Week 7 Waivers + Rookie WR Rundown - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/20

Junkins. That's not what I call him. It is now. That's what everyone called. That's how you pronounce his name according to Thursday night football. McLaughlin was 9 for 41, 4 for 14 through the air. I think he is a pretty interesting one week start. If Junkins, if they sit him out again. The hard part is. Against Tennessee. Is Dylan Sampson is there as well. Like Dylan Sampson is, his window was open. It looked like Samson might play this past weekend. He didn't.

But if he comes in and he's starting, there's definitely leagues where Jaliel McLaughlin should be picked up. It's just the path is dark and full of tears for him. Yeah. And then you've got a bunch of the like insurance backs with upside. Emmett Johnson. Mike Washington, there you go. Nine for 43. Led the team in rushing last week. Where was this when we thought you were going to do? He must have been hurt. Gentie barely played in the second half.

Well, Jancy's efficiency was awful, and yeah. But the fact that they didn't turn to Laobie, like they did the week before, the game was more competitive. Jonah Coleman will return at some point. Again, I hate the Broncos decision. I mean, their offense, I hate it. And then I hate the depth they have at every position. And I hate Bo Nix and John Payton. So I think we move on to wide receivers who where, look.

Last week's number one pick up on the show was Jeremy Bernard. Hope you picked him up. Not enough people did. 57% roster. Yesterday's prices are not today's prices. Rookie wideouts with a game of 11 catches in a touchdown in the last 10 years. Jeremy Bernard, Jermar Chase. Oh, oh, I hear what you're saying. And Aaron Rogers is getting it done. I mean, the targets.

were crazy for his top two guys. Roman Wilson went on IR. So this spot is secured. It is his. He will be getting, you know, the nine or ten targets as a rookie. He's my number one overall pick up this week over everybody. He's my number one again. It's hard to not make the comp. Rogers, Mike McCarthy, Randall Cobb. Yeah. That's who Jeremy Bernard is being used as right now. Which if you weren't around for the heyday of Randall Com,

There were some moments that were very nice for fantasy football. By the way, I didn't get into any drop candidates, but some of the names coming up, Marshawn Lloyd with the return of Jacobs, Hampton on the bye week, Emmanuel Wilson. I wish this button could have the... Oh, man. I wish this button had the... Just a landmine. I mean, no, listen, Hampton's been farts. But I wouldn't drop them on the waivers because I don't...

I mean, listen to the names we're talking about in the way. Basically, if Jordan Mason's not out there, you've got Kendra going into a buy and a bunch of backups. You're talking about picking up Jaliel McLaughlin. First round upside, Mike, I've got to convince you of that. Yeah, I guess I'll hold him in the event of maybe. If I had to drop him for Jeremy Bernard, I'd do it. Oh, 100%. Yeah. But like, hold on. McDaniel, Mike had fired. Well, I don't know if that. That way Adam Gaze takes it over. Yeah. Look, please don't. You got to fire both those guys.

You got to just one fell swoop. You can cut those guys. Jeremy Bernard, if he's there, 57% roster, pick him up, number one on the list. You got to go hard in the paint. 50? Probably. Yeah, I definitely think he looks like a player. Now, I will say Michael Pittman will be back. I don't know how you. I don't know how you, that's the thing for both Pittman. That was an actual audio of Aaron Rogers. Pittman and Roman.

Your second rounder doing this, you don't put the genie back. I mean, Pittman was crap before. Yeah, but he was playing through injury. I'm just saying if they're paying him a lot of money. What you're trying to say is that, look, it's not all going to be like this every week. So careful with your fab spin because it may vacillate, they will get some.

names back. I think you're going to have a couple more great weeks. If you have a couple more, you've got a rookie that's locked in. Yeah, I mean, and you very well might be right. And I'm going hard after him too. I think he's totally worth it. He looked the part. He looked outstanding. He is exactly where Aaron Rogers expects him to be, which is 11 feet from him. Right, which is turning around in his zone. Extremely important. And so, yeah, I would go hard after him. I just don't necessarily think that.

When Pittman is back on the team, he's not going to be on the sideline. And so the 10 targets a week, I think, is probably not going to happen when all three are there. Well, the 10 also, they did go to, they went to overtime, right? Yep. Yes. So they got him and DK Metcalfe, they got juiced up a little bit. Three of three for 30 was Metcalf's overtime stats. The, there's, the running backs, it's pretty stinky, but.

The wide receivers, man, with the rookies. There's a lot of them. The rookie wide receivers this week are very exciting. See, Omar Cooper Jr., I think, is still a difficult, like I want to pick him up. He's barely rostered. I think he deserves it first round pick. I still am a little bit. I think it's going to be very tough. The matchups are very tough coming up against wide receivers or four wide receivers. You're going to get Adonai Mitchell back. You're going to get a healthier Kenyon-Sadik. I think target distribution is going to be something where,

Like Cooper is not a player. I think I can pop in and guarantee production. I think I'm hopeful, but I'm afraid that he may be a pickup that you spend FAB on and then you're like, crap, but he just went three for 30. And I'm like, so let's lump them all together. You got, because the rookies right now, Jeremy Bernard, he's the number one priority by, by a mile. But then Omar Cooper with his breakout game, Antonio Williams now with Terry McLaurin. Yep, there's two more. We haven't, again, we haven't heard the McLaren injury news yet.

It's done. That certainly looked like a guy who is probably not going to play football. Jordan Tyson, there was the news that he is traveling with the team to Paris. So his return could be sooner rather than later. Loves Benet. Benitez. Yeah. Yes. And Escargo. Yes. And Begets. Don't get me started on French. And then Jacoby Lane is the other one who. He might be like the number two pickup. The fact that he put up those numbers with the backup quarterback.

It's pretty exciting. I am really excited for Jacoby Lane. Jacoby Lane is the rookie wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens. He had an unbelievable camp. He was steamed up as like the best player, you know, this rookie standout. Because remember, they took Elijah Serra as well. They drafted too wide. In front of Lane, right? I think Lane was first, but you could double check that. Lane was first. Was he?

I'm pretty hot. Okay. All right. But they took two and one clearly broke out. Yeah. Light was third round. Highlight after highlight. And then unfortunately he got in week one, it was like he was on the field. He was targeted in the end zone. It looked like for week one, a rookie to be out there like this. And then he gets injured, unfortunately, comes back. And yeah, looks good with a backup quarterback. So when Lamar comes back. Bateman got hurt.

And that too. Devontes Walker did run ahead of him route-wise, but Bateman's injury, yeah, I agree. I think. I would rather have him than Antonio Williams. Really? Yeah, because Antonio Williams is going into the by-week right now, and I'm not sure. I still would. I'd take a longer-term approach. Yeah, I would too. Antonio is my number two wide receiver now. Yeah, Antonio would be two for me, and then I would move on to, like the Lane Cooper discussion is a really interesting one where, like.

Yeah, I mean, both of them are always going to be second fiddle to Flowers and Wilson. Passing volume-wise, you know, you have those games where, you know, they don't need much more than Henry and Flowers. He will be a high variance. I feel like it's going to be some red zone action. I lean Cooper over Jacobi. Over Lane. Yeah, I think Lane will be the wide receiver two for the Ravens rest of season. And so, you know, is that valuable?

I think it will be. I mean, in the past, in the past, it has not been. I mean, you have had plenty of years where you had two past catchers that were valuable. Yes, it was Mark Andrews and Zay Flowers. Obviously, Mark Andrews is burnt toast at this point. Yeah, fair. You know, and you've had games where, you know, Bateman looked, looked good this year. So with Bateman gone, Mark Andrews being toast, I think Jacoby Lane will be the wide receiver two for the Ravens. So that, and that's where it's like,

And we're not even, yeah, these are just the rookie discussions. Right, yeah. Because I think the discussion around DeMario Douglas, like DeMario Douglas has had two monster weeks and now Dobbs is gone. And yeah, AJ Brown will be involved. But I don't know, it's been pretty interesting. Running a lot of routes, a lot of snaps. I think DeMario Douglas is a really nice spot start for bye weeks.

for the next few weeks, but I think there's a lot of spot stars. I mean, Trey Tucker, Keenan Allen, Ryan Flanoy, who's... Kendrick Bourne had eight targets. Yeah, and he will continue to. I mean, it's a... I think those are the big names, and then Kanata Mumfield will throw him out there just because he had a nice week when Puka was gone. Did we even mention Keenan Allen? Yeah. Yeah, because, I mean, he's just getting like double-digit, you know, targets every single week.

Yeah, this was a little bit of a, you know, you had the week with no Tyler Warren that helped the equation. But yeah, I think Keenan's, I mean, if you're looking for targets, which is pretty much how you look at bi-week fill-ins, unless you sign nausea and get nothing at all. Nice. That's what you're, that's what you're looking for. There's a lot of good names. Now, because of that, are you not spending up on Fab for many of these? Are you just putting like six or seven of them in your...

Q for a buck or nothing? I am spending up on Jeremy obviously. He's he's proven it. I will go a little bit harder after after Jacoby Lane, Jordan Tyson, and Antonio Williams. And then I'll put a couple bucks on Omar Cooper. And it really depends on what you're looking for though. Because if you need a spot start, you know, if you've got to actually like throw someone in a lineup, you might rather get a DiMario Douglas.

Well, let's talk about tight ends and I want to transition into somebody like Hunter Henry because Hunter Henry should also be moved up. He's had a couple of good weeks in a row with Dobbs leaving. This is a very good week. Footclan.com. That's where our premium services are. We have free waiver wire rankings available should you want to go that route. But if you want to make it as easy as possible, because there's so many names that we're trying to get through with that amount of wide receivers. We have.

We take care of all that in the ultimate dashboard if you want to support the show. You get a bunch of other cool stuff with it, but I would highly recommend going to check it out this week in particular. It will be very, very helpful for you. Yeah, you can look and see like, oh, in my leagues, this guy's available in these leagues. So let's talk through tight ends. If for some reason Kyle Pitts is there, which only 63% rostered. So if we're going to talk about, you know, what Jordan Mason was 66%.

Kyle Pitts has had two monster weeks. They paid him a ton of money. It took a little while. I'm sure he'll let you down. Of course he'll let you down. But 12 and 20 the last two weeks. He's looked good. He's even had some plays that are like, okay. Okay. Who's this? This guy looks like the Kyle Pitts everyone was excited about. And then Chiga Conquo, only 14% rostered. I think he will be a season long beneficiary of the injuries.

I completely agree. Chig, this is part of the reason. Like, Antonio Williams, I'm not sold that he, he had the opportunity. He had opportunity when Diggs was out to step up and be the two. And he really didn't impress during that stretch. And then Chig did. It's tough, though, Jay, because like he, Antonio Williams had the good, I think, rookie or first week. But then you lost Jaden during some of the opportunity for Antonio Williams, right?

Yes. So I don't know if we've seen his best is my point. Like let's scheme up a week where he's one of your primary guys. Yeah. I mean, I have liked what I've seen on a few plays of his. I just don't know that he's going to establish himself. If you had to start one tight in this week that's not named Kyle Pitts on the waiver wire, you got Hawkinson coming back, you got Henry against Chicago.

You've got Higby. Higby against Las Vegas. It would be Higby. I'm interested in picking up Terrence Ferguson quite a bit. He's still got one week left on the IR. I just think explosive-wise with Devante Adams out, we saw it for a minute before he got injured and he was dominating. However, he's not there. Tyler Higby has been important, especially when, you know, you only have one of these primary wide receiver options.

The matchup against the Raiders this week is pretty good. I know he'd be disappointed last week before for 22. But that was also while they, you know, had the other wide receivers there. And that was a crazy slog game against Arizona that was low scoring. No one expected. He would be my start. But I'm also still interested if I'm looking for something more long term for Terrence Ferguson. Okay. And then Michael Mayer is not that bad. No. He's kind of like, he keeps getting it done. Their primary receivers are their two tight-ins.