get real angry. Because you will see what your record would have been with a different schedule? Yeah. You can ignore that tap. No, you can't. But like, let me give you an example here. You're looking right in the eye of Mora. If you look at our League of Record, which we've got one week left, you will find Jason Moore.

as a 31.01% chance of making the final playoff spot. It's not that bad. It's not that good. No, it's not that good, but it could be worse. I mean, that's like, um, I mean, it's not a coin flip, but it's a 31% chance. Yeah. So there's a 31% chance you are happy this weekend. I think. Although yesterday, yesterday you said, yesterday, you said, very not nice percent chance that I am sad. That's true. And apparently Mike has a 0.55% chance of making the playoff. Oh, all right. It's just a flesh wound. So you can check that out. That's theFF hub.com and it works really well. Another disappointing player from last night's game. It wasn't just the Christian Kirk letdown, but Calvin Ridley had the exact same amount of yards as Christian Kirk on eight targets and an entire game.

Um, now. Does he only work with a three, all three guys available? If you don't have three, he can't thrive. I mean, it's crazy. But you're right. Yeah, Calvin Riddley was a huge disappointment. And Dearness Johnson didn't get any work. It was all Travis E. T.N. Its chest was okay. E.T.N's chest. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, T. Higgins, it wasn't a good game in his first game back. Yeah, that would have, that would have taken some real courage to. play him wide open for a touchdown that Jake Browning just he forced forced it to chase Browning did look pretty good though I think he did you know I don't want to you know overestimate his ability based on that performance but he looked very good he looked capable and they're playing the Indianapolis Colts so if you happen to have lost someone or you're in a real real pickle and you're and no one's on the waiver like we're in you know

a league where we don't have Kyler. Our backup was Derek Carr. You know, you're looking at a waiver situation where maybe everyone is gone. Browning might be there. And I don't know. He could get it done against the Colts. All right. Let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Well, I, you know, the power of the snow. Derek Henry not in concussion protocol. on track to play in week 14 against the dolphins. Yeah, you ever tried to concuss a Yeti? Yeah. You know who's in concussion protocol? That field. The field is in concussion protocol. Thank you, Mike. Matt LaFleur, the team is not sure of the severity of Christian Watson's hamstring injury. I'm pretty sure of the fact that I don't think we see him play football during a fantasy relevant period of time. Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're correct.

Pooka Nakua dealing with a sprained AC joint. That stems from the moment in the game in which Sean McVeigh thought he was dead. His words, not ours. That was his words. And then Puka also said, I wasn't breathing. And my shoulder felt like it was wrong. But I'm good. So Puka, I mean, he's a tough dude. He's going to play. You know how many plays he left? Like he had a monster game this last week. But I mean, there was a bomb that he kind of dropped difficult. There was a huge run. I think it was like a 50 plus yard run that was called back on a holding. He could have had an even bigger game. He's very good at football. He does land more violently and run more violently to me in the Mike Williams universe a little bit. I mean, he's just an all-in type of player. And he has been banged up a lot. Derek Carr and concussion protocol again. Yeah, it's not great.

Yeah, second time in a month to go into concussion protocol means there, like there's just no way that he's going to clear this week. You have to be prepared for James Winston and the ramifications of that. And Tank Dell. Yeah. And this, this is unfortunate because obviously the injury is more severe than the, you know, fractured fibula situation yesterday. It's being reported that he underwent season ending surgery on his ankle. So. Fact surgery was required at all for this injury tells you it's more severe than I had hoped. And I guess we'll talk about this. Robert Saleh not ready to announce a week 14 starter. Mike, why don't you catch us up on days of our lives? If you were on Twitter yesterday for it was like the morning, early afternoon, it was fantastic. The drama, the tea was being spilled. We got a report.

that the Jets are wanting Zach Wilson to be the starter again, but he's not sure that he wants to do it, which is the most insane thing to leak out. Like, how dare anyone in that building put that out in to get reported for whatever reason for leverage? And then it was reported, no. Actually, there are people who are familiar with Zach Wilson's thinking that he would be willing to go back and play. Then there was a report that Rogers talked to him and Wilson expressed his injury concerns because Zach Wilson has to think about the future of his career because it's not with the Jets. And then it was, no, Sala actually talked to Zach Wilson and Wilson's good to play. The drama was fantastic. At this point, I think we see Zach Wilson starting for the Jets this weekend. I can't imagine a scenario where it's better for Zeg Wilson not to play as the starting quarterback.

Well, getting hurt. But that might be good. Not for getting a job next year. No, I'm joking, but it's like, you know, you have limited shots to be the starter. If you go out and make some plays, you know, the fact the team's just ready to go back to him, what a mess in New York. Yeah. We're not going to see Aaron Rogers. I'm going to say it again. We're not going, because they are not a good enough team. They're just not. They're not going to make the playoffs. No, the offense is a disaster. Is Zach Wilson coming back good for Garrett Wilson? Sure. It's maybe slightly positive. I mean, is this? It's not negative. Is this the play to like show the glass half full Zach Wilson? Like, you guys, look, he's our best option. To trade him? To me, it's like you're driving a car in three out of the four tires are flat.

and he comes back and two of them are flat. I mean, it's like, you're not driving this thing, any direction that you want to drive it. You're not driving it fast. And Garrett Wilson will catch one more pass. I mean, it's the Texans, right, this week? Is that what? Yeah, I think so. Cool. There's your spot starter, guys, for your champ champ, champ league. Zach Wilson, is he out there? I doubt it. He is not. I guess you're a dynasty. Yeah. Now is today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. Before we jump into the waiver wire, it's a good time to remind you about join the foot.com. That's where you can find a ton of exclusive tools and resources, including the consistency charts and the strength of schedule tool, which and the streamfinder tool, which are going to be very important for identifying the spot starts. There have been a lot of injuries.

We made it through in Scotty Fish. Yeah. And suddenly Zeke and, you know, looks like a viable player. Romeo Dobbs, there are going to be players with opportunities due to injury. Noah Brown's another one that, you know, for the Texans with Tankdale going out. And we're going to talk about all those guys right now. Put me in, coach. All right. We're going to try to get dirty here. Nasty, Mike, with some of these waiver wire. pickups. All the rankings on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. If you hear us talk about players that are not available in your league, like there are more players than what we talk about here on this episode listed on the website. In the heavily rostered category, the three big players that jump out, maybe two at this point. Ezekiel Elliott, he's going to have the opportunity with Ramandre expected to miss a few weeks. The roster percentage numbers that we have from Yahoo.

It says 46%. So if for some reason he was there, let me put it this way. I'd spend all the fab I have on Zeke if he was out there. Sure. Every bit that I have for the chance to have a starter for three weeks, four weeks, maybe more. Even when Remondry comes back, Jason talked about it yesterday with the high ankle sprain, generally limited. Do you guys disagree with that? Yeah, I mean, running backs are hard to come by. So if there's one that you know is a full-time starter, And at this point in the season, you don't have any advantage to saving Fab. So I don't disagree at all. If you need a running back, even if you don't necessarily need a running back, but you've got a roster spot. Other people are in need of running backs that they could help other teams. You certainly need to be trying to pick up Zeke in every league. He's available in about half of leagues. Still a rostered player, but check every league you're in.

And then the one to pay attention to you in case he was to be dropped during Waver Day, Keaton Mitchell, heavily rostered, probably all competitive leagues have him on a roster. But no way, he's coming off the buy. So sorry about that. Yeah, he's not going to be dropped coming off the buy. But pay attention to Keaton Mitchell's opportunity. Tajay Spears was somebody we were going to discuss probably needs to still be added if he was out there, but again, probably rostered. Yeah, we don't. I mean, maybe nothing is wrong with Derek Henry. Maybe something pops up. We won't know until we get some practice reports coming out. So I think that Tajay Spears is still a priority ad. It's the same as Zeke. Like, what else would the team do? I'm looking at the Patriots. What do you mean it's the same as Zeke? As in the opportunity. Like if Henry misses, Tajay Spears plays so much football. I know, but he's not going to miss.

So how would they be the same? If Derek Henry misses. Okay, I guess that seems like a weird thing to distinguish when we know that Ramandre is out, but we don't, but we expect him to play. I'm saying should the situation arise where Derek Henry misses, this isn't a, Taj Spears joins a committee. Taj Spears will be a three-down player. Players that can make a difference that are more available. You know, Mike, this morning you brought up DJ Dallas. We have a situation in Seattle. It's a tough matchup against San Francisco. But Kenneth Walker's been out for two consecutive weeks. And Zach Charbonnet was injured at the end of the game. It was reported to be a knee bruise. But DJ Dallas is somebody that you might be able to sneak under your roster for nothing. Yeah. The expectation I think right now is that Charbonnet will be able to start and play this week. But because it happened at the end of the game and.

Walker is still injured, that could be a complete, you know, free pass at a running back. Because I don't think many people are bidding on DJ Dallas. And he is available in checking my math, all of the leagues. Yeah, not rostered anywhere. Rochon Johnson and Ty Chandler are both low roster percentages. They're both coming off of a buy week. And so they were probably dropped in your league or in a lot of leagues. Ty Chandler, we saw get heavily involved, Mike. You've mentioned him. Yep. Roshan, like if you're the Chicago Bears, you are the most advantaged by giving Roshan more opportunities to see what he is to equip you going into next year's draft because Deontay Foreman is not your future. It doesn't seem like the team wants Khalil Herbert to be your future. When you're talking about a spot start, it's Detroit who has softened against the run.

I think over the last six weeks. What do you think of those two guys and which would you pick? Oh, that it's really tough. I, you know, we don't know whether Deont of Foreman is going to be back and healthy. There was a blowout last time when we saw Rocheon more involved ahead of Khalil Herbert. So was that just resting the starter because it was a blowout? I think I'm going to go with Ty Chandler. I think the matchup against the Raiders is a better one on the ground. You can run on them very easily. They've toughened up as well, but that's where they are weakest. And he has that top end speed where you could have limited work and a huge breakaway run, whereas I feel like with Rocheon, he's looked very good, but he needs the volume. Like if he's going to be relevant for fantasy, he's going to need 15, 16, 17 touches. I'm not confident he gets that.

If both of these guys get six or seven touches in this upcoming week, I would much rather play Ty Chandler with his speed and the matchup over Rocheon. Mike, talk to me about the running back situation for a team going on by. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Washington commanders, we had the hamstring injury to Brian Robinson. He was going on by anyways. Gibson had what looks to be, what, 14 opportunities in the last game, but. Is he worthy of a roster spot on a week when he's not going to be available? At this point, if you're not fighting people for Zeke, you know, Keaton Mitchell, and I would put Ty Chandler above him as well, because if you need a player this week. But Gibson comes through. Like he had five targets this past week, four the week before that, six, five, five. So he's being heavily utilized. I mean, we're.

We're wondering where, like, where are these targets for Terry McLaurin and Johan Dotson? And it's, well, some of them are going to Antonio Gibson. This was the highest, or second highest snap percentage we've seen him play of the season. It's the bi-week. But going with that it was a hamstring injury and I don't remember the exact timeline, but it feels like Robinson was ruled out pretty quick. And. You didn't even get the kind of hope. Well, he's questionable. I think he was rolled out pretty quick. So Gibson would be kind of like in the secondary ads if I don't need a player right now. But I do not want my opponent getting Antonio Gibson who gets, after the biweek, gets to play the Rams and the Jets. Those are both going to be plus matchups for him.

Chris Rodriguez Jr. That was the name I was just going to bring up. So often you have a player come in and play the role of the player that's absent. And Rodriguez had seven carries and he's been over for a carry and all three of his in every game. The games where he's had carries, 5.8, 4.4, 7.2, 5.2, 5.2. He's a B. 4.1. Yeah, he's looking really, really good. And he's available in all the league. So if you don't need someone right now this week, because obviously they're on by, Gibson is probably not available in your league. I agree with Mike. You need to make sure you check and keep him away from opponents. But Chris Rodriguez, the week, he's going to probably be picked up this waiver cycle. So you won't be able to get him next week more than likely. And there is a strong possibility that he's a pretty good play next week. Any chance that the Green Bay Packers and we're in these, you know, not rostered player category, Patrick Taylor, any interest in Patrick Taylor is a cursory ad?

in the event that they're tired of AJ Dylan. Dylan played pretty well this past week. He would be, he's an insurance back. And Patrick, I mean, there's a chance that Aaron Jones is back. Yeah, Aaron Jones didn't play. Aaron Jones already didn't play. And he got two carries. So I'm not interested in Patrick Taylor. All right. This is where you get surprised, though. Running back drop candidates. Apparently people ready to instantaneously turn on Devon Singletary. Is he a drop candidate to you? No, he's not a drop candidate for me. I mean, there are push comes to shove situations, right? Like, Zeke is out there. Well, Zeke would probably be better for your roster right now than Singletary would be. There's probably someone else better to drop. Push comes to shove. Breece Hall or Zeke? Breeze Hall. Zach Wilson's going to save the day. You almost got that out with a straight face? I would voice.

concerns for Singletary. I don't know if I want to drop him because of what he can become, and it's a plus matchup with the Jets, but he plummeted back down to 46% of the snaps. Nine opportunities. I mean, that was, that's the pre-injury usage that Devon Singletary was seeing, which at the beginning of the year was used for Pierce. I can look that up. It sucks. Let me just say this. Let me just say this. It sucks. Yeah, 15 carries. Sucks. I have both guys. Oh, good luck. I've got both guys in multiple leagues. Oh, man. I loved it. Sorry for your loss. I loved it when they had one guy. If one guy was there, it's awesome. Not to mention, I mean, with Tank Delzab since, like, the targets were there for Singletary when he was the guy. You know what they should really?

I want NFL head coaches to start having a committee situation to keep their backs fresh, but they cycle it. Like game by game by game. Every other game starters. Yeah. Now you've got a workforce back so that the defense doesn't know is this a passing down back, a first second. That's what I'm talking about. Every running back gets a bye week every other week. Then you roster both and it's a fantasy. Oh, I mean. Come on, head coaches. They'd be so fresh. Oh, head coaches, get it together. They'd be fresh. I'd be fresh. It would be great. Yeah. And then when one of the does get injured, it's still a full time. I do have a league where I'm going to play both. Play both at the same time? You're already conceding? Yeah, I have to. Oh, I'm sorry. I have to. He says through tears. All right, quick break. We'll be back with some whiteouts. All righty.

wide receiver ads. We've got the upper echelon. If you're in a competitive league, they're probably not going to be sitting out there, but we're going to throw their names out there so you check them first. Starting with Jaden Reed and Romeo Dobbs, they're both going to have a consolidation of targets that hopefully benefits them. They play the Giants this week with Christian Watson's injury. Reed and Dobbs would be the two that I prefer to play. It's not just the Giants. You get the Giants? You get the bucks, you get the Panthers, you get the Vikings. Yeah, I mean, that's a great run. And so those two guys to me are tippy top, near the top of the list. What order do you have them in? Honestly, I probably have Dobbs higher than Reed. I have Reed higher than Dobbs. And I don't know what the change will be with Christian Watson being out. I don't know if you know this, but the last like three weeks for Jane Reed, four for 46, four for 34, four for 16.

I don't know if you know this, but the last several weeks for that same player, 13 fantasy points, 17 fantasy points, 16.9 fantasy points. He's getting touchdowns. He's getting carries. You skipped the 3.6 from last week. Yes. This last week he had a down week. But the three previous weeks were really, really good. Only 47% snaps. You know, when you said four for 46, that was through the air. He had three for 46 on the ground that same game. Sure. So, I mean, look, they're both, I think, good. I would like to start both players going forward. Most competitive leagues, I think those guys aren't. Yeah, and we'll just, I'll lump him in because he's a Green Bay Packer, but the widely available one would be Dantavian Wicks, fifth round rookie, has flashed a couple big plays here and there, and he seems like he'll be the next man up to play a bunch of snaps if Watson has to miss.

Yeah, it's tough because they do distribute the ball, I mean, to a lot of different players on that roster. It seems like Wix is their downfield guy. And we saw a lot of deeper targets to Watson. So Wix is an interesting name to pay attention to. You mean because he had a yards per catch of 30.3 a couple weeks ago and the 17 and then 15. Yeah, I mean, he's he doesn't take as much volume to be. good for fantasy. Curtis Samuel going into the buy could be dropped. Pay attention. He's the one that's been involved, not just running cardio like Terry McLaren and John Dodson. And then you can chase the opportunity with Noah Brown, but I do think that this week he's just under 50% rostered. One of the reasons why he's still heavily rostered is because people were able to just usher him onto their...