Fantasy Football - Week 5 Start/Sit + TNF Preview, Breaking Benson News! - Podcast for 10/1

The Fantasy Footballers Studio is sponsored by Walmart. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Got that waiver pep in the step right now. October 1st. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, the Fantasy Footballers. Back with you. Al Borland, Papa Josh, the Falcon, over in Ducers Alley this morning.

Yeah, the waiver wire just went through. It always times up with like when we start recording. Until everyone changes their clocks. Right. Yeah, then it's when we're done recording. But at least right now it's like an audience to see what happens, right? It's like we gather. We do. It's very fun. And react to who spent too much or too little and all of that good stuff. But, you know, a lot of Darren Waller. A lot of, I mean, in your leagues out there, Woody Marks probably going for a lot this morning. And then we got news this early morning that like Bucky Irving's pretty much not playing this week.

When you're on crutches and in a walking boot, that's not usually like I'm going to play on Sunday. No, no. And so Sean Tucker, Rashad White discussions. That one was really hard for me to decide what to invest on Sean Tucker and what not to. Like Sean Tucker has one carry on the year. Okay. One attempt on the entire year. It's so similar to what's going on in Arizona because Trey Benson may not play as well. And they have Amari DiMarcato in this very defined third down role without James Connor. And you have Rashad White who has done wonders with kind of limited touches, efficient touches.

Looked really good this year. So I can see the logic of keeping him in that role. And Michael Carter's off the practice squad could play and start for Arizona where he did that last year. Apparently the team gave Michael Carter a standing ovation when Jonathan Gannon announced that he was being signed to the active roster. So he's going to be a big part of this. And we saw last year, the last three games of the season when Michael Carter had the opportunity, he was given a lot of opportunities. 10, 15, 21 total opportunities those last three weeks and was twice a running back too.

However, in those three weeks, Amari DiMarcato missed. So we don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, does Sean Tucker walk into that same situation? Do they want to use him on first and second down? He's a great runner. He's among 72 running backs with 60 plus opportunities last year. He was second in yards per touch. He's so capable of doing it. He has had. But there is that doubt in the back of your mind that Rashad White gets everything because he wasn't a starter before. Right, yeah. Sean Tucker's career is so wild of, you know, the beginning of the story of coming out of college.

I freaking loved Sean Tucker. You did. You talked about him all the time. I loved him. Only to have him be one of those players that you go into the draft, you're so excited to see. Man, how high does he go in the draft? Could he sneak into the first or is he going to be a day two pick? Like there was early on that was supposed to be. Yeah. And then no one, literally no one. And then the news comes out after that he had been taken off of a lot of boards because of medicals. The heart defect, right?

Yeah, something with a heart. Medicals that we had no. One of his hearts. We didn't have access to that because like that was only teams at the combine found out. And then he goes to the Bucs and rarely gets opportunities. When he gets them, he's fantastic. And then they're like, okay, thank you, Tucker. Back to the bench. It's so odd. He's 23 years old. You were surprised he didn't get more opportunities when there was no Bucky Irving there. I do remember, he brings to mind Michael Turner when he played for the Chargers. He played four seasons, Michael Turner. Oh, yeah.

For the Chargers where he had. I didn't remember it was that long. Yeah, I wanted to look it up. He was just stuck. Four seasons, 20 carries, 57, 80, and 71. And every time he got those carries, he did great with them. Yep. Similar to Tucker. Who was he behind? He was behind LaDainian Tomlinson. Yeah. I knew he was behind a stud. I forgot he was behind the stud of all studs. And he left and had 376 carries for 1,700 yards in Atlanta. So it's not to say he's that. It's just there are really talented running backs that spend some time in the background,

especially when you're lower draft capital. And maybe Tucker breaks out this week. I still think, like, I would much, much, much rather have Rashad White going this week than Sean Tucker. I do agree with that. And that's why I had such a trouble. Like, I adjusted a lot of Sean Tucker bids, up, down, all around, because I wasn't sure exactly what to spend. Well, the news was like, oh, he's on crutches, and he's in a boot, and he has a foot spring. And doing some digging on. What's with the feet this year? Hey, it's the hot injury. And then you look at it, you're like, okay, if it's a grade one, it's just one to two weeks or so.

A grade two, now you're talking multiple weeks. And you bet we don't have the information. You've got to make your decision. Like an hour, I think, before waivers start running, Shefty tweets out, oh, it's just week to week. It was like, oh, pull the bids down. We're spending way too much. But Tucker is probably, unless you hear otherwise, he's going to be a bit of a desperate play. But he is fantastic to have on the bench right now. Yeah, there are some. To see how the news proceeds. Like, who knows? You could get news tomorrow. The Bucky, oh, we were wrong.

It's way worse than we thought. I'll tell you this. If I had Nick Chubb and Sean Tucker on my team, I'm starting Sean Tucker this week. Yeah. I think that's fair. Because I want upside for that position group. They're probably going to get about the same. I would project them to get near the same opportunity and both be essentially the RB2 for their team. And one has juice. All right. We have a great show for you today. It's a Wednesday episode. We've got the Thursday night preview. We've got NFL news to cover, backup options, some mailbag. Going to answer your questions on the show today.

Get you ready for week five. We also have our current Megalobol leader out of over 20,000. Now, Jason, you had been completely undefeated, dominant, and you were at spot 1,000 in points scored? Yeah. No, I'm still undefeated and dominant. And right now, my team, let me look it up. I am nowhere near the leaderboard. I have 532 points scored. Well, the leader has 622, and that is dude without. Dude with? Yeah, dude with. Sounds to me. So, very nice. That is the current standings. Well, look out for CrazyJoe99. Dude without. He's right on his tail. And he's crazy. A reminder.

A long lineage of Crazy Joes, too. Oh, yeah. 98 of them before. They each get crazier. I'm still not in the top 1,000. I'm 1,049. When you're. Jeez Louise. 8-0? Yeah. Well. Goodness. There's a lot of good teams out there. Yeah, you got to keep working. A reminder. Jointhefoot.com. That's the fantasy football community. If you want to become an official Foot Clan member, support the show. Get access to tons of great perks, including the brand new rest of season rankings. We've got trade tools that we're in the process of developing. And if you have jumped into the rest of season rankings, this is a reminder for you.

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And so, we like to take a moment on Wednesday mornings to look at some backup options. Look at the most dropped players on the platforms over the last 24 hours. And right now, the most dropped players, Caleb Williams. And that would be due to bye week. Yeah. I think. Bashall Tootin. Here, let's play care, don't care. Okay. These players were dropped. Do you care or not care? As in, like, I care that you should probably book to pick them up? Yeah, yeah. I care enough to, like, maybe try to put them back on my roster off of somebody else's. Caleb Williams.

Yep. Care. Bashall Tootin. I do care. I do. Dylan Sampson. Nope. I don't care. Chris Rodriguez and Ja'Cory Krosky-Meritt. I do care. We'll talk a little bit more in depth. Yeah. Okay. All right. Ollie Gordon. I care. I don't. And then Braylon Allen with the injury. Well, he's. Don't care. We just saw another one from Coach Glenn saying it's a serious injury. Oh, really? I haven't seen that update. I mean, it. Betts just posted. I couldn't. Seeing the hit and the fact that he was even on the sideline trying to walk it off is like, dude, I feel like a mortal.

Their knee would have just. You. You would have looked like the Tyree kill injury. It's like, I could not believe it wasn't an immediate multiple ligament tear. Tyquan Thornton. Do you care? He was down to 34% of snaps. You're. Yeah. But Rice is on his way back. So. Care. Don't care. Care. Don't care. Calvin Austin. Don't care. Darnell Mooney. Care. Trey Tucker. Don't care. Sterling Shepard. Don't care. Evan Ingram. Never care. Johnny Smith. Don't care. Zachary. Care. Let's let Jay take it. Yeah. No, that's good. That's good. All right. Let's talk about. We each picked a backup option. We've kind of already dug in on this player.

So I'll just throw the name out there. Michael Carter was the pick for this morning. Running back for the Arizona Cardinals. Trey Benson's taking it day by day. He said, hopefully we'll get him back out there. That's the language currently being used by the head coach. But signing Michael Carter to the roster, we'll see what happens. Did you have something to add? Well, it's just a, you know, thank you to everyone who listens to this podcast. Okay. Because you're getting- I agree. Number one, you understand? I completely echo your thoughts. Just an overall gratitude. Hey, thanks for listening. But like we talked about this on yesterday's show that Trey Benson, there was some weird

bonus practice that is not normal. And Trey Benson wasn't there because I tweeted out, there was an article from AZ Central. That's our local hub. And they were the ones in the article who put out, it might end up being Michael Carter instead of DiMarcado. And so I post this because it was breaking news. We had talked about DiMarcado. And my replies were just like, what are you talking about? Trey Benson, no one's saying that Trey Benson's hurt. And we're like, yes. That's the point. Like, I'm giving you news. And they're like, none of the fantasy things say that he's hurt.

Like, okay. What was the voice again, though? It's very Liam Cohen. Okay. Very similar. Get my name out of your mouth. Yeah. So last year, Jason alluded to it. Like, in the two games that Michael Carter started in Week 17 and 18, so you probably didn't even pay attention to it. You know, we had 15 opportunities, 21 opportunities. And Arizona has a matchup against Tennessee this week that seems like it would be a heavy run-oriented situation, maybe salting things away in the second half. And again, we still don't know what's going on with Trey Benson. But the point is, you have to be prepared for these situations.

You don't want Friday to pop up and you're like, oh, Trey Benson has a practice all week and then someone else beats you to the wire. All that being said, the other side of the coin that we haven't talked about is like, if Trey Benson was active, how confident do you feel in Trey Benson with all of this injury news? And is that more dependent on the end of week practices? Yeah, yeah. I got it. We got to get more info. It feels a little nerve wracking sometimes when you have these guys that are, like even Lamar this week, they're saying Lamar is going to try to play.

Oh, no. And so then you're like, well, okay, I always play Lamar. And that's probably going to be my advice. Yeah. But then how much does he run? And like, do you, it's like when Tucker Kraft played through the injury and you're like, oh crap, I have to play him. But then you kind of knew the numbers would be lower. It's scary too, because like with Lamar, it's a hamstring, which is like, okay, maybe we don't get the rushing yardage, but whatever. The dude threw for 4,040, you know, or, you know, 40 touchdowns last year. So, you know, he could do it from the pocket, but what he can also do is exit the game early.

He can go out there and have a good run. And all of a sudden you got one fantasy point. So the floor is, the floor is basically zero when you're starting Lamar. But speaking of Trey Benson, before we move off of that, one thing that, I mean, it's kind of good news in his injury. I was so furious with the end of game management from the Arizona Cardinals as a Cardinals fan and as a fantasy analyst. Yeah. And the fact that at the end of the game, when they needed to score the most, Trey Benson was not on the field.

I was, I was so angry. I was like, why are you running out there with Amari DiMercardo? Who scored? I get it. But that you still got to put your best players out to have your best odds of scoring. And it turned out that he, he was hurt. Yeah. So maybe that gives me hope for, you know, the rest of the season that Trey Benson is maybe in those. Are you going to apologize? No, not yet. Okay. No, probably never. You know who else doesn't apologize? My pick. Bill Kroski. Okay. So you're back on watching. Never apologize because he's never been wrong.

Okay. Fair enough. Doesn't have a backspace on his keyboard. He's never made a mistake. Bill Kroski. I like that. I do. I like that. But he's been very disappointing. People are dropping him. He was in one of the, you know, he was one of those players you talked about are on the most dropped list right now. And I think that's a mistake. Keep in mind, he got off to a good week one start because he had that touchdown, but he wasn't, he wasn't like a starter in training camp. You know what I mean? Like the Brian Robinson was there the entire camp, right up until like a week before, you

know, preseason was over. And then he had a little bit of time. And now as he's working his way into becoming a starter, well, he, he missed practice this week. He was limited participant in practice. We weren't even sure he was going to play this week. Still ended up with two targets. So I'm not like, I am, I'm not dropping Bill. If I saw him on waivers, I would pick him up. And I want to throw one other name out that I've, Jaden blue needs to be on. Yeah. He needs to be on, you know, the, the possible pickup. Jaden blue is a rookie running back for the Dallas Cowboys who has not played yet.

He has been inactive. He's been inactive. He had some hype during the off season, during training camp. And Schottenheimer came out and said that he's getting really close to being active. Like he, he might start, he might be on the roster this week. And Miles Sanders hurt his ankle. And while he's trending towards being able to play this week, there's, there's a chance that Jaden blues just straight up the backup, uh, to, uh, Javante. Who, who, Kyle, are you with us this morning? I am. And I'm going to try to read your mind. Okay. Go for it. No, I have no idea.

What are you going to do? What I was going to bring up is that, you know, when Sean Tucker's name came up this week, I'm, I don't know. I would have been amazing. Cause look, when Sean Tucker's name came up this week, that's the second name from a list that Jason provided on our top 10 tips and tricks show. And it was like, these three guys are going to win your league. What were the names on that? Do you remember? Trey Benson. Okay. So Trey Benson, Sean Tucker. I think the other one was now hurt. Will Shipley. Will Shipley's back.

Yeah. He's, he's, he's read my mind, Kyle. Amazing. Uh, but look, two of those names are already relevant and we're four weeks into the season. Well, we do have a, another update. Oh, Bucks still are not ruling Bucky Irving out for Sunday. Bulls said, we'll see if he's out of the boot by Friday. Okay. Yeah, this is, um, we'll see. It'll be interesting. I will say that no matter what, I'm starting Rashad White this week. Rashad, we saw a game where. Uh, last year, Bucky Irving was mummified leaving the game. Remember just wrapped in ace bandages and ice. Like he was, he got so much work.