Week 14 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Playoff Push - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/7

If you think that they are the problem. Would you drop Rashad Bateman? Man, Lamar has been brutal. So the past three weeks, Rashad Bateman has been actively bad for your fantasy football roster. I would be, yeah, I'd be willing to drop him. Yeah, I would. Antonio Brown. Yeah, I think Antonio Brown is someone where you have to know that I'm picking them up for championship week and that's it and you've got to hold him a long time.

In general, I would say most teams can't do that, so you should move on. And he's suspended, so most league platforms, you can't put him in the IR where, like, if he was just out, then it was, yeah, you would absolutely, you stash him as an IR player. But if he's taking up an active bench spot, I don't think I'd hold him right now. Who are your main waiver wire pickups for this week at wide receiver? So I think, we already talked about Russell Gage a lot. He, the waiver wire is, it.

naturally over the course of the season just gets harder and harder and harder to identify a player who's actually getting volume and can help your team. So Russell Gage is one of those players. The next most obvious one to me would be K.J. Osborne from the Minnesota Vikings. Adam Thielen has the high ankle sprain. He's Thursday night. So if nothing else, Adam Thieland is missing this Thursday, if not multiple weeks. And KJ. Osborne was the one who...

Got the bump. Like he went from a part-time player playing about 50% of the snaps all the way up to 92% of the snaps, 17% of the targets. Kurt Cousins is playing perfectly acceptable for fantasy football. And KJ Osborne will be the biggest benefactor, at least at the wide receiver position for the Vikings. And I think you can pick him up and play. The player that I'm interested in is one that you can't pick up and play this week because he's on by.

But Devante Parker came back from injury. He's available in, you know, a third of the leagues out there, has a great playoff schedule run, played 71% of the snaps, left the game healthy, going into the bye week. So he is a more talented player that I think is, you know, he's available in certain areas. Jameson Crater interest with the fact that Corey Davis was formally out for the rest of the year, went four for 62 last week. Yeah.

Yeah, I am interested in Jameson Crowder. With Corey Davis out of the way, Zach Wilson throwing more. Andy, you've brought up the fact that the Jets throw to the wide receiver position, you know, at a very high rate. Gets to Saints this week. Yeah. Who have turned into a dumpster fire of a defense. Yeah, they really have. They're bad. The Chargers, if they're without Keenan Allen, you're going to be without.

a player that has been targeted between, what, 10 and 15 times a game. So that's a lot of opportunity that could go Jalen Guyton's way. Could also go to the tight ends. It could. Joshua Palmer. Like, guys like, you know, Guyton, that would be a one week type of a thing. Because Keenan is, like. He was four for 90 last week with a touchdown. He'll be back. Or Keenan Owl will be, if he does miss this week,

That will suck, but he will be back the following week. Would you rather go with the rental of Guyton or Osborne or Crowder for this one week situation? I think I'd rather play Osborne than Guyton in that queue. The Crowder one, I'll probably go at the upside of Herbert and Guyton than I will James and Crowder. But, you know, if you need to spend nothing.

of your fab and replace Ken and Ellen on your team or insure against him missing, then I think Guyton is just an easy way to do that. But yeah, I think I'd play Osborne over Guyton. Sure. I do, I just want to emphasize, Devante Parker, I think is, if your team is cool right now and you're just chilling, looking for some more depth for your bench, Devante Parker is the play. But another player who, he.

He shows up from time to time on the Waver Wire show. But I want to highlight it again, Marquis Valde Scantling. The past two games they played, because they were just on the bi-week, nine targets and ten targets. I mean, that's a 20-plus percent target share in those two games where he started out seeing volume at the beginning of the year, got hurt for multiple weeks. I mean, he missed.

what, five games, comes back and slowly acclimating into the offense. He is the player that was getting the most reports out of training camp of like they think that MVS actually took the next step. So down the stretch run here, I think it is possible that MVS is not just the, gets two to three targets a week. If he hits on the big shot, you're good. Like I think he'll get those shots, but he might get some more.

Intermediate. A more sustained target volume as well to go on top of that, which would make him a very playable wide receiver three. Yeah, and I think we've got to throw out the Saints wide receivers as well with Deontay Harris being suspended for three games. The Jets this week, Treyquan Smith, you know, he's running a lot of routes. He had seven targets. He didn't do anything last week against Dallas, but Dallas's defense is very good. The Jets defense is.

Not good. So, you know, Trey Kwan is in the, or Mark Wes Calloway, take your pick. I want to talk about running backs now at the waiver decision. Okay. With waiver decisions. So I have a team. Lost Henry, lost Alvin Cook, lost Damien Harris and Romandre Stevenson to the buy this week. Lost your mind. Lost my mind. You know.

What do I do, Mike? How do I find somebody to start this week straight off the waiver wire? Because the Chase Edmonds Chuba Hubbard category of player is not going to be there. I need a, I need a rando. If you need a rando that you're going to pick up and play this week. Yeah, help prioritize these for me. I mean, for a friend of mine. Sure, yes. Tell your friend. Like.

Man. I mean, I want to say to Michael Hastie, but you will have no idea. You'd be calling your shot very, very early. Could be Jeff. On that Jeff Wilson, who has the repair flare situation in his knee. And he might be in. Elijah Mitchell might be in. So I don't, maybe I don't go there. Man, the Eagles are on by. Okay, Jason, yeah, I'm struggling over here, poor Doug guy.

Deonta Foreman. Deonta Foreman has looked good. He's rostered in too many leagues. Okay. Well, I mean, he's available in more than half. Sure. Maybe not for you, but for the listeners. Gets Jacksonville. I mean, yes, you can interest me in him. I'm just saying I won't be able to get him. Against Jacksonville. Well, then, well, if this is for. I asked Mike to solve my problem. Okay. On the show. It's Jamichael Hastie. That's the answer. How is that the answer? Because if he.

If I sign Jemichael Hasty tomorrow, he had zero opportunities last week. Zero. He may have taken a couple snaps. But like Mike said, you have two layers that you got to get through for Jemichael Tasty. Mike, I want to pivot back to you. Jason is not helpful. Okay. I'm up. Give me somebody that is not rostered in almost any league that is a potential start this week. Because my number one on that list where I'm leaning right now is.

the Adrian Peterson Rashad Penny category. Okay. Because they're very low rostered. You saw last week they got it done by establishing the run. So that's where I'm leaning. Like that's where my number one start is if you're desperate. But I don't know if you have a better answer. The, if you are looking for the most available player, it would be Amir Abdullah, who's available in about 90% of leagues, not in ours because he's on my roster. So that's why I didn't mention him.

Because I know I'm solving your friend's problem. It's my, sorry, Jason, if you thought I was talking about me, it was actually my friend, Rand. But Amir Abdullah, he's on the Carolina Panthers, if you haven't been paying attention. Looks like he has some juice. You'd play him over AP or Rashad Penny? He's taking on the Atlanta Falcons and the Seahawks. Oh, the Seahawks are playing the Texans? Ugh.

The problem with here... That's why I like that too. The problem with the Seahawks is I have no idea who it is. Because Adrian Peterson walked right off the street into 11 carries. He got a touchdown, but he still looked like the Adrian Peterson who was on the Tennessee Titans. Ah. So that's... Now that Peterson looked like the Peterson that was on the Washington football team? No. Oh, okay. No, he looked like Peterson who had...

not been on a professional football team this entire season. Rashad Penny, meanwhile, looked okay and he actually saw 10 carries in this game. He led... I thought he looked all right as well. He looked all right. He led the Seattle running backs with 40% of the snaps. Alex Collins will allegedly be back for the Seattle Seahawks. And that creates a massive problem.

where I don't know who to pick between Penny and Peterson. And if you put Collins back into the mix, I think you have to bail out and go with a, yes, if that's the case, I would play Amir Abdullah over all the Seattle players. I think in the Seattle game, the running back to pick, and it very well could be Adrian Peterson. They bring them in another week. The Texans are an okay matchup. But ironically, the better running matchup in that game is on the other side of the ball. The Seahawks have been very, very bad.

Sexy Rex. Oh, it's too sexy. Rex Burkhead, look, he's going to get the ball 10 times. I mean, no matter what, if they're down, if they're up, they're going to get, they're going to get him the ball. He only had nine last week, Jason. Well, last week was not the Seattle Seahawks. And I think that this week they will be able to, I mean.

You know, last week, the Indianapolis Colts, what was the 24-0 shutout, just completely jumped all over them. The Colts are very difficult to run on. The Seahawks are the exact opposite. So the opportunities will be there for Rex Burkhead. You know, David Johnson gone. He'll be back this week. Will he be back this week? Yes. Yes. It's a bad week for running back. It really is. Take your loss and move on.

Yeah, David Johnson, I was literally going to say David Johnson might be the answer to the question. Oh, no. Could be. So let's go, Travis Homer. If you're in the playoffs and you haven't had my injury luck, you probably don't need to answer this question. Oh, good for you. There's an argument to be made that Peterson is kind of the most secure if Collins is coming back in the sense that they brought him in. They instantly brought him up. They gave him the goal on carries. You almost had two touchdowns in that game. So it's like, do you want?

Two or three chances at a touchdown? Or do you want shared carries between the 20s between Homer and Dallas and Collins and Penny? No, Adrian Peterson is the best option because all of these guys are going to suck. Everybody we just named is not going to go and get you 25 points. So the player that's going to do the best is the one that falls over in the end zone. I think Rex Burkhead is in that list, but it's Adrian Peterson. And for the listeners, again,

Deonti Foreman is someone that should be looked at. He is available in most... A little over half. Yeah, a little over half. You know, I think he has juice left. He's looked good for Tennessee. And the last time we saw him, 19 carries. I would say, I've been debating the Rex Burkhead situation. And it's a much better matchup for Rex. But Tevin Coleman from the Jets...

I think he's more guaranteed to see 10 plus opportunities. The matchup against the Saints, that's not what you like on the ground. They're a very strong rushing defense. So I would go Coleman over Burkehead. And then Dantrell Hilliard is there from the Titans. Do we have any Jeremy McNichols updates? Because if Jeremy McNichols is back at practice.

You can't have confidence that Dantrell Hilliard will continue that full-time role that he was playing. There is, there are 10 flies in the ointment of every one of these players. This is a mess. So that's the landscape. Yeah. And that's why my first answer was possibly Jamichael Hastie. Because if the fly, like best case scenario. Jeff Wilson too. Yeah, absolutely. Jeff Wilson or Jamichael hasty. But, you know.

If things go right for any one of these players, you know, if, okay, Alex Collins is gone and whatever, there isn't a ceiling for most of these guys. But I do think that if there is basically one running back by themselves in San Francisco, there is a ceiling. I'm going to have to make a decision. That's going to be, I mean, my friend is going to have to make a decision. It's going to be tough. Tide-end waivers. Tyler Conklin's at the tippy top of my list. Absolutely. I am borderline.