Stash or Trash + Rising Ranks, Kamara Concerns - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/1

I will not be stashing parroman. I see it. I did it at the back of my CBS draft yesterday, Jason. But I wasn't happy about the report this morning where he is still have swelling around the knee. Yeah, the injury has gone on for quite some time. I believe almost half of training camp on a new team this year. No. Let me ask you a question. The two coaches that I think are in the highest likelihood of a midseason exit from the team.

It's Adam Gays, and then I don't know if they'd fire him or not, but it could go south quickly. And it's Matt Nagy in Chicago. Do you think those two guys finish the season with their respective clubs as the head coach? I would say, I would put the odds on, yeah, that they do. I think Gase will be gone before the end of the season. I do, too. All right, here's a tough one.

People need to know this answer, maybe the most important one. Stash or trash Jalen Rager in drafts? Because the injury is going to run into the season. And when you look at what's happening in Philadelphia, it's easy to say, okay, I'm going to stash him for a couple weeks. He comes back. He establishes himself. Then I got a second half guy. That's really not how you play fantasy with rookies. The other thing is when he comes back, Alshaw and Jeffrey will be back by the time Jalen Rager comes back.

So you will have more pieces to the puzzle. If Deshaun Jackson stays healthy, Alshan Jeffrey's there, Greg Ward establishes himself in the first couple weeks. Zach Erds, here's Jalen Rager trying to find his way off an injury. So what do you think? Is he still a stash for you? Or would you rather just, because you can pass on that pick and go Michael Pittman. You can pass on that pick and go Jerry Judy. Nick Hill Harry or Bashad Perriman. Right, right.

I am not, even though I absolutely love the talent of Jalen Rager, him and Jerry Judy, I'm all in on their futures. I would not draft Jalen Rager in any draft because of what I already know. I already guarantee what's going to happen to my roster, which is I have a spot that is taken up. Now, if I've got an IR league, if you've got IR, which honestly in COVID leagues, a lot of leagues are adding IR and they're just going to be.

available, then sure, I would literally draft him to stash him on my IR. Sure. Great. That's a great, great point. But if I'm in a normal league that does not have an IR spot, I can't take up in this season a bench spot for a guy who's not playing, who when he comes back, we project slow to start. I don't usually draft rookie wide receivers. You know, AJ Brown was awesome last year. But not in the beginning. That's how it usually is. And he wasn't drafted by a lot of people. Right. My point is,

The best rookie wide receivers over the last several years when you look at drafting them, it doesn't work out in the beginning of the season. Here's an interesting one. Mike Williams is injured. Is he somebody that you're willing to stash to see if that Tyra Taylor deep ball connection? I mean, Mike Williams is a 20 catch or a 20-hour-per-catch guy. He's a 20-catch per-game type of guy.

Maybe per season. No, I am not stashing Mike Williams. You know, best ball, I'll still take the value there because he'll come back and you'll get the entirety of the season and you'll get those big plays automatically set in your lineup. But I wasn't really wanting him in redraft prior to the injury much. So now while he's injured, I don't want. I mean, we just talked about that with Rager. It's so wild to remember that Mike Williams was a thousand-yard receiver.

last year he's very very good but i'm with jason i'm not drafting mike williams and with with hopes and dreams of whenever you know like week let's say he's back quickly week three he's in there are you going to start in week three no you're certainly not so you're talking about almost a month in that a guy's just been on your bench doing nothing or and there's 20 players like him that are probably sitting on waiver wire that you can take another shot on yeah and you want to know when you can take a shot on mike williams

on waivers in week three, he'll be there. Even if he's drafted in your league, he'll be there come week three and you just scoop him up. Yeah, if he's drafted, he'll be one of the people cut to pick up the new hotness in week one named Curtis Samuel or whoever it might be. Final stash or trash before mailbag. The pride and joy of Mike, the fantasy hitman's right dynasty team, Carlos Hyde. Stash or Trash, Carlos Hyde, one of your foundational pieces for your dynasty team.

Look, you are not wrong. He is a big part of what my dynasty team is going to be doing this year. And no, I would not be drafting him in redraft. The upside of Carlo Side is he's the backup. Chris Carson misses time, which I think that Chris Carson is going to start the year. Chris Carson is going to be fantastic for fantasy football. Yes, Carlo Side will get touches.

Are these valuable touches? Like Rashad Penny has pass catching in his skill set. Carlos Hyde can catch the ball, but that's where the skill set kind of stops. He's a grinder. And so I will not be drafting Carlos Hyde. Yeah, Rashad Penny makes the window for where Carlos Hyde would be valuable for fantasy too small for me to take the shot on him as that backup. Do you think we see Rashad Penny at all this year?

I do. I think he'll be back in week seven after the pop. I think we might not see him. I think we may not, but if he comes back to me, it's not week seven. You see the Chris Carson report this morning? Just the praise. Pete Carroll's actually praising his players. What? That's crazy. Who's you talking about this time? He said Chris Carson. Yeah. It's been incredible. Yeah. To me, the way that I see it with the injury timeline is that Penny will come back at some point this season. So at that point, you've got Chris.

Carson healthy right now. If he were to go down before Penny is back, then yes, Carlos Hyde would be valuable. But you're, that's a lot of ifs and small window of opportunity to draft him. So he's a, he's a trash to me. All right. We're going to jump into the mailbag. I want to remind you there are over 6,000 meglable entrance. Oh, man.

So you can go to megalobole.com, learn more about the largest fantasy football league, play with the Foot Clan, win a spot in the listener league. Jason, you may contend. Do you want to do a mega mailbag drop? Sure. Mailbag. It's me. That's bad, man. You sounded like, you sounded a little. Swear to me. I can hear Al Borland dying on the other side of the room. Swear to me.

All right, if you have a question, go to the website, the fancy footballers.com. You can dial the voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. We're here to help. Here's a voicemail. Hey, ballers. David and Grand Rap is Michigan here. Just curious how much percentage fab I should spend on Chris Thompson. My waivers clear tonight. I have David Montgomery's my flex and Alvin Cameras, my running back one. Really looking to take care of the first few weeks of the season. I think Chris Thompson can do it for me.

I am so happy that we have this question because I've seen the how much of my fat budget question with Chris Thompson all over Twitter. People want to be handheld with this decision on Chris Thompson. It's tough. But what a great, thank you for giving us your context. Yeah. Thank you for telling Alvin Camara, David Montgomery. Montgomery is going to miss time.

This is why league context matters. We can't just tell everybody, go spend 50% of your fab budget on Chris Thompson. If you're four running backs deep on your team, you don't have to do that. Or anyone. I would not spend 50%. Even this fine gentleman. Yeah, no, no, no. You don't have to do that. Like, you go, uh, me, I know my number. You know, okay, then give your number. My number for this specific situation where you really need it at the same time. Okay, I like that.

I like that. Get your number ready. It's a percentage. You're saying your percentage. Our percentage. One, two, three, 27%. Okay, Mike's out with seven percent. That wasn't as helpful for the podcast. So, Mike was seven percent. Wow, you guys, I am loving this. So you guys are that in on Thompson. I was 26 percent. I went 33 for this gentleman. Wow. Not for everybody. For this guy. Oh, man. He has no starters. I'm loving it. Yeah. Also, you're not getting him, Mike. Right. If Alvin Camara sits.

and David Montgomery is obviously injured, then you don't have anyone to play. You've got to spend up. And the thing is, is when you spend up at the beginning of the season. Mike hates Chris Thompson. Week one. I just to be clear. Week one or preseason, you're getting more value for your budget. I mean, you get the entirety of whatever Chris Thompson plays, as opposed to when, you know, you're in week 12 and you're spending.

12% of your budget, then you don't get as much. So if that's why I'm willing to spend up in the preseason and week one higher than normal. No, I'm all in on Chris Thompson. Believe me, it's just trying to think through how in are other people. You know, the home leagues out there, just the consensus out there. I feel like it's not very high on Chris Thompson. In fact, yesterday all of the

questions were, is it Reichwell Armstead? They were focused on other players, not, I didn't see much chatter saying how this, like this is a huge bump for Chris Thompson. This is the Austin Ackler season. Yes. That's the template for your way forward with that type of running back. He's pretty good as a, just a straight runner, but he's not prototypical. He's not RyQuil Armstrong or Justin Jackson or those players. But how many, what's the snap breakdown going to be? Right.

for Chris Thompson. That's the question. And if you have David Montgomery, I mean, if he, let me put it this way, Mike. If he has an option to pick up Tariq Cohen, but you can pick up Chris Thompson, would you rather pick up Tariq Cohen for 5% of Fab and play him in David Montgomery's stead? Or would you rather spend 25% for Chris Thompson?

I think I would prefer to go the Chris Thompson route because of what I believe Chris Thompson can become. I'll just say it's a risky proposition when you're weighing all factors and probabilities and outcomes of what can happen. It's a bold move. It's certainly a bold move. But to be fair, very different circumstance. But we've seen these situations before a couple years ago when Levi-on-Belle all of a sudden was not there at the beginning of the season.

It was, how hard do you go after James Connor? And I remember we had someone in our league, I think dropped 30-something percent on James Connor. And it was, what have you just done? This is a one-week guy. And then James Connor goes off to be one of the best players in fantasy. So like I said, bold. But fortune does favor the bold. I think that the outcome, what could happen with Chris Thompson.

is incredible. Instagram question. Is Devante Freeman worth a late round flyer? Let's make him a stash or trash Devante Freeman. He is a trash to me. I'm not drafting Freeman. I don't see a place where he could go and really be relevant. Now, the path forward is he doesn't sign until after.

an unexpected injury. And he basically is a universal insurance policy that you're taking. You don't know what team he's going to be on, but if, you know, player X, Y, or Z goes down, then they signed Y, Freeman. But you're going with like volcano insurance and you don't live in Hawaii. Right. Yes, exactly. The reality is. You're waiting for the super? Yeah, you don't need to do that. Imagine. Just imagine here.

Todd Gurley gets a big vacation. And so he goes away. And the role is open for DeVanza Freeman to go in and get all those perfect. He knows the system. He's going to get all the work. And he wasn't good last year in the perfect role for him. He's not going to be better going in this year. He's a trash. Would you feel any different about Freeman in the, like Freeman or McCoy, they feel very similar to me in their like upside in their

You know, if Freeman was that third downback in Tampa, I would feel the same about him as I do McCoy, but not much better. Honestly, just watching film, I feel like LaShawn McCoy looked better than Freeman last year. Yeah. Well, that one of them has a job. That makes sense. It's so incredible to me that these running backs that are still the most athletic, better than everybody on earth players.

that there can be that small little switch that happens. You know, did it happen to David Johnson? I don't know. But where you go from being in the tippy top of the 1% to like the bottom of the 1% and that difference is like, you're going out of the league? Devonta Freeman right now is a superstar athlete. I mean, if you saw him out on the playground shooting some hoops, you'd be like,