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At the same time, he's supposed to be healthy. I'm asking for a friend. He is someone that I think you can pivot off of. He's obviously recovering from the knee injury, and I would like to see how he looks in week one if you have another option. What about AJ Green? Oh, my gosh. You're literally naming players to that. I just can't stand. No, but if you had like Robbie Anderson or Odell Beckham, I would certainly throw in. What about LaVisca Chanel? I would go Chanel. Okay. Marquez Callaway.

Probably Marquess. Okay. So what a world. So you are waiting to see what OBJ has. There's more options at wide receiver to take that. It's fair. I think that's fair. I'm going to make that. I mean, my friend's going to make those changes. Evan Engram has a, he's a long shot to play in the season opener. He's not going to play, but he has been doing work off the side of the field. So there was concern that he was going to put on the short term IR.

But I would expect him to be back to the Giants sooner than later. DeAndre Swift, ready for week one against the 49ers, according to head coach Dan Campbell. The discount that people have been getting on DeAndre Swift over the last three or four days. This one is significant. This one is tough. I mean, it's clearly been a pretty nasty groin injury, groin index.com for DeAndre Swift to have missed this much time. And it's week one, how?

Much work is Swift going to get versus Jamal Williams? How much work when they're both healthy? What does that time shirt actually look like when Jamal Williams was the free agent that they brought in and the way that Dan Campbell was talked about this backfield? So yeah, Swift was probably a draft day discount if you completely are bought in on the talent. That's what...

The problem all offseason has been for me with DeAndre Swift is it is 100% talent. You're buying it on talent only. And that can absolutely work, but the situation is going to try and drag him down into the muck. Yeah, he's one where you certainly got a discount if he's healthy, without a shred of doubt. A great pick in fantasy if he's healthy. It's scary because when you have an entire offseason program missed.

You just can't be sure. And when that news came out this morning that Dan Campbell said, he's ready to go week one, he's going to be playing. When that, when I, before I read the headline, I just saw the picture of Swift. I was like, oh, no, what is this like, oh, he's not ready? Because we, we just haven't had that information. I would say this. It's not a good week one matchup. And I think that he will get against the 49ers. And I think he will get less work than, you know, what if he was just healthy this whole camp.

The players that I would play ahead of him would be like Rahim Mostert, Miles Sanders against Atlanta, Gus Edwards against the Raiders. If those are your decisions, then I think you might have the luxury to wait and see. But he's also a good pass catcher and he's a talented player. Top 10 run defense from San Francisco last year, even with the injuries. So, yeah. Good analysis. Noah Fan returned to practice on Monday.

Uh, that's good. I can tell you as someone who needs to play him in week one, I was happy to see it, uh, because I was clicking through, uh, dynasty options like Jordan Akins and Dan Arnold and I wanted to play Noah Fanta. Well, I think I will. Yeah, for redraft, it's been so.

difficult to decide what to do. I mean, you drafted Noah Fant to play him, and it would be a scary proposition, but are you confident? Like, let's say Gronk is on the waiver wire, Andy, and you're going week one. Would you just hold Fant because your draft capital and play him week one? Yeah, I'm a little worried about Fant week one, whether or not, even if he's active, just because Albert O is going to be available.

A contributor, they may share some time. So would you be willing to drop for Gronk on the waivers? No. I don't think so. I guess in that situation, if you're worried about losing a season-long tight end for you, then you just play him. And even if it's a point or two difference. Hunter Henry says he's expecting to play in week one as well. Sonny Michelle on track to play for the Rams in week one against the Bears.

Jameson Crowder might play, might get cleared from the COVID list. He might? Yep. Oh. This is interesting news from a standpoint of if Crowder is out, I think Elijah Moore then goes right into starting as the slot wide receiver for the Jets, which that could be a problem for Jameson Crowder if Elijah Moore is able to get out there and showcase his talent sooner than later.

Dak, full go for Thursday's week one opener, which is what we want to see. We want to see Brady Dak on Thursday night. However, Zach Martin is not going to play on Thursday night. He's on the COVID list. That's the Cowboys offensive linemen, Zach Martin. Tampa Bay was the number one run defense in the NFL last year. So maybe temper your Zeke expectations. Yeah, they're there.

Zeke. Oh, I like that. Zeke. It's not good. Don't repeat it. Well, I said I like it. I started to try to say it, and I didn't like it. Zeke Pextations. Whoa, that's not what I said. So you liked it. I liked listening. But then you let it process and now you're, now you don't like it. Yeah, it's certainly the numbers were going down. I don't really wasn't supposed to be talked about ever again. But he is, I was, I was going to bring this up. And, and now I am.

He is a trade for candidate after week one. Absolutely. Zeke. Because I think some people maybe don't remember how dominant Tampa Bay's defense was against the run last year. If you lose an all-world guard and then you go up against that matchup.

It's possible that he looks really bad this week. And if he does, I think there are plenty of leagues where Zeke dropped to someone. You know, some leagues, someone is calling their shot on grabbing Zeke. But there were concerns of is this the beginning of the end for Zeke? He's, you know, on his second contract. And if he comes out and looks like a turd in week one, I think you're going to have some managers that are really scared of, oh, no, is he not what?

I thought he was, and that's when I would scoop up. Tampa Bay gave up the fewest rushing yards, the fewest rushing touchdowns, and the lowest yards per carry in the NFL last year. Well, at least they returned all their starters. Yeah, I mean, the other side of the coin is if Zeke comes out and gives you a good game against Tampa, watch out. Because, I mean, that's certainly possible. It's not like they don't give up anything. So it's going to be a fun Thursday night game. Tyrod Taylor, the official starter for the Texans. Goodness gracious. Which means that.

Deshawn Watson will sit and watch. Yeah. Maybe from home on Sundays. Doesn't this just mean in a couple weeks, whoever the starting quarterback is for the Texans is going to be awesome? Because, I mean, you had Baker, Baker come in after a couple weeks of Tyrod. Exactly. Then you had Justin Herbert come in. I mean, when Tyrod starts and then leaves, if there's a rookie behind him, is he just walking around protecting his lungs right now? Isn't that what happened last year? Yes. Yeah, he got the.

The rib shot in it. Oh, man. Punctured his lung. I guess I'm happy for Tyra that he gets the opportunity because he's had a few taken away from him due to injury. And he seems like a genuinely great dude. In the worst possible situation ever. Duke Johnson was signed by Jacksonville to the practice squad. Okay. I don't know if there's anything else significant to talk about. Is there anything has happened this morning, Brooksie, that we need to discuss?

Nothing yet. Okay. All right. Saints kicker Will Lutz is on injured reserve. Don't care. So Aldrich Rosa. Oh, stop talking about it. We'll be there. We'll be their kicker. Really turned on the kicker position. Yeah. Well, no, we turned off the kicker position. Yes, we did. Which was awesome because we added a flex, got rid of kickers. It's a lot more fun. And, you know, there's purists out there that say.

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Into the mailbag, we go. Mailbag. All right. Into the mailbag. If you have a question for the show, you can go to the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com, click to submit a question button or dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Kick it off with a voicemail. Hey, ballers. I'll keep it short and sweet. Do I start Cooper Cup or Chase Claypool for week one or my flex? Thanks, guys. Bye.

Cooper Cup, Los Angeles Rams will be playing against the Chicago Bears. And Chase Claypool is at Buffalo. So I view these matchups pretty similar. It's Cup. Yes. Good, good analysis. I do agree. I'm going to let you finish, Jason. I'm going to let you finish. But it's Cooper Cup. That's right. No, describe why. Back to you.

Well, I mean, just even on the draft capital argument, I mean, you invested more on Cooper Cup than you did on Chase Claypool. It'd be nice to see one week of the new Pittsburgh offense and what the snap counts look like. Your potential for Claypool to not be on the field is so much higher than Cooper Cup. Yes. I don't dislike. I mean, I think Cups got as good of a matchup, so both on the road. And Chase Claypool got banged up in the preseason. Give him a week. Yeah, exactly. If you have Cooper Cup,

Then play him over Chase Claypool. I'm not, don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not overly concerned about Claypool Week 1, but this is if you're looking for a way to decide on a razor-thin margin, go with the player who's healthy. Yeah, and the Rams are also at home. Yeah, that too. Oh, okay. I shouldn't have wrote at Bearsdown on my little sheet here. Let's go to YouTube.

Christopholus says, hey, ballers, I'm in a league for the first time with Fab this year. Okay. Can you share any tips and tricks on how you approach waivers in this format over the course of the year? For those unaware, Fab is the free agent acquisition budget. It is a set amount of dollars. I actually just had a question about this on Twitter, too, so it's always good talking about it. Virtual fake dollars. Yeah, so you can...

essentially switch your league to it now if you want to before the season gets started. It is a different way to approach waivers. A lot of leagues use waiver priority, which is basically after week one, the worst team ends up with number one waiver priority. They can hold that or they can use it. And we don't really like that in part because of week one where that's not really an indicator of your season long power rankings for a team. And yet in week one, some.