Fantasy Football - Week 2 Waivers & Streamers + Drop Candidates - Podcast for 9/9

Chargers receiver room is going to get a lot of attention today. Keenan Allen's probably not out there, but he is out there in about 40% of leagues. So he is a must add, and we'll see if you guys agree, but I think Quentin Johnson is a must add. He is 100% a must add. And he's only 10% rostered. He was 5 for 79 and 2. He caught the ball. And the way this passing offense looked in week one, very encouraging. And you're talking about kind of different archetypes when you know, Keenan, McConkey versus what Quentin Johnston brings to the table. Quentin Johnson has the high potential upside. We talked about yesterday the stat of, you know, when you're scoring more than 21 fantasy points in a game, Quentin Johnson's had four of those since the beginning of last season. You remember how many touchdowns you had last year off the top of your head? I know it was a lot. It's more than seven. It's eight. Oh, man. Way more. That is one more than seven.

Personally, if both of those guys are out there, if I'm in one of the leagues that Keenan Allen's out there, I would much prefer to have Keenan. Keenan is a locked in. He got double-digit targets right off the bat. He is the best friend of Herbert. Keenan is like a weekly starter. I do agree Quentin Johnson is more of the high upside, but you're going to have a lot of volatility. Now, do you like Hollywood the most? Do you like him more than adding Johnston this week? I would put him, no, no, he's behind those guys because he should be a rental. I mean, hypothetically, you know, if everyone stays healthy for Los Angeles, those will be the three guys. And where Hollywood Brown, he was a product of necessity of you lost worthy right away. Did we get a worthy update on the shoulder yet today? I have not seen. I haven't seen anything either.

I expect him back at some point. And then Rice will be back. It's not that he is, or he is a good rental in the time being. You get Philadelphia, the Giants in Baltimore. You actually want them losing. Sure. Right now. Yeah, because you want 16 targets. So he's compared to Cuge and Keenan Allen, it's just for a chunk of time, which should make him cost less. He was awesome. My only worry there is that because it was in a game plan that expected to have Xavier Worthy there, and then this is what they kind of threw at the wall. I don't know if going into another week, maybe rookie Jalen Royals gets more involved. I mean, he's hurt. Is he not? He was hurt for week one. So I don't know. Tyquan Thornton will score this week, by the way. Oh, is that a touchdown? Touchdown guarantee, the first one of the year. Tyquan Thornton. Wow.

of the Kansas City Chiefs will score this week. Okay. The touchdown will be 42 yards, exactly. Okay, okay. Okay, getting a little big for the britches over there. I mean, that's a must start. 42 yards. He will score. That's 10 points off. Thornton is on no, he's on no rosters. He had four targets. He had a couple deep shots. He will guaranteed score this week. Cedric Tillman is a must add. Eight targets, five for 52 and one. Tillman started alongside Jerry Judy. He also, like Jerry Judy, threw the ball up into the air to be intercepted on behalf of Joe Flacco. I think there's an argument that Tillman is more valuable than even Quentin Johnston. No, I'm fine with, I'm fine with Tillman being the number one ad. I really am. We've seen, I believe, four games now without Amari Cooper where Jerry, Judy, and Tillman played the full games. And in those games...

Both were outstanding, but I believe Tillman has even more receptions. He had the year two kind of breakout happening last year before the concussion. They shut him down for the rest of the season. The fact that he came out week one, eight targets, and he's got Joe Flacco. Now the schedule coming up is difficult, but I really like Tillman. There's a name that I think is worth spending some time on. Yeah, I'm going to love it. Only 4% rostered. Only 23 years old from from wide receiver university. Don't forget. Oh, yeah. Oh, ahead of them. And what I saw in the field for New England last week told me that, you know, Demerio Douglas had one catch. Stefan Diggs looked irrelevant in the offense. I thought he had two. I saw JJ put out the craziest stat line for... Douglas was two. Oh, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, read the stat line. Two for negative two. With a touchdown. With a touchdown. With a touchdown.

Look, but it was more about Diggs. It was more about so far. I know Diggs could be coming back from the ACL, but you're older. You also just aren't Diggs. Kishon Booty is the name. Kishon Booty is 23 years old. He really, really flashed at the end of 2024 with Drake May in a time when you weren't paying attention. He was the wide receiver 11 and the wide receiver 4 in two of the final three weeks of the season. He plays a ton of snaps. He had eight targets this week. You talk about a wide receiver room where you're trying to find Kyle Williams and Demerio Douglas and Stefan Diggs. Hunter Henry always does his week one thing. It was Kachan Booty that makes you, I think it's going to stick. I do too. Keep in mind. Kisham Booty had a year at LSU where he was ahead of Malik neighbors, ahead of Brian Thomas Jr. He was supposed to be the next star, had a very bad injury, and then was like, where did he fall in the draft? He was a...

a sixth round pick. He was an afterthought. But now he's looked at the part. You go back to last year. He looked the part at the end of the year with Drake May. So you believe. I 100% believe. In the booty. Last year with Drake May, he had a game, you know, five for 95, seven for 117. You come out in the first week of year two and he's the clear number one. Kishon Booty is a must add. I mean, this is where I say I'm going hard in week one. It's at wide receivers. Keenan Allen. Quentin Johnson, Cedric Tillman, Cajon Booty, and a, you know, a sprinkle on Hollywood. Those are like, I'm going hard after them. And I still think there's a couple more names worthy of important ads. Yeah, let's all name one more that we're a fan of. Ellick Iommanner had seven targets in Tennessee in a tough matchup against Denver. Also had a catch negated by his own dumb coach, who didn't know the rules. Oh, my goodness. Well, there's so many of them. 28% target share. I would venture to guess.

that at least 60% of casual fans, casual, not people listening to this show that watch all these games. You mean knew that an elbow meant you were down? Knew that, like, yeah, if you land on an elbow in bounds, that that counts in balance. You know, they could have won. You don't also need a foot. Yeah, he sounded so dumb. I can't imagine how bad it's going to be at his next presser. Because they're going to, I mean, how do you answer that? I was thinking about this this morning. So for those that don't know, Brian Callahan, head coach of the, the ever frustrated head coach of the Tennessee Titans.

you know, didn't challenge a play where IOManner caught the ball, got an elbow down before his feet laying it out of bounds. And in the press conference, he literally says, he goes, well, you need one foot after an elbow. You can't just get an elbow down, which is wrong, completely wrong. But now how do you answer that if today? Here, let me do it. Okay. All right. Am I Brian? You're Brian, yeah. Coach, yesterday you mentioned that, you know, you didn't challenge because of the elbow foot rule. Obviously, you know, the elbow is, they're down. Why did you? Any thoughts today? Yeah, look, in the in the moment, you know, opening week, blah. I'm showing up to the presser with a big oversized prop that says rules.

Ah, and just be like, oh, you're playing it up. I thought you were bringing a newspaper. You're going to just like hide behind. I'm either bringing that book or I'm bringing a smoke bomb. It is a real. Oh, smoke palm is a good idea. I think you've got to come out and lead with it. Genuinely, like, he needs to come out and say, yeah, I obviously made a mistake. Yeah, I obviously made a mistake. I'm an idiot. It'll be, it'll be fine. I've hired someone to be my rules expert. Get the freaking madden teenager on to your, onto your coaching staff to manage your clock, to know all the rules, because they know them.

is that the catch child as well or is that a different person uh the catch child used to be the catch child they grew up play more mad and now they graduated to the rules analyst all right so alec iron manor still the name i'm going to bring up 28% target chair for cam ward cam ward was very inaccurate in week one facing the dimber defense it will get better for him and iomanner was an every down guy like if you was if you still believe calvin really can do something i think iow manner you give him a week Seven targets is a lot. I'll bring up two names quickly. One is Kendrick Bourne. We mentioned that the San Francisco 49ers signed him. I would not play him if Mack Jones is the starter, but he will cost you nothing. It's a zero dollar bid. Another one that is available in about 40% of leagues. He was drafted in some places. Darnel Mooney, we don't know if he's playing week two. So don't spend if he's out there, but we don't know that Drake London. Probably I don't think Drake London plays this week.

No, you think he doesn't. We don't have an update yet, but just usually if it's an AC sprain, I mean, maybe he does. I don't know that we don't know for sure. But there is a chance that he, that Darnell Mooney is out there and Drake London is not. And if he is, then he's like a must start type of player. Mike, do you have a name? Have we gotten through them all? I mean, it's more like the, you know, the neighborhoods that's like take a book, leave a book. You've seen those like Romeo Dobbs is like that with the waiver wire. Oh, for sure. He's just like, hey, use your team need a wide receiver this week? Just pick him up, but then put him back, put him back on the waiver wire when you're done. Even with the oversized helmet. Oh, he looks so funny, but also Chris. Chris. Oh, why are you not wearing the guardian? His should be twice as big. Yes, like, how big can you make them?

Let's find out. Can you bring like the bicycle pump and just like put the just pump it up a little extra? I was thinking of one of those plastic gerbil wheels that you just get up on, put your head in there. I mean, I would do. There was a play. There was a play against Cardinals where he got, he took a hard hit and he stayed down a little bit. And it wasn't a hit to the head, but it sure looked like it rocked the brain a little bit. Well, I honestly thought he got up real quick to try to pretend like he was okay. Drop candidates that are coming in off of Twitter, Cooper Cup.

who looked like not good. Yeah, I'm fine dropping Cooper Cup. Josh Downs. Josh Downs played again only the slot role. Yeah, it's concerned. Tyler Warren is probably the number one target for this team. He was in week one. Michael Pittman is ahead on the snap percentage. I am fine moving on from Josh Downs. He's not a must drop. I agree. And Jaden Higgins, just remember, Josh Downs is coming off of the injury, so there's a chance that he was slow played as well. I personally would definitely not drop Jaden Higgins. The opportunity is there. I watched all of his routes this morning again, and he wasn't on the field as much as you want. Now, Kurt could come back here, though, in a couple weeks. Sure, but hopefully by the time he comes back, Jaden Higgins has worked his way up to an 80% snap player. John Jennings? With the injury and- I'm fine dropping him. I'm not waiting around to have him come back slowly.

I'll pick him back up off of waivers when he's back, but he doesn't need to clog a roster spot. We do have a weekly targets per out run report on the website by one of our writers, AJ Passman. You can check that out at the fantasy footballers. We'll take one more break. Come back with tight ends and quarterbacks. Foot Clan draft day is on the way. You got your rankings. You got those sleepers. You got you can't miss picks. But you know what? You need sometimes. a backup because well even the best fantasy football team in the world doesn't go according to plan sometimes those starters they don't show up wouldn't it be great if you could have the same peace of mind everywhere else with progressive you get more than just a policy you get a playbook full of coverage options you can count on for your home and for your auto want to customize your protection no problem you can build your coverage just like your fantasy team making sure that you have the right players in every position and a backup when you need it most

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You felt bad is rubbing his face. He was not happy with that. See that yeah. He's like you old men, you old men aren't. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Hold on. How about now? Can we do it now? Are we cool? All right. Backwards caps. This is what happens, man. You, you become the old guy. And then you, you take what's cool and you do it. and you ruin it and you ruin it for everyone see i didn't even know there was a hand gesture but my daughter did that this morning oh come on yeah yeah she was doing like uh she made the six and the seven oh that's that's that must be that might be new that's next level yeah that might be new she might be breaking that out she might have should trends started yeah all right listen let's talk tight-ins there are there are some interesting names i look i i don't know if you're including hunter henry i'm i'm not going to do that he was when i moved up to six yeah i figured yeah but for me

The more interesting names, Harold Fanon Jr., rookie tight end, collegiate sensation, nine targets, seven for 63. When you look at Cleveland, I've got a different point of view here. I don't know, like, it does hurt David Najoku, yes, to have Harold Fanon Jr. involved. Both of them were on the field a ton. That's the point, though, is they run a ton of 12 in Cleveland. So I think you're going to see Najoku and Harold Fanon Jr. on the field a lot. and you're going to throw the ball a lot as long as Joe Flacco is your quarterback. So to me, Harold Fanon is a great, like we've had rookie tight ends make a huge impact four years. We already had two in week one. Like Harold Fanon, Tyler Warren, both of these guys made a big impact. Didn't see that from Colson Loveland. No. Like Fanon is a must add to me.

I completely agree. The scouting report coming in, we talked about he had a bad combine and he played at a smaller school. He does, he's not an athletic profile. And I remember watching the film and our, what, what I said on him was like, it's so weird. You watch him and he runs like he's got lead in his feet. You don't understand why it works and it works every single play. And my, my landing spot was I'm in. I'm in on believing Harold Fanon is great. He had 117 receptions in college as a tight end. That's not good. That's unheard of. 1,500 yards, double-digit touchdowns. And so the fact that week one, right off the bat, he's nine targets, this is, I believe he will be involved. I'm totally fine. If you are struggling for a tight end and you want to pick up Harold Fanon, he has to be picked up in case.

he becomes just a full breakout. Isaiah likely, please don't forget he exists. Isaiah likely. Because you know who doesn't exist? Mark Andrews. That's right. Oh, man. Mike will want to talk about the 11 targets, the eight catches, the 76 yards for the recently paid and seemingly important Joanne Johnson. A route on 96% of dropbacks. This was not an, he didn't accidentally get 11 targets. This was Kellyn Moore. saw what the staff was and they said, you are... Not blocking. Yeah, you're not blocking. And Joanne's one of those converted wide receiver guys. That's what he played and then he became a tight end because he got too big. But he built up that skill set. Both, I'm really struggling between Fanon and Joanne, who I would target because I think that they are both crucial must ads for all 12 team leagues out there.

If you, and Joanne was 62% of his snaps was in the slot. And if you recall the times of when Kellamore was on Philadelphia, was like, oh man, if DeVonza Smith is in the, in the slot, like, that is an important role for, for the Kellamore offense. So I'm, I'm very in on Fanon, I'm very in on Joanne, like, to the point of if you're looking at your, you're looking good. And you're like, I got this one guy I can get rid of. I wouldn't mind literally blocking people from getting one of those tight ends. I think you don't want your opponents to get them. Two other names. One I like a little bit more. Like Brent and Strange had a really good week one. And he gets the Bengals. I could see that. He was four for 59. It was a weird off day for Brian Thomas. You're still acclimating Travis Hunter. So I wouldn't, I'm not over emphasizing Britain Strange. I think you're going to have.

I just don't know if his ceiling is what some of these other guys are. And I will say, like Johnny Smith was coming back from injury, still had six targets, five catches, had a touchdown. I know we don't like it. Arthur loves this dude. Like I can't imagine there's not designed Johnny Smith plays five, six, seven times a game, every game forever. No, I agree. He was one of my five. You know, I think the tight end and wide receivers are very deep for good pickups. And you can never. You know, most people don't have a good tight in. So take your shots. I agree with Mike. Even if you've kind of got someone that's like, you know, you don't have one of the top two, three guys or you lost George Kittle. But if you've got a decent, you know, you've got Hawkinson, who did very little. But obviously you're not going to start most of these guys over Hawkinson next week. But you're not sure. Pick up one of these guys as a backup. Yeah. No, it makes sense. People want to know, can they drop Mark Andrews? Can they drop Evan Ingram? Mark Andrews for sure.

It might be yes and yes. Evan Engram is the- With the injury. Because he is the entry. It was a calf? Is that right? Yes. Yeah. Defensively this week, Arizona, they were probably rostering in week one against New Orleans, but they have Carolina this week, which is great. The Rams looked awesome on defense in week one. Oh, the Rams. They're probably the best pickup because they face Cam Ward. Now, they're in Tennessee, but that seems like a great pickup. Their defense was so good. I know we talked a lot about the offensive line problems for the Texans. But part of their offensive line problems was the Rams defense. I think they're going to be one of the best this year. San Francisco plays New Orleans, who Arizona played last week. San Francisco, 59% rostered. The Patriots play Miami. Miami looked incompetent. Patriots, they are going on the road in that one, 26% rostered. And then Dallas.

Just 5% roster, but they play the Giants and they're at home. And Russell Wilson named Week 2 starter. Yeah, that makes Dallas pretty attractive there. So you can see all the waiver wire rankings on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. And like Jason said at the top, the ultimate dashboard customized waiver wire rankings for your league for each of your teams in the ultimate dashboard. And you can get access to that and a ton of awesome in season resources and perks, including all the resources are on the in season app as well. So you can go, if you're on the app store, just type in,

the fantasy footballers and you will get the app and if you're a foot claim member you get access i've been spoiled like we we uh my my my child got in a car accident unfortunately a couple weeks ago and we were down what a loser i know right We were down to two cars. You got to fill in the context there, man. It sounded pretty bad. My kid got into an accident last week too. Yeah, mine was not my kid's fault. Anyways. Boom, Shakalaka. You brought that up. Yeah, you didn't call him a loser. Anyways, my point is we were a three car family for a couple months. Everybody's 16 years old. Yes, everyone in all situations is okay. Except for my insurance. We were down to two cars.

And it was like, oh my gosh, how are we gonna be a two car family? It's like we were a two car family for 16 years after a couple months It was impossible. That's how I feel about the dashboard like we We launched the ultimate dashboard last year. What in the world? No, listen. It started my, I've been spoiled. My kid got into an accident. That's how this sentence started. No, but it started with the ultimate dashboard because two years ago, we didn't have the ultimate dashboard. It was fine. Now I've got so many leaks. Oh, and their dashboard got crunch. And I'm just saying, like, I feel like I can't live without it anymore. I tried, like last week. Mike, what is happening here? I don't know if this is the greatest or worst pitch. It's not a pitch.

It's really not a pitch. You don't need to go get the local dashboard. Why is this right into your car? My point is I feel like I can't live without that thing anymore, even though I did it for the last 20 years. The last 20 years, I had to go in every league manually, look at all my lineups manually, look at all my waivers manually. And now it's like with the dashboard, I go in and I'm like, okay, this is what I need to change. This is who I need to pick up. It's wonderful. Ultimate dashboard. Better than a car crash.

Yes. See, that's bringing the pitch home, Mike. Ultimate Dashboard better than a car crash. You got it. That was this week's waiver wire presented by Walmart. Who knew you can get what you need in as fast as an hour? Get free delivery on your first express delivery order with the Code Express. Valid for first express delivery order. $50 minimum subject to availability restrictions apply. All right. Here we go. Full stream ahead. Quarterback streamers for a week number two. Mike, why don't you start us off? I totally believe in this guy. I see as you just traded for him in our league of records. So welcome. Yes. All are welcome. Yes. What's his name? To support Justin Fields. They look, starting quarterback of the New York Jets. Oh, and he runs. He runs where he's in the streamer area here because he's going to get picked up.

If he's on your way or wire, he will be picked up. And I don't think he's going to be allowed to be in this section from here on out. So let's use it while we can. Justin Fields versus Buffalo. He runs a ton. Obviously, we had the naked bootleg, easy touchdown. And he just, he looks good. He has a team that I believe wanted Justin Fields. And they're saying, we want you because you are good at these things. So let's do those things that you are good at. And he takes on Buffalo. They're going to need to score a ton. They should have won the game. And their head coach is a defensive-minded head coach. And they could not slow down Aaron Rogers. Maybe he's secretly an offensive coach. It was just one of those games where you look at it and you're like, much like Lamar's game, it's like what else could Justin Fields have done? I mean, he played outstanding. And he's a great high floor starter as long as he's starting. I'll go next because it's very similar to mics. This is another Justin who is on.

you know about half of waivers and i don't think we'll be able to say his name again the rest of the season after this week i agree personally if this guy's on my waivers i'm going after him no matter what because i'm a believer it's justin herbert are you going after him or fields i would go after herbert overfields personally i believe in what we saw i'm very curious we have um tomorrow we're we're doing an overreactions episode on the dynasty podcast and i looked at the show doc and kyle has put in the justin herbert um the passing volume of the chargers. And now I don't currently know where we're surprising each other. I don't know if he's saying we're overreacting to the fact that he threw the ball so much against the Chiefs and that might have been the game plan or if he believes that that's what it is going forward. Personally, I believe Justin Herbert is going to be awesome this year. I saw, I think we all saw the potential for this to be an outcome this year, but I'm buying in after week one because he was incredible and because he has the weapons.