Week 12 Waivers + Fantasy Timebomb, Full Stream Ahead - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/22

Foot clan. It is a big time waivers day. The fantasy football playoffs are quickly approaching and you've got to get yourself some of these names. We're going to debate the best wide receivers, the best running backs, some quarterback streaming options, tons of news to talk about some injuries, some interesting situations. Make sure you like this video. Subscribe. Enjoy. The Fantasy Footballer Studio is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy. Visit Samsung.com to learn more. The Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Tuesday, November 22nd, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway. Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Waver Day? Oh, baby.

quarterback streamers NFL news we can skip the Monday night recap pretty good week for waivers I think you know some weeks we put together the waiver dog and it's like oh man I don't want I'm not putting any transaction in this week I feel like there's a lot of relevance yeah and part of that has to do with news that broke yesterday Mr. Melvin Gordon goodbye well we all know that Russ's issue was Melvin this will fix it it He does fumble on the goal line as though he's addicted to him. Yeah, I feel like the coaches, this last fumble, they were like, you, they put all of the blame of the season. They said, you're out because they have no running backs now. It's Latavius Murray. Is it divine a Ziegbo? No, the ghost of Marlon Mack.

And then- Trace Edmonds is hurt, right? Yes, that's what I'm saying. He just went down with a high ankle sprain. I believe Mike Boone will be back here or eligible to be back in a week or so. But it's just, it's, it's so hilarious at this point of the season. They're like, nah, man, that's enough. The guy that was stealing all of Giovante Williams snaps just a year ago. Nah, man, get off the field. What was the carry count for Christian McCaffrey last night? I believe he had seven carries. So the leader in total carries Elijah Mitchell with nine. McCaffrey was seven. McCaffrey had seven for 67 through the air. Ungardable. Yeah. Big game for Debo. He's a big boy. He looked extra large. He's just... Not in a bad way, but just like, wow. His speed is incredible. And...

He did the kind of play that got him into the end zone a ton last year, which is just, he shouldn't, oh, he scored. Yeah, he was like, he was great. Ayuk was great again. Yeah, Iuke had two catches and 20 yards. And he was great because he had two touchdowns, two of the four. Yeah, Jimmy threw for four, two others to Mr. Kittle. Yeah, play your tight ends against Arizona. I was trying to find these drops for Mr. Kittle and for. We have a kiddle drop? Well, Kittle and Debo, they kind of. Oh, the man drop. But I'm struggling. Thank you. You know what makes you look like a while? A man. What? Playing against boys. Sure. I mean, you look at Kittle going down the sideline up for that second touchdown. And I mean, I don't think they even attempted to tackle him. They were like, he looks big. They're on his second touchdown for sure.

That is a very funny clip of a Cardinals defender going, I'll get you, I'll get you. Nah, next time. Yeah, next to you. You win this time, George Kittle. Well, the Cardinals stunk. James Connor did score. You had the Dorch come in. George. Nine for 103. He's a good player. Now, what happened was the dream that you never think can happen. The nightmare. Yeah, mostly a nightmare. But if you, like we've all been there where you are playing an opponent in fantasy. They have a lead of 0.5 or something. And then you're like, boy, the only way I can win this game is if their player who they're playing tonight, you know, fumbles or loses yards and then is injured. And on the very first play of the game, Rondale Moore took a carry for negative six yards, pulled his groin.

Never came back out again. Yeah, groin index.com, hopefully up to date. And people lost because of it. I mean, they either needed one. We're nodding. Groin index, take care of it. Yep. Hell, he's there. I mean, nine for 103. That was the potential for Rondale Moore in this game. He was part of the game plan. Ten targets for the dorge. And instead, Rondale Moore is out again with injury. Cardinals are, they just cannot get. all of their players together at the same time. I mean, Hollywood's about to come back. Rondale's going to be out. Zach Ertz is out. DeAndre Hopkins is there. I mean, the Dorch is going to show up on waivers today. Yeah, the dors will probably be involved. You've got to keep in mind the Arizona Cardinals, they play this coming week, week 12, but then they have the late week 13 by week. So if you're looking at getting Rondell more healthy, Hollywood Brown healthy, you hold them out this one week and you get a bunch of extra time.

And Kyler could get held out again because of the biweek. And because why win at this point? Why win? Because they're what? They're four and seven. The 49ers are six and four. The 49ers are in first. Are they tied with Seattle? I believe they are tied record wise. But the 49ers have the tiebreaker. But I'm saying you're two games out theoretically. But 10 in my heart. All right. Let's get into some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. I mean, one bit of news I didn't get into earlier was just the fact that there's going to be a lot of fancy footballers for the next two days. And so, you know, we've got the show today. Yeah. The footcast is coming out early for joining the foot.com supporters.

We've got Spotify Live tonight. Yes. So that's the headline. Not tomorrow. The party room is tonight. The party room has been moved to tonight, Tuesday, 3 p.m. Pacific. Yeah, just keep making your sounds. Just keep making your sounds. There's no, no letters, no words, just sounds. It was clearly megaladone. You ever heard a shark pronunciate the word well? They don't have lips. Okay. I have to tell you what I saw on Twitter. It was great. So we have the Megalibol, right? Yes. It's going on right now. Yes. We're heading into the playoffs for the Megalibul. Somebody on Twitter said, I've got an idea for you. You should take what you do with the Megalabole and you should label like a, you should label the long episode you do on Wednesdays every year after that. You should name it like the Megalah show. Wow. Yep. Okay. I pulled my punch on that one. Oh, did you? Yeah. I had it written up and then I was like,

Nah, I don't need to do this to this person. But then you were like, well, what if we put them on Blasterford of hundreds of thousands of people? There is that. Apologies. We appreciate your great advice. The Megalodon is the, it's the origination. Yes. And then the Megalibol came out of that. It's so important that you know that. Yeah, the Megalodon has been our biggest episode every year for what? Generation. Is this like year seven, eight of the Megalod? Megalodon episode? However long we've been doing this. All right. And I'm also, I'm so hyped that like the Megalodon just in, you know, pop culture and societies. I mean, it's, it's coming back in a big way. Is it? Yeah. It is not a coincidence that we started hyping the Megalodon like seven, eight years ago. And now, it's a Megalodon. Every museum, all, you know, Jason Statham. Discovery Channel. Yeah, movies are being made. O.

Is that your Jason St. He's not even Australia. That was Roy Kint. Yeah, that was Roy Kint. Hoy. They're the same guy. Real news now. The Falcons placed Kyle Pitts on injured reserve. Yeah. That sprained MCL turned into a torn MCL, which is going to likely require surgery. It's unfortunate, but he's going to be gone. Yeah, it's a six plus week recovery. So this season for fantasy is over, but it is not like an ACL where you're looking at a year timeline. You know, will he be ready for the season? This just ends 2022. And then he should be ready to go for next year. It's possible he never has to attempt to catch a pass for Marcus Mariotta again. Right. Glass at full. Melvin Gordon, wave by the Broncos. Chase Edmonds will miss a few weeks.

Right now, Latavius Murray is atop the list. He had a good fantasy day. People like Latavius. That's what I'm learning. I mean, he shows up. People play him. That's just what happens. When you're talking about people, you're talking about NFL teams, coaches, the franchise themselves, they like what they see from him in practice and say, we trust you, we'll give you the ball, you do good enough. Yeah, and if he don't fumble on the goal line in Denver, then you've already out. paste your competition. I don't blame the Broncos for cutting Melvin Gordon. If they got to a point where you say, I don't think we can hand the ball to this player any longer, we just cannot trust him to not fumble the ball. If you're not going to be able to do that, then...

open up the roster spot. And, you know, last week, Latavius Murray, this past week had 17 carries. That's most of any running back on this team for the season. So obviously we'll talk about him in a little bit more detail when we get into the waiver section where he filters into the pecking order. What on earth is going on with Justin Fields? I have no idea. I have heard conflicting reports from major reporters, Ian Rappaport, Adam Schaefter, first reported. By Ian Rappaport, a potential dislocated shoulder. Schaefter said it was not a dislocation. Our injury expert Matthew Betts said an AC joint injury. I have heard day to day, but not ruling out season ending. That is what. Anywhere. Iber flu said. Tell me when to stop. Tell me when to stop. Hey, at least he's not throwing out career ender here. Day to day or he'll never play again. Minute to minute all the way to career end. Right.

No, I think right now we just have to watch the news this week. Justin Fields, if he's out, it's simple for fantasy players. If he plays the game, you're starting him at quarterback. And if he's, if he's not, I don't recommend starting him. Yeah. And I would say as of right now, my expectation is that he will be able to play. It's his non-throwing shoulder. This is an injury that should be able to be. You should be masked. Well, yeah, you can. Might not be able to run as much. You can get the shot in the shoulder and be able to play through it. But you don't, you think he could be limited on the ground? I do think he could be limited on the ground. We haven't seen anything on the hamstrings that are bothering him. That should be remembered. That was like the bigger concern for me. He's not been a good quarterback when he's not running the football. No. So that is, that is a bit of a concern. Joe Mixing, Matthew Stafford.

Officially in the concussion protocol, Sean McVeigh said Darrell Henderson felt a little something in his knee. So that's why he had two carries and four snaps. Cam Acres had 14 carries. Kyle and Williams will continue to get worked in. He was the pass catcher. Robert Saleh came out after he heard our podcast yesterday. Yes. Look, I'm proud of this podcast for being the only trendsetters. The only media source that. took the opportunity to knock Zach Wilson down. If no one else will say it. Yeah. We're finally going to say it. Yeah. We'll stick up for you Jets fans. Not committing to Zach Wilson as this week started versus the Bears. Yeah. Because you can't. You can't commit to a guy who will not take responsibility for being any part of the solution.

when he has every part of the problem. Yeah, it's really good to see the head coach come out and say this. You can have arguments for the confidence and building up your player, and I think there is a time and a place for that, and that place is gone. This is a winning team with a good record who should make the playoffs with their remaining schedule, and what their focus needs to be is winning games. Who is the best quarterback to put out there? It's not about puffing up any... anybody on the roster, it's a matter of winning football games. And that's the turn you'd like to see them make. I agree. Let Zach Wilson complete puberty, then give them another shot. Yeah. 2.6 inches per play, I believe is what I heard, in the second half of the New England game. Never heard it broken down like that. Oh, my goodness. But that was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance.

Let's talk waivers. Welcome to the fold, presented by Samsung Galaxy. Well, like Jason said, grab as many screens as you can and fill them up with these waivers. Trade deadlines have gone by. For a lot of leagues. It could be something out there. Yeah, for a majority. So waivers takes even, you know, a higher importance right now heading into the playoffs if you can't fix your problems via trade. Yeah. Because of where we're at in the season, you're a couple weeks away from the playoffs. It is now or never for a lot of teams. Do not hesitate to spend larger than you normally do. You don't get any bonus points in the playoffs or after the season for having remaining fab, unless you do in your league, in which case adjust accordingly. But, you know, it doesn't matter if you in the league.

with the most fab, what matters is if you end the league with the best players. Can I still spend up if I only have like $4? Sure. Yeah, you could spend up $4 worth. I can't spend more than that. No. And so my piece of advice over the years is usually, like I'm coming in in most of our leagues where I've still got a healthy amount left. And I'm going to spend very aggressively, but I'm going to try to save $5 for playoff. defense of picking up players over others i love when i go into the playoffs and i've got three or four or five dollars of fab and my opponent has zero because whatever he needs belongs to me yeah yeah it's a real a hole move yeah uh all right he's just boxing out we got no buy weeks this week no no this is we got to save those for week 14

But the megalodon is going to be even longer. Yeah. Well, this is the Thanksgiving Day. They need a full slate on Sunday, and they want to put a bunch of games on Thursday, so they can't have buys. All right, no buys. Let's get into the wide receivers that we will welcome into the full this week in the probably rostered, but just glance in case they're not category. It's the Christian Wants and Joshua Palmer. Both of those players. I'd be shocked if any competitive league had them available, but they need to be on your roster. Watson with five touchdowns in two weeks, Joshua Palmer, the big game, and Mike Williams likely to miss a little bit of time. Let's not talk extensively there. Nope. Paris Campbell, Darius Slayton, Donovan People's Jones. I think those are three really interesting names. And if you want to put DeMarcus Robinson in there because of how available he is,

I would not blame you. It's not like Rashad Bateman is back next week, but Paris Campbell has been a very consistent target in this offense for quite some time now. He didn't get into the end zone, but, you know, five for 67 yet again. Yeah, I mean, this is, I think this is what you should. be able to expect going forward. We talked about his previous three games with Matt Ryan. He was a top 12 wide receiver in all three of those matchups, but he had a touchdown in all three of those. In this last game, no touchdown, still pretty good. He didn't set the world on fire. Half PPR scoring was sub 10 points, but he's 9.2. And I think he is involved enough. Obviously, he's running plenty of routes. And he's got the size speed combo to...

to score. And so I like having Paris Campbell. I'm pretty comfortable with him and for me to get to that place, because I was never a believer. That's true. You know, you should believe. The next two matchups against Pittsburgh and Dallas, Paris Campbell is going to have 12 receptions per game for about 40 yards. With the pass rush that they are going to put on to the Colts, it's going to be. Very tough. But if anyone can benefit from a PPR situation in those matchups, it will be Paris Campbell. And the interesting thing is that, you know, Darius Slayton, I think in many respects is a better pickup, but a completely different skill set than Paris Campbell. What have I told you Darius Slayton has been a top 24 wide receiver in four of the last six weeks? I would believe it, man. Darius Slayton.

And Daniel Jones have had so many good games no matter how bad the team does not want to use Darius Slayton. They are forced to put him into action. And he's a guy that if, you know, there's different looks. There's picking up guys to stash for hopefully big giant breakouts. And that's getting harder and harder as we get later into the season. And then there's players that's I need to start someone. Darius Slayton is probably near the top of the list. And Wondale's now out. I mean, there is another variable here that doesn't exist for Paris Campbell. Previous six weeks, Slayton's on pace for almost 1,200 yards and six touchdowns on 65 catches. That's the kind of guy he is of vintage, you know, deep threat, 60, 70 catches. But you're talking about no Sterling Shepard anymore. You're talking about your primary targets outside of now Wondale being gone, being Richie James, like.

who I guess is in contention too in the more PPR capacity, but Darius Slayton could be one of those names that wins people fantasy championships that no one saw coming. Yeah, I completely agree. They've got this next month they are playing their division, Dallas, Washington, Philadelphia. I don't. love those matchups. You got Diggs guarding the number one wide receiver. Washington's defense has just gotten better and better. They're getting Chase Young back and then Slay for Philadelphia. So he's going to be involved. You like Campbell more as a pickup this week? I would like Campbell more as a pickup. I would also like Traylon Burks more as a pickup because while I don't think I have as much confidence in necessarily starting.

Traylon Burks, like who scores more fantasy points this week? Traylon Burks or Dary Slayton. I probably lean the Darius Slayton side, but the upside for something special going forward really isn't there with Darius Slayton. I don't know. I lean Slayton for sure over Traylon Burks. So Traylon Burks. only played 50% of snaps, but had 35% targets per route run. That is his third game this season, over 35% targets per route run. That's one of those indicative stats of future success. If he gets on the field anymore, he's just going to continue to be good. I know last week he had the two-minute icing. The icing on the cake long play. That pushed him over the 100-yard mark. But he was still...

very good before that. And there was a lot of manufactured touches. They're trying to get him involved. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying like that. That's exactly you kind of pointed out why I hesitate with him is because you said it's the third time he's done that. But it was his first relevant fantasy week. So could he ascend? Absolutely. I just think I'm nervous about a team that's entire goal is to run the football and not pass it. That's my only hesitation there. Yeah, it's just a matter of, is Traylon Burks an alpha? And we haven't really seen that this year, but he started the year not playing that much. Then he got injured, just worked his way back. This was his second game back from injury. And, you know, last year, obviously, I'm not saying Traylon Burks is A.J. Brown, but this offense can support an alpha wide receiver. AJ Brown was great in this offense, and they still wanted to give the ball to Derek Henry.

DeMarcus Robinson had nine targets, went nine for 128 as the de facto number one in Baltimore. He is 9% rostered. Okay, spot starter. Yeah, I mean, he's interesting because of all these players we're talking about, he's the one that is most readily available besides like the Dorch, which the Dorch is, you don't know for sure. Will like, will Rondale Moore miss this week if he does? Sure, I'll play the Dorch against the Chargers. I mean, he'll see all of that slot work that Rondell Moore was seeing. And I will continue to shout out my dude, Donovan People's Jones of the Cleveland Browns. He's having, it's not, this is not the breakout of like, holy freaking crap, look what People's Jones is doing. But it's just, it is solid game after solid game. And if you are out there and you believe in.

Voldemort returning for the Cleveland Browns that he will be the solution for their quarterback that they've been looking for because I mean they paid they paid him a guaranteed $230 million or whatever it is and like People's Jones the last couple weeks 16 a touchdown against Buffalo he finally got his touchdown but it was 99 yards 81 71 74 like the guy is just very very solid for your wide receiver 3 position and he's still available in like 40% of leagues. Yeah, I'm glad you brought up Voldemort's name because you're not supposed to. Right, but we'll say it. Tom Riddle is on waivers. And if you, this is the time. He's going to be back next week against Houston at the quarterback position. He's obviously not going to be in our streaming candidates today. So if you're looking for a future quarterback help, maybe Tom Riddle can help you. You've got some other names.

Maybe in the stash category, Jameson Williams. Yeah, he should be stashed now. Odell Beckham talking to teams. You really got a hit on the location that he goes to to have any fantasy relevance this season. Please don't be the cowboys. Just for selfish, purely selfish reasons, please don't be the Cowboys. You're worried that if he shows up, that your recent acquisition of Dalton Schultz will be in vain. Yes, that is true. I might want to see that. He is, Otto Beckham is a fantasy time bomb for some team. Yeah, I mean, because he's going to go to a winning team. He's going to go where he's going to play to. He's going to go where there, where he will take snaps and targets away from someone else who currently is on a good team, which means there is a chance that they are right now a playable fantasy asset. Yeah, so Gabe Davis, watch out, Michael Gallup, watch out. Sure. I mean, this is, uh,

There is Slayton watch out. Honestly, I am just so rooting for the Giants to beat the Cowboys this week. I don't know how that's possible. Whoever wins that game gets Odell? That's what it seems like. That's going to be like, look, I want to go in the playoffs. I want to play for the winner. Whoever wins this game. That's what it feels like. The last names for me that I want to bring up at wide receiver are the duo of options for the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure. You want Patrick Mahomes targets. We don't know. It's too early and you're not going to know whether Juju is going to be back. But if Juju is gone, he's currently still in the concussion protocol, you've got Justin Watson and Sky Moore out there. Justin Watson ran 90 plus percent of routes. He was out there a lot. Sky Moore was not as involved in the behind the scenes metrics, but.

yet out-targeted Justin Watson had a pretty good game and obviously was the guy that they drafted to really step up. So as a rookie, I lean more towards the Sky Moore side, hopeful upside, more and more involvement. And he really did make some super important plays in that game against the Chargers. But either one of them, I think, are worth a pickup and a play if Juju is out. And don't forget the full context of Juju may or may not play, but even if Juju is active. You have McCall Hardman's on the IR, Cadarious Tony, the new acquisition at the wide receiver position, tweaked his hamstring yet again. That's not the hamstring. We have a sound for it. I'm wearing the shirt, Jason. Oh, you sure are. But it's, I mean, one of these guys and will be on the field. And I guess I lean towards Justin Watson because he was the one who was on the field more so if Juju is back.

He probably takes those, the sky more targets and Justin Watson will be on the field. I don't know though. Are you willing to drop Cadarious Tony with the hamstring? No. Because his opportunity when he comes back might be more limited. I mean, in a redraft. Right now, I don't want to. If you, it's crunch time, so I get it if you have to make the move. Perhaps Matthew Betts are injury guy. He believes Tony could miss multiple weeks. That is. I mean, that's a death sentence for this fantasy season. I mean, that's also the pretty easy bet. The guy who's had hamstring problems, the entire season tweaked his hamstring again. Yeah, and redraft, I'm probably moving on. Deontay Johnson? Yeah, I think I'm moving on there too. His targets just aren't valuable enough. DJ Moore? Yeah. I mean, this is the time you've got to win now. Drake London? Drake. Drake London, no, because Kyle Pitts being out. I'm curious to see if there's a consolidation of.