Week 16 Waivers + Full Stream Ahead, Bird in the Hand - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/22

Yeah, maybe for the playoffs. So I know that they're kicking the tires with Elijah McGuire for depth. You have Darrell Williams. You have Levion Bell. Levy on Bell is going to be significant. Yeah, yeah. Lev Bell will be one of the pickups today for sure. Todd Gurley, his role has changed, according to head coach Rahim Morris. Edo Smith is now the, quote, lead runner right now. And so he's in the conversation for pickups.

Now, if you look at what happened last week in the Falcons almost victory when they were dominating the game and needing to run the ball, Todd Gurley was as bad as it gets, with the only exception of the only other players I could think of that were as bad were Brian Hill and Edo Smith. Right. I mean, they weren't able to run the ball at all. Did anybody have 10 yards? Any one of those three running backs have 10 yards? I don't think so. I think Edo Smith had...

more than 10 yards. Oh, man, dominant. Which is just a different level of six for 24. Oh, oh, brother. Pick them up. Yeah, I mean, I think what you're seeing in all of these situations is there's a couple options beyond the injured option, and that makes you concerned about trusting any of them. Yeah, I mean, other than Darrell Henderson. Right. Deshaun Jackson, activated from injured reserve.

Or rather relevant, or, I mean, able to be activated. He's a 21-day window opened up. Yeah, I'm old enough to remember who this is. Deshawn Jackson, wide receiver for the Eagles. You're not going to pick them up a plan, but it's just another weapon in the Jalen Hertz. Yes. A weapon box. Arsenal would have been another word you could have used. That's better. That's better than weapon box. But, you know, it's like, you know what a weapon box is. It's a box of weapons. I'm sorry, Jay. Yeah. Yeah.

That was pretty bad. Is there any other big time news, Brooks, that we need to get into? Any other injury updates that we have this morning? Not that I have. The other running backs going down? Not yet. I mean, it's tough. Rahe Moster is another running back that I doubt we see this week. So lots to talk about in the Waiver Show. If we don't have any other news, then we should take a moment and thank today's sponsors before we get into that waiver segment.

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It's been a while since we've just said thank you for the fact that we've gotten to this point where we've had people playing and the NFL has reached week 16. And every single week of the season has gone on, gone as scheduled with the sole exception of just moving days. There was the one game with Tennessee early in the season that actually moved a week. And outside of that, nothing has missed. So hopefully we're not jinxing anything here.

And the championship week. You can't jinx 2020. 2020 is jinxed you. That's true. There's no way to do it. That's true. It's always got the upper hand. But here we are thankful for football. Thankful for the folk clan. And now we might need a wide receiver off the waiver wire. So let's talk about the options. In the probably rostered category, there's one man. And he's infected. A lot of people this year. And that's Cole Beasley. There's no cure for the Beasles. I mean, week 15.

10 targets, 8 for 112. Has New England. New England should be without Stefan Gilmore, which is huge, significant. It's really important for Josh Allen, who should be started. Oh, no. Here's a reality. New England is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. They have absolutely nothing to play for as far as getting better. Their injured players will be rested. That, you know, that's why we know Gilmore.

won't be back. And the bills are playing for, you know, the seating. They want home field the best they can get. So it's an important game for one team and not for the other. I love Cole Beasley. You don't know the health of Stefan Diggs. He's probably rostered, but he is available in 30% of leagues. And he's someone that you could, I mean, in the championship weeks, this is the thing that's difficult with WaverWire section. Usually we're talking, we go really deep.

But we can't go deep here. There's no speculative ads into the championship week. This is, can you play them on a good roster and improve the good roster? I think Cole Beasley is a yes. Okay. I don't know how many other people are. Yeah, that's fair. And we'll talk about a few options. I think the ones that jump out, Russell Gage, after the 10 targets 5 for 60 and a touchdown last week, look, we've been here before with Russell Gage. It's...

a bit of an up and down situation, and it's tough. It's week 16. It's Kansas City. They'll be throwing the football. Russell Gage is an option. He is an option. He's had two good weeks in a row, but I'll be honest. I don't want to rely on Russell Gage because he has disappeared many, many times. He's had the opportunity. Russell Gage. He's had the opportunity so many times. And look, last week, he got the opportunity. He came through. Five for 68 and a touchdown.

91% of snaps. I'm sticking with the process. Sure. The Rulio 11, it obviously didn't happen last week, but if you just look at a large enough sample size, there's always going to be outliers. I think last week was the outlier, not the new norm. I'm out on Russell Gage. Yeah, and to dig a little deeper, Atlanta got up to a big lead, which they're great at. Right, because that's what they love losing. And they can't lose a big lead if they don't get it first. But that's where he made his mark.

We've said it before. Matt Ryan is not a garbage time come from behind quarterback. Are they going to get up to a big lead against Kansas City in Week 16? It seems very unlikely. That scenario could, that narrative street could hurt you here with Gage. So would you go with the other options in Houston? Would you go with Kiki QT? Yes. Available in 70% of leagues? I would. Those are the two wide receivers. Kiki QT and Chad Hansen. Mbap. Yes.

that I am interested in. Now, it's hard to pull the trigger on these guys in your championship game. I don't believe in them as much as I believe in the talent of Beasles. Let me set you up with a more difficult decision. Yeah, I believe Cole Beasley is the better play over all of those options. But let's say you've been riding TY Hilton. You're a little disappointed last week. They play Pittsburgh. You're going to have Joe Hayden. You're going to have Minkin Fitzpatrick. You're going to have maybe some limited upside with.

with TY Hilton in Pittsburgh. Are you playing Kiki QT over T.Y Hilton, or are you staying with TY? No, I think TY Hilton is a bench this week. Really? Oh, yeah. I would not want to play TY Hilton against Pittsburgh. He's had now four decent games in a row. Three of them were great, but the matchups were there. You know, it was a really nice run where you could see.

that he should be started. Now there's, you know, there's plenty of reason. I mean, you just named the corners that say, no, this is not a TY Hilton week. Uh, Kiki QT has Cincinnati. Chad Hanson, obviously, Cincinnati. You prefer QT to Hanson. I do prefer, yeah, Kiki QT. He is, he's been more targeted. He's been very relevant. Both of these guys are, are good, but I, I prefer Kiki QT over Hanson.

Tyrone Johnson is a name to throw out there as well. He is available in every league. Again, championship week, you probably are set up and you probably don't want to go here. But if Keenan Allen is out, Justin Herbert against Denver, Tyron Johnson, two straight weeks with a touchdown. Yeah, I, it's, I mean, that's a glory play. That's, if you're in your league and you want to make a move that. T. Y. Hilton, Tyron Johnson with Keenan Allen.

How do you not play T.Y. If Keenan Allen was out, I would play Tyrone Johnson. Oh, my. Yeah. I've got some decisions to make this week. I was going to say you keep going back to T.Y. Hilton, is this a on your roster decision situation? What do you mean? Okay. I'm, you know, one with the foot claim. We all have a lot of people out there have those decisions. I like that. I have T.Y. Hilton, Kiki QT, and Tyron Johnson. Okay. Okay.

That's that's Kiki QT. I'm mining for data. Yeah. Okay. I think it's going to be really hard for me to move Kiki QT in the lineup over T. Y Hilton. Oh, oh, yeah, I get it. Because it's big play and it's PBR. Like, I don't, I, Kiki QT is, is, he played less snaps and Chad Hansen, too. Yeah, but he had, I mean, Chad Hanson only had three targets. Yeah, I know. Whereas Kiki QT had seven targets. Yeah. Yes. It's tough.

Let's talk about some running backs because this is where the storylines for this week really exists. Daryl Henderson, uh, own, uh, rostered in 59% of leagues. He's out there. He is absolutely out there in enough leagues. About 40% of your leagues, he is available and he is. Is he number one? Far and away the number one. He's number one over Lev Bell. Oh, by, by 10 miles to me. Ten mine. I believe that the Kansas City Chiefs can have an entire game.

where they don't play a running back. Andy Reid doesn't need to pass the ball. If they're up big and they're running the clock out, they still pass the ball and they just do it differently. I mean, obviously the touchdown opportunities for the Kansas City Chiefs are always there. So Lev Bell could get touchdowns. He should be picked up. He is one of the important waiver wire pickups this week. But to me, Darnell Anderson, aka Darrell Henderson, is...

the number one pickup because we've seen him succeed. We've seen the Rams running game be excellent. And the problem with Darrell Henderson was Cam Acres. And Cam Acres is out. Seattle's defense, though, you've been you've been kind of prescribing them in recent weeks and Marlin or, you know, Brown is an issue. Yeah. You know, J.D. McKissick was very good against them this past week.

The Giants had success and ran all over them two weeks prior. You know, they stopped the Jets two weeks ago. But I think, I mean, if I'm playing in a championship game and Darrell Henderson is out there, you have to pick them up, even if you're not going to start them, because you don't want your opponent to start them. Let's make this more complicated. Would you mind? I don't want it complicated. No, I'm sorry. It's week 16. Softballs only.