Fantasy Football - Week 13 Waivers + Nard Attack, Shedeur Starts - Podcast for 11/25

practicing. And don't forget, I mean, Mike Evans is technically eligible to return at some point here after week 13. I don't know if he will come back, but they could use some players. And Garrett Wilson, eligible in week 15, that one's kind of, like, I've let him go in leagues. I totally understand letting Garrett Wilson go, but he, I mean, if he comes back and seems healthy, it wouldn't. I don't know. Weirder things happen in the playoffs. All right. Top pickups at the wide receiver position. I've loved everything I've seen from Parker Washington since he became a high priority wide receiver in Jacksonville. He's 56% rostered. Had another seven targets, five for 71 and one. The matchup is awesome this week for Trevor Lawrence against Tennessee. So I think Parker Washington is a plug and play option. He sure could be. And that just means he'll probably disappoint.

But I've got him at the top of my list. He's been all right. He's been really good. He's been all right. I mean, the last two weeks prior to this was 33 yards and 20 yards. So, and, you know, yours truly played him for one of those. And I feel the burns. So he has been the number one target here. They've got Jacobi Myers. I don't know. Have we heard an update on Brian Thomas Jr.? Not lately. He's not missing the rest of the season. He will come back at some point. As far as a plug-and-play option, I think Parker Washington is there. He's had enough fantasy points over the last two months, enough targets. Christian Watson is available just as much as Parker Washington, though. Against Detroit, his target market share was great. He had seven targets this last week. He had two touchdowns the week before. I would personally, I think I would rather have Christian Watson because not only is it, I know. I would rather have Watson. Jayden Reed is.

is going to come back at some point. But Christian Watson, I feel like, is a bigger play home run hitter than Parker Washington. I'll take Parker Washington. Now, what do you think happens with Parker Washington? Let's say Brian Thomas Jr. comes back two weeks from now. And now you've got Brian Thomas Jr. plus Jacobi Myers plus Parker Washington. Plus, remember, they got Brenton Strange back. And that was a target that they had been missing for a while. At that point, I feel like, I don't know, I think Parker Washington is a very short term. rental, but he has been very good and a first-rig guy there. Yeah, I mean, it would change a lot if Brian Thomas Jr.'s back, but he's not yet. So I'd ride Parker until then. I mean, when they had Travis Hunter healthy, there were games where Parker Washington had 11 and 10 targets. So I think he's fine right now. Watson definitely can take the shot. I just think that Watson's total, like, you just need to get the big one.

I think Kashon Booty is one that you want to pay attention to. Another week removed from injury, 50% rostered, had an end zone target. He drew a PI call on. That's where they use him, right? He's a touchdown scorer. They play New York. They're at home. I think booty could get, that booty could get back to scooting? To scooting. Okay. There we go. All right. Get it moving. I want to point out Jaden Higgins, who has been even better than you think over the last couple. Months, really, after their buy week, Jaden Higgins, it was the second round rookie wide receiver for the Texans. The matchup against Indianapolis this week will be, you know, 44.5 point over and under, so that's fine. And two weeks ago against Tennessee, he was an inch away. He got taken down at the one, you know, like the six inch line. And so had he just gotten that in, I think we'd be looking at him very, very differently. That would be four touchdowns in the last five weeks.

much more involvement. And he's a good player. He showed up in good spots. I don't know if we're unhappy with the quarterback situation where we're not sure who's. He's just going to be touchdown dependent because his yardage numbers haven't been there. I haven't. Like he scored three times, but 34, 42, 55, 38. I think that's what it'll come down to. He's big enough to do that. It's just. It's funny because I agree. It's like we look at different things. Touch on upside. Check. Yardage, very much not check. Right. Those aren't 55, 48, 34, 38, not good enough. But then you look at the targets, which is really what is usually the indicator of how many yards are you going to get? 8779. I want those targets. It's just been Davis Mills targets. And I don't know if it's really that much better if it's C.J. Stroud targets or not. Davis Mills is three and oh right now. I know he's been playing. Dude, Davis Mills. I know they've won every week, but you just.

Sometimes you haven't stopped to think about the whole, like the collective. It's a little. Davis Mills just won three games in a row. It's a little Mac Jones Rock Purdy. It's a little, the defense. The defense is so good. So it's like, you know, this is not an anti-strout. No, it's just a like, you get more stealing with Stroud, I think still. But Davis has been great. Davis is on a 17-game base. He's started three games, the three and no. He's on. A 17-game pace of 4,000 yards, 28 touchdowns, and five interceptions. Okay. Yeah, Nico was good two of the three starts, I believe, as well. So, C.J. Stroud's headache is going to continue? I don't know. You called it a headache. I'm just saying the symptoms. Yoshi Voss last week, seven targets, four for 61. There'll be no T. Higgins. It's Baltimore. It's a big game on Thursday.

Yoshivoss only 36% roster. That's plug and play option this week as well on the short week. It'll be Joe Burrow. So that'll be an interesting game to see what happens. I mean, Lamar's been so bluff. Right. But it's Cincinnati. Like you're at the only point of your life you might be able to make Lamar a start of the week type of situation because he's been so bad. Luther Burden, you know, it's still tough to play him. Yeah. I get that. He hasn't had, you know, he just doesn't play a lot of snaps. It feels like, to me, he feels like playing a, like if I had Loveland and I had Burden and I had to flex one of them, I would play Loveland every week over Burden. Yeah, I agree. And so he feels like a kind of a lower tier version of the Loveland start right now in the offense where Doonese and DJ Moore are going to still be your premier guys, but you do have a shot. It's just the touchdown upside comes with Loveland.

Three catches in three straight weeks, 51, 27, 46 yards. Snap count was at 51%. It's just, I don't know if he can do enough to make himself relevant every week this year. But the future could happen. Yeah, the arrow is pointing up, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you pick him up and start him. I don't even think I would pick him up because what would have to happen? You'd have to have an injury ahead of him for him to be consistently... involved enough. He's still like playing, he's up to playing half the snaps, which is great trajectory. But he's also, if he was playing 50% of snaps a whole year, you'd be like, you can't play that guy. He's playing half the snaps. If he went down to 50% of snaps, he's like, crap. Yeah, he's, he's a player I've had on my roster three times this year and dropped him three times because he feels really fun to sign on Waver Day. Mm-hmm. Because he's young, young rookie, and then you go and you get two or three catches and you're like, oh, am I ever going to play him? Right. I would add Jaden Reed.

I mean, I'd add Jaden Reed to the roster. I think there's a real need for Reed. Okay. I feel the need for read. And he has had a history of fantasy productivity. I'd put him on the roster. Do you guys care about Chimray D.K. in Tennessee? Yeah, a little bit. Because this is, do you realize, like, D.K. is on pace for nearly breaking the all-purpose yard record? in a single NFL season because of how amazing he's been on punt returns like he's such a good returner he's the best returner in the game and they they criticize the drafting of dk quite a bit and now he's had a productive uh he's had a few productive weeks in the receiving game i o manor was out ridley is gone and the matchup this week specifically yeah

for dk is great against the jacksonville team that is struggles against the no if you if you need a start i think he he is uh in line you can you can put him in there that you've got three of the last five games where he has been a top 24 wide receiver double digit fantasy points and he's a rookie that should just keep getting better and and also cam ward has been looking better so it's not just oh here's a rookie wide receiver figuring figuring it out it's here's a basically a rookie offense that should be getting better. I think D-K is a very important pickup. Mike, other names, a wide receiver that you have interest in. Also, if you're, if you're searching for D-K, that is spelled D-I-K-E, if you're, like, going to your platform, and you don't know how to spell Chimre D-K. Yeah, Chimre is C-H-I-M-E as well. I mean, none of that sounds like it's spelled.

Uh, yeah. Mooney. Don't sound it out. Mooney for, uh, Atlanta, maybe, uh, maybe as long as Drake London is out. And then the, I give you, if you're in the mucky, mucky muck, the guys from the Jets, I mean, I hesitate to even bring it up, but they both had seven targets. I'm talking about John Mechie and Adonai Mitchell. Well, with, with Taylor, you have a shot. Yeah, that, yes. So it, and look, Atlanta. And then Miami, and then Jacksonville. I mean, who would you, who would you take a shot on there, Adonide downfield or? I'd go with Metchie. I think I would too. Yeah, because you, I mean, Mitchell has one catch, two catches. Mechie, a little bit better floor. Both of them, it's fascinating of they higher drafted guys seem like they didn't really get a true shot. Like, like Metchie.

You know, I mean, we had the year one was lost to the cancer treatment. And he just never truly found a spot for the Texans. And then Adnan-Mitchell, of course, was talented, but got punted off of a bridge by the Colts after the mistakes. They'll be fun to watch. Not that I'm clamoring to get them into the lineup, but in deep, deep leagues, I'm okay picking them up. These are the final two weeks before your fantasy playoffs in the majority of leagues. So this is like nitty gritty time for some of these starts. Right. The drop candidates, I think there are two names that are really interesting. Addison, like if we're sitting here talking about how much of a struggle it is for Justin Jefferson, Addison feels. I would, I'd watch the new guy before I. You'd get it, Brosmer? I was just, every, everyone not named J.J. McCarthy succeeds for Kevin O'Connell and his offense. Everybody.

So I would at least go one week and see what Max can do. I would be fine moving on for Xavier Worthy. He had eight targets last week. It was his best game in a while and still wasn't pretty relevant. Ricky Pearsall? No, not yet. Not yet. It's getting tempted. Yeah, it's getting louder. I don't have the snap count that he played. He was 75% in his first game back, which was the one for zero game, two for six this week. And I mean, It's a tough situation because we know he's a really talented player. He really had two good games this year, and then he got hurt. Right. That's a pretty small situation to make a judgment call on the long-term viability. And he may not be fully healthy, is my point. Like he may not be. He may not be. He may not be himself. And if you look at the overlapping map, week one, Joan Jennings was still coming off of his preseason injury. Week two.

Juan Jennings healthy has a great game. Ricky Pearsall does not. Week three. John Jennings is out. So maybe that needed. Two non-Genning games were the Pearsall games? Yes. So perhaps that needed more attention than I gave it. Yeah. All right. We'll take another break. We've got tight ends. We've got defenses. Very important this time of year. And we'll talk streaming quarterback options if you are a wild and desperate soul. All right. We are in the heart of the fantasy season and the injuries are already piling up, ACLs, stingers, and turf toes, oh my. In fact, the only thing right now that feels good is having the perfect backup ready to go. So wouldn't it be great if you had a perfect backup in real life too? With Progressive, you get more than just a policy. You get a playbook full of coverage options that you can count on for your home or for your auto. You want to customize your protection. No problem. You can build...

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This has not, look, Colson Loveland is a good player. I still over here, doubting the dog land. The whole conversation on Colson Loveland has been, you know, the fun dog conversation. That's, that's, that's all good and fun. But if you need to start a tight end this week, I would not start Colson Lovelin against the Eagles. This last week, Ferguson was okay. He was okay. Outside of that, no one's been okay against, like Philly shuts down the tight end. And Colson Loveland is not this just done. He's getting 10 targets a week type of player. I think there's a lot of guys on waiver. I would start over Colson Lovel. Now, in long term, if you want to say like, well, I want the rookie. I want him for the playoffs. Great. Scoop them up. But I just personally wouldn't be playing. So then who are you? Who's your priority pickup for this week? So Stranger Things? Yeah. I think Britain Strange, who was a target.

in the draft season for the Jags. You know, you saw Trevor to Lawrence last year, Target, Evan Ingram like crazy. Britt and Strange looked like he was going to be a thing and then he got injured. Tennessee, Indianapolis, the Jets coming up. You know, if you need a start this week, I think Baker's back. I think Kate Otten against Arizona would be a better matchup. And then don't forget Dalton Schultz. Dalton Schultz has been very involved and has been playing good. Superman plays good. Thank you. This last week, again, was a bad matchup. We knew that going in. Buffalo is one of those teams that shuts down tight ends as well. I'm not going to be afraid of one bad matchup against a team that shuts down tight ends. Do you understand, though, emotionally how lame it is? To put a claim in on Schultz over Loveland? Yeah, like, I'm not doing that. Really? I'm not doing that. No, I'm going to play the more fun, explosive.

young player whose snap counts are going out. Do you want? I get the strange. Do you want a sports car? I think you want a mid-sized sedan. I think Strange is a better play, probably. I agree. But I still might not do it. This week I can agree that that Brent and Strange is probably a better play than Loveland. Yeah, the sports car versus the, um, yeah, you're just, you're getting a nice, like the golf cart. I would do it. I wouldn't even call him a golf car because golf cart is a good time. Okay. You ever, you ever. A golf car with a governor. Have you ever driven a golf cart and had a bad time? No, it's fun. No, I have never. Not once. Dolan Schultz has been a top 10 tied in four of the last six games. No one's no one's debating that. Sounds like you guys are really debating. No, no. He's not even a golf cart. Speed wise?

Sure. No, speed. I mean, Zach Ertz is the same thing. I would call him the governor, but I wouldn't mean it like the leader of a right. I'd mean it like what restricts an engine speed. I like that. He is definitely the governor. No top speed. But again, I get it. No, you're right. I would just have a hard time me personally sitting down in emerging. I get it. The breakout could be happening. The breakout could be happening on Loveland. So I think I think there should be a bet here. Loveland versus Schultz. What's the matchup for Schultz? This week. Shultz is Indianapolis. What's the best? Is it just coolest catches? No, no, no, no, no. Just fantasy points, half BPR. No, no, no, you're probably going to end up right. I'm just saying I wouldn't do it. I'm just explaining it from a fantasy manager perspective. I love Loveland. Yeah. From a fan to see. If I'm picking up a tight end, I'm not like I don't know that I want to.

be like, okay, just one week for Dalton Schultz to give up potentially the rest of the season for Loveland. That is a legitimate argument that I think is fair. If you, if I get five points from Loveland this week, so be it. Which one of these guys could help me win a championship is certainly Loveland over Schultz. So please don't hear what I'm not saying. I am definitely saying that this is a weak, a weak matchup where I think it is bad for Loveland. This week against Philly and that's it matches what you've said all years. Don't get on love. Everything's a bad man to for love. Love land. I love Schultz. Call me Mr. Schultz. Doctor. You got Schultz is one of your neighbors. And then your other neighbor's Kate Auden. Yeah. Don't forget about Brenton Strange. Yeah, Britain Strange is all right. Yeah. He's all right. Yeah. Darren's on a flight back home, fellas. He's in the air. He's coming home to daddy. Come on. I need you. I need you, Waller.

Coming home to daddy. Good luck. Good luck on that one. The best part is- He likes a long ramp-up. If he's back, you've traded for so many tight-ins. When he comes back, you have to now choose between them. You know you can't make that choice correctly. I'm not joking. Are you going to cut some of them? Do you make it easy? I will have to, but I was looking at my situation. You have Gadsden. I have Gadsden, who I traded for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looks like he could be a potential. I still think he's got the potential high upside league winning talent. I have Mark Andrews, who obviously stunk this last week, but this last week, my start of the week was Hunter Henry because it was in Cincinnati. Great week for Andrews. So can I cut Andrews? No. No. Can I cut Gadsden who I trade for? No. Dude, Waller, take another week. I keep my roster can't take you coming off. I are. Don't come back this week, buddy. Stay in that air. Two tight ends on your bench?

And one in the starting position? But maybe three. Like, I can't do that. I will have to cut these guys. You can't cut that guy. And then pay attention to the emerging Gunner Helm in Tennessee. I know it sounds crazy, but it's actually been kind of okay on the target front for him. He was six for 51 last week. Cam Ward playing better matchup for Cam Ward's good this week. Colby Parkinson taking over at Titan for Los Angeles. We're talking desperate play here. Hit that nasty button for Colby Parkinson. And Fanon, Barner, they're all in that category. Let's talk defenses. Jacksonville plays Tennessee. Now, I'm in a pickle, and I want you guys to talk me through it. Because I picked up Jacksonville a week ahead because I saw the Tennessee matchup. It's in Tennessee. It's a great matchup. Jacksonville's a good defense. They've doubled digits. They sack the quarterback a lot. I have Cleveland. And I keep seeing these dates on the Cleveland schedule. It's like, oh, we're going to play, what was it?

Was it Baltimore? Mm-hmm. And then I just played them straight through Baltimore. It worked out great. Now they got San Francisco. And I'm like, I think I just need to play Cleveland. I would play the Cleveland Browns. Over Jacksonville. Yeah, it's at home. That's one of the big differentiators. To me, when I'm when I'm on waivers. We had 10 sacks last week. Whenever I'm on waivers and I'm looking at matchups that are similar and I'm trying to decide between them, if it is remotely similar and one of those teams is home, I'm always going to choose the home defense. It is.

A way better bet. And they're at home. I mean, Brock. The problem is I don't want somebody else to play Jacksonville. Roster two defenses. Would you? I mean, that would be the time to block somebody, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it could be. Um, I'm not roster. I'm rostering three tight ends, brother. I can't pick up another dice defense. You can listen to roster management from this guy. Yeah. Yeah. And Britain Strange is out there if you want to pick him up out of fourth. Delicious. Yeah, Cleveland, I just can I like stay in the together and put them all in one?

starting spot because then I'll roster them all. Nope. Okay. I'll let you start them at running back if you want. Interesting. If you want no risk of starting the wrong tight end, you can start them all. Yeah, so I look, you stay in the flames. Miles Garrett needs five sats and six games to break the record. Goodness. Seems like he's going to do that. You've also got the 49ers on the other side of the ball against Cleveland and George Sanders. I think both of those defenses are very, very good playing. Oh, man, that could be a low-scoring game. And 49ers, they play on the road against Cleveland. Then they have the unfortunately timed by week, week 14. But then they played Tennessee after that. So the 49ers, I had brought them up like two weeks ago with that stretch run. And I still believe in it. How do you feel about?

the league's best defense numbers-wise Houston. They have to play Kansas City or Indianapolis, then Kansas City, both on the road. That feels like another one where people are benefiting from playing Houston week after week after week. And then you get these matchups and it's like, do I play the matchup game or do I play the better defense? Because it's like Cleveland. Yeah. Their defense is so good. I mean, they just play Buffalo. It was a great start. You don't want to play them against Buffalo, and they put 16 points up, and I don't think they had a defensive touchdown. I can't imagine going away from the Texans. So Cleveland, Houston, you're sticking with them. The Rams play Carolina this week. You just saw Carolina last night. The Rams defense is awesome. So that's a good one, 59% rostered. Who are the Falcons? We don't know, but they play the Jets. That's generally been really good, and they have the third most sacks in the National Football League.

Jared Taylor probably makes some mistakes in this game. Probably has a fumble. Would you go Chargers? Oh, I love the Chargers. Versus the Raiders or the Falcons. Chargers at home, off the buy against Gino Smith throwing interceptions like crazy. Greg Olson's not going to fix that. Maybe a banged up Gentie. The Chargers I picked up last week for this week. They're one of the best. Chargers, I think, are the best widely available play at the DST position this week. And the Cardinals are sneaking. And the Arizona Cardinals are who I was going to bring up next. There's maybe Baker. Jay, if you, maybe Baker's back. Maybe he's not. I mean, if he's not for sure. But even if Baker is playing with that bum arm, I don't know. And the way that the Cardinals defense, what they can do, especially with Nolan stepping up for him. Do we know if Will Johnson's going to be back yet? If he's, if he's active, I would play the Cardinals defense. Nolan, their first round rookie.

Will Johnson, their second round rookie, these two guys have been, they haven't played much this year. Nolan missed the majority of the early part of the season and Will Johnson's missed a lot of games later. But when they've been on the field, they've been outstanding. I don't see anything on Will Johnson yet. Yeah, he did not play last week. That was this week's waiver wire presented by Jimmy Johns. Jimmy John's new toasted pizza sandwiches available in two flavors, three cheese pizza sandwich and Sicilian pizza sandwich. Oh, that's good at participating locations for a limited time while supplies last. Full stream ahead. Let's let Mike kick this one off because I was first and it's it. Jacoby Beef Brisket percent will be the stream of the week until you people pick him up and play him. I can't believe he's still on waivers as much as he is. He is. It's wild. Thank you. Since week six, quarterback three in fantasy points per game and total fantasy points and that includes a bi-week. Quarterback three is still out there.

What's the roster percentage? Do you have it? I'll pull it up real quick. I had looked at it yesterday when I was putting in and I was, I just, I was shocked that people aren't picking up Jacoby. We're at 51% on Sleeper. Half of leagues still just sitting out. I mean, maybe that you're saying, oh, my competitive league, he's not there, but half of leagues, man, he's, you could just pick him up and play him. And it's going to be, and who cares? Who's? As long as Trey McBride is active, I don't care what wide receivers are out there. Jacobi's getting it done. Michael Wilson. You should have Harrison back and Jerry Rice is on the other side. I think, yeah, I was going to say Marvin Harrison is, I know he's been a little bit disappointing so far in an early career. He's going to be great. He is a fantastic wide receiver too. And now he gets to play that role. Yeah, that's true. Now that superstar Michael Wilson just needed an opportunity.