Week 15 Waivers & QB Streamers + It’s Playoff Time! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/12

even up till tomorrow before waivers run because there will be more, you know, MRI results will start coming out, adjust your waivers tomorrow. But as of this moment, Ty Chandler, he's got a great matchup. He's got Juice. I expect that he'll be a multi-week starter. He's available in still a lot of leagues. So Ty Chandler, he's my number one pickup of the week, generically speaking. And at this point in time, unload. And he gets the Bengals. Don't, you don't, you don't, you. If you need someone, if you need to block someone, use your fab. There's no reason to hang on. What percentage of my $1 remaining fab should I be using? 100%. Wow. Strong words. Yeah. All of it. Jared McCannan, half of leagues currently rostered according to the numbers we've seen, probably got picked up last week. I mean, I think in the majority of competitive leagues, he's not there. So I think Chandler makes sense as the top one. Samir White.

My only other question mark with him is that he had the endorsement of a former head coach on that roster. That's a fair point. Not the current head coach. It's amazing. Zemir White has 20 carries in 14 games. That is just, it shows you how much of the workload Josh Jacobs has and that there isn't an option really behind him so far. Other names, Chase Brown. You can buy into this if you want to. Chase Brown has been given more opportunities. He's very explosive. He had 80 receiving yards last week. He is a dart throw type of player that is not rostered many places, although I remember looking after one of those plays this past week, and he is rostered in our league because somebody went out and snagged him. But, you know, Clyde and Zemir White, to me, those guys are in the exact same category of...

I'm not holding my breath, but both should have a bunch of times where the quarterback takes the ball, turns around, and hands it to them. Do they have the ability to do anything at that point? I don't know. You hope they fall down by the goal line. Yeah, Clyde had 15 opportunities. I believe that was more than McKinnon. It was way more. Yeah, but McKinnon gets the work once they get close to the end zone. That's how McKinnon scored. He's a better football player. Yeah. Definitely. Sure. You need a Clyde A.J. Dillon T-shirt where they're standing by each other. Just holding hands. Maybe one of them doing this. That would be amazing. The other. That would be amazing. I don't have an argument against it other than they gave Clyde Edwards more work. Because you need somebody to just run into those defenders and weaken them. But now, I mean, just talking about matchups.

They're going to play against the Patriots. That's not a matchup I love for my running back, but that's a matchup that I love for the Kansas City Chiefs to be winning the game by the second half and running out the clock. Yeah, so there's an argument here. I brought him up. Clyde is going to be the better running back over Jerich McKinnon in games where they're up. This is a game where they should clearly be up. They were down last week against the bills and had to throw. The passing down work will go more to Jerich McKinnon. So. The other argument... I think Clyde actually had more targets, though. I mean, Clyde was way more involved. Way more involved. Let's see. The other argument, though, and this is where I... Yeah, four to three targets. This is my true belief is... Jerich McKinnon was coming back from injury, right? Like, this was his first week back to practice. Clyde had been there. And so I think that they worked Jerich back in with Clyde clearly ahead. If you listen to what Andy Reid talked about, like, Clyde was their starter. He was going to be the one, but they have packages for other running backs. And then...

lo and behold, the packages with Jerich McKinnon work and the packages with Clyde Edwards-Aler don't. I'm putting my chips on the Jerk McKinn side simply because he is the better player. He's going to be the pass catcher and he's used more in the red zone or in the goal line opportunities. What side of the line of scrimmage does he line up on generally? He usually tries to be on the Kansas City side. Got it. 37 carries last week for Dallas. Dallas has a matchup this week against Buffalo. Rico Dattle had 13 of those fairies. He's almost not a stash anymore. He's getting close to that. He scored again. I mean, if you look at the last five weeks, not rostered. He's got, he scored 11.7 fantasy points this last week in half PPR. Two weeks before that, nine, which is not the worst if you're scrounging for waiver wire, two weeks before that. He had the receiving touchdown that week. Right, but he, yeah, my point is like, he's, he's not just like.

strictly an insurance back that you can't play. This is kind of more like Jalen Warren where he's the backup. He's not as involved, but he's got potential ways to score fantasy points. And then should an injury happen to Pollard. Right. Rico absolutely should be rostered in 100% of leagues. Right now I see on right now he's listed at 14% rostered. And it's worth noting like if you get injury news on Madison. that he's out a minimum of three weeks or something like that, you, that's a roster spot. Right. You're saying. There are certain players that are dropable if their injuries look like they're persisting through a few weeks. I mean, you know, Pacheco's not in that category because he didn't hit IR, but if he had, that's a roster spot. Like, those are hard to come by at this time of year. Wide receivers. It's a little tough finding players that are, like my number one by far is Jay Jones.

Zay Jones is at the tippy top of my list. The targets were outrageous last week. It didn't lead to a bunch of production against Cleveland, but you had a very limited mobility situation for Trevor Lawrence. And he just, Trevor Lawrence just loves Zay Jones. He's also the lowest rostered among the bigger names that we're talking about. So I would put a lot of stock into Zay Jones's opportunity the rest of the way. Tougher matchup against Baltimore, but you just saw Cooper Cup, Pooka Nukua have a field day against them. I just want to target the targets, my friend. Sure. And I think 10 plus rest of the way for Zay Jones, I'm kind of into that. It makes complete sense. I don't have a problem picking him up. Personally, I mean, of the mostly rostered players, Zay Jones is great. O'Dell Beckham would be my preferred option because of the matchup against Jacksonville. They play each other on Saturday. This, yeah, I would I would rather. Saturday, no, they're Sunday night. I would rather throw against Jacksonville secondary than Baltimore's. You are right.

Obviously, Matthew Stafford did not have any problem throwing against Baltimore this past week. But in that matchup, I would rather have Beckham. More than likely in your competitive leagues, you might be out on both of those players. And I want to throw out, I know we've had discussion this last week. Noah Brown back-to-back, Gooses. If C.J. Stroud is back, I think Noah Brown still has a big game. He is not a solo, dominant, awesome, wide receiver one. But C.J. Stroud's going to throw for enough yards if he's active. And I just don't think many of the yards are going to go to Robert Woods, who is another guy you could pick up and play. They're going to need Noah Brown. And no Brown's looked good in the past, was just coming off of injury. And then this last week in the rain against the Jets, you know, it's easily explainable at least, but also mostly rostered. I believe you. And yet I can't look at the zero for seven over the last two games.

without getting a little nervous. But it makes sense. I mean, they should be able to throw the ball if C.J. Stroud is back. So he's a spot start for sure. Lower roster, nobody has. DeMarcus, he got 10 more targets this past week. He's the pickup. Two to Atwell is concussed. Demarcused. Demarcus Robinson has been utilized more and in high leverage situations. I mean, they literally drew up a game-winning touchdown pass to him on the final play of regulation. He was super involved. I mean, I know he only was with a touchdown. He only had three receptions, but 10 targets are a touchdown, high value targets. Tutu was really involved and Tutu is injured. I'm really confused. 86% of snaps for Robinson. The play where 2-2 got injured, I swear it was he like, he like hyper-extended his knee and was grabbing his knee and now he's in concussion protocol. I'm like, that's where he. Is his brain in his leg? He's a knee brain. But, um, I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, no, DeMarcus Robinson, Matthew Stafford's on fire. The matchup is perfect. DeMarcus Robinson is rostered in zero leagues. So if you have to make a spot start, I think you could make an argument to Marcus Robinson is as good as just about anyone out there. Here's who I think has a game this week. Quentin Johnston. Really? Yes, yes. With the hockey stick? Yes. Because that's what, last week he had three big plays with the hockey stick. Oh my gosh. The hockey stick. It just like came out like a normal name. That's how fast it works. He had three big plays with him and we've talked about this narrative that comes true where like the backup and the lower string wide receivers have opportunities. Now I guess if Joshua Palmer's back out there, maybe you can kick that to the curb, but I just want to throw it out there. Quentin Johnson was three for 91 in the last game. So it's possible. Las Vegas not an intimidating matchup, but maybe Palmer just makes you say no thank you. Yeah, I would throw out one other name

that will be available on all waivers that I think is actually, I don't believe it's a bad play this week. It's a guy that Mike and I have been talking up. We like him. Dantavian Wicks. He got kind of banged up. Oh, yeah, he left the game injured. So we have to pay attention. Pay attention to whether or not he's participating in practice. But he still had six targets. It didn't work out. But his targets are usually down the field harder to. to come by. The matchup this week against Tampa Bay. For real. Yeah, I would stop talking about it. Just Parker Washington scored again. Are you interested in Parker Washington for Jacksonville? In the deepest of leagues. In the deepest of leagues. 62% of snaps. Yeah, you have a good quarterback and he's out there. Robert Woods. Spot start.

Capable for sure. Yeah. It's not going to be great. Honestly, Brevin Almighty Dalton Schultz situation. Pay attention there for that roster. And, oh, one name, probably rostered, but also maybe not because of the bye week. Curtis? Curtis Samuel. I mean, Curtis Samuel is at the tippy top of the list for me. I'd much rather play him than DeMarcus Robinson. Yeah, because stupid Sam Howell only loves Curtis Samuel. Yeah, Curtis Samuel has been. Like he's doing his best like Washington Michael Pittman impression just lately, you know, targeted quite a bit, top 36 a couple weeks in a row. I mean, I'll just point out. I'm probably bullish more than others. We have, you know, since week seven, you know, you have a bunch of Curtis Samuel action. So week seven through 13, he missed one game. That was the game they won. You're saying, uh,

Just saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, no, no, not against that. It's against Sam Howell. You're saying stop throwing to, yeah, I'm saying throw to your good wide receivers. Throw to Terry McLaurin, you dummy. Speaking of drop candidates, Terry McLaurin's on the list. It's not your fault, Terry. You have roster spots that you need to use. Gabe Davis, Jordan Addison, Terry McLaren, the top three names coming up for drops. I'm very happy to drop. Gabe Davis and Addison. McClorin's the one that I would pause with. Oh, man. You're going to drop Gabe Davis? Yeah. It's the week. It's the week where he scores 19 on your bench. No. Not on my bench. It's science at this point, Andy. We have controlled the experiment in six weeks. Let me ask you, Mike. Is our champ, champ, champ, champ a team of destiny? Yes. Do we have Gabe Davis there? We do. Yeah. What are you doing with Gabe David? Oh, we're not going to play him. That's dumb.

You know he's going to blow up on your band. Yeah. Yeah, I know. That's a Dallas matchup. Yeah, it's perfect. 49 point over under. Dallas only, does Dallas watch more than last week's game film? That's the question. Because yesterday you said, no, they're just watching one. So they don't, they're going to leave them wide open. They're going to say he doesn't even target this guy. Are you dropping those three players? I mean, Addison seems like. It really depends on for who. For a lot of the people we talked about, no. I mean, if O'Dell Beckham is out there and I could start him over Gabe Davis, I would certainly do that. It's just a matter of who's available. Say Jones as well? Yeah, I would agree. What about Curtis Samuel and DeMarcus Robinson? I don't think so. Curtis, I would. Robinson? Robinson looks like a. I'm not going to bind it just one week there. For Robinson? Yeah. Well, I mean, you have two weeks, but he was the guy who snaps.

skyrocketed with Tutu out. If Tutu is out, I would be willing to play Robinson over... It's Washington. Over Gabe, over Addison, for sure. And a name for Super deep leagues. Super deep. Super deep. Or DFS. This is... I don't know if you are aware, but Dantavian Wicks has a high ankle sprain, guys. Malik Heath has had some good flashes. He's not very, very involved. But if Christian Watson's gone and Wix has gone and the matchup against Tampa Bay is so, so good. You're going to say everything you were going to say about Wix. Because it applies. But you're going to say about a different guy now. Because it applies. So I don't know if I'm going to be looking at Heath's draft kick price. That's for sure. It's 3K. He's it. To play Wix. He'll be fine. Tight end options. This is, it's super gross.

Isaiah likely is likely not on any of your waiver wires. He's the top one if he's still there. Beyond that, we saw five catchers from Gerald Everett. He's rostered in more than 50% of leagues, however. Brevin Almighty still is definitely in play. If you've got all these injuries, obviously. Yeah, Brevin Jordan, 23% rostered. I would hope that C.J. Stroud is the quarterback. But Davis Mills, Davis Mills has at least distributed the ball. You know, you had some Ego Collins games last year. It's not the. I don't think you're going. A capable backup. And then the name that everyone wants to talk about, Davis Allen, rookie tight end for the Los Angeles Rams. This was a product of injuries in front of him. Tyler Higby missed the game. Then Hunter Long was knocked out of the game. But that turned into five targets, four for 50 with a touchdown for Davis Allen. It's kind of one of those names that works both directions. It's because it's two first names. Allen Davis? Yeah. Davis Allen. Davis. Davis. Davis.

If both of those guys are out for the Rams, he will be on the field. I mean, 71% of snaps. Yeah, but McVeigh did come out and was very helpful when he said that Higby may be able to return. The great news about Davis. Oh, sarcasm. Yeah. The good news here is if you need Davis Allen, you could probably pick him up on Sunday morning or whenever it is the Rams play. Tucker Kraft had four for 64 last night, too. I'm interested there. I'm not interested in Joanne Johnson whatsoever. No. He had no other threats in this last game and nothing happened. It's only sadness. Jimmy Graham was the tight end on like five snaps who was more important than Joanne Johnson. Logan Thomas has done nothing. The matchup is fantastic. Yeah. So he's someone that you could, if you're, if you're need to play someone of the list of everybody we talked about, Isaiah likely is not going to be available.

I would probably go Logan Thomas next. You already know that they don't want to throw it to like Dotson or McLarence, so Logan Thomas may be on 70 plus percent of snaps. Defensive options this week, hopefully you picked up the Saints a few weeks ago because they had a great matchup, dominated against Carolina this past week. They have the Giants. Who plays Carolina this week? That would be the Falcon. I'll take them. Yeah, the Falcons need a win. Good defense. Carolina has Bryce Young. We talked about this weeks ago about how good the Vikings defense was and their stretch run looked like they've got a pretty good schedule coming up. So maybe you've already got them on the roster. They're playing against Cincinnati. I know Jake Browning has been good, but Minnesota's defense really. Brian Flores has turned that team around. They're a hard defense to score on and move the ball on right now. You also have, let's see here.

Colts play the Pittsburgh offense with no Kenny Pickett. That's a sneaky one. Broncos, I don't know if I'm messing around with them in Detroit in the dome, but they do play New England the following week. So if you pick them up to hold them. And the Chargers the following week. Right, with maybe the hockey stick at quarterback. And then the Patriots play the Broncos in week 16. So the inverse of that game, both sides of that could be good. Week 17 matchups to target. Bill's defense takes on the Patriots. Jacksonville takes on the Panthers. Yes, please. And then the Rams take on the Giants. And the Rams are fighting for their playoff lives. So a lot at stake there. The Rams are really good pickup because the Rams defense has looked okay. I mean, Baltimore, it was a back and forth affair. But they've done okay. And they play Washington and then the Saints and then the Giants. So the stretch run through the playoffs, if you need like one, if you're not able to roster multiple defenses.

They're okay. Full stream ahead. Well, you guys got to the dock before me again. Jason, there's one great stream that if you have Herbert, hopefully this guy's on your wire and hopefully you still have some fat. Yeah, Matthew Stafford is the pickup and the play. He has, he's officially on fire, right? Three weeks in a row, the quarterback seven, the quarterback eight, the quarterback five. and Washington is the matchup for opposing quarterbacks, not only for this year. They are the highest yards per attempt, third highest for any team over the last decade at 8.1. The most passing touchdowns allowed, they're on pace for the second most passing touchdowns allowed ever. I went with Russell Wilson again. Honestly, Detroit's defense is like folding right now. They're 31st and schedule adjusted against quarterbacks. 30th and points allowed. At this time of the year, I like having.

players on teams that are fighting for something meaningful. Denver's right in the thick of it. He's going to throw at least one touchdown to Cortland Sutton. That's true. It's nice for Russ. It's a guaranteed minimum. He starts, his baseline is one touchdown. Baseline, one touchdown. I mean, it's usually that's what he gets. Acrobatic catch by Sutton, obviously. But I'll go with Russell Wilson as my stream if Stafford's not there. Yeah, and if Stafford is not there. I'm willing to consider Joe Flacko. Willing to consider. That's the strongest endorsement that I can give. But he's played well. He's throwing a ton. He's been the quarterback 13 and the quarterback 10. He gets the Chicago Bears. Now, what I don't know about the Bears is the defense fixed, like sort of, because they have been shutting down quarterbacks, but it's been two horrifically bad games from Jared Goff where maybe that was the Bears. Like,

Maybe they figured something out against Jared Goff. And then Bryce Young and Josh Dobbs. Those are the quarterbacks who have been shut down recently. So I don't know if it's the Bears or if it was the competition. I am scared of that game. I actually think that that game has the potential to be a super low-scoring, annoying game because I don't know if Chicago does a lot of work against the Cleveland defense. And if that's the case, Joe Flack is not going to throw it 45 times. You know, and that is worrisome for like Mari Cooper, David Najoku, and Flacco. I hope he does. I hope he gets that opportunity. I think he's still going to throw a bunch. That'd be great. That'd be great. So there you go. Jake Browning, you could always roll the dice with his weapons and see if it works out. And, you know, Desmond Redder against Carolina. I'll throw it out there as a. Oh, man. He had 300-something yards last week. So that's not something I want to do.

And, uh, I mean, the, the biggest visit to the blacksmith of the week would be if Drew Locke is starting, because Gino Smith is out. Drew Locke, speaking of betting on weapons, bet on those weapons against the Philadelphia Eagles who just get torched by everybody. But it's Drew Locke. No, it's a good pickup, and he's widely available. Gino could very well be the start of those, so it's hard to know. Don't pay money for him. Yeah, but add Gino to the list because he might have been dropped. Fair, fair. All right, that is going to do it for today's show tomorrow. We'll be back with Hungry for more of the Thursday night preview and some mailbag and then on into the week. We'll get into the starts, the matchups, the wheel of shame. Playoffs are here, baby. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Not everything went your way. No. My life sucks. The best part of my lineup that brings me the joy is it was not the Mike Evans stack that saved me from the shame. It was my nasty boys who both scored. It was Drake London. Didn't you both have Drake London? Yeah. Yeah. He has sons of guns. We tried to tell you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I didn't listen. Now I'm getting shame. All right. Thank you for joining us. Check out the community at join thefoot.com. Take care. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.